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1 natural-historical process

естественно-исторический процесс

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2 process

1. n
1) процесс; процедура

2) юр. вызов в суд

3) судопроизводство

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to abuse the electoral process — совершать нарушения на выборах

to accelerate a process — ускорять процесс

to bolster the peace process — укреплять процесс мирного урегулирования

to bring smb into the peace process — подключать кого-л. к процессу мирного урегулирования

to broker the peace process — быть посредником в процессе мирного урегулирования

to cement the peace process — укреплять процесс мирного урегулирования

to coordinate a process — координировать процесс

to damage the peace process — вредить процессу мирного урегулирования

to derail the peace process — срывать процесс мирного урегулирования

to destabilize the peace process — дестабилизировать процесс мирного урегулирования

to disengage from the peace process — выходить из участия в процессе мирного урегулирования

to disrupt the Middle East peace process — срывать процесс мирного урегулирования на Ближнем Востоке

to enhance the democratic process — способствовать демократическому процессу

to facilitate the process of import substitution — облегчать процесс замены импорта

to follow the constitutional process — действовать в соответствии с конституцией

to further a process — ускорять процесс; способствовать процессу

to get the peace process moving — сдвигать с мертвой точки процесс мирного урегулирования

to get the peace process off the ground — начинать процесс мирного урегулирования

to get the peace process underway — начинать процесс мирного урегулирования

to give up on the peace process — терять надежду на возможность мирного урегулирования

to guide the process — направлять процесс

to hamper the peace process — мешать процессу мирного урегулирования

to hasten the process of unification — ускорять процесс объединения

to help the peace process — способствовать процессу мирного урегулирования

to hurry along the peace process — ускорять процесс мирного урегулирования

to improve the production processes — совершенствовать производственные процессы

to inaugurate an election process — вводить процедуру выборов

to intensify production processes — интенсифицировать производственные процессы

to jeopardize the peace process — ставить под угрозу процесс мирного урегулирования

to join in the peace process — включаться в процесс мирного урегулирования

to keep smb out of the peace process — не допускать чьего-л. участия в процессе мирного урегулирования

to keep the peace process afloat — продолжать процесс мирного урегулирования

to keep the peace process alive — не давать заглохнуть процессу мирного урегулирования

to mechanize production processes — механизировать производственные процессы

to monitor the election process — следить за ходом выборов

to move the peace process forward — развивать процесс мирного урегулирования

to obstruct the peace process — мешать процессу мирного урегулирования

to place the peace process in jeopardy — ставить под угрозу процесс мирного урегулирования

to push the peace process forward — продвигать процесс мирного урегулирования

to put a new impetus behind the peace process — придавать новый импульс процессу мирного урегулирования

to put the peace process back on track — возобновлять процесс мирного урегулирования

to put the peace process in jeopardy — ставить под угрозу процесс мирного урегулирования

to put the peace process on hold — замораживать мирный процесс

to re-energize the peace process — давать новый толчок процессу мирного урегулирования

to regulate a process — регулировать процесс

to re-launch the peace process — возобновлять мирный процесс

to remain within the peace process — продолжать участвовать в процессе мирного урегулирования

to rescue the peace process — спасать процесс мирного урегулирования

to re-start the peace process — возобновлять процесс мирного урегулирования

to restore the peace process — восстанавливать / возрождать процесс мирного урегулирования

to revitalize the peace process — активизировать процесс мирного урегулирования

to revive the peace process — возобновлять / возрождать процесс мирного урегулирования

to salvage / to save the peace process — спасать процесс мирного урегулирования

to scuttle the peace process — срывать процесс мирного урегулирования

to set back the peace process — делать шаг назад в процессе мирного урегулирования

to set up a managerial process — налаживать процесс управления

to shatter the pacification process — вредить процессу умиротворения

to slow down a process — замедлять процесс

to speed up the peace process — ускорять процесс мирного урегулирования

to stall the peace process — тормозить процесс мирного урегулирования

to start a negotiating process — начинать переговоры

to stay within the peace process — продолжать участвовать в процессе мирного урегулирования

to throw one's weight behind the peace process — использовать свое влияние для поддержания процесса мирного урегулирования

to thwart the constitutional process — мешать конституционному процессу

to turn one's back on the peace process — отвергать процесс мирного урегулирования

to undermine the peace process — подрывать процесс мирного урегулирования

to underpin the reform process — поддерживать процесс реформ

to withdraw from the peace process — прерывать свое участие в мирном урегулировании

to wreck the peace process — срывать процесс мирного урегулирования

to serve a process on smb — вызывать кого-л. в суд повесткой

- administrative process
- all-European process
- automated process
- basic laws of historical process
- breakthrough in the peace process
- budget-balancing process
- budget-making process
- collapse of the peace process
- commitment to the peace process
- completion of the construction process
- complex process
- complicated process
- constitutional process
- construction process
- continuous process
- contradictory process
- damaging to the peace process
- decision-making process
- decolonization process
- deepening of integration processes
- democratization process
- demographic process
- development process
- disarmament process
- disconnection process
- due process
- economic process
- educational process
- engineering process
- evolutionary process
- foot-dragging in the peace process
- historical process
- in the process
- industrialization process
- inflationary process
- information transfer process
- integration process
- interconnected processes
- internal process
- intricate process
- irreversible process
- judicial process
- labor process
- labor-intensive process
- law-governed process
- liberation process
- long drawn-out process
- long process
- long-term process
- managerial process
- manufacturing process
- modernization process
- multiform process
- natural process
- natural-historical process
- negative process
- negotiating process
- on-going process
- on-off peace process
- overall process
- painful process
- paper-laden process
- peaceful process
- peace-making process
- political process
- positive process
- preconvention bargaining process
- process of democratization
- process of détente
- process of economic growth
- process of national liberation
- process of polarization
- process of production
- production process
- programming process
- progressive process
- rapid process
- reform process
- rehabilitation process
- renewal of the peace process
- revolutionary process
- short-circuited process
- slowing down of the reform process
- social process
- socio-economic process
- spasmodic process
- stagnant process
- stalled peace process
- teaching and educational process
- technological process
- the country had a part to play in the peace process
- the peace process goes forward
- the peace process hangs by a thread
- the peace process has been stalled
- the peace process has broken down
- the peace process is in limbo
- the peace process is in tatters
- the ups and downs of the peace process
- transitional process
- under the peace process
- unification process
- work process
- worldwide process 2. v
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3 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.

    Contemporary Portugal

   Owing to its geographic location on the southwestern most edge of continental Europe, Portugal has been historically in but not of Europe. Almost from the beginning of its existence in the 12th century as an independent monarchy, Portugal turned its back on Europe and oriented itself toward the Atlantic Ocean. After carving out a Christian kingdom on the western portion of the Iberian peninsula, Portuguese kings gradually built and maintained a vast seaborne global empire that became central to the way Portugal understood its individuality as a nation-state. While the creation of this empire allows Portugal to claim an unusual number of "firsts" or distinctions in world and Western history, it also retarded Portugal's economic, social, and political development. It can be reasonably argued that the Revolution of 25 April 1974 was the most decisive event in Portugal's long history because it finally ended Portugal's oceanic mission and view of itself as an imperial power. After the 1974 Revolution, Portugal turned away from its global mission and vigorously reoriented itself toward Europe. Contemporary Portugal is now both in and of Europe.

