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After the 2010 Hameen fire, Gap spent about two years talking with international NGOs and trade unions in an effort to devise a cooperative approach to worker safety.

About a dozen key bishops (at one time including both Bob Duncan and Gene Robinson) have conferred privately over the past year, partly in an effort to devise an alternative system of episcopal oversight for parishes that are irreconcilably at odds with their local bishop.

Although there was strong emphasis on the Chinese Classics (because knowledge of the Classics was thought to form the virtues of a good citizen), there was also an effort to devise objective and meaningful tests for practical qualities, and there were always long contentions over subject matter and testing methods.

A18 Clinton Acts to Preserve Image Former President Bill Clinton, frustrated that his image has been battered since he left office, consulted on Wednesday with several of his aides and advisers from his administration in an effort to devise ways to remind the public of his accomplishments and defend his legacy.

Representative Richard A. Gephardt of Missouri, the House minority leader, is struggling to get Democrats to unite behind an effort to devise a campaign finance bill similar enough to the Senate measure that a House-Senate conference to iron out the differences will not be necessary.

The present paper presents an effort to devise a nonlinear model for the device.

His immigration back-and-forth drew scorn from Democrats, who took pleasure in comparing him with another Florida Republican, Senator Marco Rubio, who is at the center of a bipartisan effort to devise an immigration overhaul and who counts Mr. Bush as a mentor.

"The initiatives we approved are the product of a significant effort to devise a sophisticated, yet workable and effective way to protect our markets from excessive volatility," Mary L. Schapiro, the chairwoman of the S.E.C, said in a statement.

A similar effort to devise a "continental narrative" integrating the histories of the three Nafta partners, Canada, Mexico and the United States, has been stalled for more than a decade, and looks most likely never to come to pass.

Guided under this line, we initiated a synthetic effort to devise a unified and practical strategy for the future evaluation of the structure-and-activity relationship in terms of carbon chain length and chirality of acetylenic alcohols.

After much speculation, a concerted effort to devise Tron: Legacy began in 2005 when producers hired Klugman and Sternthal as writers.