About their problems. They try to find answers for their problems together. For example

peak i. 1. tepe, doruk, zirve. 2. (kaskette) siper, siperlik.

peak uç, doruk, zirve; en yüksek nokta, en yüksek sinir; sivri uç; kasket siperi; gizin cundasi, yelkenin çördek yakasi, doruga ulasmak

preface önsöz

prompt  ileti,v.harekete geçir:adj.çabuk

Prompted kışkırttı

Pursuit i.) kovalama, takip, arama, peşinden koşma; meşguliyet, iş; elde etmeye uğraşma. pursuit plane (ask.) avcı uçağı

remark "(f.), (i.) söylemek, demek; dikkat edip görmek; (i.) işaret; söz; dikkat etme, görme, mülâhaza; mütalâa

see fit (to) -i uygun görmek

so-and-so "(i.) filanca; (kaba söz yerine kullanılan söz) bilmem ne

though yine de, her seye ragmen; -se bile, -e ragmen

Viewer televizyon izleyen kimse, seyirci, izleyici; vizyonöz, bakimlik

virtually hemen hemen, neredeyse; gerçekte, hakikatte, aslinda

154 GETTING THE U.S. TO GO METRIC

Europeans use the metric System to measure thin gsa This is the system that uses metres and kilometres to measured. distances an litres to measure petrol, for example. In the USA and Great Britain people still measure distances in miles and buy petrol by the gallon_. This is an article from an American magazine about the subject, dated 1986.
In 1976 the government announced that they were thinking of changing all signs on the nation's roads from miles to kilometers. After receiving nearly 5000 letters of protest, they quickly gave up the plan.

Although Congress in 1975 ordered a slow change to metric weights and measures, nothing seems harder to do than to get the Americans to use the metric system, which is used by all the world except Brunei Burma 'North and South Yemen and the U.S.A. A study done in 1977 showed that more than 2/3 of the American people were against the metric system. A few years ago the government thought they could get citizens to use the metric system within ten years. Now they do not expect it to be completely accepted before the year 2000. Experts say that when young people who have learned the metric system in school become adults and enter the working world, the change will really happen.

In its efforts to save money, the government has cut down on money for programs Supporting the metric system. But a few major companies including General Motors, John Deere and IBM, are changing t0 metric' because of their foreign markets. Still, major aircraft companies like Boeing continue to measure in feet and inches, although they sell many planes abroad.

One critic of the metric system objects to it because, be says, "You can't imagine a tenth very well, but you can imagine a quarter or a half of something. Adds Leslie Seals, a member of Americans Against the Metric System, "Why should people be forced to use a system they don't like?" Others say that the change would cause some language problems What would happen to sayings like, "Give him an inch and he'll take a mile.”? Can you imagine saying, "Give him 2.5 centimeters and he'll take 1.6 kilometers."?

Like their colleagues abroad, US scientists have long used the metric system, and at least three dozen states insisit that the metric system be taught in their schools. And although many American sports still measure in yards, many joggers now speak of their “10 Ks.” (or 10 kilometers) every weekend. Wine lovers have learned the new system quickly. When the wine industry changed to the metric system a few years ago people were happy to find that a liter of wine was a little more than the old quart bottle they were used to.