Although the lower house of the Texas legislature and most of the state's congressional districts remain in Democratic hands, this is largely thanks to a crafty redistricting scheme devised by Democrats in the legislature after the 1990 census.

ECONOMIST: Democrats in Texas

The U.S. Attorney charges that the men devised a scheme to backdate millions of stock options granted to themselves and their employees to days when Comverse stock was trading at periodic lows.

FORBES: Options Charges

The problem came when his brother Otto devised a scheme to corner the market on UCC stock by aggressively buying it, waiting for prices to soar, then forced the short-sellers to repay the borrowed stock.

FORBES: How The Fed Came To Be

Nintendo's also devised a pricing scheme to offer users who've amassed a retro gaming library a more affordable way to re-download past VC purchases (as opposed to that clunky transfer system).

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Traders in a Derbyshire town have devised their own parking scheme to attract more shoppers.

BBC: Matlock parking system devised by independent traders

Micropower systems have a niche, but some other scheme must be devised to replace the electric energy we now get from nuclear power and coal.

ECONOMIST: Letters

Martine Aubry, the employment and welfare minister who devised the scheme, says she expects most of the jobs, having identified a real but unfulfilled need, will go on being paid for by those who appreciate the service.

ECONOMIST: France

Paul Braithwaite of Emag said as a result of this, the scope of the compensation of the eventual "ex-gratia" scheme being devised by Sir John Chadwick would now be much wider.

BBC: High Court backs Equitable plan