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Word: compassion (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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Unless you want to risk spending a lonely night in the woods, make sure to pick up a map at the Lincoln Guideservice which is housed in a bike shop northeast across the parking lot you face when you get off the train. A compass would also be a good thing to bring along if you're planning on covering a lot of ground...

Author: By Chris W. Mcevoy, | Title: Phenomonal Fall Foliage Found for All | 10/15/1997 | See Source »

...searing (11,000[degrees]F) surface at speeds of millions of miles an hour. If these electrically charged particles happen to slam against Earth's atmosphere, they can imperil astronauts, push satellites out of orbit or fry their circuitry. If they hit the ground, they can turn compass needles topsy-turvy, knock out electrical-power systems and possibly change the planetary climate. No wonder scientists dream of one day being able to predict storms on the sun with all the accuracy of terrestrial weather forecasts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EYES ON THE STORM-TOSSED SUN | 9/8/1997 | See Source »

...continent normally consigned to the political and economic dustheap, Yoweri Museveni has amply demonstrated that he is something different. The President of Uganda, respected at home as Central Africa's intellectual compass and admired abroad as the harbinger of good news for a blighted region, has successfully resurrected his own benighted country and now fully intends to help neighboring leaders do the same for theirs. The secret? Things long deemed heretical there, like Africans taking charge of their own future, like the virtues of the free market, like a United States of Africa, like cows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AN AFRICAN FOR AFRICA | 9/1/1997 | See Source »

According to Kittel, the PLA grew out of "a deep conviction that the sexual practice of America needs to have a new moral compass...

Author: By Elizabeth S. Zuckerman, | Title: 'Absolute Sex' Rally Staged in Boston | 8/8/1997 | See Source »

...incorrect in some facts. I am the owner and captain of the sailing vessel Satori, which your reviewer said sank in the fierce 1991 storm off the East Coast. In fact, before evacuating the vessel, I lashed the helm, sheeted in the storm jib and checked the compass. Seven days after my crew and I were rescued, I had Satori pulled off the beach in Maryland. Her bilges were dry, and there was no structural damage. Since then, I've sailed her 6,000 miles. RAYMOND LEONARD Pittsford...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jul. 28, 1997 | 7/28/1997 | See Source »

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