Word: barterer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...THIS HEDGE is more of an indication of the manner in which businesses will use this vague ruling to barter with labor rather than a legitimate restraining caution. "If there was some way of making sure the businesses were really bankrupt, then I'd be much happier," Nesson concludes. There isn't, however, especially since businesses now won't have to wait for court approval before rejecting union contracts...
...this card I write for you, it is your hotel identay'ii, ja?"). Through Petworth's perplexities with words-and with such other languages as sex, politics and food-Bradbury suggests that life is rather like a monetary system. It can proceed only by a kind of barter, a series of provisional transactions aimed at "making a trade, finding an equivalent, striking a bargain, forging a value...
...poll conducted for TIME by Yankelovich, Skelly and White Inc.,* 36% of those questioned believed that cheating on income taxes is becoming more common. More unsettling, 43% found it "acceptable" to barter goods and services without reporting it on the tax forms, and 26% found it acceptable not to report cash payments as income. Other polls reveal an even greater cynicism. In a survey taken in Oregon, one out of four citizens admitted cheating on taxes. In another study, more than half believed that nearly all Americans would cheat if they felt they could get away with it. Yet another...
...Harvard, after being outplayed in the first period, escaped with an even 1-1 score after Ken Code sent Shayne Kukulowicz in alone on the Husky goal in the final seconds. The junior winger deked once and lifted the disc over the flopping Husky net minder, Tim Marshall. Barter...
...film about it titled Friday Is No Holiday. The movie shows workers plodding lazily through their jobs during most of the week. Then comes Friday, and suddenly the proletariat turns industrious. Some steal bricks to complete the lakeside cottage, others "borrow" pipes for a private plumbing job or barter for extra gasoline to make a weekend excursion. Released in 1978, the film drew packed houses in theaters across the country during its run. The boffo business was not surprising in a country where the most popular maxim among workers remains "If you aren't cheating, then you are cheating...