Word: ought
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...prefer to evaluate students according to prefabricated patterns. I went through that pattern, and I still feel that my final paper--which received a significantly higher grade that the first--is interior. As a result, I passed through the course without having any concrete idea of what good writing ought to be like...
Americans have an "insatiable appetite for a longer life," complains Daniel Callahan, 57. They should be "creatively and honorably accepting aging and death, not struggling to overcome them." Medicine, Callahan chides, ought to "give up its relentless drive to extend the life of the aged," who in any event are often "being saved from death for chronic illness, with Alzheimer's as a tragic example." It is time to honor a "natural life-span" that normally winds down in the late 70s to mid-80s, he says. "How many years do we need to have a reasonably decent life...
...margin, and people at dinner parties kept telling stories about barbers or messenger boys who had kept their ears open, bought on margin and become millionaires. John J. Raskob, who had been a director of General Motors and was now the Democratic Party chairman, published an article titled "Everybody Ought to Be Rich." The jazz age would never end. What almost nobody seemed to notice was that while the leading stocks kept climbing, many others did not. Celanese, for example, had dropped from 118 to 66 since 1927, Philip Morris from 41 to 12. The speculators also did not seem...
...appointments aren't made according to an objective, standardized method that can predict future performance with accuracy. Standardization, after all, is a well-established substitute for subjective and otherwise difficult decisions in admissions offices at every university, and it really does make things much simpler for everyone involved. There ought to be such a fool-proof method when it comes to tenure...
Those who continue to back contra funding criticized the awarding of the ) peace prize as premature. Congressman Jack Kemp of New York, a candidate for the Republican presidential nomination, suggested that the Norwegians "ought to save the peace prize until they see what happens in the future." House Minority Leader Bob Michel complained, "I don't know that the Norwegians got all that much to say about what goes on in Central America." Said Arias: "There will always be people with small spirits...