While the Aymara adopted some of the Catholic ideologies and traditions forced upon them by European settlers, they also continued to practice their own religion, an older native American belief system.

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They administer their own admissions - but within the strict requirements of the national code of practice, and they will not be able to select pupils on ability.

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But in practice, they have almost always elected one of their own.

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With that scale and speed of practice with their social experience they could then jumpstart their own appeals to customers to attract more customers through their friends and friends of their friends.

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Encouragingly, the poll suggests some Latin Americans are much happier than they were with the way their own democracies work in practice.

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Ideally each vineyard would gather the ingredients for its Steiner preparations from its own soil. (Though it's probably rare that they can manage this 100 percent in practice--most wineries, for one thing, don't have their own cow herds.) There is, for example, the "501, " which specifies ground quartz mixed with rain water, packed into a cow's horn buried in spring and dug up in autumn.

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