   The turn toward Europe began immediately after 25 April 1974. Portugal granted independence to its African colonies in 1975. It was admitted to the European Council and took the first steps toward accession to the European Economic Community (EEC) in 1976. On 28 March 1977, the Portuguese government officially applied for EEC membership. Because of Portugal's economic and social backwardness, which would require vast sums of EEC money to overcome, negotiations for membership were long and difficult. Finally, a treaty of accession was signed on 12 June 1985. Portugal officially joined the EEC (the European Union [EU] since 1993) on 1 January 1986. Since becoming a full-fledged member of the EU, Portugal has been steadily overcoming the economic and social underdevelopment caused by its imperial past and is becoming more like the rest of Europe.

   Membership in the EU has speeded up the structural transformation of Portugal's economy, which actually began during the Estado Novo. Investments made by the Estado Novo in Portugal's economy began to shift employment out of the agricultural sector, which, in 1950, accounted for 50 percent of Portugal's economically active population. Today, only 10 percent of the economically active population is employed in the agricultural sector (the highest among EU member states); 30 percent in the industrial sector (also the highest among EU member states); and 60 percent in the service sector (the lowest among EU member states). The economically active population numbers about 5,000,000 employed, 56 percent of whom are women. Women workers are the majority of the workforce in the agricultural and service sectors (the highest among the EU member states). The expansion of the service sector has been primarily in health care and education. Portugal has had the lowest unemployment rates among EU member states, with the overall rate never being more than 10 percent of the active population. Since joining the EU, the number of employers increased from 2.6 percent to 5.8 percent of the active population; self-employed from 16 to 19 percent; and employees from 65 to 70 percent. Twenty-six percent of the employers are women. Unemployment tends to hit younger workers in industry and transportation, women employed in domestic service, workers on short-term contracts, and poorly educated workers. Salaried workers earn only 63 percent of the EU average, and hourly workers only one-third to one-half of that earned by their EU counterparts. Despite having had the second highest growth of gross national product (GNP) per inhabitant (after Ireland) among EU member states, the above data suggest that while much has been accomplished in terms of modernizing the Portuguese economy, much remains to be done to bring Portugal's economy up to the level of the "average" EU member state.

   Membership in the EU has also speeded up changes in Portuguese society. Over the last 30 years, coastalization and urbanization have intensified. Fully 50 percent of Portuguese live in the coastal urban conurbations of Lisbon, Oporto, Braga, Aveiro, Coimbra, Viseu, Évora, and Faro. The Portuguese population is one of the oldest among EU member states (17.3 percent are 65 years of age or older) thanks to a considerable increase in life expectancy at birth (77.87 years for the total population, 74.6 years for men, 81.36 years for women) and one of the lowest birthrates (10.59 births/1,000) in Europe. Family size averages 2.8 persons per household, with the strict nuclear family (one or two generations) in which both parents work being typical. Common law marriages, cohabitating couples, and single-parent households are more and more common. The divorce rate has also increased. "Youth Culture" has developed. The young have their own meeting places, leisure-time activities, and nightlife (bars, clubs, and discos).

   All Portuguese citizens, whether they have contributed or not, have a right to an old-age pension, invalidity benefits, widowed persons' pension, as well as payments for disabilities, children, unemployment, and large families. There is a national minimum wage (€385 per month), which is low by EU standards. The rapid aging of Portugal's population has changed the ratio of contributors to pensioners to 1.7, the lowest in the EU. This has created deficits in Portugal's social security fund.

   The adult literacy rate is about 92 percent. Illiteracy is still found among the elderly. Although universal compulsory education up to grade 9 was achieved in 1980, only 21.2 percent of the population aged 25-64 had undergone secondary education, compared to an EU average of 65.7 percent. Portugal's higher education system currently consists of 14 state universities and 14 private universities, 15 state polytechnic institutions, one Catholic university, and one military academy. All in all, Portugal spends a greater percentage of its state budget on education than most EU member states. Despite this high level of expenditure, the troubled Portuguese education system does not perform well. Early leaving and repetition rates are among the highest among EU member states.

   After the Revolution of 25 April 1974, Portugal created a National Health Service, which today consists of 221 hospitals and 512 medical centers employing 33,751 doctors and 41,799 nurses. Like its education system, Portugal's medical system is inefficient. There are long waiting lists for appointments with specialists and for surgical procedures.

   Structural changes in Portugal's economy and society mean that social life in Portugal is not too different from that in other EU member states. A mass consumption society has been created. Televisions, telephones, refrigerators, cars, music equipment, mobile phones, and personal computers are commonplace. Sixty percent of Portuguese households possess at least one automobile, and 65 percent of Portuguese own their own home. Portuguese citizens are more aware of their legal rights than ever before. This has resulted in a trebling of the number of legal proceeding since 1960 and an eight-fold increase in the number of lawyers. In general, Portuguese society has become more permissive and secular; the Catholic Church and the armed forces are much less influential than in the past. Portugal's population is also much more culturally, religiously, and ethnically diverse, a consequence of the coming to Portugal of hundreds of thousands of immigrants, mainly from former African colonies.

   Portuguese are becoming more cosmopolitan and sophisticated through the impact of world media, the Internet, and the World Wide Web. A prime case in point came in the summer and early fall of 1999, with the extraordinary events in East Timor and the massive Portuguese popular responses. An internationally monitored referendum in East Timor, Portugal's former colony in the Indonesian archipelago and under Indonesian occupation from late 1975 to summer 1999, resulted in a vote of 78.5 percent for rejecting integration with Indonesia and for independence. When Indonesian prointegration gangs, aided by the Indonesian military, responded to the referendum with widespread brutality and threatened to reverse the verdict of the referendum, there was a spontaneous popular outpouring of protest in the cities and towns of Portugal. An avalanche of Portuguese e-mail fell on leaders and groups in the UN and in certain countries around the world as Portugal's diplomats, perhaps to compensate for the weak initial response to Indonesian armed aggression in 1975, called for the protection of East Timor as an independent state and for UN intervention to thwart Indonesian action. Using global communications networks, the Portuguese were able to mobilize UN and world public opinion against Indonesian actions and aided the eventual independence of East Timor on 20 May 2002.

