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• n  a vaguely specified concern
  it is none of your affair
• n  a usually secretive or illicit sexual relationship
• n  a vaguely specified social event
  the party was quite an affair

• In her 30 years of counseling couples, Mira Kirshenbaum has discerned 17 reasons that people have extramarital affairs.
• Mira Kirshenbaum's new book explores why extramarital affairs happen, and how they can be managed.
• Massachusetts Republicans have jumped on the Frank affair, and the latest poll shows that only 45% of the Congressman's constituents still look on him favorably -- a blow but not .

• matter
• thing
• affaire
• intimacy
• liaison
• involvement
• amour
• occasion
• social occasion
• function
• social function

News & Articles

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• LA’s new love affair with the road: Bikes, light rail put cars to the test
  LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles embodied America’s love affair with the automobile in the last century. In this one, it’s trying to kick the car to the curb.        
  June 21, 2013 - Boston Globe
• Investigation wraps up, Teva cleared in switched drug packaging affair
  The switched packaging affair in France involving Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (NYSE: TEVA; TASE: TEVA) treatments has ended, at least as far as France's National Agency for the Safety of Medicines and Health Products (MSNA) is concerned. ANSM h...
  June 21, 2013 - MedCity News
• Angelina Jolie Posed as Pocahontas During Affair With Brad Pitt -- Was Brad Angie's John Smith?
  A recent lawsuit filed by the godmother to Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt's daughter Shiloh revealed a little known secret about the early days of the Hollywood couple's secret love affair.
  June 21, 2013 - Yahoo! Contributor Network via omg!

Quotes

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• Nouri al-Maliki in International Herald Tribune
  It is an Iraqi affair dealing with Iraqis,Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki told AP on a return flight to Baghdad from New York where he appeared at the UN General Assembly. "Iraqis are eager for Iraq's unity. ...... Dividing Iraq is a...
• Sepp Blatter in BBC Sport
  In France they have made an 'affair d'etat' with football, but football remains in the hands of the federation,said Blatter. "We will help the national association and if it cannot be solved by consultation, then the only thing we have is...
• Mark Thompson in Reuters UK
  A 12-week suspension is an exceptional step, but I believe it is a proportionate response to Jonathan's role in this unhappy affair,Thompson said in a statement.