Word: ought
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...extended hours could go into effect as soon as February and ought to be in place next fall, said committee memberEvan O. Grossman...
Cohen says that I "readily admit" that the book is not for the lay public. When? Where? It's not for Cohen, that's for sure. But then he seems to have such a clear idea about what it ought to have been, maybe he's just too smart for mere reviews. He oughta write a book! Martin Linsky Lecturer in Public Policy
Perhaps, but the hospitalization ought at least to have prompted some questions. Like every other potential appointee to the NSC staff, North had to fill out a form asking if he had ever been hospitalized because of emotional problems. Even if he checked the No box, a thorough background investigation might have turned up the hospitalization anyway. Yet a Government source says none of the three agencies empowered to screen NSC nominees -- the FBI, the Secret Service and the office of the White House counsel -- learned about it. NSC screenings were frequently slipshod, says the source. "There were security violations...
Uncle Sam may be running some $200 billion in the red, but the Federal Government's top 3,037 officials ought to get raises -- and big ones. So said a presidential commission report submitted to Ronald Reagan last week recommending nearly $150 million in pay increases for, among others, Cabinet members (from $88,800 to $160,000) and Congressmen (from $77,400 to $135,000). The proposed raises, argued the commission, will reverse a 17-year, 41% decline in federal employees' purchasing power and make Government service more attractive. Reagan is expected to scale down the upper pay levels...
...another thing, the very inventions that came into being to make democracy more democratic, in practice have delimited the nation's most fundamental liberties. Instruments like television and high-speed printing presses have turned America into a village of common thought, which theoretically ought to enhance a people's power to govern their own destinies. But the ability of other people, specialized people, to control those thoughts has grown with the inventions. Political campaigns are managed not by the candidates but by media experts, who indeed seem expert in determining how the majority thinks and votes. A huge business these...