Nothing that will happen over the next ten years can undo the way the past decade's digitization of entertainment--movies, music and books--has made it difficult or impossible to control its dissemination.

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"Either we allow our population growth to continue indefinitely, with all that this will imply for our public services, our environment and our society, or we take the firm and sometimes difficult measures to bring immigration under control, " he said during a general debate on immigration on 12 December 2011.

BBC: 'Widespread' public concern about immigration - Tory MP

This invisible network of mutual back-scratching made it difficult for anyone outside the military to control it - or even understand it.

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"Either merger would make it more difficult for other exchanges to compete with LSE in trading UK equities due to both bidders direct control or influence over the provision of clearing services, " it added.

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