   From the Revolution of 25 April 1974 until the 1990s, Portugal had a large number of political parties, one of the largest Communist parties in western Europe, frequent elections, and endemic cabinet instability. Since the 1990s, the number of political parties has been dramatically reduced and cabinet stability increased. Gradually, the Portuguese electorate has concentrated around two larger parties, the right-of-center Social Democrats (PSD) and the left-of-center Socialist (PS). In the 1980s, these two parties together garnered 65 percent of the vote and 70 percent of the seats in parliament. In 2005, these percentages had risen to 74 percent and 85 percent, respectively. In effect, Portugal is currently a two-party dominant system in which the two largest parties — PS and PSD—alternate in and out of power, not unlike the rotation of the two main political parties (the Regenerators and the Historicals) during the last decades (1850s to 1880s) of the liberal constitutional monarchy. As Portugal's democracy has consolidated, turnout rates for the eligible electorate have declined. In the 1970s, turnout was 85 percent. In Portugal's most recent parliamentary election (2005), turnout had fallen to 65 percent of the eligible electorate.

   Portugal has benefited greatly from membership in the EU, and whatever doubts remain about the price paid for membership, no Portuguese government in the near future can afford to sever this connection. The vast majority of Portuguese citizens see membership in the EU as a "good thing" and strongly believe that Portugal has benefited from membership. Only the Communist Party opposed membership because it reduces national sovereignty, serves the interests of capitalists not workers, and suffers from a democratic deficit. Despite the high level of support for the EU, Portuguese voters are increasingly not voting in elections for the European Parliament, however. Turnout for European Parliament elections fell from 40 percent of the eligible electorate in the 1999 elections to 38 percent in the 2004 elections.

   In sum, Portugal's turn toward Europe has done much to overcome its backwardness. However, despite the economic, social, and political progress made since 1986, Portugal has a long way to go before it can claim to be on a par with the level found even in Spain, much less the rest of western Europe. As Portugal struggles to move from underde-velopment, especially in the rural areas away from the coast, it must keep in mind the perils of too rapid modern development, which could damage two of its most precious assets: its scenery and environment. The growth and future prosperity of the economy will depend on the degree to which the government and the private sector will remain stewards of clean air, soil, water, and other finite resources on which the tourism industry depends and on which Portugal's world image as a unique place to visit rests. Currently, Portugal is investing heavily in renewable energy from solar, wind, and wave power in order to account for about 50 percent of its electricity needs by 2010. Portugal opened the world's largest solar power plant and the world's first commercial wave power farm in 2006.

   An American documentary film on Portugal produced in the 1970s described this little country as having "a Past in Search of a Future." In the years after the Revolution of 25 April 1974, it could be said that Portugal is now living in "a Present in Search of a Future." Increasingly, that future lies in Europe as an active and productive member of the EU.

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4 естественно-исторический процесс

natural-historical process

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5 Vorgang

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1. (Hergang) proceedings Pl.; (Prozess) process; (Ereignis) event, occurrence; natürlicher / chemischer Vorgang natural / chemical process; geschichtliche / interne Vorgänge historical / internal events; jemanden über den Vorgang unterrichten tell s.o. ( oder inform s.o. about) what is happening ( oder what happened)

2. (Akte) file, dossier

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process

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m pl - gänge

1) (= Ereignis) event, occurrence; (= Ablauf, Hergang) series or course of events

jdm den genauen Vórgang eines Unfalls schildern — to tell sb exactly what happened in an accident

2) (BIOL, CHEM, TECH, COMPUT) process

3) (form = Akten) file, dossier

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(a course of action undertaken: Carrying him down the mountain was a slow process.) process

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1. (Geschehnis) event

ich beobachte seit einiger Zeit merkwürdige Vorgänge um mich herum I've been noticing for some time strange occurrences happening around me

2. (Prozess) process

arbeitsintensiver \Vorgang ÖKON labour-intensive process

unkalkulierbarer \Vorgang random process

im \Vorgang in process

3. (geh: angelegte Akte) file

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1) occurrence; event; (Prozess) process

2) (Amtsspr.) file

der Vorgang XY — the file on XY

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Vorgang m

1. (Hergang) proceedings pl; (Prozess) process; (Ereignis) event, occurrence;

natürlicher/chemischer Vorgang natural/chemical process;

geschichtliche/interne Vorgänge historical/internal events;

jemanden über den Vorgang unterrichten tell sb ( oder inform sb about) what is happening ( oder what happened)

2. (Akte) file, dossier

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der

1) occurrence; event; (Prozess) process

2) (Amtsspr.) file

der Vorgang XY — the file on XY

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-¨e m.

instance n.

procedure n.

process n.

(§ pl.: processes)

scene n.

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6 development

n

1) развитие; совершенствование; эволюция

2) расширение; рост; подъем

3) обыкн. pl явление; обстоятельство; событие; фактор; тенденция

4) разработка; освоение; производство

5) перемена, изменение

6) подготовка; повышение квалификации

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to accelerate development — ускорять развитие

to achieve a high level of development — достигать высокого уровня развития

to advance development — продвигаться вперед по пути развития

to benefit the development of smth — содействовать / способствовать развитию чего-л.; облегчать развитие чего-л.

to boost industrial development — стимулировать развитие промышленности

to carry out programs of development — выполнять программы развития

to change the course of a country's political development — изменять ход политического развития страны

to channel a country's development — направлять развитие страны

to choose the path of independent development — вступать на путь самостоятельного развития

to curb the development — ограничивать развитие

to damage development — подрывать развитие, наносить ущерб развитию

to determine prospects of development — определять перспективы развития

to effect development — осуществлять развитие

to embark on the road of independent development — вставать на путь независимого развития

to encourage production development — поощрять развитие производства

to exercise influence on world development — оказывать влияние на ход мирового развития

to facilitate the development of smth — содействовать / способствовать развитию чего-л., облегчать развитие чего-л.

to favor cultural development — содействовать культурному развитию

to follow the developments — следить за ходом событий

to follow the way of progressive development — идти по пути прогрессивного развития

to forecast the development of science and technology — прогнозировать развитие науки и техники

to foster the development of small business — поощрять развитие малого бизнеса

to further the development of agriculture — содействовать развитию сельского хозяйства

to give impetus to the development of smth — давать толчок развитию чего-л.

to hamper / to hinder the development of smth — затруднять / тормозить развитие чего-л.; препятствовать развитию чего-л.

to hold back the development of smth — сдерживать развитие чего-л.

to impede the development of smth — препятствовать развитию чего-л.

to implement a development plan — выполнять план развития

to injure cultural development — наносить ущерб развитию культуры

to lag behind in one's economic development — отставать в своем экономическом развитии

to meet the challenge of development — решать задачи развития

to monitor developments — контролировать ход событий

to neglect social aspect of development — пренебрегать социальным аспектом экономического развития

to overcome difficulties of development — преодолевать трудности развития

to promote the development of smth — содействовать / способствовать развитию чего-л.; облегчать развитие чего-л.

to put a brake on the development — сдерживать / тормозить развитие

to put spokes in the wheels of the development of smth — мешать / препятствовать развитию чего-л.

to resume the process of development — возобновлять процесс развития

to retard development — задерживать / замедлять развитие

to secure the development — обеспечивать развитие

to slow down the rates development — замедлять темпы развития

to speed up the development — ускорять развитие

to step backward in one's development — делать шаг назад в своем развитии

to stimulate the development of smth — стимулировать / давать стимул развитию чего-л.

