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both foreign and domestic

  • 1 both foreign and domestic

    both foreign and domestic
    tanto estrangeiro como nacional.

    English-Portuguese dictionary > both foreign and domestic

  • 2 foreign

    ['forən]
    1) (belonging to a country other than one's own: a foreign passport.) estrangeiro
    2) ((with to) not naturally part of: Anger was foreign to her nature.) estranho
    * * *
    for.eign
    [f'ɔrin] adj 1 estrangeiro. 2 alienígena, adventício, peregrino. 3 externo, exterior. 4 forasteiro, exótico, alheio. 5 estranho. both foreign and domestic tanto estrangeiro como nacional. sitting still is foreign to a boy’s nature estar quieto não é natural para um menino.

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  • 3 moral hazard

    а) в страховом деле - риск недобросовестности, недобросовестного поведения застрахованного лица

    moral hazard - a risk to an insurance company resulting from uncertainty about the honesty of the insured (American Heritage Dictionary).

    б) в экономике - риске безответственного или, в зависимости от ситуации, недобросовестного финансового поведения (инвестора или должника); такое словоупотребление особенно характерно для крайних либералов-рыночников

    The U.S. government's regular practice of extending guarantees to certain countries experiencing financial difficulties [] sends a message to investors, both foreign and domestic, that they can invest with little fear of a total loss. [] That situation is analogous to the moral hazard created by federal deposit insurance. Depositors do not scrutinize banks' financial strengths and weaknesses because they bear no risk of a loss (из доклада Cato Institute).

    A number of industries are trying to take advantage of extraordinary times, to get aid that runs counter to market principles. It creates a dangerous precedent and underscores the old moral hazard problem.

    The proposals are designed to help resolve the 'moral hazard' problem created by IMF bailouts. Bailouts encourage reckless lending, their critics allege, because lenders are led to believe that if things go wrong the IMF will rescue them (Centre for Economic Policy Research).

    Wednesday night's bailout of Long-Term Capital Management, a high-flying hedge fund, has the smell of $3.5 billion worth of moral hazard (из передовой статьи в Wall Street Journal). — Принятое в среду вечером решение о предоставлении экстренной помощи в размере 3,5 миллиарда долларов небезызвестному хедж-фонду Long-Term Capital Management – это, судя по всему, не что иное, как приглашение к безответственности.

    The English annotation is below. (English-Russian) > moral hazard

  • 4 moral hazard

    •• * Первоначально термин moral hazard применялся в страховом деле. Так он отражен в словаре American Heritage Dictionary, который определяет moral hazard как a risk to an insurance company resulting from uncertainty about the honesty of the insured. Перевод напрашивается – риск недобросовестности ( недобросовестного поведения застрахованного лица). Но в последнее время этот термин употребляется гораздо шире – и его расширительное значение не вполне понятно даже подготовленным англоязычным читателям. Так, после обсуждения в одном из форумов в Интернете один из участников сделал вывод: It appears insurance companies use the phrase moral hazardin a more specific way than professional economists do. Добавлю от себя, что такое словоупотребление особенно характерно для крайних либералов-рыночников. Пример из доклада Cato Institute – ведущего «мозгового центра» этого направления:

