Word: proof
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...well as sloppy inspections by the regulatory agency. No fewer than 16 airlines, including People Express and Alaska Airlines, were forced to cut back operations briefly after an industry-wide check last spring, and 172 pilots were temporarily grounded. Among the problems cited were undertrained mechanics and lack of proof that certain pilots were qualified to fly the aircraft they were operating...
Humana offers proof that health is a sound investment...
Selection itself is no proof of bias, it is merely a necessity: the millions of words a newspaper receives must be reduced to the thousands it prints; hours of tape must be fitted to the time constraint of a half-hour news program. The bias, if there is one, is less apt to be in ideology than in choosing what will most interest the audience or document the thesis the journalist has found in the material...
...doubt many consumers have been worried by a seemingly endless string of bad-news headlines about their banks. Says Val Adams, a marketing executive in Chicago: "The failures are just more proof that they don't know what they're doing, and that's kind of scary. I don't mean I'm going to take my money out and put it under my mattress, but I am concerned." Last week BankAmerica and First Chicago, two of the nation's largest institutions, said they were considering selling their landmark headquarters buildings. Reason: both banks...
Jack LaLanne built his brawny business of spas and health products by preaching that "anything is possible through mind and body conditioning." Last week, to celebrate his 70th birthday in Long Beach, Calif., he put on what must be the definitive proof of the power of positive thinking. As a crowd of onlookers sang Row, Row, Row Your Boat, LaLanne, with his hands and feet bound, swam a mile through the city's harbor while towing 70 rowboats, each with at least one person inside. The feat took 2½ hours, but the triumphant human tug emerged from...