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major industry group

  • 1 major industry group

    Экономика: укрупнённая группа отраслей экономики (напр. нефте- и газодобывающая промышленность)

    Универсальный англо-русский словарь > major industry group

  • 2 major industry group

    укрупнённая группа отраслей экономики (напр. нефте- и газодобывающая промышленность)

    Англо-русский словарь по экономике и финансам > major industry group

  • 3 group

    1) стат. группа; класс || группировать, распределять по группам, классифицировать
    2) группа; организация
    3) брит. укрупнённая группа отраслей (экономики, промышленности)
    4) объединение компаний; синдикат; трест; монополистическое объединение

    Англо-русский словарь по экономике и финансам > group

  • 4 indenture

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    English_Russian capital issues dictionary > indenture

  • 5 division

    1. n деление; разделение
    2. n распределение; раздача
    3. n разногласия, расхождение во мнениях; раздоры
    4. n голосование

    to come to a division — голосовать, прибегать к голосованию

    5. n разделение голосов во время голосования
    6. n классификация, деление
    7. n бот. тип
    8. n спорт. место
    9. n категория, подразделение; отдел, раздел
    10. n сектор
    11. n тех. отсек
    12. n перегородка, барьер
    13. n межа, граница
    14. n округ
    15. n юр. отделение, отдел, контора
    16. n спец. отдел
    17. n спец. цена деления
    18. n спец. воен. дивизия
    19. n спец. мор. дивизион
    20. n спец. тех. измельчение, диспергирование
    Синонимический ряд:
    1. allotment (noun) allotment; apportionment; cutting; disbursal; dispensation; distribution; divergence; dividing; split
    2. arm (noun) arm; organ; wing
    3. boundary (noun) boundary; demarcation; mark; rank
    4. branch (noun) branch; category; department; offshoot; subdivision; unit
    5. disagreement (noun) alienation; breach; difference; difficulty; disagreement; movement; trouble; words
    6. discord (noun) conflict; contention; disaccord; discord; disharmony; dispeace; dissension; dissent; dissidence; dissonance; disunity; inharmony; mischief; strife; unpeace; variance
    7. divider (noun) divider; partition; separator
    8. section (noun) compartment; cut; dominion; fraction; group; member; moiety; parcel; part; piece; portion; province; region; section; segment
    9. separation (noun) detachment; dissolution; disunion; divorce; divorcement; rupture; separation; split-up
    10. subsidiary (noun) affiliate; subsidiary
    Антонимический ряд:
    agreement; combination; concord; oneness; singleness; union; unity

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  • 6 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.

    Historical dictionary of Portugal > Historical Portugal

  • 7 Sopwith, Sir Thomas (Tommy) Octave Murdoch

    SUBJECT AREA: Aerospace
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    b. 18 January 1888 London, England
    d. 27 January 1989 Stockbridge, Hampshire, England
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    English aeronautical engineer and industrialist.
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    Son of a successful mining engineer, Sopwith did not shine at school and, having been turned down by the Royal Navy as a result, attended an engineering college. His first interest was motor cars and, while still in his teens, he set up a business in London with a friend in order to sell them; he also took part in races and rallies.
    Sopwith's interest in aviation came initially through ballooning, and in 1906 he purchased his own balloon. Four years later, inspired by the recent flights across the Channel to France and after a joy-ride at Brooklands, he bought an Avis monoplane, followed by a larger biplane, and taught himself to fly. He was awarded the Royal Aero Society's Aviator Certificate No. 31 on 21 November 1910, and he quickly distinguished himself in flying competitions on both sides of the Atlantic and started his own flying school. In his races he was ably supported by his friend Fred Sigrist, a former motor engineer. Among the people Sopwith taught to fly were an Australian, Harry Hawker, and Major Hugh Trenchard, who later became the "father" of the RAF.
    In 1912, depressed by the poor quality of the aircraft on trial for the British Army, Sopwith, in conjunction with Hawker and Sigrist, bought a skating rink in Kingston-upon-Thames and, assisted by Fred Sigrist, started to design and build his first aircraft, the Sopwith Hybrid. He sold this to the Royal Navy in 1913, and the following year his aviation manufacturing company became the Sopwith Aviation Company Ltd. That year a seaplane version of his Sopwith Tabloid won the Schneider Trophy in the second running of this speed competition. During 1914–18, Sopwith concentrated on producing fighters (or "scouts" as they were then called), with the Pup, the Camel, the 1½ Strutter, the Snipe and the Sopwith Triplane proving among the best in the war. He also pioneered several ideas to make flying easier for the pilot, and in 1915 he patented his adjustable tailplane and his 1 ½ Strutter was the first aircraft to be fitted with air brakes. During the four years of the First World War, Sopwith Aviation designed thirty-two different aircraft types and produced over 16,000 aircraft.
    The end of the First World War brought recession to the aircraft industry and in 1920 Sopwith, like many others, put his company into receivership; none the less, he immediately launched a new, smaller company with Hawker, Sigrist and V.W.Eyre, which they called the H.G. Hawker Engineering Company Ltd to avoid any confusion with the former company. He began by producing cars and motor cycles under licence, but was determined to resume aircraft production. He suffered an early blow with the death of Hawker in an air crash in 1921, but soon began supplying aircraft to the Royal Air Force again. In this he was much helped by taking on a new designer, Sydney Camm, in 1923, and during the next decade they produced a number of military aircraft types, of which the Hart light bomber and the Fury fighter, the first to exceed 200 mph (322 km/h), were the best known. In the mid-1930s Sopwith began to build a large aviation empire, acquiring first the Gloster Aircraft Company and then, in quick succession, Armstrong-Whitworth, Armstrong-Siddeley Motors Ltd and its aero-engine counterpart, and A.V.Roe, which produced Avro aircraft. Under the umbrella of the Hawker Siddeley Aircraft Company (set up in 1935) these companies produced a series of outstanding aircraft, ranging from the Hawker Hurricane, through the Avro Lancaster to the Gloster Meteor, Britain's first in-service jet aircraft, and the Hawker Typhoon, Tempest and Hunter. When Sopwith retired as Chairman of the Hawker Siddeley Group in 1963 at the age of 75, a prototype jump-jet (the P-1127) was being tested, later to become the Harrier, a for cry from the fragile biplanes of 1910.
    Sopwith also had a passion for yachting and came close to wresting the America's Cup from the USA in 1934 when sailing his yacht Endeavour, which incorporated a number of features years ahead of their time; his greatest regret was that he failed in his attempts to win this famous yachting trophy for Britain. After his retirement as Chairman of the Hawker Siddeley Group, he remained on the Board until 1978. The British aviation industry had been nationalized in April 1977, and Hawker Siddeley's aircraft interests merged with the British Aircraft Corporation to become British Aerospace (BAe). Nevertheless, by then the Group had built up a wide range of companies in the field of mechanical and electrical engineering, and its board conferred on Sopwith the title Founder and Life President.
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    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    Knighted 1953. CBE 1918.
    Bibliography
    1961, "My first ten years in aviation", Journal of the Royal Aeronautical Society (April) (a very informative and amusing paper).
    Further Reading
    A.Bramson, 1990, Pure Luck: The Authorized Biography of Sir Thomas Sopwith, 1888– 1989, Wellingborough: Patrick Stephens.
    B.Robertson, 1970, Sopwith. The Man and His Aircraft, London (a detailed publication giving plans of all the Sopwith aircraft).
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    Biographical history of technology > Sopwith, Sir Thomas (Tommy) Octave Murdoch

