Word: ought
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...same time, he began to develop a ravenous ambition. At 17 he got into elite Williams College in Massachusetts. Grandma scraped together $200 for clothes. "She knew there were a lot of guys from St. Paul's and Andover, and that I ought to dress up to speed," he recalls...
...Hippocratic oath that all doctors take swears them to keep secret anything they "may see or hear in the lives of men which ought not to be spoken abroad." With the exception of AIDS, the American Medical Association has decreed. Meeting in Chicago, the A.M.A. House of Delegates approved a resolution asserting that doctors not only may, but must warn the sexual partners of patients infected with the AIDS virus if neither the patient nor public authorities can be persuaded...
Professor of Law Charles R. Nesson said theoccurrence of documents turning up after the endof the trial is "not as unusual as it ought tobe...
...Hall, who made waves and friends as host of Fox Broadcasting's The Late Show last year, is Semmi, a royal aide far more reluctant than His Highness to sample the delights of democratic living. So one tends to be rather patient with Coming to America. Surely the filmmakers ought to be able to make something...
...previous economic summits, the leaders will issue a predictable communique containing vague pledges of cooperation and general prescriptions for economic ills that have been left untreated year after year. Yet among economists in the U.S., Europe and Japan, there is an unusual consensus about what the seven leaders really ought to do to avoid a global recession. For starters, they should be ready to admit past failures, set aside nationalistic differences and take action that may be politically painful back home. After consulting with economic experts in the seven countries, prepared this version of the "Economic Declaration" that the world...