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Dreyfus appears to have responses prepared for current council issues as well, ranging from Living Wage ("I have never felt that the old barter economy, when wages in the form of sheep and goats were in fact 'living,' is something we should return to," he says) to a termbill fee increase ("Increasing it to $50 smacks of tokenism," he claims, suggesting that the whole of each student's yearly tuition go directly to the council...
...bank somewhere and by definition these forms are not living. In the past wages were paid in sheep and camels and things that were in fact living, but I think we moved beyond that and I don't think we should like go backwards towards the whole barter economic systems...
...products giant SmithKline Beecham (a subsidiary of SmithKline Beecham in Britain) got the Clinton Administration's O.K. to pay Cuba some $20 million for the rights to test and market, in the U.S., a meningitis vaccine developed by Cuban scientists. Embargo rules still require SmithKline to pay initially in barter instead of dollars--a Yanqui condition that aides expected Castro to reject. To their surprise, he approved it. "We'll do this," he said, "as a humanitarian gesture for American children...
...hacker, and reported the theft of his original Web page to the police. Cagri, who follows Islamic custom by praying five times a day, says he's alarmed by the thousands of e-mails he receives daily, mostly from women. Now he might be the one "invitated" abroad to barter his fame. He is currently weighing offers to go to the U.S., including one that might lead to a film deal...
...certainly are some strong economic indicators on the positive side ? exports are up, imports are down and industrial output is increasing. But the improvement in government revenues is mostly due to a rise in oil export earnings and tighter currency controls. And the economy remains as graft-riddled and barter-driven as ever...