Word: ought
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Nonetheless, Nitze contended that research ought to continue. If a Star Wars system proved feasible, Nitze foresaw a period of perhaps decades during which both sides gradually moved from offensive to defensive weapons. Nitze acknowledged, however, that the Soviets might refuse to go along...
...will resign over accusations of sexual harassment, it is necessary at this time to put the incident in its proper perspective. First, his resignation should and, indeed, must serve as a clear signal that sex discrimination and sexual harassment is a form of sex discrimination--will not, cannot, and ought not be legated at a University, such as Harvard, which has hopes of truly achieving its goals of co-education. Second, because neither the exact nature of the allegation concerning Hibbs or the extent to which the University placed direct pressure on him to resign has been publicly disclosed...
...known or understood to be effective. Procedures for filing a formal complaint must not be so labyrinthine that students know not whether they are advancing towards or away from the Minotaur. It is up to University officials, in concert with interested student groups (and I daresay that all students ought be interested in the succesful resolution of sexual harassment problems), to lead the victim through this maze of procedural obstacles, bringing him or her through the experience emotionally and academically unscathed. The Pandora's box of sexual harassment has been opened: let not the University slam the lid shut once...
...Galbraith told the New York Times that career diplomats are overly timid "liberals." Said he: "There's something about the foreign service that takes the guts out of people. The tendency is to avoid confronting an issue." Galbraith's broadside incensed Secretary of State George Shultz, who declared, "Somebody ought to tie his tongue for him." The American Foreign Service Association charged that the ambassador "gratuitously insults the very people who have done their best to keep him . . . out of trouble over the past several years...
...enforcing the Civil Rights Act of 1964, announced that it would move away from bringing suits aimed at helping entire classes of minorities and instead seek to remedy only individual discrimination, which is more difficult and costly to prove. Said EEOC Commissioner Fred Alvarez: "When somebody tells me they ought to get something because they're Irish and saw signs in Boston that said IRISH NEED NOT APPLY . . . or because their ancestors were in slavery, I say, 'So what...