Word: barter
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...humid, Languid days, most of the town's activity takes place in a bustling indoor-outdoor marketplace. Outside, stands offer groceries and producer. Inside, the market is divided into two areas, in one, Jamaicans purchase clothing and choose from among rows upon rows of shoes. In the other, tourists barter with the small-time entrepreneurs who hawk handmade jewelry, wood, carvings, along with T-shirts, key chains, and other hackneyed souvenirs...
...deny that surrogate motherhood creates moral conflicts which need some legal resolution. But ironically, the biggest problem is the natural mother's desire biggest problem is the natural mother's desire to retain ties to her baby, not her willingness to sell it. Far from being eager to barter the kid away, these mothers often go to court for visitation rights precisely because they, like Cuomo, feel that the value of their child cannot be reduced to a mere compensation fee. After having promised OT give the baby away, they find that their ties to it are stronger than they...
...Butler has a new attorney, and second thoughts. Butler's relatives declared last week that he would prefer to stand trial after all, rather than go through with the surgical procedure. The reversal followed an outcry from legal experts, which drew attention to the implications of allowing prisoners to barter body parts for their freedom...
...says the Philippine team. "Every time he races, I know he's going to win or fall. Romantic to the end!" At one point, Teruel pointed out to Tomba that they were wearing the same kind of gloves, and Tomba offered to trade. But the banter never got to barter, and Teruel did not obtain a relic from his hero. "I think he didn't know what to make of me," Teruel says cheerfully...
...Russian goods. At the same time, food supplies to the city from collective farms diminished after Mayor Anatoli Sobchak swept to power in elections in 1990. The bureaucracy, still predominantly hard-line communists, dragged their feet on implementing changes. While other Russian cities, including Moscow, could barter their industrial products for farm produce, St. Petersburg, with 72% of its industrial output devoted to military hardware, had nothing to trade. Observed a city tourist guide bitterly: "You can't buy a chicken with a tank...