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Answer for the clue "Astronomical reference point ", 8 letters:
lodestar

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WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. guiding star; a star that is used as a reference point in navigation of astronomy [syn: loadstar ] something that serves as a model or guide [syn: loadstar ]

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Lodestar is an early 1960s cruising trimaran sailboat design by Arthur Piver .

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c. (late 13c. as a surname), an old name for the pole star (compare Old Norse leiưarstjarna ) as the star that "leads the way" in navigation; from lode (n.) + star (n.). Figurative use from late 14c.

Usage examples of lodestar.

He had founded Lodestar Investment Management twenty years ago, after ten laborious years at a large Boston moneymanagement firm.

For most of those twenty years Lodestar had languished as a small-time financial advisory firm, barely generating enough fee income to stay in business.

Now, besides the President, Lodestar counted as its clients seven Senators, thirty-two Representatives, a Supreme Court justice, and hundreds of institutions.

The story will be written so that the reader will infer that the President influenced Lodestar management into making the purchases because he had inside information.

Victor Farinholt leaned over his desk at Lodestar Investment Management and waved a piece of paper angrily at Peter Lane.

Grand Cayman account-in return for their request that Lodestar put the President into Penn-Mar.

Third, I need to know what the hell Lodestar Investment Management is.

Securities and Exchange Commission, the Department of Justice, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation stormed the Washington offices of Lodestar Investment Management.

Through his press secretary, Peter Arland, the President has officially denied direct contact with Farinholt or any other employee of Lodestar since depositing money in a blind trust with the firm four years ago.

He was focusing on the revelation of his involvement with Lodestar and his long relationship with Victor Farinholt, on the insider-trading charge, which was rumored to be imminent, and on the Lane Memo, as it was being called.

But there were only small stories about the Lodestar raid and no mention of a confidential memorandum linking the President to insider trading.

The Financial Chronicle had broken the story on the Lodestar raid because the Sevens controlled the paper.

Second, I want to say that I am in no way connected to the events, to the raid on Lodestar Investment Management in the early hours of this morning.

A memo that outlined how the President had directed Lodestar to invest in Penn-Mar for him because he knew it was going to be taken over.

The records indicate that Lodestar invested twenty thousand dollars into Penn-Mar on behalf of the President just days before the takeover was announced.