Word: ought
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...having worked on this project for two years with state and local officials, and hear the false-hoods, half-truths and misrepresentations that the NRC staff was making about emergency planning. It was absolutely disgraceful. My concern was that we were reaching a decision point and that the commissioners ought to know that at least one public safety official from the common-wealth took exception with what they said," Agnes said...
...lines like "It's no longer funny/It's bigger than money." The album's best track, the country ballad "Locked Away," begins with the wonderfully terse summation, "She swears that I'm the only one/What about yesterday?" The singer goes on to suggest that she, he and his friends "ought to be locked away"--she for her faithlessness, he for his insane jealousy, and his friends for their insensitivity...
Nieman Foundation head Howard Simons said he "thought it was wrong [of B.U.] to engage in a program like that. You ought not teach journalism students that it is o.k. to work for a propaganda agency...
...ransom, whether in cash or weapons and however disguised, does precisely that. On the other hand, a one- shot concession that in its nature could not be repeated would be less dangerous. Roger Fisher, who has advised the Government in previous hostage situations, says that the concession, if possible, ought to be something to which the adversary would have a legitimate claim if it had never taken any hostages...
...weeks, the American people will entrust either George Bush or Michael Dukakis with the keys to the nuclear kingdom. The presidency carries with it a moral responsibility that ought to humble even the most self-confident leader. Yet how do the candidates spend these final weeks, as they seek to shoulder this awesome responsibility? By reverting to a childlike state of dependency, with their every movement, gesture, word and response dictated by political handlers and chaperones. At the very moment the voters are asked to place their future in the hands of one of these men, the campaign staffs...