Word: beholdenness
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Better Class. Although the new rules create new dilemmas for candidates, they also put them all on a more even footing. No one can overwhelm the field financially, and none need feel beholden to affluent interests. "It's a helluva lot better psychologically," explains Jackson's finance coordinator, Richard Kline. Donors know they are not going to be "hit for a fortune," he adds, and "there isn't all the tension. Also, you don't have to find some donor's kid a summer job in Washington. We're dealing with a much better...
...gray Medical School buildings on Longwood Avenue are already saying that such government interference threatens academic freedom, but such high-faulting principals don't mean much when the government displays more responsibility for people's rights than a private institution does. It is better that Harvard is beholden to the government under contract than to a large corporation. Monsanto, for example--which does not have a legal pretense to representing the interests of poor people...
...ridden police department and discredit Rizzo at the same time. To accomplish these aims, Shapp turned to a device that is becoming increasingly popular as a way of policing the police and the criminal-justice system. His administration appointed a special prosecutor, a figure above the political squabbles and beholden to no man, the contemporary equivalent of the legendary Western marshal who rode into town to bring law-and-order and rode out again when his job was done...
...Bill was beholden to the taxpayers in the sense that he took an oath to support the New York constitution. I appointed him [to the M.T.A.] and he followed the policies that I set down as Governor. I was the one who was responsible for the integrity, the efficiency and the quality of those who worked for me. If anything went wrong, the people were not going to look to them but to me, as Governor...
...begin, the Frei years were hardly halcyon times of peace and social justice. Frei snuck past Allende in the 1964 election with strong conservative and CIA support, and he was always beholden to the right. As a consequence, his rhetoric outstripped reality: his touted agrarian reforms did little to change the shape of the Chilean landscape and he never got around to nationalizing the copper interests and other North American businesses as he promised...