Word: oughtness
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...just can't find people," gripes Alessandro Ponti, head of Zetesis, an Internet services company in northern Italy. (Those laid-off workers in Silicon Valley might consider sending their résumés to Milan.) With more Europeans working and making more money, internal consumer demand ought to help offset the weakness in exports...
Explaining this discrepancy isn't all that the study has accomplished. By helping establish a universal neurological basis for dyslexia, the scientists make it clear that teachers ought to think twice before they dismiss the reality of a child's dyslexia. This, sad to say, still happens all too often more than a century after the disorder was first identified...
...Greenspan thinks they ought to make do with what he gave them - a third straight 50-point cut, the most he's ever provided in so short a time. With the economy admittedly teetering but not yet falling on its face, Greenspan has made it clear that he thinks a firm but gradualist easing is enough until the Main Street news gets worse...
...them. These people are college professors; they ought to be interested in teaching freshman," Fleming says...
Heraclitus's second most famous saying (after, "You can't step in the same river twice") is, "The way up and the way down are the same." Every public figure in America ought to have this taped to the bathroom mirror. The mysterious philosopher wrote the line 2,500 years ago, but he might as well have been talking about, say, Alan Greenspan...