In 1980, the silver price rose to a peak for modern times of US $ 49. 45 per troy ounce ( ozt ) due to market manipulation of Nelson Bunker Hunt and Herbert Hunt.

During this period, accusations began to fly of chart manipulation as labels would hold off on releasing a single until airplay was at its absolute peak, thus prompting a top ten or, in some cases, a number one debut.

He wears an ancient helmet and armor ( powered by a " four-dimensional mirror "), from which he derives flight, infrared and X-Ray vision, invisibility, intangibility, bodyheat camouflage, entrapment nets, plasma beams and density manipulation, as well as augmenting his peak physical abilities to superhuman levels.

The data processing for differential profiling usually proceed through several stages, including input file manipulation, spectral filtering, peak detection, chromatographic alignment, normalization, visualization, and data export.

After many years of trying every possible manipulation of accelerometer-time histories, it turns out that the extremely simple peak ground velocity ( PGV ) provides the best correlation with damage.

The basic principles of weight training are essentially identical to those of strength training, and involve a manipulation of the number of repetitions ( reps ), sets, tempo, exercise types, and weight moved to cause desired increases in strength, endurance, and size.

* Diabulimia, characterized by the deliberate manipulation of insulin levels by diabetics in an effort to control their weight.

It argues that anti-Zionism may become antisemitic when it adopts a view of Zionism as a " global force of unlimited power and malevolence throughout history ," a definition that " bears no relation to the understanding that most Jews have of the concept: that is, a movement of Jewish national liberation ..." Having re-defined Zionism, the report states, traditional antisemitic motifs of Jewish " conspiratorial power, manipulation and subversion " are often transferred from Jews onto Zionism.

The videos of records all show the flight starting on a low trajectory, with little manipulation of arrow keys to get better angle, meaning an ideal angle is kept throughout the flight.

Van Heflin's character Sam performs this manipulation throughout the 1946 film The Strange Love of Martha Ivers.

Goldman further asserted that this turn of events was caused, not only by Lennon's own native laziness and dependence on strong women throughout his life to manage his affairs ( other than his marriage to Cynthia, in which he took a dominant role ), but through the instigation and manipulation of Yoko Ono, who Goldman claimed in the book was jealous of Lennon and saw his fame as competition for her own musical ambitions.

He continued to create music throughout the first half of that decade, working principally with tape manipulation effects.

The GPU supported line draw, area fill, and included a type of stream processor called a blitter which accelerated the movement, manipulation, and combination of multiple arbitrary bitmaps.

Common game mechanics include card draw, kneeling effects, and trait manipulation.

Common game mechanics include icon manipulation, discard effects, stealth, and card draw.

; some security features are passive ( such as retention screws, decoy straps, or hood guards ), while others are active and require deliberate manipulation by the officer during the draw ( such as traditional thumbreak snaps ).

Also a unique feature to draw every Nth polygon of a model, was essential for visualizing animation of ' heavy ' scenes during manipulation.

Creation of this file type must be accomplished by direct manipulation of the disk directory.

Since much financial manipulation is accomplished with new share issues and buyback, always recalculate on a ' per share ' basis, i. e., earnings per share / book value per share.

Although many of the League's leaders over the years have been accomplished martial artists, Darrk himself did not depend on physical prowess, and as an assassin he instead relied upon careful planning and manipulation, ambushes and death traps, as well as a variety of cleverly concealed weapons and poisons.

Although many of the League's leaders over the years have been accomplished martial artists, Daark himself did not depend on physical prowess, and as an assassin he instead relied upon careful planning and manipulation, ambushes and death traps, as well as a variety of cleverly concealed weapons and poisons.

This was primarily accomplished with genetic manipulation.

WS-Resource is a family of specifications that enable and standardise interfaces for web services to give the appearance of statefulness ; this is accomplished using WS-Addressing endpoints ( where a service QName is bound together with a resource identifier ) and resources, special web services that provide access to -- and manipulation of -- remotely stored data structures.

We note the use of rhetoric as a weapon, the manipulation of the masses by propaganda, the `` mobilization '' of effort and resources.

Belt tension is adjusted by manipulation of two locking bolts and a movable motor mount.

It has become painfully clear that the very attempt to make the language of social research free of values by erecting mathematical and physical models, is itself a conditioned response to a world which pays a premium price for technological manipulation.

The Taoists believed the unity could be influenced by proper magical manipulation ; ;

Atom probes are unlike conventional optical or electron microscopes, in that the magnification effect comes from the magnification provided by a highly curved electric field, rather than by the manipulation of radiation paths.

At the time nutmeg was one of the " fine spices " kept expensive in Europe by disciplined manipulation of the market, but a desirable commodity for Dutch traders in the ports of India as well ; economic historian Fernand Braudel notes that India consumed twice as much as Europe.

More generally, calculus ( plural calculi ) refers to any method or system of calculation guided by the symbolic manipulation of expressions.

This ability would enable a creature to recognize the likelihood that their perceptions are deceiving them ( e. g. that water in the distance may be a mirage ) and behave accordingly, and it could also facilitate the manipulation of others by recognizing how things appear to them for both cooperative and devious ends.

A database data model needs support by a sufficiently rich data manipulation language to allow database manipulations, and for information to be generated from the data.

Opposition parties continued to complain about electoral manipulation by the government, and many Egyptians felt their votes were monitored by poll workers, and could face retribution.

The bill specifically exempts fantasy sports games, educational games, or any online contest that " has an outcome that reflects the relative knowledge of the participants, or their skill at physical reaction or physical manipulation ( but not chance ), and, in the case of a fantasy or simulation sports game, has an outcome that is determined predominantly by accumulated statistical results of sporting events, including any non-participant's individual performances in such sporting events ..."

The manipulation of fear is done by means of symbolic instruments as terror movies and the administration ideologies that lead to nationalism.

Special rstack manipulation functions provided by the kernel allow it to be used for temporary storage within a word, but otherwise it cannot be used to pass parameters or manipulate data.

Instead of using code, the developer defines his logic by selecting an operation in a pre-defined list of memory or data table manipulation commands.

The adjective Orwellian connotes an attitude and a policy of control by propaganda, surveillance, misinformation, denial of truth, and manipulation of the past.

* Genetic modification, the manipulation of an organism's genome by humans

The processor, which is a Z80 workalike made by Sharp with a few extra ( bit manipulation ) instructions, has a clock speed of approximately 8 MHz, twice as fast as that of the original Game Boy.

The government became ineffective because of large scale internal conflicts ( e. g. Lubomirski's Rokosz against John II Casimir and rebellious confederations ), corrupted legislative processes and manipulation by foreign interests.

Active microfluidics refers to the defined manipulation of the working fluid by active ( micro ) components as micropumps or micro valves.

Laboratory researchers sometimes try to develop animal models of human mental disorders, including by inducing or treating symptoms in animals through genetic, neurological, chemical or behavioral manipulation, but this has been criticized on empirical grounds and opposed on animal rights grounds.

Thus, being alive protects a thing from direct manipulation by the Matter sphere.

Originally contrasted with " pure " electronic music ( based solely on the production and manipulation of electronically produced sounds rather than recorded sounds ), the theoretical basis of the style was developed by Pierre Schaeffer, beginning in the early 1940s.

The final Lisa and Macintosh operating systems used concepts from the Xerox Alto, but many elements of the graphical user interface were created by Apple including the menubar, pop-up menus and the concepts of drag and drop and direct manipulation.