Recent hearings have produced some of the trial's most heated debates.

Republicans and Democrats expect the hearings to produce a bruising debate over the nation's economic future in the middle of an election campaign.

No one knows exactly what the Iran-contra hearings will produce.

Already, the hearings have produced significant new glimpses of what was really going on.

That could explain why Senator Thompson and his staff seem to be trying to lower expectations about what the hearings might produce.

Vice President Bush is another for whom the hearings produced both good news and bad.

The second hearing, however, produced instantaneous concentration, engendered without question by the very pain they heard.

Mr. Priest said his guess is that such hearings might not produce support for the government's proposal.

The hearing produced an official reason for his arrest - an astonishing one.

Yet, these hearings produced no network or wire service coverage of the victims.