    •• The U.S. government’s regular practice of extending guarantees to certain countries experiencing financial difficulties <...> sends a message to investors, both foreign and domestic, that they can invest with little fear of a total loss. <...> That situation is analogous to the moral hazard created by federal deposit insurance. Depositors do not scrutinize banks’ financial strengths and weaknesses because they bear no risk of a loss.
    •• Должен заметить, что теоретиков, по-моему, явно «занесло». Я что-то плохо представляю себе, чтобы я и миллионы мне подобных стали изучать и сравнивать финансовые показатели, скажем, банков J.P. Morgan Chase и HSBC, прежде чем открывать там счет или сохранять уже имеющийся. Впрочем, принципиально в этой цитате другое – инвесторы (или вкладчики) в данном случае не обвиняются в недобросовестности (скорее – в некоторой беспечности, безответственности).
    •• Аналогичный пример – высказывание ведущего научного сотрудника Hudson Institute:
    •• A number of industries are trying to take advantage of extraordinary times, to get aid that runs counter to market principles. It creates a dangerous precedent and underscores the old moral hazard problem.
    •• Речь здесь идет о «разлагающем эффекте», опасности привыкания к государственной поддержке. Экономисты разрабатывают предложения, направленные на противодействие этой тенденции:
    •• The proposals are designed to help resolve the ‘moral hazard’ problem created by IMF bailouts. Bailouts encourage reckless lending, their critics allege, because lenders are led to believe that if things go wrong the IMF will rescue them. (Center for Economic Policy Research) (Bailout – экстренная финансовая помощь).
    •• Здесь интересно помещение термина в кавычки и его объяснение для непосвященных.
    •• Предлагаемый перевод – моральный риск – я считаю «условно адекватным», т.е. приемлемым с некоторыми оговорками. Поясню, что имеется в виду.
    •• Если термин не слишком известен и не вполне понятен даже там, где он возник, то он вполне условен, и столь же условен – то есть не вполне понятен – может быть и его перевод. Проблема – «просветительская» и в стране происхождения термина, и в стране перевода. Переводчик, скажем, когда он имеет дело с документами финансовых или страховых учреждений, может воспользоваться калькой моральный риск, в случае необходимости пояснив, что речь идет о риске безответственного или, в зависимости от ситуации, недобросовестного финансового поведения (страхуемого лица, инвестора или должника). В итоге такой «просветительской работы» термин постепенно станет понятен большинству читателей.
    •• Несколько иначе обстоит дело при переводе публицистики. Здесь совершенно необязательно придерживаться терминологичности, тем более сырой, несложившейся. Вот пример из передовой статьи в Wall Street Journal:
    •• Wednesday night’s bailout of Long-Term Capital Management, a high-flying hedge fund, has the smell of $3.5 billion worth of moral hazard.
    •• В переводе лучше обойтись без термина – взять быка за рога и заодно передать несколько высокомерно-назидательный тон статьи:
    •• Принятое в среду вечером решение о предоставлении экстренной помощи в размере 3,5 миллиарда долларов небезызвестному хедж-фонду Long-Term Capital Management – это, судя по всему, не что иное, как приглашение к безответственности.
    •• В перспективе термин моральный риск, видимо, войдет в общепринятый экономический лексикон и, возможно, не будет нуждаться в пояснениях. Так произошло, например, со словосочетанием политически корректный, укоренившимся именно в этом виде, хотя для перевода politically correct предлагались в свое время варианты и получше, например, общественно приемлемый (Г.В. Черновым в словаре Americana) и даже идеологически выдержанный (В. Ланчиковым в рецензии на этот словарь).

    English-Russian nonsystematic dictionary > moral hazard

  • 5 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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  • 6 Media

