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public affairs

Those public information, command information, and community relations activities directed toward both the external and internal publics with interest in the Department of Defense. Also called PA. See also command information; community relations; public information.
Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms. US Department of Defense 2005.
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The laws are so far from being uniform, that they vary in every State; whilst the public affairs of the Union are spread throughout a very extensive region, and are extremely diversified by the local affairs connected with them, and can with difficulty be correctly learnt in any other place than in the central councils to which a knowledge of them will be brought by the representatives of every part of the empire.
And although the House of Representatives is not immediately to participate in foreign negotiations and arrangements, yet from the necessary connection between the several branches of public affairs, those particular branches will frequently deserve attention in the ordinary course of legislation, and will sometimes demand particular legislative sanction and co-operation.
For although I recognized various difficulties in this undertaking, these were not, however, without remedy, nor once to be compared with such as attend the slightest reformation in public affairs. Large bodies, if once overthrown, are with great difficulty set up again, or even kept erect when once seriously shaken, and the fall of such is always disastrous.
Hence it is that I cannot in any degree approve of those restless and busy meddlers who, called neither by birth nor fortune to take part in the management of public affairs, are yet always projecting reforms; and if I thought that this tract contained aught which might justify the suspicion that I was a victim of such folly, I would by no means permit its publication.
The better he knew his brother, the more he noticed that Sergey Ivanovitch, and many other people who worked for the public welfare, were not led by an impulse of the heart to care for the public good, but reasoned from intellectual considerations that it was a right thing to take interest in public affairs, and consequently took interest in them.
One of the privileges of a freedman in the ancient republics of Greece, was the permission to take an active interest in public affairs; and Aesop, like the philosophers Phaedo, Menippus, and Epictetus, in later times, raised himself from the indignity of a servile condition to a position of high renown.
"This award will inspire our digital team to continue bringing the most important and engaging news to Filipinos here and abroad, directly to their device of choice," said GMA Network Assistant Vice President for News and Public Affairs Digital Media Jaemark Tordecilla.
The London-based firm had public affairs revenue of PS5.26bn in 2018, up from PS3.63bn in 2017, a growth rate of 45 per cent.
"Chris brings over 25 years of experience in the areas of public affairs, communication, digital engagement, news reporting and strategic planning," McGrath said.
In 2018 his work won both the PRWeek and Public Affairs awards for the best public affairs campaign of the year.
Flores, who finished a degree in Bachelor of Arts in Communications Major in Journalism, is credited for the comprehensive growth of the network's news and public affairs organization that currently airs more than 30 regular programs, as well as numerous public affairs specials.

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