The case will stand or fall, he said, on mountains of market data pieced together showing what the state has described as illegal manipulation of the market.

The industry wants the Government to ease the rules for inspections of bulls' horns until "scientific" methods of detecting illegal manipulation can be introduced.

The goal was to discourage illegal manipulations of the Treasury market and to help the market function more smoothly when there was a natural shortage.

Mr. Jefferies also admitted to illegal manipulation of the stock price of an unnamed company just before a new offering.

Through its greed and possibly illegal manipulation, Enron did incalculable damage to California's economy and to the national economy.

But the Treasury declined, apparently because they saw no sure sign of an illegal manipulation.

It verges on illegal manipulation.

The transaction brought allegations of under pricing by the Department of Telecommunications and the illegal manipulation of the allocation process to favor select companies.

Bitterly now he regretted the day he had agreed to help Brazee in his illegal manipulations of county records.

There are those who say our system can't survive without illegal manipulation.