Word: ought
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...last summer revised its statistical basis for figuring gross national product and rates of productivity growth. The corrections raised last year's GNP from $672 billion, under the old figures, to $675 billion; the productivity growth rate went from 2.7% to 2.9% . Under the revisions, the guideline ceiling ought to be raised to 3.6%. Moreover, businessmen claim with cause that the Administration, while merely grumbling about wage increases, coerces observance of the price ceiling. Thus, when Bethlehem Steel last fortnight tried to raise prices on structural steel by $5 a ton, Johnson ordered all federal agencies to refuse...
...There are no problems that the church ought to stay out of," he said Monday. "There can be no distinction between the sacred and the secular terms of the problems that confront the church today...
...late of the policemen charged with beating up Joseph Proctor '67 ought to raise some questions about the department's present system of justice...
...cities who are suggesting that Police Department trial boards like the one that heard the Proctor case be replaced by civilian review boards. That the Boston police permit what is apparently a proven case of brutality to go so lightly punished suggests that the responsibility for investigating such complaints ought to be put in someone else's hands...
...Radcliffe dormitories now pay $40 more than Harvard students, and will be paying an additional $70 more next year, their rooms are smaller, their dorms are noisier--in general, their living conditions are much poorer. With the rise in rates, this inequity will become even more pronounced. Two paths ought to be considered to remedy this. The first is some sort of financial merger with Harvard University, which is obviously no longer a men's college in the same sense that the other Ivy League schools...