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The style is naturalistic; the plot is your basic love triangle, with a lesbian twist: Adele, whose butch forthrightness makes her an obvious stand-in for Stein, falls for a frustrating coquette, Helen, who returns her love but can't commit because she's already beholden to Mabel, a rich, withered-spinster type.
Gerth's series of articles did illustrate how, under current campaign finance law, a president is certain to make national security decisions affecting firms to which he is beholden.
5) Analysts worry that Kabila is too beholden to foreign-backed Tutsi military commanders, who may persecute Hutus and inflame ethnic tensions.
Forbes' spin: He's "not beholden" to interest groups.
there are widespread fears that Members of Parliament, even ministers, are beholden to others for reasons other than politics."