Word: oughtness
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...hand, this entails a willingness to engage in dialogue with other organizations, but, on the other hand, and perhaps more importantly, this entails a willingness to permit dialogue within the walls of an organization itself. Indeed, organizations that are officially recognized, and oftentimes funded, by the University ought to allow students to become active members regardless of whether their beliefs are consistent with the dominant ideology espoused by the group. The College Democrats may not agree with individuals who espouse Republican beliefs just as Harvard Right to Life may not agree with students who are pro-choice...
...good news for Boston viewers is that things can only get better, and the good news for Boston's newscasts is that improvements will likely only augment their Nielsen showings, which of late have not been particularly rosy for WCVB and WBZ. The question is exactly how the stations ought to go about making improvements...
...Ronald Nutt and physicist David Townsend, working at the University of Geneva in Switzerland, had just taken the cover off their newly developed metabolic-imaging machine and were admiring its innards when an oncology surgeon happened by. "You have a lot of space between those detectors," he offered. "You ought to try to put something in there that would be useful...
...little machine in West Lebanon is known as a powder metallurgy press, and to most manufacturers, there ought to be nothing especially new about it. Powder presses have been around for 70 years, stamping out everything from truck-motor parts to medical equipment. Remarkably common though they are, these machines are remarkably crude. Most powder presses are great, loud, chugging things, about the size and shape of a tractor trailer and demanding the ministrations of at least 200 people to keep them running through a workweek. Retooling the presses to switch from making one component to another can take days...
...machine this elegant ought to have come from the R.-and-D. wing of a Honeywell or a John Deere or an IBM. Instead, it sprang from the imagination of a team of local inventors who might be among the most important industrial visionaries since Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak first took to their workbenches. While the machine the West Lebanon inventors are giving the world is not quite the personal computer, it could become to 21st century manufacturers what the cotton gin was to the farmer or the loom to the miller. "If these guys have the materials...