Word: ought
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...alternate universe goes like this: The last thing Obama ought to do is pick a figure from the Washington establishment. He needs, instead, to reinforce his message of change and shake up the status quo with an outsider untainted by the Capitol games. Such a pick would be aimed not at the party's base but at the pool of independent voters who still aren't comfortable with Obama and are looking all summer for signs that he is both something different and up to the job. Those who back this approach have been talking about Kaine for months...
...number of active users would hit 100 million by year's end. Some 200,000 programmers are making applications for Facebook, and have attracted more than $200 million in investment. That's a lot of users and developers, and a spectacular amount of dough. Zuckerberg and his team ought to feel pretty great about what they've built in a relatively short period of time...
...think it ought to even be written in their contracts. I don't think they have the right to say they are or they're not, because they are. And they ought to accept that...
...tubes. But his lieutenants, notably Perle, are talking about SDI not as an alternative to offensive nuclear weapons but as a supplement to a steadily upgraded American arsenal that will face a steadily expanding Soviet one. That, in fact, is what SDI would likely become, and such a prospect ought to be just as unappealing to the President as it is to many strategic experts and to the body politic in general. Once Reagan realizes what SDI has become, perhaps he will use it for the best purpose it can serve: a goad to bring about the first genuine reversal...
...literalism. But Moore would allow some leeway in interpretations made by those on the S.B.C. payroll, and his followers at the meeting fumed about threats to Baptist adherence to individual interpretation of the Bible. Rogers responded that Baptists can believe what they wish, ''but those who work for us ought to reflect what the great majority of us want taught.'' The moderates intend to keep fighting on, convinced, as one put it, that ''religious dictatorship cannot halt biblical scholarship.'' Moore insists that when lay Baptists realize what is happening, ''you're going to see a sure-enough rising...