Word: shifted
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...political history. Before the Iranian crisis, which began with the embassy seizure on Nov. 4, Carter trailed Kennedy by ten points, meaning that he has surged 30 percentage points in one month. As recently as August, Kennedy led Carter by 33 percentage points, which means there has been a shift of 63 percentage points in four months. An even more ominous sign for the Kennedy candidacy is the Yankelovich finding that among Democrats, even those who call themselves liberal Democrats, Kennedy's once commanding lead has been erased...
...KRON thought so little of Kennedy's attack that it snipped it out before broadcasting the interview, but other reporters heard about it, and the headlines flared. The news soon reached Tehran, where the newspaper Ettela'at misguidedly interpreted Kennedy's statement as suggesting a "fundamental shift in public opinion in to the enemy and conceivably even jeopardized the hostages...
...centers. In the Far West (where public transit is grossly inadequate) and the Plains states (where communities are separated by long distances), people must drive or suffer immobility. Of course, they can and must do more car pooling. That is difficult for many: the suburbanite who works the night shift, the construction laborer who moves from site to site, the marginal farmer who drives to a supplemental job in town. But food production would not be set back; to run their equipment, farmers long ago shifted largely from gasoline to diesel fuel, and they are almost certain to be exempted...
Leonard Matthews works long hours every day, but today he is more aggravated than usual. He's just had to fire new help he'd hired only three days ago, and that means Daphne has to get up earlier than usual to help him with the early shift. "People are so unreliable you can't trust them to do the work," he fumes. "They believe in just turning an egg and that...
...first acts was to purge the Iranian broadcast media of Western-style artists and music. "They all love to talk," one expert says of the Council members, and alliances within the group shift dramatically from issue to issue...