Word: ought
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Soviets ought, of course, to think about the detrimental effect this colonial war is having on their society, in urgent need of modernization. It is my guess that the Soviets would like to get out of this messy Afghan situation. But they can't. Their puppet regime would not survive a Soviet withdrawal. A departure from Afghanistan would, in the Soviet mind, deal a blow to their strenuously achieved superpower position...
There are still many good scholars who would like to go back to their Afghan research. And new students ought to be brought into the field. Efforts and money should be urgently chanelled into Afghan studies...
...ought to receive training on how to teach in the Core. They should also be screened far more thoroughly before they are hired. These measures would require more advanced planning on the part of professors and may even require restricted enrollments. If that's the price we have to pay, it's worth it. As it now stands, the Core teaches neither approaches to knowledge, nor knowledge itself, successfully...
...uses Harvard's good name to bring attention to himself and his wacky proposals. What is worse is when he does so in the service of ideas that betray an ignorance of what higher education is all about and the ways members of an intellectual community--any community, actually--ought to conduct themselves...
...proposed committee is to hear cases in which there are not "well-defined community standards." That sounds like a euphemism for controversial--read: political--cases. It indicates the unwillingness of the planning committee to tackle the real problem of drafting a set of guidelines for which cases ought to be heard by the new disciplinary body...