Word: beholdenness
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...used to disagree with this implication, navely beholden to the pious claim that the best things in life are free, or as the Beatles put it, money can't buy me love. Then I realized that 20 years after John Lennon's death, it's Michael Jackson who owns the lion's share of Beatles memorabilia (not to mention the Elephant Man's skeleton). Still, I clung to the belief that not everything in America is for sale...
...stubs to playbills to corsages to diary entries can go into scrapbooks. Processing them in the approved way, however, has come to involve acid-free markers, "archival mist" (a spray that preserves objects), stickers, borders, circle scissors, paper cutouts and a host of other products by art suppliers formerly beholden to the whims of kindergarten teachers and Halloween revelers...
...trustees and president of Indiana University explained they are "ethically" beholden to give Knight "one more chance" to prove he's not dangerously unstable (he's just harmlessly unstable, really). At odds are the apparently blinding effects of Hoosier loyalty and broader national standards of acceptable behavior. Knight, the university administration and the basketball players might have been better served by a panel of truly objective investigators; Monday's decision only leaves President Brand and his trustees wide open to criticism that they didn't take Knight's outrageous behavior seriously...
Harvard is currently a member of the FLA, but student activists say the University should withdraw from the organization, which they say is too beholden to corporate interests, and join the fledgling...
...University (and the Institute as a part of the University) is legally beholden to its prize donors to preserve the conditions attached to a prize--thus the reason why the Frothingham might remain for men only. However, the stark gender imbalance among the prizes should encourage the University to reexamine the original language of prize criteria and do as much as it can within the letter of its obligations to donors to open prizes to both men and women. Where this is not possible and where a prize must remain single-sex for reasons beyond the University's control...