The alphabet soup of rules devised in recent years makes it much harder for banks to be run in the risky manner that was all too common before 2007.
Mr. Ando's design is just one of the unusual creations that architects have devised in recent years when challenged by natural obstacles, like Japan's mountainous terrain, or manmade additions like roads or other construction.
From the numerous techniques of landscape evaluation that have been devised in recent years, the expert approach techniques have dominated in environmental management practices and the perception-based approach in research.
A cease-fire devised in Munich in February collapsed.
Thomas E. White, the secretary of the Army who helped devise the Pentagon plan, said in a recent interview that the Sept. 11 attacks on New York City and the Pentagon underscored the lack of coordination among the many parts of the military that are expected to respond to terrorist attacks.
(The partnering included lifts that have been devised only in recent decades).
Among the mechanisms they've devised are: In recent years, philanthropies have helped forge public-private partnerships aimed at marshalling and deploying public, private and philanthropic capital and applying it to a shared strategy.
Neither, though, was enough to reverse a recent shift in mood against Brazil.Investors were initially sceptical about Brazil's inclusion in the BRICs, the acronym devised in 2001 by Jim O'Neill of Goldman Sachs to group Brazil, Russia, India and China.
"We can only fight terror with the help of our allies," he said in a recent interview and that means devising a strategy that keeps not only leaders like Mr. Aznar on Washington's side, but their constituencies as well.
Sharon L. McCarthy, an assistant United States attorney, said in a recent court filing that Mr. Schussler started, devised, financed and directed the bribery operation.
