Some programs are directed by the State Department, which last year hired Charlotte Beers, a former Madison Avenue advertising executive, to devise a multimillion-dollar public diplomacy campaign, complete with academic exchange programs and slick public service advertisements, to soften anti-American feelings.
If a national Foot ball League executive wanted to devise a perfect ending to the Super Bowl, it would look like the finale of the Week 10 shootout between the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and the Washington Redskins.
Cyma Zarghami, Nickelodeon's executive vice president and general manager, said it was with that in mind that she and her fellow executives had decided to devise the changes.
It was organic, by U.S.D.A. standards (which a Whole Foods executive had helped to devise), but it had travelled six thousand miles, and it tasted like cardboard.
The court will not hesitate to intervene if it finds that the legislative and/or executive branches fail to devise and implement necessary reform.
Another candidate trailing Trump in the polls, New Jersey governor Chris Christie, on Saturday told an audience in New Hampshire he would ask the chief executive of FedEx to devise a system to track illegal immigrants like packages.
When the trust's chief executive, Julian Hartley, wanted to devise a hospital strategy that had the validation of all 15,000 of his staff, he put flipcharts and seminar rooms to one side and chose instead to set up an online platform called Wayfinder.
The orchestrations were arranged by French keyboard player Francois Breant, celebrated for his contributions to Salif Keita's epic Soro album, who was challenged by executive producer Ibrahim Sylla to devise arrangements that would highlight the relationship between West Africa and music from the East.
The session will begin Dec. 8, less than a month before a Jan . 1deadline the court imposed on the executive and legislative branches to devise a remedy.
Robert Benmosche, chief executive of the insurer since August, confirmed that he was "frustrated" about how long it was taking to devise an executive compensation plan that was "fair" but did not violate the restrictions the government has placed on companies that are receiving taxpayer assistance.
