61.   Hundreds of people were still jostling to enter banks even as the noon deadline passed on Friday.

62.   Hughes was believed to be somewhere in Nicaragua when the deadline passed.

63.   If the deadline passed, Houston would get the expansion team.

64.   If the deadline passes, the contractors will be free to renegotiate the contracts, which could delay delivery of the cars or raise the purchase price.

65.   In a macabre accident of timing, the deadline had passed Tuesday to remove Governor Carnahan from the election ballots.

66.   Interviews here with leading politicians suggest that both the unionists and Sinn Fein are prepared to let the deadline pass.

67.   It appears that deadline will pass with no action or penalty on either side.

68.   It was unclear how the Clinton administration and its allies would respond if the deadline passed without a settlement.

69.   Let this deadline pass.

70.   McVeigh allowed a deadline to pass last week without seeking clemency from the president.