However, calls to leading investors found none willing to publicly counter growing demands for a major boardroom shakeup.
American and European intelligence officials in recent days have spoken publicly about growing evidence that militants may be planning a large-scale attack in Europe, and have bolstered security at a number of European airports and railway stations.
By keeping professional identity pristinely separate from the personal and the messy, LinkedIn, which is now publicly traded, has grown to more than 135 million members in 200 countries.
Embroiled in scandal, he has found himself appealing first to his conservative base in KwaZulu-Natal Province, on South Africa's east coast, and worrying later about the egalitarian bent of his allies on the left, some of whom have grown publicly uncomfortable with supporting him.
Charter schools, which are independently managed and publicly funded, have grown rapidly in Los Angeles, drawing students and funding from the school district.
As enrollment in publicly funded preschool grows, many policymakers are asking, "Does publicly funded preschool work?" This question seems sensible: preschool programs, especially high quality ones, do not come cheap.
The number of legally viable, publicly submitted plans has grown by a factor of a hundred since the last decade.
For the first time Ms. Foss and her children, Eliza and Christopher, now grown, talked publicly, revealingly and in detail about their life with Gould.
His publicly expressed views have grown steadily more militant, and his prolific writings and recordings have been cited as an important influence on suspects in more than a dozen terrorism cases in the United States, Canada and Britain.
Nevertheless, our publicly traded debt has grown by $7 trillion during that same time frame.
Since Hunt's predecessor Chris Smith began talking up "creative industries" as part of Britain's "cool economy" in 1998, a mighty industry of publicly-funded intermediaries has grown up offering a cornucopia of impressive-sounding jobs – arts administrators, creative facilitators, workshop co-ordinators, outreach officers, participation directors and so on.
