31.   A federal judge closed the case in February after lawyers for the woman did not meet filing deadlines.

32.   About half the heavy weapons have been removed, and the NATO officials said they expected the Serbs to meet the deadline.

33.   Additional signature-gathering teams were hired and the deadline was met.

34.   After heavy traffic crashed the site two weeks ago, the department gave colleges an extra week to meet the deadline.

35.   After the council determined in November that Amtrak would not meet that deadline, it released nine recommendations for restructuring the railroad.

36.   Buckingham acknowledged the request for information had a deadline of Monday, but insisted the campaign did not know that overtime would be used to meet that deadline.

37.   Broadcasters, in turn, said they need immediate FCC action to meet that deadline.

38.   But Amega said in a telephone interview from Geneva that he doubted he could meet a deadline earlier than November.

39.   Bush must decide by Wednesday to meet a deadline set by the International Trade Commission.

40.   But at least to this computer maven, it looks as if the failure to meet the deadline might not mean all that much.