Word: ought
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Enoch Powell is entitled to his bigot views [May 3]. What infuriates me is the 79% of Britons who support these views. Along with their austerity program to strengthen the country's gross national product, Britons ought to participate in the weakening of another G.N.P., that of gross national prejudice...
...brush of scandal is tarring Wallace cronies with a charge that asphalt to patch Alabama roads costs the state $2,000,000 a year more than it ought to, with the implication that some of this money goes into Wallace campaign coffers. Claiming that it was unable to sell any of its asphalt to the state, the Waugh Asphalt Co. sued Alabama Finance Director Seymore Trammell, who manages Wallace's presidential campaign as well as state purchasing, along with 24 firms and state-appointed "sales agents." It charged them with rigging prices, promoting monopoly and breaking state and federal...
...between some smog-bound states and is considered preferable to federally imposed air standards, which might not fit local climate conditions. Still, far greater federal action-especially money-is urgently needed to help cities build all kinds of waste-treating facilities. In fact, the Secretary of the Interior really ought to be the Secretary of the Environment. To unify federal leadership, he might well be given charge of the maze of rival federal agencies that now absurdly nibble only at their own slice of the pollution mess...
...prime goals in attacking pollution ought to be a vast shrinkage of the human impact on other creatures. The war on insects, for example, might actually go a lot better without chemical pesticides that kill the pests' natural enemies, such as birds. One of the best strategies is to nurture the enemies so they can attack the pests; more insect-resistant crops can also be developed. Florida eliminated the screwworm fly not by spraying but by sterilizing hordes of the male flies, then liberating them to produce infertile eggs. A still newer method is the use of sex attractants...
...There is no question that just as technology has polluted the country, it can also depollute it. The real question is whether enough citizens want action. The biggest need is for ordinary people to learn something about ecology, a humbling as well as fascinating way of viewing reality that ought to get more attention in schools and colleges. The trouble with modern man is that he tends to yawn at the news that pesticides are threatening remote penguins or pelicans; perhaps he could do with some of the humility toward animals that St. Francis tried to graft onto Christianity...