to support the development of smth — поддерживать / обеспечивать развитие чего-л.

to surmount difficulties of development — преодолевать трудности развития

to take the path of independent development — вступать на путь самостоятельного развития

to undermine the foundations of economic development — подрывать основы экономического развития

- accelerated development
- acceleration of socioeconomic development
- actual developments
- advanced development
- aggregate development
- all-round development
- at all levels of development
- at such a stage of development
- balanced development
- balanced pattern of development
- community development
- comprehensive development
- constant development
- constructive development
- contemporary era of development
- continuous development
- course of historical development
- crisis-free way of development
- cultural development
- current developments
- cyclical development
- degree of economic development
- development came to a head
- development of economic relations
- development of industrial exports
- development of new technologies
- development of popular struggle
- development of science and technology
- development of the personality
- development of tourism
- development of vocational competence
- dialectical development
- discouraging developments
- disproportional development
- driving force of development
- ecological development
- economic development
- effective development
- encouraging developments
- ethical development of society
- executive management development
- experimental development
- extensive development
- final aim of development
- financing of industrial development
- foreign-policy developments
- free development
- further development
- general regularities of development
- general results of the development
- gradual development
- guidelines for the economic and social development
- health development
- human resource development
- in the light of these developments
- independent development
- industrial development
- initial stages of development
- inner sources of development
- integrated development
- intensive development
- international development
- juridical development
- key indicators of national economic development
- latest developments
- level of development

- long-run development
- long-term development
- lop-sided development
- main trend of historical development
- major development
- major problems of society's development
- manpower development
- many-sided development of relations
- natural resources development
- negative development
- new development
- objective historical development
- objective laws of development
- overall development
- pace of development
- pace of developments
- peaceful development
- political developments
- population development
- positive development
- post-war development
- priority development
- process of development
- production development
- professional development
- progressive development
- projected development
- proportional development
- rapid development
- rate of development
- recent developments
- regional development
- research and development

- retarded development
- round-up of the latest developments
- rural development
- separate development
- shocking development
- slackening of growth rates of economic development
- slow development
- slowdown of growth rates of economic development
- social aspects of development
- social development
- sovereign development
- spasmodic development
- specifics of development
- stable development
- stage of development

- steady development
- striking development
- technical development
- technological changes conducive to development
- technological development
- trend of economic development
- unbalanced development
- uneven development
- urban development
- water resources development
- watershed in the world development
- we regard the development with grave concern
- welcome developments
- world developments
- world-wide economic development

Politics english-russian dictionary > development
7 Siemens, Sir Charles William

SUBJECT AREA: Electricity, Metallurgy, Public utilities, Telecommunications

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b. 4 April 1823 Lenthe, Germany

d. 19 November 1883 London, England

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German/British metallurgist and inventory pioneer of the regenerative principle and open-hearth steelmaking.

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Born Carl Wilhelm, he attended craft schools in Lübeck and Magdeburg, followed by an intensive course in natural science at Göttingen as a pupil of Weber. At the age of 19 Siemens travelled to England and sold an electroplating process developed by his brother Werner Siemens to Richard Elkington, who was already established in the plating business. From 1843 to 1844 he obtained practical experience in the Magdeburg works of Count Stolburg. He settled in England in 1844 and later assumed British nationality, but maintained close contact with his brother Werner, who in 1847 had co-founded the firm Siemens \& Halske in Berlin to manufacture telegraphic equipment. William began to develop his regenerative principle of waste-heat recovery and in 1856 his brother Frederick (1826–1904) took out a British patent for heat regeneration, by which hot waste gases were passed through a honeycomb of fire-bricks. When they became hot, the gases were switched to a second mass of fire-bricks and incoming air and fuel gas were led through the hot bricks. By alternating the two gas flows, high temperatures could be reached and considerable fuel economies achieved. By 1861 the two brothers had incorporated producer gas fuel, made by gasifying low-grade coal.

Heat regeneration was first applied in ironmaking by Cowper in 1857 for heating the air blast in blast furnaces. The first regenerative furnace was set up in Birmingham in 1860 for glassmaking. The first such furnace for making steel was developed in France by Pierre Martin and his father, Emile, in 1863. Siemens found British steelmakers reluctant to adopt the principle so in 1866 he rented a small works in Birmingham to develop his open-hearth steelmaking furnace, which he patented the following year. The process gradually made headway; as well as achieving high temperatures and saving fuel, it was slower than Bessemer's process, permitting greater control over the content of the steel. By 1900 the tonnage of open-hearth steel exceeded that produced by the Bessemer process.

In 1872 Siemens played a major part in founding the Society of Telegraph Engineers (from which the Institution of Electrical Engineers evolved), serving as its first President. He became President for the second time in 1878. He built a cable works at Charlton, London, where the cable could be loaded directly into the holds of ships moored on the Thames. In 1873, together with William Froude, a British shipbuilder, he designed the Faraday, the first specialized vessel for Atlantic cable laying. The successful laying of a cable from Europe to the United States was completed in 1875, and a further five transatlantic cables were laid by the Faraday over the following decade.

The Siemens factory in Charlton also supplied equipment for some of the earliest electric-lighting installations in London, including the British Museum in 1879 and the Savoy Theatre in 1882, the first theatre in Britain to be fully illuminated by electricity. The pioneer electric-tramway system of 1883 at Portrush, Northern Ireland, was an opportunity for the Siemens company to demonstrate its equipment.

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Principal Honours and Distinctions

Knighted 1883. FRS 1862. Institution of Civil Engineers Telford Medal 1853. President, Institution of Mechanical Engineers 1872. President, Society of Telegraph Engineers 1872 and 1878. President, British Association 1882.

Bibliography

27 May 1879, British patent no. 2,110 (electricarc furnace).

1889, The Scientific Works of C.William Siemens, ed. E.F.Bamber, 3 vols, London.

Further Reading

W.Poles, 1888, Life of Sir William Siemens, London; repub. 1986 (compiled from material supplied by the family).

S.von Weiher, 1972–3, "The Siemens brothers. Pioneers of the electrical age in Europe", Transactions of the Newcomen Society 45:1–11 (a short, authoritative biography). S.von Weihr and H.Goetler, 1983, The Siemens Company. Its Historical Role in the

Progress of Electrical Engineering 1847–1980, English edn, Berlin (a scholarly account with emphasis on technology).

