Word: ought
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...listen to all the debate over honors legislation given all the more pressing problems afflicting Harvard undergraduate education, from the poor quality of many sections here to the inattention many departments pay their undergraduates. But insofar as the honors rules reflect Harvard's attitude towards academic achievement, they ought to be changed; all they are reflecting now is a tolerance for the average...
Most of the weekend conference, though, was spent trying to plot the future of hacking in an industry increasingly dominated by marketers and venture capitalists. Everyone present seemed to agree that commercialism had changed the nature of computing. What was less clear was what the new rules for hacking ought to be. Said Bill Atkinson, author of a flashy new program called MacPaint: "The question is, how do you spread excitement around...
...year to the weekend after it tell victim to the unthinkable, the Harvard men's swimming team this weekend served notice that everyone ought to think again if they've set their sights on toppling the Crimson this season...
...Peter Grace, chairman of W.R. Grace & Co., put out its own letter on economics. Said the 119-page document: "Poverty is not primarily a problem for the state. It is a personal and a community problem which each of us and all our appropriate associations, not only the state, ought to address...
...their allies in politics and journalism have got farther above ground level than ever before, he insists. They do not feel the raw emotions of plain people, even though they frequently journey to the outlands to inspect the species. The experts are engrossed in telling the voters what they ought to believe and do, not in listening to what is on their minds...