Word: ought
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Some agencies have not felt obliged to pay the full institutional rate for indirect costs, either because they believed that the university ought to share in the expenses or because their scientists wished to have as large a share of the limited funds as possible to direct research costs in their special fields...
What is the utility of the rankings? Says Paradiso: "This is the sort of thing you have to know in order to see which industries ought to improve their productivity. Not only so they can produce better wages and profits, but also so they can be aware of their relative position domestically in order to compete more effectively abroad...
...Question of Sanity. Halfway through the job of recording two columns' worth of impressions, Wechsler was struck by the idea that the Russians ought to be reading what he was writing. "It has become commonplace," he wrote, "for Premier Khrushchev to grant audiences to American journalists and tell them he is a misunderstood man who only seeks peace and good will. Such utterances are quite properly reported at length in the U.S., because what Russia's leader says at any moment is news, whether or not he says what he means or means what he says...
...farmers could be roughly divided into three groups: wealthy farmers, inefficient (low yield per acre) farmers with low incomes, and efficient farmers with low incomes. Wealthy farmers do not need federal assistance. Inefficient farmers with low incomes should be retrained for other jobs. It is the third group which ought to be treated in a flexible manner...
...institutions in the nation still wealthy enough to defy Congress on this kind of issue. Such wealth incurs responsibilities, and in the NDEA fight Harvard has inescapable obligations to that community, and to its own liberal conception of what future relations between the government and the colleges ought...