31.   Serbs appeared unmoved by a threat of NATO airstrikes early Thursday, making no move to meet U.N. terms on avoiding them just hours before a noon deadline.

32.   Serbs appeared unfazed by a threat of NATO airstrikes Thursday, letting a noon deadline pass without meeting U.N. terms for avoiding them.

33.   Serbs appeared unfazed by a threat of NATO airstrikes early Thursday, letting a noon deadline pass without meeting U.N. terms for avoiding them.

34.   The Abu Sayyaf had set a noon deadline to kill at least one of its three U.S. hostages.

35.   The operation began after the rebels failed to meet a noon deadline to leave the city.

36.   Western leaders had set a Saturday noon deadline for the Serbs to secure a three-year interim peace agreement with the ethnic Albanians or face a NATO attack.

37.   With an agreement seemingly in reach, the striking Canadian Auto Workers Union decided Monday to extend talks with General Motors past a noon deadline.

38.   With negotiations for a peace agreement continuing past a noon deadline in Rambouillet, France, Serb security forces and ethnic Albanians fought in at least two locations Saturday.

39.   Yasushi Akashi arrived in Sarajevo about an hour before the noon deadline, when the United Nations had hoped to have the truce agreement signed.

40.   Yasushi Akashi arrived in Sarajevo about an hour before the noon deadline by which the United Nations had hoped to have the truce agreement signed.