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Word: ought (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...quality can prevail, then the success of Something Real ought to put some long distance between Snow and ditties for AT&T. "If you survive something traumatic," she says, "you are never the same again. If you survive two traumatic things, you take a quantum leap in your spiritual self. You're never the same again. Life is looking up. I am a crying towel, but thank God I can do that. I don't know where I'd be if I didn't cry at least once a week." That's the real beat beneath her new album...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Throwing In the Crying Towel | 5/1/1989 | See Source »

While no one ignores the fact that fewer minority students applied this year than last (coinciding with a decrease of the applicant pool as a whole), in the final analysis the results ought to be judged according to a central principle of affirmative action. That is, under-represented minorities should be admitted at levels that address fundamental or historical social inequities. At Harvard, which stands as an educator of national stature, such levels arguably should be equal to or even higher than representation reached by minority groups nationwide...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Under the Surface | 4/26/1989 | See Source »

...community is in a strong position of working with the University," said Clarissa C. Kripke '89-'91, a member of the Bisexual, Gay and Lesbian Students Association. "We have a liaison, [Assistant Dean for Coeducation] Janet Viggiani. We ought to use her as a strong voice within the administration...

Author: By Adam K. Goodheart, | Title: Activist Response Planned | 4/24/1989 | See Source »

...response: "She ought to have slapped his hands away, and dumped him for acting racist...

Author: By Ross G. Forman, | Title: Monkey See, Monkey Do in the City of the Golden Gate | 4/24/1989 | See Source »

...city that gave the country personal trainers, liver with kiwi, and Cher ought to be more adventurous than to have a Mayor for Life. But that's what Los Angeles' Tom Bradley is turning out to be. The man the Wall Street Journal calls the "recumbent incumbent" has just been elected to a fifth term, squeaking by with a 52% majority against a weak field of opponents. With no strong challenger to smoke him out, the tall, quiet Bradley got away with something akin to a Rose Garden strategy. He granted few interviews and ran in part on a platform...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How To Make Boring Beautiful | 4/24/1989 | See Source »

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