Word: ought
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...constant state of recruitment forcourses," said Pilbeam, adding that a "substantialchunk" of the senior faculty ought to assume theCore's heavy teaching demands...
...from the New England Association of Schools and Colleges came to the conclusion that while Harvard has a very talented faculty and a gifted student body, both live in different worlds. "Faculty members," the report concludes, "are less accessible to students than we expected and less aware than they ought to be of what is occurring outside their department...
Inman-Ebel is careful to say there is nothing wrong with sounding Southern -- just that it may not be the most suitable sound for the business world. "You dress well to go to work, and you put your jeans on when you go home," she says, and you ought to be able to choose the way you sound as well. The problem with sounding Southern, she says, is that it suggests certain stereotypes. A lot of outsiders have formed their ideas about the South through prolonged contemplation of Hee Haw and The Dukes of Hazzard. These ideas tend...
...Street in High Point, however, the former preacher is hardly taken seriously. "Pat Robertson?" says Roberts. "We never hear the name." According to Roberts, the G.O.P. race is between Dole and Bush. "Dole's biggest asset is Liddy," say the barber. "She is absolutely better than he is. She ought to run." Some of the customers like Gore for his electability. But Barber Harvey Speaks is skeptical. Says he: "Jimmy Carter killed the chances for another Southern President...
...television's MacNeil-Lehrer Report, Atwater bragged about the Bush-Sununu grass-roots strategy and said, "If Senator Dole would try to do the same thing, instead of all this bellyaching, he's probably going to do a lot better." Taking the bait, Bill Brock later growled, "Lee Atwater ought to grow...