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Consequently, local hostility to cycling infrastructure has often been a proxy for wider anger at gentrification.
Demand for copper — a key material in construction and manufacturing — has long been a proxy for the overall health of the world economy.
Europe has been a proxy for a fight between mainstream liberal Tories and the libertarian anti-state outriders for 20 years.
Instead, it has been a proxy for far more fundamental and insoluble matters, particularly Ukraine's 2004 turn to the West in the "Orange Revolution," which deeply shook Russia's nationalists.
In raw symbolic terms, the dollar has long been a proxy for American power, economic and otherwise, so the popular interest in its troubles simply mirrors fear of rising economic rivals like China.
The only auction spot expected to suffer is Monaco, which has been a proxy for Paris for both Christie's and Sotheby's.For the time being, however, Paris will remain at a fiscal disadvantage compared with London and New York.
