Word: oughtness
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...part of this is a government deal, and that part is precisely what Presidents are charged with addressing. It is in this transition form family values to famly policy that the politicians stumble. "Now I want to make it clear we shouldn't stigmatize these babies," added Clinton. "We ought to love the babies. We ought to love the parents. We ought to give them the best future we can." Nice sentiments, and obviously sincere. But when government gives "the best future" -- welfare and health care, then training and guaranteed jobs -- to those doing things Clinton calls disastrous and wrong...
...Carlock ought to be a leader here--if he wants to take women he has to make it happen," he says...
...There was a lack of confidence as to what we ought to do," Fox said...
...does seem healthy that a book such as Murray's can be published despite the prevailing American compulsion to avoid taboo topics. And Murray should be commended for his call to restore the traditional ideal of the scholar as someone who ought to "find the truth and disclose it." An inevitable result is that certain truths might prove disturbing to conventional wisdom...
There was a feeling that by the Law of Averages, if nothing else, Harvard ought to score soon...