Word: beholdenness
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Furthermore, Sheinfeld added, "Forbes is funding himself, [so] he's not beholden to anyone...
Europeans have a name for the state of economic-political affairs into which we have fallen, where all national decisions are dictated by private corporate monopolists to whom servile puppet government is beholden: the Europeans call it fascism. --Steven Wohl
...unintrusive. As one university president said, "It is rare that the federal government creates a program that both saves money and improves services to its constituents. Direct lending is such a program." Then why would Republicans want to roll it back? For no other reason than that they are beholden to the greedy interests of banks and guaranty agencies...
...more are being planned. His campaign manager, Bill Dal Col, says Forbes is raising money to demonstrate that he has "a broad-based campaign." And by law his donors are limited to $1,000 a person, which is not the kind of money that makes a millionaire beholden to anybody...
...While they deny seeking personal gain, if Forbes wins, they still might hope for special treatment from his White House. (Or if he loses, from his magazine.) Charles Lewis, author of The Buying of the President, sees it this way: "Forbes is a millionaire who says he's not beholden to special interests who is now beholden to special interests...