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Metric system use on the rise in the U.S.

...Units reign.The metric system, developed in France during the French Revolution, was officially adopted by the French government on April 7, 1795.Use in the United States is more widespread than some would think.Consumer products from shampoo...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/life/life-style/2013-04-04/metric-system-use-rise-u
Col. William Power (KAILUA KONA, Hawaii)

...Meritorious Service Award, Bronze Star, two Battle Stars, numerous combat commendations including honors from the French Government for participation in Normandy. He retired as Full Colonel from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, was an elder...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/obituaries/2011-06-21/col-william-power-kailua-kona
William Power Jr.

...Meritorious Service Award, Bronze Star, two Battle Stars, numerous combat commendations including honors from the French Government for participation in Normandy. He retired as Full Colonel from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, was an elder...

http://www.legacy.com/Link.asp?I=LS000152152293
Nuclear fuel reprocessing strikes out

...justification for going forward with this program at anything approaching a commercial scale." As for France, the French government has yet to establish a disposal site for the large amount radioactive detritus piling up at its reprocessing facility...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/opinion/opinion-columns/2008-11-25/nuclear-fuel-rep
Opinion columns | Savannah River Site | Augusta Economy
Romance and culture without spending a fortune

...fashion shows. If You Go... PARIS: For help in planning a trip to Paris, visit www.parisinfo.com or call the French Government Tourist Office in New York at (212) 838-7800.

http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/2005/09/25/liv_6339.shtml
Life & style
French vintners hope to destroy their surplus stocks

...Cooperatives - which represents 110,000 winemakers who account for half of France's wine production - would require the French government to ask the EU's executive commission for a "crisis distillation." The measure is designed to partly finance...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/2005/01/28/bus_441104.shtml
Business
Pepin's fast food is in a league of its own

...Culinary Institute in New York City, and an adjunct faculty member at Boston University. Recently, he was awarded the French government's highest honor, Chevalier de l'Ordre National de la Legion d'Honneur. In "Jacques Pepin Fast Food My Way...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/2004/12/08/foo_436663.shtml
Food
Wilson's presidential museum is a history buff's dream

...is still on the Victrola. One wall of the drawing room is covered by a large tapestry, a wedding gift from the French government to Edith Wilson. The couple was married in 1915, a year after Wilson's first wife, Ellen, died of tuberculosis...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/2004/12/05/liv_436365.shtml
Life & style
Business briefs

...giant Novartis AG said Tuesday that a white knight bid for France's Aventis SA would make sense - but only if the French government changed its "negative attitude" toward the merger. Novartis said its own feasibility study had endorsed a combination...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/2004/03/24/bus_409765.shtml
Business | E-Z-Go
CDC study: Flu shot effective up to 63 percent for adults 50-64

...examining how much protection the flu shot offered for children and others. Other tests by the military and the French government indicate the vaccine protected adults much more often than the CDC study showed, said Dr. Fred Ruben, representing...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/2004/02/25/met_405758.shtml
Metro