Word: beholdenness
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Silko's award means more to her than sustenance. "It released something," she says. "It has given me ideas. When you have the luxury of time, it changes something inside. You're a little less beholden to the everyday world. And I don't have to put up with teaching Mickey Mouse undergraduates any more...
...Flynn. "There are very high expectations for him, and when he stumbles a bit the criticism seems to echo." After slipping slightly in public opinion surveys and being topped by Cranston in a June straw poll of party activists in Wisconsin, Mondale has attracted withering scrutiny. Is he too beholden to special-interest groups? Can he conquer his image of outdated liberalism? Is he the most electable challenger to Ronald Reagan? Pollster Patrick Caddell, a colleague and occasional antagonist of Mondale's in the Carter White House, says bluntly, "He's vulnerable. Can he excite people enough...
...politically well connected as he is ideologically unyielding. He was for years Senator Henry Jackson's top assistant and the leading congressional staffer in the campaign against SALT. He maintains close ties to the right wing of both parties, and the Administration that Perle serves feels inordinately beholden to the right...
With campaign costs as astronomical as they are, candidates are beholden to PACs for financing, and the PACs have happily bartered their funds for the chance to manipulate legislation. When beer distributors wanted monopoly territories for their distributors, their PAC--appropriately named SIXPAC--gave a total of $35,000 to members of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Monopolies. Not surprisingly, the monopoly territories won approval...
...fired. That lucrative arrangement was presumably authorized by the board's compensation committee and approved by the directors, as is typical in such cases. But at Bendix there was a twist. Equitable Life Chairman Coy Eklund, a Bendix director and member of its compensation committee, is partly beholden to Agee for his own $594,794 in 1981 salary and bonuses. Reason: Agee is an Equitable director and sits on its compensation committee...