Word: oughtness
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...group are at a crossroads right now. The system that produces them has matured. The proof is that Mandarins hold the White House. They have not, however, been able to generate a wide consensus around themselves as leaders, a general acceptance of them as a group that ought to be in charge--even though they've spent years being carefully, expensively trained for leadership roles. Almost the opposite of what was planned for the Mandarins has happened: the consensus is that they shouldn't be in charge. The Episcopacy, a much more elitist and less fairly chosen group...
This flexibility makes the bell tower a bit more accessible than it perhaps ought...
...mention Buchanan's name, but instead attacked his ideas -- "extreme views about women, extreme views about maybe giving nuclear weapons to Japan or Taiwan or South Korea." Dole coyly said that no one should feel threatened by his criticism "unless they feel women are somehow inferior or that we ought to expand rather than contract the availability of nuclear weapons...
...even have to like me, but you ought to vote for me anyway...
...called for a national dialogue on how fast the economy can safely grow. "Nobody, but nobody, knows for sure that this economy can't grow any faster in the information age that it did between 1970 and 1995," he said at a New York fundraiser last week. "It ought to be debated within a commitment not to let inflation get out of hand." By appointing Rivlin, he hopes to create encourage that dialogue on the Fed. Unlike investment banker Felix Rohatyn, who withdrew his name from Fed consideration under heavy criticism of his economic philosophies from Senate Republicans, "Rivlin should...