It reveals emotional scenes of back-biting, superstition, heated arguments, physical violence - and match-fixing.

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The commission has been characterised by back-biting and point-scoring, and has achieved nothing.

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Not long ago, the Red Sox were a team of irresistible scruff-balls, now there is back-biting and snippiness and the acrid vapors of high expectations failing to be met.

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Ford has also become a more open and collaborative place during his tenure, a change from its previous internal culture of "empire building and back-biting, " Executive Chairman Bill Ford said earlier this month.

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In the event, for all the nastiness, buck-passing and back-biting this mass of material exposes, it only reinforces Mr Pollard's conclusions: that the BBC's lines of accountability were deeply flawed and that members of its lavishly paid and top-heavy management saw it as their priority, in a crisis, to flunk responsibility rather than take it.

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Germany, however, had to endure a nail-biting finale after Helder Postiga pulled one back for Portugal after 87 minutes.

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It was music that was bluesy with a cool, laid-back swing, coming from a polite Southern gentleman who had a sharp, biting wit.

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