It came only a day after Iain Merchant, with a blast from the north, was far blunter.
Mr Anwar's arrest in 1998 was under the Internal Security Act, a harsh, but far blunter, instrument.
Mr. Buffett's long-time partner, Berkshire vice chairman Charlie Munger, was blunter in his criticisms of Wall Street.
Sir Mervyn was blunter: the economy, he reckoned, had grown by only around 1% in the past year.
He questioned whether she had ties to Microsoft and referred readers to two other blogs with far blunter assertions.
Former Massachusetts governor and Democratic presidential candidate Michael Dukakis is blunter.
But the appetite for compromise has grown blunter since the assembly elections last spring in which the party won only 28 seats, half of those obtained by unionists.
Mark Reuss, president of GM North America, was even blunter.
The Welsh Liberal Democrat leader, Kirsty Williams, has been blunter.
Michael Osterholm, a former Minnesota state epidemiologist, is even blunter.
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Since discretionary spending is the only sort that can be adjusted quickly to the state of the economic cycle, this will tend to make fiscal policy an even blunter tool than it already is.
Should we fail to step up to this new national security monitoring effort at the federal level on a balanced, carefully-crafted basis, there is little doubt that it will be taken on at the state and municipal levels in a blunter manner which would likely prove more chilling to our highly successful capital markets.
CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Testimony of Roger Robinson on market security
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