Word: beholdenness
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...turned out, Carter, who said he did not want to be beholden to any interest groups, has a few debts to pay off. Labor unions worked feverishly to turn out votes for him, and could claim that their efforts were critical in Pennsylvania, Texas and Ohio. If there was any other one group to which Carter owed a great deal, it was the blacks. Four out of five blacks voted for the Georgian, and they apparently made the difference for him in New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Louisiana and Mississippi...
...Cambridge is openly lusting after an advisory position in the Carter administration. Tacit in virtually all Harvard-Carter advisors' statements concerning their own futures with Carter is the understanding that Carter seems to want to remain without strings at least for now. If he really is beholden to no one, he would in all probability select his closest advisors from the rands of those from whose help he has profited most during the campaign...
...Cambridge is openly lusting after an advisory position in the Carter administration. Tacit in virtually all Harvard-Carter advisors' statements concerning their own futures with Carter is the understanding that Carter seems to want to remain without strings at least for now. If he really is beholden to no one, he would in all probability select his closest advisors from the ranks of those from whose help he has profited most during the campaign...
...though, believed that he had been forced out of office by Juan Carlos, who did not want him as Premier in the first place and who considers him too stiff and cautious. Relations between the two men have steadily deteriorated, and it seemed the King wanted a man less beholden to the archconservative Franquistas (known collectively as "the Bunker") as his chief of government...
...that's insulation from the winter--tub big enough to fit 20 naked people) where two guys limped it into each other's laps on top of the wooden housing covering the spring, and when any sun-blistered American might have been expected, no even required, obligated, bound and beholden to roar "Fucking Faggots," Peg only muttered "Damn flat-land turkeys," and all of us except for Briggs, a slow-as-molasses bear of a flatlander passing himself off in the mountains, hopping down to a cold creek a 100 yards down from the tub--it taking just a little...