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  • 1 develop

    гл.
    1)
    а) общ. развиваться; расти; расширяться; совершенствоваться

    This tall tree developed from a small seed. — Это высокое дерево выросло из маленького семени.

    Who knows what results will develop from your first success? — Кто знает, какие плоды принесет ваш первый успех?

    б) общ. развивать, совершенствовать

    to develop one's business [memory, mind\] — развивать дело [память, ум\]

    в) общ. излагать, раскрывать, строить, развивать (о речи, повествовании, понятии)

    to develop an argument [an idea\] — развивать аргумент [идею\]

    to develop a case [one's plans\] to an audience — излагать дело [свои планы\] слушателям

    г) общ. проявлять(ся), выяснять(ся), обнаруживать(ся), делаться очевидным

    A census of Kansas City's saloons develops the startling fact that there are about 1,000. — Перепись салунов в Канзас-Сити обнаруживает удивительный факт — их там около тысячи.

    He developed an interest in art. — Он проникся интересом к искусству [в нем проснулся интерес к искусству\].

    2)
    а) общ. разрабатывать, конструировать, создавать
    б) с.-х. выводить ( новый сорт или породу)
    в) эк. застраивать*; обустраивать* ( территорию)

    Dixon is developing a site in its downtown area. — "Диксон" застраивает площадку в центральной части города.

    г) доб. разрабатывать ( месторождение)
    3) общ. развивать фигуры ( в шахматах)
    4) общ. проявлять ( пленку)

    Assistants learn to mix chemicals, develop film, print photographs. — Помощники учатся смешивать реактивы, проявлять пленку, печатать фотографии.

    5) мат. выводить ( формулу)

    * * *
    "развивать" участок земли или объект иной недвижимости (проводить коммуникации, строить здания).

    Англо-русский экономический словарь > develop

  • 2 technology

    n
    техника; технические средства; технология; методика

    to acquire technology — получать / приобретать технологию

    to adopt technologies to the needs and conditions of a developing country — приспосабливать / применять технику / технологию к нуждам и условиям развивающейся страны

    to develop technology — развивать / совершенствовать технику / технологию

    to increase access of developing countries to technology — увеличивать доступ развивающихся стран к технологии производства / техническим средствам

    to introduce new technology — внедрять новую технику / технологию

    to select and design appropriate technologies — отбирать и разрабатывать соответствующие технические средства / производственные процессы

    to transplant technologies — переносить технику / технологию / технологические процессы из одной страны в другую

    - adaptation of industrial technology
    - adequate technology
    - advanced technology
    - alternative technologies
    - antipollution technology
    - appropriate health technology
    - appropriate technology
    - capital-intensive technology
    - capital-saving technology
    - control technology
    - embodied technology
    - exchange of technology among countries
    - high-waste technology
    - imported technology
    - industrial technology
    - intensive technology
    - labor-intensive technology
    - labor-saving technology
    - level of technology
    - low-energy-intensive technology
    - low-waste technology
    - management technology
    - military technology
    - non-polluting technology
    - non-waste technology
    - nuclear technology
    - nuclear-weapons technology
    - package technology
    - packaged transfer of technology
    - peaceful nuclear technology
    - process technology
    - requisite technology
    - resource-saving technologies
    - sensitive technology
    - soft technology
    - sophisticated technology
    - space technology
    - state-of-the-art technology
    - suitable technology
    - technology of production
    - transfer of technology
    - unpackaged technology
    - up-to-date technology
    - upward spiral of technology
    - utilization of progressive technologies
    - waste-free technology
    - widely acknowledged technologies

    Politics english-russian dictionary > technology

  • 3 technology

    tekˈnɔlədʒɪ сущ.
    1) техника;
    технические и прикладные науки
    2) технология to apply, employ technology ≈ применять технологию, использовать методику to create, develop (a) technology ≈ создавать, разрабатывать методику to export, transfer technology (to developing countries) ≈ передавать технологию (развивающимся странам) high technology (тж. high tech) ≈ высокая технология state-of-the-art technology ≈ внедренная технология
    3) специальная терминология техника;
    технические и прикладные науки - microprocessor * микропроцессорная техника - * assessment прогноз развития техники - school of * техническое училище - the age of * век техники - the impact of advanced * on society воздействие современной техники на общество - the application of new technologies применение новой техники научная аппаратура - aerial and satellite technologies наувчная аппаратура, устанавливаемая на самолетах и спутниках техника, специальные приемы - the * of repression has become more refined техника подавлен6ия оппозиционных настроений стала более тонкой технология - nuclear * ядерная технология - non-waste * безотходная технология - low-waste * малоотходная технология - polymer * технология производства полимеров - high * cовременная технологияв - petrochemical plants and other high * нефтехимические заводы и другие элементы современной технологии специальная терминология adverse effects of new ~ отрицательные последствия внедрения новой техники и технологий (для трудящихся) computer ~ машинная технология gene ~ генная технология high ~ тонкая технология information ~ информационная технология management ~ методы управления technology специальная терминология ~ техника;
    технические и прикладные науки ~ технология winchester ~ вчт. винчестерская технология workbench ~ автоматизированная технология

    Большой англо-русский и русско-английский словарь > technology

  • 4 technology

    English-russian dctionary of contemporary Economics > technology

  • 5 develop

    1. transitive verb
    1) (also Photog.) entwickeln; aufbauen [Handel, Handelszentrum]; entfalten [Persönlichkeit, Individualität]; erschließen [natürliche Ressourcen]
    2) (expand; make more sophisticated) weiterentwickeln; ausbauen [Verkehrsnetz, System, Handel, Verkehr, Position]
    3) (begin to exhibit, begin to suffer from) annehmen [Gewohnheit]; bei sich entdecken [Vorliebe]; bekommen [Krankheit, Fieber, Lust]; entwickeln [Talent, Stärke]; erkranken an (+ Dat.) [Krebs, Tumor]

    develop a taste for somethingGeschmack an etwas (Akk.) finden

    the car developed a faultan dem Wagen ist ein Defekt aufgetreten

    4) (construct buildings etc. on, convert to new use) erschließen; sanieren [Altstadt]
    2. intransitive verb
    1) sich entwickeln ( from aus; into zu); [Defekt, Symptome, Erkrankungen:] auftreten
    2) (become fuller) sich [weiter]entwickeln ( into zu)
    * * *
    [di'veləp]
    past tense, past participle - developed; verb
    1) (to (cause to) grow bigger or to a more advanced state: The plan developed slowly in his mind; It has developed into a very large city.) (sich) entwickeln
    2) (to acquire gradually: He developed the habit of getting up early.) (sich) entwickeln
    3) (to become active, visible etc: Spots developed on her face.) (sich) entwickeln
    4) (to use chemicals to make (a photograph) visible: My brother develops all his own films.) entwickeln
    - academic.ru/20049/development">development
    * * *
    de·vel·op
    [dɪˈveləp]
    I. vi
    1. (grow) sich akk entwickeln ( into zu + dat); abilities sich akk entfalten
    the whole affair might \develop into a scandal die ganze Sache könnte sich zu einem Skandal auswachsen
    to \develop further weiterentwickeln
    2. (come into being) friendship, misunderstanding entstehen; difficulties, doubts auftreten
    3. (show) sich akk zeigen, auftreten
    4. PHOT film entwickelt werden
    II. vt
    1. (create)
    to \develop sth etw erarbeiten [o ausarbeiten]
    to \develop sth further etw weiterentwickeln
    to \develop a drug/product/technology ein Arzneimittel/ein Produkt/eine Technologie entwickeln
    to \develop a plan/programme einen Plan/ein Programm ausarbeiten
    2. (improve)
    to \develop an idea/a policy/a strategy eine Vorstellung/eine Politik/eine Strategie entwickeln
    to \develop muscles Muskeln bilden
    to \develop one's muscles sich dat Muskeln antrainieren, seine Muskeln stärken
    to \develop one's skills/talents seine Fähigkeiten/Talente weiterentwickeln
    to \develop sth etw zeigen [o an den Tag legen]
    she's \developed some very strange habits sie hat einige sehr merkwürdige Gewohnheiten angenommen
    4. (suffer from)
    to \develop sth etw bekommen [o entwickeln]
    to \develop an allergy to sth eine Allergie gegen etw akk entwickeln
    to \develop a land site ein Gelände erschließen [und bebauen]
    they are going to \develop this area into a shopping complex sie haben vor, auf diesem Gelände ein Einkaufszentrum zu errichten
    6. PHOT
    to \develop a film einen Film entwickeln
    to \develop a theme ein Thema entwickeln [o durchführen
    to \develop a piece eine Figur [auf ein anderes Feld] ziehen
    * * *
    [dɪ'veləp]
    1. vt
    1) mind, body entwickeln
    2) argument, thesis, outlines (weiter)entwickeln, weiter ausführen; original idea (weiter)entwickeln; plot of novel (= unfold) entfalten; (= fill out) weiterentwickeln, ausbauen; (MUS) theme durchführen
    3) natural resources, region, ground, new estate erschließen; old part of a town sanieren; new series, new model entwickeln; business (from scratch) aufziehen; (= expand) erweitern, ausbauen

    they plan to develop this area into a... — es ist geplant, dieses Gebiet als... zu erschließen

    4) liking, taste, talent entwickeln; cold sich (dat) zuziehen
    5) (PHOT, MATH) entwickeln
    2. vi
    1) (person, region, country) sich entwickeln

    to develop into sth — sich zu etw entwickeln, etw werden

    2) (illness, tendency, feeling) sich entwickeln; (talent, plot etc) sich entfalten
    4) (event, situation) sich entwickeln

    it later developed that he had never seen herspäter stellte sich heraus or zeigte es sich, dass er sie nie gesehen hatte

    * * *
    develop [dıˈveləp]
    A v/t
    1. eine Theorie etc entwickeln:
    develop faculties Fähigkeiten entwickeln oder entfalten;
    develop muscles Muskeln entwickeln oder bilden
    2. etwas werden lassen, gestalten ( beide:
    into zu)
    3. sich eine Krankheit zuziehen:
    develop bladder cancer (a fever) Blasenkrebs (Fieber) bekommen
    4. eine hohe Geschwindigkeit etc entwickeln, erreichen
    5. eine Industrie etc fördern, entwickeln, ausbauen
    6. Naturschätze, auch Bauland erschließen, nutzbar machen, eine Altstadt etc sanieren
    7. einen Gedanken, Plan etc, auch ein Verfahren entwickeln, ausarbeiten
    8. MATH
    a) eine Gleichung etc entwickeln
    b) eine Fläche abwickeln
    9. MUS ein Thema entwickeln, durchführen
    10. FOTO entwickeln
    11. MIL einen Angriff eröffnen
    B v/i
    1. sich entwickeln ( from aus):
    develop into sich entwickeln oder auswachsen oder ausweiten oder gestalten zu, zu etwas werden
    2. (langsam) werden, entstehen, sich entfalten
    3. zutage treten, sich zeigen,
    * * *
    1. transitive verb
    1) (also Photog.) entwickeln; aufbauen [Handel, Handelszentrum]; entfalten [Persönlichkeit, Individualität]; erschließen [natürliche Ressourcen]
    2) (expand; make more sophisticated) weiterentwickeln; ausbauen [Verkehrsnetz, System, Handel, Verkehr, Position]
    3) (begin to exhibit, begin to suffer from) annehmen [Gewohnheit]; bei sich entdecken [Vorliebe]; bekommen [Krankheit, Fieber, Lust]; entwickeln [Talent, Stärke]; erkranken an (+ Dat.) [Krebs, Tumor]
    4) (construct buildings etc. on, convert to new use) erschließen; sanieren [Altstadt]
    2. intransitive verb
    1) sich entwickeln ( from aus; into zu); [Defekt, Symptome, Erkrankungen:] auftreten
    2) (become fuller) sich [weiter]entwickeln ( into zu)
    * * *
    (into) v.
    sich ausweiten (zu) v.
    sich herausbilden (zu) v. v.
    entfalten v.
    entstehen v.
    entwickeln v.
    erarbeiten v.
    erschließen (Bauland, Gebiet) v.
    nutzbar machen ausdr.
    sich ausprägen v.
    sich entfalten v.
    sich entwickeln v.
    sich formen v.
    sich weiterentwickeln v.

    English-german dictionary > develop

  • 6 технология

    жен. technology
    технологи|я - ж. technology;
    базовая ~ basic technology;
    безотходная ~ waste-free technology;
    non-waste production methods;
    имеющаяся ~ available technology;
    интенсивная ~ intensive technology;
    наукоёмкая ~ high technology;
    недавно разработанная ~ newly developed know-how;
    новая ~ new/novel technology;
    общая ~ general technology;
    поточная ~ continuous method in working;
    ~ производства manufacturing/production technology;
    production engineering;
    внедрение новой ~и introduction of new technology;
    монополия на ~ю technological monopoly;
    передачаtransfer of technology;
    technology transfer;
    предоставлениеprovision of technology;
    тенденции в развитии ~и trends in technology;
    утечкаleakage of technology;
    обновлятьupdate technology;
    описывать ~ю производства describe know-how;
    применять ~ю в различных условиях apply technology to different conditions;
    приобретатьacquire technology;
    развиватьdevelop technology.

