Tunisia's ruler of the past 17 years, Zeineddine Ben Ali, has twice crushed challengers, but these lightweight rivals were carefully vetted, and forced to play on a steeply tilted field.
By combining tilted field transport measurements with detailed self-consistent calculations we estimate that the native anisotropy energy, whatever its origin, is typically ∼1 mK per electron.
But he does more than tilt the field.
The Longhorns drive, however, did tilt the field position battle in their favor.
And then, as the Guardian revealed at the weekend, there is the potentially devastating effect of the boundary changes, which can't really be brought in before an early election but will radically tilt the field by 2020.
A sensible way to tilt the field is with a carbon tax that would decrease the profits of users of carbon-based fuels and increase them for users of alternatives.
It's conceivable that Congress will back down from the costly biofuel mandate, or tilt the field to favor corn, or remove the tariff that keeps out the far more cost-effective Brazilian ethanol.
In Mississippi, out-of-state organizations helped tilt the field toward the winning candidate.
But if economic woes persist or become worse, that could tilt the field in Romney's favor.
To carry on this tradition, the theatre company, Tilted Field, helmed in this instance by director Becca Wolff, took on the story of slutty Queen Mary Stuart and her rivalry with supposed-virgin Queen Elizabeth.
