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Meanwhile, it was engaging in political manipulation of the media.

Germany was reluctant to give up the Deutsche Mark, a symbol of its economic power and commitment to price stability.

Layla was being manipulated and she didn't realize it.

The current prime minister Nouri Al Maliki claimed that there were frauds in the electoral process.

The fundamental benchmark interest rates in modern financial markets are the so called risk free rates on government bonds.

I was looking for some kind of form, and in the end, I made 100 butter fries. Do you get it?

Egyptian blogger and singer, Nadya Shanab, wrote here how the speech and the Army's announcement that followed toyed with people's emotions.

Several allegations were also made about the armed forces' tampering with evidence, alterating crime scenes and committing other irregularities in carrying out procedures and operations.

There is also a concern that the government might manipulate the debt and GDP statistics on which the conversion trigger is based.

Had systematic manipulation occurred, one third of the races would not have gone to runoffs.

A study of bidding behaviour in situations where bid rigging is suspected might identify patterns suggesting customer allocation or bid rotation.

The scandal has already become popularly known as Climategate although many scientists and bloggers insist it appears to be a case of attempted political manipulation.

More recently, when the United States Congress threatened legislation against Chinese currency manipulation, China allowed the renminbi to appreciate against the dollar by a couple of percentage points.

I'd like to deal with the lack of affordable personal mobility in this country by making it very cheaply possible for low income families to get efficient, reliable, warranted new cars that they could otherwise never get.

And here she has our damned data it's a pun which is starting to break out, starting to break through the water symbolizes our data.

Before the crisis, the single minded emphasis on reducing national budget deficits to less than 3 of GDP led to extensive abuse.

If Chávez had not played with the numbers, as demagogues and populist leaders tend to do, the results would be more disheartening.

It documents his disillusionment with and departure from the Nation of Islam in March 1964, his conversion to orthodox Sunni Islam, his pilgrimage to Mecca, and his travels in Africa.

On both occasions, there was strong evidence of incitement by sheikhs within the camps, whose manipulation of the ration card system is threatened by the registration process.

We need to go beyond donations and reduced pricing schemes to build sustainable health care systems with strong distribution channels and education programs for the public and for health care workers. Without these components, the model collapses.

An experimental study involves taking measurements of the system under study, manipulating the system, and then taking additional measurements using the same procedure to determine if the manipulation has modified the values of the measurements.

We note that the State party has invoked public order by reference to the desire to ensure free and fair elections and the fear that the media may manipulate public opinion by publishing inaccurate opinion poll results.

In response, the World Bank agreed that there are instances of abuse in land acquisition, particularly in developing countries in which governance is weak, and said that it supported more transparent and inclusive participation.

Whatever your reason for wanting to do this, whether you're concerned about national security or price volatility or jobs, or the planet, or your grand kids, it seems to me that this is an oil endgame that we should all be playing to win.

Bonds of this sort have worked elsewhere, notably in Argentina s recent debt restructuring. They have not been without controversy, with investors complaining that the Argentine government manipulates the statistics.

You would have difficulty finding many members of the US Congress who do not ascribe some of America s problems, including the hollowing out of the middle class, to China s alleged currency manipulation.

Either the target was openly flouted, as it was in leading economies like Germany and France, or the data were manipulated to obscure problems (a common practice throughout the eurozone, not just in Greece).

I think that when legal options are closed, when there is manipulation of information, when those in power hide behind terms like efficiency and productivity in order to punish workers and take away people's rights, extreme measures are necessary.

In short, it is in Saudi Arabia's interest for oil prices to rise high enough to sustain its own economy, but not so high that they can sustain significant increases in non OPEC supply. In order to keep prices in this ideal range, Saudi Arabia may even increase production again.

Second, the necessary change in prices would be achieved by taxing energy, using tools that are both practical and efficient. The best option is to build a carbon charge into existing fuel taxes and apply similar charges to coal, natural gas, and other petroleum products.

As to preventing any manipulation connected with diamonds, the Republic of Armenia currently participates in the Kimberley process of control of international trade of diamonds and implements appropriate mechanisms (Diamonds cross border transportation is carried out in accordance with the Kimberley Certification Scheme).

Here, it should be said that the Bank of Japan s manipulation of the yen s exchange rate has played only a minor role, notwithstanding Bundesbank President Jens Weidmann s strong condemnation of the policy.

Having written a book about the hijacking of executive power in the United States in the Bush years, I found myself, in researching new developments, stumbling upon conversations online that embrace narratives of behind the scenes manipulation.

We need to go beyond donations and reduced pricing schemes to build sustainable health care systems with strong distribution channels and education programs for the public and for health care workers. Without these components, the model collapses.

But, as the French philosopher Paul Valéry put it, history, the science of things which are not repeated, is also the most dangerous product which the chemistry of the intellect has ever evolved, especially when manipulated by politicians.

In some cases inconsistencies between customs reports (based on actual imports) and NOU statistics (based on licenses issued) were registered due to inexperience and errors rather than to intended manipulation.

There is also a concern that the government might manipulate the debt and GDP statistics on which the conversion trigger is based. Outsourcing these figures calculation to an independent entity, such as the International Monetary Fund, could solve this problem.

Later, new classical economists like Robert Lucas and Thomas Sargent demonstrated that once people understand that inflation is being manipulated to generate market optimism, the monetary authorities actions lose their impact.

In the new negotiation process that lies ahead we cannot repeat the manipulations of the past the negotiations must be truly open, truly democratic and participatory, and without any extraneous demands whatsoever.

I like to say chop suey's the biggest culinary joke that one culture has ever played on another, because chop suey, if you translate into Chinese, means tsap sui, which, if you translate back, means odds and ends.

Still others have argued that Doing Business contains built in biases against regulation and taxation, which may create incentives for countries to enact reforms that game the system rather than produce meaningful results.

For example, rather than trying to regulate away problems, which probably won't work, if we could price into the cost of doing business, the cost of catastrophe, so that people who are doing things that had a higher cost of catastrophe would have to take insurance against that risk.

Although American officials had said that the United States would not support Obasanjo if the election were flawed, it was an open secret long before polling began that the PDP would manipulate the outcome to remain in power.