The state devised a new proposal that it presented to residents in June.

Some states devised loyalty oaths designed to exclude Catholics from state and local office.

To help states devise plans, the federal health agency intends to release $200 million now.

The state has devised new methods for financing physician training and charity care.

His Administration has approved almost all the innovative welfare changes that states have devised.

Once the standards are set, states must devise plans for meeting them, subject to Federal approval.

The states are still devising a coordinated legal strategy, several people familiar with last week's meeting said.

It is a method states have devised to get more Medicaid money - at no cost to local treasuries.

On the one hand, it encourages states to devise innovative, creative programs to assist poor people.

It is a commitment by the Federal Government to match state spending on programs that states devise.