       The purpose of the media during the Estado Novo (1926-74) was to communicate official government policy. Therefore, the government strictly censored newspapers, magazines, and books. Radio and television broadcasting was in the hands of two state-owned companies: Radiodifusão Portuguesa (RDP) and Radiotelevisão Portuguesa (RTP). The first TV broadcasts aired in March 1957, and the official state visit of Queen Elizabeth II of Great Britain to Portugal was featured. The only independent broadcasting company during the Estado Novo was the Catholic Church's Radio Renascença. Writers and journalists who violated the regime's guidelines were severely sanctioned. Under Prime Minister Marcello Caetano, censorship was relaxed somewhat, and writers were allowed to publish critical and controversial works without fear of punishment. Caetano attempted to "speak to the people" through television. Daily program content consisted of little more than government-controlled (and censored) news programs and dull documentaries.
       After the Revolution of 25 April 1974, censorship was abolished. As the revolution veered leftward, some sectors of the media were seized by opponents of the views they expressed. The most famous case was the seizure of Radio Renascença by those who sought to bring it into line with the drift leftward. State ownership of the media was increased after 25 April 1974, when banks were nationalized because most banks owned at least one newspaper. As the Revolution moderated and as banking was privatized during the 1980s and 1990s, newspapers were also privatized.
       The history of two major Lisbon dailies illustrates recent cycles of Portuguese politics and pressures. O Século, a major Lisbon daily paper was founded in 1881 and was influenced by Republican, even Masonic ideas. When the first Republic began in 1910, the editorials of O Século defended the new system, but the economic and social turmoil disillusioned the paper's directors. In 1924, O Século, under publisher João Pereira da Rosa, called for political reform and opposed the Democratic Party, which monopolized elections and power in the Republic. This paper was one of the two most important daily papers, and it backed the military coup of 28 May 1926 and the emergent military dictatorship. Over the history of the Estado Novo, this paper remained somewhat to the left of the other major daily paper in Lisbon, Diário de Notícias, but in 1972 the paper suffered a severe financial crisis and was bought by a Lisbon banker. During the more chaotic times after the Revolution of 25 April 1974, O Século experienced its own time of turmoil, in which there was a split between workers and editors, firings, resignations, and financial trouble. After a series of financial problems and controversy over procommunist staff, the paper was suspended and then ceased publication in February 1977. In the 1990s, there was a brief but unsuccessful attempt to revive O Século.
       Today, the daily paper with the largest circulation is Diário de Notícias of Lisbon, which was established in 1883. It became the major daily paper of record, but after the Revolution of 25 April 1974, like O Século, the paper suffered difficulties, both political and financial. One of its editors in the "hot" summer of 1975 was José Saramago, future Nobel Prize winner in literature, and there was an internal battle in the editorial rooms between factions. The paper was, like O Século, nationalized in 1976, but in 1991, Diário de Notícias was reprivatized and today it continues to be the daily paper of record, leading daily circulation.
       Currently, about 20 daily newspapers are published in Portugal, in Lisbon, the capital, as well as in the principal cities of Oporto, Coimbra, and Évora. The major Lisbon newspapers are Diário de Notícias (daily and newspaper of record), Publico (daily), Correia da Manha (daily), Jornal de Noticias (daily), Expresso (weekly), The Portugal News (English language weekly), The Resident (English language weekly), and Get Real Weekly (English language).
       These papers range from the excellent, such as Público and the Diário de Notícias, to the sensationalistic, such as Correio da Manhã. Portugal's premier weekly newspaper is Expresso, founded by Francisco Balsemão during the last years of Marcello Caetano's governance, whose modern format, spirit, and muted criticism of the regime helped prepare public opinion for regime change in 1974. Another weekly is O Independente, founded in 1988, which specializes in political satire. In addition to these newspapers, Portugal has a large number of newspapers and magazines published for a specific readership: sports fans, gardeners, farmers, boating enthusiasts, etc. In addition to the two state-owned TV channels, Portugal has two independent channels, one of which is operated by the Catholic Church. TV programming is now diverse and sophisticated, with a great variety of programs of both domestic and foreign content. The most popular TV programs have been soap operas and serialized novels ( telenovelas) imported from Brazil. In the 1990s, Portugal attempted to produce its own telenovelas and soap operas, but these have not been as popular as the more exotic Brazilian imports.

    Historical dictionary of Portugal > Media

  • 7 value

    1. сущ.
    1)
    а) общ. ценность; важность, значимость; полезность (степень важности чего-л. для отдельного человека или сообщества; не измеряется в каких-л. единицах, хотя ценности разных сущностей могут сравниваться друг с другом)

    to set too high a value upon smth./smb. — переоценивать что-л. или кого-л.

