Word: bartering
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...agreed that it made most sense for us to provide this help on a barter basis," states Shapiro in the memo...
...says the barter proposal should not be interpreted as meaning Harvard-Smithsonian prefers the Mt. Graham site over the one in Hawaii. "Sometimes it is easy to help your neighbor. If we are involved with a joint project with the University of Arizona, we do things for them, and they can pay us back," he says...
...short, impish professor of Greek extraction, Popov, 53, was elected mayor of Moscow last April. He and his reformist colleagues plan to open a computerized apartment-rental service and launch an industrial-commodities exchange to barter needed items among enterprises. They have also called for soup kitchens to help cushion the transition to a market economy. Popov and his city council have not managed basic reforms, but they represent a challenge to Gorbachev simply by being in a position to experiment. Popov is one of the founders of the progressive Interregional Group in parliament, and he has criticized Ryzhkov...
...Europe. But the U.S. has received substantial help from a declining currency, which has made American goods less expensive overseas. Since 1985, the dollar has fallen 43% against major world currencies. American firms have also shown greater flexibility in negotiating trade deals. More U.S. companies are willing to barter or accept payment in local currency instead of dollars, notes consultant Matt Schaffer of Sand Point, Idaho, author of The Countertrade...
...reform movement emerged after Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir's national-unity government collapsed last March in bitter disagreement over the peace process. Since then, the two main blocs and the handful of small religious parties that hold the balance of power have engaged in an especially crude game of barter. The five-member Liberal party demanded a $10 million bond to guarantee that a Likud-led coalition would stick to promises swapped for Liberal support. Labor leader Shimon Peres spent five weeks trying to purchase his own majority with generous offers of ministries and money to the religious parties...