Word: ought
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...Northern California: "The most appalling thing for me is that this is certainly not a solution to a serious drug problem." San Francisco Supervisor Bill Maher, author of a bill banning all drug testing within city limits except for uniformed civil servants, mocks the craze. "I think they ought to test the urine for brain cells instead of drugs," says he. "The political leadership of urinating into a test tube eludes...
Vorenberg's first step should be to address the widespread discontent over the composition of the tenure committee by appointing a new one more acceptable to both sides of the faculty. Next he ought to work to either bridge the political divide within the faculty--an admittedly Herculean task--or establish a compromise on how scholars will be considered for tenure in the future...
...about ten years now, a corporation calling itself Grandbanke has been making a display of Geller's tenacity, to its considerable cost. Grandbanke, a partnership among several out-of-towners, wants to take away Geller's license and run the station the way everyone knows a station ought to be run. Gloucester would no longer have to rely on the 40-odd other stations in range to hear the weather, world and local news, what the Dow Jones is up to. It would be blessed with 60-second spots on "Wonderful Cape Ann" and a daily report "For Fishermen Only...
...their best, the Moiseyev dancers offer a kinetic excitement that ought to be the envy of dance companies everywhere. The bodies are lithe, handsome and superbly conditioned, without a saggy, stereotypical babushka in sight, and they move through Moiseyev's short, repetitive kaleidoscopic patterns with elan and assurance. The headstands, the five-foot leaps, the tumbles and twirls are unfailingly impressive, and the music, a wildly eclectic pastiche of Soviet folk songs, Strauss waltzes and Mussorgsky tone poems, rattles along briskly under the baton of Conductor Anatoli Gusj...
...talk of brisk competition between Harvard and his alma mater. Says Porterfield: "The Macy's-Gimbels rivalry thing is a big bore. There is more kinship between Harvard and Yale than between Harvard and any other university. In these days when others are challenging our supremacy, Harvard and Yale ought to draw together against the upstarts...