Word: swap
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...primitive form of commercial exchange that became outmoded centuries ago with the appearance of money. But in the U.S., barter is suddenly coming back strong. Beset by shortages of many basic raw materials and finished goods, purchasing agents for the most modern corporations are turning into sultans of swap: they obtain scarce products that their companies need by offering goods that are in equally short supply...
...psychiatric social worker to become a househusband. Schacter, 29, cares for his son Jason and weilds a mean spatula and dry mop while his wife Sandy goes off to teach. Though feminists have long argued that such role reversals are often desirable, how many men have actually agreed to swap the daily commuter train for domesticity? Report TIME correspondents nationwide: a very scant, very hardy...
Still, frustrations persist. Rabinowitz is consumed by guilt when he finds himself enjoying the freedom to read or play music. Onaitis is forced to sublimate his success drive by remodeling an old house. And some couples discover that the swap can add unnecessary family expenses-at least at the beginning. Onaitis, for example, who frequently squanders part of the weekly food budget his wife gives him on his favorite toasted soybeans and sunflower seeds, once signed up for seven magazine subscriptions in one day. He liked the salesman...
Detroit insists that it has been adding the high-profit accessories to meet public demand?and that has indeed been true for some time. But the energy crisis is radically altering the popular mood. Politicians, ever sensitive to public attitudes, have recently been falling all over one another to swap their long limousines for more modest cars: Delaware Governor Russell W. Peterson is exchanging his chauffeur-driven limousine for a chauffeur-driven Ford Pinto. Some legislators have gone so far as to attempt direct action against the big car. Early this month, the Senate voted to require that...
...never been a secret that some American reporters working abroad maintain symbiotic relationships with the Central Intelligence Agency. In the shared quest for fresh information, correspondents and CIA agents have been known to swap tips to their mutual benefit. Recently, the Washington Star-News revealed that some 40 U.S. journalists-mostly freelance writers and "stringers" who work part-time for one or more employers-have been on the CIA payroll as undercover informants. Some are full-time agents using journalism as a cover. Only five of the 40 were said to be regular staffers for large news organizations. Still...