Mr. McNally said he had 15 people in an office assigned to the job of taking reservations for both his restaurants.

But financial experts said the good will that preceded the merger was quickly strained by squabbles over the size of offices assigned to the new co-chairmen.

The office assigned to him was, indeed, far back and used for storage.

The Governor operated from an office assigned to him in the Parliament Building.

But in recent years, with staff cutbacks, the office assigned to such monitoring is no longer able to do so.

Even Sergeant Murphy wasn't in the office assigned to the police.

As Jeffrey passed into the suite of offices assigned to their delegation, he flashed his security clearance at the guard, who nodded coldly.

And the Interior Ministry's office assigned to monitor the press will continue to function.

However, the law only mandated a report by the Governor-General to an executive office assigned by the President of the United States.

Ms. Barros came into contact with the Dowd case when she worked in the special state prosecutor's office assigned to investigate police corruption.