A month of stormy hearings on plans to desegregate Englewood's high school by forced regionalization ended tonight, with local officials appealing for Gov. Christine Todd Whitman to find a peaceful solution.
At the end of the stormy hearing on Monday, he told Mr. Neufeld to be in court on Thursday, and be ready to say whether he would go ahead with the Gil case.
Westport's proposal to curb the spread of trophy houses through zoning regulations was scrapped two years ago after a stormy public hearing.
In a stormy hearing before Judge Lance A. Ito, one of Mr. Simpson's lawyers, Johnnie L. Cochran Jr., said that "an orchestrated media blitz" against his client threatened to deny him a fair trial.
But after a stormy public hearing, a newly installed county commission dominated by Hispanics bowed to linguistic realities and voted unanimously to repeal an ordinance that since 1980 has barred the county from conducting its business in any language other than English.
Kenneth Ryskamp, a Federal district court judge in Miami, had a stormy hearing last week on his fitness for elevation to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit, which hears cases from Florida, Georgia and Alabama.
In a sometimes stormy hearing, the three Democrats on the Assembly Education Committee expressed little support for the specifics in the five measures or in a sixth sponsored by the Assembly minority leader, Garabed Haytaian, a Republican of Sussex County.
The session, which included the Mayor's counsel, George Daniels, and the unions' chief adviser, Theodore W. Kheel, was the first time that Mr. Hoge and union leaders had been in the same room since a stormy legislative hearing on Nov. 26 in Manhattan.
But after hundreds of meetings - including a series of stormy, crowded public hearings in the towns around Englewood - and the sides are still deadlocked.
In a long and sometimes stormy hearing before the House panel preparing legislation to revise the 8(a) program, the Small Business Administration chief, James Abdnor, advised against "hastily made" changes.