Word: ought
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bilateral ties are to remain strong, the U.S. will have to realize that certain set notions about Japan must also change. Ambassador Mansfield contends: "We ought to quit leaning on the Japanese and get back to our own old time religion" of producing competitive, quality products with pride. The Japanese will also have to learn that a position of global power brings added responsibilities. Long considered the junior partner in the Western alliance, Japan may finally be ready for full membership. -By John Kohan. Reported by Carol Honsa/Washington and Edwin M. Relngold/Tokyo
Court trials, for example, still upset the Japanese sense of privacy and are considered public embarrassments. They also aggravate a deeply ingrained reluctance to assess good and evil in others. Kawashima notes that unlike most Westerners, the Japanese find that "there is no tension posed between what ought to be. . . morality, on one hand, and the realities of the human spirit and human society as it exists." One practice that caters to such beliefs: proceedings in some civil cases are extensively thrashed out in chambers to avoid surprises, making court appearances anticlimactic. Says an American attorney working in Japan: "They...
...Club The Heads what's more, steal a whole lotta licks from out of the past Do you want your funk served up hot and gooey, in the form of Delta Blues' Swamp" will please your musical palate How about a little down-home gospel hour, Slippery People" ought to do the trick A Little street fun in order' The dancing bass at the end of Girlfriend is Better will have you hipping to the hip hop all night long. With Speaking in Longues it seems. Talking Heads are almost admitting that Remain in Light seminal though...
...argument is that if only the Russians are innocent of this we can trust them? That's not the way to do treaties. It never was. It never is, It's a phony argument. That's not the point. The point is if they're really doing this, we ought to get it stopped...
...said yesterday that the conference would not necessarily produce solutions but that "there is more of a feeling that we ought to have a chance to trade off ideas and stimulate ourselves to make the most of a particular important opportunity...