Word: metrication
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...theory" that only forward movement can prevent collapse, U.S. Trade Representative William Brock insisted that new reductions in trade barriers were essential, and pushed aggressively for major reductions in the European Community's agricultural export subsidies. Brock even threatened to start a trade war by dumping 200,000 metric tons of butter on the world market in an effort to undercut European prices. Angry Western European ministers called for scrutiny of the U.S.'s multibillion-dollar farm programs. Said Denmark's Foreign Minister Uffe Ellemann-Jensen: the U.S. is "trying to get us to give...
Last week American officials confirmed in talks with the Soviets in Vienna that the U.S. stands ready to sell them a whopping 23 million metric tons of grain in the current fiscal year. Moscow bought 13.7 million tons during fiscal...
...argument will keep heating up until the voters actually stream into the polling booths. Making full use of a President's prerogatives, Reagan last week offered the Soviet Union a deal under which the U.S. would ship to the U.S.S.R. up to 23 million metric tons of grain in the year starting Oct. 1 vs. 6 million to 8 million tons that the Soviets are now committed to buy. The move was calculated to please farmers who have been badly hurt by the recession. He also signed a $3.8 billion job-training bill. Whether such efforts can offset...
...dearth of the highly prized game fish in Scottish rivers follows a decade-long decline in the total salmon catch of Scotland's sport and commercial fishermen. Between 1972 and 1976, the average annual haul was 1,571 metric tons (a metric ton is 2,205 lbs.), but in the five years ending in 1981, it fell to 1,184 metric tons. In Scotland, where laws concerning salmon fishing date from 1030, the decline is viewed as a national affront. Says Sir Andrew Gilchrist, former chairman of the Highlands and Islands Development Board: "The culmination of increasingly bad years...
...Farmers believe that the U.S. could easily sell Moscow as much as 23 million tons over the next year. The U.S.S.R. has just suffered its fourth bad harvest in a row; the U.S. Agriculture Department estimates that this year's Soviet crop will be a disappointing 170 million metric tons, 68 million tons below the goal. The department also predicts that the Soviets will be forced to import 46 million tons this year, at a cost of $6 billion...