Eccles also noted that daily fantasy sports subtract a component of luck from the competition by taking out the random occurrence of injuries.

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Once again, a self-published author has bested the competition from the likes of Penguin, Random House, Amazon, Macmillan and many other major players to climb atop the ebook best-seller list.

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Prizes unclaimed after 28 days will be deemed to have been forfeited and the BBC reserves the right to either offer the prize to the entrant whose name is next drawn at random, or to re-offer the prize in any future competition on BBC Online.

BBC: Competition rules and conditions

Random sounds a little like guess work or luck or something other than head to head competition on the field.

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Firms like Bertelsmann , which was happy to enter the U.S. media market by acquiring Random House , apparently are less happy at the prospect of facing aggressive, U.S.-style competition on their home turf.

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Most recently, stiff competition and the rising cost of improving chips has made it even harder for surviving makers of dynamic random-access memory, the chips known as DRAMs that are used to store data in personal computers and server systems.

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