Manipulation of official bodies and of more informal groupings like gangs of youthful militants as a way to hold on to power has a long history here.
Manipulation of official statistics would also provide a clue why some wholesalers of consumer goods and construction materials say sales are now as dismal as in early 2009.
The Democrats said in a letter to the Justice Department that an outside investigator was needed to determine if the prosecutor, Frederick A. Black, the acting United States attorney on Guam, was demoted as a result of "political manipulation of Justice Department officials" by Mr. Abramoff, a major Republican fund-raiser.
Many experts say performance standards are a better measure of what students know than percentile scores, but they caution that the standards are also somewhat arbitrary, and subject to the caprices, judgment and manipulation of the officials who establish the cutoff points.
As a result, inflation is rising fast.The government has responded with price "agreements" (ie, controls) and blatant manipulation of the official inflation index.
For the manipulation of the official statistics in Argentina, see Jueguen and Bullrich (2010).
Minutes of a meeting of dealers at the Bank of England back in 2006 appear to suggest that the possibility of market manipulation was discussed in front of officials, but the Bank of England denies this interpretation.
It explores questions about the meaning of dissent and the official manipulation of truth--issues as relevant today as they were decades ago.
An administrative law judge had previously recommended $1.8 billion in refunds, but commission officials said manipulation of the prices paid for natural gas used to fuel many power plants in the state meant that the refund should be larger.
And, he said, there was no "manipulation" by city officials of the value of the land beneath Citi Field, like what he said allowed the Yankees to get the maximum amount of tax-exempt bonds.
