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1: 1 Let’s Go Metric Now!
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3: Does the expense of maintaining two sets of all your measuring devices get to you?<br>
4: Do you get frustrated when you have to do conversions?<br>
5: Wonder why we use different measuring systems or names with different values depending on what you’re measuring?<br>
6: Is your business suffering because you build using a measurement system the rest of the world has discarded?<br>
7: Ever had a project set back because one person used a measuring system different from everyone else?<br>
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9: Customary measures (also called imperial or English measures) are an expensive drain on our economy and inhibit trade and information flow between us and the rest of the world (and often internally within our borders as well). 
10: It’s time to finally rid ourselves of these out dated measures and finish going metric and the 
11: best way to do that is together. It’s a job that’s been started several times, now it’s time to finish it!
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13: By talking to [local influential companies>CompanyOfTheWeek.WebHome] and our [local, state and federal representatives > http://www.congress.org/congressorg/dbq/officials/] (and sharing the feedback here), we can help to convince our politicians that we really need to complete metrication rather than letting it weigh down the next few generations.
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15: Got something to say about your metrication efforts? [ Join us > http://gometric.us/xwiki/bin/register/XWiki/Register ] and [ post > Blog.WebHome ] about it.
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