Word: ought
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...Bush v. Gore. Although his departure is unlikely to upset the court’s ideological status quo—as it is assumed that Obama will replace him with a similarly liberal justice—Souter also held other judicial notions that his successor ought to exemplify...
...with "single" and "married" the most common statuses.) The first four categories are pretty self-explanatory, but when should you use them? A Jane Austen of Facebook has yet to emerge, let alone a Miss Manners, and no one seems to have a grip on what the social norms ought...
...Very often the updating of an older franchise leads to a shrieking mass of technological bells and whistles (look how George Lucas tarted up his own Star Wars franchise). Star Trek certainly looks as lively as an ambitious, action-oriented summer blockbuster ought, but Abrams is more interested in the characters than he is in showing off the ship, or the Big Bad, a fellow named Nero (Eric Bana) with a Black Hole complex. Abrams also pays homage to the original with a cameo by one of the old gang. That special guest has one scene too many, but there...
...vital. Part of that responsibility lies with the lenders themselves. "Banks need to know their business," said John McFall, chairman of Britain's Treasury Select Committee, during a recent debate on trust and financial markets organized by the Fabian Society, a left-leaning London think tank. In future, bosses ought to know their CDOs from the CDSs, McFall said, and not leave such understanding to the banks' "35-year-old Ph.D.s." Reining in sky-high bonuses, boosting capital reserves and sharpening risk management won't do any harm to public trust, either...
...deplorable lack of involvement in his case. While the HIO bends over backward to ensure that international students have the appropriate visas to join the ranks of Wall Street financiers, it seems to have left this student at the Divinity School in the cold. Munir’s case ought to be just as compelling as that of an international student who needs to file an I-20 extension with United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS). The HIO should use all of its considerable resources, connections, and expertise in immigration law to help Munir. It is ironic that...