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...transactions don't succeed outside of our network because businesses have to match one another in timing and interest," says Wayne Sharpe, Bartercard's founder and chief executive. While a restaurant owner may need $10,000 worth of printing services in the next week, it's unlikely that any printshop owner will need the $10,000 worth of fish and chips that the restaurant can provide in return. "With our service, the transaction is complete," Sharpe says. "The restaurant owes $10,000 to the network, not to the printer...
...Franklin became an apprentice at the printshop of his older brother James, who tended to be quite tough as a master. "I fancy his harsh and tyrannical treatment of me," Franklin later speculated, had the effect of "impressing me with that aversion to arbitrary power that has stuck to me through my whole life." That was a bit unfair to poor James, whose newspaper in Boston was the first feisty and independent publication in the colonies and who taught young Benjamin how to be cheeky about establishment authority...
Opens his own printshop...
...government's ability to bring off the election without disastrous violence. Many voted as they had for three decades of one-party rule--mechanically and without conviction. Others saw the poll as a fresh start: "I don't care if the F.I.S. is excluded," said Farid Harssani, 38, a printshop worker. "This is the first time we've had more than one candidate to vote for." Above all other considerations, Algerians voted in the desperate belief that their gesture might somehow stem the violence wracking their country...
...recalls, "I told her she didn't have to do that, and she kept crying." Heath too was upset, and when his mother Cathy Tull discovered why, she got on the phone with Mary's mother and, as she says, "had words." She and her husband John Tull, a printshop owner, then followed Heath to the Smiths' front yard, where the two families battled it out before a gathering audience of passersby. The Tulls claim that Heath was on his knees begging for the life of the baby in front of Mary's father, who was preventing him from speaking...