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Without that, each experiment, however harmless, would be forced to serve as a proxy for the whole approach a recipe for strangulation by protest and bureaucracy.
ECONOMIST: Geoengineering
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It competes with companies like Mattel and Hasbro, and revenue at big-box retailers like Wal-Mart and Target can serve as a proxy for its health.
FORBES: Connect
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There has been a vast amount of talk - for as long as I can remember - about creating a financial instrument (so-called mutual paper) that would serve as a proxy for equity capital for building societies and that could be sold to investment institutions or even retail investors.
BBC: Will Northern Rock be re-mutualised?
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The Forbes revenue figures are a year old because we have yet to compile 2010 data, but still serve as a good proxy for future revenue for the vast majority of teams.
FORBES: Baseball Teams With The Most Money To Spend On Players
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The NICS checks serve only as a rough proxy for sales, but can gauge broad sentiment.
FORBES: Fear About Gun Legislation Pushed Firearm Sales To Record High Last Month
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Then in 2008, George W. Bush was, in effect, elected to serve a third term by proxy in the person and policies of Barack Obama more war, bigger empire, more unemployment and greater economic misery, more monetary debauchery, more oppression, more spending, new entitlements, more regulations and economic interventions, more bailouts and less liberty.
FORBES: Limping Economy? It's Government Policy Errors, Stupid
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Hamas's willingness to serve as Iran's Palestinian proxy has given Iran complete control over the most active fronts against the hated Jews.
CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Israel's daunting task
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Korea is doing well with retail trading and also because it can serve, somewhat, as a proxy for China, and with much easier access.
FORBES: Equity Markets Will See Less Of The Same -- Instinet
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It is increasingly apparent to both coalition and Iraqi leaders that Iran, through the use of this Quds Force, seeks to turn the Iraqi special groups into Hezbollah-like force to serve its interests and fight a proxy war against the Iraqi state and coalition forces in Iraq.
CNN: Transcript of Iraq hearing statements
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Iran is deeply concerned with the fate of the Assad regime, which has allowed Syrian territory to serve as a conduit for Iranian weapons and other support to reach their proxy, Hezbollah.
NPR: Palestinian Group Says Syria OKs Attacks On Israel