So the Administration has devised an early plan of its own.

The official, Robert Lamb, the assistant secretary for administration and security, told a House subcommittee that the Administration was devising ways to foil the listening devices believed to be spread throughout the building under construction.

For both of those forest zones, the Administration has already devised new plans that it said contained carefully designed environmental protections.

That leaves the Administration the option of a sustained air campaign, devised to reduce but not necessarily eliminate Iraq's weapons of mass destruction, the officials said.

Like health-care reform's individual mandate, cap-and-trade legislation is a Republican invention: the Administration of the first President Bush devised it more than twenty years ago to reduce the pollutants that caused acid rain.

Preoccupied with the costs of maintaining troops around the world, President Eisenhower and his Administration devised the doctrine of "massive retaliation" - which concentrated on nuclear weapons as the primary deterrent to the Soviet Union.

To court workers who would be affected, the Administration is also devising a way for them to remain in their jobs as employees and shareholders of companies set up to perform the work.

But if recent history is any guide, Congress and the Administration will devise new tricks to beat the system.

One Senator, Phil Gramm, Republican of Texas, leads a group of legislators that has tried to force Congress and the Administration to devise a new version of the law to balance the budget by 1991.

Accordingly, the Administration has devised a proposal to help pay health insurance premiums for up to six months for workers who are between jobs.