Word: ought
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...Forst. OFS has the power to make sure that the university’s actions to encourage social embrace of environmentalism are in line with its words. The university should seize this momentum to inspire an environemtnal conscience in its community. The enduring mission after the Sustainability Celebration ought to be ensuring that this spotlight on environmental responsibility doesn?...
...hierarchical tradition like Catholicism, debates don't happen very often. Right now, however, American Catholics are going through a revival of the arguments that took place in the 1980s between bishops who believed abortion ought to be the top political and moral focus of the church and the camp led by the late Cardinal Joseph Bernardin that argued for a more "consistent ethic of life...
Given all this drama and controversy, studying the U.S. ought to be more interesting than ever. But undergraduates across Europe have shifted their focus elsewhere, their disaffection a barometer of America's diminished standing in the world. "Students don't trust us," says Walter Grünzweig, a professor of American studies at Germany's Dortmund University, where the number of students applying for exchange programs to the U.S. has roughly halved since 2004. "We have to convince them we're not part of the propaganda branch of the American Embassy...
...from a little bit of a different angle. And I'm not saying that's necessarily the best or the worst thing, but I'm saying that I can sometimes look at things that have been sitting there for awhile and done a certain way and say, "Maybe we ought to take this in a different direction...
...short answer many European economists give is that it ought to. There are few reasons, they say, why markets shouldn't return to a situation somewhere closer to normal - though they add there was little in macro-terms to justify their bearish frenzy last week. But following Sunday evening's agreement by the 15 leaders of euro-zone countries to accept collective rules to underwrite loans between banks and inject new capital into those facing serious trouble, hope is now rising that the situation in Europe may stabilize. Indeed, euro-group leaders used the most encouraging language they could muster...