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In the mid-1980s, the USSR State Committee for Standards approved a document that would harmonize the language of metalwork across thousands of factories. Before this, a "weld" might be described differently in a Vladivostok shipyard than in a Moscow aerospace plant. fixed this by:

: To aid international cooperation, it included equivalent terms in German, English, and French .

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