Over the next few years, attention intensified on private equity as the size of transactions and profile of the companies increased.
That will refocus attention on the Private Finance Initiative (PFI), a public-spending approach under which private firms build and run bits of national infrastructure in return for decades of payments from the government, all enforced by contracts lasting for 20 or 30 years.
Charlize Theron proved just this earlier in the summer when she described unwanted media attention on her private life to "feeling raped".
This is not the first time the S.E.I.U. has used the power of the Internet to focus attention on a private equity firm.
"This moment is, in a way, the ultimate expression of the soap-opera-fication of the American public discourse," he said -- combining the tendency to turn politics into soap opera, to focus obsessive attention on the private lives of public figures and to blur the line between journalism and entertainment.
In her early poetry, such as in Satan Says (1980) and The Dead and the Living (1984), Olds watches her father, along with her son and daughter, in various states of undress, lavishing attention on their private parts.
The latest twist in the scandal investigation, coming only days after Petraeus, a retired general, resigned as CIA director after admitting he had had an extramarital affair, has thrown President Obama's national security team into turmoil and focused attention on the private lives of the nation's most senior military commanders.
It'll be good for business and attract a lot of attention... .. Murals on private property are technically illegal in the city of Los Angeles, but they can exist through an unofficial agreement among business owners, neighbors and graffiti crews.
Within this market we restrict the attention to private landlords.
