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...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...
...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...
...commerce: "It is because our fortresses were meant to be impregnable that the fortresses of the ancient world have outlasted the marketplaces of the past, leaving the impression that fear and bellicosity were the keystones of our earliest communities, when in fact those crossroads where men met to barter fish for baskets, greens for meat and gold for brides were the places where we first grew to know and communicate with one another." When Sears encounters a fast-food outlet, he checks his urge to scoff with a digression on the role that fried food has played in the development...
...Gilgit, members of khan Haji Rahman Qul's tribe see their culture disappearing even as they themselves are dying. For their very culture is wrapped up with their animals. Providing food, shelter, clothing, and goods for barter, livestock sustains the tribe's all-too-precarious existence. The women of the tribe--who must still cook, sew, and care for their families--have become the barers of the tribe's culture. But to survive, the tribe must have enough land at the right altitude to raise their animals in peace and carry on their nomadic existence...
...Three or four barter networks using direct trade have tried to get started in Boston before, but a lot of people had bad experiences with them because of the direct barter system, and they failed. That's why we're eager to try out the idea of indirect barter," he added...