Word: haile
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Businessmen hail him as the leader best equipped to guarantee political and economic stability, but critics claim that as former commander of the armed forces, he was at least indirectly responsible for fissures within the military. Ramos' harshest critics are the victims of the Marcos martial-law government. Their accusations of torture and harassment at military hands dogged Ramos throughout the campaign. He portrayed himself as one of the few officers who were able to intervene with Marcos to cut prisoners' sentences. Among the beneficiaries of his intervention was Benigno Aquino, the outgoing President's late husband, who spent...
...hail to the man whose films were too bad to be bad. He has finally inspired a work worthy of his ambitions. Delirious and horrifying -- and All True! -- Nightmare of Ecstasy is better than any Ed Wood film. No, the book deserves a higher compliment: it's worse...
Some experts, like Harvard political scientist Martin Kilson, hail the rise of a new breed of "transethnic" black politicians such as Virginia Governor Douglas Wilder and Seattle mayor Norman Rice. Unlike most black politicians, who come to power representing mostly black constituencies, these candidates have won elections in predominantly white jurisdictions by forging biracial coalitions. Their victories suggest that many white voters are willing to judge black politicians by their performance in office rather than by their race. Blacks will expand the limits of their political power once more of them begin to do the same...
...against that backdrop that so many Venezuelans, otherwise a sophisticated people, could hail as a hero a banana-republic primitive like Colonel Chavez...
...HAIL TO THE CHIEF...