Her order became less restrictive after changes introduced by the Vatican in the 1960s.

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More restrictive fiscal paths are being proposed in order to avoid rapidly rising government debt-to-GDP ratios and the financing challenges they may entail, including the possibility of default for nations without sovereign currencies.

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After the Supreme Court's restrictive police-search decisions in the 1960s, Richard Nixon rode "law and order" into the White House in 1968.

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And restrictive labour laws make firms reluctant to take on staff to meet a big one-off order, because of the difficulty of laying workers off later.

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