Word: heroicize
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...Alamo. The beleaguered electronics giant took out a two-page advertisement in the Wall Street Journal that was intended to have the impact of a barrage of cannonballs. "Suddenly an era of explosive invention begins," proclaimed the company, as it touted an array of new technologies. This time the heroic struggle is over the manufacture of semiconductors, the tiny silicon chips that form the brains of virtually every advanced product from microwave ovens to mainframe computers. The attacker is Japan, whose aggressive electronics industry is on the verge of toppling the U.S. as the world leader in the $27 billion...
...paradoxically, a possible key to an eventual solution of the South African dilemma. In Nelson Mandela and four other A.N.C. leaders who have spent the past 24 years in prison for their campaign against apartheid, the organization holds claim to a virtual pantheon of martyrs whose resistance appears more heroic by the day to a vast majority of blacks. In the face of severe criticism by the government, which regards the A.N.C. as "part of the international terrorist network," a number of white South African businessmen, churchmen and other prominent opinion makers have recently chosen to meet with A.N.C. leaders...
...very successful, and basically bent with the wind. He was never a moral leader," says the writer. "Cicero was a major figure in contributing to the world of great power, great money and great corruption, but at the end of his life, he fought against this corruption. It was heroic, because he didn't have to do it. He could have just led a rich, quiet and safe life in retirement...
...Crimson was not able to pull out a heroic last-minute victory in the face of incredible adversity--it lost, 12-6. Nonetheless, the aquadudes played an excellent second half and regained some of the confidence they had lost the day before...
...budget straitjacket annoys many lawmakers because they can no longer dash off the sort of heroic measures they once passed effortlessly. After Philippine President Corazon Aquino made a stirring speech to Congress appealing for more American aid, the Senate comically tried and failed twice to come up with a $200 million honorarium. After first hunting fruitlessly through foreign aid accounts and then trying to siphon funds from a Central American appropriation, last week the Senators dug the money out of the foreign-operations kitty...