Word: ought
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...figure that if colleges have the right to exchange information about prospective students, then prospective students ought to have the right to exchange information about colleges...
Reading Period: While all of your friends are spending their January sleeping, you will be back at school. Locked in your room. Studying, Sometimes you will write papers, but mostly you will study. When you sleep, you will feel guilty because you ought to be studying. When you eat, you will feel guilty because you ought to be studying. When you breathe, you will feel guilty because you ought to be studying. Enjoy it. This is how you spend a quarter of your school year...
...Court Judge W. Dale Young announced his decision in the unprecedented case: the embryos are people, not property, and should go to the mother. In an opinion loaded with some of the coded language that often surrounds abortion controversies, Young ruled that "human life begins at conception." The lawsuit ought to be decided as a question of custody, he concluded, and "it is to the manifest best interests of the child or children, in vitro that they be available for implantation." Questions of final custody, child support and visitation rights will be decided later if there is a birth. Junior...
...decided what was necessary? Presumably Moses and Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III. Why are announcements of course information and housing lottery deadlines more important than news and student opinions? One thing is certain, the residents of a house ought to make the decision, rather than the master...
...said the daily, he changed his name to Mauro Jeffery Rothschild. Wherever and whoever he may be, Rothschild left thousands of dollars in debts at Duke, including $14,000 owed to one friend and a $400 tab at the florist. He also left a legacy of stories that ought to last a generation at least...