Compact and bristling with energy, Licata is a self-professed geek; in his 10 years of teaching, he has seen plenty of classroom gadgets come and go, from Web-based collaboration software to pricey whiteboards that let children play with geometric figures the way they'd manipulate an iPhone screen.
However, a large part of this growth came not from "solid" investors those interested in the business ventures they funded but from speculative "wheeler-dealers" who would manipulate prices to profiteer from their holdings or, just as often, from those of others.
But even more, the power of the novel is Lorelei's: her unwillingness to play the victim and her canny manipulation of those who would manipulate her.
The administration officials who devised the strategy said they believed that Mr. Milosevic, regardless of the vote tallies, would manipulate the results and declare victory.
In some of his early artworks (termed "influence pieces"), Puusemp would manipulate subjects into unknowingly executing his ideas while believing that they, the subjects, had come up with said ideas on their own.
She would make sure that I would eat right and she would make sure that no one would manipulate me.
"Sometimes two women would turn up at the hotel at the same time, and he would manipulate that," Gaze remembers.
Helplessly, he would manipulate every sesquipedalian word he encountered until he had wrung all possible combinations out of it.
Today, presumably, the Fed would manipulate its portfolio to lower longer-term rates, but in contrast to 1961, it would hold short-term rates near zero.
