In response the Health Minister, Edwin Poots, said the comments by Mr Ford were a "clumsy attempt to cause confusion and unnecessary concern".

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Mr Gross denied any wrongdoing, but his clumsy attempts to explain his personal finances only made matters worse.

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Yet Mr Lee is not just some academic out to poke fun at clumsy companies and economic peculiarities.

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The interplay between Mr Hyman's reflections on government and his experience in real life is sometimes clumsy, but never dull.

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