scholarly journals KWIC Index to Government Publications

2013 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 139
Author(s):  
Margaret Norden
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Data Processing ◽  
Processing Equipment ◽  
University Library ◽  
Cost Efficiencies

<p><span>United States and United Nations publications were not efficiently proc- essed nor readily available to the reader at Brandeis University Library. Data processing equipment was used to make a list of this material which could be referred to by a computer produced KWIC index. Currency and availability to the user, and time and cost efficiencies </span><span>for </span><span>the library were given precedence over detailed subject access. United States and United Nations classification </span><span>schemes&gt; </span><span>and existing bibliographies and indexes were used extensively. </span></p>

Marketing's Role in the Change to the Metric System

1966 ◽  
Vol 30 (4) ◽  
pp. 10-14
Author(s):  
Frank W. Archer
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Data Processing ◽  
The United States ◽  
Electronic Data Processing ◽  
Export Trade ◽  
Decimal System ◽  
Processing Equipment ◽  
Weights And Measures ◽  
World Markets ◽  
The World

Practically all the nations of the world use the metric system of weights and measures. Yet the United States continues to offer goods, produced according to nonmetric standards, in the world markets in competition with metric products from other countries. The marketing aspects of the metric problem are now more important than ever: efforts to increase export trade; Britain's decision to move to the metric system; and widespread utilization of electronic data processing equipment, which uses the decimal system in calculations.

The 1980s to the Present

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gregory A. Barton
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Organic Farming ◽  
The United States ◽  
Global Market ◽  
Health Food ◽  
Organic Certification ◽  
Organic Farmers ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
Mainstream Press

While a few positive stories on organic farming appeared in the 1970s most mainstream press coverage mocked or dismissed organic farmers and consumers. Nevertheless, the growing army of consumer shoppers at health food stores in the United States made the movement impossible to ignore. The Washington Post and other newspapers shifted from negative caricatures of organic farming to a supportive position, particularly after the USDA launched an organic certification scheme in the United States under the leadership of Robert Bergland. Certification schemes in Europe and other major markets followed, leading to initiatives by the United Nations for the harmonization of organic certification through multilateral agencies. As organic standards proliferated in the 1990s the United Nations stepped in to resolve the regulatory fragmentation creating a global market for organic goods.

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