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education reforms

  • 1 Education

       In Portugal's early history, education was firmly under the control of the Catholic Church. The earliest schools were located in cathedrals and monasteries and taught a small number of individuals destined for ecclesiastical office. In 1290, a university was established by King Dinis (1261-1325) in Lisbon, but was moved to Coimbra in 1308, where it remained. Coimbra University, Portugal's oldest, and once its most prestigious, was the educational cradle of Portugal's leadership. From 1555 until the 18th century, primary and secondary education was provided by the Society of Jesus (Jesuits). The Catholic Church's educational monopoly was broken when the Marquis of Pombal expelled the Jesuits in 1759 and created the basis for Portugal's present system of public, secular primary and secondary schools. Pombal introduced vocational training, created hundreds of teaching posts, added departments of mathematics and natural sciences at Coimbra University, and established an education tax to pay for them.
       During the 19th century, liberals attempted to reform Portugal's educational system, which was highly elitist and emphasized rote memorization and respect for authority, hierarchy, and discipline.
       Reforms initiated in 1822, 1835, and 1844 were never actualized, however, and education remained unchanged until the early 20th century. After the overthrow of the monarchy on the Fifth of October 1910 by Republican military officers, efforts to reform Portugal's educational system were renewed. New universities were founded in Lisbon and Oporto, a Ministry of Education was established, and efforts were made to increase literacy (illiteracy rates being 80 percent) and to resecularize educational content by introducing more scientific and empirical methods into the curriculum.
       Such efforts were ended during the military dictatorship (192632), which governed Portugal until the establishment of the Estado Novo (1926-74). Although a new technical university was founded in Lisbon in 1930, little was done during the Estado Novo to modernize education or to reduce illiteracy. Only in 1964 was compulsory primary education made available for children between the ages of 6 and 12.
       The Revolution of 25 April 1974 disrupted Portugal's educational system. For a period of time after the Revolution, students, faculty, and administrators became highly politicized as socialists, communists, and other groups attempted to gain control of the schools. During the 1980s, as Portuguese politics moderated, the educational system was gradually depoliticized, greater emphasis was placed on learning, and efforts were made to improve the quality of Portuguese schools.
       Primary education in Portugal consists of four years in the primary (first) cycle and two years in the preparatory, or second, cycle. The preparatory cycle is intended for children going on to secondary education. Secondary education is roughly equivalent to junior and senior high schools in the United States. It consists of three years of a common curriculum and two years of complementary courses (10th and 11th grades). A final year (12th grade) prepares students to take university entrance examinations.
       Vocational education was introduced in 1983. It consists of a three-year course in a particular skill after the 11th grade of secondary school.
       Higher education is provided by the four older universities (Lisbon, Coimbra, Oporto, and the Technical University of Lisbon), as well as by six newer universities, one in Lisbon and the others in Minho, Aveiro, Évora, the Algarve, and the Azores. There is also a private Catholic university in Lisbon. Admission to Portuguese universities is highly competitive, and places are limited. About 10 percent of secondary students go on to university education. The average length of study at the university is five years, after which students receive their licentiate. The professoriate has four ranks (professors, associate professors, lecturers, and assistants). Professors have tenure, while the other ranks teach on contract.
       As Portugal is a unitary state, the educational system is highly centralized. All public primary and secondary schools, universities, and educational institutes are under the purview of the Ministry of Education, and all teachers and professors are included in the civil service and receive pay and pension like other civil servants. The Ministry of Education hires teachers, determines curriculum, sets policy, and pays for the building and upkeep of schools. Local communities have little say in educational matters.

    Historical dictionary of Portugal > Education

  • 2 enseignement

    enseignement [ɑ̃sεɲ(ə)mɑ̃]
    masculine noun
       a. ( = cours, système scolaire) education
    enseignement primaire/secondaire primary/secondary education
       b. ( = carrière) l'enseignement teaching
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    ɑ̃sɛɲmɑ̃
    nom masculin
    1) ( institution) education
    2) ( activité) teaching
    3) ( formation) instruction
    4) ( cours) tuition
    5) ( leçon) lesson
    Phrasal Verbs:
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    ɑ̃sɛɲ(ə)mɑ̃
    1. nm
    (= éducation) education

    enseignement primaireprimary education Grande-Bretagne grade school education USA

    enseignement secondairesecondary education Grande-Bretagne high school education USA

    2. enseignements nmpl
    (= leçon, morale) teachings
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    1 ( institution) education; l'enseignement primaire/secondaire/supérieur primary/secondary/higher education; l'enseignement public/privé/universitaire state GB ou public US/private/university education; politique/secteur de l'enseignement education policy/sector; réforme de l'enseignement educational reform;
    2 ( activité) teaching; se consacrer à l'enseignement to devote oneself to teaching; l'enseignement des langues vivantes modern language teaching; programmes/méthodes/matériaux d'enseignement teaching programmesGB/methods/materials; carrière de l'enseignement teaching career; entrer dans l'enseignement to enter the teaching profession; activités/équipements d'enseignement educational activities/facilities;
    3 ( formation) instruction; l'enseignement théorique/pratique theoretical/practical instruction;
    4 ( cours) tuition; l'enseignement individuel individual tuition; dispenser/recevoir un enseignement to give/receive tuition;
    5 ( leçon) lesson; enseignements d'un échec/de l'expérience lessons drawn from failure/experience; plein or riche d'enseignements full of lessons to be learned; tirer les enseignements de to draw a lesson from.
    enseignement artistique art education; enseignement assisté par ordinateur, EAO computer-aided learning, CAL; enseignement audiovisuel audiovisual teaching; enseignement par correspondance distance learning; enseignement à distance distance learning; enseignement général mainstream education; enseignement libre denominational education; enseignement ménager Scol domestic science; enseignement mixte coeducation; enseignement professionnel vocational training ou education; enseignement religieux religious instruction; enseignement technique technical education.
    [ɑ̃sɛɲmɑ̃] nom masculin
    1. [instruction] education
    2. [méthodes d'instruction] teaching (methods)
    3. [système scolaire]
    enseignement primaire/supérieur primary/higher education
    4. [profession]
    l'enseignement teaching, the teaching profession
    5. [leçon] lesson, teaching

    Dictionnaire Français-Anglais > enseignement

  • 3 Hochschulreform

    f higher education reforms Pl.
    * * *
    Hoch|schul|re|form
    f
    university reform
    * * *
    Hoch·schul·re·form
    f university reform
    * * *
    Hochschulreform f higher education reforms pl

    Deutsch-Englisch Wörterbuch > Hochschulreform

  • 4 reforma

    f.
    1 reform.
    reforma agraria land reform, agrarian reform
    2 alterations.
    hacer reformas en casa to to do up the house
    3 Reformation.
    pres.indicat.
    3rd person singular (él/ella/ello) present indicative of spanish verb: reformar.
    imperat.
    2nd person singular (tú) Imperative of Spanish verb: reformar.
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    1 (gen) reform
    2 (mejora) improvement
    3 la Reforma RELIGIÓN the Reformation
    1 (en construcción) alterations, repairs, improvements
    \
    'Cerrado por reformas' "Closed for alterations"
    reforma agraria agrarian reform
    reforma fiscal tax reform
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    noun f.
    * * *
    SF
    1) (=modificación) reform

    la Reforma — (Rel) the Reformation; Méx (Pol) 19th century reform movement

    2) pl reformas [en edificio, local] alterations

    cerrado por reformas — closed for refurbishment, closed for alterations

    3) (Cos) alteration
    * * *
    1)
    a) (de ley, institución) reform
    b) la Reforma (Relig) the Reformation
    2) (en edificio, traje) alteration
    * * *
    = reform, reformation, renovation, alterations, revamp, remodelling [remodeling, -USA], revamping.
    Ex. If secondary concepts such as parliamentary reform or Irish home rule had been stated in the subject analysis it would have been representative of the policy of depth indexing.
    Ex. The author presents suggestions for the reformation of medical library education.
    Ex. This is an interview with Hugh Hard of Hardy Holmzan Pfeiffer Associates, an architectural firm specializing in library design and renovation.
    Ex. Better flexibility is achieved if the heating, ventilation and lighting can accommodate this move without the need for any alterations.
    Ex. The new version of search software amounts to a complete revamp rather than just an incremental upgrade.
    Ex. Long-range planning is essential and necessary as emergency measures, or as first steps in a staged plan of remodelling.
    Ex. This is part of the company's revamping of its Web service aiming to bring users many benefits.
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    * bajo reforma = under reform.
    * en reforma = under reform.
    * en reformas = under renovation.
    * hacer reformas = refurbish.
    * idea de reforma = reform idea.
    * proceso de reforma = reform process.
    * proyecto de reforma = renovation project.
    * reforma administrativa = administrative reform.
    * reforma agraria = agrarian reform, agricultural reform.
    * reforma del plan de estudios = curriculum development.
    * reforma económica = economic reform.
    * reforma educativa = educational reform, education reform.
    * reforma escolar = school reform.
    * reforma fiscal = tax reform.
    * reforma laboral = labour reform.
    * reforma liberal = liberal reform.
    * reforma penal = penal reform.
    * reforma penitenciaria = prison reform.
    * reforma política = political reform.
    * reforma social = social reform.
    * * *
    1)
    a) (de ley, institución) reform
    b) la Reforma (Relig) the Reformation
    2) (en edificio, traje) alteration
    * * *
    = reform, reformation, renovation, alterations, revamp, remodelling [remodeling, -USA], revamping.

    Ex: If secondary concepts such as parliamentary reform or Irish home rule had been stated in the subject analysis it would have been representative of the policy of depth indexing.

    Ex: The author presents suggestions for the reformation of medical library education.
    Ex: This is an interview with Hugh Hard of Hardy Holmzan Pfeiffer Associates, an architectural firm specializing in library design and renovation.
    Ex: Better flexibility is achieved if the heating, ventilation and lighting can accommodate this move without the need for any alterations.
    Ex: The new version of search software amounts to a complete revamp rather than just an incremental upgrade.
    Ex: Long-range planning is essential and necessary as emergency measures, or as first steps in a staged plan of remodelling.
    Ex: This is part of the company's revamping of its Web service aiming to bring users many benefits.
    * bajo reforma = under reform.
    * en reforma = under reform.
    * en reformas = under renovation.
    * hacer reformas = refurbish.
    * idea de reforma = reform idea.
    * proceso de reforma = reform process.
    * proyecto de reforma = renovation project.
    * reforma administrativa = administrative reform.
    * reforma agraria = agrarian reform, agricultural reform.
    * reforma del plan de estudios = curriculum development.
    * reforma económica = economic reform.
    * reforma educativa = educational reform, education reform.
    * reforma escolar = school reform.
    * reforma fiscal = tax reform.
    * reforma laboral = labour reform.
    * reforma liberal = liberal reform.
    * reforma penal = penal reform.
    * reforma penitenciaria = prison reform.
    * reforma política = political reform.
    * reforma social = social reform.

    * * *
    A
    1 (de una ley, institución) reform
    2
    la Reforma ( Relig) the Reformation
    Compuesto:
    agrarian reform
    B
    1 ( Const) alteration
    hicieron reformas en la casa they made some alterations o improvements to the house
    [ S ] cerrado por reformas closed for refurbishment o for alterations
    2 (en costura) alteration
    * * *

     

    Del verbo reformar: ( conjugate reformar)

    reforma es:

    3ª persona singular (él/ella/usted) presente indicativo

    2ª persona singular (tú) imperativo

    Multiple Entries:
    reforma    
    reformar
    reforma sustantivo femenino


    b) (en edificio, traje) alteration

    reformar ( conjugate reformar) verbo transitivo

    b)casa/edificio to make alterations to

    reformarse verbo pronominal
    to mend one's ways
    reforma sustantivo femenino
    1 (de leyes, etc) reform
    2 (en un edificio) alteration, repair: el presupuesto de la reforma es altísimo, estimates for the reforms are exorbitantly high
    cerrado por reformas, closed for alterations o refurbishment
    reformar verbo transitivo
    1 (una ley, empresa, etc) to reform, change
    2 (edificio, casa) to make improvements o alterations to, to refurbish
    ' reforma' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    consignar
    - impositivo
    - votar
    English:
    introduce
    - majority
    - overdue
    - reform
    - reformation
    - alteration
    - land
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    1. [modificación] reform
    reforma agraria land reform, agrarian reform;
    reforma electoral electoral reform;
    reformas estructurales structural reforms;
    reforma fiscal tax reform
    2. [en local, casa] alterations;
    he gastado los ahorros en hacer reformas en mi casa I've spent all my savings on doing up the house;
    cerrado por reformas [en letrero] closed for alterations
    3. Hist
    la Reforma the Reformation
    * * *
    f
    1 reform;
    reforma educativa/tributaria education/tax reform
    2
    :
    reformas pl ( obras) refurbishment sg ; ( reparaciones) repairs
    * * *
    1) : reform
    2) : alteration, renovation
    * * *
    1. (de una ley, etc) reform
    2. (de un edificio) alteration
    "cerrado por reformas" "closed for alterations"

    Spanish-English dictionary > reforma

  • 5 реформа реформ·а

    проводить реформу — to pursue / to carry out / to implement / to put into effect a reform

    налоговая реформа — tax / taxation reform

    радикальные реформы — radical / sweeping reforms

    хозяйственные / экономические реформы — economic reforms

    реформа избирательной системы — reform of the electoral system, electoral reform

    реформа хозяйственного механизма — reform of the economic mechanism, economic reform

    на начальном этапе реформы — in / at the initial stage of the reform

    Russian-english dctionary of diplomacy > реформа реформ·а

  • 6 laissez-faire

    •• liberal, liberalism, laissez-faire

    •• Liberal 1. giving generously. 2. ample, given in large amounts. 3. not strict or literal. 4. (of education) broadening the mind n a general way, not only training it in technical subjects. 5. tolerant, open-minded, especially in religion and politics. 6. favoring democratic reform and individual liberties, moderately progressive (Oxford American Dictionary).
    •• Понятие либерализм по-разному трактуется в Европе и Америке, что отражает различия в интеллектуальной и политической традиции двух континентов. Для нас дополнительная трудность возникает потому, что до недавнего времени это слово у нас толковалось излишне идеологизированно, что сказывалось даже в описании обиходного значения этого слова. См., например, словарь С.И.Ожегова 1985 года издания: Либерализм 1. Буржуазное идеологическое и политическое течение, объединяющее сторонников парламентского строя и ограниченных буржуазно-демократических свобод. 2. Излишняя терпимость, снисходительность, вредное попустительство. Под стать определению и примеры: гнилой либерализм, либерализм в оценке знаний.
    •• Надо сказать, что идеологизированность характерна для употребления этого слова и в последнее время – как «у нас», так и «у них», что очень затрудняет задачу переводчика. Попробуем разобраться.
    •• Во-первых, у слова liberal есть значения, не имеющие прямого отношения к политике и экономике. Основные синонимы этого слова в обиходных значениях: generous, open-minded, tolerant; lavish, abundant. The life of such a person as myself inevitably had a liberal quota of personal failures (George Kennan). Перевод не представляет большого труда, если вовремя распознать «ложного друга»: В жизни такого человека, как я, неизбежно встречались – причем нередко – личные неудачи. Liberal education - это, по определению Оксфордского словаря, education fit for a gentleman (по-русски я бы сказал хорошее общее образование с гуманитарным уклоном). В США немало liberal arts colleges. Хотя liberal arts – гуманитарные предметы, эти колледжи можно назвать общеобразовательными.
    •• В политике (возьмем определение из The Pocket Oxford Dictionary как самое сжатое) liberal означает в Европе advocating moderate democratic reforms (по сути не так уж далеко от ожеговского определения!). В некоторых словарях помимо этих слов синонимом liberal дается слово progressive.
    •• Несколько иной оттенок имеет в Европе слово liberal в применении к экономике. Здесь синонимом liberal будет скорее unregulated или deregulated. Economic liberal - сторонник минимального вмешательства государства в экономику. Liberal economics, liberal economic reforms – это близко к тому, что в Англии называют словом thatcherism. Экономическая политика Маргарет Тэтчер – это приватизация, ограничение государственных социальных программ и экономического регулирования. В последнее время и у нас говорят о либеральных экономических реформах примерно в этом значении (правда, пока с другими результатами).
    •• Характерно для европейского употребления слов liberal, liberalism: здесь нет никакой оценочности – ни положительной, ни отрицательной. В Америке получилось иначе.
    •• Как пишет в своем Political Dictionary ярый противник либерализма в его современном американском понимании Уильям Сэфайр, liberal [is] currently one who believes in more government action to meet individual needs; originally one who resisted government encroachment on individual liberties (кстати, обратим внимание, что слово government (см. статью government, governance) употребляется здесь в значении государство, государственная власть). В ХХ веке американские либералы делали упор на решение таких проблем, как гражданские права негров, борьба с бедностью, регулирование экономических процессов с целью избежать кризисов типа «великой депрессии» 1930-х годов. Инструментом для их решения были различные государственные программы, что противоречило традиционной либеральной политико-экономической доктрине (emphasis on the full development of the individual, free from the restraints of government). Но в 1980-е годы американский liberalism вышел из моды, более того – само это слово стало сейчас чуть ли не бранным в американском политическом лексиконе. Поэтому американские авторы, как правило, уточняют, о каком либерализме идет речь. Пример из статьи американского журналиста Р. Дейла в International Herald Tribune: In the 19th century... France chose the path of protectionism and state intervention, while its Anglo-Saxon rivals opted for economic liberalism and free trade.
    •• Переводчик должен быть крайне осторожен, особенно переводя с русского. Ведь если русский экономист говорит либерализм не решает всех экономических проблем, американцы, возможно, ему поаплодируют, но правильно ли они его поймут? В данном случае либерализм надо перевести liberal economics, а еще лучше laissez-faire economics. Подтверждающий пример из газеты Washington Post: Yeltsin suggested that the era of laissez-faire capitalism, a battering ram in ending Communist rule, was at an end.
    •• Трудно сказать, что произойдет со словом liberal в будущем, но сегодня в Америке the L-word имеет такую политическую окраску, что от него буквально шарахаются. Interpreter (translator), beware!
    •• * Cтатья в газете Le Monde cодержит интересную попытку выйти из положения, возникающего в связи с разным пониманием слов liberal, liberalism в американской и европейской традициях. Цитирую с середины предложения:
    •• ...liberalism, au sens américain qui désigne la gauche modéré, expression que nous avons adoptéé pour traduire le terme liberaldans cette article.
    •• То есть в данной статье американское liberal трактуется и переводится как умеренно левые (просматривается даже ассоциация с социал-демократией). На мой взгляд, правильно, хотя не уверен, что этот перевод легко утвердится в журналистике. Все-таки очень велика «гравитационная сила» интернационального слова либерал. Вот и в этой статье проскочило: des libéraux en sens américain du terme, т.е. либералы в американском понимании этого слова.
    •• Заодно замечу, что содержащееся в «Моем несистематическом словаре» критическое замечание в адрес словаря Ожегова («до недавнего времени это слово трактовалось у нас излишне идеологизированно, что сказывалось даже в описании обиходного значения этого слова») нуждается в некоторой корректировке.
    •• Недавно группа известных лингвистов на пресс-конференции, посвященной критике издания словаря Ожегова под редакцией Скворцова, тоже «лягнула» это определение (заодно это сделал ведущий новостей телеканала «Культура» А. Флярковский, не особенно, по-моему, вникнув в суть). Но если подумать, то это «обиходное значение» – излишняя терпимость, снисходительность, вредное попустительство – действительно закрепилось в обыденном сознании говорящих на русском языке. Если гнилой либерализм сейчас говорят в основном иронически, то слово либеральничать употребляется очень часто в значении именно излишней терпимости. И, пожалуй, американская трактовка либерализма основана на этом значении – речь идет о терпимом (для правых – излишне терпимом, т.е. вредном попустительстве) отношении к общественным явлениям, противоречащим традиционным представлениям.
    •• Казалось, что у нас в стране в политическом и экономическом лексиконе слово либерализм закрепилось скорее в европейской трактовке. Но это все-таки не совсем так. Ведь если Pocket Oxford Dictionary определяет liberal как advocating moderate economic reforms, то наши либералы, например экономисты-последователи Гайдара, партия «Либеральная Россия» («либерал-демократы» Жириновского, конечно, не в счет), выступают за радикальное переустройство экономики, максимальное ограничение роли государства и т.д. Так что путаница сохраняется и даже усиливается. В связи с этим не так уж плохо выглядит предложение о том, чтобы переводчик мог, объяснив с самого начала, что речь идет об американском понимании либерализма, дальше для простоты так и говорить – либерализм, либералы (на письме можно в кавычках).
    •• Интересный пример на первый взгляд неточного, но в общем понятного употребления русского слова либеральный – в интервью В. Путина американским СМИ:
    •• В отличие от очень многих участников этого процесса наш подход является достаточно либеральным. Мы теоретически не исключаем более активного участия России в восстановлении Ирака, в том числе и участия наших военных в процессе нормализации ситуации. Для нас не важно, кто будет возглавлять эту операцию. Это могут быть и американские военные.
    •• Смысл слова либеральный здесь несколько туманен и по-настоящему раскрывается только в свете последующих предложений. Но если русское слово все-таки «борозды не портит», то английское liberal – особенно для американского получателя – будет просто непонятным. Можно сказать flexible, но еще лучше – open-minded.

