During the cold war, African governments, acting as proxy for one side or the other, often backed rebel movements but they rarely crossed borders and never because of an internal issue.
One proxy that is still trading is the Powershares QQQ, which tracks large cap tech stocks like Apple, Intel, and Google.
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Among seven shareholder proposals in the proxy statement is one that would split the posts of chairman and CEO, meaning Mr. Blankfein would have to relinquish his chairman duties.
Many Arab papers see the superpower confrontation over Syria as the start of a new Cold War by proxy, although one commentator says the Russian and Chinese positions could change.
One proxy for borrowing costs, the iTraxx Europe Senior Financials index, is back above three percentage points, after falling to 1.81 percentage points in March from a record 3.53 percentage points in late November.
Wikipedia is blocked in China--except to computer users who have downloaded proxy technology like Tor, a software program that gets them outside China by sending them to linked proxy servers, one encrypted hop at a time.
Bluntly put, the recent escalation of hostilities will not only prolong the deadly conflict in Syria, but has now made it an open-ended war by proxy -- one with major potential repercussions for regional and international security and peace.
One basic proxy we use for investor sentiment is the percentage of NYSE stocks selling above their 30-week moving average.
Since the Second Lebanon War last summer, the US has pushed Israel to take no action against Iran's proxy Hamas on the one hand, while pushing Israel to empower Fatah, which has its own strong ties to Iran and to Hamas, on the other.
Chatting becomes an exercise in keeping your little stick figure proxy in front of the one belonging to the person you are trying to talk to.
Is that even a fair characterization of one black man being used as a proxy against another black man?
If you want a fairly reliable sector play as a proxy for President Barack Obama winning a second term, one of the brightest picks is solar.
The Securities and Exchanges Commission, whose rules Mr Einhorn claims proposal two breaks by bundling several votes into one, had an opportunity to review the proxy filing and made no objections, Apple added.
We know that is one of the most alluring parts of the a proxy statement.
In Asia, too, the proxy wars were over, but the thawing of the cold one still brought big changes.
No one has supplied Iran's embattled revolutionaries with proxy servers after the regime brought down their Internet communications networks.
For one thing, it likely renders a company's proxy materials false and misleading.
Beginning in 2007, regulators allowed companies to save shipping and paper costs by sending only a one-page form to shareholders, while referring them to proxy statements and annual 10-K reports online.
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One of Shigeta's most promising new businesses is providing Web pages by proxy to small businesses.
Only one company in his industry had a CEO being savaged by Carl Icahn in a proxy battle, while its top-selling drugs were facing competition and safety controversies.
Which is one reason why the Americans and their allies are reluctant to push too hard in the other proxy struggle they are waging in Syria - against Iran and its allies, Hezbollah and the Damascus regime itself.
One of the dangers of the "good governance" movement is the notion that one size fits all, which is held by many, including some major institutional shareholders and the proxy rating agencies, at least on many issues.
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