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    • fire insurance protupoћarno osiguranje, osiguranje za slučaj poћara
    • fixed income insurance product proizvod osiguranja s fiksnim dohotkom
    • foreign credit insurance association udruћenje za osiguranje inozemnoga kredita
    • franchise insurance grupno osiguranje osoba temeljem individualne procjene rizika
    • fraternal insurance osiguranje članova bratstva/tajnih druљtava/loћa
    • free-for-all insurance besplatno osiguranje
    • general liability insurance osiguranje od opće odgovornosti
    • group insurance grupno osiguranje
    • health insurance zdravstveno osiguranje
    • hull insurance ( in ocean marine and aviation insurance) kasko osiguranje (u osiguranju oceanskih brodova i zrakoplova)
    • improvements and betterments insurance osiguranje povećanja vrijednosti tuđe imovine nakon ulaganja
    Bilj.: Npr. kada zakupnik adaptira nekretninu kojom se koristi, ali koja nije njegovo vlasniљtvo
    • indeterminate premium life insurance premijsko ћivotno osiguranje na neodređeno vrijeme
    • industrial development bond insurance osiguranje obveznice za industrijski razvoj
    • industrial life insurance industrijsko ћivotno osiguranje
    • inland marine insurance osiguranje riječne mornarice
    • insurance binder osiguravateljsko obvezivanje
    • insurance broker broker u osiguranju, posrednik za osiguranje
    • insurance claims potraћivanja od osiguranja
    • insurance company osiguravajuće druљtvo
    • insurance company term loan (dugo)ročni zajam osiguravajućih druљtava
    • insurance corporation osiguravajuće druљtvo/poduzeće
    • insurance entity osiguravateljski subjekt
    • insurance group osiguravateljska grupacija
    • insurance industry osiguravateljska djelatnost
    • insurance policy polica osiguranja
    • insurance premium premija osiguranja
    • insurance premium prepayment pretplata premija osiguranja
    • insurance product osiguravateljski proizvod
    • insurance purchasing group grupa za kupovinu osiguranja
    Bilj.: Grupa koja od odobrenih osiguravatelja kupuje osiguranja od odgovornosti isključivo za svoje članove
    • Insurance Regulatory Information System ( IRIS) nadzorni informativni sustav osiguranja (NISO)
    • insurance risk osiguravateljski rizik
    • insurance service usluga osiguranja
    • Insurance Services Office ( ISO) ured za usluge u osiguranju
    Bilj.: Ured koji se bavi prikupljanjem statističih podataka, objavom premijskih stopa i izradom obrazaca polica u osiguranju imovine i odgovornosti
    • insurance supervisor direktor tijela za nadzor osiguravajućih druљtava
    • insurance technical reserves tehničke pričuve osiguranja (kapital osiguravajućega druљtva)
    • insurance undertaking osiguravajući pothvat; osiguravajuće poduzeće/tvrtka
    • joint life insurance zajedničko ћivotno osiguranje
    • jumping juvenile insurance polica osiguranja djece
    Bilj.: Vrijednost se police automatski povećava kad dijete navrљi određenu dob, obično kad postane punoljetno, bez plaćanja dodatne premije
    • key-persons insurance osiguranje ključnih osoba
    • legal expenses insurance osiguranje od troљkova sudskih postupaka
    • level premium insurance osiguranje s konstantnom premijom
    • life insurance ћivotno osiguranje
    • life insurance policy polica ћivotnoga osiguranja
    • life insurance reserves (tehničke) pričuve (ћivotnog) osiguranja
    • major medical expense insurance zdravstveno osiguranje koje pokriva velike troљkove liječenja
    • marine insurance pomorsko osiguranje
    • multiple-line insurance paket polica osiguranja (polica koja pokriva viљe vrsta osiguranja)
    • municipal bond guarantee insurance osiguranje jamstva općinske obveznice
    Bilj.: Osiguranje koje jamči isplatu glavnice i kamate na obveznice koje izdaju općinske ili lokalne uprave (za financiranje raznih projekata poput izgradnje љkola ili stambenih objekata) u slučaju da izdavatelj nema sredstava za isplatu
    • municipal lease insurance osiguranje općinskoga zakupa
    • mutual insurance company druљtvo za uzajamno osiguranje
    • national insurance drћavno (socijalno) osiguranje
    • no-fault insurance kasko osiguranje
    Bilj.: Zakon prema kojemu oљtećenik u automobilskoj nezgodi moћe postaviti odљtetni zahtjev za liječničke i bolničke troљkove izravno svomu osiguravatelju bez obzira na to tko je skrivio nezgodu
    • non-life insurance neћivotno osiguranje
    • non-life insurance claims potraћivanja (zbog) neћivotnoga osiguranja
    • nonparticipating insurance osiguranje bez sudjelovanja u dobiti
    • ocean marine insurance prekooceansko pomorsko osiguranje
    • ordinary life insurance obično osiguranje ћivota
    Bilj.: Sve vrste osiguranja ћivota osim industrijskoga osiguranja ћivota
    • outage insurance osiguranje gubitka zarade (nakon prekida rada zbog osigurane opasnosti)
    • paid-up insurance otplaćeno osiguranje
    • participating insurance osiguranje sa sudjelovanjem u dobiti
    Bilj.: Osiguranje koje proporcionalno sudjeluje u istom riziku s drugim osiguranjima
    • permanent life insurance trajno ћivotno osiguranje
    • personal insurance osobno osiguranje
    • private insurance privatno osiguranje
    • property insurance imovinsko osiguranje
    • Protection and Indemnity insurance (P&I) osiguranje P&I
    Bilj.: U pomorskom osiguranju, osiguranje preko klubova P&I
    • public guarantee insurance programme program osiguranja drћavnih jamstava
    • reduced paid-up insurance umanjeno otplaćeno osiguranje
    • regular medical expense insurance osiguranje redovitih troљkova liječenja
    • relation of earnings to insurance clause klauzula o odnosu zarade i osiguranja
    • renewable term insurance obnovljivo osiguranje
    • rental value insurance osiguranje vrijednosti najamnine
    • replacement cost insurance osiguranje troљkova zamjene stvari
    • sickness insurance osiguranje za slučaj bolesti
    • social insurance socijalno osiguranje
    • stock insurance company dioničko druљtvo za osiguranje
    • straight life insurance izravno osiguranje ћivota
    Bilj.: Osiguranje kod kojega se premija plaća do kraja ћivota
    • suplementary medical insurance ( SMI) dopunsko zdravstveno osiguranje
    • surety insurance osiguranje uz jamstvo
    • term insurance osiguranje s rokom
    • third party insurance osiguranje od građanskopravne odgovornosti
    • time element insurance osiguranje temeljeno na vremenskom trajanju љtete
    • title insurance osiguranje prava vlasniљtva
    • transport insurance osiguranje prijevoza
    • transportation insurance osiguranje transporta/prijevoza
    • umbrella liability insurance krovno osiguranje odgovornosti
    • unit-linked insurance policy polica osiguranja povezanoga s investicijskim fondovima
    • universal life insurance univerzalno ћivotno osiguranje
    • whole-life insurance doћivotno osiguranje

