Word: beholdenness
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...same domestic wells that the Government wants to conserve. Another effect has been to encourage the search for ever more costly and marginally economic wells in the U.S. Proponents of restriction continue to argue that the U.S. should not become overly dependent on Middle Eastern oil sheiks, or beholden to them in its foreign policy. But, since Middle East crude now accounts for only 3% of U.S. oil consumption, there is obviously room for much expansion of imports without tying the U.S. too closely to possibly erratic overseas sources of supply...
...Whenever you put a man on the Supreme Court," Harry Truman once complained, "he ceases to be your friend" Many another President has voiced similar regrets: men frequently have a way of changing once they are confirmed, secure for life and, assuming good behavior, beholden to no one but themselves...
Some of the dissenters insist that many scholars are too beholden to Government research grants. Marshall Windmiller, an international-relations teacher at San Francisco State College, charges that "specialists in international affairs are not only failing to distinguish between the aims of the Government and the aims of the academy, but are allowing themselves to be made over into instruments of the state." Former Uni versity of Oregon Anthropologist Kathleen Gough argues that U.S. anthropology has become "a child of Western capitalist imperialism" and that the U.S. "power elite" uses anthropologists to help delay "social change throughout two-thirds...
...believe I've heard a word about draft dodging or antiwar demonstrations in the mountains. Honor, manhood and pride mean a lot to the hill people. They are living in the coves and on the mountaintops because they like it there. They ain't beholden to nobody. Should we drag them down to our level...
...puts office seekers in every living room, the enormous cost drains party budgets. Given most voters' financial apathy, the net result is a qualification for office unspecified in the Constitution: a candidate must now be rich or have rich friends or run the risk of making himself beholden to big contributors by accepting their big contributions...