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1. " Information technology signifies the advent of "immaterial" production, and with it the emergence of the worker who integrates knowledge, skill and labor--what Robert Reich has designated "symbolic-analytic services," activities that entail "problem-solving" and "brokering," once performed chiefly by managers."

Source:   STANLEY ARONOWITZ. "The New World Order" Nation 271.3 July 17 2000: 25 Google This

2. " At any one time investors in both markets only ever possess part of a whole; shares in a company or a share of goods that only have local meaning when seen as part of a larger symbolic cluster."

Source:   Thompson, Robyn. "Playing the Stockmarket in Tana Toraja" Australian Journal of Anthropology 11.1 Apr. 1 2000: 42 Google This

3. " 33-59. [Documents EH's travels through the rest of France, which became a `symbolic landscape'] --. "Hemingway's Happiest Summer--`The Wildest, Most Beautiful, Wonderful Time Ever Ever': or, The Liberation of France and Hemingway." North Dakota Quarterly 64.3..."

Source:   DEFAZIO, ALBERT J. III. "CURRENT BIBLIOGRAPHY: ANNOTATED" Hemingway Review 18.1 Sept. 22 1998: 114-115 Google This

4. " There are now more than 250 Tibetan Buddhist Lea rning Centers in the United States, and more Americans than ever have become familiar with the history, art and music of this culture (Kamenetz 1994, 278). [16] Symbolic..."

Source:   Kohn, Robert E. "The Ambivalence In Kotzwinkle's Beat And Bardo Ties" College Literature 27.2 Mar. 22 2000: 103 Google This

5. "... piece with the millennial day strikes me as so optimally appropriate in a general and symbolic sense; why the privilege of participation meant so much to me personally (an otherwise private matter, but vouchsafed to essayists ever since Montaigne..."

Source:   Gould, Stephen Jay. "The First Day of the Rest of Our Life" Natural History 109.3 Apr. 1 2000: 32 Google This

6. " Charles T. Goodsell suggests that "In view of the often contrived, distinctive, regularized, and symbolic nature of human behavior, it is inconceivable that administration would ever be completely without role playing, stylization, and staging."

Source:   Frederickson, H. George. "Can Bureaucracy Be Beautiful?" Public Administration Review 60.1 Jan. 1 2000: 47 Google This

7. "... of politeness, respect and submission are seldom if ever spoken in Vietnam, and are not reducible to a symbolic system standing in for language."

Source:   ARGENTI, NICOLAS. "Did Nike Say to `Just Do It" Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 6.2 June 1 2000: 344 Google This

8. " For Melnick, though, whether the phantom "little colored boy" ever really existed is less important than the rumor's symbolic "truth." "Whatever his [Berlin's] personal relationship..."

Source:   Forman, Seth. "A Right to Sing the Blues: African Americans, Jews, and AmericanPopular Song" American Jewish History June 1 1999: 243 Google This

9. " While the decision affected only 1,742 acres of timber land and 1,000 jobs, it was the first exemption ever granted under the ESA and a major symbolic shift in policy."

Source:   Bryner, Gary. "Balancing Preservation and Logging: Public Lands Policy in British Columbia and the Western United States" Policy Studies Journal 27.2 June 22 1999: 307 Google This

10. " And the most opulent image of all, the city portrayed as an enormous golden cube (something like the Great Wall of China squared and as tall as 260 stacked Everests) demands symbolic interpretation."

Source:   HAMM, DENNIS. "THE STREETS OF HEAVEN: THE IDEOLOGY OF WEALTH IN THE APOCALYPSEOF JOHN" Theological Studies 60.3 Sept. 1 1999: 544 Google This

11. "... in most polls, Mr. Giuliani faces real - not at all symbolic - trouble at home, where a long-simmering feud threatens ever-elusive Republican unity."

Source:   . "`Who needs Rudy?'" Washington Times Aug. 4 1999: 16 Google This

12. " Devine's zany conceptual hotrod happily exploits every subliminal reaction we've ever had to the symbolic history of the automobile."

Source:   Reid, Calvin. "Dan Devine at Pierogi 2000" Art in America 87.2 Feb. 1 1999: 112-113 Google This

13. "... their engagement in the imaginary register (dramatized in Basileo's fear of overthrow by a monster-son) and the obligation to sacrifice their desires to the symbolic order, to the imperative of civilization and its ever-incomplete promise of pleasure in law and order."

