His initial exposure to the world of adult learning was through the Army Education Corps and the Army Bureau of Current Affairs.
John Birt, who was then Head of Current Affairs at London Weekend Television, rang up and invited me to lunch.
When I started I didn't have much knowledge of current affairs and all I really wanted to do was do sport reporting.
Key jobs have included editor of the BBC's 1992 television election night programme, editor of Public Eye, editor of Newsnight, editor of Panorama, head of current affairs.
For the 10e anniversary of the prize, two round tables, on the theme of current affairs that is of great concern to both men and women of culture, were organized on the sideline of the ceremony bringing together new and past winners, as well as a few members of the international Jury.
"In light of the current state of affairs, we decided to make adjustments for the fans' safety, " NFL security chief Jeff Miller told The Associated Press.
"These plans, along with recent cuts in the Welsh newspaper industry, have damaging consequences for the reporting of news and current affairs across a wide range of publications and broadcasters, " said Mr Bourne.
The aim was to lampoon the suggestibility of public figures willing to repeat, with feeling, any nonsense they are told, the bogus gravity of much current-affairs television, the hypocritical voyeurism of media coverage of sex and crime, and a lot else besides.
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The head of news and current affairs at BBC Scotland told the Education and Culture Committee there would be "no loss of hours in our output and no drop in the quality of our output" as a result of proposed cuts, on 24 January 2012.
Aled Eirug is Head of News and Current Affairs at BBC Wales.
Mrs Clwyd's husband, a former head of news and current affairs for BBC Cymru Wales and an ITV executive, had been treated for multiple sclerosis before his death in October.
Where political partisans in Washington may bicker about the unemployment situation in the US, given the loss of work utility from long-term unemployment, Hamermesh suggested that the current state of affairs is precarious.
The review welcomed the "honesty" of the King report, which graphically highlighted shortcomings in BBC network news and current affairs coverage of Wales, but recommended that Welsh ministers monitor the BBC management's efforts to put things right.
In a crisis, there is inevitably a gap between the desired and current state of affairs.
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Our current state of affairs, Analyst 1.5, finds us in a kind of limbo.
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"He and I both know our country's culture, traditions and the current state of affairs, " she says tactfully.
That means getting a judge involved, and it would be an improvement from the current state of affairs.
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It would review books: novels, scholarly books, books on art, music, literature, culture of all kinds and current affairs.
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What Charles Mackay wrote in 1841 describes our current state of affairs.
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Having lost half its value in the past year, the stock seems to fully reflect the current state of affairs at the firm.
One issue that made matters much worse is the current state of affairs in Greece where Greek judges remain on strike to this day.
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An eloquent case for this is made in the current issue of Foreign Affairs by Edward Luttwak, of the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington.
Evans calls the current state of affairs "the unnatural result of Merck's having failed to buy Schering-Plough" a few years ago when the deal might have boosted Merck's earnings.
And even if pupils are not taught about recent history, Mr Lang says that at least teachers should be aware of the background to current affairs and that training should be available.
Many felt that the Dodgers were never really serious about Zach Lee and a contract would never come to fruition due to the aforementioned reasons and the current state of affairs affecting the organization.
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Winner of the 2004 Best Current Affairs Bafta Cymru award in 2004, Fair Cops? was an investigation into murder inquiries in South Wales after a series of miscarriages of justice dating back to the 1980s.
Yet, hard as it may be to believe given the current state of affairs, a trip to London and Number 10 Downing Street last week has given me renewed optimism that changes may be starting to bubble from the bottom up, in small yet significant ways.
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Oh casts our current state of affairs as lying somewhere between Analyst 1.0, the state of maturity that the last generation of tools got us to, and Analyst 2.0, the eventual state in which big data will be much easier for a wide group of people to use.
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