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Even the metrically untutored do not blink when doctors prescribe 500 mg (milligrams) of antibiotics or electricians recommend 15 A (ampere) fuses. Yet just as they have resisted learning foreign languages, Americans have long balked at changing measures. Says David Gorin, president of the nonprofit American National Metric Council: "The problem has deep roots. It goes back to a time when our economy was dominant and whatever we made was the biggest and best...
Under the terms of the motion, the president would recommend to the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at a meeting on May 9 that it establish a faculty/student committee to review the tenure process at Tufts...
...rescue seem any closer for the beleaguered MX missile, a prime object of congressional skepticism and budget cutting. A blue-ribbon bipartisan presidential commission headed by Brent Scowcroft, who was National Security Adviser to President Gerald Ford, is expected to recommend this week that production and deployment of the MX proceed. But Congressmen briefed on the commission's report predicted a tough fight with no assurance that the President will win. The only slight relief the White House could find in the reaction to the MX was a decision by the nation's Roman Catholic bishops to revise...
These lessons were especially helpful, Melendez said, because. "The problems we face now are how to stay on our feet," adding that he and Lyss thought the conference accomplished what it set out to do and that they would "recommend that the Council become permanently affiliated...
...Faculty Council--the Faculty's executive steering committee--voted to recommend to the full Faculty adoption of the general principles, which set down on paper for the first time the University's position on the controversial topic of "technology transfer...