Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always
do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain
Paul Trusten, Registered Pharmacist
Vice President and Public Relations Director
U.S. Metric Association, Inc.
Midland,
2014 Jan 8
Dear Mr. Waldman,
It was good to talk with you yesterday. I hope you
can inform me (and the metric community) about why the US
has not finished removing use of inch-pound units from
every day life and from all manufacturing as well as
Dear Robert,
Im glad that you had the opportunity to speak with Cliff Waldman, the
Council Director and Senior Economist of the Manufacturers Alliance for
Productivity and Innovation (MAPI), yesterday.
Hopefully he was receptive to your points in that conversation. It would
be very nice to
Dear Jim:
John Frewen-Lord here, and, as you may already know, new chairman of the
UKMA.
In the last few weeks I have sent out letters to many organisations in the
UK, some similar to the MAPI (e.g. Confederation of British Industry), the
EEF (a manufacturer's association) as well as our
Best of luck in your endeavors over there, John! Not a week ago, I wrote
a letter to The Economist gently taking them to task for omitting the
spaces between numbers and unit symbols. I encouraged them to follow
the rules, which I cited and documented with an SI Brochure online
link. And of
