He was said to have considered suing Mr. Powers for breaking up his home but decided against it, fearing publicity.
Nagy said she was reluctant to co-operate with an internal IMF investigation because she feared publicity would hurt her family as well as Strauss-Kahn.
"It was a terrible moment," said Gloria, 40, a former shop assistant, by telephone from Miami, who asked that her full name not be used because she feared publicity might jeopardize her immigration status.
Owen Labrie, 20, the gangly former St Paul's school soccer captain who had been free while appealing his sentence, admitted he broke curfew rules but said he was pursing his education in Boston by taking an early morning bus and feared publicity if he asked the court for permission.
Not surprisingly, during such a stigmatization, people with real mental disorders fear publicity like the plague.
People she had counted as good friends have ignored her, and she fears the publicity around the tribunal will have cost her the respect of colleagues.
At the time, the then justice secretary supported the ban, which was imposed because of fears that publicity about the "monster of Worcester" would put him in danger from other prisoners and disrupt the parole process.
Madeline A. Naegle, professor at the New York University College of Nursing, fears that publicity about the benefits of alcohol has dangerously tipped the scales, prompting some people to think that "if one drink is good, two or three must be better".
And Pakistan fears negative publicity - most refugees are disappointed with life there and might speak up once they are out of reach of Pakistan's "unforgiving" intelligence services.
When she was first diagnosed in 2000, Vergara did not want to go public with the news, fearing the publicity it could generate.