    English-Russian nonsystematic dictionary > laissez-faire

  • 7 liberal

    •• liberal, liberalism, laissez-faire

    •• Liberal 1. giving generously. 2. ample, given in large amounts. 3. not strict or literal. 4. (of education) broadening the mind n a general way, not only training it in technical subjects. 5. tolerant, open-minded, especially in religion and politics. 6. favoring democratic reform and individual liberties, moderately progressive (Oxford American Dictionary).
    •• Понятие либерализм по-разному трактуется в Европе и Америке, что отражает различия в интеллектуальной и политической традиции двух континентов. Для нас дополнительная трудность возникает потому, что до недавнего времени это слово у нас толковалось излишне идеологизированно, что сказывалось даже в описании обиходного значения этого слова. См., например, словарь С.И.Ожегова 1985 года издания: Либерализм 1. Буржуазное идеологическое и политическое течение, объединяющее сторонников парламентского строя и ограниченных буржуазно-демократических свобод. 2. Излишняя терпимость, снисходительность, вредное попустительство. Под стать определению и примеры: гнилой либерализм, либерализм в оценке знаний.
    •• Надо сказать, что идеологизированность характерна для употребления этого слова и в последнее время – как «у нас», так и «у них», что очень затрудняет задачу переводчика. Попробуем разобраться.
    •• Во-первых, у слова liberal есть значения, не имеющие прямого отношения к политике и экономике. Основные синонимы этого слова в обиходных значениях: generous, open-minded, tolerant; lavish, abundant. The life of such a person as myself inevitably had a liberal quota of personal failures (George Kennan). Перевод не представляет большого труда, если вовремя распознать «ложного друга»: В жизни такого человека, как я, неизбежно встречались – причем нередко – личные неудачи. Liberal education - это, по определению Оксфордского словаря, education fit for a gentleman (по-русски я бы сказал хорошее общее образование с гуманитарным уклоном). В США немало liberal arts colleges. Хотя liberal arts – гуманитарные предметы, эти колледжи можно назвать общеобразовательными.
    •• В политике (возьмем определение из The Pocket Oxford Dictionary как самое сжатое) liberal означает в Европе advocating moderate democratic reforms (по сути не так уж далеко от ожеговского определения!). В некоторых словарях помимо этих слов синонимом liberal дается слово progressive.
    •• Несколько иной оттенок имеет в Европе слово liberal в применении к экономике. Здесь синонимом liberal будет скорее unregulated или deregulated. Economic liberal - сторонник минимального вмешательства государства в экономику. Liberal economics, liberal economic reforms – это близко к тому, что в Англии называют словом thatcherism. Экономическая политика Маргарет Тэтчер – это приватизация, ограничение государственных социальных программ и экономического регулирования. В последнее время и у нас говорят о либеральных экономических реформах примерно в этом значении (правда, пока с другими результатами).
    •• Характерно для европейского употребления слов liberal, liberalism: здесь нет никакой оценочности – ни положительной, ни отрицательной. В Америке получилось иначе.
    •• Как пишет в своем Political Dictionary ярый противник либерализма в его современном американском понимании Уильям Сэфайр, liberal [is] currently one who believes in more government action to meet individual needs; originally one who resisted government encroachment on individual liberties (кстати, обратим внимание, что слово government (см. статью government, governance) употребляется здесь в значении государство, государственная власть). В ХХ веке американские либералы делали упор на решение таких проблем, как гражданские права негров, борьба с бедностью, регулирование экономических процессов с целью избежать кризисов типа «великой депрессии» 1930-х годов. Инструментом для их решения были различные государственные программы, что противоречило традиционной либеральной политико-экономической доктрине (emphasis on the full development of the individual, free from the restraints of government). Но в 1980-е годы американский liberalism вышел из моды, более того – само это слово стало сейчас чуть ли не бранным в американском политическом лексиконе. Поэтому американские авторы, как правило, уточняют, о каком либерализме идет речь. Пример из статьи американского журналиста Р. Дейла в International Herald Tribune: In the 19th century... France chose the path of protectionism and state intervention, while its Anglo-Saxon rivals opted for economic liberalism and free trade.
    •• Переводчик должен быть крайне осторожен, особенно переводя с русского. Ведь если русский экономист говорит либерализм не решает всех экономических проблем, американцы, возможно, ему поаплодируют, но правильно ли они его поймут? В данном случае либерализм надо перевести liberal economics, а еще лучше laissez-faire economics. Подтверждающий пример из газеты Washington Post: Yeltsin suggested that the era of laissez-faire capitalism, a battering ram in ending Communist rule, was at an end.
    •• Трудно сказать, что произойдет со словом liberal в будущем, но сегодня в Америке the L-word имеет такую политическую окраску, что от него буквально шарахаются. Interpreter (translator), beware!
    •• * Cтатья в газете Le Monde cодержит интересную попытку выйти из положения, возникающего в связи с разным пониманием слов liberal, liberalism в американской и европейской традициях. Цитирую с середины предложения:
    •• ...liberalism, au sens américain qui désigne la gauche modéré, expression que nous avons adoptéé pour traduire le terme liberaldans cette article.
    •• То есть в данной статье американское liberal трактуется и переводится как умеренно левые (просматривается даже ассоциация с социал-демократией). На мой взгляд, правильно, хотя не уверен, что этот перевод легко утвердится в журналистике. Все-таки очень велика «гравитационная сила» интернационального слова либерал. Вот и в этой статье проскочило: des libéraux en sens américain du terme, т.е. либералы в американском понимании этого слова.
    •• Заодно замечу, что содержащееся в «Моем несистематическом словаре» критическое замечание в адрес словаря Ожегова («до недавнего времени это слово трактовалось у нас излишне идеологизированно, что сказывалось даже в описании обиходного значения этого слова») нуждается в некоторой корректировке.
    •• Недавно группа известных лингвистов на пресс-конференции, посвященной критике издания словаря Ожегова под редакцией Скворцова, тоже «лягнула» это определение (заодно это сделал ведущий новостей телеканала «Культура» А. Флярковский, не особенно, по-моему, вникнув в суть). Но если подумать, то это «обиходное значение» – излишняя терпимость, снисходительность, вредное попустительство – действительно закрепилось в обыденном сознании говорящих на русском языке. Если гнилой либерализм сейчас говорят в основном иронически, то слово либеральничать употребляется очень часто в значении именно излишней терпимости. И, пожалуй, американская трактовка либерализма основана на этом значении – речь идет о терпимом (для правых – излишне терпимом, т.е. вредном попустительстве) отношении к общественным явлениям, противоречащим традиционным представлениям.
    •• Казалось, что у нас в стране в политическом и экономическом лексиконе слово либерализм закрепилось скорее в европейской трактовке. Но это все-таки не совсем так. Ведь если Pocket Oxford Dictionary определяет liberal как advocating moderate economic reforms, то наши либералы, например экономисты-последователи Гайдара, партия «Либеральная Россия» («либерал-демократы» Жириновского, конечно, не в счет), выступают за радикальное переустройство экономики, максимальное ограничение роли государства и т.д. Так что путаница сохраняется и даже усиливается. В связи с этим не так уж плохо выглядит предложение о том, чтобы переводчик мог, объяснив с самого начала, что речь идет об американском понимании либерализма, дальше для простоты так и говорить – либерализм, либералы (на письме можно в кавычках).
    •• Интересный пример на первый взгляд неточного, но в общем понятного употребления русского слова либеральный – в интервью В. Путина американским СМИ:
    •• В отличие от очень многих участников этого процесса наш подход является достаточно либеральным. Мы теоретически не исключаем более активного участия России в восстановлении Ирака, в том числе и участия наших военных в процессе нормализации ситуации. Для нас не важно, кто будет возглавлять эту операцию. Это могут быть и американские военные.
    •• Смысл слова либеральный здесь несколько туманен и по-настоящему раскрывается только в свете последующих предложений. Но если русское слово все-таки «борозды не портит», то английское liberal – особенно для американского получателя – будет просто непонятным. Можно сказать flexible, но еще лучше – open-minded.

    English-Russian nonsystematic dictionary > liberal

  • 8 liberalism

    •• liberal, liberalism, laissez-faire

    •• Liberal 1. giving generously. 2. ample, given in large amounts. 3. not strict or literal. 4. (of education) broadening the mind n a general way, not only training it in technical subjects. 5. tolerant, open-minded, especially in religion and politics. 6. favoring democratic reform and individual liberties, moderately progressive (Oxford American Dictionary).
    •• Понятие либерализм по-разному трактуется в Европе и Америке, что отражает различия в интеллектуальной и политической традиции двух континентов. Для нас дополнительная трудность возникает потому, что до недавнего времени это слово у нас толковалось излишне идеологизированно, что сказывалось даже в описании обиходного значения этого слова. См., например, словарь С.И.Ожегова 1985 года издания: Либерализм 1. Буржуазное идеологическое и политическое течение, объединяющее сторонников парламентского строя и ограниченных буржуазно-демократических свобод. 2. Излишняя терпимость, снисходительность, вредное попустительство. Под стать определению и примеры: гнилой либерализм, либерализм в оценке знаний.
    •• Надо сказать, что идеологизированность характерна для употребления этого слова и в последнее время – как «у нас», так и «у них», что очень затрудняет задачу переводчика. Попробуем разобраться.
    •• Во-первых, у слова liberal есть значения, не имеющие прямого отношения к политике и экономике. Основные синонимы этого слова в обиходных значениях: generous, open-minded, tolerant; lavish, abundant. The life of such a person as myself inevitably had a liberal quota of personal failures (George Kennan). Перевод не представляет большого труда, если вовремя распознать «ложного друга»: В жизни такого человека, как я, неизбежно встречались – причем нередко – личные неудачи. Liberal education - это, по определению Оксфордского словаря, education fit for a gentleman (по-русски я бы сказал хорошее общее образование с гуманитарным уклоном). В США немало liberal arts colleges. Хотя liberal arts – гуманитарные предметы, эти колледжи можно назвать общеобразовательными.
    •• В политике (возьмем определение из The Pocket Oxford Dictionary как самое сжатое) liberal означает в Европе advocating moderate democratic reforms (по сути не так уж далеко от ожеговского определения!). В некоторых словарях помимо этих слов синонимом liberal дается слово progressive.
    •• Несколько иной оттенок имеет в Европе слово liberal в применении к экономике. Здесь синонимом liberal будет скорее unregulated или deregulated. Economic liberal - сторонник минимального вмешательства государства в экономику. Liberal economics, liberal economic reforms – это близко к тому, что в Англии называют словом thatcherism. Экономическая политика Маргарет Тэтчер – это приватизация, ограничение государственных социальных программ и экономического регулирования. В последнее время и у нас говорят о либеральных экономических реформах примерно в этом значении (правда, пока с другими результатами).
    •• Характерно для европейского употребления слов liberal, liberalism: здесь нет никакой оценочности – ни положительной, ни отрицательной. В Америке получилось иначе.
    •• Как пишет в своем Political Dictionary ярый противник либерализма в его современном американском понимании Уильям Сэфайр, liberal [is] currently one who believes in more government action to meet individual needs; originally one who resisted government encroachment on individual liberties (кстати, обратим внимание, что слово government (см. статью government, governance) употребляется здесь в значении государство, государственная власть). В ХХ веке американские либералы делали упор на решение таких проблем, как гражданские права негров, борьба с бедностью, регулирование экономических процессов с целью избежать кризисов типа «великой депрессии» 1930-х годов. Инструментом для их решения были различные государственные программы, что противоречило традиционной либеральной политико-экономической доктрине (emphasis on the full development of the individual, free from the restraints of government). Но в 1980-е годы американский liberalism вышел из моды, более того – само это слово стало сейчас чуть ли не бранным в американском политическом лексиконе. Поэтому американские авторы, как правило, уточняют, о каком либерализме идет речь. Пример из статьи американского журналиста Р. Дейла в International Herald Tribune: In the 19th century... France chose the path of protectionism and state intervention, while its Anglo-Saxon rivals opted for economic liberalism and free trade.
    •• Переводчик должен быть крайне осторожен, особенно переводя с русского. Ведь если русский экономист говорит либерализм не решает всех экономических проблем, американцы, возможно, ему поаплодируют, но правильно ли они его поймут? В данном случае либерализм надо перевести liberal economics, а еще лучше laissez-faire economics. Подтверждающий пример из газеты Washington Post: Yeltsin suggested that the era of laissez-faire capitalism, a battering ram in ending Communist rule, was at an end.
    •• Трудно сказать, что произойдет со словом liberal в будущем, но сегодня в Америке the L-word имеет такую политическую окраску, что от него буквально шарахаются. Interpreter (translator), beware!
    •• * Cтатья в газете Le Monde cодержит интересную попытку выйти из положения, возникающего в связи с разным пониманием слов liberal, liberalism в американской и европейской традициях. Цитирую с середины предложения:
    •• ...liberalism, au sens américain qui désigne la gauche modéré, expression que nous avons adoptéé pour traduire le terme liberaldans cette article.
    •• То есть в данной статье американское liberal трактуется и переводится как умеренно левые (просматривается даже ассоциация с социал-демократией). На мой взгляд, правильно, хотя не уверен, что этот перевод легко утвердится в журналистике. Все-таки очень велика «гравитационная сила» интернационального слова либерал. Вот и в этой статье проскочило: des libéraux en sens américain du terme, т.е. либералы в американском понимании этого слова.
    •• Заодно замечу, что содержащееся в «Моем несистематическом словаре» критическое замечание в адрес словаря Ожегова («до недавнего времени это слово трактовалось у нас излишне идеологизированно, что сказывалось даже в описании обиходного значения этого слова») нуждается в некоторой корректировке.
    •• Недавно группа известных лингвистов на пресс-конференции, посвященной критике издания словаря Ожегова под редакцией Скворцова, тоже «лягнула» это определение (заодно это сделал ведущий новостей телеканала «Культура» А. Флярковский, не особенно, по-моему, вникнув в суть). Но если подумать, то это «обиходное значение» – излишняя терпимость, снисходительность, вредное попустительство – действительно закрепилось в обыденном сознании говорящих на русском языке. Если гнилой либерализм сейчас говорят в основном иронически, то слово либеральничать употребляется очень часто в значении именно излишней терпимости. И, пожалуй, американская трактовка либерализма основана на этом значении – речь идет о терпимом (для правых – излишне терпимом, т.е. вредном попустительстве) отношении к общественным явлениям, противоречащим традиционным представлениям.
    •• Казалось, что у нас в стране в политическом и экономическом лексиконе слово либерализм закрепилось скорее в европейской трактовке. Но это все-таки не совсем так. Ведь если Pocket Oxford Dictionary определяет liberal как advocating moderate economic reforms, то наши либералы, например экономисты-последователи Гайдара, партия «Либеральная Россия» («либерал-демократы» Жириновского, конечно, не в счет), выступают за радикальное переустройство экономики, максимальное ограничение роли государства и т.д. Так что путаница сохраняется и даже усиливается. В связи с этим не так уж плохо выглядит предложение о том, чтобы переводчик мог, объяснив с самого начала, что речь идет об американском понимании либерализма, дальше для простоты так и говорить – либерализм, либералы (на письме можно в кавычках).
    •• Интересный пример на первый взгляд неточного, но в общем понятного употребления русского слова либеральный – в интервью В. Путина американским СМИ:
    •• В отличие от очень многих участников этого процесса наш подход является достаточно либеральным. Мы теоретически не исключаем более активного участия России в восстановлении Ирака, в том числе и участия наших военных в процессе нормализации ситуации. Для нас не важно, кто будет возглавлять эту операцию. Это могут быть и американские военные.
    •• Смысл слова либеральный здесь несколько туманен и по-настоящему раскрывается только в свете последующих предложений. Но если русское слово все-таки «борозды не портит», то английское liberal – особенно для американского получателя – будет просто непонятным. Можно сказать flexible, но еще лучше – open-minded.

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  • 9 Coimbra, University of

       Portugal's oldest and once its most prestigious university. As one of Europe's oldest seats of learning, the University of Coimbra and its various roles have a historic importance that supersedes merely the educational. For centuries, the university formed and trained the principal elites and professions that dominated Portugal. For more than a century, certain members of its faculty entered the central government in Lisbon. A few, such as law professor Afonso Costa, mathematics instructor Sidônio Pais, anthropology professor Bernardino Machado, and economics professor Antônio de Oliveira Salazar, became prime ministers and presidents of the republic. In such a small country, with relatively few universities until recently, Portugal counted Coimbra's university as the educational cradle of its leaders and knew its academic traditions as an intimate part of national life.
       Established in 1290 by King Dinis, the university first opened in Lisbon but was moved to Coimbra in 1308, and there it remained. University buildings were placed high on a hill, in a position that
       physically dominates Portugal's third city. While sections of the medieval university buildings are present, much of what today remains of the old University of Coimbra dates from the Manueline era (1495-1521) and the 17th and 18th centuries. The main administration building along the so-called Via Latina is baroque, in the style of the 17th and 18th centuries. Most prominent among buildings adjacent to the central core structures are the Chapel of São Miguel, built in the 17th century, and the magnificent University Library, of the era of wealthy King João V, built between 1717 and 1723. Created entirely by Portuguese artists and architects, the library is unique among historic monuments in Portugal. Its rare book collection, a monument in itself, is complemented by exquisite gilt wood decorations and beautiful doors, windows, and furniture. Among visitors and tourists, the chapel and library are the prime attractions to this day.
       The University underwent important reforms under the Pombaline administration (1750-77). Efforts to strengthen Coimbra's position in advanced learning and teaching by means of a new curriculum, including new courses in new fields and new degrees and colleges (in Portugal, major university divisions are usually called "faculties") often met strong resistance. In the Age of the Discoveries, efforts were made to introduce the useful study of mathematics, which was part of astronomy in that day, and to move beyond traditional medieval study only of theology, canon law, civil law, and medicine. Regarding even the advanced work of the Portuguese astronomer and mathematician Pedro Nunes, however, Coimbra University was lamentably slow in introducing mathematics or a school of arts and general studies. After some earlier efforts, the 1772 Pombaline Statutes, the core of the Pombaline reforms at Coimbra, had an impact that lasted more than a century. These reforms remained in effect to the end of the monarchy, when, in 1911, the First Republic instituted changes that stressed the secularization of learning. This included the abolition of the Faculty of Theology.
       Elaborate, ancient traditions and customs inform the faculty and student body of Coimbra University. Tradition flourishes, although some customs are more popular than others. Instead of residing in common residences or dormitories as in other countries, in Coimbra until recently students lived in the city in "Republics," private houses with domestic help hired by the students. Students wore typical black academic gowns. Efforts during the Revolution of 25 April 1974 and aftermath to abolish the wearing of the gowns, a powerful student image symbol, met resistance and generated controversy. In romantic Coimbra tradition, students with guitars sang characteristic songs, including Coimbra fado, a more cheerful song than Lisbon fado, and serenaded other students at special locations. Tradition also decreed that at graduation graduates wore their gowns but burned their school (or college or subject) ribbons ( fitas), an important ceremonial rite of passage.
       The University of Coimbra, while it underwent a revival in the 1980s and 1990s, no longer has a virtual monopoly over higher education in Portugal. By 1970, for example, the country had only four public and one private university, and the University of Lisbon had become more significant than ancient Coimbra. At present, diversity in higher education is even more pronounced: 12 private universities and 14 autonomous public universities are listed, not only in Lisbon and Oporto, but at provincial locations. Still, Coimbra retains an influence as the senior university, some of whose graduates still enter national government and distinguished themselves in various professions.
       An important student concern at all institutions of higher learning, and one that marked the last half of the 1990s and continued into the next century, was the question of increased student fees and tuition payments (in Portuguese, propinas). Due to the expansion of the national universities in function as well as in the size of student bodies, national budget constraints, and the rising cost of education, the central government began to increase student fees. The student movement protested this change by means of various tactics, including student strikes, boycotts, and demonstrations. At the same time, a growing number of private universities began to attract larger numbers of students who could afford the higher fees in private institutions, but who had been denied places in the increasingly competitive and pressured public universities.