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8 system

ˈsɪstɪm сущ.
1) а) система Syn: method б) система, устройство;
метод adversary system ≈ система состязательности в суде (правда выясняется в ходе соревнования позиций и доказательств сторон в судебном процессе) health system ≈ органы здравоохранения narrative evaluation system ≈ описательная система оценок( письменная характеристика успеваемости учащегося, даваемая преподавателем в свободной форме) political system ≈ государственный строй air-conditioning system
2) какая-л. определенная система а) сеть( дорог и т. п.) б) мир;
вселенная( система планет)
3) организм или часть организма nervous system support-locomotion system
4) геол. система, формация система;
способ;
метод - a good * of teaching French хорошая система /-ий метод/ обучения французскому языку - the touch * of typewriting печатание на машинке по слепому методу (тк. в ед. ч.) система, систематичность - to work without * работать без( строгой) системы - his work lacks * (в) его работе недостает системы - to bring * out of confusion упорядочить неразбериху;
найти выход из запутанного положения строй, устройство - political * государственный строй - the feudal * феодальный строй - * of government система правления - bipartisan /two-party/ * (американизм) (политика) двухпартийная система классификация, система - * of axes (математика) система координат - * of units( физическое) система измерений - natural * (химическое) периодическая система элементов - the decimal * десятичная система - binary * (химическое) бинарная /двойная/ система (философское) система;
комплекс идей, образующих целое - a * of philosophy философская система;
философское учение( философское) вселенная, мир сеть (дорог, труб и т. п.) - tramway * трамвайная сеть - irrigation * система орошения - nervous * нервная система - circulatory * система кровообращения - telephone * телефонная сеть организм - to pass into the * проникнуть в организм - to introduce smth. into the * ввести что-л. в организм - strong drink is bad for the * крепкие напитки вредны для организма - to get smth. out of one's * вывести( яд и т. п.) из организма;
избавиться от какого-л. чувства, навязчивой идеи и т. п. - I must get her out of my * я должен выбросить ее из головы (астрономия) система - * of comets система комет - solar * солнечная система (геология) система, формация (спортивное) судейство - closed /written/ * закрытое судейство - open /public/ * открытое судейство (военное) средство - forward-based *s средства передового базирования - all *s go (космонавтика) все системы (корабля) работают нормально( компьютерное) система - multiprocession * многопроцессорная система - * manager системный программист;
администратор системы - * management сопровождение /координация работы/ системы accept ~ система акцептования accounting information ~ вчт. бухгалтерская информационная система accounting ~ система бухгалтерского учета accounting ~ система счетов adaptive ~ вчт. адаптивная система administrative ~ административная система alarm ~ система сигнализации analysis ~ система анализа application visualization ~ вчт. прикладная система изображения asset quality rating ~ система квалификации активов asymptotically stable ~ асимптотически устойчивая система automated control ~ асу, автоматизированная система управления axiomatic ~ аксиоматическая система backup ~ вчт. дублирующая система banking ~ банковская система belief ~ система доверия bicameral ~ двухпалатная система bicameral ~ парл. двухпалатная система bipartite ~ парл. двухпартийная система block ~ =blocking bonus ~ премиальная система buddy ~ метод близнецов bulk-service ~ система с групповым обслуживанием business ~ экономическая система cad ~ вчт. система автоматизированного проектирования call-reply ~ вчт. запрсно-ответная система certification ~ система сертификации closed queueing ~ замкнутая система массового обслуживания closed ~ замкнутая система code-dependent ~ вчт. система зависящая от данных code-independent ~ вчт. система не зависящая от данных code-insensitive ~ вчт. система не зависящая от данных code-sensitive ~ вчт. система зависящая от данных code-transparent ~ вчт. система не зависящая от данных coinage ~ монетная система column ~ система бухгалтерского учета по колонкам commission ~ система комиссионных вознаграждений computer ~ вычислительная система computer ~ вчт. вычислительная система computer ~ вычислительный комплекс computer ~ система вычислительных машин computer-aided control ~ автоматизированная система управления computer-to-plate ~ система создания печатных форм на компьютере computerized information ~ информационная система на базе ЭВМ concealment ~ система маскировки concession ~ система концессий constrained ~ вчт. система с ограничениями consulting ~ вчт. консультирующая система control ~ система управления control ~ вчт. система управления cooperative ~ система кооперации cooptation ~ система кооптации costing ~ система калькуляции себестоимости court ~ судебная система, система судопроизводства credit ~ кредитная система criminal reestablishment ~ система восстановления личности преступника crisis alert ~ система предупреждения о кризисе cross ~ вчт. кросс-система cyclical response ~ вчт. система циклических реакций data base management ~ вчт. система управления базой данных data handling ~ вчт. система обработки данных data processing ~ вчт. система обработки данных data ~ вчт. информационная система database ~ вчт. система баз данных decimal ~ десятичная система dedicated ~ специализированная система deductive ~ дедуктивная система delay ~ система с ожиданием desktop ~ система непосредственного взаимодействия direct debit ~ система прямого дебета direct ~ целевая система directional ~ система управления disk operating ~ вчт. дисковая операционная система, ДОС distributed file ~ вчт. распределенная файловая система distributed ~ вчт. распределенная система distribution ~ система распределения distributive ~ распределительная система DP ~ (data processing ~) система обработки данных dynamic ~ динамическая система educational ~ система образования educational ~ система обучения election ~ избирательная система electronic book-entry ~ вчт. электронная система бухгалтерского учета electronic full-page makeup ~ вчт. электронная система верстки полос enclave ~ анклавная группа;
полузащищенная группа (работающих под специальным наблюдением в обычных рабочих условиях инвалидов) equilibrium ~ равновесная система evolutionary ~ развиваемая система executive ~ вчт. операционная система expand a ~ вчт. расширять комплект оборудования системы expert ~ вчт. экспертная система explanatory ~ вчт. система объяснений fail-soft ~ вчт. система с амортизацией отказов federal ~ федеральная система fee ~ система вознаграждений feedback ~ система с обратной связью file ~ вчт. файловая система filing ~ система регистрации документов filing ~ система хранения документов financial ~ финансовая система fiscal ~ система финансов fixed price ~ система с фиксированной ценой flat-rate guarantee ~ система гарантий с фиксированной ставкой formal ~ формальная система fractional reserve ~ система частичных резервов frame ~ вчт. система фреймов functional information ~ вчт. функциональный информационная система giro ~ система жиросчетов governmental ~ правительственная система grading ~ система сортировки guarantee ~ система гарантий guidance ~ вчт. система -путеводитель hard disk ~ вчт. система с жестким диском help ~ вчт. справочник hire ~ =hire-purchase historical cost ~ выч. калькуляция на основе фактических издержек производства homogeneous ~ однородная система host ~ вчт. базисная система host ~ вчт. централизованная система imprest ~ система авансирования imputation ~ система условного начисления indexing ~ система индексации inductive ~ вчт. индуктивная система information ~ вчт. информационная система instruction ~ вчт. обучающая система integrated ~ вчт. интегрированная система intelligent ~ вчт. интеллектуальная система interactive ~ вчт. диалоговая система interactive ~ вчт. интерактивная система interest ~ система ставок процента international monetary ~ международная валютная система judicial ~ система судебных органов