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negotiators have come close to reach a deal in their bilateral talks for a
broader Asia Pacific free trade pact, but some sticking points remain to be
resolved, President Barack Obama said Monday.

"I don't expect that we will complete all negotiations" during Japanese Prime
Minister Shinzo Abe's visit to the United States this week, Obama said in an
interview with Wall Street Journal, noting that "negotiations are tough on both
sides".

Despite multiple rounds of bilateral meetings between the United States and
Japan over the past two years, the two sides have yet to secure a final
agreement over the market access negotiations of agriculture and autos.

A deal between the United States and Japan is very crucial to the conclusion
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domestic product in the TPP framework involving 12 nations in the Asia Pacific
region.

"Any progress that is made this week in the summit between Prime Minister Abe
and President Obama will be important, opening a door to broader negotiations
between Japan and other 10 participating countries in the TPP", Jeffery Schott,
senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics, on Monday
told reporters in a conference call.

"A lot of countries have been waiting for the U.S. and Japan to substantially
finish their market access talks, so that they can get to start their own
negotiations with Japan" puma
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TPP negotiations, Schott said.

The Obama administration is working hard to conclude the TPP negotiations
this year, but analysts said other trading partners are not likely to make
significant concessions until Obama has secured the so-called fast-track
authority to speed consideration of any trade agreements through U.S. Congress.

The fast-track authority, formally known as trade promotion authority (TPA),
empowers the president to negotiate trade deals and then present them to
Congress for up-or-down votes, with no amendments allowed.

The U.S. House Ways and Means Committee and Senate Finance Committee approved
the legislation to grant Obama the fast-track authority last week puma
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far from certain, as liberal Democrats and Tea Party Republicans have aligned to
block Obama's trade agenda.

"There has been a confluence of anti-global engagement from both elements of
the right and elements of the left that I think are a big mistake," Obama said,
pushing back against criticism of trade negotiations.

"Over the course of 20, 25 years, what you saw was trade benefits the U.S.
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chain that was good for U.S. companies," he argued.

Obama also stressed the TPP will have more enforceable provisions on labor
and environmental standards, which are better for U.S. workers compared with the
North American Free Trade Agreement negotiated in the 1990s.

BEIJING, Jan. 14 (Xinhua) -- China's top economic planning body said
Wednesday that cities of Beijing and Tianjin as well as Hebei Province in north
China must slash coal consumption to reduce air pollution.

Total coal consumption in 2017 will be reduced by 63 million tonnes from the
level in 2012 in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region, the National Development and
Reform Commission (NDRC) said in a statement.

Beijing puma basket
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coal consumption reduced by 13 million tonnes, 10 million tonnes, and 40 million
tonnes in 2017 from the 2012 level.

The reduction will involve elimination of outdated production capacity and
use of cleaner energy such as hydro, nuclear, wind and solar.

Hebei Province cut coal consumption by 15 million tonnes in 2014, the first
time that coal consumption in the province dropped year on year.

With coal being substituted by cleaner energy such as gas puma classic
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year in Beijing.

An air pollution guideline issued in 2014 aims to cut the share of coal in
total energy consumption to below 65 percent by 2017.

WASHINGTON, June 18 (Xinhua) -- Americans who have been out of work for a
year or more are much more likely to be obese, which could lead to even longer
stints of unemployment for workers applying for jobs that require hard physical
labor, Gallup found in a poll released Wednesday.

Long term joblessness -- unemployment lasting longer than 27 weeks --
continues to be at crisis levels in the U.S. amid this most sluggish recovery
from the worst recession in decades.

With the long term unemployed prone to sitting around the house with little
to do but snack and watch TV, Gallup found the obesity rate rises from 22.8
percent among those unemployed for two weeks or less to 32.7 percent among those
unemployed for 52 weeks or more.

One main concern is that employers in industries that require manual labor,
such as manufacturing and construction puma classic
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out of shape. If so, workers in these industries -- who already earn lower
wages, on average, than those in knowledge-based sectors -- may be even more
likely to be caught in a negative cycle of joblessness and poor health, Gallup
found.

More broadly, private employers' high healthcare costs might lead them to
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candidates who are obese and who have been out of work for 27 weeks or more may
have two strikes against them even before they sit down for an interview, Gallup
found.

Other risks more common among the long term unemployed are high cholesterol
and high blood pressure. Gallup and Healthways, a global well-being improvement
leader, also track the percentages of Ameri.