Word: ought
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...bitch that thinks he'd like to be President of the United States ought to try being governor of Pennsylvania for a few years," reads a sign about to be hung on the wall of Gov. Richard L. Thornburgh's Kennedy School office...
...Lawson, who was called the California Walkman in headline shorthand, was all over the networks, sauntering, as the news programs had it, wherever he pleased. He said at the time, "If you are one of those individuals who, over coffee and the morning paper, says, 'This is terrible. Somebody ought to do something about this,' you will probably see the person who should do something when you look in the mirror to shave...
...ideal of fairness is one that few Americans would quarrel with. A tougher constitutional question, however, is whether such fairness ought to be mandated by the Government or whether that violates a broadcaster's First Amendment rights. In early June the House and Senate, by wide margins, passed a measure that would codify the fairness doctrine into statute law. But the bill was vetoed by President Reagan, who called the doctrine "antagonistic to the freedom of expression guaranteed by the First Amendment." Efforts to override the veto were abandoned last week, and the deregulation-minded FCC may soon be free...
Despite such hip-shooting urgency, The Federalist proved so penetrating an explication of the Constitution that 50 years later Alexis de Tocqueville described it as a tour de force that "ought to be familiar to the statesmen of all countries." Almost 140 years after that, Historian Marvin Meyers, now retired from Brandeis University, called it the "most profound commentary on the original nature of the American regime, and the best single guide to the political mind of the founders...
When Mobil Corp. President William Tavoulareas sued the Washington Post for saying he used his corporate position to "set up his son" in a shipping business, the jurors on the case reportedly proceeded on three intuitive assumptions. First, if a news organization accuses someone, it ought to be able to prove its charges. Second, a public figure whose career depends on his reputation ought to enjoy, if anything, greater protection from unsubstantiated attack than an ordinary citizen. Third, documented disagreement within a newsroom about a story's validity -- followed by its publication -- shows the news organization doubted the story...