The question is, are the impediments enough to drag growth all the way down to potential?
"For girls, calcium intake is associated with high amounts of dairy intake and fat and that becomes an impediment for having enough calcium in the diet," she added.
The group of corporate, labor, and academic bigwigs who served on the president's so-called jobs council agreed that lower attrition rates among STEM majors was a key impediment to producing enough graduates with high-tech skills.
Astonishingly, right up to 1970, at the point in the Church of England marriage service when the congregation is asked whether they know of any impediment, the answer "Epilepsy" was enough to stop the wedding; worse, in India a partner's "epileptic insanity" is still a reason for divorce.
The barbed-wire fence around both territories is hardly an impediment for those daring and hardy enough to trek across the Sahara.
By the time the Lamaze coach with the Elmer Fudd speech impediment arrives, there is more than enough guffawing to go around.
As if solving the visual impediment of SUV hoods weren't enough, Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) now has roof pillars in its crosshairs.
In my May 2004 article, "Are We Talking Enough?", I pointed out one impediment to achieving diversity in the university setting: the lack of conversations dealing with diversity in departments.
And about one-quarter of white respondents said they thought that too much had been made of racial barriers facing black people, while one-half of black respondents said not enough had been made of racial impediments faced by blacks.
"This had been far enough out to not yet become an impediment for stocks, but it will start to move into the forefront," Mr. Luschini said.