    Englesko-Hrvatski Glosar bankarstva, osiguranja i ostalih financijskih usluga > insurance

  • 9 work

    work [wɜ:k]
    travail ⇒ 1 (a)-(e), 1 (g) œuvre ⇒ 1 (a), 1 (f) besogne ⇒ 1 (b) emploi ⇒ 1 (c) ouvrage ⇒ 1 (f) recherches ⇒ 1 (g) travailler ⇒ 2A (a)-(e), 3A (b), 3A (c), 3A (e), 3C (a) fonctionner ⇒ 2B (a) marcher ⇒ 2B (a), 2B (b) réussir ⇒ 2B (b) agir ⇒ 2B (c), 2B (d) faire travailler ⇒ 3A (a) faire marcher ⇒ 3B (a) façonner ⇒ 3C (a) mécanisme ⇒ 4 1 (a) travaux ⇒ 4 1 (b) usine ⇒ 4 2 (a)
    1 noun
    (a) (effort, activity) travail m, œuvre f;
    ∎ computers take some of the work out of filing les ordinateurs facilitent le classement;
    ∎ this report needs more work il y a encore du travail à faire sur ce rapport, ce rapport demande plus de travail;
    ∎ she's done a lot of work for charity elle a beaucoup travaillé pour des associations caritatives;
    ∎ it will take a lot of work to make a team out of them ça va être un drôle de travail de faire d'eux une équipe;
    ∎ keep up the good work! continuez comme ça!;
    ∎ nice or good work! c'est du bon travail!, bravo!;
    ∎ that's fine work or a fine piece of work c'est du beau travail;
    ∎ your work has been useful vous avez fait du travail utile;
    ∎ work on the tunnel is to start in March (existing tunnel) les travaux sur le tunnel doivent commencer en mars; (new tunnel) la construction du tunnel doit commencer en mars;
    ∎ work in progress Administration travail en cours; Accountancy travaux mpl en cours, inventaire m de production; (sign) travaux en cours;
    ∎ she put a lot of work into that book elle a beaucoup travaillé sur ce livre;
    ∎ to make work for sb compliquer la vie à qn;
    ∎ to start work, to set to work se mettre au travail;
    ∎ she set or she went to work on the contract elle a commencé à travailler sur le contrat;
    ∎ he set to work undermining their confidence il a entrepris de saper leur confiance;
    ∎ I set him to work (on) painting the kitchen je lui ai donné la cuisine à peindre;
    ∎ they put him to work in the kitchen ils l'ont mis au travail dans la cuisine;
    ∎ let's get (down) to work! (mettons-nous) au travail!;
    ∎ proverb all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy beaucoup de travail et peu de loisirs ne réussissent à personne
    (b) (duty, task) travail m, besogne f;
    ∎ I've got loads of work to do j'ai énormément de travail à faire;
    ∎ she gave us too much work elle nous a donné trop de travail;
    ∎ he's trying to get some work done il essaie de travailler un peu;
    ∎ they do their work well ils travaillent bien, ils font du bon travail;
    ∎ it's hard work c'est du travail, ce n'est pas facile;
    ∎ it's thirsty work ça donne soif;
    ∎ to make short or light work of sth expédier qch;
    ∎ figurative to make short work of sb ne faire qu'une bouchée de qn;
    ∎ familiar it's nice work if you can get it! c'est une bonne planque, encore faut-il la trouver!
    (c) (paid employment) travail m, emploi m;
    ∎ what (kind of) work do you do? qu'est-ce que vous faites dans la vie?, quel travail faites-vous?;
    ∎ I do translation work je suis traducteur, je fais des traductions;
    ∎ to find work trouver du travail;
    ∎ to look for work chercher du travail ou un emploi;
    ∎ to be in work travailler, avoir un emploi;
    ∎ to be out of work être au chômage ou sans travail ou sans emploi;
    ∎ he had a week off work (holiday) il a pris une semaine de vacances; (illness) il n'est pas allé au travail pendant une semaine;
    ∎ to take time off work prendre des congés;
    ∎ she's off work today elle ne travaille pas aujourd'hui;
    ∎ to do a full day's work faire une journée entière de travail;
    ∎ people out of work (gen) les chômeurs mpl; Administration & Economics les inactifs mpl
    (d) (place of employment) travail m; Administration lieu m de travail;
    ∎ I go to work by bus je vais au travail en bus;
    ∎ I'm late for work je suis en retard pour le travail;
    ∎ he's a friend from work c'est un collègue;
    ∎ where is your (place of) work? où travaillez-vous?, quel est votre lieu de travail?;
    ∎ on her way home from work en rentrant du travail
    (e) (papers, material etc being worked on) travail m;
    ∎ to take work home prendre du travail à la maison;
    ∎ her work was all over the table son travail était étalé sur la table
    (f) (creation, artefact etc) œuvre f; (on smaller scale) ouvrage m; Sewing ouvrage m;
    ∎ it's all my own work j'ai tout fait moi-même;
    ∎ it's an interesting piece of work (gen) c'est un travail intéressant; Art, Literature & Music c'est une œuvre intéressante;
    ∎ very detailed/delicate work (embroidery, carving etc) ouvrage très détaillé/délicat;
    ∎ these formations are the work of the wind ces formations sont l'œuvre du vent;
    ∎ the silversmith sells much of his work to hotels l'orfèvre vend une grande partie de ce qu'il fait ou de son travail à des hôtels;
    ∎ the complete works of Shakespeare les œuvres complètes ou l'œuvre de Shakespeare;
    ∎ a new work on Portugal un nouvel ouvrage sur le Portugal;
    ∎ a work of art une œuvre d'art;
    ∎ works of fiction des ouvrages de fiction
    (g) (research) travail m, recherches fpl;
    ∎ there hasn't been a lot of work done on the subject peu de travail a été fait ou peu de recherches ont été faites sur le sujet
    (h) (deed) œuvre f, acte m;
    ∎ good works bonnes œuvres fpl;
    ∎ each man will be judged by his works chaque homme sera jugé selon ses œuvres;
    ∎ charitable works actes mpl de charité, actes mpl charitables;
    ∎ the murder is the work of a madman le meurtre est l'œuvre d'un fou
    (i) (effect) effet m;
    ∎ wait until the medicine has done its work attendez que le médicament ait agi ou ait produit son effet
    (j) Physics travail m
    A.