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  • 10 near cash

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    гос. фин. The resource budget contains a separate control total for “near cash” expenditure, that is expenditure such as pay and current grants which impacts directly on the measure of the golden rule.
    This paper provides background information on the framework for the planning and control of public expenditure in the UK which has been operated since the 1998 Comprehensive Spending Review (CSR). It sets out the different classifications of spending for budgeting purposes and why these distinctions have been adopted. It discusses how the public expenditure framework is designed to ensure both sound public finances and an outcome-focused approach to public expenditure.
    The UK's public spending framework is based on several key principles:
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    consistency with a long-term, prudent and transparent regime for managing the public finances as a whole;
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    the judgement of success by policy outcomes rather than resource inputs;
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    strong incentives for departments and their partners in service delivery to plan over several years and plan together where appropriate so as to deliver better public services with greater cost effectiveness; and
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    the proper costing and management of capital assets to provide the right incentives for public investment.
    The Government sets policy to meet two firm fiscal rules:
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    the Golden Rule states that over the economic cycle, the Government will borrow only to invest and not to fund current spending; and
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    the Sustainable Investment Rule states that net public debt as a proportion of GDP will be held over the economic cycle at a stable and prudent level. Other things being equal, net debt will be maintained below 40 per cent of GDP over the economic cycle.
    Achievement of the fiscal rules is assessed by reference to the national accounts, which are produced by the Office for National Statistics, acting as an independent agency. The Government sets its spending envelope to comply with these fiscal rules.
    Departmental Expenditure Limits ( DEL) and Annually Managed Expenditure (AME)
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    Departmental Expenditure Limit ( DEL) spending, which is planned and controlled on a three year basis in Spending Reviews; and
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    Annually Managed Expenditure ( AME), which is expenditure which cannot reasonably be subject to firm, multi-year limits in the same way as DEL. AME includes social security benefits, local authority self-financed expenditure, debt interest, and payments to EU institutions.
    More information about DEL and AME is set out below.
    In Spending Reviews, firm DEL plans are set for departments for three years. To ensure consistency with the Government's fiscal rules departments are set separate resource (current) and capital budgets. The resource budget contains a separate control total for “near cash” expenditure, that is expenditure such as pay and current grants which impacts directly on the measure of the golden rule.
    To encourage departments to plan over the medium term departments may carry forward unspent DEL provision from one year into the next and, subject to the normal tests for tautness and realism of plans, may be drawn down in future years. This end-year flexibility also removes any incentive for departments to use up their provision as the year end approaches with less regard to value for money. For the full benefits of this flexibility and of three year plans to feed through into improved public service delivery, end-year flexibility and three year budgets should be cascaded from departments to executive agencies and other budget holders.
    Three year budgets and end-year flexibility give those managing public services the stability to plan their operations on a sensible time scale. Further, the system means that departments cannot seek to bid up funds each year (before 1997, three year plans were set and reviewed in annual Public Expenditure Surveys). So the credibility of medium-term plans has been enhanced at both central and departmental level.
    Departments have certainty over the budgetary allocation over the medium term and these multi-year DEL plans are strictly enforced. Departments are expected to prioritise competing pressures and fund these within their overall annual limits, as set in Spending Reviews. So the DEL system provides a strong incentive to control costs and maximise value for money.
    There is a small centrally held DEL Reserve. Support from the Reserve is available only for genuinely unforeseeable contingencies which departments cannot be expected to manage within their DEL.
    AME typically consists of programmes which are large, volatile and demand-led, and which therefore cannot reasonably be subject to firm multi-year limits. The biggest single element is social security spending. Other items include tax credits, Local Authority Self Financed Expenditure, Scottish Executive spending financed by non-domestic rates, and spending financed from the proceeds of the National Lottery.
    AME is reviewed twice a year as part of the Budget and Pre-Budget Report process reflecting the close integration of the tax and benefit system, which was enhanced by the introduction of tax credits.
    AME is not subject to the same three year expenditure limits as DEL, but is still part of the overall envelope for public expenditure. Affordability is taken into account when policy decisions affecting AME are made. The Government has committed itself not to take policy measures which are likely to have the effect of increasing social security or other elements of AME without taking steps to ensure that the effects of those decisions can be accommodated prudently within the Government's fiscal rules.
    Given an overall envelope for public spending, forecasts of AME affect the level of resources available for DEL spending. Cautious estimates and the AME margin are built in to these AME forecasts and reduce the risk of overspending on AME.
    Together, DEL plus AME sum to Total Managed Expenditure (TME). TME is a measure drawn from national accounts. It represents the current and capital spending of the public sector. The public sector is made up of central government, local government and public corporations.
    Resource and Capital Budgets are set in terms of accruals information. Accruals information measures resources as they are consumed rather than when the cash is paid. So for example the Resource Budget includes a charge for depreciation, a measure of the consumption or wearing out of capital assets.
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    Non cash charges in budgets do not impact directly on the fiscal framework. That may be because the national accounts use a different way of measuring the same thing, for example in the case of the depreciation of departmental assets. Or it may be that the national accounts measure something different: for example, resource budgets include a cost of capital charge reflecting the opportunity cost of holding capital; the national accounts include debt interest.
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    Within the Resource Budget DEL, departments have separate controls on:
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    Near cash spending, the sub set of Resource Budgets which impacts directly on the Golden Rule; and
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    The amount of their Resource Budget DEL that departments may spend on running themselves (e.g. paying most civil servants’ salaries) is limited by Administration Budgets, which are set in Spending Reviews. Administration Budgets are used to ensure that as much money as practicable is available for front line services and programmes. These budgets also help to drive efficiency improvements in departments’ own activities. Administration Budgets exclude the costs of frontline services delivered directly by departments.
    The Budget preceding a Spending Review sets an overall envelope for public spending that is consistent with the fiscal rules for the period covered by the Spending Review. In the Spending Review, the Budget AME forecast for year one of the Spending Review period is updated, and AME forecasts are made for the later years of the Spending Review period.
    The 1998 Comprehensive Spending Review ( CSR), which was published in July 1998, was a comprehensive review of departmental aims and objectives alongside a zero-based analysis of each spending programme to determine the best way of delivering the Government's objectives. The 1998 CSR allocated substantial additional resources to the Government's key priorities, particularly education and health, for the three year period from 1999-2000 to 2001-02.
    Delivering better public services does not just depend on how much money the Government spends, but also on how well it spends it. Therefore the 1998 CSR introduced Public Service Agreements (PSAs). Each major government department was given its own PSA setting out clear targets for achievements in terms of public service improvements.
    The 1998 CSR also introduced the DEL/ AME framework for the control of public spending, and made other framework changes. Building on the investment and reforms delivered by the 1998 CSR, successive spending reviews in 2000, 2002 and 2004 have:
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    provided significant increase in resources for the Government’s priorities, in particular health and education, and cross-cutting themes such as raising productivity; extending opportunity; and building strong and secure communities;
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    enabled the Government significantly to increase investment in public assets and address the legacy of under investment from past decades. Departmental Investment Strategies were introduced in SR2000. As a result there has been a steady increase in public sector net investment from less than ¾ of a per cent of GDP in 1997-98 to 2¼ per cent of GDP in 2005-06, providing better infrastructure across public services;
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    introduced further refinements to the performance management framework. PSA targets have been reduced in number over successive spending reviews from around 300 to 110 to give greater focus to the Government’s highest priorities. The targets have become increasingly outcome-focused to deliver further improvements in key areas of public service delivery across Government. They have also been refined in line with the conclusions of the Devolving Decision Making Review to provide a framework which encourages greater devolution and local flexibility. Technical Notes were introduced in SR2000 explaining how performance against each PSA target will be measured; and
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    not only allocated near cash spending to departments, but also – since SR2002 - set Resource DEL plans for non cash spending.
    To identify what further investments and reforms are needed to equip the UK for the global challenges of the decade ahead, on 19 July 2005 the Chief Secretary to the Treasury announced that the Government intends to launch a second Comprehensive Spending Review (CSR) reporting in 2007.
    A decade on from the first CSR, the 2007 CSR will represent a long-term and fundamental review of government expenditure. It will cover departmental allocations for 2008-09, 2009-10 and 2010 11. Allocations for 2007-08 will be held to the agreed figures already announced by the 2004 Spending Review. To provide a rigorous analytical framework for these departmental allocations, the Government will be taking forward a programme of preparatory work over 2006 involving:
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    an assessment of what the sustained increases in spending and reforms to public service delivery have achieved since the first CSR. The assessment will inform the setting of new objectives for the decade ahead;
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    an examination of the key long-term trends and challenges that will shape the next decade – including demographic and socio-economic change, globalisation, climate and environmental change, global insecurity and technological change – together with an assessment of how public services will need to respond;
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    to release the resources needed to address these challenges, and to continue to secure maximum value for money from public spending over the CSR period, a set of zero-based reviews of departments’ baseline expenditure to assess its effectiveness in delivering the Government’s long-term objectives; together with
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    further development of the efficiency programme, building on the cross cutting areas identified in the Gershon Review, to embed and extend ongoing efficiency savings into departmental expenditure planning.
    The 2007 CSR also offers the opportunity to continue to refine the PSA framework so that it drives effective delivery and the attainment of ambitious national standards.
    Public Service Agreements (PSAs) were introduced in the 1998 CSR. They set out agreed targets detailing the outputs and outcomes departments are expected to deliver with the resources allocated to them. The new spending regime places a strong emphasis on outcome targets, for example in providing for better health and higher educational standards or service standards. The introduction in SR2004 of PSA ‘standards’ will ensure that high standards in priority areas are maintained.
    The Government monitors progress against PSA targets, and departments report in detail twice a year in their annual Departmental Reports (published in spring) and in their autumn performance reports. These reports provide Parliament and the public with regular updates on departments’ performance against their targets.
    Technical Notes explain how performance against each PSA target will be measured.
    To make the most of both new investment and existing assets, there needs to be a coherent long term strategy against which investment decisions are taken. Departmental Investment Strategies (DIS) set out each department's plans to deliver the scale and quality of capital stock needed to underpin its objectives. The DIS includes information about the department's existing capital stock and future plans for that stock, as well as plans for new investment. It also sets out the systems that the department has in place to ensure that it delivers its capital programmes effectively.
    This document was updated on 19 December 2005.
    Near-cash resource expenditure that has a related cash implication, even though the timing of the cash payment may be slightly different. For example, expenditure on gas or electricity supply is incurred as the fuel is used, though the cash payment might be made in arrears on aquarterly basis. Other examples of near-cash expenditure are: pay, rental.Net cash requirement the upper limit agreed by Parliament on the cash which a department may draw from theConsolidated Fund to finance the expenditure within the ambit of its Request forResources. It is equal to the agreed amount of net resources and net capital less non-cashitems and working capital.Non-cash cost costs where there is no cash transaction but which are included in a body’s accounts (or taken into account in charging for a service) to establish the true cost of all the resourcesused.Non-departmental a body which has a role in the processes of government, but is not a government public body, NDPBdepartment or part of one. NDPBs accordingly operate at arm’s length from governmentMinisters.Notional cost of a cost which is taken into account in setting fees and charges to improve comparability with insuranceprivate sector service providers.The charge takes account of the fact that public bodies donot generally pay an insurance premium to a commercial insurer.the independent body responsible for collecting and publishing official statistics about theUK’s society and economy. (At the time of going to print legislation was progressing tochange this body to the Statistics Board).Office of Government an office of the Treasury, with a status similar to that of an agency, which aims to maximise Commerce, OGCthe government’s purchasing power for routine items and combine professional expertiseto bear on capital projects.Office of the the government department responsible for discharging the Paymaster General’s statutoryPaymaster General,responsibilities to hold accounts and make payments for government departments and OPGother public bodies.Orange bookthe informal title for Management of Risks: Principles and Concepts, which is published by theTreasury for the guidance of public sector bodies.Office for NationalStatistics, ONS60Managing Public Money
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    GLOSSARYOverdraftan account with a negative balance.Parliament’s formal agreement to authorise an activity or expenditure.Prerogative powerspowers exercisable under the Royal Prerogative, ie powers which are unique to the Crown,as contrasted with common-law powers which may be available to the Crown on the samebasis as to natural persons.Primary legislationActs which have been passed by the Westminster Parliament and, where they haveappropriate powers, the Scottish Parliament and the Northern Ireland Assembly. Begin asBills until they have received Royal Assent.arrangements under which a public sector organisation contracts with a private sectorentity to construct a facility and provide associated services of a specified quality over asustained period. See annex 7.5.Proprietythe principle that patterns of resource consumption should respect Parliament’s intentions,conventions and control procedures, including any laid down by the PAC. See box 2.4.Public Accountssee Committee of Public Accounts.CommitteePublic corporationa trading body controlled by central government, local authority or other publiccorporation that has substantial day to day operating independence. See section 7.8.Public Dividend finance provided by government to public sector bodies as an equity stake; an alternative to Capital, PDCloan finance.Public Service sets out what the public can expect the government to deliver with its resources. EveryAgreement, PSAlarge government department has PSA(s) which specify deliverables as targets or aimsrelated to objectives.a structured arrangement between a public sector and a private sector organisation tosecure an outcome delivering good value for money for the public sector. It is classified tothe public or private sector according to which has more control.Rate of returnthe financial remuneration delivered by a particular project or enterprise, expressed as apercentage of the net assets employed.Regularitythe principle that resource consumption should accord with the relevant legislation, therelevant delegated authority and this document. See box 2.4.Request for the functional level into which departmental Estimates may be split. RfRs contain a number Resources, RfRof functions being carried out by the department in pursuit of one or more of thatdepartment’s objectives.Resource accountan accruals account produced in line with the Financial Reporting Manual (FReM).Resource accountingthe system under which budgets, Estimates and accounts are constructed in a similar wayto commercial audited accounts, so that both plans and records of expenditure allow in fullfor the goods and services which are to be, or have been, consumed – ie not just the cashexpended.Resource budgetthe means by which the government plans and controls the expenditure of resources tomeet its objectives.Restitutiona legal concept which allows money and property to be returned to its rightful owner. Ittypically operates where another person can be said to have been unjustly enriched byreceiving such monies.Return on capital the ratio of profit to capital employed of an accounting entity during an identified period.employed, ROCEVarious measures of profit and of capital employed may be used in calculating the ratio.Public Privatepartnership, PPPPrivate Finance Initiative, PFIParliamentaryauthority61Managing Public Money
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    GLOSSARYRoyal charterthe document setting out the powers and constitution of a corporation established underprerogative power of the monarch acting on Privy Council advice.Second readingthe second formal time that a House of Parliament may debate a bill, although in practicethe first substantive debate on its content. If successful, it is deemed to denoteParliamentary approval of the principle of the proposed legislation.Secondary legislationlaws, including orders and regulations, which are made using powers in primary legislation.Normally used to set out technical and administrative provision in greater detail thanprimary legislation, they are subject to a less intense level of scrutiny in Parliament.European legislation is,however,often implemented in secondary legislation using powers inthe European Communities Act 1972.Service-level agreement between parties, setting out in detail the level of service to be performed.agreementWhere agreements are between central government bodies, they are not legally a contractbut have a similar function.Shareholder Executive a body created to improve the government’s performance as a shareholder in businesses.Spending reviewsets out the key improvements in public services that the public can expect over a givenperiod. It includes a thorough review of departmental aims and objectives to find the bestway of delivering the government’s objectives, and sets out the spending plans for the givenperiod.State aidstate support for a domestic body or company which could distort EU competition and sois not usually allowed. See annex 4.9.Statement of Excessa formal statement detailing departments’ overspends prepared by the Comptroller andAuditor General as a result of undertaking annual audits.Statement on Internal an annual statement that Accounting Officers are required to make as part of the accounts Control, SICon a range of risk and control issues.Subheadindividual elements of departmental expenditure identifiable in Estimates as single cells, forexample cell A1 being administration costs within a particular line of departmental spending.Supplyresources voted by Parliament in response to Estimates, for expenditure by governmentdepartments.Supply Estimatesa statement of the resources the government needs in the coming financial year, and forwhat purpose(s), by which Parliamentary authority is sought for the planned level ofexpenditure and income.Target rate of returnthe rate of return required of a project or enterprise over a given period, usually at least a year.Third sectorprivate sector bodies which do not act commercially,including charities,social and voluntaryorganisations and other not-for-profit collectives. See annex 7.7.Total Managed a Treasury budgeting term which covers all current and capital spending carried out by the Expenditure,TMEpublic sector (ie not just by central departments).Trading fundan organisation (either within a government department or forming one) which is largely orwholly financed from commercial revenue generated by its activities. Its Estimate shows itsnet impact, allowing its income from receipts to be devoted entirely to its business.Treasury Minutea formal administrative document drawn up by the Treasury, which may serve a wide varietyof purposes including seeking Parliamentary approval for the use of receipts asappropriations in aid, a remission of some or all of the principal of voted loans, andresponding on behalf of the government to reports by the Public Accounts Committee(PAC).62Managing Public Money
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    GLOSSARY63Managing Public MoneyValue for moneythe process under which organisation’s procurement, projects and processes aresystematically evaluated and assessed to provide confidence about suitability, effectiveness,prudence,quality,value and avoidance of error and other waste,judged for the public sectoras a whole.Virementthe process through which funds are moved between subheads such that additionalexpenditure on one is met by savings on one or more others.Votethe process by which Parliament approves funds in response to supply Estimates.Voted expenditureprovision for expenditure that has been authorised by Parliament. Parliament ‘votes’authority for public expenditure through the Supply Estimates process. Most expenditureby central government departments is authorised in this way.Wider market activity activities undertaken by central government organisations outside their statutory duties,using spare capacity and aimed at generating a commercial profit. See annex 7.6.Windfallmonies received by a department which were not anticipated in the spending review.
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  • 11 introducir

    v.
    1 to put in, to insert (meter) (llave, carta).
    introduzca su número secreto enter your PIN number
    2 to bring in, to introduce.
    una banda que introduce droga en el país a gang smuggling drugs into the country
    Ella introdujo la madera She introduced=inserted the wood.
    Ella introdujo a la nueva secretaria She introduced the new secretary.
    Ella introdujo la nueva técnica She introduced the new technique.
    Ella introdujo su nuevo producto She introduced her new product.
    Ella introdujo al plomero She introduced=ushered in the plumber.
    3 to enter, to type in.
    El chico introdujo los datos The boy entered=typed in the data.
    4 to slip in.
    5 to be inserted in, to be introduced in.
    Se te introduce una aguja A needle is inserted in you.
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    Conjugation model [ CONDUCIR], like link=conducir conducir
    1 (gen) to introduce; (legislación) to introduce, bring in; (cambios) to make (en, to)
    2 (meter) to put, place; (insertar) insert
    3 (importar) to bring in, import; (clandestinamente) to smuggle in
    1 (entrar) to go in, get in, enter
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    introducir modificaciones/novedades/cambios en algo to modify something, make changes to something
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    verb
    3) input, insert
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    1. VT
    1) (=meter)
    a) [+ mano, pie] to put, place (en in(to))
    [+ moneda, llave] to put, insert (en in(to))

    introdujo los pies en el aguahe put o placed his feet in(to) the water

    introduzca la moneda/el disquete en la ranura — insert the coin/the diskette in(to) the slot

    b) [+ enfermedad, mercancías] to bring (en into)
    introduce (en into) [+ contrabando, droga] to bring (en in(to))

    introducir algo en el mercado — to bring sth onto the market, introduce sth into the market

    c)

    introducir a algn en[+ habitación] to show sb into; [+ situación real] to introduce sb to; [+ situación irreal] to transport sb to

