I agree! That can be a significant marker. What will make it even more
effective is a good publicity campaign, once the amendent has been
signed into law. The UPLR revision went unnoticed by almost every
person on the street. Let's not let that happen with the FPLA
ammendment when that comes to pass. Let's let people know that this is
a means of adapting to the global economy and that outside the US that
economy is virtually all SI. Hopefully that will make the next step
easier.
Jim
On Wednesday 01 August 2001 1754, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> <snip>
>
> > We've got an uphill battle to continue fighting in which we must
> > show that in fact progress has been made by the federal government
> > since the 70s. Indeed, the 1988 revisions to the Metric Act, the
> > related Executive Order, and the requirement for dual labeling that
> > all came after that time are not "seen" by most people. We have to
> > point to those things and other indications and convince people
> > that the movement is not dead, officially or otherwise. <
>
> My take on this is that the next most easily accomplished step that
> will give more visibility to the largest segment of the populace that
> there continues to be forward movement towards metrication in the US
> is the amending of the FPLA to permit metric-only labelling and the
> adoption by the non-automatic states of a similar provision with
> respect to the UPLR. This will likely result in a very noticeable
> wave of products on our store shelves of products using rational SI
> packaging that then be used to provide impetus to gain more "metric
> mindshare" in this country.
>
> (This admittedly is not as dramatic a step forward towards metric
> mindshare as converting the road signs in the UK would be, but then
> we're a lot further behind the UK when it comes to metrication
> anyway!)
>
> Ezra
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