bloodsport

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Fair is not what the National Broadband Network tender is about; it's bloodsport, and a fight for survival, and a challenge of the wills, and all the other sorts of superlatives you might expect from an Olympics announcer.

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  • It is also fact that the number of hunters are going down; for every 100 hunters that stop pursuing this bloodsport, only 68 replace them - in a few years, their numbers in CT may well be under the present 1\%. —  Hartford Advocate: News
  • Fair is not what the National Broadband Network tender is about; it's bloodsport, and a fight for survival, and a challenge of the wills, and all the other sorts of superlatives you might expect from an Olympics announcer. —  ZDNET.com.au
  • For every 100 hunters that stop pursuing this bloodsport, only 68 replace them. —  Hartford Advocate: News
  • Getting at Prince Harry: the new lefty bloodsport (allowed of course) —  Libertarian Blog Place
  • And if you're making a case study of the future of the musical bloodsport, you'd do well to examine Baroness and Genghis Tron. —  Daily Vanguard RSS
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