Word: beholdenness
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...often individualistic nature of the sport made the sophomore realize that he missed the team emphasis of volleyball.“Crew is definitely a team sport, but it also has a much more fierce individual aspect,” Crooks explains. “You’re beholden to your part of the boat, and it’s very competitive within the team. In volleyball, everyone needs to work together—that determines how well the team does. I really like that aspect of volleyball.”With some consistent prodding from Weitzen, Crooks...
...something fun to do. In December 2003, the prefect program hosted “Harvard Idol,” which attracted more than 500 sober freshmen at midnight on three consecutive Saturdays. These aspects of the program were successful precisely because they were student-driven. The program was not beholden to the bulging bureaucracy of University Hall. Returning prefects, not College administrators, selected and supported new prefects as peer mentors; engaged students, not detached adults, attempted to create some semblance of a social life in the Yard. To many freshmen, life on the Yard is purgatory, for reasons no curricular...
...Democrats have tried to separate themselves on the issue from Republicans, attacking several key Republicans as being beholden to special interest groups. A group called the Campaign for a Cleaner Congress, affiliated with a liberal-leaning group called American Family Voices, is putting out an analysis today that shows over the last six years that Boehner, the No. 2 Republican in the House, has taken more than 100 trips to locations other than his congressional district that were funded by his political action committee, his campaign committee or private groups, all of which receive much of their funds from lobbyists...
...told me the secret handshake. I would be delighted to talk to anyone in the Corporation, but I wouldn’t know how to begin a call. They darn well ought to be talking to people beyond the Arts and Sciences unless this University is going to become beholden to one faculty...
...Nobody ever told me the secret handshake. I would be delighted to talk to anyone in the Corporation, but I wouldn't know how to begin a call. They darn well ought to be talking to people beyond the Arts and Sciences unless this University is going to become beholden to one faculty...