    (a) (exert effort on a specific task, activity etc) travailler;
    ∎ we worked for hours cleaning the house nous avons passé des heures à faire le ménage;
    ∎ they worked in the garden ils ont fait du jardinage;
    ∎ we work hard nous travaillons dur;
    ∎ she's working on a novel just now elle travaille à un roman en ce moment;
    ∎ a detective is working on this case un détective est sur cette affaire;
    ∎ he works at or on keeping himself fit il fait de l'exercice pour garder la forme;
    ∎ we have to work to a deadline nous devons respecter des délais dans notre travail;
    ∎ we have to work to a budget nous devons travailler avec un certain budget;
    ∎ I've worked with the handicapped before j'ai déjà travaillé avec les handicapés;
    ∎ I work with the Spanish on that project je travaille (en collaboration) avec les Espagnols sur ce projet
    (b) (be employed) travailler;
    ∎ he works as a teacher il a un poste d'enseignant;
    ∎ I work in advertising je travaille dans la publicité;
    ∎ who do you work for? chez qui est-ce que vous travaillez?;
    ∎ she works in or for a bank elle travaille dans ou pour une banque;
    ∎ I work a forty-hour week je travaille quarante heures par semaine, je fais une semaine de quarante heures;
    ∎ to work for a living travailler pour gagner sa vie;
    ∎ Industry to work to rule faire la grève du zèle
    ∎ to work for a good cause travailler pour une bonne cause;
    ∎ they're working for better international relations ils s'efforcent d'améliorer les relations internationales
    (d) (study) travailler, étudier;
    ∎ you're going to have to work if you want to pass the exam il va falloir que tu travailles ou que tu étudies si tu veux avoir ton examen
    ∎ this sculptor works in or with copper ce sculpteur travaille avec le cuivre;
    ∎ she has always worked in or with watercolours elle a toujours travaillé avec de la peinture à l'eau
    B.
    (a) (function, operate → machine, brain, system) fonctionner, marcher;
    ∎ the lift doesn't work at night l'ascenseur ne marche pas la nuit;
    ∎ the lift never works l'ascenseur est toujours en panne;
    ∎ the radio works off batteries la radio fonctionne avec des piles;
    ∎ a pump worked by hand une pompe actionnée à la main ou manuellement;
    ∎ they soon got or had it working ils sont vite parvenus à le faire fonctionner;
    ∎ she sat still, her brain or her mind working furiously elle était assise immobile, le cerveau en ébullition;
    ∎ figurative everything worked smoothly tout s'est déroulé comme prévu;
    ∎ your idea just won't work ton idée ne peut pas marcher;
    ∎ this relationship isn't working cette relation ne marche pas;
    ∎ that argument works both ways ce raisonnement est à double tranchant;
    ∎ how does the law work exactly? comment la loi fonctionne-t-elle exactement?
    (b) (produce results, succeed) marcher, réussir;
    ∎ it worked brilliantly ça a très bien marché;
    ∎ their scheme didn't work leur complot a échoué;
    ∎ that/flattery won't work with me ça/la flatterie ne prend pas avec moi
    (c) (drug, medicine) agir, produire ou faire son effet
    (d) (act) agir;
    ∎ the acid works as a catalyst l'acide agit comme ou sert de catalyseur;
    ∎ events have worked against us/in our favour les événements ont agi contre nous/en notre faveur;
    ∎ I'm working on the assumption that they'll sign the contract je pars du principe qu'ils signeront le contrat
    C.
    ∎ to work loose se desserrer;
    ∎ to work free se libérer;
    ∎ the nail worked through the sole of my shoe le clou est passé à travers la semelle de ma chaussure
    (b) (face, mouth) se contracter, se crisper
    (c) (ferment) fermenter
    A.
    (a) (worker, employee, horse) faire travailler;
    ∎ the boss works his staff hard le patron exige beaucoup de travail de ses employés;
    ∎ you work yourself too hard tu te surmènes;
    ∎ to work oneself to death se tuer à la tâche;
    ∎ to work one's fingers to the bone s'user au travail
    ∎ they worked their passage to India ils ont payé leur passage en Inde en travaillant;
    ∎ I worked my way through college j'ai travaillé pour payer mes études à l'université
    ∎ he works the southern sales area il travaille pour le service commercial de la région sud;
    ∎ the pollster worked both sides of the street le sondeur a enquêté des deux côtés de la rue;
    ∎ figurative the candidate worked the crowd le candidat s'efforçait de soulever l'enthousiasme de la foule;
    ∎ a real-estate agent who works the phones un agent immobilier qui fait de la prospection par téléphone;
    ∎ she works the bars (prostitute) elle travaille dans les bars
    (d) (achieve, accomplish)
    ∎ the new policy will work major changes la nouvelle politique opérera ou entraînera des changements importants;
    ∎ the story worked its magic or its charm on the public l'histoire a enchanté le public;
    ∎ to work a spell on sb jeter un sort à qn;
    ∎ to work miracles faire ou accomplir des miracles;
    ∎ to work wonders faire merveille;
    ∎ she has worked wonders with the children elle a fait des merveilles avec les enfants
    (e) (make use of, exploit → land) travailler, cultiver; (→ mine, quarry) exploiter, faire valoir
    B.
    (a) (operate) faire marcher, faire fonctionner;
    ∎ this switch works the furnace ce bouton actionne ou commande la chaudière;
    ∎ he knows how to work the drill il sait se servir de la perceuse
    ∎ I worked the handle up and down j'ai remué la poignée de haut en bas;
    ∎ to work one's hands free parvenir à dégager ses mains;
    ∎ she worked the ropes loose elle a réussi à desserrer les cordes petit à petit
    ∎ I worked my way along the ledge j'ai longé la saillie avec précaution;
    ∎ he worked his way down/up the cliff il a descendu/monté la falaise lentement;
