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Bandit3 the Worker
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« on: August 01, 2012, 12:46:05 PM »
If George H.W. Bush had been reelected in 1992, the metric system would have become official. He issued an order to implement metrication, but Clinton nixed the order before it took effect.

Big Business wanted metrication. The public didn't.
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Bandit3 the Worker
Populist3
Junior Chimp
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Posts: 7,964


Political Matrix
E: -10.00, S: -9.92
« Reply #1 on: August 01, 2012, 12:56:53 PM »
Quote from: They Move on Tracks of Never-Ending Light on August 01, 2012, 12:54:12 PM
I really don't see why the metric system is so inherently superior in non-scientific use.

Big Business thought it was, and their opinion was the only one that mattered to them.
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