    2) (=empezar) [+ cultivo, ley, método] to introduce

    para introducir el tema, empezaré hablando de política exterior — to introduce the subject, I'll begin by discussing foreign policy

    introducir la ley del divorcio causó muchos problemas — the introduction of the divorce law caused many problems, introducing the divorce law was very problematic

    3) (=realizar) [+ medidas, reformas] to bring in, introduce

    quieren introducir cambios en la legislación — they want to make changes to the current legislation, they want to introduce changes into the current legislation

    las reformas se introducirán gradualmente a lo largo de los próximos tres años — the reforms will be phased in over the next three years, the reforms will be brought in o introduced gradually over the next three years

    4) (Inform) [+ datos] to input, enter
    2.
    See:
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    1.
    verbo transitivo
    1) <llave/moneda> to insert
    2)
    a) <cambios/medidas/ley> to introduce, bring in
    b) <contrabando/drogas> to bring in, smuggle in
    3)
    a) (presentar, iniciar) to introduce
    2.
    introducirse v pron
    a) ( meterse)
    b) persona to gain access to
    c) ( entrar en uso) modato come in
    d) ( hacerse conocido) to become known
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    = enter, feed, input, insert, introduce, key in, load into, put in, put into, read in, usher in, inaugurate, carry in, slip in between, roll out.
    Ex. Entry of an 'e' for end will bring back the screen shown in Figure 23 where you can make another choice or enter 'e' for end.
    Ex. The computer merely needs to be fed with the source documents and their citation, and with the appropriate software, will generate the indexes.
    Ex. Thus the electronic journal (e-journal) is a concept where scientists are able to input ideas and text to a computer data base for their colleagues to view, and similarly to view the work of others.
    Ex. Gaps are left in the apportionment of notation in order to permit new subjects to be inserted.
    Ex. The report introduced a range of ideas which have influenced subsequent code construction.
    Ex. The advantage is that information does not have to be keyed in.
    Ex. Multiple copies of the catalogue or index in the conventional sense are not required, but the data base can be copied and loaded into various computer systems.
    Ex. For those of you who are not familiar with OCLC and the way we work the data base is not a vast receptacle into which we throw any kind of record that anybody wants to put in.
    Ex. If the bibliographic record is found, it can be put into the system catalog immediately.
    Ex. Light pens can be used to read in data from bar codes on borrowers' cards, books, records, audio-visual materials.
    Ex. Optical technology has ushered in a new phase in the storage and retrieval of information.
    Ex. In the beginning staff delivered books to readers in their homes, while in 1972 a mobile library service was inaugurated enabling readers to choose their own materials.
    Ex. The first printing presses had two moving parts: the carriage assembly, which carried the type and paper in and out of the press, and the impression assembly, by means of which the paper was pressed down on to the inked type.
    Ex. At all periods, but uncommonly before the eighteenth century, the lines of type might be 'leaded', thin strips of typemetal, reglet, or card being slipped in between each one.
    Ex. I don't need to tell those of you from higher education institutions how course management systems are starting to really proliferate and roll out in higher education.
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    * introducir a golpes = hammer into.
    * introducir Algo/Alguien en = usher + Nombre + into.
    * introducir Algo en = take + Nombre + into.
    * introducir arrastrando = haul in.
    * introducir datos = key + data.
    * introducir datos en el ordenador = input.
    * introducir datos partiendo de cero = enter from + scratch.
    * introducir de contrabando = smuggle in.
    * introducir de nuevo = re-enter [reenter].
    * introducir en = merge into.
    * introducir escalonadamente = spiral.
    * introducir gradualmente = phase in.
    * introducir ilegalmente = smuggle in.
    * introducir información = provide + input.
    * introducir mediante el teclado = keyboard.
    * introducir mejoras = make + improvements.
    * introducir poco a poco a = filter through to.
    * introducir por primera vez = pioneer.
    * introducir progresivamente = spiral.
    * introducirse = creep (up) (in/into), enter into, make + Posesivo + way (into/onto).
    * introducirse completamente en = immerse + Reflexivo + in.
    * introducirse en = insinuate + Posesivo + way through, insinuate + Reflexivo + (into), insinuate into.
    * introducirse poco a poco = ease + Reflexivo + in.
    * introducirse sigilosamente = creep up on.
    * introducir tirando = haul in.
    * introducir un cambio = bring + change.
    * volver a introducir = re-enter [reenter], reintroduce, reinsert.
    * * *
    1.
    verbo transitivo
    1) <llave/moneda> to insert
    2)
    a) <cambios/medidas/ley> to introduce, bring in
    b) <contrabando/drogas> to bring in, smuggle in
    3)
    a) (presentar, iniciar) to introduce
    2.
    introducirse v pron
    a) ( meterse)
    b) persona to gain access to
    c) ( entrar en uso) modato come in
    d) ( hacerse conocido) to become known
    * * *
    = enter, feed, input, insert, introduce, key in, load into, put in, put into, read in, usher in, inaugurate, carry in, slip in between, roll out.

    Ex: Entry of an 'e' for end will bring back the screen shown in Figure 23 where you can make another choice or enter 'e' for end.

    Ex: The computer merely needs to be fed with the source documents and their citation, and with the appropriate software, will generate the indexes.
    Ex: Thus the electronic journal (e-journal) is a concept where scientists are able to input ideas and text to a computer data base for their colleagues to view, and similarly to view the work of others.
    Ex: Gaps are left in the apportionment of notation in order to permit new subjects to be inserted.
    Ex: The report introduced a range of ideas which have influenced subsequent code construction.
    Ex: The advantage is that information does not have to be keyed in.
    Ex: Multiple copies of the catalogue or index in the conventional sense are not required, but the data base can be copied and loaded into various computer systems.
    Ex: For those of you who are not familiar with OCLC and the way we work the data base is not a vast receptacle into which we throw any kind of record that anybody wants to put in.
    Ex: If the bibliographic record is found, it can be put into the system catalog immediately.
    Ex: Light pens can be used to read in data from bar codes on borrowers' cards, books, records, audio-visual materials.
    Ex: Optical technology has ushered in a new phase in the storage and retrieval of information.
    Ex: In the beginning staff delivered books to readers in their homes, while in 1972 a mobile library service was inaugurated enabling readers to choose their own materials.
    Ex: The first printing presses had two moving parts: the carriage assembly, which carried the type and paper in and out of the press, and the impression assembly, by means of which the paper was pressed down on to the inked type.
    Ex: At all periods, but uncommonly before the eighteenth century, the lines of type might be 'leaded', thin strips of typemetal, reglet, or card being slipped in between each one.
    Ex: I don't need to tell those of you from higher education institutions how course management systems are starting to really proliferate and roll out in higher education.
    * introducir a golpes = hammer into.
    * introducir Algo/Alguien en = usher + Nombre + into.
    * introducir Algo en = take + Nombre + into.
    * introducir arrastrando = haul in.
    * introducir datos = key + data.
    * introducir datos en el ordenador = input.
    * introducir datos partiendo de cero = enter from + scratch.
    * introducir de contrabando = smuggle in.
    * introducir de nuevo = re-enter [reenter].
    * introducir en = merge into.
    * introducir escalonadamente = spiral.
    * introducir gradualmente = phase in.
    * introducir ilegalmente = smuggle in.
    * introducir información = provide + input.
    * introducir mediante el teclado = keyboard.
    * introducir mejoras = make + improvements.
    * introducir poco a poco a = filter through to.
    * introducir por primera vez = pioneer.
    * introducir progresivamente = spiral.
    * introducirse = creep (up) (in/into), enter into, make + Posesivo + way (into/onto).
    * introducirse completamente en = immerse + Reflexivo + in.
    * introducirse en = insinuate + Posesivo + way through, insinuate + Reflexivo + (into), insinuate into.
    * introducirse poco a poco = ease + Reflexivo + in.
    * introducirse sigilosamente = creep up on.
    * introducir tirando = haul in.
    * introducir un cambio = bring + change.
    * volver a introducir = re-enter [reenter], reintroduce, reinsert.

    * * *
    introducir [I6 ]
    vt
    A (meter) introducir algo EN algo:
    introdujo la papeleta en la urna he put his ballot paper in o into the ballot box, he placed his ballot paper in the ballot box
    introducir la moneda en la ranura insert the coin in the slot
    introdujo la llave en la cerradura he put o inserted the key in o into the lock
    introducir un cuchillo en el centro del pastel insert a knife into the middle of the cake
    B
    1 ‹cambios/medidas/ley› to introduce, bring in, institute ( frml) introducir algo EN algo:
    se introdujo una modificación en el reglamento a change was made in the rules
    fue introducida en Europa en el siglo XVI it was introduced o brought into Europe in the 16th century
    quieren introducir un nuevo producto en el mercado they plan to introduce a new product into o bring a new product onto the market
    2 ‹contrabando/drogas› to bring in, smuggle in
    un solo perro podría introducir la enfermedad en el país a single dog could bring o introduce the disease into the country
    C
    1 (presentar, iniciar) to introduce
    estas tres notas introducen el nuevo tema musical these three notes introduce the new theme
    2 ‹persona› (a una actividad) introducir a algn A algo to introduce sb TO sth
    fue él quien me introdujo a la lectura de los clásicos it was he who introduced me to the classics
    3 (en un ambiente) introducir a algn EN algo:
    su música nos introduce en un mundo mágico his music transports us to a magical world
    el escritor nos introduce en la Francia del siglo pasado the writer takes us back to the France of the last century
    1
    (meterse): el agua se introducía por las ranuras the water was coming in o was seeping through the cracks
    la moneda rodó hasta introducirse por una grieta the coin rolled along and dropped down a crack
    2 «persona» to gain access to
    se introdujeron en el banco por un túnel they gained access to o got into the bank via a tunnel
    3
    «ideas/costumbres/moda»: introducirse EN algo: ideas foráneas que se introdujeron poco a poco en nuestra sociedad foreign ideas which gradually found their way into our society
    su obra se introdujo en México a través de las traducciones de Sanz his works became known in Mexico through Sanz's translations
    * * *

     

    introducir ( conjugate introducir) verbo transitivo
    1 ( en general) to put … in;
    moneda to insert;
    introducir algo en algo to put sth into sth;
    moneda› to insert sth in sth
    2
    a)cambios/medidas/ley to introduce, bring in;

    producto to introduce
    b)contrabando/drogas to bring in, smuggle in

    3 ( presentar) ‹acto/cantante to introduce
    introducirse verbo pronominal



    [ costumbre] to be introduced
    c) ( hacerse conocido) [escritor/actor] to become known

    introducir verbo transitivo
    1 to introduce: su padre lo introdujo en la política, his father introduced him to politics
    2 (meter) to insert, put in: introduzca una moneda, por favor, please insert coin
    ' introducir' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    deslizar
    - embutir
    - iniciar
    - pasar
    - sonda
    - meter
    English:
    bring in
    - dread
    - feed
    - input
    - insert
    - introduce
    - jam in
    - key in
    - opportunity
    - pack in
    - phase
    - promise
    - put in
    - stick in
    - well
    - work in
    - bring
    - float
    * * *
    vt
    1. [meter] [llave, carta] to put in, to insert;
    Informát [datos] to input, to enter;
    introdujo la moneda en la ranura she put o inserted the coin in the slot;
    introdujo la carta en el sobre he put the letter in the envelope;
    introduzca su número secreto enter your PIN number
    2. [conducir] [persona] to show in;
    introdujo a los visitantes en la sala de espera she showed the visitors into the waiting room
    3. [en película, novela] to introduce;
    en su última obra el autor introduce a dos nuevos personajes in his latest work the author introduces two new characters
    4. [medidas, ley] to introduce, to bring in;
    introdujeron un plan para combatir el desempleo they introduced o brought in a scheme to combat unemployment;
    piensan introducir cambios en la ley they are planning to make changes to the law
    5. [mercancías] to bring in, to introduce;
    los españoles introdujeron los caballos en América the Spanish introduced horses to America;
    una banda que introduce droga en el país a gang smuggling drugs into the country;
    fue él quien introdujo las ideas revolucionarias en el país it was he who introduced o brought revolutionary ideas to the country
    6. [dar a conocer]
    introducir a alguien en to introduce sb to;
    la introdujo en el mundo de la moda he introduced her to the world of fashion;
    nos introdujo en los principios básicos de la astronomía he introduced us to the basic principles of astronomy
    * * *
    v/t
    1 introduce
    2 ( meter) insert
    3 INFOR input
    * * *
    introducir {61} vt
    1) : to introduce
    2) : to bring in
    3) : to insert
    4) : to input, to enter
    * * *
    1. (meter) to insert / to put in [pt. & pp. put]
    2. (aplicar) to introduce / to bring in [pt. & pp. brought]

    Spanish-English dictionary > introducir

  • 12 apropiado

    adj.
    1 appropriate, convenient, apt, fit.
    2 appropriate, correct.
    past part.
    past participle of spanish verb: apropiar.
    * * *
    1→ link=apropiar apropiar
    1 suitable, fitting, appropriate
    * * *
    (f. - apropiada)
    adj.
    appropriate, suitable
    * * *
    suitable ( para for)
    * * *
    - da adjetivo suitable
    * * *
    = apposite, appropriate, apt, convenient, felicitous, fit [fitter -comp., fittest -sup.], proper, right, fitting, fertile, commensurate, rightful, seemly, accommodating, timely, beffiting.
    Ex. All terms may be included, and placed in the most apposite position in the hierarchy of the subject = Pueden incluirse todos los términos y colocarse en la posición más apropiada en la jerarquía de la materia.
    Ex. Informative abstracts are appropriate for texts describing experimental work.
    Ex. By building upon a more apt conceptual framework the transfer of information technology can play a role, albeit limited, in the development process.
    Ex. The most convenient manual format for recording terms is to write each term on a card.
    Ex. This is hardly a felicitous solution to be followed in other similar cases.
    Ex. That was considered to be a fit matter to be relegated to the machines.
    Ex. With proper authorization, you may request information about the status of the copies displayed.
    Ex. The last figure I saw was 828, but you're in the right realm.
    Ex. Since libraries are the lifeblood of research, it seems only fitting then that the education of librarians should include familiarity with research methodology.
    Ex. There is no doubt that these reforms have produced a fertile climate for the development of better information for patients.
    Ex. For their indifference, they were rewarded with personnel evaluations which reflected an imaginatively fabricated version of the truth, but which did afford the requisite ego boost and commensurate pay increase.
    Ex. Use of a library is a minority event since only a small segment of rightful users of a library really makes use of it.
    Ex. They were the first cloth bindings that were intended to compete with paper boards as seemly but inexpensive covers for ordinary books.
    Ex. Monitors tuned to television news may have to be located in areas that are less than accommodating to the large numbers of users who want to know the fast-breaking events which affect us all.
    Ex. I am not very good at fortune telling but I suspect it may be timely for people to communicate briefly on strategy and options with him.
    Ex. Since I write in English I should really refer to the city as Florence, but Firenze is such a phonically beautiful sounding word, far more befitting of the beautiful Italian city.
    ----
    * apropiado para = well suited to/for.
    * considerar apropiado = consider + appropriate.
    * de forma apropiada = fitly, appropriately.
    * de modo apropiado = appropriately.
    * de un modo apropiado = fitly.
    * lo apropiado = appropriateness.
    * momento apropiado para el aprendizaje, el = teachable moment, the.
    * no muy apropiado = wide of the mark.
    * poco apropiado = unsuited, unsuitable, inapt.
    * ser apropiado = be right.
    * vestimenta apropiada para la lluvia = raingear.
    * * *
    - da adjetivo suitable
    * * *
    = apposite, appropriate, apt, convenient, felicitous, fit [fitter -comp., fittest -sup.], proper, right, fitting, fertile, commensurate, rightful, seemly, accommodating, timely, beffiting.

    Ex: All terms may be included, and placed in the most apposite position in the hierarchy of the subject = Pueden incluirse todos los términos y colocarse en la posición más apropiada en la jerarquía de la materia.

    Ex: Informative abstracts are appropriate for texts describing experimental work.
    Ex: By building upon a more apt conceptual framework the transfer of information technology can play a role, albeit limited, in the development process.
    Ex: The most convenient manual format for recording terms is to write each term on a card.
    Ex: This is hardly a felicitous solution to be followed in other similar cases.
    Ex: That was considered to be a fit matter to be relegated to the machines.
    Ex: With proper authorization, you may request information about the status of the copies displayed.
    Ex: The last figure I saw was 828, but you're in the right realm.
    Ex: Since libraries are the lifeblood of research, it seems only fitting then that the education of librarians should include familiarity with research methodology.
    Ex: There is no doubt that these reforms have produced a fertile climate for the development of better information for patients.
    Ex: For their indifference, they were rewarded with personnel evaluations which reflected an imaginatively fabricated version of the truth, but which did afford the requisite ego boost and commensurate pay increase.
    Ex: Use of a library is a minority event since only a small segment of rightful users of a library really makes use of it.
    Ex: They were the first cloth bindings that were intended to compete with paper boards as seemly but inexpensive covers for ordinary books.
    Ex: Monitors tuned to television news may have to be located in areas that are less than accommodating to the large numbers of users who want to know the fast-breaking events which affect us all.
    Ex: I am not very good at fortune telling but I suspect it may be timely for people to communicate briefly on strategy and options with him.
    Ex: Since I write in English I should really refer to the city as Florence, but Firenze is such a phonically beautiful sounding word, far more befitting of the beautiful Italian city.
    * apropiado para = well suited to/for.
    * considerar apropiado = consider + appropriate.
    * de forma apropiada = fitly, appropriately.
    * de modo apropiado = appropriately.
    * de un modo apropiado = fitly.
    * lo apropiado = appropriateness.
    * momento apropiado para el aprendizaje, el = teachable moment, the.
    * no muy apropiado = wide of the mark.
    * poco apropiado = unsuited, unsuitable, inapt.
    * ser apropiado = be right.
    * vestimenta apropiada para la lluvia = raingear.

