For Griffith, playing a woman in 1864 gave the added challenge of balancing an old-fashioned constraint with her own mettle.
Instead of competing against each other for used-game stock or having to price used games competitively enough to prevent customers from going to Electronics Boutique, the combined company was now free to set buy and sell prices with little competitor constraint.
So if at a time of great constraint, we are coming up with aid, those aid dollars need to go to countries that are actually using them effectively.
"The relentless good taste combined with the total lack of financial constraint was overwhelming, " he says.
But Nokia sought constraint, citing a need to preserve UI consistency with other Windows Phone devices and avoid the disruptive variation seen in Android smartphones.
With floating exchange rates, the trade constraint was removed.
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This constraint on monetary policy means that Brazil will soon have to deal with two structural problems.
Poets have long extolled the benefits of constraint on their craft (Shakespearean sonnets pack a lot of punch with iambic pentameter).
The third constraint, felt also by other rich-country governments, is growing popular disenchantment with free trade.
Until recently, they have had to feed their bacteria with the unnatural amino acid in question, but in one case they have managed to overcome even that constraint.
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Even normally cautious bodies like the International Energy Agency and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development are sounding the alarm, with the latter recently releasing a comprehensive report forecasting a world in 2050 that will be defined by resource constraint and its economic impacts.
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