Manager investment performance information is manipulated, legally and not-so-legally, by managers who are extremely adept at casting their performance in the most favorable light.
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As water is flowing, the throttle is manipulated to control the water pressure being supplied to the discharges, this in turn affects the flow rate.
The Context Reflux experiment highlights one of the most important questions in IT security: what technology do we trust and what happens when it fails (or is manipulated)?
Financial elder abuse also occurs when the victim is manipulated into signing legal documents, such as a durable power of attorney, last will and testament, trust or living will.
So all the people that are bitching about the manipulation of silver and gold should be happy that it is manipulated, because it still gives them an opportunity to buy it at a depressed price.
But what's happening, I think, is that that need -- which is a good thing -- is getting manipulated and exploited.
Groups from Greenpeace to the Union of Concerned Scientists fret that Africa is being manipulated by multinational corporations, in effect serving as one big--and potentially dangerous--genetic experiment.
Groups that include Greenpeace and the Union of Concerned Scientists fret that Africa is being manipulated by multinational corporations, in effect serving as one big--potentially dangerous--genetic experiment.
We used gross income rather than net income because the latter figure is easily manipulated by studio accountants with marketing expenses treated differently for almost every film.
Indeed, she may well have published her book in part to quash the notion that she is a naive innocent who is simply manipulated to attack one political side and not the other.
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Until there is a real way to quantify the emotional bond bloggers have to their audience, evaluating them through the current means available is just a hollow fix, and worse, a numbers game that is easily manipulated.
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One is that the earnings figure is more easily manipulated than the sales one.
With roughly five times as many buyers as offered by the U.S. Treasury, it raises the question as to whether or not the 0.05% yield is actually a manipulated price.
We deliberately used gross income rather than net income in our analysis because the latter figure is so easily manipulated by studio accountants, with marketing expenses treated differently for almost every film.
Agreeing with Mr Cameron, the Lib Dem leader said the "biggest problem" was that the Human Right Act is sometimes "manipulated not just by the media but by over-cautious officials" who use it to justify their decisions.
As with the term resource, HR and corporate strategy also treat behavior in a neutral sense, denoting a measureable set of actions that can enable business outcomes, not something that is to be manipulated through fear or chicanery.
The key item in the UConn report is that Das repeatedly manipulated western blot images.
Google is alleged to have manipulated its search results and advertising in order to disadvantage potential competitors.
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In their framework, money is something to be manipulated to achieve superior economic outcomes and smooth adjustment processes.
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Livedoor is said to have manipulated the market in 2004, when a subsidiary announced that it was pursuing a publishing company it already controlled.
Today, Southeast Asia is largely free from divisions born of colonialism and the Cold War, and ASEAN is respected, not manipulated, by big powers (most of the time, at least).
Revenue growth is an important gauge of health of a company, as it clearly less manipulated by accounting chicanery than is profit.
When assessing a mate, the last thing you should want is to have your feelings manipulated by the other side.
It is unfortunate that patent law can be manipulated to give one company a monopoly over rectangles with rounded corners, or technology that is being improved every day by Samsung and other companies.
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Since he believes good ingredients shouldn't be overly manipulated, everything here is served raw.
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Unfortunately, whenever greed or personal ego is involved the numbers may be manipulated to obtain the best selling price.
That bit of trickery works because the light can be manipulated when the material is shaped with features about as big as the light's wavelength - less than a millionth of a metre for light that we can see.
The analysis and presentation of the data arguing in favor of this increase is at best flawed, at worst manipulated to support the rationale for the change.
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They treat it as if it is a natural phenomenon that can be manipulated and exploited, rather than the fragile creation of several generations of hard work, risk-taking and inventiveness.
This is over the allegations that LIBOR was manipulated.
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