Despite general market furor, Facebook popped but a nibble to $42 a share on its first day, and then declined rapidly enough that its banking partners held the line at its initially offered price.
Since last fall, the nation's biggest mortgage servicers have been under investigation by all 50 state attorneys general, after a nationwide furor was set off by revelations that documents in many foreclosure cases were signed with only a cursory review, a practice known as robo-signing.
After push-back from the Republican Attorney General and a bipartisan furor, legislative leaders backed down, but not after naming the governor as one of the parties behind the effort.
The resulting furor prompted the attorneys general and other government officials to step in.
Just remember the furor among Democrats after Attorney General Loretta Lynch, an African-American woman, had to wait 166 days to be confirmed last year.
The resulting furor focused intense scrutiny on Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales.
The Obama administration tried to stay ahead of the furor with an announcement by Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. that he had ordered a federal investigation into whether I.R.S. officials broke any criminal laws by singling out the conservative groups.
As the furor over the Miami operation continues, Attorney General Janet Reno has been planning the much larger and potentially risky operation in Vieques.
PAGE A16 Racial Profiling's Legacy New Jersey's former attorney general, once at the center of the racial profiling furor, finds little shelter on the state's highest court.
Many hunters have stayed away from Zimbabwein recent months, with Bubye general manager Blondie Leathem telling the Independentthat since the furor over the killing of Cecil, a rare black-maned lion, by a US dentist last year.
