Tokyo's negotiators and Washington's have been talking jargon to each other for seven months about "structural impediments" to trade.

Ingrained structural impediments stand in the way of building the knowledge society in the region.

But there's a structural impediment to anybody repeating that.

We have huge structural impediments to growth here on Long Island and yet there are still companies that are growing.

At the talks in Tokyo, the agenda includes a review of an accord reached last summer to reduce the so-called structural impediments to trade.

"The economy is being held back by structural impediments," including lots of corporate and consumer debt.

Mr. Williams: This is a way to address real structural impediments to trade.

There are structural impediments with schooling, with housing, that will take a long time to undo.

Above that point, there begin to be structural impediments to the ability of the group to agree and act with one voice.

This week's talks follow those initiated by the United States last summer on the so-called structural impediments.