Word: ties
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...final returns seemed headed for a virtual tie in the popular vote, the rival surveys could rightly claim that they had come well within their acceptable error of 4%. Harris had Humphrey on the button, Nixon three points low. Gallup was one point low on Nixon and three on Humphrey. Both correctly forecast the Wallace vote. In the end, Gallup and Harris turned out to be reasonably accurate and had obviously restored some confidence in polls...
...Democrats will stand for reelection, including a number who are undistinguished and vulnerable. Only seven Republican seats will be on the line, and most seem safe and solid. The G.O.P. needs only eight or nine more Senators to win 50% of the Senate seats ?and then any tie votes could be broken by Vice President Spiro Agnew...
Penn, which had snapped Harvard's winning streak last week apparently eliminating the Crimson from the race, was upset by Yale, 2-1, and thrown into a second place tie with Harvard. If Harvard can beat first place Brown this Saturday and Yale in two weeks, they will salvage a tie for first place...
...pays all the big bills. If they eat out, it is generally the wife who discreetly picks up the restaurant tab. When she throws a temper tantrum, her husband speaks of "flying saucers" at home. In the Hoa Hao sect, a wronged or thwarted wife has been known to tie her husband's hair to a bedpost while he is sleeping, then wake him up and beat him until her wishes are granted...
...weeks ago, Starr unaccountably pulled the biceps muscle in his throwing arm, watched from the sidelines as the Rams toppled his teammates 16-14. Against Detroit a week later, Starr entered the game for one play, painfully flipped a 3-yd. touchdown pass to eke out a 14-14 tie...