Yes unfortunately Reagan abolished it in 1982. Among other stupid things he
attempted to do was to get rid of Amtrak in 1985, the nation's only
passenger rail service. I barely sleeped a wink.
Glad Amtrak is still around.
I remember a bumper sticker that says "Real men don't eat jellybeans"!!!
alfred
-----Original Message-----
From: eddie lechat [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2001 12:10 PM
To: U.S. Metric Association
Subject: [USMA:13468] Re: Thanks, Eddie!
Has the metric board (which was in existence back
during Carter) been abolished?
--- "Joseph B. Reid" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> In USMA 12413 Eddie Lechat asked:
>
> >I would like to have somebody share with us some
> >proposed resolution in favor of metrication which
> we
> >might bring to various scientific and political and
> >civic and business and labor groups.
>
>
> I have searched my archives to find a resolution
> that the Canadian
> Information Processing Society adopted in 1968
> urging the Canadian
> government to switch the country to SI.
> Unfortunately I have been able to
> find, so here is how I would word a resolution
> today;
>
> OBSERVING that 95 % of the world's population uses
> the International System
> of Units (SI) for all measurements;
>
> AND OBSERVING that US exports would be facilitated
> if all dimensions were
> dimensioned and expressed in round SI terms;
>
> AND OBSERVING that the use of the SI in the United
> States for all
> measurements would save unnecessary arithmetic and
> would simplify all
> measuring;
>
> THERFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the US Govrnemnt should
> establish a Metric
> Board charged, in consultation with the various
> sectors of manufacturing,
> commerce and education, to draw up time-limited
> schedules for conversion of
> all measurement activities to the SI.
>
> Joseph B. Reid
> 17 Glebe Road West
> Toronto M5P 1C8 Tel. 416
> 486-6071
>
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