The specialists who devise techniques and conduct studies have been "going to town," but the general managers have not.
In using rational faculties to devise techniques and modify the environment, humankind has attacked problems other than those of survival and the production of wealth with which the term technology is usually associated today.
Once here, however, he realized his interests lay more specifically in plant pathology, a related field that puts emphasis on analyzing food crops and devising techniques to increase their resistance to diseases.
Seeing little value in German laboratory research of sensation and perception, he sought to develop experimental techniques to measure reasoning ability and other higher mental processes, devising techniques using paper, pencil, pictures, and portable objects.
The lawyer, Jonathan G. Blattmachr of Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy, is known for his skill at devising techniques to reduce or eliminate gift, estate and income taxes for wealthy people.
Computer scientists have spent decades devising techniques, known as "formal methods", to analyse software and verify that it does what it is supposed to.
The audits did not require retailer co-operation and observers devised techniques to accurately recall and unobtrusively record marketing and advertising information.
Dr. Polokoff devised techniques to correct crooked and deformed toes, corns and bunions.
Geiger investigated the charge and nature of alpha particles and devised techniques for counting them.
He devised techniques to produce textures and filigree forms of almost any kind, and used gilding to enrich his creations.
