Word: ought
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...students are here to learn from each other, and the structures are all open--all students live together, eat together and sit in class together," Rudenstine said on Friday. "The structure, symbolism and message of the institution is that we all ought to get to know one another...
What really gets Turek roiled is that many of these sensational claims are being made by doctors and scientists who ought to know better. So last week he took aim at those colleagues in the research journal Nature. "There has always been, and probably always will be, public enthusiasm for quick snake-oil cures to complex problems," Turek wrote. But some melatonin researchers, he added, have stepped over "the truth-in-advertisement line by exaggerating the significance of a few selected studies to the point where the public receives an unbalanced and potentially dangerous view of the present state...
...business of Cambridge from transpiring in a democratic manner, and may soon prevent it from transpiring at all. Cambridge residents worry along with former mayor Reeves that the School Committee will become impotent from inactivity. If the council chooses to elect Frank Duehay as the next mayor, then it ought to get itself together and officially invest him with the office instead of allowing him to hold power without title. We believe that city business needs to be guided by a strong and caring voice, such as that supplied by former mayor Reeves. The council should overcome its divided history...
...First Bill Clinton distanced himself from Congressional elections, telling the Washington Post today that he would not be campaigning as energetically for Democratic congressional candidates as he would for his own re-election: "The American people don't think it's the President's business to tell them what ought to happen in the congressional elections." But after Ron Wyden gave Democracts the biggest lift they've had in two years, Clinton's spokesman Mike McCurry put the President back in the fray. "He will campaign early and often with Democratic candidates and he's going to elect a whole...
...what exactly is the fuss? By now we ought to be used to the tired old rituals of campaign populism, in which the candidates don windbreakers and stage photo-ops with obliging factory hands before rushing back to the $1,000-a-plate fund-raising dinners where they commiserate with the big-money guys about those pesky "labor costs" and the need to accelerate the upward redistribution of wealth...