Creativity thrives under constraint.

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And Apple has yet to be found a monopoly and is under no constraint to offer one.

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But we are under financial constraint.

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Under this hard budget constraint, the rest of the government would have to live on whatever revenues are left over after debt service and Social Security benefits are paid unless Congress is willing to vote for more new borrowing, by super-majority vote if it wants to increase the debt more than the economy is growing.

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For Lochte to reach his goal, he'll do so under a potentially grueling time constraint.

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That having been said, there is significant constraint that's being imposed under Secretary Gates' leadership.

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