He followed national and international affairs closely, as well as Wall Street out of interest of his own financial holdings.

"There is no telling what the guy will do," said a State Department official who follows Soviet affairs.

They are quite important and employ numbers of highly qualified staff to follow all the administrative and political affairs.

Several analysts who follow Indian affairs blithely dismissed the possibility of testing.

It will hardly come as a surprise to most Americans who follow foreign affairs that Bosnia, and not Kosovo, is the norm.

This thought will not be news to anyone who closely follows African affairs.

I should be able to follow affairs from here.

One Administration official who has followed Iranian affairs for more than a decade said he was "very optimistic."

Why is this interesting to people who don't follow affairs in south east Europe closely?

"The Army missed an opportunity to transform its force structure and gain some efficiencies," said the aide, who has followed military affairs for years.