Word: compassing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Lesley College notified the Cambridge School Committee last week that it was withdrawing its "Compass" summer program for Cambridge school students with special needs because a member of the committee insulted a Lesley official and "impugned the honor" of the school...
...congressional banking aide last week: "The chances of these proposals passing are remote. The small bank vs. big bank issue is still controversial." Nonetheless, modern financial and credit needs in the 1980s appear to be an irresistible force for changing banking's old ways. Citibank's blue, compass-like trademark may yet become as familiar a symbol around the U.S. as McDonald's golden arches...
...habit, there being few precise dates or prompt solutions in his work-and finished in 1953. Emblems of travel, dwarfed mementos, a little box of mummified waves and shrunken coasts, peninsulas, planets, things set in compartments with an air of rigorous sentiment, each of the 21 compass needles insouciantly pointing in a different direction: it is the log of no ordinary voyage. (Even the map on the inside of the lid depicts an excessively remote coastline, that of the Great Australian Bight.) The earth is presented not as our daily habitat but as one strange planet among others, which...
Later, when he is scouting out a new office for the sales branch in Chung Li, he takes me along on a trip with a master of feng shui, literally, "wind and water." The feng shui master enters the proposed office space, and holds a compass covered with ancient inscriptions against each wall. He checks to see which way the building is facing; where the nearest hills are, through which window the sun shines first. He pauses, as if calculating, and then announces. "This place is good. You will do good business here." The wind and water say so. Michael...
...beach-sunned office workers, Mark Knopfler, centrifugal force of Dire Straits, and bassist John Illsley are wandering the corridors of Warner Bros. Records in New York. They're on holiday from the making of Making Movies, their third album, recorded in a scant few weeks at Nassau's Compass Point studios. Coffee is thrust into their hands; radio stations phone incessantly, demanding over-the-phone interviews...