#metric

During the early 1960s, I decided to supplement research support for quantitative economic studies at Pennsylvania by selling econometric forecasts to private and public sector buyers. ↗

— Lawrence R. Klein

#decided #during #early #econometric #economic

On the way from Chicago, I spent the summer of 1947 in Ottawa, helping to build the first of a series of econometric models for the Canadian government. ↗

— Lawrence R. Klein

#canadian #chicago #econometric #first #government

The funds from the sale were put into research and general teaching budgets at the university. Wharton Econometric Forecasting Associates, Inc., is now a growing enterprise with many model and other econometric facilities. ↗

— Lawrence R. Klein

#budgets #econometric #enterprise #facilities #forecasting

For nine years I worked to change what was hairdressing then into a geometric art form with color, perm without setting which had never been done before. ↗

— Vidal Sassoon

#art form #been #before #change #color

Many transition states have a well-defined preferred geometrical requirement. ↗

— Derek Harold Richard Barton

#many #preferred #requirement #states #transition

'Hound Dog' took like twelve minutes. That's not a complicated piece of work. But the rhyme scheme was difficult. Also the metric structure of the music was not easy. 'Kansas City' was maybe eight minutes, if that. Writing the early blues was spontaneous. You can hear the energy in the work. ↗

— Jerry Leiber

#blues #city #complicated #difficult #dog

I can taste one sugar crystal, just like I can feel one Cupid (the metric unit of measurement for love).
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— Jarod Kintz

#love #measurement #metric-unit #sugar #taste

There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry. ↗

— Martin Gardner

#between #difference #geometrical #geometry #nothing

The issues are by some geometric number - 100 or 200 or 500 - times more complicated today than we appreciated them to be when Franklin Roosevelt was around. ↗

— Gaylord Nelson

#around #complicated #franklin #franklin roosevelt #geometric

I'm not familiar with the metric system. ↗

— Patton Oswalt

#i #metric #system