Their womenfolk are shown stirring huge cauldrons of food for the fighters, waving their ladles in the air and shouting their defiance.

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Some customers do still like their trades executed by human beings shouting their lungs out in the "pits, " but while there's still some colorful action left there every day, the kinds of volumes that are required simply can't be handled any more in that fashion.

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In this age when people are almost forced to have varied interests to define themselves, why would the consultants be shouting their boring lifestyles from the rooftops?

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