Sometimes a customer would barter for repairs: one left a goat as payment.
State news agencies batted away the accusation that Argentina would barter for Iranian oil; the country needed refined, not crude, oil, which Iran couldn't provide.
One day in April, at a rally in the rural hamlet of Mesquite, Nevada, Lowden remarked that in the old days people who couldn't afford health care would barter for medical services — bringing a chicken, for example, instead of money, as payment.
Last week, Mike Sonsini, a carpet cleaner from West Islip, N.Y., with a 6-handicap, held up a ticket to the Open and asked Black-bound golfers if any would barter a spot for it.
If Mr Paisley agreed to share power with Sinn Fein, official circles expect that republicans would barter their endorsement of policing for some final concessions, and rush back into Stormont.
(How hard it was for me to reconcile, years later as a journalist, the image of that child with the new one of the former prime minister who, according to her many detractors, would barter her country's hopes for a diamond necklace).
No one would barter any property of her own for a credit default swap.
Mrs. Hanna noted that while 19th-century folks sometimes paid cash for what they needed, "More commonly, they would barter, or they could work it off".
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.
Ms. Clancy recalls that when she moved to New York more than 20 years ago and was working on a low-budget film in a loft on Van Dam Street, her group would barter set materials for food from a neighbor, the director David Cronenberg.
