Their 70, 000-gene chromosomes havebeenmanipulated to include a gene from the orb weaver, a palm-size spider that spins the world's toughest natural material.
Fast forward to this year, when 30-year and 10-year government yields havebeen so manipulated by the Federal Reserve that the rates havebeen reduced to near-record lows.
Tamper detection Smart meters have a tamper detection feature that automatically notifies BC Hydro if they havebeen removed from the wall or otherwise manipulated.
For nearly six months the Public Utilities Commission of Texas and an independent market monitor havebeen investigating whether the Dallas-based energy giant manipulated the state's wholesale energy market by briefly withholding production in order to drive up prices during the summer of 2005.
Not only were plan mutual fund-related costs potentially inflated but, worse still, the investment performance of plans may have suffered since better performing non-Fidelity funds may havebeen excluded on the basis of disclosed costs that had beenmanipulated behind-the-scenes by Fidelity.
Yet in seeking to produce something equivalent to the French rather than a version that has beenmanipulated to make it more comprehensible, the translators have produced something very readable.
But the allegation that managers havemanipulated profit figures to boost share prices, and so the value of their stock options, has been behind many of the recent corporate scandals in America.