Word: barter
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...essential goods as coal. But, like many reforms, that has not worked. Says Miroslaw: "I have coupons for 1,500 lbs. of coal, but I still have not got any, and winter is just beginning." Miroslaw thinks that farmers and workers may now cooperate more. One way is through barter: "Miners bring their coal and trade it for our potatoes. We want to be as independent of the state as we possibly can. Unfortunately, we cannot make our village into an independent republic...
...depth of these performances is frightening. Too peculiar to be stereotypical, the roles reveal one family's bizarre attempt to barter for an outsider's affections. Warner has gathered an excellent case, enabling novice Samols and professional Bergonzi to give equally riveting performances...
...overwhelmed IRS investigator: "Cheating has replaced baseball as the great American pastime." Tax dodgers include executives who charge personal expenses to their companies; doctors and lawyers who demand cash payments rather than checks for their services; waiters, waitresses and cab drivers who fail to record their tips; members of barter clubs who do not bother to report trades. Some examples...
...Luisi's key responsibilities as the head of the agency's syndication department was to supervise a system known as barter. She bought television programs, such as The Osmonds at the Ohio State Fair, from independent producers and then sold them to television stations. Instead of paying cash for the shows, the stations gave the agency advertising time on the air. The agency stored the unused commercial allotments in a computer "time bank" until they were sold to clients. Barter, which is used by several leading advertising agencies, can be very profitable when the time is sold...
...architects of conservatism, like Edmund Burke, envisioned their political philosophy as a kind of intellectual cathedral, resting on solid principles but being modified and enriched by later craftsmen. "All government," wrote Burke, "indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter." Many of the modern Presidents who have been hailed by Reagan shared that view. Dwight Eisenhower had an uncanny instinct for outrunning events and using them, hence his proposal for an international agency to guide peaceful development of atomic energy ("atoms for peace") and a scheme to open...