Word: bartering
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...state-owned trading agency, is so deep in debt that prohibitive taxes are being levied on oil companies to rake up new funds. In fact, Toure's treasury is so strapped for cash that it has not even been able to keep its commitments to its Communist barter partners, has vainly sought loans from private French banks...
Cuba faces a similar threat from inflated Red prices and dumping in its agreement to sell the Russians 1,000,000 tons of sugar a year outside of its normal world quota. Warns one economist: "Much of what we call Soviet aid is in fact deferred barter...
...Modanova department store. And in Haile Selassie I Square, Volkswagens and Fords jostle for position in daily traffic jams, unheard of a few years ago. But outside Addis Ababa, 90% of Ethiopia's people are illiterate farmers, some of whom still live in a barter economy where 2 Ibs. of hand-picked wild coffee will fetch one fingernail's worth of nail polish. As a result of these feudal economics, 180 million acres of the world's richest farm land lie fallow in Ethiopia, despite periodic famines and a growing trade deficit. Foreign aid at best merely...
...Barter. In El Paso, pleading guilty to stealing, forging, and cashing a Government check belonging to her tenant, Mrs. Jesus Rodarte Ramirez insisted that she was only collecting the rent...
Abingdon, Va., Barter Theater: Voice of the Whirlwind (new play...