Word: ought
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...Constitution Avenue headquarters, and to use the garage entrance. When the chief of staff arrived, Volcker quickly passed on the news: "I don't want to be reappointed." Baker's reaction was, "The President will be disappointed." He tried to get Volcker to reconsider. "Paul, you really ought to think about this. It's important for the President, and it's important for the country." Finally Baker suggested that Volcker, an avid fly fisherman, consider the matter further during a planned weekend fishing trip. Volcker agreed...
...style, but not grandiose. Indeed, Kleihues himself has written that IBA is "ultimately doomed to fall short of the aims it has set itself." Yet those aims were liberating because they were antimonumental. Berlin has lived (and nearly died) through all the various 20th century dreams of how cities ought to be. IBA, to its everlasting glory, had instead a clearheaded vision of how good cities are, and set out to restore the rules of scale and diversity that made them that...
...Today it is not quite clear what the standards are, there is not such a firm conviction of how they ought to be presented," he says...
...search committee that picked Bok in 1970. "We were trying to find out whether this was Charles Eliot time, but there wasn't a lot of support for a new direction. We were looking for a sensible fellow who didn't have predetermined ideas about where a University ought to go. That's what...
Dillon Professor of French Civilization Stanley Hoffmann, who also teaches Moral Reasoning courses, says that although the creation of the Core requirement was "a very good thing," ethics "ought to be a part of the teaching of every topic." Hoffmann's statements echo the concerns of teachers and administrators at the professional schools, as they grapple with the question of how to integrate ethics into the curriculum...