Mr. Stahl is among many critics who say that the Forest Service should be more selective about which fires it fights in arid areas, where fires often occur naturally, and that the agency should focus more of its attention on practices that nurture forest health.
Mr. Boehner may have railed against them, but it took over-the-top examples like the Bridge to Nowhere in Alaska to focus public attention on the practice.
But their efforts drew little support until new attention on the practice last year — coupled with election anxiety — prompted a flood of backing for the idea and support from President Obama in his State of the Union address.
The report is aimed at focusing lawmakers' attention on a practice known as cybersquatting, in which individuals buy up domain names and then use them to extract money or engage in mischief.
Word of an impending deal in the case, which focused national attention on the practice of stopping drivers based on race, comes less than two weeks before a Nov. 4 deadline set by the judge for lawyers to submit briefs in advance of a trial.
During hearings in 1999 before his confirmation as a Supreme Court justice, Mr. Verniero testified that as attorney general he had received no firm evidence of racial profiling until an April 1998 shooting of three minority men after a traffic stop on the New Jersey Turnpike focused national attention on the practice.
They occurred in Placentia, Burbank and Glendale — an accident that focused national attention on the practice used by passenger railroads across the country.
The impact of those disclosures has rippled through the newspaper and advertising industries, and forced new attention on the practices and effectiveness of the Audit Bureau of Circulations, the nonprofit organization that collects and verifies circulation data.
The explosion at the mine near the town of Amagá focused new attention on safety practices in Colombia's mining industry, which has had several deadly mining accidents in the last few years.
This paper focused specific attention on HRM practices having impact on cost, quality, delivery and flexibility.
