I agree.
Real men don't eat jellybeans.
Carter was making real strides toward metric.
Then Reagan destroyed what was being done.
But I had forgotten that the board was killed.
Maybe some of the Republicans here ought to step up to
the plate and work for undoing the damage done by
Reagan?
--- "Hu, Alfred" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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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