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...bottom falls out. The Pentium chip might as well be a buggy whip; Windows 98 a manual typewriter. As sky-high tech stocks become worthless, everything follows, and from the elite on Wall Street to the masses in mutual funds, they begin to think maybe, just maybe, they ought not take the deal...
...essay--since it is a logical deduction that can be proved by evidence. The reader will appreciate clarity and simplicity in both the thought and the vocabulary of the author of the essay. It is not that the reader is a stupid person but that he or she ought not to have to give extra thought to a statement if it might be put before him or her in a transparent fashion. Acuity of purpose, then, is the proper measure for the success of an essay's beginning...
Following the beginning of the essay is the middle of the essay, by which I refer to all of those (evenly worded) graphs which are necessary to lead the reader from one's introduction--itself requiring only a paragraph or, at most, two--to one's conclusion, which ought to be of similar length and breadth to one's introduction and ought to appear as a mirror image of its earlier self in determining exactly what was set out to prove. These middle paragraphs can be many or few, but they must be evenly numbered, and they must not confuse...
Noting that "this is the University's church," Gomes said he also consulted on the decision with Rudenstine as he "ought to on policy matters with [his] superior...
Such an incarceration would obviously be unconstitutional. I suppose somebody ought to inform the A.C.L.U. Well, maybe not the A.C.L.U. How about Amnesty International? I'll let someone else do it. I hate those squeegee guys...