| After speaking with his wife's best friend, Andrea and helping her write a paper on the failure of metrication they sleep together. |
| But the great holdout against metrication is of course the United States. |
| People power has forced the commission and the goverment to abandon the enforced metrication programme. |
| In 1988 the federal government required federal departments to achieve metrication by 1992 and set up a program to encourage companies and institutions to make the change. |
| The possibility that metrication might never come did not occur to the writer until he heard of Seaver Leslie, the founder of an anti-metrication organization called Americans for Customary Weight and Measure. |
| Tells how he figures that government bureaucrats are a stronger force for conversion than the board, and that metrication might come about through what amounts to the bureaucratic imperative. |
