Word: ought
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...better rehabilitation programs. However, her original version let stand the provision allowing "modest" amounts of drugs for personal use. Craxi blocked passage of the bill, and in the process touched a vein of public support: a survey by the newsweekly Panorama shows that 57% of Italians think users ought to be punished. Jervolino was irate: "Prison never helped any drug user." But a revised version of the new legislation that will outlaw drug possession in the future is still awaiting approval by the Cabinet...
...their music right from the start. I would never advocate depoliticizing rock 'n roll or diffusing its rebel yell, but only when it expresses honest emotion and reminds us of the reason the artists got into making music in the first place. At the same time, no one ought to be trapped in a past that no longer relates to their very cushy present--Bruce should once and for all quit with the blue--collar crap-but it seems that when sincerity is real, the apple should never fall far from it's original tree of inspiration...
...deal also raises the salary competition among executives to absurd levels. Says John Swearingen, former chairman of Standard Oil of Indiana: "There is a limit to what managers ought to be paid for managing other people's money." Adds a top executive involved in a current takeover: "The yardstick for compensation has just gotten twelve inches longer. The chief executive who's doing a first-class job running a major U.S. corporation for $890,000 a year is going to start thinking he's some kind of a fool...
...argue by saying that athletic skill is no different in the admission process from a special aptitude for writing or music. But Harvard is an academic institution, and people's skills ought to fit within that intellectual mission. If a student talented enough to come here happens to be an athlete also, fine. But athletes without scholarly abilities add nothing to Harvard's intellectual community and deny a coveted space in the student body to someone who could make better...
Harvard has taken the first step in recognizing a crucial and traditionally ignored area. To spread cultural understanding throughout the most general Harvard audience, the course ought to be incorporated into the Core curriculum. Departments must be receptive to the scholars brought in by the program and integrate their courses into regular department offerings. Hopefully, the University will expand the program in the future, and address its problems along...