They helped private equity firms analyze potential investments and devised strategies to boost the performance of companies in which they had already invested.

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This means they know their abilities as well as their limitations, and very often they have devised strategies for handling shortcomings by managing their time, their people and their resources in ways that accent their strengths and downplay their deficiencies.

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Most travelers arrive in a new time zone, take a sleeping pill to fall asleep at bedtime, drink coffee during the day to stay awake, and wait it out until they feel better, says Charmane Eastman, a professor of behavioral sciences at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago, who has devised strategies for people seeking to minimize jet lag.

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Lured to marketing for Bing, she devised social media strategies and launched REDU, a Webby-winning campaign site for education reform.

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The charity Beatbullying Wales aims to help victims of the form of abuse with a range of strategies devised by young people.

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Researchers said treatment strategies, including the use of steroids, were devised to help offset those reactions.

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