Word: ought
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
What the Harvard community needs—and what we ought to be demanding of our administrators—is a systematic commitment to the rights of its workers. It is imperative that the University adopt a campus labor code of conduct if workers are to be respected in the most complete and consistent manner possible, irrespective of a worker’s visibility to students...
...don’t think people ought to spend a lot of time worrying about it, because I don’t think it’s a very high probability,” says Herman B. “Dutch” Leonard ’74, a professor at the Kennedy School of Government and the Business School whose research includes crisis management. He adds that of course security officials should be concerned, but not the general public...
...first time in China's recorded history, the Yellow dried up in patches and failed to reach the sea. Since then it has run dry so long and so often that some scientists have suggested it ought to be a considered an inland body of water, or even a seasonal phenomenon...
...1960s and growing thereafter. In 1915 [it] was really pretty minor. There were a handful of intellectuals who worried about the numbers and pressure on the environment, but the country was much more thinly settled then. The environmental movement was pretty young. We today have 300 million and ought to be asking how many Americans is best for America, and, if immigration is driving it, we better get an immigration policy that gives us the numbers we want. They had almost none of that in 1915 - it's not that they were dumb; it's that they had different problems...
...opposite. This course has been an important part of the core curriculum in Historical Studies for over two decades, and I expect it will continue to be part of any future general education curriculum. The points I did not properly make are that a wide range of historical courses ought to have a secure home in the curriculum, and to that end, it will be important to articulate a broader rationale for making study of the past part of general education. In discussion with members of the task force and other colleagues, I hope to offer such a rationale...