When Mario Resca, who ran the Italian subsidiary of McDonald's for years, was appointed to a new ministry post to develop museums two years ago, there was a significant outcry that the ministry's mandate would be bartered for an entrepreneurial model.
When Mario Resca, who ran McDonald's Italian subsidiary for years, was appointed to a new ministry post to develop museums two years ago, there was significant outcry that the ministry's mandate to safeguard Italy's patrimony would be bartered for an entrepreneurial model and over-commercialization.
The boys had been sold from one middleman to another, and now they were being bartered for a Chechen soldier referred to as "the invalid," whose relatives agreed to negotiate with the women.
They even found bases of support in western Ireland, where stolen cargoes could be bartered for weapons and provisions and the seaports offered "a good store of English, Scottish and Irish wenches".
Their rings — his gold band and her one-carat diamond — may be "red-paper-clipped," Mrs. Harris said: bartered for something better that could in turn be bartered for something better still, as in the Internet celebrity Kyle MacDonald's tale of a paper clip that ultimately produced a house.
It appears likely that some aid will be bartered for the objects in other words, they will be more or less sold, recognising a Russian property right of a sort.In a similar twist of fate, before 1945 the largest collection of Benin art was at the Museum für Völkerkunde in Berlin (the British fear of German collectors was not unfounded).
There was no money up front to be bartered for.
Livers and kidneys might be bartered for revenue-sharing percentages.
But critics say it could further hurt downtrodden areas where parks are equally appreciated, and that green space is too precious to be bartered for money.
Equally important was the search for items that could be bartered: for example, collecting fruits (such as tamarind), aloe juice, lichens from limestone mountains, resin from the bark of various trees, weaving of sheep wool rugs, gathering timber and vegetable gardening.
