The eldest of the group, she worked at Macy's and attended the Fashion Institute of Technology, and the look she helped devise for the group was all superlatives: bigger, badder and sexier than anybody.
According to a person close to the White House, around the time the President's economic-stimulus package was defeated in Congress, a year ago, she told Maggie Williams, her chief of staff, that she wanted to have a "war room" (the same kind of quick-response, computerized-communications hub that she had helped devise for the Presidential campaign) created for health care.
For example, she helped devise programs for online bookstores that were capable of "remembering" the topic, author, and genre preferences of the individual consumer and of offering recommendations for similar and upcoming books.
The group has so far helped devise plans for the village of Huntington and the hamlet of Oyster Bay, but Roosevelt is its first foray into a lower-income community that does not already have a functional downtown.
Meanwhile, Pacquiao's trainer, Freddie Roach, revealed that Pacquiao had helped devise a strategy for a fight for the first time since they started working together 14 years ago.
And if Batali and Meyer won't put their imaginations to work, we have machines ready to do it for them: This past week, IBM's Watson supercomputer helped devise a recipe for "Belgian bacon pudding". Its next offering, surely, won't include pot roast or Earl Grey.
Baker had been researching and developing methods of using chicken for the burgeoning field of "food sciences" and helped devise the techniques for what would eventually become McDonald's Chicken McNuggets, poultry hot dogs and more.
Prof Richard Cookson, of the Centre for Health Economics (CHE) at York, led the team that helped devise the indicators for NHS England.
The frozen-dessert origin myth goes like this: shortly after graduating from Oxford in 1947 with a degree in chemistry, Margaret Roberts, the future Mrs. Thatcher, worked briefly at the food conglomerate J. Lyons & Company, where she helped devise a method for whipping extra air into ice cream that laid the foundation for modern soft-serve.
Prompted by Theo's difficulties, he helped devise a valve for draining water on the brain which was used to treat thousands of children.
In the mid-'80s, a German engineer named Friedhelm Hillebrand helped devise a way for cellphones to send and receive text messages.
