11.   Texas officials say they have also taken steps to plug loopholes that allowed participants to manipulate the system during its trial phase last summer.

12.   The modern-day vigilante fights against those who use their money and power to manipulate the system.

13.   They are used to manipulating the system, beating systems. . . .

14.   These workers study the labor contract or personnel manual and know how to manipulate the system.

15.   They could scarcely manipulate the system, or perhaps fathom it, as fully as the Russians could.

16.   Those factors, critics say, have combined to create an attitude that manipulating the system is just part of doing business.

17.   Traders remain anonymous, so there is no guarantee each side will follow through, or that Bush supporters might not try to manipulate the system.

18.   Travaglini said Monday that capping finders fees will help make the fund less attractive to unscrupulous individuals who try to manipulate the system.

19.   Vivendi has said that both resolutions would have passed had the voting system not been manipulated.

20.   All it could do was show how thoroughly the system was manipulated.