• We all work together in Washington to devise policies to improve the economic situation.

    WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

  • The point was that months were henceforward spent by me trying to devise ways to catch the drum rotating.

    NEWYORKER: All That

  • But skilled people will continue to leave, and poor countries therefore need to devise ways to draw on their experience abroad.

    ECONOMIST: Emigration

  • The broader gun package still under consideration by the Senate includes tougher laws on gun trafficking and straw purchases, and steps to devise ways to improve safety in schools.

    CNN: Senate rejects expanded gun background checks

  • Many Internet dating companies, including Grindr, are trying to devise ways to make this kind of thing work for straight people, which means making it work for straight women, who may not need an app to know that they are surrounded by willing straight men.

    NEWYORKER: Looking for Someone

  • Enterprises the world over will need to devise new strategies to engage the digital consumer in increasingly clever ways.

    FORBES: A tale of three burgers

  • Penney and Sears have yet to devise a strategy to beat the completion.

    FORBES: Why Two Retailers Keep on Disappointing Wall Street

  • So now it falls to Kashkari to devise a solution to a problem that seems to grow bigger by the day.

    NPR: Ex-Rocket Scientist To Oversee Financial Bailout

  • The resulting mis-allocation creates artificial scarcity and limits the ability of wireless providers and entrepreneurs to devise creative solutions to spectrum shortages.

    FORBES: What Do The Titanic And Your Smartphone Have In Common?

  • One would allow national supervisors to give company boards the right to devise defensive measures to deter predators, without first obtaining shareholder approval.

    ECONOMIST: EU takeover rules

  • One of the first of ten challenges posed by Scripps President Richard Lerner was to devise a way to detect rare traveling tumor cells.

    FORBES: Scanning For Cancer

  • Rich countries have to devise new technologies to maintain rapid growth, but producers in poorer countries can copy those technologies at relatively low cost.

    ECONOMIST: Catch up if you can

  • American companies remain the most innovative in the world, with an ability to devise or adapt to new corporate forms and new technologies at frightening speed.

    FORBES: Can America Innovate Its Way Out Of Debt?

  • However, to ensure efficient travel spending, agencies are encouraged to devise strategic alternatives to Government travel, including local or technological alternatives, such as teleconferencing and video conferencing.

    WHITEHOUSE: Executive Order 13589 -- Promoting Efficient Spending

  • People who wore them complained that their badges would spin backward, prompting badge-makers to devise a way to attach lanyards to nametags at both ends instead of through the middle.

    WSJ: Conventional Wisdom: Nametags Say a Whole Lot About You

  • The Iraqi government has yet to devise a plan to accommodate all the people who are coming back, so American commanders and community leaders are trying to resolve problems by themselves.

    NPR: Refugees Returning to Iraq Find Homes Occupied

  • To complete the drilling without mishap, the rover's operators on Earth had to devise new procedures to solve a series of computer software problems that affected the craft's motor's control systems, said JPL drill-systems engineer Scott McCloskey.

    WSJ: Rover on Mars Extracts First Rock-Core Sample

  • "WarGames" director John Badham also worried that people would eventually tire of watching Matthew Broderick reading aloud from a screen, so he pushed Mr. Parkes and his co-screenwriter Lawrence Lasker to devise a way to make the computer talk, like HAL in "2001: A Space Odyssey, " even though no such technology existed at the time.

    WSJ: "Disconnect": From Talkies to Texties

  • They need to devise solid legal frameworks to guarantee respect of rights and continuity.

    UNESCO: MEDIA SERVICES

  • International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), which has been working to devise a global alternative to the law.

    FORBES: Democrats, Republicans Agree U.S. Airlines Should Not Be Subject To EU Carbon Tax

  • But they differed over whether to devise a bailout similar to the U.S. one (See " Europe's Bailout (Pipe) Dreams").

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • Mallya and his management team at Kingfisher have been unable to devise an acceptable plan to keep the airline in business.

    FORBES: Connect

  • Continental politicos should, but probably won't, think about how to devise procedures and institutions to give people real powers that are protected by a written constitution.

    FORBES: Fact And Comment

  • The reasoning is simple: It makes little sense to devise national safety standards to protect consumers and then let myriad juries, applying the law of 50 states, impose different and sometimes conflicting standards on manufacturers.

    FORBES: Next Supreme Court Term Could Be Hard On Plaintiff Lawyers

  • One or two meetings might be in order to determine how things went awry, and once Bondy is safely on the plane back home it should be relatively easy to devise new stage business to replace his lamer notions.

    NEWYORKER: Fiasco

  • If you want to know why drug research remains a slow and frustrating business even in this golden age of molecular biology, look at the troubles Vertex Pharmaceuticals has gone through to devise a new drug to combat hepatitis C.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • As a Sibos speaker noted some years ago, the front office will never stop trying to devise complex new ways to make money, and it certainly will not be deterred in its quest by any potential processing problems its innovations create for the back office.

    FORBES: Connect

  • If you want to know why drug research remains a slow and frustrating business even in this golden age of molecular biology, look at the troubles Vertex Pharmaceuticals (nasdaq: VRTX - news - people ) has gone through to devise a new drug to combat hepatitis C.

    FORBES: Viral Vertigo

  • We should continue to let states devise local solutions to what are mostly local problems.

    WSJ: Should Fracking Be Regulated by the Feds or the States?

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