judicial ~ судебная система, система судебных органов judicial ~ судебная система jury ~ система суда присяжных knowledge base management ~ вчт. система управления базой знаний knowledge representation ~ вчт. система представления знаний land registration ~ система регистрации земельного участка learning ~ вчт. самообучаемая система licensing ~ система лицензирования linear programming ~ система линейного программирования linear ~ линейная система loadable ~ вчт. загружаемая система loan limit ~ система предельных размеров кредита loose-leaf ~ полигр. издание с отрывными или вкладными листами loss ~ система с потерями mail ~ вчт. электронная почта management information ~ (MIS) управленческая информационная система manual ~ система ручного управления many-server ~ вчт. многоканальная система mapped ~ вчт. система с управлением памятью market ~ рыночная система market ~ рыночная экономика market ~ страна с рыночной экономикой marketing information ~ система маркетинговой информации markov ~ марковская система markovian ~ марковская система master-slave ~ несимметричная система match ~ система выравнивания курсов militia ~ система милиции minimum price ~ система минимальных цен minimum wage ~ система минимальной заработной платы ministerial ~ правительственная система mixed price ~ смешанная ценовая система mixed ~ смешанная система modeless ~ вчт. система с однородным интерфейсом monetary ~ денежная система monetary ~ финансовая система monitoring ~ система мониторинга monitoring ~ система текущего контроля multi-user ~ вчт. многопользовательская система multiprocessing ~ вчт. многопроцессорная система multiprogramming ~ вчт. система, работающая в мультипрограммном режиме multiserver ~ вчт. многоканальная система multistation ~ вчт. многопунктовая система multitasking ~ вчт. многозадачная система multiuser ~ система коллективного пользования multivariable ~ вчт. многомерная система municipal ~ муниципальная система non-markovian ~ вчт. немарковская система nonstop ~ вчт. безостановочный компьютер normative ~ нормативная система number ~ система счисления numeration ~ система счисления off-line ~ вчт. автономная система on-demand ~ вчт. система без ожидания on-line ~ вчт. неавтономная система on-line ~ вчт. система, работающая в реальном масштабе времени on-line ~ вчт. система реального времени one-party ~ однопартийная система open learning ~ гибкая система обучения open ~ вчт. открытая система open-item ~ система с незакрытыми статьями баланса operating ~ действующая система operating ~ вчт. операционная система organized banking ~ организованная банковская система page ~ вчт. страничная система parliamentary ~ парламентская система partial cost ~ система калькуляции издержек производства с использованием нормативов party ~ партийная система patent ~ система патентования pay-as-you-go ~ система выплаты выходных пособий при увольнении payments ~ система платежей penal ~ пенитенциарная система periodic reordering ~ вчт. система с периодической подачей заказов pilot ~ вчт. прототип системы ~ система, устройство;
political system государственный строй portable ~ вчт. мобильная система preferential ~ система преференций premium ~ премиальная система price control ~ система регулирования цен price support ~ система гарантирования цен price ~ система цен priority ~ вчт. система приоритетов priority ~ вчт. система с приоритетами probabilistic ~ вероятностная система process cost ~ система исчисления производственных издержек production ~ продукционная система productions ~ система продукций program development ~ вчт. система разработки программ programming ~ вчт. система программирования progressive taxation ~ система прогрессивного налогообложения proportional taxation ~ система пропорционального налогообложения protection ~ вчт. система защиты prototyping ~ макет системы public health ~ система здравоохранения quality ~ система критериев качества quality ~ система проверки качества quata ~ система квот question-answering ~ вчт. вопросно-ответная система queueing ~ система массового обслуживания queueing ~ вчт. система массового обслуживания quota ~ система иммиграционных квот quota ~ система квот quota ~ система контингентов real time ~ вчт. система реального времени reasoning ~ вчт. разумная система redundant ~ вчт. избыточная система reliable ~ надежная система report ~ система отчетности reporting ~ система отчетности reporting ~ система сбора информации reporting ~ система учета representation ~ система представления reservation ~ система резервирования resident ~ вчт. резидентная система retrieval ~ док. система внесения исправлений retrieval ~ вчт. система поиска revision control ~ вчт. система управления версиями risk control ~ система контроля рисков salary adjustment ~ система регулирования заработной платы salary ~ система заработной платы scalable ~ вчт. расширяемая система school ~ школьная система segment ~ вчт. система с сегментной организацией self-assessment tax ~ система самообложения налогом self-contained ~ замкнутая система serving ~ вчт. система обслуживания setting up the ~ вчт. начальная установка системы short-term support ~ система краткосрочной поддержки simulation ~ имитационная система single-channel ~ вчт. одноканальная система single-server ~ вчт. одноканальная система slave ~ подчиненная система stable ~ устойчивая система standard pay ~ система нормативной заработной платы standby ~ резервная система static-priority ~ вчт. система со статическими приоритетами stationary ~ стационарная система stochastic ~ стохастическая система support ~ вчт. исполняющая система system метод ~ мир, вселенная ~ организм ~ сеть (дорог и т. п.) ~ геол. система, формация ~ система, устройство;
political system государственный строй ~ система, устройство ~ система, метод ~ система;
метод;
system of axes система координат;
what system do you go on? какому методу вы следуете? ~ comp. система ~ устройство ~ for medium-term financial assistance программа среднесрочной финансовой помощи ~ система;
метод;
system of axes система координат;
what system do you go on? какому методу вы следуете? ~ of commands система команд ~ of deductions система выводов ~ of financial contributions система финансовых взносов ~ of import control система контроля за импортом ~ of monitoring balance sheet growth система контроля за ростом статей баланса ~ of reimbursement система возмещения расходов ~ of remuneration система вознаграждения ~ of state государственное устройство ~ of taxation система налогообложения target ~ вчт. целевая система tax ~ налоговая система tax-at-source ~ система удержания налога из общей суммы доходов taxation ~ система налогообложения tender ~ система торгов terminal ~ вчт. система терминалов test ~ вчт. испытательная система text-retrieval ~ вчт. документальная информационная система thin-route ~ вчт. малоканальная система tightly-coupled ~ вчт. система с сильной связью time sharing ~ вчт. система разделения времени time-sharing ~ вчт. система разделения времени time-sharing ~ вчт. система с разделением времени timecard ~ система табельного учета totting-up ~ система зачетов trade support ~ система поддержки торговли trading ~ система торговли transaction-oriented ~ вчт. диалоговая система обработки запросов truck ~ система оплаты труда натурой truck ~ система оплаты труда товарами truck: truck = truck system ~ attr.: ~ system оплата труда товарами вместо денег;
Truck Acts ист. законы, ограничивающие систему оплаты труда товарами turnkey ~ вчт. готовая система two-channel ~ вчт. двухканальная система two-party ~ двухпартийная система unicameral ~ однопалатная система unitary tax ~ единая система налогообложения unmapped ~ вчт. система без управления памятью up ~ исправная система virgin ~ вчт. исходная система voluntary labelling ~ система добровольного снабжения продукта этикеткой wage ~ система оплаты труда waiting ~ вчт. система с ожиданием watch ~ бирж. система наблюдения weighting ~ система весов ~ система;
метод;
system of axes система координат;
what system do you go on? какому методу вы следуете? windowing ~ вчт. система управления окнами word processing ~ вчт. система обработки текстов work-space ~ вчт. система с рабочим состоянием