    ∎ the beggar worked his way towards us le mendiant s'est approché de nous;
    ∎ they worked their way through the list ils ont traité chaque élément de la liste tour à tour;
    ∎ he's worked his way through the whole grant il a épuisé toute la subvention;
    ∎ a band of rain working its way across the country un front de pluie qui traverse le pays;
    ∎ they have worked themselves into a corner ils se sont mis dans une impasse
    (d) familiar (contrive) s'arranger;
    ∎ she managed to work a few days off elle s'est arrangée ou s'est débrouillée pour avoir quelques jours de congé;
    ∎ I worked it or worked things so that she's never alone j'ai fait en sorte qu'elle ou je me suis arrangé pour qu'elle ne soit jamais seule
    C.
    (a) (shape → leather, metal, stone) travailler, façonner; (→ clay, dough) travailler, pétrir; (→ object, sculpture) façonner; Sewing (design, initials) broder;
    ∎ she worked the silver into earrings elle a travaillé l'argent pour en faire des boucles d'oreilles;
    ∎ she worked a figure out of the wood elle a sculpté une silhouette dans le bois;
    ∎ the flowers are worked in silk les fleurs sont brodées en soie;
    ∎ work the putty into the right consistency travaillez le mastic pour lui donner la consistance voulue
    ∎ gently work the cream into your hands massez-vous les mains pour faire pénétrer la crème;
    ∎ work the dye into the surface of the leather faites pénétrer la teinture dans le cuir
    (c) (excite, provoke)
    ∎ the orator worked the audience into a frenzy l'orateur a enflammé ou a galvanisé le public;
    ∎ she worked herself into a rage elle s'est mise dans une colère noire
    (a) (mechanism) mécanisme m, rouages mpl; (of clock) mouvement m;
    ∎ familiar to foul up or to gum up the works tout foutre en l'air
    (b) Building industry travaux mpl; (installation) installations fpl;
    ∎ road works travaux mpl; (sign) travaux;
    ∎ Minister/Ministry of Works ministre m/ministère m des Travaux publics
    2 noun
    ∎ a printing works une imprimerie;
    ∎ a gas works une usine à gaz;
    ∎ price ex works prix m sortie usine
    ∎ the (whole) works tout le bataclan ou le tralala;
    ∎ they had eggs, bacon, toast, the works ils mangeaient des œufs, du bacon, du pain grillé, tout, quoi!;
    ∎ American to shoot the works jouer le grand jeu;
    ∎ American we shot the works on the project nous avons mis le paquet sur le projet;
    ∎ to give sb the works (special treatment) dérouler le tapis rouge pour qn; (beating) passer qn à tabac
    ∎ to be at work on sth/(on) doing sth travailler (à) qch/à faire qch;
    ∎ he's at work on a new book il travaille à un nouveau livre;
    ∎ they're hard at work painting the house ils sont en plein travail, ils repeignent la maison
    ∎ there are several factors at work here il y a plusieurs facteurs qui entrent en jeu ou qui jouent ici;
    ∎ there are evil forces at work des forces mauvaises sont en action
    ∎ she's at work (gen) elle est au travail; (office) elle est au bureau; (factory) elle est à l'usine;
    ∎ I'll phone you at work je t'appellerai au travail;
    ∎ we met at work on s'est connus au travail
    ►► work area (in school, home) coin m de travail; Computing zone f de travail;
    works band fanfare m (d'une entreprise);
    work camp (prison) camp m de travail; (voluntary) chantier m de travail;
    American work coat blouse f;
    works committee, works council comité m d'entreprise;
    work ethic = exaltation des valeurs liées au travail;
    work experience stage m (en entreprise);
    ∎ the course includes two months' work experience le programme comprend un stage en entreprise de deux mois;
    American work farm = camp de travail forcé où les détenus travaillent la terre;
    Computing work file fichier m de travail;
    work flow déroulement m des opérations;
    work group groupe m de travail;
    works manager directeur(trice) m,f d'usine;
    work party (of soldiers) escouade f; (of prisoners) groupe m de travail;
    work permit permis m de travail;
    Computing work sheet feuille f de travail;
    work space (at home) coin-travail m; (in office) & Computing espace m de travail;
    ∎ I need more work space j'ai besoin de plus d'espace pour travailler;
    work surface surface f de travail;
    American work week semaine f de travail
    travailler;
    ∎ while he worked away at fixing the furnace tandis qu'il travaillait à réparer la chaudière;
    ∎ we worked away all evening nous avons passé la soirée à travailler
    glisser;
    ∎ her socks had worked down around her ankles ses chaussettes étaient tombées sur ses chevilles
    (a) (incorporate) incorporer;
    ∎ work the ointment in thoroughly faites bien pénétrer la pommade;
    ∎ Cookery work the butter into the flour incorporez le beurre à la farine
    (b) (insert) faire entrer ou introduire petit à petit;
    ∎ he worked in a few sly remarks about the boss il a réussi à glisser quelques réflexions sournoises sur le patron;
    ∎ I'll try and work the translation in some time this week (into schedule) j'essayerai de (trouver le temps de) faire la traduction dans le courant de la semaine
    (a) (dispose of → fat, weight) se débarrasser de, éliminer; (→ anxiety, frustration) passer, assouvir;
    ∎ I worked off my excess energy chopping wood j'ai dépensé mon trop-plein d'énergie en cassant du bois;
    ∎ he worked off his tensions by running il s'est défoulé en faisant du jogging;
    ∎ to work off one's anger on sb passer sa colère sur qn
    (b) (debt, obligation)
    ∎ it took him three months to work off his debt il a dû travailler trois mois pour rembourser son emprunt
    ➲ work on
    (a) (person) essayer de convaincre;
    ∎ we've been working on him but he still won't go nous avons essayé de le persuader mais il ne veut toujours pas y aller;
    ∎ I'll work on her je vais m'occuper d'elle
