Word: beholdenness
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...fact as well as appearance. Someone has to pay for the television ads and political consultants vital to a successful race, and since judges must raise money to win their seats and to retain them, Public Citizen notes, "no judge can break free of the appearance of being beholden to contributors...
Democrats have long derided the investigation as a Republican ploy to destroy a popular Democratic president, but, as TIME White House correspondent Jay Branegan notes, "this independent counsel position has taken a life of its own. It's not beholden to either party, and it stands to hurt both of them." In an interview with the Washington Post on Monday, Ray said that he's bolstered his prosecutorial staff in recent weeks and will pursue charges of perjury, obstruction of justice and conspiracy in the Monica Lewinsky case as well as charges surrounding the coercion of Kathleen Willey. The following...
...provide seed money for business ventures, Bodega is working hard to enter the mainstream. "I'm talking about owning the neighborhood legally," he says. "The way the Kennedys own Boston." He and his acolytes envision a Spanish Harlem populated by professionals born and bred in the neighborhood--and beholden to Bodega's largesse...
...protests for a few months to allow reforms to take root. "Considering that the recent presidents have either been grandstanders or have shut themselves off from the public, Noboa seems to be good news. From what we hear from his students, he has a social conscience. He's not beholden to the political parties and he's made it clear that he wasn't appointed by the generals and is not beholden to the military...
...second to none--pace Senators Bradley and McCain--in my devotion to campaign-finance reform, but please. Candidates are beholden to big media because of the power big media hold over them. The remedy to this blight on our democracy is not bigger behemoths. In order to maximize consumer choice, it may make sense to ask how many widgets it takes to make a competitive widget market. But the same question doesn't really make sense for companies dealing in news and ideas. If anything, government should raise the bar before approving mergers among such mega-entities...