Word: heroicize
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Part of the problem is the disaster's magnitude, but scientists and environmentalists charge that Exxon squandered vast sums on paperwork, ill- conceived cleanup techniques and heroic rescues. It cost the company about $80,000 for each of the several hundred otters it cleaned, many of which died anyway. The use of scalding-hot, pressurized seawater to hose down beaches left many areas almost sterile, empty of the limpets and other intertidal creatures that dwell there...
...cheerleading slogan for Africa, coined by Tanzania's Julius Nyerere shortly after his country won its independence, was "We Must Run While They Walk." It caught the mood of euphoria and ambition, the dash of social heroism. Now the sense of heroic hope is mostly gone. Vast stretches of Africa are in worse shape than when they became independent. People routinely live at subsistence levels. Says Denys Lawrie, a mining consultant who works in West Africa: "Africans have wasted 20 years." The world's attention has gone elsewhere, and African leaders know their rations of aid will be smaller...
...result is a lack of pretension rare in Washington, and especially so at Foggy Bottom. Eagleburger avoids using his formal office, with its chandelier, red damask couch and heroic picture of George Washington, because he thinks it looks too much "like a Moroccan house of ill repute." Says his wife Marlene: "He presents the same face to people in Washington that he does to our sons' friends. He's just comfortable in his own skin, and people respond...
...clothes, drives a long-bladed knife through a man's shoulder, pinning him to a pool table, and fries another man's hands and face on the griddle of a restaurant. Ten-year- olds watch Schwarzenegger's disgusting violence and absorb it as if it were normal, acceptable and heroic behavior...
...fall came despite nearly heroic efforts to stop it. No fewer than 17 central banks, including the German Bundesbank, the Swiss National Bank and America's own Federal Reserve, began buying hundreds of millions of dollars as the rate slipped below the 1.45 level that has triggered past rescue attempts. This time it hardly helped. By the close of trading in New York Friday, the dollar had recovered only to 1.4290. That, in turn, helped knock more than 50 points off the Dow Jones industrial average at Friday's close...