Word: ought
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...women are unhappier," says Maynard, "it is partly because they are trying to pull off something that can't be pulled off, except on Thursday nights in The Cosby Show. Women have been told they can have -- even ought to have -- husband, children and career, all perfectly managed. It is a lie." Through her column, Maynard has conducted a survey of her own on extramarital affairs. Of 900 replies, 800 were from women who had been unfaithful. Observes Maynard: "They feel, 'I give all day long; I want to do something...
Commenting on the recent problems within the now-defunct Hart and Biden campaigns, the Missouri Democrat said "I think we ought to move on and talk about the issues in this campaign...
Gephardt acknowledged that he voted against a pro-abortion House ammendment several years ago and has since adopted a pro-choice stance, but defended his position saying that "changing minds are things that public minds do and ought to do, if they are merited by the facts...
...true that I'm for moral absolutes.I'm for theoretical reflections on these things,"he said. Bloom said he was opposed to dogmaticacceptance of moral relativism. He said a courseon moral relativism ought to be incorporated intothe curriculum...
Given such merits, the bicycle ought to be universally embraced by humankind as a sensible way of getting about in the strangling, traffic- plagued city. Bicycles have long been a major mode of transport in Europe and Asia; there are as many as 230 million of them in China. Now they have taken to U.S. streets with a vengeance. According to Bill Wilkinson, director of the Bicycle Federation of America, roughly 2 million people commute to work on bikes, up from approximately 500,000 a decade...