By June he devised a spreadsheet weighting different factors and using a point system.
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In fact he did, he devised a new and improved version of the Tories' conjuring trick.
So he devised a locker-style device that required scanning membership cards to receive towels.
He devised a dome consisting of two shells, one nested in the other.
With the institute he devised a plan to help Peru's poor get title to land and businesses more quickly and efficiently.
But rather than just inventing a few words to make them sound alien, he devised a complete language, with its own vocabulary, grammar, and usage.
He has devised a series of guidelines for retailers which he hopes will reduce theft.
Louis Michaud, a Canadian engineer who works at a large oil company, believes he has devised a way to do just that, by generating artificial whirlwinds that can be controlled and harnessed.
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He has devised a plausible alternative to the current open-ended, state-financed system: government-funded vouchers toward buying insurance.
He even devised a diplomatic answer that avoided challenging the existence of God.
His appetite for inventions went back to his childhood, when he had devised a fork and spoon that could fit into a penknife.
Convertible pieces have been a trademark of sorts for the designer: In the past, he's devised a reversible satin-lapelled tuxedo that's also a navy suit, and among next spring's offerings is a linen blazer whose other side is a nylon rain slicker.
As a youngster he dabbled in science and devised a system of colour photography.
He changed his mind two years ago when he saw a working system devised by a fledgling Israeli firm called Main.net Communications.
"Despite corrections in the marketplace and instances of abuse, democratic capitalism remains the greatest system ever devised, " he told a packed audience at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Friday morning, defending his administration's recent plans to flood the financial system with capital and to buy shares in banks in an effort to unclog the credit markets.
So far this has proved fairly easy, thanks to a system he has devised to share out jobs, influence and the other spoils of office.
He devised an elaborate travel game, conjuring a sort of early virtual reality.
The model he's devised for his textile business takes a page from the technology sector.
By then the surgeon Sampson, working with Darell Bigner, had devised a similar vaccine, and he began testing it in several small trials starting in 2002.
At 19 he went to London to study precision-instrument making, then worked for the University of Glasgow, where he devised his first major steam engine improvement: a separate, exterior condenser.
Poverty lines are often calculated by a dollar-a-day measurement devised by Robert McNamara when he was president of the World Bank.
When financial planner Rick Gornto devised the Alternate Plan in 1981, he wanted it to be a complete substitute for Social Security.
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He places huge value on "brain-centered learning" and devised a specific program designed to foster improvement in a young player's cognitive skills.
He therefore turned to engineers working with the Jhai Foundation, who devised a machine that has no moving, and few delicate, parts.
He has devised minimally invasive techniques that have transformed spinal surgery and made him a billionaire.
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UMNO, he has to fight for his political survival, unlike Mr Suharto, who devised a system where a challenge to his authority became almost inconceivable.
Crane devised a new measure of energy consumption: a three-dimensional unit he called a cubic mile of oil.
The president said he regretted sending voters to the polls without a reform of the electoral law, devised by Silvio Berlusconi's centre-right government in 2005.
And I think that as part of the package that the President put together when he very deliberately devised his strategy for Afghanistan and the AfPak region was -- and remember there was a big debate about, is it COIN?
But he insisted the market economy was the most successful system yet devised for improving living standards, and that there was a moral imperative to create wealth.
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