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On 02/21/2013 12:11 PM, James Knott wrote:
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The USA had a movement towards Metric, but it failed big-time.

It failed because Ronald Regan canceled Jimmy Carter's plans to move to it.

Economicsis the key. We do have most things in the grocery store listing both English and Metric measurements. That is for economics as well, since these items would not need different package designs for the regions of the world that speak English and use metric.

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