Word: barterer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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While the economy is dipping into a recession, a much noticed but little recorded sector of American business activity is thriving as never before. It is the underground economy, an illicit system of cash and barter in exchange for goods and services. Because it operates beyond the statistician's reach and the tax collector's grasp, no one knows its exact size and scope. But various learned economists, who find this fast-growing sector to be a fertile field for academic investigation, estimate that it runs to hundreds of billions of dollars a year...
...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...