    Большой англо-русский и русско-английский словарь > технология

  • 7 product

    n
    продукт, продукция, изделие

    - advanced products
    - agricultural products
    - aircraft products
    - all-season product
    - ancillary products
    - animal products
    - animal and plant products
    - annual product
    - auxiliary product
    - aviation products
    - banking product
    - basic products
    - bespoke banking product
    - branded products
    - bulky product
    - capital-intensive product
    - capitalized product
    - captive product
    - certified product
    - characteristic product
    - chemical products
    - commercial product
    - commodity product
    - comparable products
    - comparative products
    - competitive products
    - complete product
    - conforming product
    - consumer product
    - consumption product
    - custom-made product
    - dairy products
    - defensive products
    - delivered products
    - different products
    - differentiated products
    - diversified products
    - domestic products
    - dumped products
    - end product
    - engineering products
    - excess product
    - expensive products
    - export products
    - exported products
    - factory products
    - factory-made products
    - farm products
    - final product
    - finished product
    - first-class product
    - first-rate product
    - flexible products
    - fodder products
    - food products
    - foreign products
    - foreign-made products
    - forest products
    - fresh products
    - frozen products
    - genetically modified products
    - good quality product
    - gross product
    - gross domestic product
    - gross national product
    - half-finished product
    - hard-to-move product
    - hard-to-sell product
    - health care products
    - high-grade product
    - highly effective products
    - highly efficient products
    - highly technical product
    - high-priced products
    - high-quality products
    - high-reliability product
    - high-technology products
    - home product
    - home-made product
    - home-used product
    - hottest-selling products
    - imported products
    - industrial products
    - industrialized products
    - inedible products
    - inland product
    - insurance product
    - intermediate product
    - joint products
    - labour-intensive product
    - licensed product
    - listed products
    - livestock products
    - low-priced products
    - made-to-order product
    - main product
    - manufactured products
    - marginal product
    - marginal revenue product
    - marginal value product
    - marketable product
    - merchantable sales product
    - multi-use product
    - national product
    - net product
    - net domestic product
    - net material product
    - net national product
    - newly designed product
    - noncapitalized product
    - nonpatentable product
    - nonstandard product
    - nonstorable product
    - obsolescent product
    - off-standard product
    - patentable product
    - patented product
    - perishable product
    - piggyback product
    - pioneer product
    - potential gross national product
    - primary product
    - prime product
    - prime quality product
    - private label product
    - processed product
    - promising product
    - promoted product
    - proprietary product
    - proven product
    - purchased product
    - qualified product
    - quality product
    - questionable product
    - ready-made product
    - real net national product
    - rejected product
    - related products
    - respective products
    - returned product
    - revised product
    - rival product
    - saleable products
    - science-intensive products
    - secondary product
    - semifinished product
    - semimanufactured product
    - semiprocessed product
    - semistandard product
    - serial products
    - sideline products
    - similar products
    - single-use product
    - slow-moving product
    - social product
    - sold products
    - sophisticated products
    - special products
    - spoiled products
    - standard products
    - standardized product
    - substandard product
    - substitution product
    - superior product
    - surplus product
    - tangible product
    - timber and paper products
    - top quality product
    - total product
    - tying products
    - unidentified product
    - unfinished products
    - unified product
    - unmarketable products
    - unpatented product
    - unsaleable product
    - useless product
    - various products
    - waste products
    - product of industry
    - product of labour
    - products of superior quality
    - products of vegetable and animal origin
    - product superior in quality
    - advertise a product
    - assess a product
    - deal in products
    - demonstrate a product
    - develop new products
    - evaluate a product
    - exchange products
    - exhibit products
    - feature products
    - freeze products
    - guarantee a product
    - introduce a product into the market
    - label a product
    - launch a product
    - list products
    - manufacture products
    - process products
    - sell products
    - show products
    - store products
    - turn out products

    English-russian dctionary of contemporary Economics > product

  • 8 Sperry, Elmer Ambrose

    [br]
    b. 21 October 1860 Cincinnatus, Cortland County, New York, USA
    d. 16 June 1930 Brooklyn, New York, USA
    [br]
    American entrepreneur who invented the gyrocompass.
    [br]
    Sperry was born into a farming community in Cortland County. He received a rudimentary education at the local school, but an interest in mechanical devices was aroused by the agricultural machinery he saw around him. His attendance at the Normal School in Cortland provided a useful theoretical background to his practical knowledge. He emerged in 1880 with an urge to pursue invention in electrical engineering, then a new and growing branch of technology. Within two years he was able to patent and demonstrate his arc lighting system, complete with its own generator, incorporating new methods of regulating its output. The Sperry Electric Light, Motor and Car Brake Company was set up to make and market the system, but it was difficult to keep pace with electric-lighting developments such as the incandescent lamp and alternating current, and the company ceased in 1887 and was replaced by the Sperry Electric Company, which itself was taken over by the General Electric Company.
    In the 1890s Sperry made useful inventions in electric mining machinery and then in electric street-or tramcars, with his patent electric brake and control system. The patents for the brake were important enough to be bought by General Electric. From 1894 to 1900 he was manufacturing electric motor cars of his own design, and in 1900 he set up a laboratory in Washington, where he pursued various electrochemical processes.
    In 1896 he began to work on the practical application of the principle of the gyroscope, where Sperry achieved his most notable inventions, the first of which was the gyrostabilizer for ships. The relatively narrow-hulled steamship rolled badly in heavy seas and in 1904 Ernst Otto Schuck, a German naval engineer, and Louis Brennan in England began experiments to correct this; their work stimulated Sperry to develop his own device. In 1908 he patented the active gyrostabilizer, which acted to correct a ship's roll as soon as it started. Three years later the US Navy agreed to try it on a destroyer, the USS Worden. The successful trials of the following year led to widespread adoption. Meanwhile, in 1910, Sperry set up the Sperry Gyroscope Company to extend the application to commercial shipping.
    At the same time, Sperry was working to apply the gyroscope principle to the ship's compass. The magnetic compass had worked well in wooden ships, but iron hulls and electrical machinery confused it. The great powers' race to build up their navies instigated an urgent search for a solution. In Germany, Anschütz-Kämpfe (1872–1931) in 1903 tested a form of gyrocompass and was encouraged by the authorities to demonstrate the device on the German flagship, the Deutschland. Its success led Sperry to develop his own version: fortunately for him, the US Navy preferred a home-grown product to a German one and gave Sperry all the backing he needed. A successful trial on a destroyer led to widespread acceptance in the US Navy, and Sperry was soon receiving orders from the British Admiralty and the Russian Navy.
    In the rapidly developing field of aeronautics, automatic stabilization was becoming an urgent need. In 1912 Sperry began work on a gyrostabilizer for aircraft. Two years later he was able to stage a spectacular demonstration of such a device at an air show near Paris.
    Sperry continued research, development and promotion in military and aviation technology almost to the last. In 1926 he sold the Sperry Gyroscope Company to enable him to devote more time to invention.
    [br]
    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    John Fritz Medal 1927. President, American Society of Mechanical Engineers 1928.
    Bibliography
    Sperry filed over 400 patents, of which two can be singled out: 1908. US patent no. 434,048 (ship gyroscope); 1909. US patent no. 519,533 (ship gyrocompass set).
    Further Reading
    T.P.Hughes, 1971, Elmer Sperry, Inventor and Engineer, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press (a full and well-documented biography, with lists of his patents and published writings).
    LRD

    Biographical history of technology > Sperry, Elmer Ambrose

  • 9 remote maintenance

    1. дистанционное техническое обслуживание

     

    дистанционное техническое обслуживание
    Техническое обслуживание объекта, проводимое под управлением персонала без его непосредственного присутствия.
    [ОСТ 45.152-99 ]

    Параллельные тексты EN-RU из ABB Review. Перевод компании Интент

    Service from afar

    Дистанционный сервис

    ABB’s Remote Service concept is revolutionizing the robotics industry

    Разработанная АББ концепция дистанционного обслуживания Remote Service революционизирует робототехнику

    ABB robots are found in industrial applications everywhere – lifting, packing, grinding and welding, to name a few. Robust and tireless, they work around the clock and are critical to a company’s productivity. Thus, keeping these robots in top shape is essential – any failure can lead to serious output consequences. But what happens when a robot malfunctions?

    Роботы АББ используются во всех отраслях промышленности для перемещения грузов, упаковки, шлифовки, сварки – всего и не перечислить. Надежные и неутомимые работники, способные трудиться день и ночь, они представляют большую ценность для владельца. Поэтому очень важно поддерживать их в надлежащей состоянии, ведь любой отказ может иметь серьезные последствия. Но что делать, если робот все-таки сломался?

    ABB’s new Remote Service concept holds the answer: This approach enables a malfunctioning robot to alarm for help itself. An ABB service engineer then receives whole diagnostic information via wireless technology, analyzes the data on a Web site and responds with support in just minutes. This unique service is paying off for customers and ABB alike, and in the process is revolutionizing service thinking.

    Ответом на этот вопрос стала новая концепция Remote Service от АББ, согласно которой неисправный робот сам просит о помощи. C помощью беспроводной технологии специалист сервисной службы АББ получает всю необходимую диагностическую информацию, анализирует данные на web-сайте и через считанные минуты выдает рекомендации по устранению отказа. Эта уникальная возможность одинаково ценна как для заказчиков, так и для самой компании АББ. В перспективе она способна в корне изменить весь подход к организации технического обслуживания.

    Every minute of production downtime can have financially disastrous consequences for a company. Traditional reactive service is no longer sufficient since on-site service engineer visits also demand great amounts of time and money. Thus, companies not only require faster help from the service organization when needed but they also want to avoid disturbances in production.

    Каждая минута простоя производства может привести к губительным финансовым последствиям. Традиционная организация сервиса, предусматривающая ликвидацию возникающих неисправностей, становится все менее эффективной, поскольку вызов сервисного инженера на место эксплуатации робота сопряжен с большими затратами времени и денег. Предприятия требуют от сервисной организации не только более быстрого оказания помощи, но и предотвращения возможных сбоев производства.

    In 2006, ABB developed a new approach to better meet customer’s expectations: Using the latest technologies to reach the robots at customer sites around the world, ABB could support them remotely in just minutes, thereby reducing the need for site visits. Thus the new Remote Service concept was quickly brought to fruition and was launched in mid-2007. Statistics show that by using the system the majority of production stoppages can be avoided.

    В 2006 г. компания АББ разработала новый подход к удовлетворению ожиданий своих заказчиков. Использование современных технологий позволяет специалистам АББ получать информацию от роботов из любой точки мира и в считанные минуты оказывать помощь дистанционно, в результате чего сокращается количество выездов на место установки. Запущенная в середине 2007 г. концепция Remote Service быстро себя оправдала. Статистика показывает, что её применение позволило предотвратить большое число остановок производства.

    Reactive maintenance The hardware that makes ABB Remote Service possible consists of a communication unit, which has a function similar to that of an airplane’s so-called black box 1. This “service box” is connected to the robot’s control system and can read and transmit diagnostic information. The unit not only reads critical diagnostic information that enables immediate support in the event of a failure, but also makes it possible to monitor and analyze the robot’s condition, thereby proactively detecting the need for maintenance.

    Устранение возникающих неисправностей Аппаратное устройство, с помощью которого реализуется концепция Remote Service, представляет собой коммуникационный блок, работающий аналогично черному ящику самолета (рис. 1). Этот блок считывает диагностические данные из контроллера робота и передает их по каналу GSM. Считывается не только информация, необходимая для оказания немедленной помощи в случае отказа, но и сведения, позволяющие контролировать и анализировать состояние робота для прогнозирования неисправностей и планирования технического обслуживания.

    If the robot breaks down, the service box immediately stores the status of the robot, its historical data (as log files), and diagnostic parameters such as temperature and power supply. Equipped with a built-in modem and using the GSM network, the box transmits the data to a central server for analysis and presentation on a dedicated Web site. Alerts are automatically sent to the nearest of ABB’s 1,200 robot service engineers who then accesses the detailed data and error log to analyze the problem.

    При поломке робота сервисный блок немедленно сохраняет данные о его состоянии, сведения из рабочего журнала, а также значения диагностических параметров (температура и характеристики питания). Эти данные передаются встроенным GSM-модемом на центральный сервер для анализа и представления на соответствующем web-сайте. Аварийные сообщения автоматически пересылаются ближайшему к месту аварии одному из 1200 сервисных инженеров-робототехников АББ, который получает доступ к детальной информации и журналу аварий для анализа возникшей проблемы.

