Word: ought
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...marks for others to follow. Bowie kept the cutting edge keen. There are few punks or New Wavers or art rockers or New Dancers dancing to New Music who do not owe him an abiding debt. Everyone from Gary Numan to Talking Heads and Human League and Culture Club ought to make a deep bow in his direction. If the success of his new album and the galvanic concert tour are any indication, then Bowie is setting the direction once again...
...Bowie ought to know that area the way an old sea hand knows his charts. He navigated it and narrowly missed racking up. Even now, hymning health and positivism, Bowie is doing a delicate balancing act. Spectators who recall his previous incarnations may be pardoned for wondering if this is not another disguise...
Your story on Margaret Thatcher's huge election victory in Britain ought to be a warning to our Democratic Party in 1984. The parallels between the left-wing Labor Party in the United Kingdom and the socialistic viewpoints expressed by some liberal Democrats in this country will lead to a resounding defeat for the Democrats next year...
...revenues in fiscal 1984. Now Congress must turn its attention to raising $73 billion in new taxes over the next three years as mandated by the $859 billion budget resolution passed two weeks ago. Said Senator Dole: "There is a lot of fat in the tax code that ought to be examined and tightened up." But Dole would be the first to agree that to raise $73 billion Congress would have to sew up an awful lot of loopholes...
Francis-between eye and eye. Fish float in the sky, evoking the early Christian ichthys; a wretched tar baby hangs on a crucifix. It is a moralizing vision, as the grotesque ought to be: Alexander's art has always had a strong political and religious strain...