Большой англо-русский и русско-английский словарь > system
9 fuente

adj.

source.

f.

1 fountain (de agua) (construcción).

fuente de agua potable drinking fountain

fuente termal thermal spring

2 (serving) dish (bandeja).

3 source (origen).

fuente de alimentación feed source; ( Elec) power supply (computing)

fuente de energía energy source

fuente de energía renovable renewable energy source

fuente de ingresos source of income

fuente de riqueza source of wealth

4 source.

según fuentes del ministerio de Educación,… according to Ministry of Education sources,…

fuentes oficiosas/oficiales unofficial/official sources

5 font (Imprenta).

6 spring, headspring, fountainhead, springhead.

7 drinking fountain.

8 platter, serving dish, server.

9 gas station, station.

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fuente

► nombre femenino

1 (manantial) spring

2 (artificial) fountain

3 (recipiente) serving dish, dish

4 figurado source

\

FRASEOLOGÍA

de buena fuente from reliable sources

de fuente fidedigna from reliable sources

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noun f.

1) fountain

2) spring

3) source, origin

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SF

1) (=construcción) fountain; (=manantial) spring

- abrir la fuente de las lágrimas

fuente de beber — drinking fountain

fuente de río — source of a river

fuente de soda — LAm café selling ice-cream and soft drinks, soda fountain (EEUU)

fuente termal — hot spring

2) (Culin) serving dish, platter

fuente de hornear, fuente de horno — ovenproof dish

3) (=origen) source, origin

de fuente desconocida/fidedigna — from an unknown/a reliable source

fuente de alimentación — (Inform) power supply

fuente de ingresos — source of income

fuente de suministro — source of supply

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femenino

1) ( manantial) spring

la fuente del río — the source of the river

2) (construcción, monumento) fountain

fuente de agua potable — drinking fountain

- fuente de soda

3) ( plato) dish

- fuente de horno

4)

a) ( origen) source

su principal fuente de ingresos — his principal source of income

b) ( de información) source

una información de buena fuente or de fuentes fidedignas or de toda solvencia — information from reliable sources

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femenino

1) ( manantial) spring

la fuente del río — the source of the river

2) (construcción, monumento) fountain

fuente de agua potable — drinking fountain

- fuente de soda

3) ( plato) dish

- fuente de horno

4)

a) ( origen) source

su principal fuente de ingresos — his principal source of income

b) ( de información) source

una información de buena fuente or de fuentes fidedignas or de toda solvencia — information from reliable sources

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fuente¹

¹ = fountain, spring, water fountain.

Ex: This process is similar to the way jets of water in illuminated fountains trap the light from underwater light sources.

Ex: This is in fulfillment of the Claverhouse dictum that unless staff members have the opportunity to develop as people their inspirational springs will become mere trickles.

Ex: The farm supplies visitors with high-quality natural environment (landscape, forest, water fountains, ecological food), accommodation, and other services.

* fuente con peces = fish pond [fishpond].

* fuente de agua = drinking fountain, water fountain, bubbler.

* fuente para beber = water fountain, bubbler.

* fuentes termales = hot springs.

fuente²

² = parent, source.

Ex: Most bibliographic databases evolved from a parent abstracting or indexing publication.

Ex: The network is fairly well developed and lobbying initiatives on policies affecting all or a group of local authorities have stemmed from this source.

* código fuente = source code.

* credibilidad de las fuentes = source credibility.

* documento fuente = original document, parent document, source document.

* el dinero es la fuente de todos los males = money is the root of all evil.

* formato fuente = source format.

* fuente bibliográfica = bibliographic source, bibliographical source.

* fuente bibliográfica especializada = specialist bibliographic source.

* fuente de alimentación = power source.

* fuente de alimentos = food supply, supply of food.

* fuente de conflicto = source of conflict.

* fuente de energía = energy source, source of energy, power source.

* fuente de energía(s) alternativa(s) = alternative energy source.

* fuente de información = information source, information store, source of information, source of data.

* fuente de información electrónica = electronic information source.

* fuente de ingresos = revenue stream, source of revenue, source of income, revenue base, revenue earner.

* fuente de los deseos = wishing well.

* fuente de luz = light source.

* fuente de provisión = source of supply.

* fuente de radiación = radiation source.

* fuente de referencia = information source, reference source, source of help.

* fuente de suministro = source of supply.

* fuente de todos los males, la = root of all evil, the.

* fuente donde se puede encontrar todo sobre Algo = one stop shop.

* fuente histórica = historical record.

* fuente oral = oral source.

* fuente para beber = scuttlebutt, drinking fountain.

* fuente primaria = primary source, source material.

* fuente principal de información = chief source of information.

* fuentes de información = information base.

* fuente secundaria = secondary source, finding aid.

* fuentes oficiosas = grapevine.

* guía de fuentes de información = pathfinder.

* Indice de Fuentes = source index, Source Index.

* información de fuente fidedigna = authoritative information.

* obra fuente de la cita = citing work.

* programa fuente = source programme.

* tesauro fuente = source thesaurus.

* texto fuente = copy-text.

* una fuente de = a treasure trove of.

* una fuente inagotable de = a treasure house of.

* una única fuente para Algo = one-stop, one-stop shopping, one stop shop.

fuente³

³ = platter.

Ex: All salads are served on platters with herbs, rolls or garlic bread.

* fuente de marisco = shellfish platter.

* fuente de pescado = seafood platter.

fuente⁴

⁴ = font.

Nota: Conjunto de letras, signos y espacios en blanco usados en la composición de un texto.

Ex: No longer is the user constrained to a supplied set of fonts.

fuente⁵

⁵ = fount of type.

Ex: A fount of type was a set of letters and other symbols in which each was supplied in approximate proportion to its frequency of use, all being of one body-size and design.

