Online shopping seems like a straightforward process: hunt down the perfect item, trudge through the checkout pipeline and await a package's inevitable arrival.
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The process resembles the hunt for performance enhancements used by athletes, where a few get caught but the cleverer ones stay ahead by using products not yet on the prohibited list.
He sued to have the decision reversed, calling the process a "witch hunt, " but lost at the trial court and in a state appellate court.
This makes the process sort of like a scavenger hunt, although one with a less-than-exciting reward.
The move had been approved by lawyers and civil servants, he said, and Hunt had acted properly at every point in the process.
Although Prime Minister David Cameron has said the two issues are separate, Jeremy Hunt, the government secretary overseeing the regulatory approval process, has indicated that it may be necessary to postpone its conclusion.
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The News Corp. executive also defended Mr. Hunt's handling of the regulatory decision-making process.
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Business secretary Vince Cable has said he has "complete confidence" that Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt will deal with the proposed BSkyB deal "according to due process".
Opposition spokesman Lord Hunt later forced a vote on an amendment to create an independent process to appoint the chairman and non-executive member of the boards of CCGs.
Mr Khurana argues that the search process, with its emphasis on confidentiality, restricts the hunt for potential candidates and puts enormous power in the hands of the recruiting firm.
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Mr. Hunt has said he acted with "scrupulous fairness throughout" the process and pledged to give evidence on the matter before Brian Leveson, a government-appointed judge who is conducting a public inquiry into British media practices.
"I do not recognize all of what Fred Michel said, but nonetheless I appreciate that my activities at times went too far and have, taken together, created the perception that News Corporation had too close a relationship with the department, contrary to the clear requirements set out by Jeremy Hunt and the permanent secretary that this needed to be a fair and scrupulous process, " he said.
Health Minister Lord Hunt told peers the government would usually wait until the final outcome of the legal process, but he said the US developments showed these were not normal circumstances.
Conservative MP for the Forest of Dean Mark Harper is in the process of setting up a meeting in Parliament to discuss the issue with Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt.
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