Word: ought
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...living has risen 60%, Colombia's chronic trade deficit has doubled, business confidence has evaporated and unemployment is soaring. Politically, the ruling Liberal-Conservative National Front is splintering, and Congress is all but immobilized. Last week, with new elections only nine months away, Valencia finally decided that something ought to be done. Invoking emergency powers, he named a new Cabinet and decreed a series of reforms to pull the economy back from the brink...
When Crooner Andy Williams canceled an engagement in Las Vegas last summer to play the state-fair circuit, the supposition was that he had just won an uncontested divorce from his senses, or that he ought to start proceedings against his agent. After all, Vegas, that bonanza city of the show world, would have paid him $50,000 a week. And what could he make from the likes of the Corn Palace Fair in Mitchell, S.D.? As it turned out: $70,500 in six days...
...areas that simmer in much the same juices as Watts or Harlem. Later, after a White House press aide tried to cover up by insisting that L.B.J. had not intended to single out the capital, Johnson told reporters: "I meant just what I said-that we ought to try to face up to these problems that we have before we have to suffer more serious problems...
...that is siphoning off energy and funds from the war effort. To others, however, they could play a vital role in the outcome of the war. "This war is about people more than about real estate," says one American diplomat. "The side that has the loyalty of the people ought to win it. This is a good opportunity to add a few thousand friends to our side." The U.S. has already allocated $1,000,000 to the refugee camps in stopgap relief, is now considering a major aid program. Most of the work, however, must be done by the Saigon...
Everybody ought to have a gun, Fidel Castro maintained - until lately. At a 1960 rally in Havana, he explained that "This is how democracy works: it gives rifles to farmers, to students, to women, to Negroes, to the poor, and to every citizen who is ready to defend a just cause." Weapons ranging from Czech submachine guns to Belgian FN automatic rifles were handed out to 50,000 soldiers, 400,000 militiamen, 100,000 members of the factory-guarding popular defense force, and to many men, women and children in Cuba's 1,000,000-strong "neighborhood vigilance committees...