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fuente

feminine

A (manantial) spring

fuente termal hot o thermal spring

la fuente del río the source of the river

B (construcción, monumento) fountain

fuente de agua potable drinking fountain

Compuestos:

● fuente de los deseos

wishing well

● fuente de soda

soda fountain ( AmE), snack bar

C (plato) dish

puso la carne en una fuente ovalada he put the joint on an oval (serving) dish o platter

una fuente de porcelana a china dish

Compuesto:

fuente de horno

ovenproof dish

D

1 (origen) source

la principal fuente de ingresos de esta zona the principal source of income in this region

fuente de suministro source of supply

2 (de información) source

esta enciclopedia es una buena fuente de datos this encyclopedia is a useful source of information

tenemos informaciones de buena fuente or de fuentes fidedignas we have information from reliable sources

según fuentes de toda solvencia or fuentes solventes according to reliable sources

según fuentes de la Administración according to government sources

E ( Impr) font

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fuente sustantivo femenino
1
a) ( manantial) spring;

◊ fuente termal thermal spring

b) ( origen) source;

◊ la fuente del río the source of the river;

fuente de ingresos source of income;
información de buena fuente information from reliable sources
2 ( construcción) fountain;
◊ fuente de soda (Chi, Méx) soda fountain (AmE), ( place where drinks and ice creams are bought and consumed)

3 ( plato) dish;
◊ fuente de horno ovenproof dish

fuente sustantivo femenino
1 fountain
2 (plato de servir) (serving) dish
3 (origen de algo) source: fuentes literarias, literary sources
fuentes de alimentación eléctrica, sources of electricity
' fuente' also found in these entries:
Spanish:
inagotable
- secarse
- taza
- autorizado
- cantarín
- caño
- divisa
- enlozado
- frágil
- lapicera
- luminoso
- pila
- pilón
- pluma
- secar
English:
baking dish
- delight
- dish
- evenly
- font
- fountain
- fountainhead
- horse
- informant
- quotable
- reliably
- resource
- source
- spout
- spring
- thermal
- typeface
- unnamed
- authority
- baking
- hot
- pen
- platter
- regular
- serving

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fuente nf

1. [para beber] fountain

Comp
fuente de agua potable drinking fountain; Chile, Carib, Col, Méx fuente de soda [cafetería] = cafe or counter selling ice cream, soft drinks etc, US soda fountain
2. [bandeja] (serving) dish

3. [de información]
no quiso revelar su fuente de información he didn't want to reveal the source of his information;

fuentes oficiosas/oficiales unofficial/official sources;

según fuentes del ministerio de Educación… according to Ministry of Education sources…;

ha manejado gran número de fuentes para escribir su tesis she has made use of many sources to write her thesis

4. [origen] source;

la Biblia es la fuente de muchas obras medievales the Bible provides the source material for many medieval works

Comp
fuente de energía energy source;
fuente de energía ecológica/limpia/renovable environmentally friendly/clean/renewable source of energy;

fuente de ingresos source of income;

fuente de riqueza source of wealth

5. [causa] cause, source;

fuente de problemas a source of problems o trouble;

la falta de higiene es fuente de infecciones lack of hygiene is a cause of infection

6. [manantial] spring

Comp
fuente termal thermal spring
7. fuente de alimentación Elec feed source;
Informát power supply
8. Imprenta font

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fuente

f

1 fountain; fig

source

2 recipiente dish

3 INFOR font

4 L.Am.

bar soda fountain

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fuente nf

1) manantial: spring

2) : fountain

3) origen: source

fuentes informativas: sources of information

4) : platter, serving dish

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fuente n

1. (en una plaza, etc) fountain

hay una fuente muy bonita there's a very pretty fountain

2. (manantial) spring

agua de fuente spring water

3. (bandeja) dish [pl. dishes]

tráeme una fuente bring me a dish

4. (origen) source

fuente de ingresos source of income

Spanish-English dictionary > fuente
10 Stanley, Robert Crooks

SUBJECT AREA: Metallurgy, Mining and extraction technology

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b. 1 August 1876 Little Falls, New Jersey, USA

d. 12 February 1951 USA

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American mining engineer and metallurgist, originator of Monel Metal

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Robert, the son of Thomas and Ada (Crooks) Stanley, helped to finance his early training at the Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, New Jersey, by working as a manual training instructor at Montclair High School. After graduating in mechanical engineering from Stevens in 1899, and as a mining engineer from the Columbia School of Mines in 1901, he accepted a two-year assignment from the S.S.White Dental Company to investigate platinum-bearing alluvial deposits in British Columbia. This introduced him to the International Nickel Company (Inco), which had been established on 29 March 1902 to amalgamate the major mining companies working the newly discovered cupro-nickel deposits at Sudbury, Ontario. Ambrose Monell, President of Inco, appointed Stanley as Assistant Superintendent of its American Nickel Works at Camden, near Philadelphia, in 1903. At the beginning of 1904 Stanley was General Superintendent of the Orford Refinery at Bayonne, New Jersey, where most of the output of the Sudbury mines was treated.

Copper and nickel were separated there from the bessemerized matte by the celebrated "tops and bottoms" process introduced thirteen years previously by R.M.Thompson. It soon occurred to Stanley that such a separation was not invariably required and that, by reducing directly the mixed matte, he could obtain a natural cupronickel alloy which would be ductile, corrosion resistant, and no more expensive to produce than pure copper or nickel. His first experiment, on 30 December 1904, was completely successful. A railway wagon full of bessemerized matte, low in iron, was calcined to oxide, reduced to metal with carbon, and finally desulphurized with magnesium. Ingots cast from this alloy were successfully forged to bars which contained 68 per cent nickel, 23 per cent copper and about 1 per cent iron. The new alloy, originally named after Ambrose Monell, was soon renamed Monel to satisfy trademark requirements. A total of 300,000 ft2 (27,870 m²) of this white, corrosion-resistant alloy was used to roof the Pennsylvania Railway Station in New York, and it also found extensive applications in marine work and chemical plant. Stanley greatly increased the output of the Orford Refinery during the First World War, and shortly after becoming President of the company in 1922, he established a new Research and Development Division headed initially by A.J.Wadham and then by Paul D. Merica, who at the US Bureau of Standards had first elucidated the mechanism of age-hardening in alloys. In the mid- 1920s a nickel-ore body of unprecedented size was identified at levels between 2,000 and 3,000 ft (600 and 900 m) below the Frood Mine in Ontario. This property was owned partially by Inco and partially by the Mond Nickel Company. Efficient exploitation required the combined economic resources of both companies. They merged on 1 January 1929, when Mond became part of International Nickel. Stanley remained President of the new company until February 1949 and was Chairman from 1937 until his death.

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Principal Honours and Distinctions

American Society for Metals Gold Medal. Institute of Metals Platinum Medal 1948.

Further Reading

F.B.Howard-White, 1963, Nickel, London: Methuen (a historical review).

ASD

Biographical history of technology > Stanley, Robert Crooks
11 aménagement du paysage
1. планирование ландшафта
2. ландшафтная архитектура
ландшафтная архитектура
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landscape architecture
The creation, development, and decorative planting of gardens, grounds, parks, and other outdoor spaces. Landscape gardening is used to enhance nature helping to create a natural setting for individual residences and buildings, and even towns, particularly where special approaches and central settings are required. (Source: GILP96)
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Тематики
- охрана окружающей среды
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- landscape architecture
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- Landschaftsarchitektur
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- aménagement du paysage
планирование ландшафта
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landscape planning
The aspect of the land use planning process that deals with physical, biological, aesthetic, cultural, and historical values and with the relationships and planning between these values, land uses, and the environment. (Source: UNUN)
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Тематики
- охрана окружающей среды
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- landscape planning
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- Landschaftsplanung
FR
- aménagement du paysage
Франко-русский словарь нормативно-технической терминологии > aménagement du paysage

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