Word: oughtness
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...senior I wasn't sure whether or not I ought to run for a second term," James said. "But when reviewing the job description, I realized how much I enjoyed the job and how hard it would be to give...
...malaise you harbor even as you pick up speed. And I understand it is not from laziness, nor lack of motivation, that these feelings originate. It is the events which have taken their toll on you. But you can lose their burden in me. Yours is a burden which ought not exist. It dissipates, you know...
...that you ought not fret? Take it in stride, as I do the junk discarded onto me. I will endure and outlast it. You, too, will continue onward, past burdens of the present and even those of the future. They are not pleasant, of course. But neither is your sewage, which is part of my existence...
...that there's nothing wrong with discrimination based on what a lab technician finds in a test tube of your blood. The proper lesson is that a lot of the sorting and rewarding in society works essentially the same way. And whatever upsets you about genetic testing ought to apply to matters larger than a slightly increased chance of getting colon cancer...
...they really want us to deliver first class education, they ought to do what they can to minimize the cost," says President Neil L. Rudenstine. "It's one of the smaller [national] investments that can have a big impact...