Word: beholdenness
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...opinion of him whatsoever, compared to 49 percent two month ago. Of those who think about him, 27 percent view him favorably, and 14 percent view him unfavorably. There are even some indications - especially in the energy arena, where two-thirds think Bush and Cheney are too beholden to oil companies - that Bush might be more popular with the American center if Cheney weren't around. (Cheney, after all, is the one who actually got rich in the oil business...
...RELY ON A SEARCH FIRM. Search firms are usually the first stop for job seekers who hope to find new gigs without much effort. Yet search firms are beholden to the companies that pay them when someone--anyone--is hired. Your best interests are never their No. 1 concern. Count on no more than one or two viable interviews from a recruiting-firm lead during your entire search. Such companies are not pounding the pavement for you. In fact, your odds of finding a new job through a search firm are greatly reduced because there are more candidates...
...decades, Beijing has lured Taiwanese investment to its shores hoping to make the island more economically beholden, and it's a strategy that has worked. In the 1980s, Taiwan's entire sneaker industry ignored a Taipei-imposed ban on investment, laced itself up and moved to the mainland. As China's economy boomed through the 1990s, the island's investments there rose steadily to current estimates of $45 billion. If Taipei hadn't lifted many of the restrictions, it was at risk of turning its top executives into a criminal caste...
...receiving a vote of no confidence from the communist-led opposition in parliament; in Kiev. His ouster, which was met with the biggest protest in three months of political turmoil, removes the main check on the power of the business oligarchs to whom embattled President Leonid Kuchma is largely beholden. RESIGNED. CUMHUR ERSUMER, 48, Turkish Energy Minister and the highest-ranking official to step down over a graft scandal that partially triggered the country's economic crisis; in Ankara. Ersumer's announcement pushed Turkey's stock market up more than 7%. ARRESTED. ROBERT S. GORDON,42, former Cisco Systems executive...
...mopping up of Mezhennaya began a year ago, when City Channel correspondent Alexander Kukin broadcast the report about Ryzhkova that led to the slander charge. Kukin also alleged that the heads of federal agencies in the region were beholden for their jobs to the governor. Mezhennaya says she would not have been surprised if the report had triggered a civil suit, "but criminal charges until now have been unheard of." She claims that investigators piled on the pressure, tapping her phones and impounding furniture from her modest one-bedroom apartment. While she was on vacation last autumn she popped...