Word: ought
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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investors made during the 20's, these guarantee fees are expected to pay for the defaults. But the loans made ought to be better because: CJ The Bank will lend only for specific projects which promise to increase the productivity of the borrower and his ability to pay off the loan...
...start of Gene Talmadge's last campaign for Governor, three local businessmen suggested that a favorable editorial policy would bring the paper an expensive ad for their candidate. Miss Edna told them they ought to have more gallantry toward a woman. Later, another businessman threatened to cancel his advertising unless the Free Press let up on Talmadge. "All right," said Miss Edna, "you can cancel, but I'll give you one free ad. I'll write it and tell why you canceled. That's blackmail, I suppose, but I learned about it from you." The advertising...
With a sheaf of Metropolitan names and half the critics in town on their payroll, his rivals looked as if they might take the box office out from under the remarkable British Mozartian. Worried, British AmBassador Charles Bateman thought Sir Thomas ought to leave Mexico in a huff...
...liable to be a discharged vet or someone like me, who volunteered and was rejected three times for hernia. Both remarks presuppose that men are free agents and aren't in combat only because they are craven, and that's more nonsense than your Miss Shepard ought to be allowed...
...ought to help stabilize ex change by lending money directly to other nations, but the U.S. will merely lose its capital if it puts its capital into a fund which will be managed by directors, the majority of whom will be borrowers. The Bretton Woods view: in the Fund, all nations will have capital at stake and each will have an interest in actively joining the U.S. to see that the loans to every other nation are sound...