Standards Efforts
The International Committee for Weights and Measures contemplated defining the unit of 1 as the 'uno', but the idea was dropped.
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Famous quotes containing the words standards and/or efforts:
“That’s the great danger of sectarian opinions, they always accept the formulas of past events as useful for the measurement of future events and they never are, if you have high standards of accuracy.”
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The dignity of his office is never impaired by the absence of efforts on his part to maintain it.”
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