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{{g}}''Careful: do not confuse with “poxy”''. | |||
===Corporate actions=== | |||
A person sent along to a shareholders’ meeting (and [[AGM]], [[EGM]], that kind of thing) with a piece of paper entitling her to vote on behalf of a registered shareholder. A special type of [[agent]]. | |||
===Phantom antipodean children, spouse, etc.=== | |||
Also, a sort of [[Proxy jetlag|synthetic jet-lag]], caused by cohabiting with people — children, usually — who have ''actual'' jet-lag. | Also, a sort of [[Proxy jetlag|synthetic jet-lag]], caused by cohabiting with people — children, usually — who have ''actual'' jet-lag. | ||
{{ | ===Middle-management=== | ||
Any shorthand, [[heuristic]] or a [[second-order derivative]] which enables a person with no [[subject matter expertise]] to instantly evaluate something [[complex]], intractable, constitutionally incapable of instant evaluation — the sort of thing that requires a lifetime’s market expertise to properly assess. For example, a [[credit rating]] in place of a systematic analysis of the business fundamentals of a multinational corporation. | |||
Also: a five-star rating for a book review, or a three-point rating in a [[performance appraisal]]. | |||
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*[[Annual general meeting]] | *[[Annual general meeting]] | ||
*[[Extraordinary general meeting]] | |||
*[[Proxy jetlag]] | *[[Proxy jetlag]] | ||
*''[[Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed|Seeing Like a State]]'' | |||
*[[Goal]]s | |||