That proxy is distance, measured in miles from Bentonville, the company's place of origin.
Brossel says that proxy servers, which allow Web users to access blocked sites by re-routing traffic through another country, are still impossible to use.
They then used that proxy data, which they dubbed the Paleo Index (PI) and compared it to the merged land-ocean surface temperature (MLOST) records developed by the National Climactic Data Center.
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The measure's supporters say that proxy votes are the most direct way to influence corporate governance, and that investors have the right to know whether a fund manager has voted in their best interests.
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But a representative of the UK Pirate Party - a political group that opposes the bans - told BBC News that more proxy sites had been made available "within minutes" of BT's move.
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Of course, Samsung has indeed said it intends to appeal (and an internal memo reported by CNET corroborates this), so it would seem that the proxy battle against Android is far from over, and the drone of legalese is sure to continue.
And I will remember that no proxy in the world could stand in for you, not truly, because you are irreplaceable to me, you are the man I was meant to spend my life with, and I hereby put my heart in your hands.
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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Apple also says that changing its proxy at this stage would be "unworkable" because it will cost "millions of dollars" to send out new information to shareholders and other administrative costs.
According to Towers Perrin, a consultancy, data from American firms that had filed their 2008 proxy statements by the end of March show that, although median base-salaries rose slightly, the median annual bonus fell by 19%.
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.
Here's how the SEC has made it worse: It decided last year that instead of sending out fat paper proxy packages, companies could mail out postcards alerting shareholders that they could either vote on the Internet or ask for an old-fashioned paper proxy.
We urge stockholders NOT to sign any proxy card that may receive from the Icahn Entities.
Tucked into the package is a proxy card that gives shareholders a vote on executive compensation.
Miss Starlin is also caught up in the proxy war that Eritrea and Ethiopia are fighting in Somalia.
Such a state of affairs in the latter half of the twentieth century led to the endless series of proxy wars that defined the Cold War era.
"There are numerous examples of proxy proposals that combine multiple changes to a single corporate document, including elimination of the 'blank check' authority to issue preferred stock, " Apple stated.
In exchange for the clarifications, the shareholder group withdrew proxy proposals that called on the banks to broaden the scope of their policies, hold managers and supervisors accountable to clawbacks, and publicly disclose clawbacks.
Apple said in its proxy statement that its generous stock awards reflected the team nature of its executives' work, and was based on two principles: that each "must demonstrate exceptional personal performance in order to remain part of the executive team" and that each must contribute to Apple's overall success "rather than focus solely on specific objectives".
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.
Plaintiffs' lawyers argued that the notion of furtive movements, a bulge in a pocket was used as a proxy for reasonable suspicion, that less than two percent of the stops uncovered any weapons or contraband1.
That is consistent with temperature proxy records found in nature, such as tree rings and ice cores.
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The Federal Reserve also rejected the idea that credit scores are a proxy for race in a companion report in mid-August.
There are other well known proxy data issues that need careful thought...
But Microsoft has yet to offer a penny more--and it has indicated that it would launch a proxy fight to gain control of Yahoo!
Icahn proposed a 10-member proxy board slate that includes himself, billionaire entrepreneur and Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban and Frank Biondi, former chief executive of Viacom.
Regardless of that answer, in any proxy contest, like SandRidge and Dell, the endorsement of proxy voting services such as ISS or Glass Lewis is critical.
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The reason is that even if such a proxy is generally correct for a large group, it will not be true for all individuals within the group.
In brief, the narcissistic parent treats their child as a proxy for themselves that they both indulge and manipulate in order to mold them in their own image.
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