Word: oughtness
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...There's a natural concern among pharmaceutical manufacturers that allowing AIDS drugs to become available in Africa at a fraction of the price charged in the U.S. might prompt patients (and even governments) in the industrialized world to begin asking why they ought to continue paying the higher price. Or worse still, that those Brazilian or Indian companies who undercut them in Africa may decide to challenge the pharmaceutical giants in other markets, even in their own backyards...
...high school student. Instantly it becomes clear what the tests measure: learning. There is a clear incentive to study the course material in school, rather than try to learn test-taking tricks. Parents and the general public have a way of measuring the quality of high school education, which ought to be a step on the road to making schools better. Scores will register in the mind as a record of accomplishment, not intelligence...
...fights ought not be taken as proof that national standards are unworkable. National standards serve a much more ambitious cause than the sats, and also a nobler one - not identifying a few very smart students regardless of background, Cinderella style, but trying to ensure that all students reliably acquire basic educational skills and therefore a meaningful chance in life...
...Auden once defined poetry as news that stays news. The implication is that we're all in the business of the ephemeral. And we are. But that doesn't mean we ought not try to cover news that stays news, and by that I don't mean poetry but stories that concern people at the Piggly Wiggly, stories that have real meaning for the way people live their lives. And some of them may even come from Washington...
...than the consumer groups. Maurizio Sella, chairman of abi, the Italian bankers' association, calls the amended law "unacceptable" because it interferes with the free market. But he is grateful that the decree at least recognizes that a mortgage that is in conformance with the law when it is made ought to remain legal. "If this point isn't clearly upheld, Italian banks may well stop offering fixed-rate mortgages," he predicts...