Even attempts to privately blackball him had scant effect, since he could always sell to dealers and auctioneers through intermediaries.

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The omniscient network gives, say, a headhunter the ammunition to blackball a job candidate after turning up an ancient drunk driving arrest or a dispute with an online vendor.

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Some disgruntled Bozemanites wish that they could blackball Blixseth.

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Some Bozemanites wish that they could blackball Blixseth.

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Small-minded Edinburgh lawyers who disapproved of his campaigns might blackball him from their golf club, and did, but their slightly more sophisticated counterparts in London could hardly dismiss him as a wild leftie: they had known him in the Bullingdon Club and shared his views on hunting.

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If you thought the Board of the London Stock Exchange was a little scornful when it jilted Macquarie Bank for the first time back in December--" a derisory proposal which fundamentally undervalues the company and lacks any strategic or commercial credibility"--its latest blackball is downright disdainful.

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