Word: compassable
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...place ought to come with an owner’s manual or at least a map, a whistle, a compass, and a sandwich,” Faust joked...
...enrolls for refresher training courses in the Bekaa. The training camps are hidden in remote wooded areas, with no permanent structures to give away their presence to Israeli jets and drones overhead. The fighters are taught how to strip, handle and shoot weapons, plant roadside bombs, navigate using a compass or stars, conduct surveillance and stage ambushes. They conclude with written and practical exams. Salem says he hopes soon to enlist in Hizballah's special-forces unit. "We're getting ready for another war with Israel," he says. "We feel it's coming...
Nine hundred bright-eyed Harvard Business School (HBS) graduates of the Class of 2007 blanketed the lawn in front of Baker Library yesterday as American Express Company Chairman and CEO Kenneth I. Chenault took the stage, exhorting them to maintain a moral compass as they work to become leaders in the business world. A Harvard Law School graduate, Chenault—well known for the leadership he exhibited in 2001 when the American Express tower was damaged by debris from the collapsing World Trade Center—was selected by the four members of the Student Class Day Committee...
...sparky wife who seems adept at summoning his lighter side. Still, it's difficult to imagine him indulging in frivolous pursuits. It comes as no surprise that he's the son of a Scottish preacher, a background that imparted what he calls "a sense of a moral compass," as well as a frugal lifestyle and an urge to evangelize that has long since been sublimated into a focus on such causes as tackling poverty and preventable disease in Africa...
Smith believed he had made an impression as well, cunningly leading his captors to believe he possessed magical powers by showing off his compass--How does the needle move inside the rock?--and, of course, firing off gunpowder, which the natives took from him and vowed to plant the following spring so they too might reap a harvest of powdered fury...