    (b) (task, problem)
    ∎ the police are working on who stole the jewels la police s'efforce de retrouver celui qui a volé les bijoux;
    ∎ he's been working on his breaststroke/emotional problems il a travaillé sa brasse/essayé de résoudre ses problèmes sentimentaux;
    ∎ have you got any ideas? - I'm working on it as-tu des idées? - je cherche
    ∎ have you any data to work on? avez-vous des données sur lesquelles vous fonder?
    (continue to work) continuer à travailler
    (a) (discharge fully) acquitter en travaillant;
    ∎ to work out one's notice faire son préavis
    (b) (calculate → cost, distance, sum) calculer; (→ answer, total) trouver;
    ∎ I work it out at £22 d'après mes calculs, ça fait 22 livres
    (c) (solve → calculation, problem) résoudre; (→ puzzle) faire, résoudre; (→ code) déchiffrer;
    ∎ have they worked out their differences? est-ce qu'ils ont réglé ou résolu leurs différends?;
    ∎ I'm sure we can work this thing out (your problem) je suis sûr que nous pouvons arranger ça; (our argument) je suis sûr que nous finirons par nous mettre d'accord;
    ∎ things will work themselves out les choses s'arrangeront toutes seules ou d'elles-mêmes
    (d) (formulate → idea, plan) élaborer, combiner; (→ agreement, details) mettre au point;
    ∎ to work out a solution trouver une solution;
    ∎ have you worked out yet when it's due to start? est-ce que tu sais quand ça doit commencer?;
    ∎ she had it all worked out elle avait tout planifié;
    ∎ we worked out an easier route nous avons trouvé un itinéraire plus facile
    (e) (figure out) arriver à comprendre;
    ∎ I finally worked out why he was acting so strangely j'ai enfin découvert ou compris pourquoi il se comportait si bizarrement;
    ∎ the dog had worked out how to open the door le chien avait compris comment ouvrir la porte;
    ∎ I can't work her out je n'arrive pas à la comprendre;
    ∎ I can't work their relationship out leurs rapports me dépassent
    (f) (mine, well) épuiser
    (a) (happen) se passer;
    ∎ it depends on how things work out ça dépend de la façon dont les choses se passent;
    ∎ the trip worked out as planned le voyage s'est déroulé comme prévu;
    ∎ I wonder how it will all work out je me demande comment tout cela va s'arranger;
    ∎ it all worked out for the best tout a fini par s'arranger pour le mieux;
    ∎ but it didn't work out that way mais il en a été tout autrement;
    ∎ it worked out badly for them les choses ont mal tourné pour eux
    (b) (have a good result → job, plan) réussir; (→ problem, puzzle) se résoudre;
    ∎ she worked out fine as personnel director elle s'est bien débrouillée comme directeur du personnel;
    ∎ are things working out for you OK? est-ce que ça se passe bien pour toi?;
    ∎ did the new job work out? ça a marché pour le nouveau boulot?;
    ∎ it didn't work out between them les choses ont plutôt mal tourné entre eux;
    ∎ their project didn't work out leur projet est tombé à l'eau
    ∎ how much does it all work out at? ça fait combien en tout?;
    ∎ the average price for an apartment works out to or at $5,000 per square metre le prix moyen d'un appartement s'élève ou revient à 5000 dollars le mètre carré;
    ∎ that works out at three hours a week ça fait trois heures par semaine;
    ∎ electric heating works out expensive le chauffage électrique revient cher
    (d) (exercise) faire de l'exercice; (professional athlete) s'entraîner
    (a) American (revise) revoir, réviser
    (b) familiar (beat up) tabasser, passer à tabac
    (a) (turn) tourner;
    ∎ the wind worked round to the north le vent a tourné au nord petit à petit
    ∎ he finally worked round to the subject of housing il a fini par aborder le sujet du logement;
    ∎ what's she working round to? où veut-elle en venir?
    ∎ (bring round) I worked the conversation round to my salary j'ai amené la conversation sur la question de mon salaire
    (a) (insert) faire passer à travers
    ∎ we worked our way through the crowd nous nous sommes frayé un chemin à travers la foule;
    ∎ he worked his way through the book il a lu le livre du début à la fin;
    ∎ figurative I worked the problem through j'ai étudié le problème sous tous ses aspects
    ∎ she worked through lunch elle a travaillé pendant l'heure du déjeuner
    ∎ he worked through his emotional problems il a réussi à assumer ses problèmes affectifs
    ➲ work up
    (a) (stir up, rouse) exciter, provoquer;
    ∎ he worked up the crowd il a excité la foule;
    ∎ he worked the crowd up into a frenzy il a rendu la foule frénétique;
    ∎ he works himself up or he gets himself worked up over nothing il s'énerve pour rien;
    ∎ she had worked herself up into a dreadful rage elle s'était mise dans une rage terrible
    (b) (develop) développer;
    ∎ I want to work these ideas up into an article je veux développer ces idées pour en faire un article;
    ∎ to work up an appetite se mettre en appétit;
    ∎ we worked up a sweat/a thirst playing tennis jouer au tennis nous a donné chaud/soif;
    ∎ I can't work up any enthusiasm for this work je n'arrive pas à avoir le moindre enthousiasme pour ce travail;
    ∎ he tried to work up an interest in the cause il a essayé de s'intéresser à la cause
    ∎ to work one's way up faire son chemin;
    ∎ she worked her way up from secretary to managing director elle a commencé comme secrétaire et elle a fait son chemin jusqu'au poste de P-DG;
    ∎ I worked my way up from nothing je suis parti de rien
    (a) (clothing) remonter
    ∎ the film was working up to a climax le film approchait de son point culminant;
    ∎ things were working up to a crisis une crise se préparait, on était au bord d'une crise;
    ∎ she's working up to what she wanted to ask elle en vient à ce qu'elle voulait demander;
    ∎ what are you working up to? où veux-tu en venir?

