Just like with the Internet bubble of the late 1990s, the government refused to act in advance of the crisis.

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Mining companies need to spend time working with communities to understand and act on those opportunities well in advance of the approval stages.

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Cuomo and other officials were similarly asked why they didn't act to shut down major highways in Long Island in advance of the storm, especially given the sprawling area's reputation for gridlock.

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In fact we are seeing a new financial channel emerging, well in advance of the provisions of the JOBS Act, that could be much more significant than crowdfunding is currently given credit for.

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Not for the first time on this three-month-long mission, the Northumberland has found itself in the same region as an act of piracy but without the advance warning to stop it.

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In exchange for forking over equity, the act receives a cash advance and promises of funding for future ventures.

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Neither player is in a steep decline Nadal is No. 2 in the world, and No. 3-ranked Federer remains potent at 30 but in Australia they are on the same side of the bracket, and if they both advance, they will meet in the semis, an opening act instead of customary headliners.

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All the same, the set serves the action, and an impressively sinister Te Deum procession closes the act: priests and altar boys advance in a thick crowd behind Scarpia a chorus line of malignant power.

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Justice Anthony Kennedy focused on what he considered the demeaning nature of the Voting Rights Act's preclearance requirement, under which some localities must get approval in advance from Washington for changes to their voting laws.

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