Word: oughtness
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...ought to send it back,” my roommate said, but instead—despite her limited Portuguese and the close, crabbed handwriting of the letter writer—she tried to decipher...
...ought to laud the HIPJ, HAC and PSLM for their conscientious advocacy, if they actually focused on their visions of social justice. Instead, these groups load their protests with demonizing references to the people and establishments they blame for the ills they are seeking to correct. The protests are not about the janitors, but about the avarice of Harvard administrators. They’re not about the Africans, but about Coca-Cola’s corporate greed. And they’re not about Iraqi civilians, but about Bush, who—like all Republicans—is clearly...
...Jiatai's disposable cups ought to runneth over. In 2002, says the entrepreneur from western China's Sichuan province, his private company raked in $2.5 million in sales by manufacturing paper containers for food and beverages. He has four production lines making paper cups in hangar-like buildings, and 20 young women from the countryside toil in the yard beside them, pasting labels featuring words such as "White Family Potato Noodles" onto single-serving bowls. Business has never been better. Yet Mao, like so many other owners of private companies in China, can't seem to catch a break...
...Rhetoric has eclipsed logic as politicians come down with an iron fist knowing that it will win them votes, even though they also know that a war on drug users wastes billions of dollars each year and turns hundreds of thousands of Americans into criminals when, if anything, they ought to be helped, not jailed or denied access to education...
...constant state of recruitment forcourses," said Pilbeam, adding that a "substantialchunk" of the senior faculty ought to assume theCore's heavy teaching demands...