Word: beholdenness
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...years Canada's Western provinces could do little more than complain about the Eastern Establishment, including the federal government in Ottawa. The West was helplessly beholden to Eastern tariffs, Eastern financial institutions and a Parliament dominated by Ontario and Quebec. Then, the West struck oil. All of a sudden, it found itself awash in energy, profits and power. This inevitably led to an East-West struggle. Last week it erupted into an outright tax revolt as the West balked at new federal excise levies on all natural gas sales...
...Medical Area, where District 65 of the United Auto Workers is attempting to organize clerical and technical personnel, the University will fight to the finish to prevent a union victory--as it did, barely, in 1977. Any semblance of worker unity will meet with vigorous opposition from a University beholden to its balanced budget...
Austin Ranney, senior political scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, finds immense irony in this development. "One of the great reasons for reform from the very beginning was to get away from patronage, so delegates would not be beholden to the old bosses," he says. Ranney now fears that all of the electoral reforms have not prevented the beholden of a different kind from entering through a "back door" of the convention. Since there are no longer power centers like Chicago's late Mayor Richard Daley, and only 69 Senators, Governors and members of the House were delegates this...
...amusingly seductive, Smith must challenge the aggressive charmlessness of Broadway's ANTA Theater, a house to which she rightly objected. Playing the ANTA stage is like pitching a tent in the Sahara. If the agile firm of Stoppard and Smith can hold this ground, Stoppard will be most beholden to Smith...
Clearly a Teddy victory is infinitely preferable to a Connally or Reagan monarchy. But Ted can win without the left and won't feel grateful or beholden to progressive forces if he does win. But resurgent, mobilized grass-roots pressure from the left will make any candidate--no matter how conservative--come to terms with popular demands for democratization of the political arena and the workplace. The left doesn't have to be left...