Word: babeling
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...have trouble decoding the King James Version, and 70% of teenagers in a typical week do not even bother to try, according to Barna Research Group, a religious polling firm. So religious publishers, eager to expand a $400 million Bible industry, are out peddling niche-oriented Bibles in a Babel of new interpretations and formats -- or, to paraphrase Shakespeare, quoting Scripture for their own purposes. "In a Baskin-Robbins % society, people don't want chocolate or vanilla. They want a special flavor that really suits their needs," says Bill Anderson, president of the Christian Booksellers Association...
...Saturday nights, as many as 300 young women line the margins of E55, a Czech highway near the German border. Their costumes vary: light frocks, skimpy red dresses, glow-in-the-dark Spandex pants. They speak a babel of languages: Czech, Romanian, Bulgarian, Hungarian, German. But they have only one thing to sell...
...When the babel died down, some observers thought the task force seemed quite taken with price controls. Hillary's deputy, Ira Magaziner, agreed. Controls might be problematic, he said, but huge yearly cost gains were "not a pleasant reality either." Perhaps mulling such choices, the Administration later hinted that its May 3 deadline for the finished plan might be pushed back...
...chips to cans of soup. This boon to the consumer doesn't come cheap. By May of 1994, more than 270,000 food labels must be changed, costing the industry about $2 billion. But, it will be worth the trouble, says HHS Secretary Dr. Louis Sullivan, "The Tower of Babel in food labels has come down, and American consumers are the winners." Still, the new labeling system won't tell shoppers how to create a healthy diet. That's one thing they will have to figure out for themselves...
...Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show -- a dinner theater where you eat chili and spareribs while watching Annie Oakley fire at cowbells that play La Marseillaise -- the host tells his auditors, "If yer hungry, let me hear you shout, 'Nous avez faim!' " But there can be charm in Babel when the tower has such comely flying buttresses, and when the 12,000 villagers (i.e., cast members) are so eager to please. Where else will you hear a pretty attendant chirp "Bon appetit!" as she hands you a box of sugared popcorn...