Word: ought
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...number of tenured appointments has risen by 50 per cent since 1951 and questioning what governs the pattern of this growth. The Committee says that the direction of future expansion is "central to the future strength to the Faculty," but does not presume to say directly how future appointments ought to be distributed...
What the campaign is trying to do is exert the same kind of pressure on Congress as special interests have been exerting for nearly 200 years. If that is blackmail, then the Congress ought to be used...
...toward Washington. Some were weathered field hands who had never before left the cotton-blown bottoms; others were rambunctious teen-agers splitting from a desperate scene. "The cause this march represents is alarmingly real," wrote Atlanta Constitution Editor Eugene Patterson. "Before any white man passes judgment on it, he ought to understand what he is judging...
...academic matters, student critiques of their professors are becoming commonplace. Since most professors cling to the shibboleth that letting a colleague observe their teaching would be an invasion of "academic freedom," student opinions ought to be incorporated into promotion procedures if good teaching is ever to get its just rewards. As it is now, teaching is judged mainly by grapevine gossip. "I have no idea how well my associates teach-I've never seen them," concedes Chicago Humanities Professor Herman Sinaiko. A large university simply could not function, however, if professors were subject to the total-and predictably whimsical...
...trustees. But there will be plenty of dividends for LTV. Jones & Laughlin recently reported first-quarter earnings of $11,706,000 on sales of $277 million. In his tender announcement last week, Ling also noted that the company is involved in a threeyear, $400 million improvements program, which ought to sustain earnings in years to come. All that should make J. & L. an attractive occupied territory for any corporate armchair general...