    A remotely based ABB engineer can then quickly identify the exact fault, offering rapid customer support. For problems that cannot be solved remotely, the service engineer can arrange for quick delivery of spare parts and visit the site to repair the robot. Even if the engineer must make a site visit, service is faster, more efficient and performed to a higher standard than otherwise possible.

    Специалист АББ может дистанционно идентифицировать отказ и оказать быструю помощь заказчику. Если неисправность не может быть устранена дистанционно, сервисный инженер организовывает доставку запасных частей и выезд ремонтной бригады. Даже если необходимо разрешение проблемы на месте, предшествующая дистанционная диагностика позволяет минимизировать объем работ и сократить время простоя.

    Remote Service enables engineers to “talk” to robots remotely and to utilize tools that enable smart, fast and automatic analysis. The system is based on a machine-to-machine (M2M) concept, which works automatically, requiring human input only for analysis and personalized customer recommendations. ABB was recognized for this innovative solution at the M2M United Conference in Chicago in 2008 Factbox.

    Remote Service позволяет инженерам «разговаривать» с роботами на расстоянии и предоставляет в их распоряжение интеллектуальные средства быстрого автоматизированного анализа. Система основана на основе технологии автоматической связи машины с машиной (M2M), где участие человека сводится к анализу данных и выдаче рекомендаций клиенту. В 2008 г. это инновационное решение от АББ получило приз на конференции M2M United Conference в Чикаго (см. вставку).

    Proactive maintenance 
    Remote Service also allows ABB engineers to monitor and detect potential problems in the robot system and opens up new possibilities for proactive maintenance.

    Прогнозирование неисправностей
    Remote Service позволяет инженерам АББ дистанционно контролировать состояние роботов и прогнозировать возможные неисправности, что открывает новые возможности по организации профилактического обслуживания.

    The service box regularly takes condition measurements. By monitoring key parameters over time, Remote Service can identify potential failures and when necessary notify both the end customer and the appropriate ABB engineer. The management and storage of full system backups is a very powerful service to help recover from critical situations caused, for example, by operator errors.

    Сервисный блок регулярно выполняет диагностические измерения. Непрерывно контролируя ключевые параметры, Remote Service может распознать потенциальные опасности и, при необходимости, оповещать владельца оборудования и соответствующего специалиста АББ. Резервирование данных для возможного отката является мощным средством, обеспечивающим восстановление системы в критических ситуациях, например, после ошибки оператора.

    The first Remote Service installation took place in the automotive industry in the United States and quickly proved its value. The motherboard in a robot cabinet overheated and the rise in temperature triggered an alarm via Remote Service. Because of the alarm, engineers were able to replace a faulty fan, preventing a costly production shutdown.

    Первая система Remote Service была установлена на автозаводе в США и очень скоро была оценена по достоинству. Она обнаружила перегрев материнской платы в шкафу управления роботом и передала сигнал о превышении допустимой температуры, благодаря чему инженеры смогли заменить неисправный вентилятор и предотвратить дорогостоящую остановку производства.

    MyRobot: 24-hour remote access

    Having regular access to a robot’s condition data is also essential to achieving lean production. At any time, from any location, customers can verify their robots’ status and access maintenance information and performance reports simply by logging in to ABB’s MyRobot Web site. The service enables customers to easily compare performances, identify bottlenecks or developing issues, and initiate the most

    Сайт MyRobot: круглосуточный дистанционный доступ
    Для того чтобы обеспечить бесперебойное производство, необходимо иметь регулярный доступ к информации о состоянии робота. Зайдя на соответствующую страницу сайта MyRobot компании АББ, заказчики получат все необходимые данные, включая сведения о техническом обслуживании и отчеты о производительности своего робота. Эта услуга позволяет легко сравнивать данные о производительности, обнаруживать возможные проблемы, а также оптимизировать планирование технического обслуживания и модернизации. С помощью MyRobot можно значительно увеличить выпуск продукции и уменьшить количество выбросов.

    Award-winning solution
    In June 2008, the innovative Remote Service solution won the Gold Value Chain award at the M2M United Conference in Chicago. The value chain award honors successful corporate adopters of M2M (machine–to-machine) technology and highlights the process of combining multiple technologies to deliver high-quality services to customers. ABB won in the categoryof Smart Services.

    Приз за удачное решение
    В июне 2008 г. инновационное решение Remote Service получило награду Gold Value Chain (Золотая цепь) на конференции M2M United Conference в Чикаго. «Золотая цепь» присуждается за успешное масштабное внедрение технологии M2M (машина – машина), а также за достижения в объединении различных технологий для предоставления высококачественных услуг заказчикам. АББ одержала победу в номинации «Интеллектуальный сервис».

    Case study: Tetley Tetley GB Ltd is the world’s second-largest manufacturer and distributor of tea. The company’s manufacturing and distribution business is spread across 40 countries and sells over 60 branded tea bags. Tetley’s UK tea production facility in Eaglescliffe, County Durham is the sole producer of Tetley tea bags 2.

    Пример применения: Tetley Компания TetleyGB Ltd является вторым по величине мировым производителем и поставщиком чая. Производственные и торговые филиалы компании имеются в 40 странах, а продукция распространяется под 60 торговыми марками. Чаеразвесочная фабрика в Иглсклифф, графство Дарем, Великобритания – единственный производитель чая Tetley в пакетиках (рис. 2).

    ABB offers a flexible choice of service agreements for both new and existing robot installations, which can help extend the mean time between failures, shorten the time to repair and lower the cost of automated production.

    Предлагаемые АББ контракты на выполнение технического обслуживания как уже имеющихся, так и вновь устанавливаемых роботов, позволяют значительно увеличить среднюю наработку на отказ, сократить время ремонта и общую стоимость автоматизированного производства.

    Robots in the plant’s production line were tripping alarms and delaying the whole production cycle. The spurious alarms resulted in much unnecessary downtime that was spent resetting the robots in the hope that another breakdown could be avoided. Each time an alarm was tripped, several hours of production time was lost. “It was for this reason that we were keen to try out ABB’s Remote Service agreement,” said Colin Trevor, plant maintenance manager.

    Установленные в технологической линии роботы выдавали аварийные сигналы, задерживающие выполнение производственного цикла. Ложные срабатывания вынуждали перезапускать роботов в надежде предотвратить возможные отказы, в результате чего после каждого аварийного сигнала производство останавливалось на несколько часов. «Именно поэтому мы решили попробовать заключить с АББ контракт на дистанционное техническое обслуживание», – сказал Колин Тревор, начальник технической службы фабрики.

    To prevent future disruptions caused by unplanned downtime, Tetley signed an ABB Response Package service agreement, which included installing a service box and system infrastructure into the robot control systems. Using the Remote Service solution, ABB remotely monitors and collects data on the “wear and tear” and productivity of the robotic cells; this data is then shared with the customer and contributes to smooth-running production cycles.

    Для предотвращения ущерба в результате незапланированных простоев Tetley заключила с АББ контракт на комплексное обслуживание Response Package, согласно которому системы управления роботами были дооборудованы сервисными блоками с необходимой инфраструктурой. С помощью Remote Service компания АББ дистанционно собирает данные о наработке, износе и производительности роботизированных модулей. Эти данные предоставляются заказчику для оптимизации загрузки производственного оборудования.

    Higher production uptime
    Since the implementation of Remote Service, Tetley has enjoyed greatly reduced robot downtime, with no further disruptions caused by unforeseen problems. “The Remote Service package has dramatically changed the plant,” said Trevor. “We no longer have breakdown issues throughout the shift, helping us to achieve much longer periods of robot uptime. As we have learned, world-class manufacturing facilities need world-class support packages. Remote monitoring of our robots helps us to maintain machine uptime, prevent costly downtime and ensures my employees can be put to more valuable use.”

    Увеличение полезного времени
    С момента внедрения Remote Service компания Tetley была приятно удивлена резким сокращением простоя роботов и отсутствием незапланированных остановок производства. «Пакет Remote Service резко изменил ситуацию на предприятии», – сказал Тревор. «Мы избавились от простоев роботов и смогли резко увеличить их эксплуатационную готовность. Мы поняли, что для производственного оборудования мирового класса необходим сервисный пакет мирового класса. Дистанционный контроль роботов помогает нам поддерживать их в рабочем состоянии, предотвращать дорогостоящие простои и задействовать наш персонал для выполнения более важных задач».

    Service access
    Remote Service is available worldwide, connecting more than 500 robots. Companies that have up to 30 robots are often good candidates for the Remote Service offering, as they usually have neither the engineers nor the requisite skills to deal with robotics faults themselves. Larger companies are also enthusiastic about Remote Service, as the proactive services will improve the lifetime of their equipment and increase overall production uptime.

    Доступность сервиса
    Сеть Remote Service охватывает более 700 роботов по всему миру. Потенциальными заказчиками Remote Service являются компании, имеющие до 30 роботов, но не имеющие инженеров и техников, способных самостоятельно устранять их неисправности. Интерес к Remote Service проявляют и более крупные компании, поскольку они заинтересованы в увеличении срока службы и эксплуатационной готовности производственного оборудования.

    In today’s competitive environment, business profitability often relies on demanding production schedules that do not always leave time for exhaustive or repeated equipment health checks. ABB’s Remote Service agreements are designed to monitor its customers’ robots to identify when problems are likely to occur and ensure that help is dispatched before the problem can escalate. In over 60 percent of ABB’s service calls, its robots can be brought back online remotely, without further intervention.

    В условиях современной конкуренции окупаемость бизнеса часто зависит от соблюдения жестких графиков производства, не оставляющих времени для полномасштабных или периодических проверок исправности оборудования. Контракт Remote Service предусматривает мониторинг состояния роботов заказчика для прогнозирования возможных неисправностей и принятие мер по их предотвращению. В более чем 60 % случаев для устранения неисправности достаточно дистанционной консультации в сервисной службе АББ, дальнейшего вмешательства не требуется.

    ABB offers a flexible choice of service agreements for both new and existing robot installations, which helps extend the mean time between failures, shorten the time to repair and lower the total cost of ownership. With four new packages available – Support, Response, Maintenance and Warranty, each backed up by ABB’s Remote Service technology – businesses can minimize the impact of unplanned downtime and achieve improved production-line efficiency.

    Компания АББ предлагает гибкий выбор контрактов на выполнение технического обслуживания как уже имеющихся, так и вновь устанавливаемых роботов, которые позволяют значительно увеличить среднюю наработку на отказ, сократить время ремонта и эксплуатационные расходы. Четыре новых пакета на основе технологии Remote Service Support, Response, Maintenance и Warranty – позволяют минимизировать внеплановые простои и значительно повысить эффективность производства.

    The benefits of Remote Sevice are clear: improved availability, fewer service visits, lower maintenance costs and maximized total cost of ownership. This unique service sets ABB apart from its competitors and is the beginning of a revolution in service thinking. It provides ABB with a great opportunity to improve customer access to its expertise and develop more advanced services worldwide.

    Преимущества дистанционного технического обслуживания очевидны: повышенная надежность, уменьшение выездов ремонтных бригад, уменьшение затрат на обслуживание и общих эксплуатационных расходов. Эта уникальная услуга дает компании АББ преимущества над конкурентами и демонстрирует революционный подход к организации сервиса. Благодаря ей компания АББ расширяет доступ заказчиков к опыту своих специалистов и получает возможность более эффективного оказания технической помощи по всему миру.

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    1. дистанционное техническое обслуживание

     

    дистанционное техническое обслуживание
    Техническое обслуживание объекта, проводимое под управлением персонала без его непосредственного присутствия.
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    Service from afar

    Дистанционный сервис

    ABB’s Remote Service concept is revolutionizing the robotics industry

    Разработанная АББ концепция дистанционного обслуживания Remote Service революционизирует робототехнику

    ABB robots are found in industrial applications everywhere – lifting, packing, grinding and welding, to name a few. Robust and tireless, they work around the clock and are critical to a company’s productivity. Thus, keeping these robots in top shape is essential – any failure can lead to serious output consequences. But what happens when a robot malfunctions?

    Роботы АББ используются во всех отраслях промышленности для перемещения грузов, упаковки, шлифовки, сварки – всего и не перечислить. Надежные и неутомимые работники, способные трудиться день и ночь, они представляют большую ценность для владельца. Поэтому очень важно поддерживать их в надлежащей состоянии, ведь любой отказ может иметь серьезные последствия. Но что делать, если робот все-таки сломался?

    ABB’s new Remote Service concept holds the answer: This approach enables a malfunctioning robot to alarm for help itself. An ABB service engineer then receives whole diagnostic information via wireless technology, analyzes the data on a Web site and responds with support in just minutes. This unique service is paying off for customers and ABB alike, and in the process is revolutionizing service thinking.

