Word: oughtness
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...operate on an “opt-out” framework. All students should have the default option of staying in their dorm rooms from the day after the end of winter recess to the day that marks the start of spring term. Many Harvard students will want (and ought to have the option) to spend their January working on extracurricular activities on campus or at jobs and internships in the Cambridge and Boston areas—two options that would be much less feasible without guaranteed campus housing. Renting an apartment is costly and more difficult for short time...
...would build a new factory in Malibu. This type of competitive advantage is rare and extraordinarily valuable. It is completely bewildering, therefore, that networks are unable to translate it into profits, as explained in a recent article in The Economist. These are the types of businesses, after all, that ought to flourish in the economy of the future...
...with the exact same show on youku.com and tudou.com, Chinese versions of YouTube. Foreigners pine for a taste of the gold standard of entertainment and will find a way to get it. Rather than play a fruitless game of cat and mouse with a billion Chinese, networks and producers ought to harness the potential of this vast audience. Admittedly, there have been efforts to do so as recently as last year through acquisitions of international media outlets and distributors, but the efforts have been halfhearted. Our brothers in the United Kingdom—so loyal in times of war?...
...There ought to be room, especially in a time of recession and cynicism, for a form of humor that doesn't assuage but assaults. If we can get it on The Daily Show, which truly does observe and report, we ought to see it once in a while on the big screen. Comedies of the '70s turned the trick, but the people running the Hollywood laugh factory don't even try. Why'd you stop, malefactors...
...Granted, we ought not to throw out the baby with the proverbial bathwater; nobody’s suggesting that we should lack initiative. It makes sense for those who desire to be doctors to take organic chemistry or engage in lab work now, just as it makes sense for would-be writers to read novels and write for publications. Not setting strict goals, however, is much different from not working hard. Being 30-something and still living in your parents’ basement off vague dreams is not the successful result of a broad education. But to retain forever...