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fast. It is taken as a means of symbol
ic purging of oneself, putting oneself
in touch with their feelings, whether
good or bad," Poole said. "One is
giving up indulging the body in order
to indulge the spirit."
Mahatma Gandhi and others like
him have used fasts in more recent
times as a means of protest, said
Poole.
"(They) used the fast as a means of
spiritual and physical discipline,"
Poole said, "in order to re-examine
one's soul, at the same time using it
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kilometers and underneath it 50 miles. When the
temperature was given it was 26 degrees celsius,
and it wasn't said that it was 84 degrees Fahr
enheit."
By immediately abondoning one system for
another, people are forced to learn and under
stand the system. They may oppose it, but they
are unable to avoid the change, he said.
This is the main reason why the U.S. effort was
unsucessful it allowed people the chance to
strongly resist the change.
However, Antoine said the conversion process
should occur over time to •allow people the
chance to accept and understand the system. She
also said by replacing non•metric with metric at
a slower pace, the costs incurred would not be as
great as an immediate conversion. But she said
the costs involved in each conversion process are
hard to quantify
Two areas alcohol and soda have been
successfully converted. This conversion was
necessary because the products needed to be
competitive in international markets, he said.
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as a means of passive resistance, of
protest to call attention to some evil."
The Committee for Creative Non-
Violence in Washington, D.C., uses
fasting to accomplish its goals, May
said.
The organization is best known for
its . work with the homeless in the
nation's capital and for the fasts
committee member Mitch Snyder
staged to gain federal funding for a
shelter for the homeless, May said.
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International trade of other products would
increase and would create more jobs, he said.
The United States could obtain more jobs
because new markets would be opened to various
industries, he said.
For example, there is a precision-industrial
tool company in New York that produces compo
nents for industrial manufacturing. This compa
ny has no European market because its product
is created by inches, feet and yards, and Euro
pean buyers want their products in centimeter
and meters, he said.
Europeans do not look toward this company for
products because the company is unable to offer
what they need, Rung said.
But by converting to metrics, this company
and others like it would be able to produce the
goods for European markets.
As a result of this, more jobs would be created
as the product's demand increased.
"You've got mechanics in Europe that need to
maintain a gas station and need, the tools to do .
so," he said.
Antoine said, "Those countries overseas don't
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May said. When the government still longest period being 64 days during a
did not produce the funding, he went fast protesting the arms race.
on a 30-day fast and a one-week fast The effects on the body are mini
from water until the organization mal during short fasts, Fennnelly
eventually received the funding. said, but after an extended period of
Committee for Creative Nonvio- time, the fast starts to take its toll.
lence member Carol Fennelly said "(There is) nausea and dizziness
that although the group has used after 40 or 50 days," Fennelly said,
fasting effectively to promote its "and it becomes difficult to drink
ends, effectiveness is not a criterion water just because it tastes so aw
that should be used in assessing fast- ful."
ing.
"We fast because it is the right
thing to do," Fennelly said.
Fennelly said she has fasted, the
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Eventually, she added, fasters will
become dehydrated and experience
kidney failure because of their refu
sal to drink water.
want to buy our inch-pound products when they
can buy metric products from West Germany,
Japan, Taiwan and other countries."
But consumers are also being affected, wheth
er they realize it or not, Antoine said. Consumers
are paying more for their imports because the
other countries must produce both metric and
non-metric goods, she added.
Metric conversion would also facilitate inter
national communication, Rung said.
For example, when traveling overseas, one
pilot might say the plane is 4,100 meters above,
Paris and another might say the plane is 4,000
feet above the city. Conversion would make
things weights, volumes, heights and dis
tances more universal, Rung said.
Although the conversion has been unsuccess
ful, Rung said the United States will be forced
into it someday.
"The U.S. will wake up someday and find itself
in an inferior position in terms of trade or
whatever," he said. When this happens, the
conversion will occur and will be comprehensive
covering all'areas at once.
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