    Syn:
    See:
    б) мн., cоц. ценности (представления субъекта, общества, класса, социальной группы о главных целях жизни и работы, а также об основных средствах достижения этих целей; формируются на основе потребностей и интересов)
    See:
    2) эк. ценность, стоимость, оценка, цена (оценка какого-л. актива в денежных единицах для целей учета, налогообложения, финансового или маркетингового анализа и т. п.; отражает выгоду, которую владелец актива может извлечь из него, поэтому для перевода предпочтительно использовать слово "ценность", а не "стоимость", которое имеет также значение "затрат", которые связаны с каким-л. активом)
    Syn:
    See:
    CHILD [object\]: arrived damaged value, assemblage value, at-site value, entry value 1), going-concern value, intangible value, tangible value, theoretical value of a right, time value of money CHILD [method\]: abandonment value, accreted value, acquisition value, actual cash value, actuarial value, agreed value, amortized value, annual value, appraised value, auction value, balance-sheet value, book value, capitalized value, cash value, cash surrender value, computed value, constructed value, conversion value, customer value, declared value, deductive value, domestic value, dutiable value, entered value, entry value 2), exit value, external value, face value, fair value, foreign market value, future value, insured value, internal value, intrinsic value, invoice value, lifetime value, liquidating value, market value, maturity value, net asset value, par value, present value, producers' value, rateable value, residual value, sale value, sound value, stated value, statistical value, surrender value, tax value, tax-appraised value, terminal value, time value, trade-in value, transaction value, value for duty, value broker, value analysis, value analyst, value consultant, customs value, declared value, Brussels Definition of Value, computed value method, deductive value method, loan-to-value ratio, agreed-value insurance DERIVED: high-value, low-value
    3) маркс. стоимость, ценность (количество труда, необходимого для производства продукта; непосредственно ненаблюдаемое внутренне присущее каждому товару свойство; измеряется общественно-необходимыми затратами труда на его производство; дореволюционный и современный вариант перевода на русский язык — "ценность"; в советское время переводилось исключительно как "стоимость")
    See:
    4) мат., комп. величина, значение
    See:
    2. гл.
    1) общ. оценивать, производить оценку, устанавливать цену ( в денежном эквиваленте)

    The parties agreed to employ an appraiser to value the company. — Стороны согласились нанять оценщика, чтобы оценить компанию.

    2) общ. дорожить, ценить, быть высокого мнения, отдавать должное; гордиться, хвалиться

    We value highly the many long-term business relationships we enjoy with both current and past clients. — Мы высоко ценим многие из наших долгосрочных деловых связей, которые мы поддерживаем как с ныне существующими, так и с бывшими клиентами.

    Syn:

    * * *
    1) ценность, стоимость, рыночная цена товара, финансового инструмента, актива, услуги, права; 2) сумма, денежный эквивалент актива, обязательства, сделки; см. appraisal; 3) оценивать.
    * * *
    /vt/ оценивать
    1) стоимость; 2) ценность
    * * *
    достоинства; стоимость; ценность
    . . Словарь экономических терминов .
    * * *
    Ценные бумаги/Биржевая деятельность
    планируемая (в отличие от реальной) цена сделки

    Англо-русский экономический словарь > value

  • 8 salida

    f.
    1 departure (partida).
    va a efectuar su salida it's about to depart
    2 start (sport).
    salida nula false start
    3 exit, way out (place).
    ¿dónde está la salida? where's the way out?
    salida de emergencia emergency exit
    salida de humos air vent
    4 trip (viaje).
    5 appearance (aparición) (de revista, nuevo modelo).
    este producto no tiene salida there's no market for this product
    7 output (computing).
    8 way out.
    si no hay otra salida if there's no alternative
    9 witty remark (ocurrencia).
    tener salidas to be witty
    salida de tono out-of-place remark
    10 departure gate.
    11 starting point, start.
    12 excursion, sally.
    13 computer output, output.
    14 exodus, exit.
    15 production.
    16 exitus, outlet.
    17 efflux.
    past part.
    past participle of spanish verb: salir.
    * * *
    1 (partida) departure
    2 (puerta etc) exit, way out
    5 (de un astro) rising
    6 DEPORTE start
    7 COMERCIO outlet, market
    8 FINANZAS outlay, expenditure
    9 figurado (ocurrencia) witty remark, witticism
    10 figurado (escapatoria) solution, way out
    12 TÉCNICA outlet
    13 INFORMÁTICA output
    14 (en naipes) lead
    15 (parte que sobresale) projection
    \
    de salida from the start
    no tener otra salida figurado to have no other option
    tener salida a to open on to, come out at
    salida de artistas stage door
    salida de efectivo cash outflow
    salida de emergencia emergency exit
    salida de tono unfortunate remark, improper remark
    salida nula false start
    * * *
    noun f.
    1) exit
    * * *
    SF
    1) [de un lugar]

