Word: metrically
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...response to the specter of hunger in many parts of the globe, the Democratic Congress last summer authorized the Republican Administration to make 4.5 million metric tons of U.S. food available to the world's undernourished millions. Yet despite the clear urgency of the need, so far only about one-third of the food has been shipped in the $1.5 billion program, which ends on July 1. It seems a case of Samaritanism at an all too deliberate speed...
...Metric Modulation. Carter is most famous, perhaps, for developing what has come to be known as metric modulation. This is a means of precise note writing that, for example, enables some players in an ensemble to speed up, others to slow down, and still allows all to end up together...
...Metric modulation can bring about astonishing departures in sonic texture and rhythm...
...modern technology to the Middle East. Now a small U.S. outfit has uncovered a rich Arab market for a somewhat less strategic item: cow manure. RJB Sales Export Inc. of Sequim, Wash., has contracted with the Persian Gulf sheikdoms of Dubai and Bahrain to provide at least 50,000 metric tons of liquefied cow manure each month for three years. Total sales could reach $1.2 billion...
...example, unless the U.S. adopts an expanded program, American aid this year will drop 50% in some categories. Sales of food are also shrinking. Argentina, Brazil, Thailand, Burma and the Common Market nations have restricted food exports. Several weeks ago, President Ford blocked the sale of some 10 million metric tons of grain to the Soviets and is permitting them to buy scarcely one-fifth of that amount. Ford feared that massive sales to the Soviet Union could inflate food prices...