11.   But the disputed and complicated issues they cover are widely known by the negotiators, who face a deadline of midnight Thursday to come to an agreement.

12.   But the only people facing the deadline, the only ones who would be burned at the stake of high stakes, are the students.

13.   But the regents face a deadline.

14.   Congress faces a deadline.

15.   Detroit News editorial workers have been told they could be replaced, but they were not facing the deadline as Free Press workers were.

16.   Davis faced a deadline next month on whether to appeal a federal court decision last year that held the measure unconstitutional, or whether to drop the matter.

17.   Davis faced a deadline next month over whether to appeal that decision or drop the matter entirely.

18.   Detroit News editorial workers have been told they could be replaced, but they were not facing the deadline Free Press.

19.   Each car is facing tight deadlines to see if it will be ready for high-speed record runs before early November, when seasonal rains usually render desert raceways useless.

20.   Economists said much of the recent fall in the rupiah had been caused by panic-buying of dollars by private companies facing debt deadlines.