At the National Energy Technology Laboratory in Pittsburgh, part of the Energy Department, Kenneth C. Kern, the director of the office of systems, analyses and planning, described a series of plants coming into service between now and 2013.
The seeds of desire were planted when a friend of his father's, the legendary clandestine warrior Edward G. Lansdale, helped him get a job in the Pentagon's office of systems analysis during the Kennedy administration.
Downtown, the 17-story building at 5 North Wabash Avenue housed offices of System, a business magazine where Sandburg worked as a copy editor — and wrote poetry on the side.
It is the office of administrative systems, not administrative assistance.
Ron Levy joined the New York office of Broadway Systems as senior vice president, overseeing client services and account management.
He had been worldwide creative director for brand strategy at the New York office of Adobe Systems.
As Admiral Craig Steidle, the associate administrator of NASA's office of exploration systems, observes, the most difficult aspect of the vision is "sustainability".
Stacy Evans, an executive administrator at the Chicago office of Cisco Systems, the huge technology company based in San Jose, Calif., had never heard the term "right-brain meetings" before organizing the first of two recent events at the Hotel Sax.
