Because of the lack of privacy controls, many groups and prominent individuals have opposed the bill.

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Flight or security personnel working for prominent individuals, including Bill Gates and the late Steve Jobs, wrote the FAA about their security concerns.

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What Steve Hewlett pointed out this morning on the Today programme is that there is an important difference between Mr Coulson and Ms Brooks, which is that he resigned from News International all those years ago after the original revelations about how a private detective, Glen Mulcaire, used illicit techniques to obtain private information about prominent individuals.

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These are prominent, aware individuals with a love for both their ancestral and actual nations.

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Galata Business Angels is a prominent platform of high net-worth individuals putting money into Turkish start-ups.

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Syria was a state of institutions, Omran al-Zoubi said, and the flight of some of its individuals would not affect the state, however prominent they were.

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Still, many of these gifted individuals remain under the radar while working as sous chefs and secondary positions in prominent kitchens.

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