Word: beholdenness
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...very reason for an independent counsel is that the Attorney General is beholden to the President for her job, so she can't be independent and impartial. Starr is now beholden to Pepperdine to hold open a job, for which it is partly beholden to benefactor Scaife. It may be the Scaife connection that prompted Starr's announcement in the first place. Maybe it's only appearances, but so is much of what counts as scandal these days. It's a heck of a time to say appearances don't matter after...
...Beijing in the wake of the Tiananmen Square massacre. With Deng's help he took on all the posts that matter: President, General Secretary of the party, chairman of the Central Military Commission. But Jiang did not let it rest at titles. He went on to build a network beholden to him. He fired scores of civilian, military and police officials and filled their jobs with his own appointees. He promoted Shanghai colleagues to the Politburo and shook up regional party organizations. During the past seven years he has done very well for a leader supposedly without a power base...
...weeks ago, I happened to tune in to a CNN program that included as one of its guests Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, a leading opponent of campaign-finance reform. In dismissing the notion that the cost of a political campaign these days is bound to make politicians beholden to fat-cat contributors, Senator McConnell said Americans spend less on political campaigns than they do on yogurt. By chance, I was eating a container of yogurt when he said that. Blueberry...
...formal announcement of candidacy, Perot replied that he already has. That's news to the rest of the political world, which has long awaited a clear indication, one way or another, of Perot's intentions. For months, Perot said he merely wanted to create a new political party not beholden to special-interest groups. Saying he was looking for a "George Washington II" to lead that party, he would admonish: "This is not about me." But after former Colorado Governor Richard Lamm officially announced his own bid under Perot's Reform Party banner, Perot got off the dime. "If anyone...
...issue engaged the campaign's two protagonists. President Clinton announced that if Congress passed the Defense of Marriage Act to deny federal recognition to same-sex marriages, co-sponsored by Bob Dole, Clinton would say "I do" and sign it. Presumably the move would show that he is not beholden to the homosexual community. The President chose to make the point just after the U.S. Supreme Court last week struck down a Colorado law nullifying civil-rights protection for homosexuals, a decision viewed as a significant victory for gay rights...