    Ответом на этот вопрос стала новая концепция Remote Service от АББ, согласно которой неисправный робот сам просит о помощи. C помощью беспроводной технологии специалист сервисной службы АББ получает всю необходимую диагностическую информацию, анализирует данные на web-сайте и через считанные минуты выдает рекомендации по устранению отказа. Эта уникальная возможность одинаково ценна как для заказчиков, так и для самой компании АББ. В перспективе она способна в корне изменить весь подход к организации технического обслуживания.

    Every minute of production downtime can have financially disastrous consequences for a company. Traditional reactive service is no longer sufficient since on-site service engineer visits also demand great amounts of time and money. Thus, companies not only require faster help from the service organization when needed but they also want to avoid disturbances in production.

    Каждая минута простоя производства может привести к губительным финансовым последствиям. Традиционная организация сервиса, предусматривающая ликвидацию возникающих неисправностей, становится все менее эффективной, поскольку вызов сервисного инженера на место эксплуатации робота сопряжен с большими затратами времени и денег. Предприятия требуют от сервисной организации не только более быстрого оказания помощи, но и предотвращения возможных сбоев производства.

    In 2006, ABB developed a new approach to better meet customer’s expectations: Using the latest technologies to reach the robots at customer sites around the world, ABB could support them remotely in just minutes, thereby reducing the need for site visits. Thus the new Remote Service concept was quickly brought to fruition and was launched in mid-2007. Statistics show that by using the system the majority of production stoppages can be avoided.

    В 2006 г. компания АББ разработала новый подход к удовлетворению ожиданий своих заказчиков. Использование современных технологий позволяет специалистам АББ получать информацию от роботов из любой точки мира и в считанные минуты оказывать помощь дистанционно, в результате чего сокращается количество выездов на место установки. Запущенная в середине 2007 г. концепция Remote Service быстро себя оправдала. Статистика показывает, что её применение позволило предотвратить большое число остановок производства.

    Reactive maintenance The hardware that makes ABB Remote Service possible consists of a communication unit, which has a function similar to that of an airplane’s so-called black box 1. This “service box” is connected to the robot’s control system and can read and transmit diagnostic information. The unit not only reads critical diagnostic information that enables immediate support in the event of a failure, but also makes it possible to monitor and analyze the robot’s condition, thereby proactively detecting the need for maintenance.

    Устранение возникающих неисправностей Аппаратное устройство, с помощью которого реализуется концепция Remote Service, представляет собой коммуникационный блок, работающий аналогично черному ящику самолета (рис. 1). Этот блок считывает диагностические данные из контроллера робота и передает их по каналу GSM. Считывается не только информация, необходимая для оказания немедленной помощи в случае отказа, но и сведения, позволяющие контролировать и анализировать состояние робота для прогнозирования неисправностей и планирования технического обслуживания.

    If the robot breaks down, the service box immediately stores the status of the robot, its historical data (as log files), and diagnostic parameters such as temperature and power supply. Equipped with a built-in modem and using the GSM network, the box transmits the data to a central server for analysis and presentation on a dedicated Web site. Alerts are automatically sent to the nearest of ABB’s 1,200 robot service engineers who then accesses the detailed data and error log to analyze the problem.

    При поломке робота сервисный блок немедленно сохраняет данные о его состоянии, сведения из рабочего журнала, а также значения диагностических параметров (температура и характеристики питания). Эти данные передаются встроенным GSM-модемом на центральный сервер для анализа и представления на соответствующем web-сайте. Аварийные сообщения автоматически пересылаются ближайшему к месту аварии одному из 1200 сервисных инженеров-робототехников АББ, который получает доступ к детальной информации и журналу аварий для анализа возникшей проблемы.

    A remotely based ABB engineer can then quickly identify the exact fault, offering rapid customer support. For problems that cannot be solved remotely, the service engineer can arrange for quick delivery of spare parts and visit the site to repair the robot. Even if the engineer must make a site visit, service is faster, more efficient and performed to a higher standard than otherwise possible.

    Специалист АББ может дистанционно идентифицировать отказ и оказать быструю помощь заказчику. Если неисправность не может быть устранена дистанционно, сервисный инженер организовывает доставку запасных частей и выезд ремонтной бригады. Даже если необходимо разрешение проблемы на месте, предшествующая дистанционная диагностика позволяет минимизировать объем работ и сократить время простоя.

    Remote Service enables engineers to “talk” to robots remotely and to utilize tools that enable smart, fast and automatic analysis. The system is based on a machine-to-machine (M2M) concept, which works automatically, requiring human input only for analysis and personalized customer recommendations. ABB was recognized for this innovative solution at the M2M United Conference in Chicago in 2008 Factbox.

    Remote Service позволяет инженерам «разговаривать» с роботами на расстоянии и предоставляет в их распоряжение интеллектуальные средства быстрого автоматизированного анализа. Система основана на основе технологии автоматической связи машины с машиной (M2M), где участие человека сводится к анализу данных и выдаче рекомендаций клиенту. В 2008 г. это инновационное решение от АББ получило приз на конференции M2M United Conference в Чикаго (см. вставку).

    Proactive maintenance 
    Remote Service also allows ABB engineers to monitor and detect potential problems in the robot system and opens up new possibilities for proactive maintenance.

    Прогнозирование неисправностей
    Remote Service позволяет инженерам АББ дистанционно контролировать состояние роботов и прогнозировать возможные неисправности, что открывает новые возможности по организации профилактического обслуживания.

    The service box regularly takes condition measurements. By monitoring key parameters over time, Remote Service can identify potential failures and when necessary notify both the end customer and the appropriate ABB engineer. The management and storage of full system backups is a very powerful service to help recover from critical situations caused, for example, by operator errors.

    Сервисный блок регулярно выполняет диагностические измерения. Непрерывно контролируя ключевые параметры, Remote Service может распознать потенциальные опасности и, при необходимости, оповещать владельца оборудования и соответствующего специалиста АББ. Резервирование данных для возможного отката является мощным средством, обеспечивающим восстановление системы в критических ситуациях, например, после ошибки оператора.

    The first Remote Service installation took place in the automotive industry in the United States and quickly proved its value. The motherboard in a robot cabinet overheated and the rise in temperature triggered an alarm via Remote Service. Because of the alarm, engineers were able to replace a faulty fan, preventing a costly production shutdown.

    Первая система Remote Service была установлена на автозаводе в США и очень скоро была оценена по достоинству. Она обнаружила перегрев материнской платы в шкафу управления роботом и передала сигнал о превышении допустимой температуры, благодаря чему инженеры смогли заменить неисправный вентилятор и предотвратить дорогостоящую остановку производства.

    MyRobot: 24-hour remote access

    Having regular access to a robot’s condition data is also essential to achieving lean production. At any time, from any location, customers can verify their robots’ status and access maintenance information and performance reports simply by logging in to ABB’s MyRobot Web site. The service enables customers to easily compare performances, identify bottlenecks or developing issues, and initiate the most

    Сайт MyRobot: круглосуточный дистанционный доступ
    Для того чтобы обеспечить бесперебойное производство, необходимо иметь регулярный доступ к информации о состоянии робота. Зайдя на соответствующую страницу сайта MyRobot компании АББ, заказчики получат все необходимые данные, включая сведения о техническом обслуживании и отчеты о производительности своего робота. Эта услуга позволяет легко сравнивать данные о производительности, обнаруживать возможные проблемы, а также оптимизировать планирование технического обслуживания и модернизации. С помощью MyRobot можно значительно увеличить выпуск продукции и уменьшить количество выбросов.

    Award-winning solution
    In June 2008, the innovative Remote Service solution won the Gold Value Chain award at the M2M United Conference in Chicago. The value chain award honors successful corporate adopters of M2M (machine–to-machine) technology and highlights the process of combining multiple technologies to deliver high-quality services to customers. ABB won in the categoryof Smart Services.

    Приз за удачное решение
    В июне 2008 г. инновационное решение Remote Service получило награду Gold Value Chain (Золотая цепь) на конференции M2M United Conference в Чикаго. «Золотая цепь» присуждается за успешное масштабное внедрение технологии M2M (машина – машина), а также за достижения в объединении различных технологий для предоставления высококачественных услуг заказчикам. АББ одержала победу в номинации «Интеллектуальный сервис».

    Case study: Tetley Tetley GB Ltd is the world’s second-largest manufacturer and distributor of tea. The company’s manufacturing and distribution business is spread across 40 countries and sells over 60 branded tea bags. Tetley’s UK tea production facility in Eaglescliffe, County Durham is the sole producer of Tetley tea bags 2.

    Пример применения: Tetley Компания TetleyGB Ltd является вторым по величине мировым производителем и поставщиком чая. Производственные и торговые филиалы компании имеются в 40 странах, а продукция распространяется под 60 торговыми марками. Чаеразвесочная фабрика в Иглсклифф, графство Дарем, Великобритания – единственный производитель чая Tetley в пакетиках (рис. 2).

    ABB offers a flexible choice of service agreements for both new and existing robot installations, which can help extend the mean time between failures, shorten the time to repair and lower the cost of automated production.

    Предлагаемые АББ контракты на выполнение технического обслуживания как уже имеющихся, так и вновь устанавливаемых роботов, позволяют значительно увеличить среднюю наработку на отказ, сократить время ремонта и общую стоимость автоматизированного производства.

    Robots in the plant’s production line were tripping alarms and delaying the whole production cycle. The spurious alarms resulted in much unnecessary downtime that was spent resetting the robots in the hope that another breakdown could be avoided. Each time an alarm was tripped, several hours of production time was lost. “It was for this reason that we were keen to try out ABB’s Remote Service agreement,” said Colin Trevor, plant maintenance manager.

    Установленные в технологической линии роботы выдавали аварийные сигналы, задерживающие выполнение производственного цикла. Ложные срабатывания вынуждали перезапускать роботов в надежде предотвратить возможные отказы, в результате чего после каждого аварийного сигнала производство останавливалось на несколько часов. «Именно поэтому мы решили попробовать заключить с АББ контракт на дистанционное техническое обслуживание», – сказал Колин Тревор, начальник технической службы фабрики.

    To prevent future disruptions caused by unplanned downtime, Tetley signed an ABB Response Package service agreement, which included installing a service box and system infrastructure into the robot control systems. Using the Remote Service solution, ABB remotely monitors and collects data on the “wear and tear” and productivity of the robotic cells; this data is then shared with the customer and contributes to smooth-running production cycles.

    Для предотвращения ущерба в результате незапланированных простоев Tetley заключила с АББ контракт на комплексное обслуживание Response Package, согласно которому системы управления роботами были дооборудованы сервисными блоками с необходимой инфраструктурой. С помощью Remote Service компания АББ дистанционно собирает данные о наработке, износе и производительности роботизированных модулей. Эти данные предоставляются заказчику для оптимизации загрузки производственного оборудования.

    Higher production uptime
    Since the implementation of Remote Service, Tetley has enjoyed greatly reduced robot downtime, with no further disruptions caused by unforeseen problems. “The Remote Service package has dramatically changed the plant,” said Trevor. “We no longer have breakdown issues throughout the shift, helping us to achieve much longer periods of robot uptime. As we have learned, world-class manufacturing facilities need world-class support packages. Remote monitoring of our robots helps us to maintain machine uptime, prevent costly downtime and ensures my employees can be put to more valuable use.”

    Увеличение полезного времени
    С момента внедрения Remote Service компания Tetley была приятно удивлена резким сокращением простоя роботов и отсутствием незапланированных остановок производства. «Пакет Remote Service резко изменил ситуацию на предприятии», – сказал Тревор. «Мы избавились от простоев роботов и смогли резко увеличить их эксплуатационную готовность. Мы поняли, что для производственного оборудования мирового класса необходим сервисный пакет мирового класса. Дистанционный контроль роботов помогает нам поддерживать их в рабочем состоянии, предотвращать дорогостоящие простои и задействовать наш персонал для выполнения более важных задач».

    Service access
    Remote Service is available worldwide, connecting more than 500 robots. Companies that have up to 30 robots are often good candidates for the Remote Service offering, as they usually have neither the engineers nor the requisite skills to deal with robotics faults themselves. Larger companies are also enthusiastic about Remote Service, as the proactive services will improve the lifetime of their equipment and increase overall production uptime.

    Доступность сервиса
    Сеть Remote Service охватывает более 700 роботов по всему миру. Потенциальными заказчиками Remote Service являются компании, имеющие до 30 роботов, но не имеющие инженеров и техников, способных самостоятельно устранять их неисправности. Интерес к Remote Service проявляют и более крупные компании, поскольку они заинтересованы в увеличении срока службы и эксплуатационной готовности производственного оборудования.

