Word: ought
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...Derek Bok has made a difference. If there's a Hall of Fame for college presidents, he ought...
...moon, Alice." But if people on the one hand laugh off private violence, they become raving, sputtering mad about it too. "The pendulum swings to two extremes," says A. Nicholas Groth, a Connecticut prison psychologist. "Either people blame the victim, or see the offender as a fiend who ought to be castrated." As the analyses of private violence on the following pages show, the hard duty is to look straight at the problems and, neither laughing nor ranting, figure out what reasonable people can do. ?By Kurt Andersen. Reported by Barbara B. Dolan/Minneapolis, with other bureaus...
What's in a good name? "It ought to create a surge of satisfaction in the owner when he hears it spoken," says Thomas Moulson, a marketing-research manager at Ford. Still, the definition is elusive. Birds of prey, even imaginary ones, have been big successes (Thunderbird, Eagle, Skyhawk), as have weapons (Cutlass, Le Sabre, Javelin, Dart). American cars generally have more aggressive names than European models, which often wear numbers (3201, R-18), and domestic Japanese autos, which often have docile names (Fairlady, Bluebird, Sunny...
...husband said: 'Are you mad?' It went on that way for more than a month. I wallowed in guilt. I thought: How did this happen to me? What about everybody else with the same track record? It took me six months to realize that I ought to jubilate and that it's the kindest, most remarkable thing...
Whatever they and other athletes may have been using, the shock waves of last week ought to be a powerful stimulant for abstinence...