Word: validated
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...supposed risks, since our business relies on bringing people to their destination happy and healthy," says Véronique Brachet, a spokeswoman for Air France. Other industry experts point to an absence of conclusive medical links between flying and dying, or even getting sick. "There is no scientifically valid evidence that the cabin environment in commercial aircraft is unhealthful," says Dr. Russell Rayman, executive director of the Aerospace Medical Association. Still, enough questions have arisen that regulatory authorities are starting to look into the matter. And even if there is not enough scientific proof to fundamentally alter the way airlines...
...such contentions valid? In this age of unprecedented economic success the idea that money talks is both an attractive prospect (for those looking to get it) and a foregone conclusion (for those who have it already). But is it really a system of values which we would like to apply indiscriminately in the political arena...
...total number of minutes in a day. Not only is every second filled with activity, but each is occupied with the accomplishment of several actions simultaneously. Economist Juliet Schor claimed in her 1991 book The Overworked American that people have an extra month of work. Gleick makes the valid argument that this month of new work comes from our filling our newly acquired free time with more work. People have become victims of some "mania," using their saved seconds and minutes to attempt a great deal more activity, contributing to the popular idea that busyness is equivalent to vitality...
...leaving himself open to that valid half of the Democratic argument ("Now there are real facts out there and the economic plan to me is not meeting the needs that are out there," Dick Gephardt declared Tuesday), he's giving unnecessary weight to the other half - that Bush is causing this "sputtering" himself...
...Eminem verbally, they, like Eminem, are expressing their right to free speech, but when they advocate the rescinding of Eminem's Grammy nominations or urge the withdrawal of MTV's network endorsement of Eminem, they are restricting his freedom of expression. The agenda of the groups is no more valid in the eyes of the First Amendment than Eminem...