That led to the 1968 Gaming Act, which cleaned up the industry but put it in a straightjacket.

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In that larger bloc, the exact same dynamic of surplus and deficit nations is playing out within an inflexible monetary straightjacket.

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It's time to refuse the straightjacket of a restricted body fascism and take back our appetites and begin to inhabit and celebrate the bodies we have.

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Another variant of this is the straightjacket of path dependency, meaning that companies write up their strategy in such a way that everything fits into it that they were doing anyway.

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So it should come as no surprise that we are still without a fully deployable missile-defense system, despite many years and billions of dollars spent on related work all done within the ABM Treaty straightjacket.

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So it should come as no surprise that we are still without a fully deployable missile-defense system, despite many years and billions of dollars spent on related work -- all done within the ABM Treaty straightjacket.

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Branding isn't a straightjacket for some, however.

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