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Article: U.S. still slouching toward metric
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- February 3, 1999
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On Jan. 1, most of Europe switched over to the euro as a common
currency for electronic banking transactions. In just a few years,
coins and paper money will be available in euros instead of francs,
marks and other old, familiar types of European money. We got to
thinking that in this ever-shrinking world, the trend toward
international standardization will almost certainly continue.
For some of us old-timers - too rigid to change easily - our
worst fear is that before long we will have the metric system foisted
upon us. Speaking for the over-40s in the reading audience, this is
a mind-numbing possibility.
It's not as if we haven't had fair warning. We were told years
ago to get with it ...