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Most lawyers accept proximate cause as a necessary term of art and will consider the author's treatment of it as “concise gibberish’ for which you can “get a definition at any supermarket’ as rather severe.
The jury concluded that negligent marketing and distribution of handguns by nine companies was a "proximate cause" of three recent shootings, despite the absence of proof that any particular company's product was involved in any of the shootings.
Quite a variety of intracellular messengers have been proposed to provide the proximate signals in exercising muscles to stimulate activity-dependent gene regulation.
These differences extend to the proximate ecological mechanisms underlying spatial variation in species richness, and, in some cases, apparently to ecological interactions.
There is no deep mystery about the proximate origins of the term "soft money."