    * * *
    suitable
    llevaba un vestido muy poco apropiado para una boda the dress she was wearing was very inappropriate o unsuitable for a wedding
    el discurso fue muy apropiado a la ocasión the speech was very fitting for the occasion
    la persona apropiada para el cargo the right person o a suitable person for the job
    este libro no es apropiado para tu edad this book is unsuitable for someone of your age
    ¡podrías haber elegido un momento más apropiado! you could have chosen a better o ( frml) more appropriate time
    * * *

     

    Del verbo apropiar: ( conjugate apropiar)

    apropiado es:

    el participio

    apropiado
    ◊ -da adjetivo

    suitable;
    el discurso fue muy apropiado a la ocasión the speech was very fitting for the occasion;
    no era el momento apropiado it wasn't the right moment
    apropiado,-a adjetivo suitable, appropriate

    ' apropiado' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    apropiada
    - digna
    - digno
    - vestir
    - adecuado
    - debido
    - recomendado
    English:
    appropriate
    - apt
    - becoming
    - dishwasherproof
    - fitting
    - happy
    - inappropriate
    - right
    - suit
    - suitability
    - suitable
    - suited
    - become
    - proper
    - unsuitable
    - where
    * * *
    apropiado, -a adj
    suitable, appropriate;
    su comportamiento no fue muy apropiado his behaviour was rather inappropriate;
    estos zapatos no son apropiados para la playa these shoes aren't very suitable for the beach;
    no es la persona apropiada para el puesto he's not the right person for the job
    * * *
    adj appropriate, suitable
    * * *
    apropiado, -da adj
    : appropriate, proper, suitable
    * * *
    apropiado adj appropriate / suitable

    Spanish-English dictionary > apropiado

  • 13 ascenso social

    (n.) = upward mobility, upward social mobility
    Ex. These institutions, bringing higher education to many families for the first time, offered a new channel for upward mobility.
    Ex. Indians are now totally integrated into Malaysian society and have achieved upward social mobility as a result of government reforms in 1960s.
    * * *
    (n.) = upward mobility, upward social mobility

    Ex: These institutions, bringing higher education to many families for the first time, offered a new channel for upward mobility.

    Ex: Indians are now totally integrated into Malaysian society and have achieved upward social mobility as a result of government reforms in 1960s.

    Spanish-English dictionary > ascenso social

  • 14 Chronology

      15,000-3,000 BCE Paleolithic cultures in western Portugal.
      400-200 BCE Greek and Carthaginian trade settlements on coast.
      202 BCE Roman armies invade ancient Lusitania.
      137 BCE Intensive Romanization of Lusitania begins.
      410 CE Germanic tribes — Suevi and Visigoths—begin conquest of Roman Lusitania and Galicia.
      714—16 Muslims begin conquest of Visigothic Lusitania.
      1034 Christian Reconquest frontier reaches Mondego River.
      1064 Christians conquer Coimbra.
      1139 Burgundian Count Afonso Henriques proclaims himself king of Portugal; birth of Portugal. Battle of Ourique: Afonso Henriques defeats Muslims.
      1147 With English Crusaders' help, Portuguese seize Lisbon from Muslims.
      1179 Papacy formally recognizes Portugal's independence (Pope Alexander III).
      1226 Campaign to reclaim Alentejo from Muslims begins.
      1249 Last Muslim city (Silves) falls to Portuguese Army.
      1381 Beginning of third war between Castile and Portugal.
      1383 Master of Aviz, João, proclaimed regent by Lisbon populace.
      1385 April: Master of Aviz, João I, proclaimed king of Portugal by Cortes of Coimbra. 14 August: Battle of Aljubarrota, Castilians defeated by royal forces, with assistance of English army.
      1394 Birth of "Prince Henry the Navigator," son of King João I.
      1415 Beginning of overseas expansion as Portugal captures Moroccan city of Ceuta.
      1419 Discovery of Madeira Islands.
      1425-28 Prince D. Pedro, older brother of Prince Henry, travels in Europe.
      1427 Discovery (or rediscovery?) of Azores Islands.
      1434 Prince Henry the Navigator's ships pass beyond Cape Bojador, West Africa.
      1437 Disaster at Tangier, Morocco, as Portuguese fail to capture city.
      1441 First African slaves from western Africa reach Portugal.
      1460 Death of Prince Henry. Portuguese reach what is now Senegal, West Africa.
      1470s Portuguese explore West African coast and reach what is now Ghana and Nigeria and begin colonizing islands of São Tomé and Príncipe.
      1479 Treaty of Alcáçovas between kings of Portugal and Spain.
      1482 Portuguese establish post at São Jorge da Mina, Gold Coast (now Ghana).
      1482-83 Portuguese navigator Diogo Cão reaches mouth of Congo River and Angola.
      1488 Navigator Bartolomeu Dias rounds Cape of Good Hope, South Africa, and finds route to Indian Ocean.
      1492-93 Columbus's first voyage to West Indies.
      1493 Columbus visits Azores and Portugal on return from first voyage; tells of discovery of New World. Treaty of Tordesillas signed between kings of Portugal and Spain: delimits spheres of conquest with line 370 leagues west of Cape Verde Islands (claimed by Portugal); Portugal's sphere to east of line includes, in effect, Brazil.
       King Manuel I and Royal Council decide to continue seeking all-water route around Africa to Asia.
       King Manuel I expels unconverted Jews from Portugal.
      1497-99 Epic voyage of Vasco da Gama from Portugal around Africa to west India, successful completion of sea route to Asia project; da Gama returns to Portugal with samples of Asian spices.
      1500 Bound for India, Navigator Pedro Álvares Cabral "discovers" coast of Brazil and claims it for Portugal.
      1506 Anti-Jewish riots in Lisbon.
       Battle of Diu, India; Portugal's command of Indian Ocean assured for some time with Francisco de Almeida's naval victory over Egyptian and Gujerati fleets.
       Afonso de Albuquerque conquers Goa, India; beginning of Portuguese hegemony in south Asia.
       Portuguese conquest of Malacca; commerce in Spice Islands.
      1519 Magellan begins circumnavigation voyage.
      1536 Inquisition begins in Portugal.
      1543 Portuguese merchants reach Japan.
      1557 Portuguese merchants granted Chinese territory of Macau for trading factory.
      1572 Luís de Camões publishes epic poem, Os Lusíadas.
      1578 Battle of Alcácer-Quivir; Moroccan forces defeat army of King Sebastião of Portugal; King Sebastião dies in battle. Portuguese succession crisis.
      1580 King Phillip II of Spain claims and conquers Portugal; Spanish rule of Portugal, 1580-1640.
      1607-24 Dutch conquer sections of Asia and Brazil formerly held by Portugal.
      1640 1 December: Portuguese revolution in Lisbon overthrows Spanish rule, restores independence. Beginning of Portugal's Braganza royal dynasty.
      1654 Following Dutch invasions and conquest of parts of Brazil and Angola, Dutch expelled by force.
      1661 Anglo-Portuguese Alliance treaty signed: England pledges to defend Portugal "as if it were England itself." Queen Catherine of Bra-ganza marries England's Charles II.
      1668 February: In Portuguese-Spanish peace treaty, Spain recognizes independence of Portugal, thus ending 28-year War of Restoration.
      1703 Methuen Treaties signed, key commercial trade agreement and defense treaty between England and Portugal.
      1750 Pombal becomes chief minister of King José I.
      1755 1 November: Massive Lisbon earthquake, tidal wave, and fire.
      1759 Expulsion of Jesuits from Portugal and colonies.
      1761 Slavery abolished in continental Portugal.
      1769 Abandonment of Mazagão, Morocco, last Portuguese outpost.
      1777 Pombal dismissed as chief minister by Queen Maria I, after death of José I.
      1791 Portugal and United States establish full diplomatic relations.
      1807 November: First Napoleonic invasion; French forces under Junot conquer Portugal. Royal family flees to colony of Brazil and remains there until 1821.
      1809 Second French invasion of Portugal under General Soult.
      1811 Third French invasion of Portugal under General Masséna.
      1813 Following British general Wellington's military victories, French forces evacuate Portugal.
      1817 Liberal, constitutional movements against absolutist monarchist rule break out in Brazil (Pernambuco) and Portugal (Lisbon, under General Gomes Freire); crushed by government. British marshal of Portugal's army, Beresford, rules Portugal.
       Liberal insurrection in army officer corps breaks out in Cadiz, Spain, and influences similar movement in Portugal's armed forces first in Oporto.
       King João VI returns from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and early draft of constitution; era of constitutional monarchy begins.
      1822 7 September: João VI's son Pedro proclaims independence of
       Brazil from Portugal and is named emperor. 23 September: Constitution of 1822 ratified.
       Portugal recognizes sovereign independence of Brazil.
       King João VI dies; power struggle for throne ensues between his sons, brothers Pedro and Miguel; Pedro, emperor of Brazil, abdicates Portuguese throne in favor of his daughter, D. Maria II, too young to assume crown. By agreement, Miguel, uncle of D. Maria, is to accept constitution and rule in her stead.
      1828 Miguel takes throne and abolishes constitution. Sections of Portugal rebel against Miguelite rule.
      1831 Emperor Pedro abdicates throne of Brazil and returns to Portugal to expel King Miguel from Portuguese throne.
      1832-34 Civil war between absolutist King Miguel and constitutionalist Pedro, who abandons throne of Brazil to restore his young daughter Maria to throne of Portugal; Miguel's armed forces defeated by those of Pedro. Miguel leaves for exile and constitution (1826 Charter) is restored.
      1834-53 Constitutional monarchy consolidated under rule of Queen Maria II, who dies in 1853.
      1851-71 Regeneration period of economic development and political stability; public works projects sponsored by Minister Fontes Pereira de Melo.
      1871-90 Rotativism period of alternating party governments; achieves political stability and less military intervention in politics and government. Expansion of colonial territory in tropical Africa.
       January: Following territorial dispute in central Africa, Britain delivers "Ultimatum" to Portugal demanding withdrawal of Portugal's forces from what is now Malawi and Zimbabwe. Portugal's government, humiliated in accepting demand under threat of a diplomatic break, falls. Beginning of governmental and political instability; monarchist decline and republicanism's rise.
       Anglo-Portuguese treaties signed relating to delimitation of frontiers in colonial Africa.
      1899 Treaty of Windsor; renewal of Anglo-Portuguese defense and friendship alliance.
      1903 Triumphal visit of King Edward VII to Portugal.
      1906 Politician João Franco supported by King Carlos I in dictatorship to restore order and reform.
      1908 1 February: Murder in Lisbon of King Carlos I and his heir apparent, Prince Dom Luís, by Portuguese anarchists. Eighteen-year-old King Manuel II assumes throne.
      1910 3-5 October: Following republican-led military insurrection in armed forces, monarchy falls and first Portuguese republic is proclaimed. Beginning of unstable, economically troubled, parliamentary republic form of government.
       May: Violent insurrection in Lisbon overturns government of General Pimenta de Castro; nearly a thousand casualties from several days of armed combat in capital.
       March: Following Portugal's honoring ally Britain's request to confiscate German shipping in Portuguese harbors, Germany declares war on Portugal; Portugal enters World War I on Allied side.
       Portugal organizes and dispatches Portuguese Expeditionary Corps to fight on the Western Front. 9 April: Portuguese forces mauled by German offensive in Battle of Lys. Food rationing and riots in Lisbon. Portuguese military operations in Mozambique against German expedition's invasion from German East Africa. 5 December: Authoritarian, presidentialist government under Major Sidónio Pais takes power in Lisbon, following a successful military coup.
      1918 11 November: Armistice brings cessation of hostilities on Western Front in World War I. Portuguese expeditionary forces stationed in Angola, Mozambique, and Flanders begin return trip to Portugal. 14 December: President Sidónio Pais assassinated. Chaotic period of ephemeral civil war ensues.
      1919-21 Excessively unstable political period, including January
      1919 abortive effort of Portuguese monarchists to restore Braganza dynasty to power. Republican forces prevail, but level of public violence, economic distress, and deprivation remains high.
      1921 October: Political violence attains peak with murder of former prime minister and other prominent political figures in Lisbon. Sectors of armed forces and Guarda Nacional Republicana are mutinous. Year of financial and corruption scandals, including Portuguese bank note (fraud) case; military court acquits guilty military insurrectionists, and one military judge declares "the country is sick."
       28 May: Republic overthrown by military coup or pronunciamento and conspiracy among officer corps. Parliament's doors locked and parliament closed for nearly nine years to January 1935. End of parliamentary republic, Western Europe's most unstable political system in this century, beginning of the Portuguese dictatorship, after 1930 known as the Estado Novo. Officer corps assumes reins of government, initiates military censorship of the press, and suppresses opposition.
       February: Military dictatorship under General Óscar Carmona crushes failed republican armed insurrection in Oporto and Lisbon.
       April: Military dictatorship names Professor Antônio de Oliveira Salazar minister of finance, with dictatorial powers over budget, to stabilize finances and rebuild economy. Insurrectionism among military elements continues into 1931.
      1930 Dr. Salazar named minister for colonies and announces balanced budgets. Salazar consolidates support by various means, including creation of official regime "movement," the National Union. Salazar engineers Colonial Act to ensure Lisbon's control of bankrupt African colonies by means of new fiscal controls and centralization of authority. July: Military dictatorship names Salazar prime minister for first time, and cabinet composition undergoes civilianization; academic colleagues and protégés plan conservative reform and rejuvenation of society, polity, and economy. Regime comes to be called the Estado Novo (New State). New State's constitution ratified by new parliament, the National Assembly; Portugal described in document as "unitary, corporative Republic" and governance influenced by Salazar's stern personality and doctrines such as integralism, Catholicism, and fiscal conservatism.
      1936 Violent instability and ensuing civil war in neighboring Spain, soon internationalized by fascist and communist intervention, shake Estado Novo regime. Pseudofascist period of regime features creation of imitation Fascist institutions to defend regime from leftist threats; Portugal institutes "Portuguese Youth" and "Portuguese Legion."
      1939 3 September: Prime Minister Salazar declares Portugal's neutrality in World War II. October: Anglo-Portuguese agreement grants naval and air base facilities to Britain and later to United States for Battle of the Atlantic and Normandy invasion support. Third Reich protests breach of Portugal's neutrality.
       6 June: On day of Allies' Normandy invasion, Portugal suspends mining and export of wolfram ore to both sides in war.
       8 May: Popular celebrations of Allied victory and Fascist defeat in Lisbon and Oporto coincide with Victory in Europe Day. Following managed elections for Estado Novo's National Assembly in November, regime police, renamed PIDE, with increased powers, represses opposition.
      1947 Abortive military coup in central Portugal easily crushed by regime. Independence of India and initiation of Indian protests against Portuguese colonial rule in Goa and other enclaves.
      1949 Portugal becomes founding member of NATO.
      1951 Portugal alters constitution and renames overseas colonies "Overseas Provinces." Portugal and United States sign military base agreements for use of air and naval facilities in Azores Islands and military aid to Lisbon. President Carmona dies in office, succeeded by General Craveiro Lopes (1951-58). July: Indians occupy enclave of Portuguese India (dependency of Damão) by means of passive resistance movement. August: Indian passive resistance movement in Portuguese India repelled by Portuguese forces with loss of life. December: With U.S. backing, Portugal admitted as member of United Nations (along with Spain). Air force general Humberto Delgado, in opposition, challenges Estado Novo's hand-picked successor to Craveiro Lopes, Admiral Américo Tomás. Delgado rallies coalition of democratic, liberal, and communist opposition but loses rigged election and later flees to exile in Brazil. Portugal joins European Free Trade Association (EFTA).
       January and February: Estado Novo rocked by armed African insurrection in northern Angola, crushed by armed forces. Hijacking of Portuguese ocean liner by ally of Delgado, Captain Henrique Galvão. April: Salazar defeats attempted military coup and reshuffles cabinet with group of younger figures who seek to reform colonial rule and strengthen the regime's image abroad. 18 December: Indian army rapidly defeats Portugal's defense force in Goa, Damão, and Diu and incorporates Portugal's Indian possessions into Indian Union. January: Abortive military coup in Beja, Portugal.
      1965 February: General Delgado and his Brazilian secretary murdered and secretly buried near Spanish frontier by political police, PIDE.
      1968 August and September: Prime Minister Salazar, aged 79, suffers crippling stoke. President Tomás names former cabinet officer Marcello Caetano as Salazar's successor. Caetano institutes modest reforms in Portugal and overseas.
      1971 Caetano government ratifies amended constitution that allows slight devolution and autonomy to overseas provinces in Africa and Asia. Right-wing loyalists oppose reforms in Portugal. 25 April: Military coup engineered by Armed Forces Movement overthrows Estado Novo and establishes provisional government emphasizing democratization, development, and decolonization. Limited resistance by loyalists. President Tomás and Premier Caetano flown to exile first in Madeira and then in Brazil. General Spínola appointed president. September: Revolution moves to left, as President Spínola, thwarted in his program, resigns.
       March: Military coup by conservative forces fails, and leftist response includes nationalization of major portion of economy. Polarization between forces and parties of left and right. 25 November: Military coup by moderate military elements thwarts leftist forces. Constituent Assembly prepares constitution. Revolution moves from left to center and then right.
       March: Constitution ratified by Assembly of the Republic. 25 April: Second general legislative election gives largest share of seats to Socialist Party (PS). Former oppositionist lawyer, Mário Soares, elected deputy and named prime minister.
      1977-85 Political pendulum of democratic Portugal moves from center-left to center-right, as Social Democratic Party (PSD) increases hold on assembly and take office under Prime Minister Cavaco Silva. July
      1985 elections give edge to PSD who advocate strong free-enterprise measures and revision of leftist-generated 1976 Constitution, amended modestly in 1982.
      1986 January: Portugal joins European Economic Community (EEC).
      1987 July: General, legislative elections for assembly give more than 50 percent to PSD led by Prime Minister Cavaco Silva. For first time, since 1974, Portugal has a working majority government.
      1989 June: Following revisions of 1976 Constitution, reprivatization of economy begins, under PS government.
       January: Presidential elections, Mário Soares reelected for second term. July: General, legislative elections for assembly result in new PSD victory and majority government.
       January-July: Portugal holds presidency of the Council of the European Economic Community (EEC). December: Tariff barriers fall as fully integrated Common Market established in the EEC.
       November: Treaty of Maastricht comes into force. The EEC officially becomes the European Union (EU). Portugal is signatory with 11 other member-nations.
       October: General, legislative elections for assembly result in PS victory and naming of Prime Minister Guterres. PS replace PSD as leading political party. November: Excavations for Lisbon bank uncover ancient Phoenician, Roman, and Christian ruins.
       January: General, presidential elections; socialist Jorge Sampaio defeats PSD's Cavaco Silva and assumes presidency from Dr. Mário Soares. July: Community of Portuguese Languages Countries (CPLP) cofounded by Portugal and Brazil.
       May-September: Expo '98 held in Lisbon. Opening of Vasco da Gama Bridge across Tagus River, Europe's longest (17 kilometers/ 11 miles). June: National referendum on abortion law change defeated after low voter turnout. November: National referendum on regionaliza-tion and devolution of power defeated after another low voter turnout.
       October: General, legislative elections: PS victory over PSD lacks clear majority in parliament. Following East Timor referendum, which votes for independence and withdrawal of Indonesia, outburst of popular outrage in streets, media, and communications of Portugal approves armed intervention and administration of United Nations (and withdrawal of Indonesia) in East Timor. Portugal and Indonesia restore diplomatic relations. December: A Special Territory since 1975, Colony of Macau transferred to sovereignty of People's Republic of China.
       January-June: Portugal holds presidency of the Council of the EU; end of Discoveries Historical Commemoration Cycle (1988-2000).
       United Nations forces continue to occupy and administer former colony of East Timor, with Portugal's approval.
       January: General, presidential elections; PS president Sampaio reelected for second term. City of Oporto, "European City of Culture" for the year, hosts arts festival. December: Municipal elections: PSD defeats PS; socialist prime minister Guterres resigns; President Sampaio calls March parliamentary elections.
       1 January: Portugal enters single European Currency system. Euro currency adopted and ceases use of former national currency, the escudo. March: Parliamentary elections; PSD defeats PS and José Durão Barroso becomes prime minister. Military modernization law passed. Portugal holds chairmanship of Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE).
       May: Municipal law passed permitting municipalities to reorganize in new ways.
       June: Prime Minister Durão Barroso, invited to succeed Romano Prodi as president of EU Commission, resigns. Pedro Santana Lopes becomes prime minister. European Parliament elections held. Conscription for national service in army and navy ended. Mass grave uncovered at Academy of Sciences Museum, Lisbon, revealing remains of several thousand victims of Lisbon earthquake, 1755.
       February: Parliamentary elections; PS defeats PSD, socialists win first absolute majority in parliament since 1975. José Sócrates becomes prime minister.
       January: Presidential elections; PSD candidate Aníbal Cavaco Silva elected and assumes presidency from Jorge Sampaio. Portugal's national soccer team ranked 7th out of 205 countries by international soccer association. European Union's Bologna Process in educational reform initiated in Portugal.
       July-December: Portugal holds presidency of the Council of the European Union. For reasons of economy, Portugal announces closure of many consulates, especially in France and the eastern US. Government begins official inspections of private institutions of higher education, following scandals.
      2008 January: Prime Minister Sócrates announces location of new Lisbon area airport as Alcochete, on south bank of Tagus River, site of air force shooting range. February: Portuguese Army begins to receive new modern battle tanks (Leopard 2 A6). March: Mass protest of 85,000 public school (primary and secondary levels) teachers in Lisbon schools dispute recent educational policies of minister of education and prime minister.

