Word: tilted
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...EAST. Carter leads in Maryland, Massachusetts, New York, Rhode Island and Washington, D.C. Two of the three largest electoral states in the East-New Jersey and Pennsylvania-still tilt toward Carter. President Ford still leads in New Hampshire and Vermont. Maine, where Independent Governor James Longley last week endorsed Ford, now leans to the President. The races in Connecticut and Delaware are tossups...
...WEST. Carter has the edge in Hawaii. Ford has solid leads in Arizona, Utah, Wyoming and Idaho. Alaska, Washington and Montana tilt toward Ford. New Mexico, which has voted for the winner in every presidential election since it entered the Union in 1912, is too close to call, with perhaps 16% of the voters still undecided. Nevada, Colorado and Oregon are also dead heats. So is the biggest prize of all-California...
...opponents, the roly-poly uncle of his country dunking in the Yangtze. But Americans had learned to be comfortable with Mao. So long as he lived, China would not be especially friendly; neither would it be overly hostile. Now there is apprehension about which way the country may tilt. Mao's death was like the toppling of a giant, enigmatic idol, and nobody can yet foresee the repercussions...
...support will draw partly from Carter's liberal electorate and could hurt the Democratic nominee in a close election. A nationwide Gallup poll, taken from Aug. 6 to Aug. 9, gave McCarthy 6% of the vote. That figure could be larger in some crucial Northern states-enough to tilt them out of the Democratic column. In California, a Mervin Field poll, taken between July 24 and Aug. 3, gave McCarthy 7% of the vote...
Neither Rapaport nor Riggio can yet fully explain such effects, but they think that in successful transplants there apparently has been a tilt in the balance of immune cells toward those that tolerate specific foreign tissue rather than reject it. In short, the immunological blunderbuss can be replaced by a more accurate biochemical rifle...