These are often technical affairs whose language is too complex for the layman.

He joined the new company as managing director responsible for technical, commercial and financial affairs, and was its chief executive from 1975.

"Electricity is the only thing that corporations don't buy in a competitive market," said John Hughes, the group's director of technical affairs.

They also enlisted the services of a former Buildings Department commissioner for technical affairs and, later, a former assistant commissioner.

Other co-operation agreements were signed, covering economics, trade, transport, technical affairs, culture and drug policing.

Gold's advance was also mostly a technical affair, analysts said, although signs of some large-scale bullion purchases lent strength to futures.

Between 2001-2004 he served as assistant undersecretary for technical affairs in the ministry of foreign affairs.

True, we are an evolving nation, not quite viable enough to keep up with the white industrial West in technical affairs, but-

The more complicated and technical affairs become, the less confidence will the elected official have in himself.