Word: beholdenness
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...media campaign surrounding the public release of Windows 95 was accompanied by a theme song. As I recall, it was the Rolling Stones' hit song Start Me Up. For...consumers, beholden to Microsoft for software products, I wonder whether the theme song for Windows 98 shouldn't be another Rolling Stones hit--Under My Thumb...
Rather also spoke about the pressures localnews directors face in choosing news stories. Insome ways, Rather said they were more beholden toovernight Nielsen ratings, a trend he feels is noteasily reversible...
...were we ever so optimistic? In stalling a proposal to expand keycard access among the Houses at last week's meeting of the Committee on House Life, the house masters proved once again that they are more beholden to their own provincial reasoning than to the safety and convenience concerns of those who know the situation best: the students...
...Medieval studies, from the right. Such programs are not part of the faculty structure, and when the administration pushes to have faculty members head these study programs, those appointments often fall between the faculty or even outside it completely. Then those budgets and those people become directly beholden to the administration. We tend to think of it as a good thing, that it's about a radicalization of the disciplines, that it's been about getting rid of the apparatus that has been the intellectual support for various authoritarian projects. I think that is a self-defeating fiction...
After the class of 1872 added a clock in 1897, according to Bainbridge Bunting's Harvard: An Architectural History, "Even the townspeople were beholden [to the building], for anyone who lived within a quarter mile could see the face of one of the clocks and hear the tolling of the quarter hour." The tower completed an edifice so monumental in its Gothic exuberance that it could only be crowned by overstatement...