Word: ought
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Those advocating retreat, in its various camouflages, ought not to be debating whether our defense budget should be $303 billion or $289 billion. Thirty billion ought to be quite enough to maintain all that their foreign policy would require: a few nuclear missiles and a Coast Guard to patrol the Florida Keys...
Some experts are dismayed by the prospect that local zoning boards may now act with excessive caution. "I think communities must be free to plan and take chances," says Curtis Berger, a Columbia University law professor. "They ought not to be forced to plan at their peril." Worries Jim Williams of the Washington State Association of Counties: "Right now we've got a small tiger by the tail, and we don't know how big it's going...
...white. Later, Thomas claimed he was only joking when he said, "If Bird was black, he'd be just another good guy." But if by "just another good guy" he meant Magic Johnson, Michael Jordan and himself, the statement is not so unreasonable, and his amplification about stereotyping ought not to have been lost in the apology. "When Bird makes a great play, it's due to his thinking," Thomas sighed. "All we do is run and jump. We never practice or give a thought to how we play. It's like I came dribbling out of my mother...
...arms and explosives to Libyan Ruler Muammar Gaddafi and plotting to kill his federal prosecutors. One reason for his absorption with the TV spectacular is that he knows so many members of the cast and has such a definite opinion about them. Many of his former associates, says Wilson, ought to be exactly where...
...victims of "unscrupulous people whose only allegiance was to money." But Wilson does not believe the patriotic pieties he hears on television from the likes of Secord. Says the prisoner: "If I'm guilty, they're guilty. If I got 52 years for what I shipped, Ollie North ought to get 300 years...