Word: barter
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...time and flexibility. Most Americans will be on multicity package tours that include only five days in Moscow, usually not enough to follow an event from trials to finals. Tickets for sporting events, as well as for cultural activities be on a take-it-or-leave-it basis, though "barter booths" will be set up in hotel lobbies to allow spectators to swap unwanted tickets. There will be some agonizing choices. Faced with a 7 p.m curtain at the Bolshoi and an Olympic event it the same time-most finals are scheduled for the evening-some tourists will doubtless...
...large cities would accelerate the flight of middle-class and prosperous whites from urban areas. Investors should start stockpiling a year's supply of food to get them through the first calamitous period, along with spare auto parts and standard ammunition; the latter can be used for both barter and self-protection...
...original developers, who stand to collect a windfall by selling ownership shares at a profit. Under California state law, a bank holds campers' antes in escrow until 60% of the allotted deeds have been sold. Then their deeds, like stocks, are theirs to keep, bestow, bequeath or barter-at the best possible price. The money, meanwhile, passes to the original investors...
...that gold holders will prosper, because he expects the barbarous metal to rise and rise. The Arabs, he notes, are pushing up the price by putting so much of their new wealth in gold. He is less enthusiastic about big gold coins than small ones, which are easier to barter in a pinch. He thinks that silver has even more potential for gain because it has not yet risen as much as gold, and within two years there will be a shortage of silver for industrial use. He dislikes stocks in gold-mining companies because they are taxed; he shuns...