Word: ought
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...lost lives here, and we ought to find out why," Cuomo said...
...case of "extraordinary" importance, says Elman. "The ordinary rules didn't apply." Not so, retorts Yale Law Professor Geoffrey Hazard, who helped draft the American Bar Association's 1983 rules of conduct for lawyers. "Brown put the court's institutional legitimacy on the line. That is why one ought to have been absolutely punctilious...
Regardless of what the judge may decide this week in the Baby M. surrogate- mother trial in New Jersey, the case bequeaths a straightforward question that ought to be answered before the next such trial proves necessary: Are there any ethical limits on what one person may pay another to do? It is a question that rarely arises in the world of normal commerce, even in the modern service economy (of which the contract drawn between William Stern and Mary Beth Whitehead for her to bear his baby may stand as the oddest example). Problems of conscience do not crop...
...prosecutors said they would seek the death penalty against Heidnik. Twenty years ago, Heidnik's father, Michael, 74, a former Eastlake, Ohio, councilman, disowned the son, and he has not seen him since then. Last week he proclaimed an even harsher judgment: "Somebody who does something like that ought to be hung...
...birds that spend their summers in the region. (He makes no mention of the score or so species of mosquitoes that share the turf.) Rosie Porter, the feisty editor and publisher of the weekly Tundra Drums and proprietor of the Porter House Bed and Breakfast, thinks the tourists ought to include the Soviets, just a couple of hours away across the Bering Sea. "They'd be real good customers," she says, clearly thinking more of her occupancy rate than of the Drums' circulation. A sobering counterpoint to these schemes, however, is the rise in suicides and thefts of heating...