Word: oughtness
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...public was deceived by the Bush Administration about the reasons for the invasion of Iraq [Sept. 27]. And now our leadership is stubbornly adhering to a destructive course. Many Americans do not want our troops there. They are stuck in a quagmire largely of our government's making. There ought to be honest and compelling reasons for the risks to our service members and for the hardships imposed on their families and our communities. So far, the explanations given for the occupation of Iraq do not rise to that standard. JoAnn Sohl Palisades Park, New Jersey...
...quite possibly, the single most approachable person to ever ride the New York City subway. Just one glance in my direction assures harried tourists that I ought to be their first choice to ask the way to the Staten Island Ferry or the Museum of Natural History. The deaf mute selling the flash cards featuring basics of American Sign Language always navigates his way through a sea of commuters and right into my lap. The children selling peanut M&Ms to support their charity basketball teams never fail to encircle my seat...
...ready, are you ready?” he crooned. “Are you ready to meet Jesus? Are you where you ought to be? Will He know you when He sees you, or will He say, ‘Depart from...
MANN: We can't on one hand say we don't know how big outsourcing is but on the other say it's accelerating and therefore we ought to worry about...
...portability of health care and pensions. So if you lose your job, you don't lose everything else with it. But there is a different problem: firms do not have an incentive to, say, take people who are programmers and train them to be systems-integration network engineers. We ought to have some kind of human-capital-investment tax credit, which would subsidize, for example, cross training an IT person in another sector, like health care. It improves the match between the workers' skills and the skills that are being demanded. The nation as a whole gets a spillover benefit...