"It's very Cuban," Juan Carlos Tabío, who wrote and directed the film, said of his country's real estate bartering process.
Green policymaking resembles a bartering process between environmentally anxious pragmatists and leftist loons.Another similarity, though, is that the blunders hardly seem to matter.
The system that he and a colleague developed for doing that — a bartering process that they described as "token economics" — not only persuaded Anna State's residents to get dressed every day, but also changed the way psychologists approached behavior-changing techniques across a wide spectrum of human experience.
First, just because money is not being exchanged in the bartering process doesn't mean that you're not exempt from taxes.
But as she shows a visitor the tiny two-room property, she asks: "Quieres permuta?" That is, in English, "Want to trade?" Since the revolution in the late 1950s, swapping or bartering homes, a process known in Cuba as permuta, was the only way residents could change their accommodations.
She's living her life, but nonetheless stands as the victim of the directorial process, bartered by pimps, controlled, bullied and photographed.
Since the revolution in the late 1950s, swapping or bartering homes, a process known in Cuba as permuta, was the only way residents could change their accommodations.
When a business orders broadband, it sets in motion a multi-stage process involving bartering deals, on-site visits, permits, digging up roads and eventually the installation.
The discussion of what is or will be required to implement any strategy based on Chapter 9 bankruptcy protection must include a long- term view of how this city will be able to rebound if all potential assets are bartered away in this process.
