But then the last man who ought to point that finger is always the one who does.
"The work that we've done over the last decade really ought to give us a better result than the peril that our crews and passengers faced on Christmas, " Delta CEO Richard Anderson said Thursday in a recorded message to employees.
After all, shoplifters would get short shrift for arguing that they really like bananas and paid for some last week, so ought therefore to be allowed to help themselves today.
Mr. GINGRICH: I would simply suggest that that ought to be the last step taken, rather than the first, and that insisting on a set of reforms ought to be the precedent.
In theory, an easing of tensions along East Asia's last cold-war frontier ought to benefit all.
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But if Meister can do for Ralcorp what he did for AboveNet last winter, investors really ought to be a whole lot more excited than this stock chart indicates.
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With that off Clydesdale's mind and books, this year's first ever loss ought to be its last.
I've spent a lot of time over the last few years wondering if I ought to be alive, because the media constantly tells me that (by living on disability benefits), I'm a drain on the state, a financial burden.
That was, no doubt, the argument he put to Israel's leaders, and it was no accident that he said he agreed with the Israeli prime minister that "any kind of military action ought to be the last alternative, not the first".
In principle, last year's rule changes ought to mean that the avoidance of odd sixteenths is not as troubling as was the avoidance of odd eighths, because market makers can no longer deny investors access to the better prices that might be available on electronic trading systems.
In theory, even a slight risk of redenomination ought to justify taking every last euro out of the bank, whether stashing it under the mattress or abroad.
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John McCain, who ought to know better, was accused of an arcane but serious violation last year.
Well, an economist of Prof McWilliam's calibre ought to have noticed that reference to "Third World" countries was so last century.
The return of higher interest rates ought to be taken as another sign that Japan's economy is at last getting healthy again.
An egregious example was a late Rembrandt portrait from Vienna, which ought not to have travelled, but which was shown at the National Gallery in London last year.
Further, my budget from last year proposed that if a company with lots of unpaid taxes receives a federal contract, the government ought to be able to pay taxpayers back in full before it's required to pay the contractors themselves.
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