Word: oughtness
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...Interestingly Cheney, vice-president/energy czar in this supply-minded Bush Administration, declined to say what might be a fair price for a gallon of gas. "It's a market out there like anything else? I can't say that it ought to be $2 or a $1.50 or $2.50. I think the point is there is a marketplace out there that will in fact determine what the price...
...company are proposing (besides the tossed-in tax breaks for conservation) is for transmission - a national electrical grid, for better distributing the power that gets made. It'll be a tooth-and-nail fight with the kind of property-rights stalwarts that are a traditional Republican constituency, but it ought to get done, if only because a power line doesn't care what kind of power - coal, solar, wind, nuclear - it transmits...
After all, the Katz Committee should be only the first step. The University ought to solicit the opinion of the students more often, and the easiest way for it to do so is to consult an accountable council...
...paradoxically, that in his deepest heart, my friend did it because he needed confirmation of his intuition of the essential loneliness of the world. Or else, less gloomily, he operated on the principle that since the grass is always greener on the other side of the fence, maybe he ought to own territory on both sides...
...that doesn’t convince you, the rules of the game ought to be appealing to any sports fan on campus...