Word: ought
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...obvious solution is to condense secondary school by two or three years so that students can finish earlier. Shortening school would make graduation and the physiological onset of adulthood roughly contemporaneous, as they ought...
...Dukakis ought to make farm policy a central issue of the debates if he hopes to win Illinois and the Midwest. If he has any hopes of taking states like Florida away from the Vice President, he must make his universal health-care policies a bulwark of his platform. He has to set out concrete initiatives on crises ripping their way into the media and Congress, such as Central American strife and the federal deficit...
Whether the press has the responsibility to report dangerous or lifethreatening tips to authorities is another related question. Shinagel would probably argue that if the Crimson received the report, the University ought to force the editors to divulge the tip. But this is for the paper to decide, not the University. Freedom of the press ultimately means that no outside authority has the right to threaten a newspapers's coverage of events, its editorial decisions, or its right to protect its sources...
...adds up to more time than you ever thought it would be," Barstow says. "I knew I would probably end up going to [soccer] games anyway and I thought, 'But I'm going to feel guilty if I know I ought to be writing a paper,' but if I was the manager, I'd have...
...means is Ibsen's Hedda Gabler a mellow mood piece. It ought to leave you in a state of shock, for as the last line of the play states, "Normal people don't do such things...