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    chief [tʃi:f]
    1 noun
    (a) (leader → of tribe, group) chef m;
    ∎ in chief en chef;
    ∎ editor in chief rédacteur(trice) m,f en chef;
    ∎ too many chiefs and not enough Indians trop de chefs et pas assez d'hommes de troupe (pour exécuter les ordres et faire le travail)
    (b) familiar (boss) patron(onne) m,f, boss m;
    ∎ he's the big white chief c'est lui le grand patron
    (c) Heraldry chef m
    (a) (most important) principal, premier;
    ∎ one of the chief conflicts un des principaux conflits;
    ∎ the chief reason for doing sth la raison majeure ou principale pour faire qch
    (b) (head) premier, en chef
    principalement, surtout
    ►► British chief accountant chef m comptable, chef m de la comptabilité;
    Chief Constable = en Grande-Bretagne, chef de la police d'un comté ou d'une région, ≃ commissaire m divisionnaire;
    Chief Education Officer ≃ recteur m d'académie;
    Administration chief executive directeur(trice) m,f;
    American Politics the Chief Executive le président des États-Unis, le chef de l'exécutif;
    Commerce & Industry chief executive officer président(e)-directeur(trice) général(e) m,f;
    American Chief Financial Officer chef m comptable, chef m de la comptabilité;
    chief inspector (gen) inspecteur(trice) m,f principal(e), inspecteur(trice) m,f en chef; British (of police) ≃ commissaire m de police; British School ≃ inspecteur(trice) m,f général(e);
    Law chief justice président(e) m,f de la Haute Cour de justice; American juge m à la Cour suprême;
    chief librarian bibliothécaire mf en chef;
    American Military chief master sergeant major m;
    Nautical chief petty officer ≃ maître m;
    chief of police ≃ préfet m de police;
    Military chief of staff chef m d'état-major; American (at White House) secrétaire m général de la Maison Blanche;
    British chief superintendent (in police) ≃ commissaire m principal;
    Military British chief technician (in Air Force) officier m technicien;
    Military chief warrant officer adjudant m chef;
    Politics Chief Whip = responsable du maintien de la discipline à l'intérieur d'un parti à la Chambre des communes

