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Despite feminist lobbying, the panel will retain traditional male nouns, such as Lord and Father, for the Deity. "They decided not to mess with God," remarks one Methodist official. But in deference to the sensitivities of blacks, the Lord will no longer wash sinners "whiter than snow" in the hymn Have Thine Own Way, Lord. And reflecting the Methodist mood of social activism, efforts are being made to strike phrases that emphasize longing for the next world over involvement in this...
...spirits to mature, we have to make whisky so far ahead that now we are stuck with it." The surplus is not likely to be consumed soon. In the U.S., the biggest single Scotch market, the beverage is suffering from an old-fogy image. Many younger drinkers prefer lighter, whiter spirits like vodka and lighter still, white wine...
Whatever the eventual impact on attendance, viewership and product sales at this summer's Olympics, the jolt of two major-power boycotts in a row is bound to influence profoundly the Summer Games scheduled for Seoul in 1988. After the television rights to the 1988 Whiter Games in Calgary were sold to ABC for $309 million ($218 million more than its winning bid for the Sarajevo competition), some broadcast analysts speculated that the rights to the Seoul Games would take a dizzying leap toward the billion-dollar mark. Now, with only a month to go before the rights...
...making progress in Lebanon," President Reagan insisted in his State of the Union address. Maybe so, but in that embattled country, a political crisis appeared to be looming as surely as the whiter storm that whipped across the country last week...
...whiter arrives and snow blankets the mountains, the pandas will face more than tummy aches. Two have already died. In 1975-76 a similar flower-and-die disaster involving the umbrella bamboo, which is in a different growth cycle, led to the deaths by starvation of 138 animals in a panda habitat on the border of Sichuan and Gansu provinces...