Word: babeling
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...making many books there is no end." The famous wary complaint in Ecclesiastes could aptly apply to the Bible itself. For, verily, there is a Babel of Bibles. No fewer than 26 modern English translations have appeared during the past generation, beginning with the landmark Revised Standard Version of 1952. This week a major verse-by-verse overhaul of that work, sponsored by the National Council of Churches and known as the New Revised Standard Version, is being shipped to bookstores around the country. It will be used by millions of American Christians, for both private reading and public worship...
...truth on their labels in order to appeal to health-conscious shoppers. And for years consumer groups have fought for stricter labeling rules and closer monitoring of the products that claim to have special health benefits. At last someone in Washington seems to be listening. Condemning the "Tower of Babel" in the nation's grocery stores, Health and Human Services Secretary Louis Sullivan last week proposed tough new regulations that would require manufacturers to provide precise details on fat, fiber, cholesterol and other nutritional contents of their foods. Said Sullivan: "Some food labels are hard to read and understand...
...does it all add up? Where have we been, and where are we going? Listen to some expert voices atop the Tower of Babel...
...green-and-white-checked tablecloths are jammed so close together that the waiters can hardly squeeze between, and patrons find themselves knocking knees with their dinner companions. No matter. They have come from around the world -- Japan, Italy, France, Scandinavia, South America -- to savor this moment. The random babel of a hundred conversations suddenly turns into an excited murmur as a sandy-haired man in an open-necked white shirt and corduroy trousers saunters in and heads for an empty table. He nonchalantly opens a tattered case and removes, then hooks together, the sections of an antique clarinet. Peering through...
...proclaimed that the union would "insure Time Warner a place in the 1990s as one of a handful of global media giants." Declared the Chicago Tribune: "The deal creates a corporate dynamo." In Munich the daily newspaper Suddeutsche Zeitung disagreed, predicting that the union would be a "Tower of Babel." And on Wall Street, where there had not been much excitement since the contest for RJR Nabisco, investors and speculators were agog over the proposed $9.5 billion exchange of Time shares for Warner's -- the largest stock swap ever...