In a sometimes raucous meeting the next night, it was clear that the members were torn.

One week later, about 150 people spoke in protest at a raucous meeting of the state's Game and Parks Commission.

At a raucous meeting last Monday, the village board voted, 4 to 1, against the county's proposal.

In both cases, opponents of the projects marshaled hundreds of local residents to come to raucous meetings.

So, for a while, its members held raucous public meetings in an auditorium farther north in the parish.

In one case, the police had to be dispatched to calm a raucous meeting.

On Tuesday, at a raucous meeting, Community Board 7 voted for the plans.

Yesterday's raucous meeting perhaps foretold a month of acrimony.

The idea was to bring order and civility to often raucous meetings of President Clinton's advisory board on race.

At an angry, raucous meeting, the commission made significant changes in four districts in a plan that the Justice Department rejected last week.