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...fastest growing trading organizations is Barter Systems Inc. of Oklahoma City. Founded five years ago by three men who had run small swapping clubs, the company now has 62 trading centers around the U.S. that arranged for $100 million worth of barters last year, up from less than $1 million during its first year of business. One Barter Systems missive to some of its 25,000 clients earlier this year: WANTED: $300,000 WORTH OF DRIED MILK OR CORNFLAKES, IN RETURN FOR AN AIRPLANE OF EQUAL VALUE. In another case, Barter Systems helped a tire company trade a jet airplane...
...month ago, Xerox offered to trade 200 desktop copiers worth about $800,000 for an array of goods and services ranging from forklift trucks to airline tickets for employees traveling on company business. As of last week, Barter Systems had traded half of the copiers for some of the things Xerox needed...
Trade in the bazaars is brisk. It includes a thriving black market in which Soviet soldiers barter vodka, clothing, even ammunition for hashish. Here and there, turbaned vendors beckon for customers to examine straw baskets filled with lethal-looking daggers with 6-to 8-in. blades. A pair of passing Soviet privates, their Kalashnikovs at their sides, eye the knives nervously...
...their equivalency diplomas; a court liaison works for residents who are fininshing prison sentences. In the cellar of the old school that houses this therapeutic microcosm, heaps of food stuffs and building materials of all kinds rest as testimony of a procurement office that flourishes--through both donation and barter. Other work-cleaning, cooking, business and construction--is also delegated to the residents...
Nothing piques him more than the sight of Europe influencing America: the White Gods, Gropius and Mies, land among the prostrated natives and colonize them, as simply as that. But, of course, it was not that simple. What happened was not invasion, but long reciprocal exchange, intellectual barter, as it were. From about 1900 on, European modernism in architecture was imbued with American imagery, preoccupied with issues that became central to the International Style. The Grid, the load-bearing frame and light skin of the new buildings, came to Europe from the Chicago School, whose leader was Louis Sullivan...