Word: ought
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...plants. But the most talked-about concept in Congress is a tax on imported oil, which would pay the twin dividends of reducing the budget deficit and helping to prop up domestic suppliers by increasing the price. Says Heller: "The gains we make from the drop in oil prices ought to give us a kitty for helping the losers." As retail energy prices drop lower, the imposition of a small tax could be increasingly painless for consumers...
...usurping freedom of expression, the hecklers damaged their own interests as well as the community's. They ought to have protested, and protested loudly, and when the Contra began to speak, they ought to have passed the soapbox to him. For in this way they would have allowed the audience to see for themselves how contemptible a Contra really...
...painters were creating their own original concept of art. It's the same sort of thing that's going on down here now." That kind of freewheeling climate has encouraged inspired variations even on hidebound forms. Anyone who thinks there is nothing more to be done with a necktie ought to check out one of Morton's dazzling silks, cut on a crazy, sawtooth diagonal...
...realize that I never had anything to do with any divestment campaign." Paton, unlike those who protest today, knows that the divestiture movement rests more on moral outrage than on a sober evaluation of South African realities. Because American disinvestment can so easily harm those whom it ought to help, and because Harvard's financial involvement with repressive regimes hardly begins and ends with South Africa, blanket divestiture would represent the first step into an ethical minefield...
...listened to them describe what they thought ought to happen on the site," says Robert A. Silverman, director of the Planning Office located high atop Holyoke Center. "We developed hypothetical numbers for them, what their concept would amount to in bricks and dollars...