Word: oughtness
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...Vajpayee and Musharraf ought to be able to do business together. Both are the moderate face of their hard-line constituencies and liberals in their private lives. Together, they control two of the world's seven declared nuclear arsenals. And each came to power proclaiming the same grand ambition: to bring peace to a subcontinent torn by futile hostility since it was partitioned into a mainly Hindu country and a mainly Muslim...
...important issue is what the new government in Afghanistan will do and how it will affect the future of that country. These subjects are of interest not only to the Afghans but also to those in the Middle East and the rest of the world. The new Afghan government ought to be against all radical Islamic activities. Its goal should be to achieve long-term peace. SULEYMAN ZORAL Izmir, Turkey...
...sense that not all his ventures, such as the infamous CD, are going to be of a no-nonsense nature. Though West’s support of the Rev. Al Sharpton’s presidential campaign may understandably face debate or criticism, as citizens of a democratic nation, we ought not tolerate a rebuke of his political stance. Finally, to be angry over a professor publishing a work which, the Boston Globe paraphrased Summers as saying, “is more likely to be reviewed in The New York Times than in academic journals,” seems analogous...
Though it was often cast in terms of moral responsibility versus corporate greed, the wage debate was never over whether Harvard should be a moral employer. Of course Harvard ought to do what it ought to do; that’s a tautology, and no great moral truth. Rather, the debate was over which business practices are morally acceptable, and no one who might have disagreed with the HCECP’s conclusions will be convinced by their halfhearted justification. The committee was charged to debate “the principles and policies that should guide the University?...
...radioactive slag--from spent fuel rods to medical waste and contaminated tools--much of it held under little if any security in labs, hospitals and factories. Even the high-test weapons-grade material that's supposed to be locked down at military installations is not as secure as it ought to be. Some weapons-storage facilities don't even have video monitors...