Right now, scientists aren't warning of any imminent threats.
Earlier this year, a group of unions called the Change to Win coalition sent letters to a variety of big lenders, including Bank of America (nyse: BAC - news - people ), Citigroup (nyse: C - news - people ), Merrill Lynch (nyse: MER - news - people ), Morgan Stanley (nyse: MS - news - people ), and Wachovia (nyse: WB - news - people ) and WaMu, demanding to know why they hadn't spotted the warning signs in the mortgage markets earlier.
So these numbers are unlikely to shock investors, they don't represent a profit warning, even if the early release of the figures is a bit of a surprise.
The consumer movement has finally woken up to the fact that warning labels don't work.
They say this is because the red warning lights aren't visible in fog or low cloud.
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Baier's venture capitalists were warning they weren't going to keep funneling him money.
Fiserv already uses some of its bank customers' data to spot fraud, even if it can't yet serve as an early warning signal of potentially sleazy activity.
Okay, so JMA's newest pre-quake warning system doesn't cover as much ground as SMS alerts, but with only 10 to 20 seconds of available panic time before an earthquake hits, we'd probably be toppling over one another before we could even find our cellphone anyway.
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The dollar could come back without warning, so don't take your eye off the market.
Another reason Congress isn't likely to act on the funding warning is because it's not much of a priority, critics say.
Ericsson's American Depositary Receipts have been trading for less than a dollar since late July, and a delisting warning from Nasdaq can't be too far off.
Even the force of a hurricane, which at least has a long wind up and warning time, can't match the explosive and random fury of a tornado's touchdown and destruction.
"These cases are saying, 'If the manufacturer had just included one more warning, I wouldn't have taken the drug, '" says Richard Samp, chief counsel of the conservative Washington Legal Foundation.
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But - and it's a big but - as I drove into work this morning it still hadn't been fixed, there are no warning signs, and the near misses are continuing, believe me.
"He used to say a downgrade would be a disaster, today he says this downgrade doesn't matter - but he is still warning a further downgrade really would be a disaster, " he said.
Connor Gillaspie hit a long fly ball that left fielder that Shane Victorino couldn't catch over his shoulder at the warning track, and it bounced over the wall for a run-scoring ground-rule double.
He gave warning that if governments don't act, he and the other mayors will.
And emotional pain too can be a warning - "don't go near that sort of man again", "avoid women like her".
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Several members of the House committee also urged Pistole to drop the proposal, warning that if he doesn't, Congress may take steps to block the policy change.
The CEO, Steve Balmer, wrote to Yahoo executives warning that if they don't accept his bid soon, he may launch a hostile takeover bid and might end up paying less.
Feinberg's warning to lower expectations wasn't lost on Dan Loring, whose daughter, Brittany, was so badly hurt by shrapnel from the first blast that she was in the hospital for 11 days.
In fact, if you try to, say, call up a Web page while on a voice call with the Verizon model, you get an error message warning the two things can't be done simultaneously.
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Then-Chairman Greenspan's "irrational exuberance" speech was in December 1996, with the bulk of the dot-com bubble to follow, but the Fed didn't even hike reserve requirements to send a warning shot across Wall Street's bow.
Even one of the three panelists who voted that there wasn't sufficient proof to tar Avandia with a warning about heart attack risks told the FDA it needed to do a better job getting Avandia data.
University Medical Center, where Gotcher died, says it wasn't using the clips when it received the warning letter in 2006, and that its system to track warnings was insufficient to alert the hospital when they later purchased clips.
Conservationists are warning that if Cambodia doesn't act fast, the Cardamoms will within three to five years go the way of the rest of the continent's once-vast wilderness, cut down and reduced to secondary growth, with the wildlife disappearing as a result.
"This was supposed to be the silver bullet that was going to end welfare dependency, but now the policy is spinning out of control and world-respected organisations are joining the chorus warning Universal Credit simply won't be fit for purpose, " he said.
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