outward-bound

While there’s little chance that China will fully cede its mantle as the world’s electronics workshop anytime soon, the outward-bound trend is accelerating.

Her style is cool and outward-bound; I’d love to love it.

The phrase comes from a scene in the last pages of the book where I am shadowing some young men on an outward-bound course in the Colorado Rockies.

IT IS hard to rise to the top in business without doing an outward-bound course.

That "path of gold", its suddenness and steadiness captured in the single word, "straight", welcomes a traveller now firmly outward-bound.