Kent County Council said advanced warning had allowed it to grit all primary and secondary routes.

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Mr Taylor claimed the incident had occurred at a bad bend where there was inadequate advanced warning of the danger.

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Authorities in London said today that they did not have any advanced warning and that they did not have any advanced intelligence about this.

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The advanced warning comes at a price, however.

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With the most advanced tsunami warning system in the world, Japan is a global standard setter.

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Furthermore, no country, including the United States, has ever given up territory and needed defensive space just because it had advanced weapons systems or sophisticated early warning technology.

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More advanced still are active-safety systems that progressively give warning of potential impacts, try to prevent them, and then try to mitigate their effects.

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The Mexican government extended a hurricane warning to the island of Cozumel on Tuesday as the storm advanced in the Caribbean.

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