Word: beholden
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Irrelevant. There was no public need to know, or right to know. Everyone is not fair game to be dragged onstage for involuntary exposure. Does AIDS make | Ashe, or anyone, public property? As Ashe said, he is neither a political candidate nor a businessman beholden to stockholders. That Arthur Ashe is a "public figure" whom people recognize as he walks down the street is precisely the best argument for any decent human being's not informing the whole world that the man has AIDS...
Because politicians are always up for reelection and always beholden to campaign contributors, long-term political thinking has becomes a dead idea. But our concerns are long-term ones (Will there be an ozone layer in 2020?) and we have to use our political muscle to get them heard...
Those who know Perez well say he will continue with his austerity program to show he is not intimidated. He might encourage Congress to raise army pay, but to counter fears that the coup attempt left him entirely too beholden to loyalist officers, he will not concede the military a role in politics. If the threat of a coup has ended, Perez's real test will probably come in next year's presidential elections. After showing their passive commitment to democracy, Venezuelans will be entitled to register their active discontent with their government at the ballot...
...give themselves big bonuses. The welfare recipients take drugs, engage in crime and have babies they can't afford, while the legal secretary is scrimping and saving to afford another kid." These voters consider both parties to be controlled by wealthy campaign contributors but view the Democrats as also beholden to other "special interests," including blacks. Many of Duke's supporters "don't resent blacks as blacks," says a Republican pollster. "They resent them as a special-interest group that gets special favors...
...major contributor to the review, concluded that Iraq's war-weariness and heavy international debt of $65 billion made it likely that Baghdad would concentrate on rebuilding its crippled economy and increasing its oil production rather than embark on foreign adventures. Moreover, the assessment held, Iraq would feel beholden to those countries that had helped finance its fight against Iran, among them Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates. There was one cautionary note, sounded almost in passing: Saddam was spending millions of dollars to build up chemical- and biological-weapons capacity...