Word: stoically
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...Federal Express and all the other businesses that need planes and airports in order to do their work. Millions of jobs depend on aviation. The general public requires the convenience of air travel (though it is often inconvenient), and we are still, for the most part, passive and stoical about the price paid by everyone in noise and other forms of pollution. Most people regard noise - plane noise, truck noise, city noise, siren noise, car alarm noise, and so on - as a fact of life, at least until it becomes continuous and intolerable, which, for many people, it already...