Word: ought
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Federalist papers for "energy in the Executive," the office was invested with broad authority but it was also artfully hedged. Every strong President has exploited his mandate to the fullest, always testing the Congress and the judiciary to see where the parameters of power may lie. Just where they ought to lie is an argument that has raged for 180 years. More than a century ago, when Chief Justice John Marshall scolded Andrew Jackson in Worcester v. Georgia for failing to honor a treaty guaranteeing the rights of the Cherokee Indians, Jackson is said to have retorted with impunity: "John...
...cleared by a diocesan censor and approved for publication by a bishop, normally shown by the Latin word imprimatur - meaning "Let it be printed." In the postconciliar church, any kind of censorship seems anachronistic, and there is a wide spread feeling among publishers and theologians that the whole system ought to be abandoned...
Meanwhile, the company plans to keep up a marketing push that, for all of Mercedes' staid image, has become truly muscular. Deciding that his company ought to do better in the "world's toughest market," Mercedes' Zahn ended a U.S. marketing deal with now-defunct Studebaker-Packard in 1965, built up an independent network of 260 dealers. By carefully watching car-buying tastes in the U.S.-where 85% want automatic transmission (v. only 40% in Germany) and 65% ask for air conditioning (v. less than 1%), Mercedes has increased its American sales by 25% this year...
...done--the roads, the hospitals, the schools, raising money, bookeeping, economic planning and development, foreign affairs, defense, police. On the other side of the blackboard, we wrote the names of people that somebody thought might be good for the job, and then we just had long discussions of who ought to do all the actual work, who ought to be in charge of the individual projects...
...communication, the widely neglected art of engendering openness between generations. Many parents have no idea what their children really think because they never give them a chance to explain. "Can't you see I'm busy?" is a put-down that ought to be banned from the parental lexicon. "Listen" ought to be tattooed over every parent's heart. Regular "time alone" with parents so that children can unburden themselves is vital. As Educator Clark Kerr advises: "Spend time, not money." There is no better investment in a day when children are often better educated than their...