Word: ought
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...raised in a very traditional home, and I'm still a very traditional fellow. My problem is the labels of conservative and liberal don't usually work very well for me. I'm not a guy, for example, who believes in political correctness. I think people ought to be people and shouldn't be so concerned with the fact that their neighbors are different than they...
Wickrematunge could not accept that kind of thinking. Even a wartime government, he believed, ought to be held accountable to its citizens. Stories in the Sunday Leader raised questions about who benefited from military aircraft contracts, needled Sri Lankan Cabinet officials for extravagant trips abroad and, in one infamous exclusive, accused the Defense Minister of arranging false travel documents for a former LTTE leader who is now part of the government. The Defense Ministry has denied any involvement...
...Well, of course we're having an event - it's the Inauguration. What Renuart means is that he's prepared should terrorists strike while perhaps 2 million Americans jam together on the National Mall next Tuesday. "We ought to be prepared to respond if something does happen that requires the Defense Department to provide support," he said, for "an event this visible and this important and this historic." (See TIME's Person of the Year, Barack Obama...
...rational. They can be. But whether they're rational or not really depends on how they interpret information. It depends on the amount of steroid in the system." For anyone trying to come to terms with the global economic slowdown and the financial-market ruin that caused it, that ought to be little comfort...
...Fitzsimmons and the College Board have neglected the fact that many students taking the SAT under this new policy will inevitably feel that, because there is no disincentive for taking the test repeatedly, they ought to take it until their scores can no longer possibly improve. For applicants to competitive colleges, scoring a 2300 at first attempt will cease to be a happy relief, and instead be viewed as the first step in a marathon of test taking until they reach the magic 2400. Many students will inevitably spend more time preparing for and taking the SAT than they...