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This evaluation establishes whether the plant use is based on empirically verifiable principles or whether symbolic aspects of healing are more important [ 1 ] . Hunters are principally interested in the following game animals: agouti ( Dasyprocta agouti ), matte ( Tupinambis negropunctatus ), tatou ( Dasypus novemcinctus ), deer ( Mazama americana trinitatis ), lappe ( Agouti paca ), manicou ( Didelphis marsupialis insularis ), wild hog/quenk ( Tayassu tajacu ). The hunting season lasts from October 1st to February 28/29, then there is a closed season for the rest of the year.
The only difference between this and a conventional soap opera (or, for that matter, an episode of The Love Boat ) is that Carroll doesn't spell out the interrelationship among the couples until the final scene, a symbolic remarriage in which the characters realize that talking about love might be as futile as dancing about architecture, but you have to do it anyway if your life is going to mean anything.
If President Clinton is looking for an easy symbolic way to cement his reputation as a "small government" Democrat--and, if we know Clinton, he surely is--the answer is clear: Be one-up on the Republicans, and actually abolish a Cabinet department.
Civil rights would always be a cause that moved by symbolic advances, and the fact is that Eleanor took down more than her fair share of bricks from the edifice of respectable racism.
Symbolic weight isn't nothing in this case: No one can say how much it ultimately meant that ER had lunch on the patio of the White House with Walter White of the NAACP, but it meant something for the country's first hostess to say that there was no reason a black man shouldn't eat with her, in the White House, as her equal.
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