Sentences with phrase «from barter»

If the Kongs manage to haggle the wrench away from Barter, they can give it to Björn, who can then use it to repair his chairlifts, giving the Kongs free access to the Banana Bird Cave.

«As money has evolved from the barter system to its metallic and paper forms, it is now going digital.»

University of London anthropologist Graeber starts by taking exception to one of the fundamental received wisdoms of economics: that our monetary structures evolved from barter - based transactions, through the invention of money and use of coin, to the development of credit systems of increasing complexity.

A believer shifts away from a bartering concept in which one loves God for the sake of a transaction.

This may include income from bartering, canceled debts, life insurance proceeds, survivor benefits, recoveries, welfare, and other public assistance benefits.

Not exact matches

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It was as though the 1.6 M sq. ft. Anaheim Convention Center had temporarily seceded from the USA to form its own nation state populated with CPG enthusiasts bartering food.

It was early 2003 when Ken Austin, executive vice president of Marquis Jet, a New York City company that leases time in corporate jets, got a call from the producers of The Apprentice asking if he would be interested in a barter deal.

BXI members earn barter «dollars» by swapping their own goods and services for credit toward the purchase of goods and services from other members.

«Applying for a barter credit line is different from applying to a bank,» says Douglas Dagenais, vice-president of Barter Corp. in Oakbrook Terrace, Ill., a network of about 3,000 member businbarter credit line is different from applying to a bank,» says Douglas Dagenais, vice-president of Barter Corp. in Oakbrook Terrace, Ill., a network of about 3,000 member businBarter Corp. in Oakbrook Terrace, Ill., a network of about 3,000 member businesses.

For Tom Thompson, the owner of Nu - Way Relocation Services Inc., a moving company based in Chicago, a $ 50,000 line of credit from regional barter company Chicago Barter gave him working capital to use on everything from payroll services to a major electrical upgrade and even personnel bobarter company Chicago Barter gave him working capital to use on everything from payroll services to a major electrical upgrade and even personnel boBarter gave him working capital to use on everything from payroll services to a major electrical upgrade and even personnel bonuses.

A credit line, offered by a growing number of barter exchanges, is basically an extension of barter credits, which allow a business to buy essential items from other network members before selling its own goods into the system.

I used to barter with my wife after coming home from a stressful day.

To bicker and barter goes from mankind's mountaintops to its» social rivers flowing down thru the cultural valleys onto the seas of all the people.»

Bargaining and barter were and are known in all the cultures that have developed moral and religious traditions, most of which have well - known maxims and principles that deal with the vast spectrum of social and moral issues, from fair weight to marriage contracts, bred in the marketplace.

Up and down its narrow valleys and across its great plain went the pomp and panoply of the ancient world, and its more commonplace traffic as well: rich argosies from far Babylon, carrying the wares down to Egypt; royal messengers of the great kings who ruled in Persepolis, bearing decrees for the officer in charge at the frontier station of Assouan; plenipotentiaries of Hatti and of Egypt, seeking a modus vivendi in the political stresses of the thirteenth century; conquerors with their chariots and footmen and their tale of atrocities behind and yet before; wandering bands of foot - loose adventurers, seeking a good land where they might strike roots into the soil - all these and hosts of others were led among the Palestinian hills where went the great trunk roads of the ancient world, camped in the plains, bartered in the little cities, or stayed to lay permanent claim to some hit of the land.

I would like to add: make what you can rather than purchasing pre-made, buy from the bulk section (bringing your own jars) as well as warehouse clubs (hemp seeds, almonds) IF it is what you will use, keep the farmer's markets in mind, barter, invest in a pressure cooker or slow cooker, compost.

It would be a nice looking loaf for my friend, since I bartered bread for a bunch of her old canvases from last semester (a total score for me, since a handbuilt stretcher costs about $ 15 of lumber from Lowe's).

Consider bartering with a friend who may have the skills you are looking for, exchanging a service you can offer (like babysitting, cleaning, or accounting) for classes or lessons from them.

I recently was educated (by accident) on just how much bartering goes on during lunch among the kids that bring lunches from home.

We do offer a barter system and yes, it often involves honey from home hives, eggs from home coops and home berries — as long as they have been parent - tested and do not induce wild dreams and mania.

4) Barter - I've done a little bartering from time to time.

They view the issues that worry us most, from the addictive nature of screens to the disconnection, bartering, and...

The kitchen also makes money transporting grassfed meats from Shenandoah processors to local restaurants, and Curtin believes the less desirable cuts — such as beef chuck — could easily end up as burgers on cafeteria trays as part of a bartering arrangement with restaurateurs.

If you need even more of a caffeine fix, Gracenote founder Patrick Barter will be at the distillery from noon to 9 pm offering tastings of his cold brew iced coffee.

Our kids love thumbing through the square catalog that comes in the mail, reading the stories about families whose lives have been changed by gifts of agriculture that provide a sustainable source of income from milk, eggs, honey and other products that can be sold or bartered for items they need.

They ranged from a staged political campaign event by eclectically - dressed members of «Revolutionary Experimental Space», and artist group commonly know as R.E.P., to an artist trying (and succeeding) to barter replicas of famous works of contemporary art to locals in a rural village.

You can see from the above quote that North Korea develops a technology and then barters that threat into assistance of one type of another.

