Word: beholdenness
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...Bloomberg's wealth, estimated at about $11.5 billion in most reports, makes the New York mayor "beholden to no one, " said Bailey." Bloomberg "owes nothing to lobbyists, nothing to special interest groups" and could fund his candidacy with his own money...
...clear and decisive victory," she declared after a bitter name-calling campaign between herself and Sharif. But despite her claims, she did not have a working majority in parliament and had to wobble through her next few years in office as head of a fractious coalition, beholden to contentious blocs of power. At the same time, Pakistan owed huge amounts to the International Monetary Fund as part of servicing its enormous $28.6 billion in foreign debts. Bhutto had raised taxes, which raised the level of discontent in the country. But even so, her government did not collect enough revenue...
...means that most people cannot grasp the urgency of the problem. It will take more than the pleas from rich, “enlightened” environmentalists to frighten average Americans to trade in their SUVs for a Prius. Change won’t come from a government so beholden to corporate pressure that it’s “new” automotive efficiency standards still lag far behind those of most of the rest of the developed world.Barring a quantum leap forward in energy efficiency, the improvements necessary to significantly shrink the country’s carbon...
...serious about his craft, and he’s determined to make you know it. In spite of a 12-to-14 producer-to-track ratio, the album maintains a style throughout that’s all Freeway’s own. The Roc-A-Fella rapper is not beholden to his collaborators, nor is “Free at Last” simply a vehicle for production-heavy hits. In fact, upon listening to the album in its entirety, it’s a little difficult to pick out the lead single, as is a perennial possibility with...
Pelosi ultimately pledged to support the work of the Agriculture Committee, whose members represent districts that receive 42% of the subsidies. "That was 'game over' right there," Kind says. "That committee is completely beholden to the status quo." The committee passed its bill without a dissenting vote...