Word: oughtness
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...Republicans have one sure thing, it ought to be Texas. In Bush country they hold all 27 statewide offices. It has been nearly 30 years since a Democrat has won an open Senate seat. When three-term Senator Phil Gramm announced his retirement last year, who thought Republicans didn't have a lock on his replacement? Just to make sure, the President's political strategist, Karl Rove, mineswept the primary field to ensure that attorney general John Cornyn, a stately, snowy-haired vote getter with a huge political bankroll, would have a straight shot...
...never envisioned the purpose of life as taking a piece of metal and pushing it toward a hole. People ought to be pushing children out of poverty...
Nevertheless, its overseas expansion isn't likely to be a cakewalk. Krispy Kreme must avoid the mentality of "We like it in America, so you ought to like it too," says John Stanton, a food-industry expert at St. Joseph's University in Philadelphia. "If it tries to force the American doughnut down the throats of Europeans, it will fail." Stanton argues that Krispy Kreme should market its treats not merely as a fast food, but also as "getting a little bit of Americana." And while the local press in the U.S. eat up Krispy Kreme store-opening stories, European...
...There’s something awfully sympathetic about that context and that we ought to at least be able to see what the government has mandated be censored,” Hansen said...
...bathe in public. This inclination has thus far failed to attract much attention because I live in Japan. Here, hot-springs hopping is a national obsession enjoyed by wrinkled elders and stylish college girls alike. Foreign visitors often resist getting naked with strangers, but the transpacific flight alone ought to convince you. What better way to ease your aching joints than with a good long soak...