Word: beholden
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...while Shepard's death has forced even the most belligerently anti-gay conservatives to situate themselves carefully--condemning the murder while insisting they contributed nothing to the atmosphere that might legitimize it--the Republican Party, beholden to its Christian-activist base, doesn't dare compromise much on gay rights. One speaker at the vigil was Wyoming's former Senator Alan Simpson, a Republican. But Wyoming's current G.O.P. Senators, Michael Enzi and Craig Thomas, didn't show...
...Berezovsky's most outspoken critics, claims that the banker succeeded, as he has so often done before, by gaining intimate access to Yeltsin's closest advisers, chief of staff Valentin Yumashev and younger daughter Tatyana Dyachenko. Yumashev is a "wholly privatized" Berezovsky subsidiary, says Aksyuchits, and Dyachenko is allegedly beholden to Berezovsky for his handling the family's finances and making generous contributions to her father's re-election. Both advisers have for several months been privately urging Yeltsin to stand down, Aksyuchits tells TIME: "They almost succeeded in July, but Nemtsov and Chubais were able to stop it." Yumashev...
...great things about the magazine is that it has dedicated itself to not being beholden to any ideology," Cohn agrees. "The bread and butter has always been about being an unorthodox magazine with different ideas. Ideology doesn't come before reality--there's sensibility behind everything...
...music to the Masonic references of James Joyce, explored in black tie over wine and cigars. Says John Chang, 39, a lawyer active in local Democratic politics: "Maybe now that my generation is getting a little bit more established with families, they're getting interested in organizations that are beholden to certain moral values." Lodge 2, he says proudly, is simply "a good body of men." Adds his lodge brother John Hilliard, 52: "This elusive male bonding that people try to recover sitting in sweat lodges and drumming, the Masons have had it for generations. They never lost...
...media campaign surrounding the public release of Windows 95 was accompanied by a theme song. As I recall, it was the Rolling Stones' hit song Start Me Up. For...consumers, beholden to Microsoft for software products, I wonder whether the theme song for Windows 98 shouldn't be another Rolling Stones hit--Under My Thumb...