Word: barter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...people who have dropped out of the money economy for one reason or another," said Frances Gitter, "we'll allow them to barter for meals. Also, hopefully, we'll be able to open soup kitchens from the profits of the Restaurant." The Restaurant should open early this week...
...argue that it would end the strong two-party system. Because a candidate would need 40% of the vote to win, parties would proliferate, they contend, with several candidates trying to drain off enough votes to force a runoff between the two front runners. Losing primary candidates could then barter their support for the runoff...
...soon as the Allies forced Russia to barter for European spheres of influence as early as October 1944, they made inevitable the occupation of Eastern as well as Western Europe; as soon as they tampered with the internal affairs of Vietnam and Korea as early as 1945, they insured Communist support for national liberation movements in those countries; when they agreed to bomb Hiroshima to terrorize the Russians in Potsdam as well as to defeat the Japanese in Japan, they engendered the cost and deadliness of a prolonged arms race. Far from being victimized and put upon by Cold...
...role reform sounds sexually unsettling, think how it will change the sexual hypocrisy we have now. No more sex arranged on the barter system, with women pretending interest, and men never sure whether they are loved for themselves or for the security few women can get any other way. (Married or not, for sexual reasons or social ones, most women still find it second nature to Uncle-Tom.) No more men who are encouraged to spend a lifetime living with inferiors; with housekeepers, or dependent creatures...