    In today’s competitive environment, business profitability often relies on demanding production schedules that do not always leave time for exhaustive or repeated equipment health checks. ABB’s Remote Service agreements are designed to monitor its customers’ robots to identify when problems are likely to occur and ensure that help is dispatched before the problem can escalate. In over 60 percent of ABB’s service calls, its robots can be brought back online remotely, without further intervention.

    В условиях современной конкуренции окупаемость бизнеса часто зависит от соблюдения жестких графиков производства, не оставляющих времени для полномасштабных или периодических проверок исправности оборудования. Контракт Remote Service предусматривает мониторинг состояния роботов заказчика для прогнозирования возможных неисправностей и принятие мер по их предотвращению. В более чем 60 % случаев для устранения неисправности достаточно дистанционной консультации в сервисной службе АББ, дальнейшего вмешательства не требуется.

    ABB offers a flexible choice of service agreements for both new and existing robot installations, which helps extend the mean time between failures, shorten the time to repair and lower the total cost of ownership. With four new packages available – Support, Response, Maintenance and Warranty, each backed up by ABB’s Remote Service technology – businesses can minimize the impact of unplanned downtime and achieve improved production-line efficiency.

    Компания АББ предлагает гибкий выбор контрактов на выполнение технического обслуживания как уже имеющихся, так и вновь устанавливаемых роботов, которые позволяют значительно увеличить среднюю наработку на отказ, сократить время ремонта и эксплуатационные расходы. Четыре новых пакета на основе технологии Remote Service Support, Response, Maintenance и Warranty – позволяют минимизировать внеплановые простои и значительно повысить эффективность производства.

    The benefits of Remote Sevice are clear: improved availability, fewer service visits, lower maintenance costs and maximized total cost of ownership. This unique service sets ABB apart from its competitors and is the beginning of a revolution in service thinking. It provides ABB with a great opportunity to improve customer access to its expertise and develop more advanced services worldwide.

    Преимущества дистанционного технического обслуживания очевидны: повышенная надежность, уменьшение выездов ремонтных бригад, уменьшение затрат на обслуживание и общих эксплуатационных расходов. Эта уникальная услуга дает компании АББ преимущества над конкурентами и демонстрирует революционный подход к организации сервиса. Благодаря ей компания АББ расширяет доступ заказчиков к опыту своих специалистов и получает возможность более эффективного оказания технической помощи по всему миру.

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  • 11 De Forest, Lee

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    b. 26 August 1873 Council Bluffs, Iowa, USA
    d. 30 June 1961 Hollywood, California, USA
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    American electrical engineer and inventor principally known for his invention of the Audion, or triode, vacuum tube; also a pioneer of sound in the cinema.
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    De Forest was born into the family of a Congregational minister that moved to Alabama in 1879 when the father became President of a college for African-Americans; this was a position that led to the family's social ostracism by the white community. By the time he was 13 years old, De Forest was already a keen mechanical inventor, and in 1893, rejecting his father's plan for him to become a clergyman, he entered the Sheffield Scientific School of Yale University. Following his first degree, he went on to study the propagation of electromagnetic waves, gaining a PhD in physics in 1899 for his thesis on the "Reflection of Hertzian Waves from the Ends of Parallel Wires", probably the first US thesis in the field of radio.
    He then joined the Western Electric Company in Chicago where he helped develop the infant technology of wireless, working his way up from a modest post in the production area to a position in the experimental laboratory. There, working alone after normal working hours, he developed a detector of electromagnetic waves based on an electrolytic device similar to that already invented by Fleming in England. Recognizing his talents, a number of financial backers enabled him to set up his own business in 1902 under the name of De Forest Wireless Telegraphy Company; he was soon demonstrating wireless telegraphy to interested parties and entering into competition with the American Marconi Company.
    Despite the failure of this company because of fraud by his partners, he continued his experiments; in 1907, by adding a third electrode, a wire mesh, between the anode and cathode of the thermionic diode invented by Fleming in 1904, he was able to produce the amplifying device now known as the triode valve and achieve a sensitivity of radio-signal reception much greater than possible with the passive carborundum and electrolytic detectors hitherto available. Patented under the name Audion, this new vacuum device was soon successfully used for experimental broadcasts of music and speech in New York and Paris. The invention of the Audion has been described as the beginning of the electronic era. Although much development work was required before its full potential was realized, the Audion opened the way to progress in all areas of sound transmission, recording and reproduction. The patent was challenged by Fleming and it was not until 1943 that De Forest's claim was finally recognized.
    Overcoming the near failure of his new company, the De Forest Radio Telephone Company, as well as unsuccessful charges of fraudulent promotion of the Audion, he continued to exploit the potential of his invention. By 1912 he had used transformer-coupling of several Audion stages to achieve high gain at radio frequencies, making long-distance communication a practical proposition, and had applied positive feedback from the Audion output anode to its input grid to realize a stable transmitter oscillator and modulator. These successes led to prolonged patent litigation with Edwin Armstrong and others, and he eventually sold the manufacturing rights, in retrospect often for a pittance.
    During the early 1920s De Forest began a fruitful association with T.W.Case, who for around ten years had been working to perfect a moving-picture sound system. De Forest claimed to have had an interest in sound films as early as 1900, and Case now began to supply him with photoelectric cells and primitive sound cameras. He eventually devised a variable-density sound-on-film system utilizing a glow-discharge modulator, the Photion. By 1926 De Forest's Phonofilm had been successfully demonstrated in over fifty theatres and this system became the basis of Movietone. Though his ideas were on the right lines, the technology was insufficiently developed and it was left to others to produce a system acceptable to the film industry. However, De Forest had played a key role in transforming the nature of the film industry; within a space of five years the production of silent films had all but ceased.
    In the following decade De Forest applied the Audion to the development of medical diathermy. Finally, after spending most of his working life as an independent inventor and entrepreneur, he worked for a time during the Second World War at the Bell Telephone Laboratories on military applications of electronics.
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    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    Institute of Electronic and Radio Engineers Medal of Honour 1922. President, Institute of Electronic and Radio Engineers 1930. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Edison Medal 1946.
    Bibliography
    1904, "Electrolytic detectors", Electrician 54:94 (describes the electrolytic detector). 1907, US patent no. 841,387 (the Audion).
    1950, Father of Radio, Chicago: WIlcox \& Follett (autobiography).
    De Forest gave his own account of the development of his sound-on-film system in a series of articles: 1923. "The Phonofilm", Transactions of the Society of Motion Picture Engineers 16 (May): 61–75; 1924. "Phonofilm progress", Transactions of the Society of Motion Picture Engineers 20:17–19; 1927, "Recent developments in the Phonofilm", Transactions of the Society of Motion Picture Engineers 27:64–76; 1941, "Pioneering in talking pictures", Journal of the Society of Motion Picture Engineers 36 (January): 41–9.
    Further Reading
    G.Carneal, 1930, A Conqueror of Space (biography).
    I.Levine, 1964, Electronics Pioneer, Lee De Forest (biography).
    E.I.Sponable, 1947, "Historical development of sound films", Journal of the Society of Motion Picture Engineers 48 (April): 275–303 (an authoritative account of De Forest's sound-film work, by Case's assistant).
    W.R.McLaurin, 1949, Invention and Innovation in the Radio Industry.
    C.F.Booth, 1955, "Fleming and De Forest. An appreciation", in Thermionic Valves 1904– 1954, IEE.
    V.J.Phillips, 1980, Early Radio Detectors, London: Peter Peregrinus.
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  • 12 Zworykin, Vladimir Kosma

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    b. 30 July 1889 Mourum (near Moscow), Russia
    d. 29 July 1982 New York City, New York, USA
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    Russian (naturalized American 1924) television pioneer who invented the iconoscope and kinescope television camera and display tubes.
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    Zworykin studied engineering at the Institute of Technology in St Petersburg under Boris Rosing, assisting the latter with his early experiments with television. After graduating in 1912, he spent a time doing X-ray research at the Collège de France in Paris before returning to join the Russian Marconi Company, initially in St Petersburg and then in Moscow. On the outbreak of war in 1917, he joined the Russian Army Signal Corps, but when the war ended in the chaos of the Revolution he set off on his travels, ending up in the USA, where he joined the Westinghouse Corporation. There, in 1923, he filed the first of many patents for a complete system of electronic television, including one for an all-electronic scanning pick-up tube that he called the iconoscope. In 1924 he became a US citizen and invented the kinescope, a hard-vacuum cathode ray tube (CRT) for the display of television pictures, and the following year he patented a camera tube with a mosaic of photoelectric elements and gave a demonstration of still-picture TV. In 1926 he was awarded a PhD by the University of Pittsburgh and in 1928 he was granted a patent for a colour TV system.
    In 1929 he embarked on a tour of Europe to study TV developments; on his return he joined the Radio Corporation of America (RCA) as Director of the Electronics Research Group, first at Camden and then Princeton, New Jersey. Securing a budget to develop an improved CRT picture tube, he soon produced a kinescope with a hard vacuum, an indirectly heated cathode, a signal-modulation grid and electrostatic focusing. In 1933 an improved iconoscope camera tube was produced, and under his direction RCA went on to produce other improved types of camera tube, including the image iconoscope, the orthicon and image orthicon and the vidicon. The secondary-emission effect used in many of these tubes was also used in a scintillation radiation counter. In 1941 he was responsible for the development of the first industrial electron microscope, but for most of the Second World War he directed work concerned with radar, aircraft fire-control and TV-guided missiles.
    After the war he worked for a time on high-speed memories and medical electronics, becoming Vice-President and Technical Consultant in 1947. He "retired" from RCA and was made an honorary vice-president in 1954, but he retained an office and continued to work there almost up until his death; he also served as Director of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research from 1954 until 1962.
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    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    Zworykin received some twenty-seven awards and honours for his contributions to television engineering and medical electronics, including the Institution of Electrical Engineers Faraday Medal 1965; US Medal of Science 1966; and the US National Hall of Fame 1977.
    Bibliography
    29 December 1923, US patent no. 2,141, 059 (the original iconoscope patent; finally granted in December 1938!).
    13 July 1925, US patent no. 1,691, 324 (colour television system).
    1930, with D.E.Wilson, Photocells and Their Applications, New York: Wiley. 1934, "The iconoscope. A modern version of the electric eye". Proceedings of the
    Institute of Radio Engineers 22:16.
    1946, Electron Optics and the Electron Microscope.
    1940, with G.A.Morton, Television; revised 1954.
    Further Reading
    J.H.Udelson, 1982, The Great Television Race: History of the Television Industry 1925– 41: University of Alabama Press.
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  • 13 Pasteur, Louis

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    b. 27 December 1822 Dole, France
    d. 28 September 1895 Paris, France
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    French chemist, founder of stereochemistry, developer of microbiology and immunology, and exponent of the germ theory of disease.
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    Sustained by the family tanning business in Dole, near the Swiss border, Pasteur's school career was undistinguished, sufficing to gain him entry into the teacher-training college in Paris, the Ecole Normale, There the chemical lectures by the great organic chemist J.B.A.Dumas (1800–84) fired Pasteur's enthusiasm for chemistry which never left him. Pasteur's first research, carried out at the Ecole, was into tartaric acid and resulted in the discovery of its two optically active forms resulting from dissymmetrical forms of their molecules. This led to the development of stereochemistry. Next, an interest in alcoholic fermentation, first as Professor of Chemistry at Lille University in 1854 and then back at the Ecole from 1857, led him to deny the possibility of spontaneous generation of animal life. Doubt had previously been cast on this, but it was Pasteur's classic research that finally established that the putrefaction of broth or the fermentation of sugar could not occur spontaneously in sterile conditions, and could only be caused by airborne micro-organisms. As a result, he introduced pasteurization or brief, moderate heating to kill pathogens in milk, wine and other foods. The suppuration of wounds was regarded as a similar process, leading Lister to apply Pasteur's principles to revolutionize surgery. In 1860, Pasteur himself decided to turn to medical research. His first study again had important industrial implications, for the silk industry was badly affected by diseases of the silkworm. After prolonged and careful investigation, Pasteur found ways of dealing with the two main infections. In 1868, however, he had a stroke, which prevented him from active carrying out experimentation and restricted him to directing research, which actually was more congenial to him. Success with disease in larger animals came slowly. In 1879 he observed that a chicken treated with a weakened culture of chicken-cholera bacillus would not develop symptoms of the disease when treated with an active culture. He compared this result with Jenner's vaccination against smallpox and decided to search for a vaccine against the cattle disease anthrax. In May 1881 he staged a demonstration which clearly showed the success of his new vaccine. Pasteur's next success, finding a vaccine which could protect against and treat rabies, made him world famous, especially after a person was cured in 1885. In recognition of his work, the Pasteur Institute was set up in Paris by public subscription and opened in 1888. Pasteur's genius transcended the boundaries between science, medicine and technology, and his achievements have had significant consequences for all three fields.
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    Bibliography
    Pasteur published over 500 books, monographs and scientific papers, reproduced in the magnificent Oeuvres de Pasteur, 1922–39, ed. Pasteur Vallery-Radot, 7 vols, Paris.
    Further Reading
    P.Vallery-Radot, 1900, La vie de Louis Pasteur, Paris: Hachette; 1958, Louis Pasteur. A Great Life in Brief, English trans., New York (the standard biography).
    E.Duclaux, 1896, Pasteur: Histoire d ' un esprit, Paris; 1920, English trans., Philadelphia (perceptive on the development of Pasteur's thought in relation to contemporary science).
    R.Dobos, 1950, Louis Pasteur, Free Lance of Science, Boston, Mass.; 1955, French trans.
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  • 14 Historical Portugal

