Much easier to follow are the hilarious campaigns that Babylen devises to sell newly available Western goods to eager Russian consumers, his dexterity with words now a lucrative tool of capitalism.
The history of e-commerce is marked by start-ups devising ways to sell products that were once thought of as unsuitable for sale online.
The SEC filings provide other detail about the ways that the two companies devised to remain inextricably linked, even though Chesapeake has sold the stake it once had in Access.
Vodafone initially balked at selling Orange directly to another company because of the tax implications, but according to the executives, it has devised a method to sell the company with a smaller tax liability.
Advocates of the law devised a plan to sell legislators' office furniture to raise money, notably the love seat of Speaker Thomas M. Finneran, a staunch opponent of the law, as well as desks, sofas and other furnishings of Salvatore F. DiMasi, the House majority leader, and Mr. Wagner, who was the House elections laws chairman until this year.
Viacom Chief Executive Philippe Dauman devised the plan to sell a big chunk of Paramount in mid-February, hoping to fetch a high price that would boost the overall value of the media company.
In April, the bank was accused of securities fraud in a civil suit filed by the S.E.C., which contended that it created and sold a mortgage investment that was secretly devised to fail.
At the hearing, senators pressed Goldman executives on the allegations by the S.E.C. that the firm had misled investors by selling them a complex mortgage investment that was secretly devised to fail.
Yet they may not fully understand the cost of active fund management.For the moment, the fund-management business is busy devising products to sell in a bear market.
We weren't selling anything; this was a bold conceit that Tonio had devised to cut costs.