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  • 11 stock indexes and averages

    фин., бирж. фондовые индексы и средние* (индикаторы состояния рынка ценных бумаг или его отдельных сегментов; средние подразумевают средние арифметические или геометрические совокупности рыночных цен акций, а индексы — отношение средних значений к заранее установленной базе (базовому периоду), но на практике такая разница не всегда есть, и понятия часто употребляются равноценно; индексы могут включать от десятков до несколько тысяч ценных бумаг; могут рассчитываться с взвешиванием или без; на базе многих индексов существуют опционные и фьючерские контракты)
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    фондовые индексы (индексы и "средние"): индикаторы состояния рынка ценных бумаг или его отдельных частей; "средние" подразумевают средние арифметические или геометрические совокупности рыночных цен акций, а индексы - отношение средних значений к заранее установленной базе (базовому периоду), но на практике такая разница не всегда есть, и понятия часто употребляются равноценно; индексы могут включать от десятков до несколько тысяч ценных бумаг с взвешиванием или без на общую капитализацию (число акций) данной компании, т. к. влияние на конъюнктуру компаний, представляющих 20% или 0,02% всего рынка, различно; на базе многих индексов существуют опционные и фьючерские контракты; см. Amex Major Market Index;
    Financial Times - Stock Exchange Index;
    New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) Common Stock Indices;
    New York Sock Exchange Composite Index;

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  • 12 stock indices and averages


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    фондовые индексы (индексы и "средние"): индикаторы состояния рынка ценных бумаг или его отдельных частей; "средние" подразумевают средние арифметические или геометрические совокупности рыночных цен акций, а индексы - отношение средних значений к заранее установленной базе (базовому периоду), но на практике такая разница не всегда есть, и понятия часто употребляются равноценно; индексы могут включать от десятков до несколько тысяч ценных бумаг с взвешиванием или без на общую капитализацию (число акций) данной компании, т. к. влияние на конъюнктуру компаний, представляющих 20% или 0,02% всего рынка, различно; на базе многих индексов существуют опционные и фьючерские контракты; см. Amex Major Market Index;
    Financial Times - Stock Exchange Index;
    New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) Common Stock Indices;
    New York Sock Exchange Composite Index;

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