1.   Although a few other states have shortened the hearing process, none of them have eliminated it entirely.

2.   Another proposal would permit the firearms bureau to temporarily suspend the licenses of dealers who sold guns used in crimes without going through a time-consuming hearing process.

3.   Banks dislike the public hearing process, which they say encourages activists to blackmail them into spending ever larger sums on low-income programs and affordable mortgages.

4.   According to Uher, the proposed bill would allow people statewide to comment in writing on any permit, but it will eliminate the public hearing process now used.

5.   But Congress is only in the early stages of its budget hearing process, and has the authority to rewrite the Air Force priority list.

6.   But Supervisor Sue Bierman, a vehement opponent of the JCDecaux proposal, predicted the public hearing process would delay the toilet plan by two to three years.

7.   Government watchdogs say they are alarmed at the role corporations and out-of-state financial interests are playing in the upcoming election, bypassing the Legislature and its public hearing process.

8.   Her case is still in the first of a three-part hearing process.

9.   Her test is in the first step of a three-step hearing process and has not been declared positive by American officials.

10.   Justice Freedman is asking the city to be more careful and the state to speed up the hearing process.