Word: metrics
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Remember back in 1975 when your grade school teacher said that in 10 years all Americans would be using the metric system. Well, the nation is just a few months away from the government's projected completed conversion date of January 1985 and supermarkets are still selling milk by the gallon...
...think you'll agree, that the consumer has probably almost lost sight of metric," says Gerald T. Underwood, director of the Commerce Department's Office of Metric Programs, "But, I think you'll find that manufacturers who are exporting good are very much concerned and involved...
Sakharov's article, "Cosmological Transitions with Alteration of the Metric Signature," is an attempt to postulate the existence of more than one time dimension in the physical universe. Friends of Sakharov believe the work is genuine and that it was submitted last March, six weeks before the physicist began his hunger strike. The piece ends with a poignant acknowledgment: "I thank my wife, Yelena Bonner, for her help." The remark intrigued Western diplomats in "Moscow. "It's a nice touch, but I don't think it means she is being rehabilitated," said one. Noted another...
...raise production, the government increased the prices it pays for their grain. Nonetheless, Soviet authorities say they are preparing for another disappointing grain harvest. Trade officials in Moscow told a delegation from Western Europe earlier this summer that this year's estimated yield could fall roughly 10 million metric tons below last year's total of 190 million...
...possibilities are as volatile as the chemicals. As landfills close and air-pollution rules stiffen, the U.S. continues to produce some 275 million metric tons of poisonous wastes each year, and millions of metric tons still await disposal. Concerned citizens across the nation, although they agree that hazardous materials should be disposed of somewhere, answer Ruckelshaus' reasoning with the acronym NIMBY: Not in My Backyard...