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

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  • 15 Gabor, Dennis (Dénes)

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    b. 5 June 1900 Budapest, Hungary
    d. 9 February 1979 London, England
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    Hungarian (naturalized British) physicist, inventor of holography.
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    Gabor became interested in physics at an early age. Called up for military service in 1918, he was soon released when the First World War came to an end. He then began a mechanical engineering course at the Budapest Technical University, but a further order to register for military service prompted him to flee in 1920 to Germany, where he completed his studies at Berlin Technical University. He was awarded a Diploma in Engineering in 1924 and a Doctorate in Electrical Engineering in 1927. He then went on to work in the physics laboratory of Siemens \& Halske. He returned to Hungary in 1933 and developed a new kind of fluorescent lamp called the plasma lamp. Failing to find a market for this device, Gabor made the decision to abandon his homeland and emigrate to England. There he joined British Thompson-Houston (BTH) in 1934 and married a colleague from the company in 1936. Gabor was also unsuccessful in his attempts to develop the plasma lamp in England, and by 1937 he had begun to work in the field of electron optics. His work was interrupted by the outbreak of war in 1939, although as he was not yet a British subject he was barred from making any significant contribution to the British war effort. It was only when the war was near its end that he was able to return to electron optics and begin the work that led to the invention of holography. The theory was developed during 1947 and 1948; Gabor went on to demonstrate that the theories worked, although it was not until the invention of the laser in 1960 that the full potential of his invention could be appreciated. He coined the term "hologram" from the Greek holos, meaning complete, and gram, meaning written. The three-dimensional images have since found many applications in various fields, including map making, medical imaging, computing, information technology, art and advertising. Gabor left BTH to become an associate professor at the Imperial College of Science and Technology in 1949, a position he held until his retirement in 1967. In 1971 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics for his work on holography.
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    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    Royal Society Rumford Medal 1968. Franklin Institute Michelson Medal 1968. CBE 1970. Nobel Prize for Physics 1971.
    Bibliography
    1948. "A new microscopic principle", Nature 161:777 (Gabor's earliest publication on holography).
    1949. "Microscopy by reconstructed wavefronts", Proceedings of the Royal Society A197: 454–87.
    1951, "Microscopy by reconstructed wavefronts II", Proc. Phys. Soc. B, 64:449–69. 1966, "Holography or the “Whole Picture”", New Scientist 29:74–8 (an interesting account written after laser beams were used to produce optical holograms).
    Further Reading
    T.E.Allibone, 1980, contribution to Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 26: 107–47 (a full account of Gabor's life and work).
    JW

    Biographical history of technology > Gabor, Dennis (Dénes)

  • 16 move

    move [mu:v]
    mouvement1 (a) déménagement1 (b) changement d'emploi1 (c) pas1 (d) tour1 (e) déplacer2 (a), 2 (c) bouger2 (a), 3 (a) transférer2 (b) déménager2 (d), 3 (f) émouvoir2 (e) pousser2 (f) céder2 (g) partir3 (d) jouer3 (e) se déplacer3 (e) avancer3 (h)
    1 noun
    (a) (movement) mouvement m;
    with one move she was by his side en un éclair, elle fut à ses côtés;
    one move out of you and you're dead! un seul geste et tu es mort!;
    he made a move to take out his wallet il s'apprêta à sortir son portefeuille;
    the police were watching her every move la police surveillait ses moindres gestes;
    to make a move (leave) y aller, bouger;
    it's late, I ought to be making a move il se fait tard, il faut que j'y aille ou que je parte;
    she made a move to leave elle se leva pour partir;
    familiar to get a move on se grouiller;
    familiar get a move on! grouille-toi!, active!
    (b) (change of home, premises) déménagement m;
    how did the move go? comment s'est passé le déménagement?;
    we're considering a move to bigger premises nous envisageons d'emménager dans des locaux plus spacieux
    (c) (change of job) changement m d'emploi;
    after ten years in the same firm she felt it was time for a move après dix ans dans la même société elle avait le sentiment qu'il était temps de changer d'air ou d'horizon
    (d) (step, measure) pas m, démarche f;
    she made the first move elle a fait le premier pas;
    she wondered when he would make his move elle se demandait quand il allait se décider;
    don't make a move without contacting me ne fais rien sans me contacter;
    familiar to make a move on sb faire des avances à qn;
    the new management's first move was to increase all salaries la première mesure de la nouvelle direction a été de relever tous les salaires;
    at one time there was a move to expand à un moment, on avait envisagé de s'agrandir;
    what do you think their next move will be? selon vous, que vont-ils faire maintenant?;
    they made an unsuccessful move to stop the war ils firent une tentative infructueuse pour arrêter la guerre;
    the government has made moves towards resolving the problem le gouvernement a pris des mesures pour résoudre le problème
    (e) (in games → turn to move) tour m; (→ act of moving) coup m; (→ way piece moves) marche f;
    it's my move c'est à moi (de jouer);
    Chess white mates in two moves les blancs font mat en deux coups;
    white always has first move c'est toujours les blancs qui commencent;
    in chess the first thing to learn is the moves la première chose à apprendre aux échecs, c'est la façon dont les pièces se déplacent sur l'échiquier ou le déplacement des pièces sur l'échiquier
    (a) (put elsewhere → object) déplacer; (→ part of body) bouger, remuer; (in games → piece) jouer;
    this key moves the cursor towards the right cette touche déplace le curseur vers la droite;
    move the lever to the left poussez le levier vers la gauche;
    we moved all the chairs indoors/outdoors nous avons rentré/sorti toutes les chaises;
    move your chair closer to the table rapproche ta chaise de la table;
    we've moved the couch into the spare room nous avons mis le canapé dans la chambre d'amis;
    move all those papers off the table! enlève tous ces papiers de la table!, débarrasse la table de tous ces papiers!;
    don't move anything on my desk ne touche à rien sur mon bureau;
    I can't move my leg je n'arrive pas à bouger la jambe;
    can you move your leg (out of the way), please est-ce que tu peux pousser ta jambe, s'il te plaît?;
    move your head to the left inclinez la tête vers la gauche;
    he moves his lips when he reads il remue les lèvres en lisant;
    Chess she moved a pawn elle a joué un pion;
    familiar move it! grouille-toi!
    (b) (send elsewhere → prisoner, troops etc) transférer;
    move all these people out of the courtyard faites sortir tous ces gens de la cour;
    she's been moved to the New York office/to accounts elle a été mutée au bureau de New York/affectée à la comptabilité;
    he asked to be moved to a room with a sea view il a demandé qu'on lui donne une chambre avec vue sur la mer;
    troops are being moved into the area des troupes sont envoyées dans la région;
    he's decided to move his family to England (he is in England) il a décidé de faire venir sa famille en Angleterre; (he is elsewhere) il a décidé d'envoyer sa famille en Angleterre
    the meeting has been moved to Friday (postponed) la réunion a été remise à vendredi; (brought forward) la réunion a été avancée à vendredi
    (d) (to new premises, location)
    the company that moved us la firme qui s'est chargée de ou qui a effectué notre déménagement;
    to move house déménager
    (e) (affect, touch) émouvoir;
    I was deeply moved j'ai été profondément ému ou touché;
    to move sb to anger provoquer la colère de qn;
    to move sb to tears émouvoir qn (jusqu')aux larmes;
    to move sb to pity exciter la pitié de qn
    (f) (motivate, prompt) pousser, inciter;
    to move sb to do sth pousser ou inciter qn à faire qch;
    what moved you to change your mind? qu'est-ce qui vous a fait changer d'avis?
    (g) (usu negative) (cause to yield) you won't move me tu ne me feras pas changer d'avis;
    nothing will move him il est inflexible;
    the Prime Minister will not be moved le Premier ministre ne cédera pas d'un pouce;
    we shall not be moved! nous ne céderons pas!
    (h) (propose) proposer;
    to move an amendment proposer un amendement;
    I move that we vote on it je propose que nous procédions au vote
    (i) Commerce (sell) écouler, vendre;
    we must move these goods quickly nous devons vendre ces marchandises rapidement
    to move one's bowels aller à la selle
    (a) (shift, change position) bouger;
    don't move! ne bougez pas!;
    I'm sure the curtains moved je suis sûr d'avoir vu les rideaux bouger;
    something moved in the bushes quelque chose a bougé dans les buissons;
    I was so scared I couldn't move j'étais pétrifié (de terreur);
    the train was so crowded, I could barely move le train était tellement bondé que je pouvais à peine bouger ou faire un mouvement;
    you can't move for furniture in their flat il y a tellement de meubles dans leur appartement qu'il n'y a pas la place de se retourner;
    the handle won't move la poignée ne bouge pas;
    she wouldn't move out of my way elle ne voulait pas s'écarter de mon chemin;
    could you move so that we can get in? pourriez-vous vous pousser que nous puissions entrer?;
    the dancers move so elegantly les danceurs évoluent avec beaucoup de grâce
    (b) (be in motion → vehicle)
    the line of cars was moving slowly down the road la file de voitures avançait lentement le long de la route;
    wait till the car stops moving attends que la voiture soit arrêtée;
    I jumped off while the train was still moving j'ai sauté avant l'arrêt du train;
    the truck started moving backwards le camion a commencé à reculer
    the guests moved into/out of the dining room les invités passèrent dans/sortirent de la salle à manger;
    the depression is moving westwards la dépression se déplace vers l'ouest;
    the demonstrators were moving towards the embassy les manifestants se dirigeaient vers l'ambassade;
    the hands of the clock moved inexorably towards midnight les aiguilles de l'horloge s'approchaient inexorablement de minuit;
    small clouds moved across the sky de petits nuages traversaient le ciel;
    the earth moves round the sun la Terre tourne autour du Soleil;
    figurative public opinion is moving to the left/right l'opinion publique évolue vers la gauche/droite;
    to move in high circles fréquenter la haute société
    (d) (leave) partir;
    it's getting late, I ought to be or get moving il se fait tard, il faut que j'y aille ou que je parte
    (e) (in games → player) jouer; (→ piece) se déplacer;
    you can't move until you've thrown a six on ne peut pas jouer avant d'avoir fait sortir ou d'avoir amené un six;
    Chess white to move and mate in three les blancs jouent et font mat en trois coups;
    Chess pawns can't move backwards les pions ne peuvent pas reculer
    (f) (to new premises, location) déménager;
    when are you moving? quand est-ce que vous déménagez?;
    when are you moving to your new apartment? quand est-ce que vous emménagez dans votre nouvel appartement?;
    she's moving to San Francisco elle va habiter (à) San Francisco;
    the company has moved to more modern premises la société s'est installée dans des locaux plus modernes
    (g) (change job, profession)
    he's moved to a job in publishing il travaille maintenant dans l'édition
    (h) (develop, progress) avancer, progresser;
    things have started moving now les choses ont commencé à avancer;
    to get things moving faire avancer les choses
    (i) familiar (travel fast) filer, foncer;
    that car can really move! cette voiture a quelque chose dans le ventre!;
    she's really moving now maintenant elle fonce vraiment
    if you want to succeed now is the time to move si vous voulez réussir, il vous faut agir maintenant ou dès à présent;
    the town council moved to have the school closed down la municipalité a pris des mesures pour faire fermer l'école;
    I'll get moving on it first thing tomorrow je m'en occuperai demain à la première heure
    (k) (yield) céder;
    they won't move on the question of compensation ils ne céderont ou ne fléchiront pas sur la question des compensations
    (l) Commerce (sell) se vendre, s'écouler;
    the new model isn't moving very quickly le nouveau modèle ne se vend pas très vite
    have your bowels moved today? êtes-vous allé à la selle aujourd'hui?
    to be on the move être en déplacement;
    he's a travelling salesman, so he's always on the move c'est un représentant de commerce, voilà pourquoi il est toujours en déplacement ou il est toujours par monts et par vaux;
    the enemy forces on the move les colonnes ennemies en marche ou en mouvement;
    I've been on the move all day je n'ai pas arrêté de la journée;
    we're a firm on the move nous sommes une entreprise dynamique
    se déplacer, bouger;
    I can hear somebody moving about upstairs j'entends des bruits de pas là-haut;
    it's hard to move about on crutches c'est dur de se déplacer avec des béquilles
    déplacer;
    they keep moving her around from one department to another ils n'arrêtent pas de la faire passer d'un service à l'autre
    (a) (to make room) se déplacer, se pousser;
    move along and let the old lady sit down poussez-vous un peu pour laisser la vieille dame s'asseoir
    (b) (leave) partir, s'en aller;
    I ought to be moving along il faut que je m'en aille;
    the policeman told us to move along le policier nous a dit de circuler;
    move along please! circulez, s'il vous plaît!
    moving along to my next question pour passer à ma question suivante;
    the procession moved along painfully slowly le cortège avançait ou progressait terriblement lentement
    (bystanders, busker) faire circuler
    (a) (go in opposite direction) s'éloigner, partir;
    he held out his arms to her but she moved away il lui tendit les bras mais elle s'éloigna;
    the train moved slowly away le train partit lentement
    (b) (change address) déménager;
    her best friend moved away sa meilleure amie a déménagé
    éloigner
    (a) (back away) reculer
    they've moved back to the States ils sont retournés habiter ou ils sont rentrés aux États-Unis
    (a) (push back → person, crowd) repousser; (→ chair) reculer
    you can change the furniture around as long as you move it back afterwards vous pouvez déplacer les meubles à condition de les remettre ensuite à leur place ou là où ils étaient
    (a) (from higher level, floor, position) descendre;
    School he moved down a class on l'a fait descendre d'une classe;
    the team moved down to the fourth division l'équipe est descendue en quatrième division
    (b) (make room) se pousser;
    move down, there's plenty of room inside poussez-vous, il y a de la place à l'intérieur
    move down the bus, please avancez jusqu'au fond de l'autobus, s'il vous plaît
    (from higher level, floor, position) descendre;
    School he was moved down a class on l'a fait passer dans la classe inférieure;
    move this section down mettez cette section plus bas
    avancer
    avancer;
    she moved the clock forward one hour elle a avancé l'horloge d'une heure
    move in
    (a) (into new home, premises) emménager;
    his mother-in-law has moved in with them sa belle-mère s'est installée ou est venue habiter chez eux
    (b) (close in, approach) avancer, s'approcher;
    the police began to move in on the demonstrators la police a commencé à avancer ou à se diriger vers les manifestants;
    the camera then moves in on the bed la caméra s'approche ensuite du lit
    another gang is trying to move in un autre gang essaie de mettre la main sur l'affaire;
    the unions moved in and stopped the strike les syndicats prirent les choses en main et mirent un terme à la grève;
    the market changed when the multinationals moved in le marché a changé quand les multinationales ont fait leur apparition
    (a) (install → furniture) installer;
    the landlord moved another family in le propriétaire a loué à une autre famille
    (b) (send → troops) envoyer;
    troops were moved in by helicopter les troupes ont été transportées par hélicoptère
    s'éloigner, partir;
    the train finally moved off le train partit ou s'ébranla enfin
    move on
    (a) (proceed on one's way) poursuivre son chemin;
    we spent a week in Athens, then we moved on to Crete on a passé une semaine à Athènes avant de partir pour la Crète;
    a policeman told me to move on un policier m'a dit de circuler
    (b) (progress → to new job, new subject etc)
    she's moved on to better things elle a trouvé une meilleure situation;
    after five years in the same job I feel like moving on après avoir occupé le même emploi pendant cinq ans, j'ai envie de changer d'air;
    technology has moved on since then la technologie a évolué depuis;
    can we move on to the second point? pouvons-nous passer au deuxième point?
    (bystanders, busker) faire circuler
    (a) (of home, premises) déménager;
    when are you moving out of your room? quand est-ce que tu déménages de ou tu quittes ta chambre?;
    his girlfriend has moved out sa petite amie ne vit plus avec lui
    (b) Military (troops) se retirer
    Military (troops) retirer;
    the troops will be moved out les troupes se retireront;
    people were moved out of their homes to make way for the new road les gens ont dû quitter leur maison pour permettre la construction de la nouvelle route
    (a) (make room) se pousser;
    move over and let me sit down pousse-toi pour que je puisse m'asseoir
    (b) (stand down → politician) se désister;
    it's time he moved over to make way for a younger man il serait temps qu'il laisse la place à un homme plus jeune
    we're moving over to mass production nous passons à la fabrication en série
    move up
    (a) (to make room) se pousser;
    move up and let me sit down pousse-toi pour que je puisse m'asseoir
    (b) (to higher level, floor, position) monter; (in company) avoir de l'avancement;
    School to move up a class passer dans la classe supérieure;
    you've moved up in the world! tu en as fait du chemin!
    (c) Military (troops) avancer;
    our battalion's moving up to the front notre bataillon monte au front
    (d) Stock Exchange (shares) se relever, reprendre;
    shares moved up three points today les actions ont gagné trois points aujourd'hui
    (a) (to make room) pousser, écarter
    (b) (to higher level, floor, position) faire monter;
    School he's been moved up a class on l'a fait passer dans la classe supérieure;
    move this section up mettez cette section plus haut
    (c) Military (troops) faire avancer;
    another division has been moved up une autre division a été envoyée sur place

