Word: ought
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...debate has a few overtones of a familiar split in feminism: strongly pro- family women vs. women who sometimes speak of childbearing as a major obstacle to achieving feminist goals. Bertin, the mother of two, once referred to pregnancy and hernias as two temporary disabilities that ought to be covered. She says the CREW brief has "more of a flavor of a desire to glorify / pregnancy," while the NOW and A.C.L.U. briefs have "more of a flavor to make pregnancy not the thing around which women are defined." Says Friedan: "Some people are still busy reversing the feminine mystique, saying...
...Secretary of State; they were not and thus were ignored. The haggling over President Reagan's long-awaited speech on U.S. policy toward South Africa reflected the deep uncertainty that exists on that issue even within the Administration. Many White House aides thought it was politically self-destructive and ought not be given at all. At one point a decision was made to cancel it. In the end, though, it had one particularly firm and powerful advocate inside the White House: Ronald Reagan, who had never given a major address on South Africa in his 6 1/2 years as President...
...ought to prosecute people whose motives for invading other nations are selfish or paranoid in the extreme--like the Surinam invasion party, which hoped to abscond with the contents of the national bank, or the neurotic commander in Doctor Strangelove who is convinced he is surrounded by Communist plots...
...long, and the other industrial nations have become too heavily dependent on trade with America for their growth. The crucial challenge that faces governments is to correct that imbalance, and some of the economists doubted that it will be met. Said Thurow: "Everybody is right: the U.S. ought to do something to balance its trade deficit and its federal budget faster than it is, but we are not going to do it for political reasons. The Americans are right that the Japanese and Germans ought to stimulate their economies and grow faster, but they are not going...
Britain has long been seeking such an agreement, but it was Thatcher's aid in the April bombing raid on Libya that helped push the measure through. Many U.S. diplomats and Senators felt that the U.S. ought to return a favor...