The chairman said: "Maybe the tough measures on the deficit and also the effort to make the budget fair would have come across more clearly if they hadn't been obscured in debate of claim and counter-claim.
But if the reasons why companies lobby are often obscured, it is always a tactical investment.
The same quote appears at the beginning of the 2010 book Merchants of Doubt: How A Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming by science historians Erik Conway and Professor Naomi Oreskes.
For the past couple of months, unequivocal Brownites have been frustrated by the knowledge that the Prime Minister's ideas are being obscured, temporarily, by events and, in the longer term, by debilitating caution.
In Zero Dark Thirty and Captain Phillips, Seal teams emerge only at the climax, with the long tail of logistical support from conventional aviation, infantry and intelligence units obscured by the shadow of the elite.
We spent ages beforehand minimising the amount of damage we'd make – abandoning the pram in favour of a baby carrier, cramming all the assembled going-out paraphernalia into tiny satchels, deliberately picking a quiet train, and finding the most obscured seats in case he needed to breastfeed – and hoped against hope that he wouldn't cry.
From every angle the view is obscured and fragmented.
"Maybe the tough measures on the deficit and also the effort to make the budget fair would have come across more clearly if they hadn't been obscured in debate of claim and counter-claim," he said.
THE past two years have rather obscured the charms of the free market.
In the late 1940s, New York's art scene beckoned to the young student: "Like so many people," he says, "I got my visual education at the MoMA .In its relatively short lifetime, abstract art has been illuminated (and obscured) by two influential critical attitudes.
According to Ms Bair's account, the lenders who originated hybrid ARMs deliberately misled borrowers precisely the sorts of financially unsophisticated households who could least afford the risks and obscured fees presented by them.
