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affairs

noun as in doings

noun as in finances

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McFarland talked about leaving her job in public affairs at the Pentagon at 34 to raise five kids and deciding to return to the workforce after 9/11, when she was 50.

The head of Iraq's Olympic Committee has temporarily assigned his vice president to manage affairs while his lawyers address the US sanctions against him for alleged ties with Iran.

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But Denmark's social affairs minister Sophie Hæstorp Andersen tells the BBC the government will not reopen cases of adoption because each of these children is now settled with a "loving and caring family".

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Retail money “is one of the top concerns for our institutional members as they think about alignment of interest and the health of the industry,” said Neal Prunier, ILPA’s managing director for industry affairs.

However, to allow the declaration element of Massa's case to proceed "comes too close in my view to impinging on the right of the FIA to govern its own affairs", the judge said.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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