Word: oughtness
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...hastily called news conference outside Detroit, GM's pugnacious vice chairman Harry Pearce pronounced himself "annoyed, seriously annoyed" that archrival Ford was positioning itself as "somehow the environmental leader." The debate, he declared, ought to be "intellectually honest...GM leads Ford today in truck fuel economy, both on average and on a model-by-model basis, including SUVs. General Motors will still be the leader in five years, or 10 years, or for that matter 20 years. End of story...
...this production is a respectable introduction to Williams text for those unfamiliar with the play, and a chance for others to revisit a memory or two. In either case, HRSTs Streetcar provides an unknowing example of the difference between the truth and, as Blanche puts it, what ought to be the truth...
...think there are some times that the public ought to have the right to consider execution as a punishment," he said...
...preliminary reading, approved legislation calling for early elections, thus putting it on the agenda for a full vote. While the vote came immediately before the Israeli legislature moved into recess, a petition by a majority of legislators - 61 - can force it to reconvene to debate legislation. Barak ought to be concerned, then, that the bill calling for new elections passed with 61 votes...
...before we go proclaiming the GOP victors in the foreign policy beauty contest, we ought to consider their own record. President Clinton might have pioneered a dysfunctional and dangerous cruise-missile diplomacy, but he's never matched the cynicism and pure "Dr. Strangelove" nuttiness of President Reagan's invasion of Grenada. That from the same administration that gave us Iran-Contra and shipped Stinger missiles to the likes of Osama Bin Laden back in the '80s simply because they were fighting the Soviets. And it was the Bush administration, after all, that not only stood back when...