Word: oughtness
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...mass. Senior White House aide George Stephanopoulos burst out laughing when, making his way through the chaos, he spotted a fuming magazine photographer being frisked by Secret Security at the front door. Said one exasperated delegate from Nevada: "Hillary Clinton would never let them do it like this. Somebody ought to be fired!" Hold on, there. Wasn't there some trouble last time somebody suggested something like that? - Janice Castro
...mass. Senior White House aide George Stephanopoulos burst out laughing when, making his way through the chaos, he spotted a fuming magazine photographer being frisked by Secret Security at the front door. Said one exasperated delegate from Nevada: "Hillary Clinton would never let them do it like this. Somebody ought to be fired!" Hold on, there. Wasn't there some trouble last time somebody suggested something like that? - Janice Castro
They had come to see whether the Flatbush branch of the Brooklyn Public Library ought to share in a $3 million grant that would wire it to the Internet. Donald Kaplan, who works for the library system, recalls that the emissaries from Redmond, Washington, were dubious: "One of them asked, 'Will this be like the movie The Gods Must Be Crazy, where a Coke bottle falls out of the sky and no one knows what to do with it?'" Kaplan shrugged off the gibe, saying, "No, it'll be like the movie Field of Dreams--build it, and they will...
...question ought not to be: Why do the greatest hitters connect successfully only a third of the time? It ought to be: How do they...
...executives were scheduled to meet with the President at the White House to discuss ways to improve educational TV shows for children. Series like Kratts' Creatures and the equally inventive Bill Nye the Science Guy on PBS stand out as models of the stylishly energetic kind of programming TV ought to be aiming...