Word: ought
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...Nobel Prize for literature between them. Throw in a story that won a Tony when it was a play and won critical accolades when it was first adapted for film in 1972, and this remake of Anthony Shaffer’s “Sleuth” ought to be an instant success...
...chair in boardrooms are firstborns, 33% are middle-borns and 23% are last-borns. Eldest siblings are disproportionately represented among surgeons and M.B.A.s too, according to Stanford University psychologist Robert Zajonc. And a recent study found a statistically significant overload of firstborns in what is-or at least ought to be-the country's most august club: the U.S. Congress. "We know that birth order determines occupational prestige to a large extent," says Zajonc. "There is some expectation that firstborns are somehow better qualified for certain occupations...
...first rodeo." Asked what his definition of torture is, he repeated the now near-meaningless assertion, "We don't torture." On diplomatic efforts to curtail Iran's nuclear program, he said he had told third countries, "If you're interested in avoiding World War III, it seems like you ought to be interested in preventing [Iran] from having knowledge necessary to make a nuclear weapon...
...rights to pinch pennies, it’s difficult to imagine what exactly a $63,791.21 rainy day would look like. Perhaps, the UC’s bean-counters will argue, this month’s showdown with University Hall is exactly the sort of cataclysm that savings ought to provide...
...administration? Not a chance. The amount is too much for a rainy day, and too little for a hurricane. Even if innocent clerical errors, late deposits from University Hall, and the UC’s emergency reserves are taken into account, there remain tens of thousands of dollars that ought to have been spent that were not. The miraculous shortfall-turned-windfall is almost certainly produced by a blend incompetence and unwarranted over-cautiousness, and not prescience, on the UC’s part...