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	<description>Commentary on the measurement muddle in the UK</description>
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		<title>Heading for the exit?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Dec 2011 17:05:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Problems of sovereign debt in the eurozone have seen the UK side-tracked in EU decision making, and, say some commentators, headed for the exit. Is this situation likely to impact on the UK’s stalled metric changeover? The editors of Metric &#8230; <a href="http://metricviews.org.uk/2011/12/heading-for-the-exit/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Will the European Commission challenge US labelling rules?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[A recent posting by NIST (the National Institute of Standards and Technology) has prompted this question: Are American labelling requirements now illegal under WTO rules? NIST, which is part of the US Department of Commerce, recently issued the following statement &#8230; <a href="http://metricviews.org.uk/2010/01/will-the-european-commission-challenge-us-labelling-rules/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Big Bang vs “voluntary gradualism”</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Dec 2009 08:37:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erithacus</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A correspondent asks whether countries that carried out their metrication programme quickly fared better or worse than countries that have tried to do the job gradually and voluntarily. Our correspondent wrote: “I wonder if anyone has the time and resources &#8230; <a href="http://metricviews.org.uk/2009/12/big-bang-vs-%e2%80%9cvoluntary-gradualism%e2%80%9d/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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