    Historical dictionary of Portugal > Chronology

  • 15 Historical Portugal

       Before Romans described western Iberia or Hispania as "Lusitania," ancient Iberians inhabited the land. Phoenician and Greek trading settlements grew up in the Tagus estuary area and nearby coasts. Beginning around 202 BCE, Romans invaded what is today southern Portugal. With Rome's defeat of Carthage, Romans proceeded to conquer and rule the western region north of the Tagus, which they named Roman "Lusitania." In the fourth century CE, as Rome's rule weakened, the area experienced yet another invasion—Germanic tribes, principally the Suevi, who eventually were Christianized. During the sixth century CE, the Suevi kingdom was superseded by yet another Germanic tribe—the Christian Visigoths.
       A major turning point in Portugal's history came in 711, as Muslim armies from North Africa, consisting of both Arab and Berber elements, invaded the Iberian Peninsula from across the Straits of Gibraltar. They entered what is now Portugal in 714, and proceeded to conquer most of the country except for the far north. For the next half a millennium, Islam and Muslim presence in Portugal left a significant mark upon the politics, government, language, and culture of the country.
       Islam, Reconquest, and Portugal Created, 714-1140
       The long frontier struggle between Muslim invaders and Christian communities in the north of the Iberian peninsula was called the Reconquista (Reconquest). It was during this struggle that the first dynasty of Portuguese kings (Burgundian) emerged and the independent monarchy of Portugal was established. Christian forces moved south from what is now the extreme north of Portugal and gradually defeated Muslim forces, besieging and capturing towns under Muslim sway. In the ninth century, as Christian forces slowly made their way southward, Christian elements were dominant only in the area between Minho province and the Douro River; this region became known as "territorium Portu-calense."
       In the 11th century, the advance of the Reconquest quickened as local Christian armies were reinforced by crusading knights from what is now France and England. Christian forces took Montemor (1034), at the Mondego River; Lamego (1058); Viseu (1058); and Coimbra (1064). In 1095, the king of Castile and Léon granted the country of "Portu-cale," what became northern Portugal, to a Burgundian count who had emigrated from France. This was the foundation of Portugal. In 1139, a descendant of this count, Afonso Henriques, proclaimed himself "King of Portugal." He was Portugal's first monarch, the "Founder," and the first of the Burgundian dynasty, which ruled until 1385.
       The emergence of Portugal in the 12th century as a separate monarchy in Iberia occurred before the Christian Reconquest of the peninsula. In the 1140s, the pope in Rome recognized Afonso Henriques as king of Portugal. In 1147, after a long, bloody siege, Muslim-occupied Lisbon fell to Afonso Henriques's army. Lisbon was the greatest prize of the 500-year war. Assisting this effort were English crusaders on their way to the Holy Land; the first bishop of Lisbon was an Englishman. When the Portuguese captured Faro and Silves in the Algarve province in 1248-50, the Reconquest of the extreme western portion of the Iberian peninsula was complete—significantly, more than two centuries before the Spanish crown completed the Reconquest of the eastern portion by capturing Granada in 1492.
       Consolidation and Independence of Burgundian Portugal, 1140-1385
       Two main themes of Portugal's early existence as a monarchy are the consolidation of control over the realm and the defeat of a Castil-ian threat from the east to its independence. At the end of this period came the birth of a new royal dynasty (Aviz), which prepared to carry the Christian Reconquest beyond continental Portugal across the straits of Gibraltar to North Africa. There was a variety of motives behind these developments. Portugal's independent existence was imperiled by threats from neighboring Iberian kingdoms to the north and east. Politics were dominated not only by efforts against the Muslims in
       Portugal (until 1250) and in nearby southern Spain (until 1492), but also by internecine warfare among the kingdoms of Castile, Léon, Aragon, and Portugal. A final comeback of Muslim forces was defeated at the battle of Salado (1340) by allied Castilian and Portuguese forces. In the emerging Kingdom of Portugal, the monarch gradually gained power over and neutralized the nobility and the Church.
       The historic and commonplace Portuguese saying "From Spain, neither a good wind nor a good marriage" was literally played out in diplomacy and war in the late 14th-century struggles for mastery in the peninsula. Larger, more populous Castile was pitted against smaller Portugal. Castile's Juan I intended to force a union between Castile and Portugal during this era of confusion and conflict. In late 1383, Portugal's King Fernando, the last king of the Burgundian dynasty, suddenly died prematurely at age 38, and the Master of Aviz, Portugal's most powerful nobleman, took up the cause of independence and resistance against Castile's invasion. The Master of Aviz, who became King João I of Portugal, was able to obtain foreign assistance. With the aid of English archers, Joao's armies defeated the Castilians in the crucial battle of Aljubarrota, on 14 August 1385, a victory that assured the independence of the Portuguese monarchy from its Castilian nemesis for several centuries.
       Aviz Dynasty and Portugal's First Overseas Empire, 1385-1580
       The results of the victory at Aljubarrota, much celebrated in Portugal's art and monuments, and the rise of the Aviz dynasty also helped to establish a new merchant class in Lisbon and Oporto, Portugal's second city. This group supported King João I's program of carrying the Reconquest to North Africa, since it was interested in expanding Portugal's foreign commerce and tapping into Muslim trade routes and resources in Africa. With the Reconquest against the Muslims completed in Portugal and the threat from Castile thwarted for the moment, the Aviz dynasty launched an era of overseas conquest, exploration, and trade. These efforts dominated Portugal's 15th and 16th centuries.
       The overseas empire and age of Discoveries began with Portugal's bold conquest in 1415 of the Moroccan city of Ceuta. One royal member of the 1415 expedition was young, 21-year-old Prince Henry, later known in history as "Prince Henry the Navigator." His part in the capture of Ceuta won Henry his knighthood and began Portugal's "Marvelous Century," during which the small kingdom was counted as a European and world power of consequence. Henry was the son of King João I and his English queen, Philippa of Lancaster, but he did not inherit the throne. Instead, he spent most of his life and his fortune, and that of the wealthy military Order of Christ, on various imperial ventures and on voyages of exploration down the African coast and into the Atlantic. While mythology has surrounded Henry's controversial role in the Discoveries, and this role has been exaggerated, there is no doubt that he played a vital part in the initiation of Portugal's first overseas empire and in encouraging exploration. He was naturally curious, had a sense of mission for Portugal, and was a strong leader. He also had wealth to expend; at least a third of the African voyages of the time were under his sponsorship. If Prince Henry himself knew little science, significant scientific advances in navigation were made in his day.
       What were Portugal's motives for this new imperial effort? The well-worn historical cliche of "God, Glory, and Gold" can only partly explain the motivation of a small kingdom with few natural resources and barely 1 million people, which was greatly outnumbered by the other powers it confronted. Among Portuguese objectives were the desire to exploit known North African trade routes and resources (gold, wheat, leather, weaponry, and other goods that were scarce in Iberia); the need to outflank the Muslim world in the Mediterranean by sailing around Africa, attacking Muslims en route; and the wish to ally with Christian kingdoms beyond Africa. This enterprise also involved a strategy of breaking the Venetian spice monopoly by trading directly with the East by means of discovering and exploiting a sea route around Africa to Asia. Besides the commercial motives, Portugal nurtured a strong crusading sense of Christian mission, and various classes in the kingdom saw an opportunity for fame and gain.
       By the time of Prince Henry's death in 1460, Portugal had gained control of the Atlantic archipelagos of the Azores and Madeiras, begun to colonize the Cape Verde Islands, failed to conquer the Canary Islands from Castile, captured various cities on Morocco's coast, and explored as far as Senegal, West Africa, down the African coast. By 1488, Bar-tolomeu Dias had rounded the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa and thereby discovered the way to the Indian Ocean.
       Portugal's largely coastal African empire and later its fragile Asian empire brought unexpected wealth but were purchased at a high price. Costs included wars of conquest and defense against rival powers, manning the far-flung navel and trade fleets and scattered castle-fortresses, and staffing its small but fierce armies, all of which entailed a loss of skills and population to maintain a scattered empire. Always short of capital, the monarchy became indebted to bankers. There were many defeats beginning in the 16th century at the hands of the larger imperial European monarchies (Spain, France, England, and Holland) and many attacks on Portugal and its strung-out empire. Typically, there was also the conflict that arose when a tenuously held world empire that rarely if ever paid its way demanded finance and manpower Portugal itself lacked.
       The first 80 years of the glorious imperial era, the golden age of Portugal's imperial power and world influence, was an African phase. During 1415-88, Portuguese navigators and explorers in small ships, some of them caravelas (caravels), explored the treacherous, disease-ridden coasts of Africa from Morocco to South Africa beyond the Cape of Good Hope. By the 1470s, the Portuguese had reached the Gulf of Guinea and, in the early 1480s, what is now Angola. Bartolomeu Dias's extraordinary voyage of 1487-88 to South Africa's coast and the edge of the Indian Ocean convinced Portugal that the best route to Asia's spices and Christians lay south, around the tip of southern Africa. Between 1488 and 1495, there was a hiatus caused in part by domestic conflict in Portugal, discussion of resources available for further conquests beyond Africa in Asia, and serious questions as to Portugal's capacity to reach beyond Africa. In 1495, King Manuel and his council decided to strike for Asia, whatever the consequences. In 1497-99, Vasco da Gama, under royal orders, made the epic two-year voyage that discovered the sea route to western India (Asia), outflanked Islam and Venice, and began Portugal's Asian empire. Within 50 years, Portugal had discovered and begun the exploitation of its largest colony, Brazil, and set up forts and trading posts from the Middle East (Aden and Ormuz), India (Calicut, Goa, etc.), Malacca, and Indonesia to Macau in China.
       By the 1550s, parts of its largely coastal, maritime trading post empire from Morocco to the Moluccas were under siege from various hostile forces, including Muslims, Christians, and Hindi. Although Moroccan forces expelled the Portuguese from the major coastal cities by 1550, the rival European monarchies of Castile (Spain), England, France, and later Holland began to seize portions of her undermanned, outgunned maritime empire.
       In 1580, Phillip II of Spain, whose mother was a Portuguese princess and who had a strong claim to the Portuguese throne, invaded Portugal, claimed the throne, and assumed control over the realm and, by extension, its African, Asian, and American empires. Phillip II filled the power vacuum that appeared in Portugal following the loss of most of Portugal's army and its young, headstrong King Sebastião in a disastrous war in Morocco. Sebastiao's death in battle (1578) and the lack of a natural heir to succeed him, as well as the weak leadership of the cardinal who briefly assumed control in Lisbon, led to a crisis that Spain's strong monarch exploited. As a result, Portugal lost its independence to Spain for a period of 60 years.
       Portugal under Spanish Rule, 1580-1640
       Despite the disastrous nature of Portugal's experience under Spanish rule, "The Babylonian Captivity" gave birth to modern Portuguese nationalism, its second overseas empire, and its modern alliance system with England. Although Spain allowed Portugal's weakened empire some autonomy, Spanish rule in Portugal became increasingly burdensome and unacceptable. Spain's ambitious imperial efforts in Europe and overseas had an impact on the Portuguese as Spain made greater and greater demands on its smaller neighbor for manpower and money. Portugal's culture underwent a controversial Castilianization, while its empire became hostage to Spain's fortunes. New rival powers England, France, and Holland attacked and took parts of Spain's empire and at the same time attacked Portugal's empire, as well as the mother country.
       Portugal's empire bore the consequences of being attacked by Spain's bitter enemies in what was a form of world war. Portuguese losses were heavy. By 1640, Portugal had lost most of its Moroccan cities as well as Ceylon, the Moluccas, and sections of India. With this, Portugal's Asian empire was gravely weakened. Only Goa, Damão, Diu, Bombay, Timor, and Macau remained and, in Brazil, Dutch forces occupied the northeast.
       On 1 December 1640, long commemorated as a national holiday, Portuguese rebels led by the duke of Braganza overthrew Spanish domination and took advantage of Spanish weakness following a more serious rebellion in Catalonia. Portugal regained independence from Spain, but at a price: dependence on foreign assistance to maintain its independence in the form of the renewal of the alliance with England.
       Restoration and Second Empire, 1640-1822
       Foreign affairs and empire dominated the restoration era and aftermath, and Portugal again briefly enjoyed greater European power and prestige. The Anglo-Portuguese Alliance was renewed and strengthened in treaties of 1642, 1654, and 1661, and Portugal's independence from Spain was underwritten by English pledges and armed assistance. In a Luso-Spanish treaty of 1668, Spain recognized Portugal's independence. Portugal's alliance with England was a marriage of convenience and necessity between two monarchies with important religious, cultural, and social differences. In return for legal, diplomatic, and trade privileges, as well as the use during war and peace of Portugal's great Lisbon harbor and colonial ports for England's navy, England pledged to protect Portugal and its scattered empire from any attack. The previously cited 17th-century alliance treaties were renewed later in the Treaty of Windsor, signed in London in 1899. On at least 10 different occasions after 1640, and during the next two centuries, England was central in helping prevent or repel foreign invasions of its ally, Portugal.
       Portugal's second empire (1640-1822) was largely Brazil-oriented. Portuguese colonization, exploitation of wealth, and emigration focused on Portuguese America, and imperial revenues came chiefly from Brazil. Between 1670 and 1740, Portugal's royalty and nobility grew wealthier on funds derived from Brazilian gold, diamonds, sugar, tobacco, and other crops, an enterprise supported by the Atlantic slave trade and the supply of African slave labor from West Africa and Angola. Visitors today can see where much of that wealth was invested: Portugal's rich legacy of monumental architecture. Meanwhile, the African slave trade took a toll in Angola and West Africa.
       In continental Portugal, absolutist monarchy dominated politics and government, and there was a struggle for position and power between the monarchy and other institutions, such as the Church and nobility. King José I's chief minister, usually known in history as the marquis of Pombal (ruled 1750-77), sharply suppressed the nobility and the
       Church (including the Inquisition, now a weak institution) and expelled the Jesuits. Pombal also made an effort to reduce economic dependence on England, Portugal's oldest ally. But his successes did not last much beyond his disputed time in office.
       Beginning in the late 18th century, the European-wide impact of the French Revolution and the rise of Napoleon placed Portugal in a vulnerable position. With the monarchy ineffectively led by an insane queen (Maria I) and her indecisive regent son (João VI), Portugal again became the focus of foreign ambition and aggression. With England unable to provide decisive assistance in time, France—with Spain's consent—invaded Portugal in 1807. As Napoleon's army under General Junot entered Lisbon meeting no resistance, Portugal's royal family fled on a British fleet to Brazil, where it remained in exile until 1821. In the meantime, Portugal's overseas empire was again under threat. There was a power vacuum as the monarch was absent, foreign armies were present, and new political notions of liberalism and constitutional monarchy were exciting various groups of citizens.
       Again England came to the rescue, this time in the form of the armies of the duke of Wellington. Three successive French invasions of Portugal were defeated and expelled, and Wellington succeeded in carrying the war against Napoleon across the Portuguese frontier into Spain. The presence of the English army, the new French-born liberal ideas, and the political vacuum combined to create revolutionary conditions. The French invasions and the peninsular wars, where Portuguese armed forces played a key role, marked the beginning of a new era in politics.
       Liberalism and Constitutional Monarchy, 1822-1910
       During 1807-22, foreign invasions, war, and civil strife over conflicting political ideas gravely damaged Portugal's commerce, economy, and novice industry. The next terrible blow was the loss of Brazil in 1822, the jewel in the imperial crown. Portugal's very independence seemed to be at risk. In vain, Portugal sought to resist Brazilian independence by force, but in 1825 it formally acknowledged Brazilian independence by treaty.
       Portugal's slow recovery from the destructive French invasions and the "war of independence" was complicated by civil strife over the form of constitutional monarchy that best suited Portugal. After struggles over these issues between 1820 and 1834, Portugal settled somewhat uncertainly into a moderate constitutional monarchy whose constitution (Charter of 1826) lent it strong political powers to exert a moderating influence between the executive and legislative branches of the government. It also featured a new upper middle class based on land ownership and commerce; a Catholic Church that, although still important, lived with reduced privileges and property; a largely African (third) empire to which Lisbon and Oporto devoted increasing spiritual and material resources, starting with the liberal imperial plans of 1836 and 1851, and continuing with the work of institutions like the Lisbon Society of Geography (established 1875); and a mass of rural peasants whose bonds to the land weakened after 1850 and who began to immigrate in increasing numbers to Brazil and North America.
       Chronic military intervention in national politics began in 19th-century Portugal. Such intervention, usually commencing with coups or pronunciamentos (military revolts), was a shortcut to the spoils of political office and could reflect popular discontent as well as the power of personalities. An early example of this was the 1817 golpe (coup) attempt of General Gomes Freire against British military rule in Portugal before the return of King João VI from Brazil. Except for a more stable period from 1851 to 1880, military intervention in politics, or the threat thereof, became a feature of the constitutional monarchy's political life, and it continued into the First Republic and the subsequent Estado Novo.
       Beginning with the Regeneration period (1851-80), Portugal experienced greater political stability and economic progress. Military intervention in politics virtually ceased; industrialization and construction of railroads, roads, and bridges proceeded; two political parties (Regenerators and Historicals) worked out a system of rotation in power; and leading intellectuals sparked a cultural revival in several fields. In 19th-century literature, there was a new golden age led by such figures as Alexandre Herculano (historian), Eça de Queirós (novelist), Almeida Garrett (playwright and essayist), Antero de Quental (poet), and Joaquim Oliveira Martins (historian and social scientist). In its third overseas empire, Portugal attempted to replace the slave trade and slavery with legitimate economic activities; to reform the administration; and to expand Portuguese holdings beyond coastal footholds deep into the African hinterlands in West, West Central, and East Africa. After 1841, to some extent, and especially after 1870, colonial affairs, combined with intense nationalism, pressures for economic profit in Africa, sentiment for national revival, and the drift of European affairs would make or break Lisbon governments.
       Beginning with the political crisis that arose out of the "English Ultimatum" affair of January 1890, the monarchy became discredtted and identified with the poorly functioning government, political parties splintered, and republicanism found more supporters. Portugal participated in the "Scramble for Africa," expanding its African holdings, but failed to annex territory connecting Angola and Mozambique. A growing foreign debt and state bankruptcy as of the early 1890s damaged the constitutional monarchy's reputation, despite the efforts of King Carlos in diplomacy, the renewal of the alliance in the Windsor Treaty of 1899, and the successful if bloody colonial wars in the empire (1880-97). Republicanism proclaimed that Portugal's weak economy and poor society were due to two historic institutions: the monarchy and the Catholic Church. A republic, its stalwarts claimed, would bring greater individual liberty; efficient, if more decentralized government; and a stronger colonial program while stripping the Church of its role in both society and education.
       As the monarchy lost support and republicans became more aggressive, violence increased in politics. King Carlos I and his heir Luís were murdered in Lisbon by anarchist-republicans on 1 February 1908. Following a military and civil insurrection and fighting between monarchist and republican forces, on 5 October 1910, King Manuel II fled Portugal and a republic was proclaimed.
       First Parliamentary Republic, 1910-26
       Portugal's first attempt at republican government was the most unstable, turbulent parliamentary republic in the history of 20th-century Western Europe. During a little under 16 years of the republic, there were 45 governments, a number of legislatures that did not complete normal terms, military coups, and only one president who completed his four-year term in office. Portuguese society was poorly prepared for this political experiment. Among the deadly legacies of the monarchy were a huge public debt; a largely rural, apolitical, and illiterate peasant population; conflict over the causes of the country's misfortunes; and lack of experience with a pluralist, democratic system.
       The republic had some talented leadership but lacked popular, institutional, and economic support. The 1911 republican constitution established only a limited democracy, as only a small portion of the adult male citizenry was eligible to vote. In a country where the majority was Catholic, the republic passed harshly anticlerical laws, and its institutions and supporters persecuted both the Church and its adherents. During its brief disjointed life, the First Republic drafted important reform plans in economic, social, and educational affairs; actively promoted development in the empire; and pursued a liberal, generous foreign policy. Following British requests for Portugal's assistance in World War I, Portugal entered the war on the Allied side in March 1916 and sent armies to Flanders and Portuguese Africa. Portugal's intervention in that conflict, however, was too costly in many respects, and the ultimate failure of the republic in part may be ascribed to Portugal's World War I activities.
       Unfortunately for the republic, its time coincided with new threats to Portugal's African possessions: World War I, social and political demands from various classes that could not be reconciled, excessive military intervention in politics, and, in particular, the worst economic and financial crisis Portugal had experienced since the 16th and 17th centuries. After the original Portuguese Republican Party (PRP, also known as the "Democrats") splintered into three warring groups in 1912, no true multiparty system emerged. The Democrats, except for only one or two elections, held an iron monopoly of electoral power, and political corruption became a major issue. As extreme right-wing dictatorships elsewhere in Europe began to take power in Italy (1922), neighboring Spain (1923), and Greece (1925), what scant popular support remained for the republic collapsed. Backed by a right-wing coalition of landowners from Alentejo, clergy, Coimbra University faculty and students, Catholic organizations, and big business, career military officers led by General Gomes da Costa executed a coup on 28 May 1926, turned out the last republican government, and established a military government.
       The Estado Novo (New State), 1926-74
       During the military phase (1926-32) of the Estado Novo, professional military officers, largely from the army, governed and administered Portugal and held key cabinet posts, but soon discovered that the military possessed no magic formula that could readily solve the problems inherited from the First Republic. Especially during the years 1926-31, the military dictatorship, even with its political repression of republican activities and institutions (military censorship of the press, political police action, and closure of the republic's rowdy parliament), was characterized by similar weaknesses: personalism and factionalism; military coups and political instability, including civil strife and loss of life; state debt and bankruptcy; and a weak economy. "Barracks parliamentarism" was not an acceptable alternative even to the "Nightmare Republic."
       Led by General Óscar Carmona, who had replaced and sent into exile General Gomes da Costa, the military dictatorship turned to a civilian expert in finance and economics to break the budget impasse and bring coherence to the disorganized system. Appointed minister of finance on 27 April 1928, the Coimbra University Law School professor of economics Antônio de Oliveira Salazar (1889-1970) first reformed finance, helped balance the budget, and then turned to other concerns as he garnered extraordinary governing powers. In 1930, he was appointed interim head of another key ministry (Colonies) and within a few years had become, in effect, a civilian dictator who, with the military hierarchy's support, provided the government with coherence, a program, and a set of policies.
       For nearly 40 years after he was appointed the first civilian prime minister in 1932, Salazar's personality dominated the government. Unlike extreme right-wing dictators elsewhere in Europe, Salazar was directly appointed by the army but was never endorsed by a popular political party, street militia, or voter base. The scholarly, reclusive former Coimbra University professor built up what became known after 1932 as the Estado Novo ("New State"), which at the time of its overthrow by another military coup in 1974, was the longest surviving authoritarian regime in Western Europe. The system of Salazar and the largely academic and technocratic ruling group he gathered in his cabinets was based on the central bureaucracy of the state, which was supported by the president of the republic—always a senior career military officer, General Óscar Carmona (1928-51), General Craveiro Lopes (1951-58), and Admiral Américo Tómaz (1958-74)—and the complicity of various institutions. These included a rubber-stamp legislature called the National Assembly (1935-74) and a political police known under various names: PVDE (1932-45), PIDE (1945-69),
       and DGS (1969-74). Other defenders of the Estado Novo security were paramilitary organizations such as the National Republican Guard (GNR); the Portuguese Legion (PL); and the Portuguese Youth [Movement]. In addition to censorship of the media, theater, and books, there was political repression and a deliberate policy of depoliticization. All political parties except for the approved movement of regime loyalists, the União Nacional or (National Union), were banned.
       The most vigorous and more popular period of the New State was 1932-44, when the basic structures were established. Never monolithic or entirely the work of one person (Salazar), the New State was constructed with the assistance of several dozen top associates who were mainly academics from law schools, some technocrats with specialized skills, and a handful of trusted career military officers. The 1933 Constitution declared Portugal to be a "unitary, corporative Republic," and pressures to restore the monarchy were resisted. Although some of the regime's followers were fascists and pseudofascists, many more were conservative Catholics, integralists, nationalists, and monarchists of different varieties, and even some reactionary republicans. If the New State was authoritarian, it was not totalitarian and, unlike fascism in Benito Mussolini's Italy or Adolf Hitler's Germany, it usually employed the minimum of violence necessary to defeat what remained a largely fractious, incoherent opposition.
