(I could have also chosen more proximate destinations, like Barcelona versus Madrid or Frankfurt versus Berlin).
Chabon is a careful guide to his favored artistic outposts, maintaining reassuring ties to more proximate lands.
But the more proximate tool, with the greatest known effectiveness, was fiscal policy, especially increased government purchases of goods and services.
We were witnesses, that night, to a searching conversation about the Iran-Iraq War, the shared blight on our guests' childhoods that had given way, for our Iraqi friends, to more proximate traumas.
There were also more proximate causes, chief among which were the appearance of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's Gulag Archipelago, the emergence of the Polish Solidarity movement, and the murderous reign of Pol Pot in Cambodia.
Islamists, overthrowing him, would take control of Pakistan's nuclear arsenal; lacking the ability to launch missiles that would reach Israel, they would turn on India, their more proximate enemy.
We need more proximate explanatory mechanisms.
Or even tilling the soil, like our more proximate ancestors.
Similarly, the pairs of works will be placed more proximate or more apart according to the co-citation frequency.
They also may contribute to shorter routings, more proximate suppliers, higher standards for the quality of goods (meaning less returns) and less tolerance for lost or damaged goods.
But at more proximate levels, three dominant contemporary models might be expected to lay claims on emotion theory: physiology, computation, and dynamical systems.
