Word: oughtness
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...that political survival means always having to say you're sorry. Pressed by Sacramento's KOVR 13-TV for some moist act of contrition to constituents who feel "betrayed," Condit bit back. "If I have hurt or offended anyone, I certainly would apologize," he said. "But I think you ought to take some responsibility in the media for all the misinformation that you guys have put out there...because you didn't set a standard for yourself. Actually, I would like to see you guys apologize to the people for doing that...
...sure that'll be the case. They'll claim the weather as an excuse. But in fact, this is what ought to be done: Put the operation on hold until next May. Do a serious professional expert brainstorming to assess the situation. Use the winter to prepare, and then raise the Kursk and try to give honest answers to all the painful questions. Instead, they're going ahead with this rigmarole, wasting so much money...
...lawyers to weigh their obligations to clients against their larger duty to society. Read between the lines, and you have an implicit acknowledgment that lawyers could do something to improve their image. "There's been a recognition, particularly when there's a danger to life and limb, that lawyers ought not to be legalistic," says Nancy Moore, a Boston University professor of law who helped draft the proposed new rules...
Alice, on the other hand, shares a sixth-floor apartment (sans elevator) with five other young women in one of the bruising concrete blocks that industrial Chinese cities ought to trademark. They enter into a room with a table, to which they pull over plastic stools when they want to eat. Their “kitchen,” if it could be called that, has a sink and a burner or two. The six of them sleep on bunks spread between two rooms. They don’t have much in the way of closets or drawers for storage...
Last December Ericsson's top brass threw a 50th-birthday dinner for Marks at the tony Stallmastaregarden restaurant in Stockholm. While thanking his hosts and lauding their partnership, Marks launched into a bold new pitch: What Ericsson really ought to do, he said, was jettison all its mobile-phone operations. The next morning he made a formal proposal. Ten days later, Ericsson agreed to get out of the cell phone-manufacturing business. "It turns out that, increasingly, companies want not just a supplier but someone to run a part of their business for them," says Marks. "The Ericsson deal...