He said that he and Mr. Zahl expect the project to occupy them for the next decade.
"Besides liking the idea of bookcrossing," he said, "it gave me a project to occupy my mind instead of simply giving in to grief".
Of Western support for the unsuccessful Greek project to occupy Smyrna he rightly noted, "The whole thing is mad and bad".
Mr. McMinn first came to Napa 10 years ago looking for a weekend house, but quickly recognized that he could live there full time as long as he had a project to occupy him.
BRITONS ON EXHIBITION The latest contemporary art project to occupy the Fourth Plinth, that 22-foot-high granite slab in the northwest corner of Trafalgar Square, is shaping up to be the British art world's answer to reality television.
Similarly, some consultants at Accenture, formerly known as Andersen Consulting, say that they do not have any projects to occupy them, and others have much less to do than they did six months ago.
Seeking a project to occupy his retirement, Dr. Roget, a learned man of taxonomic bent, set about organizing English words and their synonyms into a vast collection, a compendium, which was published when he was 73.
WE ALL is the first built project to occupy a newly expanded section of the Grove, a site at the intersection of North Harvard Street and Western Avenue that serves as an entry point from Cambridge into Allston.
And here's our dark-horse candidate: Jack Welch Jack Welch, recently retired from GE and in need of a project to occupy his time.
Jenkins said (half-jokingly, I think?) that when he joined Shutterstock in 2011, he was already interested in building a music service, but there were plenty of other projects to occupy his time.
