Word: ought
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that, it seems to me, is the best reason for AAA to continue its electoral struggle. The Board of Overseers ought to wake up because it is the only institution in the University that makes a pretense of democracy...
...overseers are our representatives. We ought to know what they are saying. Let them state their positions openly so they may be subjected to scrutiny and criticism. That is what democracy requires...
...then these arguments are familiar, too familiar. They have been debated in Congress and elsewhere with seasonal regularity. That is precisely the point, however. It is these familiar arguments that lie at the heart of the decision about whether the U.S. ought to support the contras. Not "What did the President know, and when did he know it?" The failings, even the illegalities, of a President alter neither American strategic interests nor the morality (or immorality) of supporting anti-Communist rebels. Let the debate begin, again. And may it be decided on its merits...
...almost invisible to the powers that be, general student concerns are not so ephemeral. However, the limited meeting the council agreed to may give the Corporation a skewed impression of student concerns. It should go without saying that attempts to open the Corporation's decision-making process to students ought not take place behind closed doors...
...nation's leading politicians venture out onto the campaign trail like four-year locusts here is a guide map to some domestic problems that ought to evoke some outrage and get some knees jerking...