Word: ought
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There may be radio listeners who think all disk jockeys ought to be in jail. But in Angola, La., two DJs have started their careers behind bars. Big Brother Amin and the Duke of L.A., who broadcast five days a week from Station KLSP, are both armed-robbery convicts. Their target audience is also captive: the 4,645 inmates of Angola's 18,000-acre prison farm. The call letters for KLSP stand for Louisiana State Penitentiary, the "incarceration station" that is the only prisoner-run radio...
...Eisert ought to resign from the Owl Club and reaffirm to the community that he rejects what the final clubs stand for. The Undergraduate Council should censure Eisert for his decision to join a club and should publicly reaffirm its opposition to sexism and elitism in our community. If Eisert does not resign from the Owl Club, the council ought not to reelect him next semester...
...There is a waste of talent," Fitzsimmons says. "Students from such backgrounds ought to be considering the very best schools, and often they don't for all the wrong reasons...
...think the city government ought to be in the business of telling people what to believe which is exactly what we're doing if we endorse [the original] resolution," said City Councilor David E. Sullivan, who proposed the substitute resolution which was eventually passed by a one vote majority...
...capitalism faces a devastating problem. If businessmen are motivated simply by the pursuit of profit and are willing to use any means at their disposal, then perhaps the free market ought to be abolished...