Word: ought
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...allow yourself to believe that your partner now ought to be your partner forever, you may find your inclination to stick things out miraculously intensifies...
Carnesale's handling of the Proposition 209 issue is instructive for us. When students at Harvard lobby for ethnic studies courses or cable TV and find their efforts stymied, they ought to remember that effective administrators must not simply cave in to what students believe to be in their interest, but instead are obliged to consider the most prudent path to the university's goals...
Elizabeth S. Drogin '99, who took thepaper-based GRE in November of last year, said sheopted not to take the computer-adaptive testbecause she feels it ought to be morestandardized...
...question we ought to ask is not whether the Senate should be accountable, but whether the Senate vote will better reflect the national interest fairly and justly in an open environment or in a closed environment. It just might turn out that a public Senate vote will produce a verdict inconsistent with the national interest. That is exactly what the nationally-minded Alexander Hamilton had in mind when he defended the Senate as the trier of presidential impeachments in Federalist Paper No. 65: a body that would be less accountable to public opinion in the several states...
...city manager is perfect and there are indeed problems," Duehay said, "but there's a question of whether or not these suits constitute a pattern, and we ought to be able to solve our problems without firing our city manager...