2003-03-14 Either he was once there and is speaking from experience, or he was guessing. It is somewhat of an embarrassment to be the only one doing something. One feels less embarrassed if they can find at least one ally in their foolishness, even if that ally is not a model of forward thinking nation. Hence the US always associating itself with either Liberia, Yemen, Burma, or whatever other name one picks out of the backside.
John ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ezra Steinberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, 2003-03-14 12:44 Subject: [USMA:25140] Who's left? > Terrry: > > Thanks for reminding me. Sorry I missed it. > > In looking over the materials I notice that Christopher Guay's > presentation (Proctor & Gamble) quotes Dr. Lester Crawford of the FDA in > his comments of October 02 of last year, to wit: "There are only two > countries in the world that are not metric: the US and Yemen". > > Is this the last word on the matter? (I'm curious on what basis Dr. > Crawford makes that claim.) > > Ezra > > > Terry Simpson wrote: > > > Ezra Steinberg wrote: > > >And did I miss seeing any results from that meeting a few months > > >ago that NIST (?) called in Washington, DC to discuss > > >packaging and labeling? > > > > I posted on exactly this topic 4 days ago. Did you not get it? > > > > See > > http://ts.nist.gov/ts/htdocs/200/202/forum/forumdir.htm >
