No. 309: "Lost in Translation"
" 'EIN Nod: Bodlonrwydd Llwyr I Gwsmeriaid' is not the snappiest slogan to those who speak no Welsh. Yet the banner inside General Electric's aero-engine servicing department in South Wales--'_____________'--is a fair approximation of what GE has been up to in Nantgarw since it bought the business from British Airways in 1991."Fill in the blank in this lead from the Economist by translating that slogan from Welsh to English. (Question courtesy of Andrew Solovay.)
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Wednesday's Question (No. 308)--"Praise With Faint Damns":
According to remarks made Tuesday, it is characterized "by greed and lust for power, by hot-blooded hatreds, and stone-cold hearts." Who was describing what?
"Janet Maslin, both Hollywood and the New York Times."--Matt Sullivan (Ann Gavaghan had a similar answer.)
"Leonard Stern spotlights the selling points of the Village Voice."--Daniel Radosh
"Anyone describing Pat Buchanan's new book."--John Tyrrell
"Everyone, high school."--Noah Meyerson
"Frankly, I think the Jamaican Tourist Board should go back to that old 'Come Back to Jamaica' slogan."--Tim Carvell
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