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...carrot and stick - are used in tandem. That's what some 50 foreign-policy experts from both sides of the Atlantic proposed last week. They fashioned a "compact" of compromises on the most recalcitrant issues dividing the U.S. and the E.U., starting with Iraq. As part of a grand barter, the Europeans would step up training, increase spending on reconstruction from $300 million to $1 billion for 2005, and write off half the country's debt; in exchange, the U.S. would give Europe a role in determining Iraq's economic and political future. Artful compromises were proposed for everything from...
...rather than who he is, he's able to exploit the power of fame for creative control. Since forming the production company Section Eight in 2000 with director Steven Soderbergh, with whom he had worked on Out of Sight, Clooney the producer has used Clooney the actor as barter. He did it to get Warner Bros. to make next year's Good Night and Good Luck, a movie about Edward R. Murrow's battle with Joseph McCarthy that CBS, Murrow's old network, had passed on as a TV movie. "It's hard to shoot something in black and white...
...cargo cult thing" - but sees some prospect of an end to the no-go zone in Ona's apparent ceding of control to Musingku. "I think Ona's kingdom is shriveling up," he says. "The crowning was a bad move." P.N.G.'s Minister for Inter-Government Relations, Sir Peter Barter, described the coronation as a "mockery of Bougainvillean traditions and customs...
...your shake…and they still will have forgotten your french fries. Oh, and when you get your change, don’t be shocked if in place of small change you are gifted with individually wrapped pieces of gum. You just can’t beat a barter economy, or minty-fresh breath...
...Tuleh, at Cafe Lebowitz. She looked the part--like a Klimt painting, tall and thin with wavy golden hair and a Tuleh blouse speckled with drips of gold--and even trumped my corporate Amex with a magical tab that Tuleh employees never have to pay, thanks to a barter deal. Not only do muses not pay for food, but the breakfast was better than it was the last time I ate there. Fashion muses are inspiring even to short-order cooks...