After largely staying on the sidelines as the budget battle approached in recent months, business leaders are also increasing warnings about the danger of a default.
With increasing warnings about readiness from the senior ranks, Secretary of Defense William S. Cohen met with the chiefs early this month and cautioned them not to use politically charged debate as a means to argue for raising their budgets.
There have been increasing warnings of only a brief window to mobilise substantially increased resources for Niger to avoid the risk that the world will have another humanitarian disaster on its hands.
Even though Ceryl was making headway with Lewis, when his mother died he became angry and nihilistic; he "wanted to kill or be killed" and ignored increasing warnings from a rival gang that he would be stabbed if he stepped into their territory.
Despite increasing warnings, Congressional Democrats are focused on saving the typical undergraduate borrower less than $10 a month on an average 12-year-loan, while promising to take additional steps in the coming months to help the vast majority of new and existing borrowers.
These improvements have allowed forecasters to increase warning times while reducing false alarms.
That has allowed forecasters to increase warning times for tornadoes from less than 5 minutes in the early 1990's to nearly 12 minutes today.
While a resolution of the problems outlined in the Weather Service report would not have prevented much of the damage to the city, estimated at $2 billion, it could have increased warning times.
Steps to increase warning and decision time for political and military leaders should be central to this dialogue, so that no nation fears a short-warning conventional attack or perceives the need to deter or defend against such an attack with tactical nuclear arms.
