In a more broad-based analysis, Walsh did succeed in freeing the Knicks from the Thomas-era constraints of long-term contracts for players with whom they would never escape the curse of mediocrity, or worse.
In 2009, the landscape changed when President Barack Obama issued an executive order instructing the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to lift the Bush-era constraints.
The survey suggests persuasively that the era of constraints has arrived -- even if the $350-a-night 350-a-night 350-a-night hoteleroomionandbusiness-class sleeper seatheemain alive and well in some quarters.
In an era of constraints, schools, service organizations, and communities would be best served by pooling resources, collaborating, and sharing best practices, drawing on collective wisdom to do whatever it takes to ensure our children's success.
In an era of constraints spurred and modulated by the Goldstone Report, the carnage in Syria, Hamas friction with Assad and Iran, a new Egypt, the Iron Dome antimissile system and a host of other factors, both Israel and Hamas have made marked and largely successful efforts to limit civilian casualties on both sides of the border.
And price in an era of constraint matters hugely, whatever managers chasing a fatter profit may choose to believe.
Finally, NYU Abu Dhabi makes a strong case for consortia and partnerships among institutions in an era of constraint.
Today, in an era of fiscal constraints, most members of Congress prefer to remind voters how they have held down federal spending.
And in an era of fiscal constraints, climate scientists and those in the social and behavioral sciences are hoping that Culberson will make room on his science bandwagon for their disciplines, too.
In an era of resource constraints, global transfer of rents on scarce resources can be expected to grow as a share of the prices of food, or an iPhone, and many other products.
In an era of fiscal constraints and declining federal aid, however, the lack of financing for new ideas is often an impediment to action.
