"By the time I left high school, even though I wasn't covering golf, I felt like I had been covering golf, " he said.

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However we felt it still important to include the data covering the industries that most identify with the high-tech economy.

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"I was covering first base, and I just felt something grab, " Hughes said.

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At times, in 15 years covering the PC market as an analyst, I have felt like an undertaker, donning a black coat to intone respectfully on the fine qualities of yet another recently departed computer company.

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As for John Conway, he returned to work in Belfast after the threats, but after 20 years of covering the conflict and with a wife and two young sons, he felt it was time to move on and has spent the rest of his BBC career in England.

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But the council felt there was such a problem with behaviour it took the step of introducing a special order covering the estate, local businesses and a number of nearby terraces.

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