Word: oughtness
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Granted, citizenship is a hard thing to teach, and there is at least some argument to be had on whether a university such as Harvard should even try its hand at teaching it. But Eliot understood that those fortunate few who receive the benefit of a Harvard education ought to leave here able to serve as model citizens in this republic. If not them, who? Indeed, Eliot advocated going much further than the Kennedy School does today: He believed that Harvard College itself should be a school of public service, that it should hold among its most treasured ideals...
...often hidden in the shadows of more traditional rights claims, the issues raised by campaign finance reform ultimately revolve around the fundamental purpose of political participation. If they wish to demonstrate that governmental regulations can contribute to this purpose, reformers ought to make participation as deliberation, as a reflective exercise in collective autonomy, their watchword...
...care if NYNEX and Bell Atlantic want to merge, but at least they ought to have the decency to keep it to themselves. Even if I did care, of course, I wouldn't challenge the God-given right of American corporations to expend most of their energy breaking up and coming back together. This is, after all, the fabulous free-market dynamic that generates so much wealth for the executives involved, a process that must be taught in leading graduate schools of business as the Amoeba Principle...
...told my wife that maybe we ought to get rid of the rotary telephone we were renting from AT&T. Having a definition of senility hanging on the wall of your kitchen seems to me unwise under any circumstances...
...whenever the economy grows significantly above two percent because it fears inflationary pressures looming," reports Baumohl. "But it looks like we are in a new world where productivity can rise enough that the economy can grow at a healthy pace without heating up. The Federal Reserve and Wall Street ought to chill out and enjoy the good news...