Word: barterer
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...attention of the FBI when the bureau got a telephone call from a friendly insurance adjuster informing them that Motorin had been in a car accident. There was a hooker in the car. Not long afterward, the FBI watched Motorin walk into a store in downtown Washington and barter his operational allowance of vodka and Cuban cigars for stereo equipment. Using these indiscretions as leverage, the FBI persuaded him to begin spying for the U.S. He identified for the FBI the name of every KGB agent in the Soviet embassy in Washington. At each of its meetings with Motorin...
...different situation, barter could make a comeback among the down-and-out. In communities that had no standard unit of exchange (e.g. prisoner-of-war camps in the World Wars), people commonly substituted consumer goods with universal value for cash. Under this system, we might have "Brother, can I bum a sandwich, cigarette...
...coffee, one bar of bath soap, three packs of cigarettes. No meat. In May it was rice, beans, sugar and coffee; no oil; no soap; no cigarettes; two cans of beer. No meat. Yet Eugenio will not be rafting. He is a master of resolviendo -- the Cuban art of barter, the cut corner, the gray market. His wife works in a cigarette factory and brings home unofficial samples. With the purloined packs, Eugenio heads for the local government bodega to find the old man who sits on the sidewalk outside to trade illegally in yuca. He sells his yuca...
...Show me one nation who would barter away apiece of its territory," said Rao, who has opposedMuslim efforts to form a separate government inKashmir. "I have no right to part with even amillimeter of Indian soil...
...rare stillness suffused Saturday morning in Sarajevo. With the guns silent for a moment, parents gathered up their hungry children and headed for the market to barter for what meager supplies of food and clothing had made it through Serbian lines. Saturday is traditionally the busiest shopping day in the besieged city, and a sense of normality emerged from the bustle of activity in Sarajevo's main marketplace...