Peter Jackson, the film's director, was attending the session, but much of the "Lord of the Rings" cycle was created in a "virtual office" devised for the New Zealand-based production which enables the musical teams in London and in Tuxedo, New York, to upload their work onto a series of secure Web sites.
In 2002, the patent office devised a five-year plan to tackle the applications backlog by hiring 2,400 examiners who would be qualified to evaluate the increasing number of computer and technology inventions and by moving the agency into the electronic age with all-digital processing of applications.
Eventually, Graham and Lieberman's offices devised a ruse: they would adopt a crucial part of the Cantwell-Collins bill on market regulation in the official bill.
The city planning office, meanwhile, devised a plan that would allow property owners below the High Line to transfer their development rights to other sites within the district.
The New Forest tourism office has devised its own Green Leaf accreditation system for hotels and B&Bs that are committed to using local food, recycling wastes such as cooking oil, increasing biodiversity.
Osler was not only professor of medicine but physician in chief to the hospital, an office first devised by the president of the university on the basis of his experience of running a large department store and later to spread to most of the medical centres of the United States.
It might strike you as an office experiment devised in boredom: piling up staples and seeing how long it takes for them to collapse.
The Headquarters staff of Combined Operations at the War Office was tasked with devising a plan for the glider-borne assault on the plant, as it had been with previous airborne and commando operations, such as Operation Biting.
The airy, innovative structure is already being hailed by environmental advocates as the "greenest" office building yet devised.
All these jobs fed into his later writing, which first saw the light in an advertising copywriters' office, where he devised the slogan for Stones bitter, "Wherever you may wander, there's no taste like Stones".
