Word: beholdenness
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...waning influence over the Pakistani military ? the U.S. explicitly warned against the military seizing power only three weeks ago." Rhetoric aside, however, a military government may be cautious about dramatically changing Pakistan?s foreign relations. Even if they?re more defiant of Washington, Pakistan?s generals remain fairly beholden to their other major backer, Beijing. It was China?s refusal to support the Kashmir incursion that may ultimately have persuaded the Pakistani generals that they had no choice but to accept Nawaz?s order to retreat. "And despite some sympathy for Islamic fundamentalism among junior officers, the military retains...
...campaign events across the state, McCain blasted the current campaign finance system, calling it "an incumbent protection racket" beholden to special interests and promised that as president, he would make campaign finance reform a top priority...
...nest egg, more than double the value of a traditional pension at that point. The downside: by the time that person retires, the cash-balance plan will yield $138,000, vs. $180,000 under traditional plans. "The old system was designed for the iron age, when people were beholden to one company their entire life," says David Zemelman, CBS senior vice president of corporate human resources. "Now your money never stops working...
...Rabin prot?g? will split the ?peace camp? by siphoning off centrist Labor members. That could force Shahak, Benjamin Netanyahu or Labor leader Ehud Barak to stake out extreme positions in order to attract enough votes to form a majority -- just the sort of frenzied coalition-building that left Netanyahu beholden to hard-liners against the peace process. But nobody?s panicking yet. ?Shahak has run very well in the polls, but it's entirely as an unknown entity,? reminds TIME Jerusalem bureau chief Lisa Beyer. ?That will change a bit once reporters start asking him questions." Or at least when...
...still likely to lead to "a very significant increase in U.S. trade protection." Even a modest slowing of output and rise in unemployment, he fears, will be widely blamed on cheap imports. The Clinton Administration may give in to protectionism to please the AFL-CIO, which it is " beholden to" for the Democratic successes in the November elections. Hormats voiced fears that protection is all too likely to win support from the Republican right, now a stronghold of economic nationalism, as well as the Democratic left, creating a strange but potentially strong alliance...