31.   Others listened in a next-door meeting hall where the service was piped in for the overflow.

32.   Outside the meeting hall, consumer activists derided the PUC for what they said was an attempt to take up the question of rate increases behind closed doors.

33.   Police and hotel security personnel were on guard in the lobby, and a small army of beefy men wearing earphones roamed the meeting hall.

34.   Perot supporters were everywhere in Charlottesville but only a few people wore Lamm stickers in the meeting hall that lacked balloons, confetti and other typical convention decorations.

35.   Pro-Stalin literature and books with anti-Semitic references were on sale outside the meeting hall.

36.   Russian veterans in a apartment that doubles as a meeting hall in Moscow.

37.   Several people were overcome during events, some of which were held in swelter ing meeting halls.

38.   Some evacuees stopped short of metro Atlanta, spending the night in makeshift shelters in small-town school gymnasiums and meeting halls.

39.   The blaze erupted hours before a Brooklyn rabbi who sympathizes with the dissidents, Chezkel Roth, was to hold a fund-raiser in the meeting hall.

40.   The cheers resound to the rafters of the meeting hall.