Word: metrics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Last week Commerce Secretary Maurice Stans sent Congress a 188-page report suggesting that the U.S. at last forsake bushels, pecks, inches, feet, ounces, pounds and furlongs in favor of the metric system used by more than 90% of the earth's population...
...nation's industrial equipment to the new measure. Conversion, according to a Stans aide, should increase American exports by $1 billion or $2 billion a year. Under the Constitution, only Congress can set a national system of weights and measures. It is not very auspicious that the metric system, adopted in France around 1800, was first urged on the U.S. Congress by Jefferson...
...them all, he remains the purest, the most loyal to where he has been and what it has cost him. Muddy's brand of Delta blues is supposed to follow the traditional twelve-bar structure, but as often as not uses eleven or 13 bars. Despite its metric uncertainty, it is a two-beat, shuffling kind of music that seems to have been drilled into the central nervous systems of Muddy and his six sidemen...
...peers when it came to observing human foibles with a kind of wry delight, and he was undoubted master of the unique form that he devised: the line that runs on and on, metric foot after metric foot, only to snap to an end with an outrageously contrived rhyme that usually manages to contain a real groaner of a pun. When Ogden Nash died of heart failure last week at 68 in Baltimore's Johns Hopkins Hospital, he left an affectionate and inventive verbal legacy. Said his friend and editor Ned Bradford of Little, Brown: "He reflected...
...crop destruction program is widespread, that cases like that of the Song Re valley are not exceptions, and that the Montagnard people are being systematically destroyed. In Quang Nai and Quang Tin provinces, the food scheduled for destruction in 1970-71 was estimated for the Commission at 14,575 metric tons. That is enough to sustain around 50-70,000 people for a year. The targeted areas of those two provinces are the upland regions where the Montagnards live. The total Montagnard population of those two provinces is just under...