The financial sector has been successful at pressuring Congress and regulators to blunt rule-making under the Dodd-Frank Act and other financial reforms.
On the demand for a press conference, the answer was short and blunt: "The rules of detention apply to you".
Scalia considers himself an interloper in the sophisticated world — a blunt-spoken, rules-are-rules jurist and traditional Catholic in a secular world made wobbly by moral relativism.
Scalia considers himself an interloper in the sophisticated world a blunt-spoken, rules-are-rules jurist and traditional Catholic in a secular world made wobbly by moral relativism.
[ V. Put a Tax on Finance ] The blunt, sweeping rule that has received the most attention over the past year is the Volcker Rule.
Before the current crisis of confidence, that had encouraged banks to step up campaigns to blunt the new rules.
"The rules blunted these electric and dynamic characters who defied social values and limited the capacity of some great actors".
Bishop Abel T. Muzorewa, once a central player in white minority plans to blunt black majority rule in what is now Zimbabwe, died on Thursday in Harare, the capital, the state-controlled newspaper The Herald said Friday.
"The administration said there would be a rule," Blunt said.