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  • 17 Carlson, Chester Floyd

    [br]
    b. 8 July 1906 Seattle, Washington, USA
    d. 19 September 1968 New York, USA
    [br]
    [br]
    Carlson studied physics at the California Institute of Technology and in 1930 he took a research position at Bell Telephone Laboratories, but soon transferred to their patent department. To equip himself in this field, Carlson studied law, and in 1934 he became a patent attorney at P.R.Mallory \& Co., makers of electrical apparatus. He was struck by the difficulty in obtaining copies of documents and drawings; indeed, while still at school, he had encountered printing problems in trying to produce a newsletter for amateur chemists. He began experimenting with various light-sensitive substances, and by 1937 he had conceived the basic principles of xerography ("dry writing"), using the property of certain substances of losing an electrostatic charge when light impinges on them. His work for Mallory brought him into contact with the Battelle Memorial Institute, the world's largest non-profit research organization; their subsidiary, set up to develop promising ideas, took up Carlson's invention. Carlson received his first US patent for the process in 1940, with two more in 1942, and he assigned to Battelle exclusive patent rights in return for a share of any future proceeds. It was at Battelle that selenium was substituted as the light-sensitive material.
    In 1946 the Haloid Company of Rochester, manufacturers of photographic materials and photocopying equipment, heard of the Xerox copier and, seeing it as a possible addition to their products, took out a licence to develop it commercially. The first Xerox Copier was tested during 1949 and put on the market the following year. The process soon began to displace older methods, such as Photostat, but its full impact on the public came in 1959 with the advent of the Xerox 914 Copier. It is fair to apply the overworked word "revolution" to the change in copying methods initiated by Carlson. He became a multimillionaire from his royalties and stock holding, and in his last years he was able to indulge in philanthropic activities.
    [br]
    Further Reading
    Obituary, 1968, New York Times, 20 September.
    R.M.Schaffert, 1954, "Developments in xerography", Penrose Annual.
    J.Jewkes, 1969, The Sources of Invention, 2nd edn, London: Macmillan, pp. 405–8.
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  • 18 Goldmark, Peter Carl

    [br]
    b. 2 December 1906 Budapest, Hungary
    d. 7 December 1977 Westchester Co., New York, USA
    [br]
    Austro-Hungarian engineer who developed the first commercial colour television system and the long-playing record.
    [br]
    After education in Hungary and a period as an assistant at the Technische Hochschule, Berlin, Goldmark moved to England, where he joined Pye of Cambridge and worked on an experimental thirty-line television system using a cathode ray tube (CRT) for the display. In 1936 he moved to the USA to work at Columbia Broadcasting Laboratories. There, with monochrome television based on the CRT virtually a practical proposition, he devoted his efforts to finding a way of producing colour TV images: in 1940 he gave his first demonstration of a working system. There then followed a series of experimental field-sequential colour TV systems based on segmented red, green and blue colour wheels and drums, where the problem was to find an acceptable compromise between bandwidth, resolution, colour flicker and colour-image breakup. Eventually he arrived at a system using a colour wheel in combination with a CRT containing a panchromatic phosphor screen, with a scanned raster of 405 lines and a primary colour rate of 144 fields per second. Despite the fact that the receivers were bulky, gave relatively poor, dim pictures and used standards totally incompatible with the existing 525-line, sixty fields per second interlaced monochrome (black and white) system, in 1950 the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), anxious to encourage postwar revival of the industry, authorized the system for public broadcasting. Within eighteen months, however, bowing to pressure from the remainder of the industry, which had formed its own National Television Systems Committee (NTSC) to develop a much more satisfactory, fully compatible system based on the RCA three-gun shadowmask CRT, the FCC withdrew its approval.
    While all this was going on, Goldmark had also been working on ideas for overcoming the poor reproduction, noise quality, short playing-time (about four minutes) and limited robustness and life of the long-established 78 rpm 12 in. (30 cm) diameter shellac gramophone record. The recent availability of a new, more robust, plastic material, vinyl, which had a lower surface noise, enabled him in 1948 to reduce the groove width some three times to 0.003 in. (0.0762 mm), use a more lightly loaded synthetic sapphire stylus and crystal transducer with improved performance, and reduce the turntable speed to 33 1/3 rpm, to give thirty minutes of high-quality music per side. This successful development soon led to the availability of stereophonic recordings, based on the ideas of Alan Blumlein at EMI in the 1930s.
    In 1950 Goldmark became a vice-president of CBS, but he still found time to develop a scan conversion system for relaying television pictures to Earth from the Lunar Orbiter spacecraft. He also almost brought to the market a domestic electronic video recorder (EVR) system based on the thermal distortion of plastic film by separate luminance and coded colour signals, but this was overtaken by the video cassette recorder (VCR) system, which uses magnetic tape.
    [br]
    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Morris N.Liebmann Award 1945. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Vladimir K. Zworykin Award 1961.
    Bibliography
    1951, with J.W.Christensen and J.J.Reeves, "Colour television. USA Standard", Proceedings of the Institute of Radio Engineers 39: 1,288 (describes the development and standards for the short-lived field-sequential colour TV standard).
    1949, with R.Snepvangers and W.S.Bachman, "The Columbia long-playing microgroove recording system", Proceedings of the Institute of Radio Engineers 37:923 (outlines the invention of the long-playing record).
    Further Reading
    E.W.Herold, 1976, "A history of colour television displays", Proceedings of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers 64:1,331.
    KF

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  • 19 industry

    n

    to relocate one's industries — переносить свои предприятия в другое место

    to restore industry — возрождать / восстанавливать промышленность

    to sell off an industry — продавать частным владельцам / денационализировать отрасль промышленности

    - aerospace industry
    - agricultural industry
    - aircraft industry
    - allied industries
    - ancillary industries
    - armaments industry
    - arms industry
    - atomic industry
    - auto industry
    - automobile industry
    - auxiliary industry
    - baby industries
    - basic industries
    - building industry
    - capital goods industries
    - capital-intensive industry
    - chemical industry
    - cinematographic industry
    - construction industry
    - consumer goods industry
    - cottage industry
    - craft industry
    - defense industries
    - defense-related industries
    - development of national industry
    - diversified industry
    - domestic industry
    - efficient industry
    - electric-power industry
    - electronics industry
    - electrotechnical industry
    - energy industry
    - engineering industry
    - entertainment industry
    - export industries
    - export-promoting industries
    - extractive industry
    - fabricating industry
    - farming industry
    - ferrous metal industry
    - film industry
    - food industry
    - food-processing industry
    - forest industry
    - fuel and power industries
    - fuel industry
    - heavy industry
    - high tech industry
    - highly developed industries
    - home industry
    - import-substituting industries
    - import-substitution industries
    - industries with non-stop production
    - infant industry
    - instruction industry
    - instrument-making industry
    - iron and steel industry
    - key industry
    - labor-consuming industries
    - labor-intensive industries
    - large-scale industry
    - leisure-time industries
    - light industry
    - local industry
    - machine-building industry
    - machine-tool industry
    - manufacturing industry
    - maritime industry
    - metal-working industry
    - mining industry
    - monopolistic industry
    - monopolized industry
    - motor-car industry
    - national industry
    - nationalized industry
    - nuclear industry
    - nuclear-power industry
    - oil industry
    - oil-extracting industry
    - petrochemical industry
    - petroleum industry
    - power industry
    - primary industry
    - printing industry
    - priority industries
    - processing industries
    - public industries
    - publicly-owned industries
    - radio engineering industry
    - regional industry
    - rural industry
    - science-consuming industry
    - science-intensive industry
    - secondary industry
    - service industries
    - service-producing industries
    - shipbuilding industry
    - small-scale industries
    - state industry
    - state-controlled industry
    - state-owned industry
    - steel industry
    - sunrise industry
    - sunset industry
    - technically advanced industry
    - technology industry
    - technology-intensive industry
    - tourist industry
    - trade industry
    - traditional industries
    - travel industry
    - uneconomic industries
    - up-to-date industry
    - user industries
    - vital industries
    - war industry
    - weapon industry

