Whether the big food companies, already expert in conceiving, packaging and promoting convenience foods according to their own nutritional standards, will invest heavily in healthier foods -- and put marketing muscle behind them -- remains to be seen.
It's just that John Farmer's puzzle wraps up his idea in a very neat, tightly conceived package and ties it off with a payoff bow, while maintaining a sense of humor about itself.
Likewise the Corcoran's "Setting Out to Fish" is, for all its apparent spontaneity, a studio painting conceived and packaged for the Salon.
Iranian politics is conceived as a packaged project, conducted by the supreme leader according to a largely rigid mindset, and coloured by personal sentiment.
But whether it does or not, it has already signaled a fundamental shift in the way major public works projects are conceived, promoted and packaged, not just in New York but all over the country.
There was a time, he recalls thinking, when a cutting-edge computer-generated fantasy could be conceived, written, tested and packaged for distribution in a few months, just through the part-time efforts of a small group of friends.
Yet the two films are joined at the hip, conceived as a package and produced that way through a joint effort by 20th Century Fox and DreamWorks.
I had no practical idea how to use such packages, but a magazine was giving away a free, full version of a package called Corel® Bryce®2, which--although it had actually been conceived as a landscape generation package--looked very impressive.
Barry Levy Hawthorne, Calif., Jan . 29 , 2009 To the Editor: Re "The Stimulus Advances" (editorial, Jan. 29): There was not one single Republican vote for the stimulus package as conceived by President Obama.
Such an omission was understandable when the package was conceived mainly as stimulus, which implies short-term action to jolt the economy.
