Word: barter
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Washington swears it will not barter with Baghdad, but the U.S. or someone else may, nonetheless. -- The Bush Administration gives out mixed signals on the efficacy of sanctions. -- Gorbachev turns to the army...
...problem is not food supply -- for one thing, the U.S.S.R. had a record grain crop this year -- but distribution. Farmers have been holding back produce from the state, hoping to make more lucrative cash and barter deals elsewhere. A crumbling transportation system has left crops rotting in the fields or in warehouses. Soviet citizens grumble that many of the delays are deliberate, the work of diehard local bureaucrats seeking to undermine Gorbachev. The very fact that many Soviets have been stockpiling foodstuffs at home, though it provides them a cushion against the future, has only added to the sense...
...Gould: "It would be a very bleak world with cockroaches and dogs and not much else." The final blessing of the Endangered Species Act is that it preserves the elements that stir man's sense of wonder. That benefit alone is too precious for the God Squad to barter away...
...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...