But it also carries on the time-honored tradition of the Rolling Stones as a money-making machine.

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The company hopes to tap its roughly 200 million users into a money-making machine for Sina shareholders.

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He had a money-making machine--so long as there was someone to sell to.

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He was focused on using the mayor's office as a money-making machine.

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Users are throwing sand in Intel's money-making machine with their growing reluctance to pay a premium for PCs with powerful new chips.

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On each occasion, Mr Cook kept Apple's money-making machine ticking over smoothly.

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Despite all the criticism that President Obama has received lately from Wall Street, the Administration has largely left the great money-making machine intact.

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"The best advice they could follow is to build the team into being an effective, money-making machine again, " said Andrew Zimbalist, a noted sports economist and Smith College professor.

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Smith Ellis, whose background in marketing and publicity includes a stint as executive vice president of Omnicom, combines partnerships with global corporations like The Gap, Apple and Starbucks, social networking outreach, and celebrity-infused fundraisers into a money-making machine of a non-profit.

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Quickly Dell was a money-making, high growth machine as it rode the growth of PC sales expansion.

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