The front row always like to kill a bit of time afterwards with a rather amusing goal kicking display but thankfully it has never been reproduced in a game.

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Cultural distance, however, is a bit harder to kill, especially when company and customer are talking to each other on the telephone.

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When HR hears about a manager who is doing things a little bit differently their first reaction all too often is to want to kill it outright or wrap it in a deadly python of bureaucracy.

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Or, to properly kill a running app, hit the X in the lower right, an action that feels a bit ornery compared to the fun of flinging an app that you no longer needed off the top of the PlayBook's display.

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