With expansive offices in a downtown San Francisco office tower, it was not the kind of place where lawyers wore white shirts and striped ties.

That same day, Mr. Wang met with Mr. Brown, at his expansive office in the Commerce Department.

Under a glass case in Craig Venter's expansive office is a model of the Sorcerer - its hull sapphire blue, its sails full to the wind.

Now the scene showed an expansive office, where well-dressed civilians, all clearly humods, backed away from armed men wearing Turek's maroon and black colors.

His expansive office was mostly bare, since Mr. Gulotta had removed the furniture and the red carpet, which he had paid for.

She was sitting across from him in his bright, expansive office.

In his expansive office on Irving Place, in Lower Manhattan, he takes calls from figures representing the radical causes of many decades.

His expansive Mission-style office, sparsely furnished, looks out over Santa Monica Bay and a coastline that stretches to Malibu.

The second and third floors were also empty: expansive, carpeted offices silent and lit only by emergency-exit signs and the occasional security light.

It was Mr. Lestrom's son, Rutherford, who rose to greet her in an expansive office on the second floor.