Many educators worry that without hard deadlines, peer pressure and nudges from teachers, teenagers will fall behind.

Companies in such situations are careful not to set hard deadlines for cutting off older services because customers may rebel by switching carriers.

Although no hard deadline has been set, an agreement is probably needed by the end of this month.

When you launch at a conference, you have an incredible hard deadline.

"This whole process will be consensual, a group effort, and there are no hard deadlines," he said.

Still, with neither side in a rush to negotiate, it appears that Jan. 1 is not a hard deadline for an impending settlement.

While the airline has never set a hard deadline to obtain the cuts, one looms anyway.

The hard deadlines set by the conferences tend to limit the options to either accepting or rejecting the paper.

According to reports, the final version of the funding bill Congress will send won't even set a hard deadline for withdrawal.

Doc told us we had to take those two seriously, and we had a hard deadline coming up.