"It amuses me that so many people think what happened was calculated and cleverly manipulated," Craig-Martin said later, "whereas in fact it was a combination of youthful bravado, innocence, fortunate timing, good luck and, of course, good work".
She concludes that Trabelsi was a "Machiavellian figure... intelligent, ambitious, calculating, manipulating and utterly without scruples or morals.
With these variables fixed, expected-utility-maximizing NE behavior by the monkeys can be calculated and tested by manipulating the computer's utility function in various runs of the game.
A new letter signed by the chairman of the Republican State Committee, William Powers, says Mrs. Clinton is an "ambitious, ruthless, scheming, calculating, manipulating woman," and later refers to her as an "angry woman whose political views are so far to the left, she has left common sense behind".
A shorter way of asking the question is: Do you have to be a mean, unscrupulous, calculating S.O.B. to achieve and manipulate political power effectively.
Instead of figuring out their sales and subtracting expenses to calculate the profit, they work backward, starting with the profit investors are expecting and manipulating sales and expenses to make sure the numbers come.
In case anyone failed to get the Medusa message, the New York G.O.P. chairman, William Powers, has sent out a new fund-raising letter that reads, "I have high hopes that you'll help us... stop this ambitious, ruthless, scheming, calculating, manipulating woman from fooling voters".
We stress that although R0 can be indirectly calculated by manipulating parameters that can be estimated from an endemic equilibrium, this number is only meaningful when malaria is newly emerging in an immunologically naïve population.
Data types and manipulating them.
