For too long, those horses depended, like Blanche DuBois, on the kindness of strangers: strangers to bail them out of kill pens, strangers to write checks to organizations like the Akindale Thoroughbred Rescue, the Thoroughbred Retirement Foundation, Old Friends, CANTER, and ReRun, strangers to find an extra stall on their farms to take in a horse that nobody wants any more.

FORBES: Progress in Racehorse Retirement

Double chip speeds, which happens every 18 months, and somebody is sure to write software that will kill an old way of doing a task.

FORBES: BET ON THE HARES

With the woes of the financial sector grabbing headlines, technology companies could opt to write-off bad acquisitions now, kill ill-conceived product lines or lay off unneeded workers.

FORBES: Magazine Article

Also, sometimes a writer can select a story from the list of available topics to write and write it, meeting all the Demand guidelines, but an editor can kill the piece without a kill fee.

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