The last point is an important factor in understanding the prevalence of such practices: Bartering and re-bartering are essential components of the Senegalese economy and can not be clearly separated from the formal economy.

If you are organising transport to the demonstration and are happy for us to add the details to this page, please contact Miles Barter - [email protected] Protesters from all over the UK will gather at 11 am at the Victoria Embankment, London, WC2N 6NL.

If he wants to retain this chip — perhaps to barter for shifting the tax burden away from income — then he ought to set HMRC on working out the full effects, as he did for the 50p tax.

Days after instructing his lawyer to contact US Attorney Preet Bharara to offer «help» with the investigation into donors who allegedly bartered gifts for NYPD favors, de Blasio claimed on «Ask the Mayor» that he still hasn't heard from the feds.

Because humans can specialize, she adds, we can generate surplus to purchase or barter for better foods from one another.

Both the partners know what they want from the relationship and they carry it forward with a mutually bartered feeling.

It's set in Venice, Italy of the 16th Century, in a liberal city that still required Jews to barter no goods, wear red hats to distinguish them from the Christian aristocrats, and be locked in the lower class part of town at night, leaving them little to support themselves but for the practice of usury, or the loaning of money for sometimes exorbitant fees.

That these lighter textures of mischief and spiritiness can be found in a story that ultimately sees most of these young women bartered off into marriage like chattel or worse, is a testament to Erguven's sensitivity and intelligence behind the camera, and to the uniformly winning performances she elicits from her largely non-professional cast, especially Günes Sensoy as the youngest and most irrepressible of the sisters.

Massively there then, in their civic solidity and confidence, their erstwhile bourgeois prosperity, the famous hotels along the boardwalk are, from another perspective, simply theatrical facades — subprime Monopoly pieces to be bartered and thrown around between speculators with the lightness of a beach ball.

Meanwhile, back at the shipping company's corporate headquarters in Denmark, despite objections from expert pirate negotiation experts, CEO Peter Ludvisen (Malling, A Royal Affair) decides to take it upon himself to handle the negotiations with the hijackers, utilizing his effective skills in the world of business to try to barter his position.

Should a player wish to purchase back the Mirror from either Barter or Baffle, they can do so, provided they pay either one of them ten Bear Coins.

Jack (Daniel Huttlestone)-- he of fairy - tale fame for a beanstalk that resulted from poor bartering skills — needs to sell his beloved cow, and Rapunzel (Mackenzie Mauzy) is here, too.

Covers the following topics: Money, as distinct from «income» and «wealth» Functions of money Characteristics of money Credit cards, Debit cards, Electronic money and the concept of liquidity (whether assets are liquid or illiquid) Commodity money The barter system and the problem of double coincidence of wants Contains easily digestible points / explanations with appropriate amount of on - screen text that makes note taking easy for students of all abilities, whether native or non-native users of English.

Included in the PowerPoint: a) Scarcity, Choice and Opportunity Cost - The Fundamental Economic Problem - The Meaning of Scarcity and the inevitability of choices at all levels (individual, firms, govt)- The basic questions of what will be produced ow and for whom - The Meaning of the term «Ceteris Paribus» - The Margin and Decision Making at the Margin - Sort run, long run, very long run b) Positive and Normative Statements - the distinction between fact and value judgements c) Factors of Production - the rewards to the factors of production: land, labour, capital and enterprise - Specialization and division of labour d) Resource Allocation in Different Economic Systems and Issues of Transition - decision making in market, planned and mixed economies - the role of the factor enterprise in a modern economy e) Production Possibility Curves - shape and shifts of the curve - constant and increasing opportunity costs f) Money - functions and characteristics in a modern economy - barter, cash and bank deposits, cheques, near money, liquidity g) Classification of Goods and Services - free goods, private goods (economic goods) and public goods - merit goods and demerit goods as the outcome of imperfect information by consumers PowerPoint Also Includes: - Key Terms for each Chapter - Activities - Multiple Choice and Essay questions from past exam papers.

In this film Artis Specialist and Mentor Leader Stuart Barter (Chime) demonstrates this activity working with children from St Paul with St Luke Primary School in East London.

To achieve his goal, the boy barters with characters ranging from a carpet make...

From a cover artist, to editors, the Indie Author team is often made up of hired professionals, networked and bartered services, or some combination of those.

In keeping with the times, we used to barter with each other: his canned meat from Denmark for my French cognac, my French soap for the stockings he had from Prague.

I have a working relationship with another writer from HP... we kind of barter for each other's services, so book covers really don't cost me that much, and they always end up better than I could have done... Happy Sunday from the perfectly pleasant Pacific Northwest.

You'll benefit from hiring a pro at this stage, but you can also barter or trade with a critique partner or colleague, as long as you trust them to understand what your readers expect out of your book.

Fed up with the way society has formed around her, Brooklyn quite literally pulls away from New York — its bridges breaking and tunnels flooding — and proposes thathumanity return back to days of old where things and people were defined by their ethics, values and contributions; where skills and art could be bartered and traded; where land could be farmed to sustain life and spawn beauty.

According to Amazon's little spiel about the beginnings of the newspaper, The Onion was «founded in 1756, when Friedrich Siegfried Zweibel, an immigrant tuber - farmer from Prussia, shrewdly bartered a sack of yams for a second - hand printing press and named his fledgling newspaper The Mercantile Onion after the only words of English that he knew.