Word: ought
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...been able to stop the bull. Not worries about gargantuan budget and trade deficits. Not a sharp drop in the value of the U.S. dollar between 1985 and mid-1987. Not even the stock-market equivalent of the law of gravity, specifying that the most rapid advances ought to be broken now and then by a substantial downward correction in prices...
Will Dalton earn the loyalty of 007 traditionalists, while luring a new generation into Bondage? He ought to. But the only real suspense left is what to call the films when all the Fleming titles have been used up. One matter was settled long ago: Bond films have no competition as the most durable and popular series in movie history. Superman, Rocky and Jaws may have produced four installments; Friday the 13th may have hit six. But 15 films -- and more to come -- with the high gloss and safe thrills of Bond? My dear Hollywood, there are some things that...
Everette Dennis, executive director of New York's Gannett Center for Media Studies, agrees. "The standard ought always to be the public interest," he says. Yes, but the question is whether breaking the rules of confidentiality is the best way to achieve that standard...
...visit returned, including two senior ballerinas, Natalya Bessmertnova (Grigorovich's wife, who was sidelined almost at once by a leg injury) and Lyudmila Semenyaka. Equally important, after 23 years at the helm, Grigorovich is presenting his finished vision of what the world's largest and most celebrated ballet company ought...
...testimony still has devastating implications. If the admiral is to be believed, his story reveals a startling lack of accountability in the White House. "If the President didn't know, in some ways it's more serious than if he did," said House Majority Leader Thomas Foley. "Presidents ought to be allowed to create their own political disasters," said Republican Senator Warren Rudman of New Hampshire. "Nobody else ought to do it for them...