       With the tumultuous Second Republic and the subsequent civil war in nearby Spain, the regime felt threatened and reinforced its defenses. During what Salazar rightly perceived as a time of foreign policy crisis for Portugal (1936-45), he assumed control of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. From there, he pursued four basic foreign policy objectives: supporting the Nationalist rebels of General Francisco Franco in the Spanish Civil War (1936-39) and concluding defense treaties with a triumphant Franco; ensuring that General Franco in an exhausted Spain did not enter World War II on the Axis side; maintaining Portuguese neutrality in World War II with a post-1942 tilt toward the Allies, including granting Britain and the United States use of bases in the Azores Islands; and preserving and protecting Portugal's Atlantic Islands and its extensive, if poor, overseas empire in Africa and Asia.
       During the middle years of the New State (1944-58), many key Salazar associates in government either died or resigned, and there was greater social unrest in the form of unprecedented strikes and clandestine Communist activities, intensified opposition, and new threatening international pressures on Portugal's overseas empire. During the earlier phase of the Cold War (1947-60), Portugal became a steadfast, if weak, member of the US-dominated North Atlantic Treaty Organization alliance and, in 1955, with American support, Portugal joined the United Nations (UN). Colonial affairs remained a central concern of the regime. As of 1939, Portugal was the third largest colonial power in the world and possessed territories in tropical Africa (Angola, Mozambique, Guinea-Bissau, and São Tomé and Príncipe Islands) and the remnants of its 16th-century empire in Asia (Goa, Damão, Diu, East Timor, and Macau). Beginning in the early 1950s, following the independence of India in 1947, Portugal resisted Indian pressures to decolonize Portuguese India and used police forces to discourage internal opposition in its Asian and African colonies.
       The later years of the New State (1958-68) witnessed the aging of the increasingly isolated but feared Salazar and new threats both at home and overseas. Although the regime easily overcame the brief oppositionist threat from rival presidential candidate General Humberto Delgado in the spring of 1958, new developments in the African and Asian empires imperiled the authoritarian system. In February 1961, oppositionists hijacked the Portuguese ocean liner Santa Maria and, in following weeks, African insurgents in northern Angola, although they failed to expel the Portuguese, gained worldwide media attention, discredited the New State, and began the 13-year colonial war. After thwarting a dissident military coup against his continued leadership, Salazar and his ruling group mobilized military repression in Angola and attempted to develop the African colonies at a faster pace in order to ensure Portuguese control. Meanwhile, the other European colonial powers (Britain, France, Belgium, and Spain) rapidly granted political independence to their African territories.
       At the time of Salazar's removal from power in September 1968, following a stroke, Portugal's efforts to maintain control over its colonies appeared to be successful. President Americo Tomás appointed Dr. Marcello Caetano as Salazar's successor as prime minister. While maintaining the New State's basic structures, and continuing the regime's essential colonial policy, Caetano attempted wider reforms in colonial administration and some devolution of power from Lisbon, as well as more freedom of expression in Lisbon. Still, a great deal of the budget was devoted to supporting the wars against the insurgencies in Africa. Meanwhile in Asia, Portuguese India had fallen when the Indian army invaded in December 1961. The loss of Goa was a psychological blow to the leadership of the New State, and of the Asian empire only East Timor and Macau remained.
       The Caetano years (1968-74) were but a hiatus between the waning Salazar era and a new regime. There was greater political freedom and rapid economic growth (5-6 percent annually to late 1973), but Caetano's government was unable to reform the old system thoroughly and refused to consider new methods either at home or in the empire. In the end, regime change came from junior officers of the professional military who organized the Armed Forces Movement (MFA) against the Caetano government. It was this group of several hundred officers, mainly in the army and navy, which engineered a largely bloodless coup in Lisbon on 25 April 1974. Their unexpected action brought down the 48-year-old New State and made possible the eventual establishment and consolidation of democratic governance in Portugal, as well as a reorientation of the country away from the Atlantic toward Europe.
       Revolution of Carnations, 1974-76
       Following successful military operations of the Armed Forces Movement against the Caetano government, Portugal experienced what became known as the "Revolution of Carnations." It so happened that during the rainy week of the military golpe, Lisbon flower shops were featuring carnations, and the revolutionaries and their supporters adopted the red carnation as the common symbol of the event, as well as of the new freedom from dictatorship. The MFA, whose leaders at first were mostly little-known majors and captains, proclaimed a three-fold program of change for the new Portugal: democracy; decolonization of the overseas empire, after ending the colonial wars; and developing a backward economy in the spirit of opportunity and equality. During the first 24 months after the coup, there was civil strife, some anarchy, and a power struggle. With the passing of the Estado Novo, public euphoria burst forth as the new provisional military government proclaimed the freedoms of speech, press, and assembly, and abolished censorship, the political police, the Portuguese Legion, Portuguese Youth, and other New State organizations, including the National Union. Scores of political parties were born and joined the senior political party, the Portuguese Community Party (PCP), and the Socialist Party (PS), founded shortly before the coup.
       Portugal's Revolution of Carnations went through several phases. There was an attempt to take control by radical leftists, including the PCP and its allies. This was thwarted by moderate officers in the army, as well as by the efforts of two political parties: the PS and the Social Democrats (PPD, later PSD). The first phase was from April to September 1974. Provisional president General Antonio Spínola, whose 1974 book Portugal and the Future had helped prepare public opinion for the coup, met irresistible leftist pressures. After Spinola's efforts to avoid rapid decolonization of the African empire failed, he resigned in September 1974. During the second phase, from September 1974 to March 1975, radical military officers gained control, but a coup attempt by General Spínola and his supporters in Lisbon in March 1975 failed and Spínola fled to Spain.
       In the third phase of the Revolution, March-November 1975, a strong leftist reaction followed. Farm workers occupied and "nationalized" 1.1 million hectares of farmland in the Alentejo province, and radical military officers in the provisional government ordered the nationalization of Portuguese banks (foreign banks were exempted), utilities, and major industries, or about 60 percent of the economic system. There were power struggles among various political parties — a total of 50 emerged—and in the streets there was civil strife among labor, military, and law enforcement groups. A constituent assembly, elected on 25 April 1975, in Portugal's first free elections since 1926, drafted a democratic constitution. The Council of the Revolution (CR), briefly a revolutionary military watchdog committee, was entrenched as part of the government under the constitution, until a later revision. During the chaotic year of 1975, about 30 persons were killed in political frays while unstable provisional governments came and went. On 25 November 1975, moderate military forces led by Colonel Ramalho Eanes, who later was twice elected president of the republic (1976 and 1981), defeated radical, leftist military groups' revolutionary conspiracies.
       In the meantime, Portugal's scattered overseas empire experienced a precipitous and unprepared decolonization. One by one, the former colonies were granted and accepted independence—Guinea-Bissau (September 1974), Cape Verde Islands (July 1975), and Mozambique (July 1975). Portugal offered to turn over Macau to the People's Republic of China, but the offer was refused then and later negotiations led to the establishment of a formal decolonization or hand-over date of 1999. But in two former colonies, the process of decolonization had tragic results.
       In Angola, decolonization negotiations were greatly complicated by the fact that there were three rival nationalist movements in a struggle for power. The January 1975 Alvor Agreement signed by Portugal and these three parties was not effectively implemented. A bloody civil war broke out in Angola in the spring of 1975 and, when Portuguese armed forces withdrew and declared that Angola was independent on 11 November 1975, the bloodshed only increased. Meanwhile, most of the white Portuguese settlers from Angola and Mozambique fled during the course of 1975. Together with African refugees, more than 600,000 of these retornados ("returned ones") went by ship and air to Portugal and thousands more to Namibia, South Africa, Brazil, Canada, and the United States.
       The second major decolonization disaster was in Portugal's colony of East Timor in the Indonesian archipelago. Portugal's capacity to supervise and control a peaceful transition to independence in this isolated, neglected colony was limited by the strength of giant Indonesia, distance from Lisbon, and Portugal's revolutionary disorder and inability to defend Timor. In early December 1975, before Portugal granted formal independence and as one party, FRETILIN, unilaterally declared East Timor's independence, Indonesia's armed forces invaded, conquered, and annexed East Timor. Indonesian occupation encountered East Timorese resistance, and a heavy loss of life followed. The East Timor question remained a contentious international issue in the UN, as well as in Lisbon and Jakarta, for more than 20 years following Indonesia's invasion and annexation of the former colony of Portugal. Major changes occurred, beginning in 1998, after Indonesia underwent a political revolution and allowed a referendum in East Timor to decide that territory's political future in August 1999. Most East Timorese chose independence, but Indonesian forces resisted that verdict until
       UN intervention in September 1999. Following UN rule for several years, East Timor attained full independence on 20 May 2002.
       Consolidation of Democracy, 1976-2000
       After several free elections and record voter turnouts between 25 April 1975 and June 1976, civil war was averted and Portugal's second democratic republic began to stabilize. The MFA was dissolved, the military were returned to the barracks, and increasingly elected civilians took over the government of the country. The 1976 Constitution was revised several times beginning in 1982 and 1989, in order to reempha-size the principle of free enterprise in the economy while much of the large, nationalized sector was privatized. In June 1976, General Ram-alho Eanes was elected the first constitutional president of the republic (five-year term), and he appointed socialist leader Dr. Mário Soares as prime minister of the first constitutional government.
       From 1976 to 1985, Portugal's new system featured a weak economy and finances, labor unrest, and administrative and political instability. The difficult consolidation of democratic governance was eased in part by the strong currency and gold reserves inherited from the Estado Novo, but Lisbon seemed unable to cope with high unemployment, new debt, the complex impact of the refugees from Africa, world recession, and the agitation of political parties. Four major parties emerged from the maelstrom of 1974-75, except for the Communist Party, all newly founded. They were, from left to right, the Communists (PCP); the Socialists (PS), who managed to dominate governments and the legislature but not win a majority in the Assembly of the Republic; the Social Democrats (PSD); and the Christian Democrats (CDS). During this period, the annual growth rate was low (l-2 percent), and the nationalized sector of the economy stagnated.
       Enhanced economic growth, greater political stability, and more effective central government as of 1985, and especially 1987, were due to several developments. In 1977, Portugal applied for membership in the European Economic Community (EEC), now the European Union (EU) since 1993. In January 1986, with Spain, Portugal was granted membership, and economic and financial progress in the intervening years has been significantly influenced by the comparatively large investment, loans, technology, advice, and other assistance from the EEC. Low unemployment, high annual growth rates (5 percent), and moderate inflation have also been induced by the new political and administrative stability in Lisbon. Led by Prime Minister Cavaco Silva, an economist who was trained abroad, the PSD's strong organization, management, and electoral support since 1985 have assisted in encouraging economic recovery and development. In 1985, the PSD turned the PS out of office and won the general election, although they did not have an absolute majority of assembly seats. In 1986, Mário Soares was elected president of the republic, the first civilian to hold that office since the First Republic. In the elections of 1987 and 1991, however, the PSD was returned to power with clear majorities of over 50 percent of the vote.
       Although the PSD received 50.4 percent of the vote in the 1991 parliamentary elections and held a 42-seat majority in the Assembly of the Republic, the party began to lose public support following media revelations regarding corruption and complaints about Prime Minister Cavaco Silva's perceived arrogant leadership style. President Mário Soares voiced criticism of the PSD's seemingly untouchable majority and described a "tyranny of the majority." Economic growth slowed down. In the parliamentary elections of 1995 and the presidential election of 1996, the PSD's dominance ended for the time being. Prime Minister Antônio Guterres came to office when the PS won the October 1995 elections, and in the subsequent presidential contest, in January 1996, socialist Jorge Sampaio, the former mayor of Lisbon, was elected president of the republic, thus defeating Cavaco Silva's bid. Young and popular, Guterres moved the PS toward the center of the political spectrum. Under Guterres, the PS won the October 1999 parliamentary elections. The PS defeated the PSD but did not manage to win a clear, working majority of seats, and this made the PS dependent upon alliances with smaller parties, including the PCP.
       In the local elections in December 2001, the PSD's criticism of PS's heavy public spending allowed the PSD to take control of the key cities of Lisbon, Oporto, and Coimbra. Guterres resigned, and parliamentary elections were brought forward from 2004 to March 2002. The PSD won a narrow victory with 40 percent of the votes, and Jose Durão Barroso became prime minister. Having failed to win a majority of the seats in parliament forced the PSD to govern in coalition with the right-wing Popular Party (PP) led by Paulo Portas. Durão Barroso set about reducing government spending by cutting the budgets of local authorities, freezing civil service hiring, and reviving the economy by accelerating privatization of state-owned enterprises. These measures provoked a 24-hour strike by public-sector workers. Durão Barroso reacted with vows to press ahead with budget-cutting measures and imposed a wage freeze on all employees earning more than €1,000, which affected more than one-half of Portugal's work force.
       In June 2004, Durão Barroso was invited by Romano Prodi to succeed him as president of the European Commission. Durão Barroso accepted and resigned the prime ministership in July. Pedro Santana Lopes, the leader of the PSD, became prime minister. Already unpopular at the time of Durão Barroso's resignation, the PSD-led government became increasingly unpopular under Santana Lopes. A month-long delay in the start of the school year and confusion over his plan to cut taxes and raise public-sector salaries, eroded confidence even more. By November, Santana Lopes's government was so unpopular that President Jorge Sampaio was obliged to dissolve parliament and hold new elections, two years ahead of schedule.
       Parliamentary elections were held on 20 February 2005. The PS, which had promised the electorate disciplined and transparent governance, educational reform, the alleviation of poverty, and a boost in employment, won 45 percent of the vote and the majority of the seats in parliament. The leader of the PS, José Sôcrates became prime minister on 12 March 2005. In the regularly scheduled presidential elections held on 6 January 2006, the former leader of the PSD and prime minister, Aníbal Cavaco Silva, won a narrow victory and became president on 9 March 2006. With a mass protest, public teachers' strike, and street demonstrations in March 2008, Portugal's media, educational, and social systems experienced more severe pressures. With the spreading global recession beginning in September 2008, Portugal's economic and financial systems became more troubled.
       Owing to its geographic location on the southwestern most edge of continental Europe, Portugal has been historically in but not of Europe. Almost from the beginning of its existence in the 12th century as an independent monarchy, Portugal turned its back on Europe and oriented itself toward the Atlantic Ocean. After carving out a Christian kingdom on the western portion of the Iberian peninsula, Portuguese kings gradually built and maintained a vast seaborne global empire that became central to the way Portugal understood its individuality as a nation-state. While the creation of this empire allows Portugal to claim an unusual number of "firsts" or distinctions in world and Western history, it also retarded Portugal's economic, social, and political development. It can be reasonably argued that the Revolution of 25 April 1974 was the most decisive event in Portugal's long history because it finally ended Portugal's oceanic mission and view of itself as an imperial power. After the 1974 Revolution, Portugal turned away from its global mission and vigorously reoriented itself toward Europe. Contemporary Portugal is now both in and of Europe.
       The turn toward Europe began immediately after 25 April 1974. Portugal granted independence to its African colonies in 1975. It was admitted to the European Council and took the first steps toward accession to the European Economic Community (EEC) in 1976. On 28 March 1977, the Portuguese government officially applied for EEC membership. Because of Portugal's economic and social backwardness, which would require vast sums of EEC money to overcome, negotiations for membership were long and difficult. Finally, a treaty of accession was signed on 12 June 1985. Portugal officially joined the EEC (the European Union [EU] since 1993) on 1 January 1986. Since becoming a full-fledged member of the EU, Portugal has been steadily overcoming the economic and social underdevelopment caused by its imperial past and is becoming more like the rest of Europe.
       Membership in the EU has speeded up the structural transformation of Portugal's economy, which actually began during the Estado Novo. Investments made by the Estado Novo in Portugal's economy began to shift employment out of the agricultural sector, which, in 1950, accounted for 50 percent of Portugal's economically active population. Today, only 10 percent of the economically active population is employed in the agricultural sector (the highest among EU member states); 30 percent in the industrial sector (also the highest among EU member states); and 60 percent in the service sector (the lowest among EU member states). The economically active population numbers about 5,000,000 employed, 56 percent of whom are women. Women workers are the majority of the workforce in the agricultural and service sectors (the highest among the EU member states). The expansion of the service sector has been primarily in health care and education. Portugal has had the lowest unemployment rates among EU member states, with the overall rate never being more than 10 percent of the active population. Since joining the EU, the number of employers increased from 2.6 percent to 5.8 percent of the active population; self-employed from 16 to 19 percent; and employees from 65 to 70 percent. Twenty-six percent of the employers are women. Unemployment tends to hit younger workers in industry and transportation, women employed in domestic service, workers on short-term contracts, and poorly educated workers. Salaried workers earn only 63 percent of the EU average, and hourly workers only one-third to one-half of that earned by their EU counterparts. Despite having had the second highest growth of gross national product (GNP) per inhabitant (after Ireland) among EU member states, the above data suggest that while much has been accomplished in terms of modernizing the Portuguese economy, much remains to be done to bring Portugal's economy up to the level of the "average" EU member state.
       Membership in the EU has also speeded up changes in Portuguese society. Over the last 30 years, coastalization and urbanization have intensified. Fully 50 percent of Portuguese live in the coastal urban conurbations of Lisbon, Oporto, Braga, Aveiro, Coimbra, Viseu, Évora, and Faro. The Portuguese population is one of the oldest among EU member states (17.3 percent are 65 years of age or older) thanks to a considerable increase in life expectancy at birth (77.87 years for the total population, 74.6 years for men, 81.36 years for women) and one of the lowest birthrates (10.59 births/1,000) in Europe. Family size averages 2.8 persons per household, with the strict nuclear family (one or two generations) in which both parents work being typical. Common law marriages, cohabitating couples, and single-parent households are more and more common. The divorce rate has also increased. "Youth Culture" has developed. The young have their own meeting places, leisure-time activities, and nightlife (bars, clubs, and discos).
       All Portuguese citizens, whether they have contributed or not, have a right to an old-age pension, invalidity benefits, widowed persons' pension, as well as payments for disabilities, children, unemployment, and large families. There is a national minimum wage (€385 per month), which is low by EU standards. The rapid aging of Portugal's population has changed the ratio of contributors to pensioners to 1.7, the lowest in the EU. This has created deficits in Portugal's social security fund.
       The adult literacy rate is about 92 percent. Illiteracy is still found among the elderly. Although universal compulsory education up to grade 9 was achieved in 1980, only 21.2 percent of the population aged 25-64 had undergone secondary education, compared to an EU average of 65.7 percent. Portugal's higher education system currently consists of 14 state universities and 14 private universities, 15 state polytechnic institutions, one Catholic university, and one military academy. All in all, Portugal spends a greater percentage of its state budget on education than most EU member states. Despite this high level of expenditure, the troubled Portuguese education system does not perform well. Early leaving and repetition rates are among the highest among EU member states.
       After the Revolution of 25 April 1974, Portugal created a National Health Service, which today consists of 221 hospitals and 512 medical centers employing 33,751 doctors and 41,799 nurses. Like its education system, Portugal's medical system is inefficient. There are long waiting lists for appointments with specialists and for surgical procedures.
       Structural changes in Portugal's economy and society mean that social life in Portugal is not too different from that in other EU member states. A mass consumption society has been created. Televisions, telephones, refrigerators, cars, music equipment, mobile phones, and personal computers are commonplace. Sixty percent of Portuguese households possess at least one automobile, and 65 percent of Portuguese own their own home. Portuguese citizens are more aware of their legal rights than ever before. This has resulted in a trebling of the number of legal proceeding since 1960 and an eight-fold increase in the number of lawyers. In general, Portuguese society has become more permissive and secular; the Catholic Church and the armed forces are much less influential than in the past. Portugal's population is also much more culturally, religiously, and ethnically diverse, a consequence of the coming to Portugal of hundreds of thousands of immigrants, mainly from former African colonies.
       Portuguese are becoming more cosmopolitan and sophisticated through the impact of world media, the Internet, and the World Wide Web. A prime case in point came in the summer and early fall of 1999, with the extraordinary events in East Timor and the massive Portuguese popular responses. An internationally monitored referendum in East Timor, Portugal's former colony in the Indonesian archipelago and under Indonesian occupation from late 1975 to summer 1999, resulted in a vote of 78.5 percent for rejecting integration with Indonesia and for independence. When Indonesian prointegration gangs, aided by the Indonesian military, responded to the referendum with widespread brutality and threatened to reverse the verdict of the referendum, there was a spontaneous popular outpouring of protest in the cities and towns of Portugal. An avalanche of Portuguese e-mail fell on leaders and groups in the UN and in certain countries around the world as Portugal's diplomats, perhaps to compensate for the weak initial response to Indonesian armed aggression in 1975, called for the protection of East Timor as an independent state and for UN intervention to thwart Indonesian action. Using global communications networks, the Portuguese were able to mobilize UN and world public opinion against Indonesian actions and aided the eventual independence of East Timor on 20 May 2002.
       From the Revolution of 25 April 1974 until the 1990s, Portugal had a large number of political parties, one of the largest Communist parties in western Europe, frequent elections, and endemic cabinet instability. Since the 1990s, the number of political parties has been dramatically reduced and cabinet stability increased. Gradually, the Portuguese electorate has concentrated around two larger parties, the right-of-center Social Democrats (PSD) and the left-of-center Socialist (PS). In the 1980s, these two parties together garnered 65 percent of the vote and 70 percent of the seats in parliament. In 2005, these percentages had risen to 74 percent and 85 percent, respectively. In effect, Portugal is currently a two-party dominant system in which the two largest parties — PS and PSD—alternate in and out of power, not unlike the rotation of the two main political parties (the Regenerators and the Historicals) during the last decades (1850s to 1880s) of the liberal constitutional monarchy. As Portugal's democracy has consolidated, turnout rates for the eligible electorate have declined. In the 1970s, turnout was 85 percent. In Portugal's most recent parliamentary election (2005), turnout had fallen to 65 percent of the eligible electorate.
       Portugal has benefited greatly from membership in the EU, and whatever doubts remain about the price paid for membership, no Portuguese government in the near future can afford to sever this connection. The vast majority of Portuguese citizens see membership in the EU as a "good thing" and strongly believe that Portugal has benefited from membership. Only the Communist Party opposed membership because it reduces national sovereignty, serves the interests of capitalists not workers, and suffers from a democratic deficit. Despite the high level of support for the EU, Portuguese voters are increasingly not voting in elections for the European Parliament, however. Turnout for European Parliament elections fell from 40 percent of the eligible electorate in the 1999 elections to 38 percent in the 2004 elections.
       In sum, Portugal's turn toward Europe has done much to overcome its backwardness. However, despite the economic, social, and political progress made since 1986, Portugal has a long way to go before it can claim to be on a par with the level found even in Spain, much less the rest of western Europe. As Portugal struggles to move from underde-velopment, especially in the rural areas away from the coast, it must keep in mind the perils of too rapid modern development, which could damage two of its most precious assets: its scenery and environment. The growth and future prosperity of the economy will depend on the degree to which the government and the private sector will remain stewards of clean air, soil, water, and other finite resources on which the tourism industry depends and on which Portugal's world image as a unique place to visit rests. Currently, Portugal is investing heavily in renewable energy from solar, wind, and wave power in order to account for about 50 percent of its electricity needs by 2010. Portugal opened the world's largest solar power plant and the world's first commercial wave power farm in 2006.
       An American documentary film on Portugal produced in the 1970s described this little country as having "a Past in Search of a Future." In the years after the Revolution of 25 April 1974, it could be said that Portugal is now living in "a Present in Search of a Future." Increasingly, that future lies in Europe as an active and productive member of the EU.

