Partly as a result of that rigid stance, Tokyo has yet to conclude free-trade agreements with China, the United States or the European Union, which are Japan's main export markets — a major impediment to gaining market share, exporters argue.
"And conditions remain brutal in the middle and upper ranges of the spectrum, with rising unemployment and prices that are still considerably too high in many markets being major impediments to gains in activity".
Last week, the chairman of one such group -- the Government Is Not God-PAC -- announced the committee would back Cornyn over Stockman and called the congressman "an impediment to conservatives gaining control of the Senate in the upcoming election".
"Senator John Cornyn is an asset to Texas, the Republican Party and the conservative movement, whereas Steve Stockman has abruptly moved from being a rising star to being an impediment to conservatives gaining control of the Senate in the upcoming election," said William J. Murray, GING-PAC chairman, in a blog post Monday.
The paper by Ostry and Ghosh also discusses other impediments to realizing the gains from coordination, including a lack of focus on domestic policy tradeoffs (such tradeoffs are indeed a necessary condition for successful coordination) and inherent asymmetries in the global economy.
One impediment is whether officials have the right to gain access to a hoarder's space, particularly to private dwellings.
Therefore, a malicious app is able to gain access to the user's device without impediment or detection.
That's a huge impediment, making neural interfaces only viable for people who have a huge amount to gain, such as those who've been paralyzed or suffered brain damage.
Whoever had come into the White House in January 2009 would have been challenged by an economy that faces unusual and significant impediments in gaining the cyclical traction that has been "typical" in the past - what we labeled back in May 2009 as the "new normal".
