Word: metrically
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Within the next decade, Americans will be learning a new language in their kitchens, factories, automobiles and local bars. The metric system of weights and measures, already used in nearly every other country around the world, is being slowly adopted in the U.S. Although the switch is voluntary, Congress passed a law in December 1975 that encourages all Government agencies to change to metrics over the next few years. Since liquor, food, drugs, the interstate highway system and weather forecasts are regulated by the Federal Government, few areas of everyday life will remain untouched by the conversion...
Beginning in this week's issue, TIME will try to help its readers learn the new metric language. All articles in the Science and Medicine sections will include measurements in both the International System (metric) and in standard English equivalents...
There remain nagging problems at home. Despite what appears to be a record grain crop in 1976 (about 223 million metric tons), Brezhnev was forced to announce this fall that he intends to plow $228 billion more into the farm sector in the next five years, acknowledging that this would crimp other sectors of the economy. He attacked shortcomings in efficiency and quality, and the "puny, partial improvements" in production of consumer goods, but offered little hope for improvement...
Grain Debt. The biggest borrowers are the Soviet Union ($15 billion) and Poland ($9 billion). The Russians have used the money not only to buy technology but to pay for the nearly 18 million metric tons of grain imported from the U.S. in the past two years. Poland, with the second largest population in Eastern Europe, has had the most ambitious industrialization program. Hungary too is an important debtor relative to its size. It has borrowed $3.5 billion in the West, or almost $320 for each of its 11 million people...
...apportioned 6,000 calories a day of such dishes as Macaroni Bordelais and Ham Steak Hawaii; officials are rationed to 3,000-calorie menus. The following guide, based on reports from TIME correspondents, limns the essentials of each sport and spotlights some top competitors. Events are run under the metric system: a meter is slightly more than 3 ft.; a kilometer (1,000 meters) is slightly more than six-tenths of a mile. Capsules of what and whom to watch...