Getting a Better Understanding of the Metric System: Implications If Adopted by the United States : Report to the Congress |
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... equipment , scales , micrometers , books , conversion charts , and the serv- ices required to adjust or adapt scales and other equipment . Conversion is inevitable and would cost more later U.S. conversion is inevitable because nearly ...
... equipment , scales , micrometers , books , conversion charts , and the serv- ices required to adjust or adapt scales and other equipment . Conversion is inevitable and would cost more later U.S. conversion is inevitable because nearly ...
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... equipment , meters , scales , buildings , etc. Capital to finance metrication and dual inventories would compete with other needs for scarce capital . Small- and middle - sized busi- nesses could not compete with large international ...
... equipment , meters , scales , buildings , etc. Capital to finance metrication and dual inventories would compete with other needs for scarce capital . Small- and middle - sized busi- nesses could not compete with large international ...
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... , regulations , and practices 4- 7 Role of the multinational corporation in metrication -- the farm and industrial equipment sector 4-10 Conclusions 4-14 CHAPTER 4 IMPACT ON U.S. TRADE UNCERTAIN The extent to IMPACT ON U S TRADE UNCERTAIN.
... , regulations , and practices 4- 7 Role of the multinational corporation in metrication -- the farm and industrial equipment sector 4-10 Conclusions 4-14 CHAPTER 4 IMPACT ON U.S. TRADE UNCERTAIN The extent to IMPACT ON U S TRADE UNCERTAIN.
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... equipment urgently needed by U.S. industry would flood the country . The end result would be a mass influx of foreign goods to U.S. markets , resulting in the loss of hundreds of thousands of U.S. jobs . The increase in domestic ...
... equipment urgently needed by U.S. industry would flood the country . The end result would be a mass influx of foreign goods to U.S. markets , resulting in the loss of hundreds of thousands of U.S. jobs . The increase in domestic ...
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... equipment sector The farm and industrial equipment sector has been gener- ally recognized as taking a prominent position in converting to the metric system . An official of one company has advanced several characteristics of this ...
... equipment sector The farm and industrial equipment sector has been gener- ally recognized as taking a prominent position in converting to the metric system . An official of one company has advanced several characteristics of this ...
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Page 30-15 - Government created by the Metric Conversion Act of 1975 (Pub. L. 94-168, 15 USC 205a-205k), hereinafter referred to as the Act. (b) Section 3 of the Act states "that the policy of the United States shall be to coordinate and plan the increasing use of the metric system in the United States and to establish a United States Metric Board to coordinate the voluntary conversion to the metric system".
Page 9-14 - ... to encourage cooperation of Federal, State, and local governments, carriers, labor, and other interested parties toward the achievement of national...
Page 2-11 - Unit Symbol Formula frequency (of a periodic phenomenon) force pressure, stress energy, work, quantity of heat power, radiant flux quantity of electricity, electric charge electric potential. potential difference, electromotive force electric capacitance electric resistance electric conductance magnetic flux magnetic flux density inductance Celsius temperature hertz newton pascal joule watt coulomb volt farad ohm Siemens weber tesla henry degree Celsius...
Page 2-10 - UNITS length meter* (m) mass kilogram (kg) time second (s) electric current ampere (A) thermodynamic temperature...
Page 2-14 - Register provides a uniform system for making available to the public regulations and legal notices issued by Federal agencies. These include Presidential proclamations and Executive Orders and Federal agency documents having general applicability and legal effect, documents required to be published by act of Congress and other Federal agency documents of public interest.
Page 1-10 - It shall be the function of the Board to devise and carry out a broad program of planning, coordination, and public education, consistent with other national policy and interests, with the aim of implementing the policy set forth in this Act.
Page 1-11 - Act, as relate to the mission of such agency ; (8) collect, analyze, and publish information about the extent of usage of metric measurements; evaluate the costs and benefits of metric usage; and make efforts to minimize any adverse effects resulting from increasing metric usage...
Page 23-21 - ... carry out a program of grants and contracts in order to encourage educational agencies and institutions to prepare students to use the metric system of measurement. (2) The Commissioner is authorized to make grants to, and contracts with, institutions of higher education, State and local educational agencies, and other public and private nonprofit agencies, organizations, and institutions to develop and carry out the policy set forth in subsection (a) . (c) (1) Financial assistance under this...
Page 1-3 - ... to be constructed so that it would equal one ten-millionth of the distance from the north pole to the equator along the meridian of the earth running near Dunkirk in France and Barcelona in Spain. The metric unit of mass, called the gram, was defined as the mass of one cubic centimeter (a cube that is 1/100 of a meter on each side) of water at its temperature of maximum density.
Page 2-8 - States to a coordinated voluntary conversion to the metric system of measurement. The Act specifically defines the "metric system of measurement" as "the International System of Units as established by the General Conference on Weights and Measures in 1960, and as interpreted or modified for the United States by the Secretary of Commerce.