Word: oughtness
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...venture capitalists, the moneymen who she believes are responsible for most dotcom failures. She thinks they push sites into an early grave by forcing them to become too big, too fast. "I've been burned by the culture of stupid growth that VCs have fostered," she says. "Some businesses ought to grow organically. You can't just add water and expect to compete in the mass market...
...basic moral intuition about what's right and wrong. What I provide for people is argument and support. I cannot tell you how many women have said my pounding on about how the first priority in their lives ought to be the child has helped them. That pounding was met by some negativity at first, but now people say their lives are just elevated by doing what seems so simple but is counter to what's going on in society...
...centers focus on particular racial, ethnic or sexual minorities. The library's mission statement declares that the Main Library is dedicated to promoting "the joys of reading for our diverse community," but the centers interpret that diversity in the most literal sense. A "center" for black readers ought to contain more than books on race; a gay man or woman might have interests beyond k.d. lang's life story...
...services, tourist spending, investment flows--jumped more than 50% in 1999 to almost $339 billion. This year it seems headed higher still, to around $400 billion. In theory that creates an excessive supply of dollars in the world. Like an excessive supply of wheat or anything else, that ought to drive down the international price of a buck...
...innate strength of the U.S. economy and the vigor of American productivity ought to prevent that circle from starting, and keep the dollar at least relatively strong for a long time to come. But as the dollar pessimists of 1998 have discovered, exchange markets are so volatile that any prediction at all about what they may do should be made with crossed fingers and accompanied by repeated knocks on wood...