According to President G.H.W. Bush's executive order, shouldn't the ***U.S. government source*** have stated the area in square kilometers only?
Quoting Ezra Steinberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Dear USMA mailing list: > > Too often we see shared on this list instances of information originally > given in metric units (from an organization or governmental body located > outside the USA) that is "dumbed down" (as many list members have put it) to > Imperial or US Customary units in news reports, magazine articles, etc here > in the States. > > Tonight I was pleased to hear an instance of "smarting up". The BBC > (broadcast over our National Public Radio network) reported tonight that a US > Federal agency announced it was going to auction off concessions for drilling > for oil off the shore of Alaska. That was the sad part. The positive part was > that the announcer gave the size of the off-shore drilling area in square > kilometers only. > > Clearly, the US Federal agency must have originally announced the size in > square miles. I was quite pleasantly surprised to hear that the BBC had > converted the area to metric and gave only that figure in their reading of > the news. > > With continuing influence like that, there's hope for us yet, boys! ;-) > > Cheers, > Ezra -- Paul Trusten, R.Ph. Public Relations Director U.S. Metric Association, Inc. Phone +1(432)528-7724 www.metric.org 3609 Caldera Boulevard, Apartment 122 Midland TX 79707-2872 USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://oleapothecary.blog.com
