The danger is that each time they clash, even by proxy, they risk turning strategy into war.

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Due to this persistent uncertainty, each institution must signal quality through expensive proxy signals, such as the quality of their students, research, facilities, or athletic teams.

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While each of these states continues to supply assistance to its respective proxy in Cambodia, all three now appear to recognize that the war is imposing unacceptably high costs both on their reeling economies and on their international standing.

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You can't access most of them, but an easy proxy is Business Week's annual market forecast page in each year's final issue.

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But imagine if the length of the foot changed each day, each hour, and each second, much as the value of the dollar does, and by proxy, the yuan.

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Since both are affected by gravity they are attracted to each other, so the distribution of normal, visible matter acts as a proxy for the distribution of dark matter.

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Mr. Einhorn's lawsuit, filed in the federal court in Manhattan, argues that the very formulation of Apple's proxy statement violates Securities and Exchange Commission rules that allow shareholders to vote on "each matter" in the proposals.

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As the proxy shows, Irani continued to earn around twice as much as Chazen, and has done so in each of the years he has been executive chairman.

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