What is interesting about the following article is that it admits the
United States is significantly, if not "predominantly" (to use the
author's term), metric. I have recently noticed this change from
reporting the mantra that the U.S. and two minor contries are the only
non-metric countries in the world, to reporting that the U.S. is already
significantly metricated and that the pressure here is to go further.
Our point is gradually getting across. In the absence of a government
mandate, the sheer weight of world pressure, particularly in business and
in trade, and the influence of the media, which are now international
(even the Olympics this year almost completely stopped reporting in U.S.
obsolescent units).
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