Part of the problem has been that, whereas water west of the Mississippi belongs to the user, who can sell or barter it (see article), water to the east is generally public property.
The trick was to cut small quantities of meat into paper-thin slices, season them with condiments, preserves, and spices, add whatever vegetables you could grow or barter, and keep adding until you arrived at a dish so tasty that you forgot how little meat was in it.
Without it, and lacking any form of recognized money, individuals would have to resort to barter or credit.
The legislation prohibits the sale, barter or exchange of an award by the recipient, and while it could be passed down within an astronaut's family, it would have to be returned to NASA if there is no heir.
On rural roads, sugar-mill workers sit next to bags of beet sugar they have received in lieu of wages, hoping to barter their product for food or cash.
Would the players have been so tempted to barter property for pocket change, or for rent, to help pay a car note, if they were just given fuller living expenses?
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Barter agreements can be written and quantified or they can remain loose, with a verbal agreement and a handshake.
Members of barter clubs receive Local Alternative Units, or TEMs for their Greek acronym, in return for some product or service rendered to another member of the closed community.
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Unless, of course, we're willing to barter with something else, such as our consumer profiles or our photo streams.
With barter, you include in your income the fair market value of property or services you received.
Over half the Russian people today subsist outside of a money-economy system, surviving by barter and by getting whatever food they can from relatives, friends and neighbors or from what they grow on patches of land in the countryside.
The workers' nights of organising, educating, poetry and barter may be a thing of the past but the music - Afropop, folk, cabaret or indie depending on the room and the night - remains.
Over the past hundred years or so, a combination of the ubiquity of money and the growth of financial tools and resources has relegated barter to the marketplace minor leagues.
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