Another time, the KPMG private eyes looked into a targeted company that appeared clean until they checked the criminal courts and learned that half its board members were involved with organized crime.

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You buy the right to display a grouping of words in front of your eyes for your private use with the aid of an electronic display device approved by Amazon.

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Even the business of catching adulterers in the act, once a dependable income stream for private eyes, dried up when a change to marriage law in 1973 meant the party seeking a divorce no longer needed to prove that a spouse had cheated.

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Two more American private equity firms have eyes on the company.

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Tony Cochrane, who runs Private Eyes lap dancing club in Aberdeen, has been working with the owners of Hush on the proposed new business.

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Mr Gabriele's body language in court sometimes betrayed tension, and when Monsignor Gaenswein - Pope Benedict's private secretary and his immediate superior - was giving evidence, the two mens' eyes never met.

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Turning ones eyes toward the U.S., weak personal income (as the private sector continues to de-leverage) continues to put pressure on the economic outlook, while political gridlock in Washington makes it unlikely that fiscal stimulus will come any time soon.

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Around this time Texas Pacific Group, a private equity firm, came in and purchased the limping airline that was committing suicide before our eyes.

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