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  • 16 Owen, Robert

    SUBJECT AREA: Textiles
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    b. 14 May 1771 Newtown, Montgomeryshire, Wales
    d. 17 November 1858 Newtown, Montgomeryshire, Wales
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    Welsh cotton spinner and social reformer.
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    Robert Owen's father was also called Robert and was a saddler, ironmonger and postmaster of Newtown in Montgomeryshire. Robert, the younger, injured his digestion as a child by drinking some scalding hot "flummery", which affected him for the rest of his life. He developed a passion for reading and through this visited London when he was 10 years old. He started work as a pedlar for someone in Stamford and then went to a haberdasher's shop on old London Bridge in London. Although he found the work there too hard, he stayed in the same type of employment when he moved to Manchester.
    In Manchester Owen soon set up a partnership for making bonnet frames, employing forty workers, but he sold the business and bought a spinning machine. This led him in 1790 into another partnership, with James M'Connel and John Kennedy in a spinning mill, but he moved once again to become Manager of Peter Drink-water's mill. These were all involved in fine spinning, and Drinkwater employed 500 people in one of the best mills in the city. In spite of his youth, Owen claims in his autobiography (1857) that he mastered the job within six weeks and soon improved the spinning. This mill was one of the first to use Sea Island cotton from the West Indies. To have managed such an enterprise so well Owen must have had both managerial and technical ability. Through his spinning connections Owen visited Glasgow, where he met both David Dale and his daughter Anne Caroline, whom he married in 1799. It was this connection which brought him to Dale's New Lanark mills, which he persuaded Dale to sell to a Manchester consortium for £60,000. Owen took over the management of the mills on 1 January 1800. Although he had tried to carry out social reforms in the manner of working at Manchester, it was at New Lanark that Owen acquired fame for the way in which he improved both working and living conditions for the 1,500-strong workforce. He started by seeing that adequate food and groceries were available in that remote site and then built both the school and the New Institution for the Formation of Character, which opened in January 1816. To the pauper children from the Glasgow and Edinburgh slums he gave a good education, while he tried to help the rest of the workforce through activities at the Institution. The "silent monitors" hanging on the textile machines, showing the performance of their operatives, are famous, and many came to see his social experiments. Owen was soon to buy out his original partners for £84,000.
    Among his social reforms were his efforts to limit child labour in mills, resulting in the Factory Act of 1819. He attempted to establish an ideal community in the USA, to which he sailed in 1824. He was to return to his village of "Harmony" twice more, but broke his connection in 1828. The following year he finally withdrew from New Lanark, where some of his social reforms had been abandoned.
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    Bibliography
    1857, The Life of Robert Owen, Written by Himself, London.
    Further Reading
    G.D.H.Cole, 1965, Life of Robert Owen (biography).
    J.Butt (ed.), 1971, Robert Owen, Prince of Cotton Spinners, Newton Abbot; S.Pollard and J.Salt (eds), 1971, Robert Owen, Prophet of the Poor. Essays in Honour of the
    Two-Hundredth Anniversary of His Birth, London (both describe Owen's work at New Lanark).
    RLH

    Biographical history of technology > Owen, Robert

  • 17 liberal

    см. тж либерализм в русско-английской части словаря

    The life of such a person as myself inevitably had a liberal quota of personal failures (George Kennan). — В жизни такого человека, как я, неизбежно встречались — причем нередко —личные неудачи.

    Syn:
    2) полит. перевод зависит от контекста

    liberal - advocating moderate democratic reforms (The Pocket Oxford Dictionary)

    Syn:
    3) экон. перевод зависит от контекста
    Syn:
    unregulated, deregulated
    4) амер. Как пишет в своем Political Dictionary ярый противник либерализма в его современном американском понимании Уильям Сэфайр, liberal [is] currently one who believes in more government action to meet individual needs; originally one who resisted government encroachment on individual liberties. В XX веке американские либералы делали упор на решение таких проблем, как гражданские права негров, борьба с бедностью, регулирование экономических процессов с целью избежать кризисов типа «великой депрессии» 1930-х годов. Инструментом для их решения были различные государственные программы, что противоречило традиционной либеральной политико-экономической доктрине (emphasis on the full development of the individual, free from the restraints of government). Но в 1980-е годы американский liberalism вышел из моды, более того — само это слово стало сейчас чуть ли не бранным в американском политическом лексиконе.

    In the 19th century... France chose the path of protectionism and state intervention, while its Anglo-Saxon rivals opted for economic liberalism and free trade. (International Herald Tribune)

    The English annotation is below. (English-Russian) > liberal

  • 18 reform

    N
    1. सुधार
    Our education minister should carry out reforms in education system.
    --------
    VTI
    1. सुधारना
    She's given up bad habits and is now a reformed personality.

    English-Hindi dictionary > reform

  • 19 interroger

    interroger [ɛ̃teʀɔʒe]
    ➭ TABLE 3
    1. transitive verb
       a. ( = questionner) to question ; (pour obtenir un renseignement) to ask ; (Police) to interview ; (sondage) to poll
    15% des personnes interrogées 15% of those polled
       c. [+ base de données] to query
    2. reflexive verb
    * * *
    ɛ̃tɛʀɔʒe
    1.
    1) ( questionner) gén to question ( sur about); ( pour un renseignement) to ask; [police] to question, to interrogate [suspect]; [journaliste] to put questions to ( sur on); fig to search [mémoire]; to examine [conscience]

    50% des personnes interrogées — 50% of those questioned

    2) ( consulter) to query [ordinateur]
    3) École to test ( sur on)

    2.
    s'interroger verbe pronominal
    * * *
    ɛ̃teʀɔʒe vt
    1) [questionner] to question

    interroger qn du regard — to look questioningly at sb, to give sb a questioning look

    2) INFORMATIQUE to interrogate
    3) ÉDUCATION, [candidat] to test
    * * *
    interroger verb table: manger
    A vtr
    1 ( questionner) [juge, procureur] to cross-examine [témoin, accusé]; [police] to question [témoin] (sur about); to interrogate [espion]; [journaliste] to put questions to [personnage, politicien] (sur on); interrogé sur l'Europe, le président a déclaré… when questioned about Europe, the president declared…; 50% des personnes interrogées 50% of those questioned; être interrogé comme témoin to be called as a witness;
    2 ( consulter) to query [ordinateur]; interroger son répondeur to check one's calls;
    3 Scol [professeur] to test [élève] (sur on).
    B s'interroger vpr s'interroger sur qn/qch to wonder about sb /sth; on s'interroge devant l'ampleur des réformes annoncées the scope of the reforms which have been announced makes one wonder.
    [ɛ̃terɔʒe] verbe transitif
    1. [questionner - ami] to ask, to question ; [ - guichetier] to ask, to inquire of ; [ - suspect] to question, to interrogate, to interview
    interroger quelqu'un pour savoir si to ask somebody whether, to inquire of somebody whether (soutenu)
    interroger sa mémoire/le ciel to search one's memory/the sky
    3. ÉDUCATION [avant l'examen] to test, to quiz
    [à l'examen] to examine
    ————————
    s'interroger verbe pronominal intransitif
    je ne sais pas si je vais l'acheter, je m'interroge encore I don't know whether I'll buy it, I'm still wondering (about it) ou I haven't made up my mind yet

    Dictionnaire Français-Anglais > interroger

  • 20 programme

    programme [pʀɔgʀam]
    masculine noun
       a. [de cinéma, concert, radio, télévision] programme (Brit), program (US)
       b. ( = brochure) [de cinéma, théâtre, concert] programme (Brit), program (US) ; [de radio, télévision] guide ; ( = section de journal) listings
       c. (School) [de matière] syllabus ; [de classe, école] curriculum
    quel est le programme cette année ? what's on the curriculum this year?
       d. ( = projet) programme (Brit), program (US)
    c'est tout un programme ! (inf) that'll take some doing!
       e. ( = calendrier) programme (Brit), program (US)
       f. [de machine à laver] programme (Brit), program (US) ; (Computing) program
       g. (Sport) programme (Brit), program (US)
    programme libre [de patinage artistique] free skating
    * * *
    pʀɔgʀam
    nom masculin
    1) Cinéma, Radio, Théâtre, Télévision programme [BrE]

    ce n'est pas au programmelit it's not on the programme [BrE]; fig that wasn't planned

    changement de programmelit change in the programme [BrE]; fig change of plan

    2) ( emploi du temps) programme [BrE]

    quel est le programme des réjouissances aujourd'hui?hum what delights are in store (for us) today?

    3) ( projet) ( d'action) plan; ( de travail) programme [BrE]

    c'est tout un programme!hum that'll take some doing!

    4) École, Université syllabus
    5) Informatique program
    * * *
    pʀɔɡʀam nm
    1) (projet, grille) programme Grande-Bretagne program USA
    2) TV, RADIO programme Grande-Bretagne program USA
    3) ÉDUCATION syllabus, curriculum
    4) INFORMATIQUE program
    * * *
    1 Radio, Théât, TV, Cin programmeGB; ce n'est pas au programme lit it's not on the programmeGB; fig that wasn't planned; changement de programme lit change in the ou of programmeGB; fig change of plan;
    2 ( emploi du temps) programmeGB; le programme de la journée the programmeGB for the day; avoir un programme très chargé to have a very busy schedule; quel est le programme des réjouissances aujourd'hui? hum what delights are in store (for us) today?;
    3 ( projet) ( d'action) plan; ( de travail) programmeGB; programme électoral electoral programmeGB ou platform; programme de gouvernement government programmeGB ou platform; c'est tout un programme! hum that'll take some doing!;
    4 Scol, Univ syllabus; le programme d'histoire the History syllabus; le programme de première année the first-year syllabus; au programme on the syllabus;
    5 Ordinat program; programme d'exploitation/de compilation operating/compiling program; programme machine/d'assemblage computer/assembly program.
    [prɔgram] nom masculin
    1. [contenu - d'une cérémonie, d'un spectacle] programme
    2. [brochure - d'un concert, d'une soirée] programme ; [ - de cinéma, de télévision] listings, guide
    3. [emploi du temps] schedule
    4. ÉDUCATION [d'une année] curriculum
    [dans une matière] syllabus
    5. POLITIQUE [plate-forme] manifesto (UK), platform (US)
    programme commun common ou joint manifesto
    6. [projet] programme
    le programmenucléaire/spatial français the French nuclear/space programme
    ton voyage, c'est tout un programme! (familier) this trip sounds like it's quite something!

    Dictionnaire Français-Anglais > programme

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