Word: ought
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...Americans are destroying the landscape and poisoning the air they breathe and the water they drink. The Johnson Administration was partly successful in stopping the trend; the Nixon Administration should do far more. It should vigorously enforce and fully fund existing antipollution laws. If they prove insufficient, it ought to ask Congress for even tougher measures. It must also act swiftly to preserve scenic areas, waterfronts and unspoiled islands. Fortunately, the country still has many deserving areas. It might also help local governments fund more parks near cities, and if they still cannot afford the land, the Government might step...
...annual harvest of $3.5 billion in subsidies, two-thirds of which goes to farmers with incomes of more than $20,000. The fact that Mississippi's Senator James Eastland's plantations receive $157,930 a year for not growing cotton - while some of his constituents go hungry - ought to be reproach enough. Ironically, the Agriculture Department is also spending millions to improve big-scale Southern commercial farms, thus driving Negro farm laborers out of jobs and on to Northern welfare rolls. The Government should do far more to help and retrain those laborers - in the South - thus saving...
...grave as they are in other parts of the country-and there is more land, water, good air and scenery left to save. Yet Forward Thrust's precepts and example can serve many other cities. "We're a pluralistic society," says Ellis. "We certainly ought to be able to find ways of sitting down together and working out these problems." True enough, as long as a city has an Ellis to supply the vital ingredient-leadership...
...Court, announced the start of an investigation into the high bail figure set for the four rebels. "This is not the kind of case for which bail would normally be required," said Dudley. "Someone has made a serious mistake." Deciding that the affair was serious indeed-and that someone ought to pay for their discomfort-the four commuters announced at week's end that they would sue both the railroad and the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, the state agency that runs it, for false arrest and malicious prosecution...
...above revenues, the deficits began to pile up. Editorialized the Atlanta Constitution: "There is still an altogether too widespread attitude that culture is an exclusive club-something to be seen by black-tied, be-minked audiences only." Michael Howard, artistic director of the Repertory Theater, feels that "people ought to be able to go to the theater without a necktie if they want to. They ought to be able to buy popcorn. Theater should be part of their lives...