Word: metrication
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...January, Pérez's government also nationalized the rich iron ore industry, which had been controlled by U.S. Steel and Bethlehem Steel. Last year Venezuela produced more than 26 million metric tons of ore, almost all for export. Venezuela's grand plan is to use much of its oil income to build a huge steel industry that will exploit its iron ore and great sources of hydroelectric power. Deep in the backlands on the Orinoco River, more than 200,000 people have already clustered in the government run, iron-and-steel community of Ciudad Guayana, where international...
...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...