Word: ought
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Democrats ought to say we are strong ondefense," Gephardt said, arguing that Democratsshould use a version of Reagan's 1980 questionwhen he asked voters if they were better off thanfour years before...
...ought to be sending down physicians andteachers and Peace Corps workers," Simon argued...
...America, freedom for behavior and belief out of sync with that of the majority rests "upon the enlightenment of society and its elected representatives." "That is hardly a terrible fate," he concludes. "At least a society like ours ought not to think...
...baseball solved a strike in two days, with Commissioner Peter Ueberroth shyly accepting most of the credit. To fuzzy suggestions that he somehow ought to ride to a similar rescue, Football Czar Pete Rozelle responds, "I don't think anyone can go in and wave a magic wand and have it ; settled." Sighing glumly, he adds, "I'm not a knight on a white horse...
...many liberals. In more than a dozen states, officials have been inching in a similar direction. But in a country that speaks in the same breath of the right to liberty and the right to life, this new approach raises old, complicated questions. How much deviation in behavior ought a free society tolerate? Is it rational to enshrine the liberty of those so irrational they cannot understand the nature of their rights? Is it not more humane -- indeed, is it not morally required -- to come to the aid of people who are suffering, no matter their resistance...