Source:   Greer, Margaret Rich. "The Play in the Mirror: Lacanian Perspectives on Spanish BaroqueTheater" Renaissance Quarterly v51.n3 Sept. 22 1998: 982-984 Google This

14. " In today's world, perhaps more so than ever before, this especially means communication or `symbolic-analytic' skills--not just those such as spelling or keyboarding but also those associated with design, critical analysis and electronic and other forms of information access and handling."

Source:   Durrant, Cal,Green, Bill. "Literacy and the new technologies in school education: Meeting the leracy challenge?" Australian Journal of Language and Literacy 23.2 June 1 2000: 89 Google This

15. " This crowding out of symbolic consumption appears to be supported by the nature of the sorts of preferences that have become more common as impulsivity is encouraged by benefits being brought ever closer to the decision moment."

Source:   George, David. "Are unpreferred preferences weak in symbolic content?" Review of Social Economy 62.3 Sept. 1 2004: 365-378 Google This

16. " OMA's much-heralded, biggest-ever project is the headquarters of CCTV, China's national television station, in Beijing, which surely must represent the denouement of all Koolhaas's strategizing: to create the symbolic center of a universal medium that is..."

Source:   Vanderbilt, Tom. "Chairman Now: Tom Vanderbilt on Rem Koolhaas's Content" Artforum International 43.1 Sept. 1 2004: 29-30 Google This

17. " The physician executive becomes a mythmaker and manages at symbolic levels."

Source:   Kaiser, Leland R. "The physician executive in a changing world." Physician Executive 25.2 Mar. 1 1999: 10-18 Google This

18. " Organizational research on corporate governance finds that managers engage in "symbolic action" by announcing, but not actually implementing, actions that engender positive stock market reactions (Westphal & Zajac 1998)."

Source:   Kang, David L.,Sorensen, Aage B. "OWNERSHIP ORGANIZATION AND FIRM PERFORMANCE" Annual Review of Sociology Jan. 1 1999: 121 Google This

19. "... (2.) For Goulet, Rope recounts the tension inherent in the inevitable entry into Lacan's Symbolic; for D. A. Miller, the characters Brandon, Phillip, and David are "managed" by a camera complicit with Rupert's homophobic ideology; for Hemmeter, Rupert's..."

Source:   Morris, Christopher D. "Ro / pe" Film Criticism 24.2 Dec. 22 1999: 17 Google This

20. " However, neither this symbolic attempt, nor the discourse of the diaspora in general, nor all the efforts of the opposition active outside Iraq managed to produce decisive results."

Source:   BENGIO, OFRA. "Republic of Fear: The Politics of Modern Iraq" Middle Eastern Studies 36.1 Jan. 1 2000: 198 Google This

21. " Another possible motivation, however, is the opportunity to create symbolic policies, which are designed primarily to manage the public's environmental concerns and only minimally protect the environment."

Source:   Gonzalez, George A. "Pluralism by the Rules: Conflict and Cooperation in Environmental Regulation" American Political Science Review 93.2 June 1 1999: 461-463 Google This

22. " Assembly resolutions are more symbolic than binding. "The U.S. has certainly designed a blockade that, as a vile medieval cudgel, has managed..."

Source:   Pisik, Betsy. "THE U. N. REPORT" Washington Times Oct. 19 1998: 14 Google This

23. " Out of these interviews emerged a theoretical framework which highlights three dimensions: (1) the coincident roles of business owner/manager and co-ethnic individual; (2) the easy flow of communication among co-ethnics; and (3) the symbolic aspects of ethnicity."

Source:   Dyer, Linda M.,Ross, Christopher A. "Ethnic Enterprises and their Clientele" Journal of Small Business Management 38.2 Apr. 1 2000: 48 Google This

24. "... lists symbolic gestures (e.g. the elimination of managers' parking spaces), employee representation, less obtrusive supervision, broadened tasks, improved training, profit- and gain-sharing plans, and employee stock ownership..."

Source:   Smith, Michael R. "On the Use of the Prisoners' Dilemma to Analyze the Relations Between Employment Security, Trust, And Effort" Review of Social Economy 58.2 June 1 2000: 153 Google This

25. "... symbolic activity constructed of multiple behaviors that occur in a fixed, episodic sequence, and that tend to be repeated over time."

Source:   Treise, Debbie,Wolburg, Joyce M.,Otnes, Cele C. "Understanding the 'social gifts' of drinking rituals: an alternative framework for PSA developers" Journal of Advertising 28.2 June 22 1999: 17-18 Google This

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