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  • 20 policy

    n
    1) политика; политический курс; стратегия; система; ( towards smth) позиция

    to abandon policy — отходить / отказываться от политики

    to adhere to policy — придерживаться политики; быть верным какой-л. политике

    to administer policy — проводить политику; осуществлять политику

    to adopt policy — принимать политику, брать на вооружение политический курс

    to advise smb on policy — быть чьим-л. политическим советником

    to assign smth the status of state policy — возводить что-л. в ранг государственной политики

    to back down from policyотказываться от какой-л. политики

    to be at odds with policyпротиворечить какой-л. политике

    to be committed to one's policy — быть приверженным своей политике

    to be wary about smb's policy — настороженно относиться к чьему-л. политическому курсу

    to break away from smb's policy — отходить от чьей-л. политики

    to bring one's defense policy closer together — согласовывать свою политику в области обороны

    to camouflage one's policy — маскировать свою политику

    to carry out / to carry through policy — проводить политику

    to champion policy — защищать / отстаивать политику

    to change one's policy — менять свою политику

    to conflict with smb's policy — противоречить чьей-л. политике

    to cover up one's policy — маскировать свою политику

    to decide policy — определять политику, принимать политические решения

    to develop / to devise policy — разрабатывать политику

    to dismantle one's policy — отказываться от своей политики

    to dissociate oneself from smb's policy — отмежевываться от чьей-л. политики

    to dither about one's policy — колебаться при проведении своей политики

    to effect a policy of insurance — страховаться; приобретать страховой полис

    to embark on / to embrace policy — принимать какой-л. политический курс

    to execute / to exercise policy — проводить политику

    to follow policy — следовать политике; проводить политику

    to halt smb's policy — останавливать чью-л. политику

    to harden one's policy — ужесточать свою политику / позицию

    to harmonize policy — координировать / согласовывать политику

    to justify one's policy — оправдывать свою политику

    to make clear one's policy — разъяснять свою политику

    to make one's own policy — принимать самостоятельные политические решения

    to overturn policy — отвергать политику, отказываться от какой-л. политики

    to proclaim one's commitment to policy — публично обязываться проводить какую-л. политику

    to propagate policy — пропагандировать / рекламировать политику

    to put one's policy into practice — осуществлять свою политику

    to railroad through one's policy — протаскивать свою политику

    to reappraise one's policy — пересматривать свою политику

    to reassess one's policy toward a country — пересматривать свою политику по отношению к какой-л. стране

    to reconsider one's policy — пересматривать свою политику

    to rethink one's policy — пересматривать свою политику

    to reverse one's policy — изменять свою политику

    to shape policy — определять / разрабатывать политику

    to spearhead one's policy — направлять острие своей политики

    to spell out one's policy in advance — заранее излагать свою политику

    to stick to a policyпридерживаться какой-л. политики

    to thrash out policy — вырабатывать / обсуждать политику

    to tone down one's more controversial policy — ограничивать свои менее популярные политические меры

    to validate policyподдерживать какую-л. политику / политическую линию

    - active policy
    - adventurist policy
    - adventuristic policy
    - advocacy of policy
    - advocate of policy
    - aggressive policy
    - agrarian policy
    - agricultural policy
    - alternative policy
    - annexationist policy
    - anti-inflationary policy
    - anti-national policy
    - anti-nuclear policy
    - anti-recessionary policy
    - appropriate policy
    - architect of policy
    - arms policy
    - austere policy
    - austerity policy
    - autonomous policy
    - balanced policy
    - banking policy
    - bankrupt policy
    - basic policy
    - beggar-my-neighbor policy
    - bellicose policy
    - big stick policy
    - big-time policy
    - bipartisan policy
    - blind-eye policy
    - bloc policy
    - bomb-in-the-basement policy
    - breach of policy
    - bridge-building policy
    - brinkmanship policy
    - brink-of-war policy
    - broad-brush policy
    - budget policy
    - cadres policy
    - carrot and stick policy
    - cautious policy
    - centrist policy
    - champion of policy
    - change in policy
    - change of emphasis in policy
    - change of policy
    - circumspect policy
    - class policy
    - clean-air policy
    - closed-door trade policy
    - coherent policy
    - cold war policy
    - colonial policy
    - colonialist policy
    - commercial policy
    - commitment to policy of nonintervention
    - common policy
    - comprehensive national science and technology policy
    - comprehensive set of policy
    - concerted policy
    - conduct of policy
    - confrontation policy
    - consistent policy
    - containment policy
    - continuity in policy
    - continuity of policy
    - continuity with smb's policy
    - controversial policy
    - coordinated policy
    - cornerstone of policy
    - counterproductive policy
    - country's fundamental policy
    - credible policy
    - credit card policy
    - credit policy
    - crumbling policy
    - cultural policy
    - current policy
    - damaging policy
    - defeatist policy
    - defense policy
    - deflationary policy
    - demilitarization policy
    - democratic policy
    - departure in policy
    - destabilization policy
    - deterrent policy
    - development policy
    - diametrically opposed policy
    - dilatory policy
    - diplomatic policy
    - disarmament policy
    - discretionary policy
    - discriminatory policy
    - disinflation policy
    - distortion of policy
    - divide-and-rule policy
    - domestic policy
    - dynamic policy
    - economic and commercial policy
    - economic policy
    - embargo policy
    - emigration policy
    - emission policy
    - employment policy
    - energy policy
    - environmental policy
    - erroneous policy
    - European policy
    - even-handed policy
    - expansionary policy
    - expansionist policy
    - experience of policy
    - extreme right-wing policy
    - fair policy
    - farm policy
    - far-reaching policy
    - far-sighted policy
    - federal policy
    - financial policy
    - firm policy
    - fiscal policy
    - flexible policy
    - for reasons of policy
    - foreign aid policy
    - foreign policy
    - foreign trade policy
    - foreign-economic policy
    - formation of foreign policy
    - formulation of policy
    - forward-looking policy
    - framework for policy
    - free trade policy
    - general policy
    - generous policy
    - give-and-take policy
    - global policy
    - godfather to policy
    - good neighbor policy
    - government policy
    - government's policy
    - great-power policy
    - green policy
    - gunboat policy
    - hands-off policy
    - hard-line policy
    - harmful policy
    - harmonized policy
    - health policy
    - hegemonic policy
    - high-risk policy
    - home policy
    - ill-thought-out policy
    - imperial policy
    - imperialist policy
    - import policy
    - import substitution policy
    - in line with policy
    - in the field of foreign policy
    - inadmissibility of policy
    - independent line of policy
    - independent policy
    - industrial policy
    - inflationary policy
    - inhuman policy
    - instigatory policy
    - insurance policy
    - internal policy
    - international policy
    - internment policy
    - interventionist policy
    - intolerableness of policy
    - investment policy
    - iron-fist policy
    - irreversible policy
    - it's against our policy
    - kid-glove policy
    - labor mediation policy
    - laissez-faire policy
    - land policy
    - language policy
    - leash-loosening policy
    - left-wing policy
    - lending policy
    - liberal policy
    - liberalization of policy
    - liberalized policy
    - line of policy
    - long-range policy
    - long-term policy
    - lunatic policy
    - main plank of smb's policy
    - major changes to policy
    - manifestation of policy
    - maritime policy
    - marketing policy
    - massive condemnation of smb's policy
    - militaristic policy
    - misconduct of policy
    - mobile policy
    - moderate policy
    - monetarist policy
    - monetary policy
    - much-heralded policy
    - mushy policy
    - national policy
    - nationalistic policy
    - nationalities policy
    - native policy
    - nativist policy
    - neo-colonialist policy
    - NEP
    - neutral policy
    - neutrality policy
    - New Economic Policy
    - news policy
    - nonaligned policy
    - nonalignment policy
    - noninterference policy
    - nonintervention policy
    - nonnuclear policy
    - nuclear defense policy
    - nuclear deterrent policy
    - nuclear policy
    - nuclear-free policy
    - obstructionist policy
    - official policy
    - official trade policy
    - oil policy
    - old faces can't make new policy
    - one-child-family policy
    - one-sided policy
    - open-door policy
    - openly pursued policy
    - opportunistic policy
    - optimal policy
    - ostrich policy
    - ostrich-like policy
    - outward-looking policy
    - overall policy
    - overtly racist policy
    - parliamentary policy
    - party policy
    - passive policy
    - pay-curb policy
    - peace policy
    - peaceful policy
    - peace-loving policy
    - personnel policy
    - plunderous policy
    - policy from positions of strength
    - policy from strength
    - policy in science and technology
    - policy is bearing fruit
    - policy is constitutional
    - policy of a newspaper
    - policy of aid
    - policy of alliances
    - policy of amicable cooperation with smb
    - policy of appeasement
    - policy of belt-tightening
    - policy of capitulation
    - policy of compromise
    - policy of conciliation
    - policy of confrontation
    - policy of connivance
    - policy of containment
    - policy of cooperation
    - policy of democracy and social progress
    - policy of détente
    - policy of deterrence
    - policy of dictate
    - policy of discrimination
    - policy of economic blockade and sanctions
    - policy of economy
    - policy of elimination
    - policy of expansion and annexation
    - policy of fiscal rigor
    - policy of freedom of expression
    - policy of friendship
    - policy of genocide
    - policy of good-neighborliness
    - policy of goodwill
    - policy of inaction
    - policy of intervention
    - policy of intimidation
    - policy of isolation
    - policy of militarism
    - policy of militarization
    - policy of military confrontation
    - policy of military force
    - policy of national reconciliation
    - policy of neutrality
    - policy of nonalignment
    - policy of noninterference
    - policy of nonintervention
    - policy of nonviolence
    - policy of obstruction
    - policy of openness
    - policy of pacification
    - policy of peace
    - policy of peaceful co-existence
    - policy of plunder
    - policy of protectionism
    - policy of racial segregation and discrimination
    - policy of reconciliation
    - policy of reform
    - policy of reforms
    - policy of regulating prices
    - policy of renewal
    - policy of restraint
    - policy of revanche
    - policy of revenge
    - policy of subjugation
    - policy of violence
    - policy of wage restraint
    - policy of war
    - policy towards a country
    - policy vis-à-vis a country
    - policy with regard to a country
    - policy won out
    - political policy
    - population policy
    - position-of-strength policy
    - practical policy
    - predatory policy
    - price control policy
    - price-formation policy
    - price-pricing policy
    - pricing policy
    - principled policy
    - progressive policy
    - proponent of policy
    - protagonist of policy
    - protectionist policy
    - pro-war policy
    - pro-Western policy
    - public policy
    - push-and-drag policy
    - racial policy
    - racist policy
    - radical policy
    - rapacious policy
    - reactionary policy
    - realistic policy
    - reappraisal of policy
    - reassessment of policy
    - recession-induced policy
    - reevaluation of policy
    - reexamination of policy
    - reform policy
    - reformist policy
    - regional policy
    - renewal of policy
    - re-orientation of policy
    - repressive policy
    - resettlement policy
    - rethink of policy
    - retrograde policy
    - revanchist policy
    - revisionist policy
    - rigid economic policy
    - robust foreign policy
    - ruinous policy
    - safe policy
    - sanctions policy
    - scientifically substantiated policy
    - scorched-earth policy
    - selfless policy
    - separatist policy
    - short-sighted policy
    - single-child policy
    - social policy
    - socio-economic policy
    - sound policy
    - splitting policy
    - state policy
    - state remuneration of labor policy
    - stated policy
    - staunch policy
    - sterile policy
    - stick-and-carrot policy
    - stringent policy
    - strong policy
    - structural policy
    - suitable policy
    - sustained policy
    - sweeping review of policy
    - switch in policy
    - tariff policy
    - tax policy
    - taxation policy
    - technological policy
    - tight policy
    - tightening of policy
    - time-serving policy
    - tough policy
    - toughening of policy
    - trade policy
    - trade-unionist policy
    - traditional policy
    - treacherous policy
    - turn in policy
    - turning point in policy
    - unified policy
    - united policy
    - unsophisticated policy
    - U-turn in policy
    - viability of policy
    - vigorous policy
    - vote-losing policy
    - wage policy
    - wage-freeze policy
    - wages policy
    - wait-and-see policy
    - war-economy policy
    - wealth-creating policy
    - whip-and-carrot policy
    - wise policy
    - world policy
    - zigzags in policy

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