    a la salida, te esperaremos a la salida — we'll wait for you on the way out

    dar salida a, el pasillo que da salida a la pista de tenis — the passageway which leads out (on)to the tennis court

    puerta de salida — exit door

    visado
    2) (=aparición)

    tras la salida de los futbolistas al terreno de juego — after the footballers came/went out onto the pitch

    precio de salida — [de objeto subastado] starting price; [de acciones] offer price

    3) (=lugar) [de edificio] exit, way out; [de autopista] exit, turn-off

    ¿dónde está la salida? — where's the exit o the way out?

    salida[encima de la puerta] exit; [en el pasillo] way out, exit

    tener salida a algo, nuestro edificio tiene salida a las dos calles — our building has access onto both streets

    callejón
    4) [de avión, tren] departure

    después de la salida del tren — after the train leaves, after the departure of the train

    5) (=escapada) [de viaje] trip; [de excursión] trip, outing; [por la noche] night out, evening out

    en mi primera salida al extranjero — on my first trip abroad, on my first foreign trip

    6) (=comienzo) [de carrera, desfile] start

    fuimos a ver la salida de la procesión — we went to see the start of the procession, we went to see the procession move off

    Palmer tuvo una mala salida del tee — (Golf) Palmer played a poor tee shot

    dar la salida — to give the starting signal

    tomar la salida — (=empezar) to start the race; (=participar) to take part, compete

    salida en falso, salida falsa — false start

    salida lanzada — running start, flying start

    parrilla 2)
    7) (Teat) [al entrar en escena] appearance; [para recibir aplausos] curtain-call
    8) (=solución) solution

    la única salida está en la negociación — the only way out is through negotiation, the only solution is to negotiate

    9) [al hablar]

    ¡qué buena salida! — that was a really witty comment!

    hum

    ¡vaya salidas de bombero que tuvo! — he dropped some real clangers! *

    salida de tono, fue una salida de tono — it was inappropriate o uncalled-for

    10) (Com) [de producto] launch

    dar salida a, dar salida a los excedentes agrícolas — to find an outlet for surplus produce

    tener salida — to sell well

    tener una salida fácil — to have a ready market, be a soft sell

    11) (Econ) (=cargo) debit entry
    12) pl salidas [en el trabajo] openings, job opportunities

    esa carrera no tiene apenas salidasthere are very few openings o job opportunities for someone with that degree

    13) (Téc) [de aire, gas, vapor] vent; [de agua] outlet
    14) (Inform) output
    15) (=prenda)

    salida de baño Cono Sur [en casa] bathrobe; [en playa, piscina] beach robe

    16) (Arquit) (=saliente) projection
    17) (Mil) [para el ataque] sortie
    18) (Naipes) lead
    * * *
    a) (de edificio, lugar) exit
    b) ( de tubería) outlet, outflow; ( de circuito) outlet
    2)
    a) ( acción)

    una salida al campoan outing o a trip to the country

    c) (de líquido, gas, electricidad) output
    d)
    3) ( partida)
    (de tren, avión) departure

    salidas nacionales/internacionales — domestic/international departures

    4) (Dep) ( en una carrera) start
    5)
    a) ( solución)
    6) (Com, Fin) ( gasto) payment

    este chico tiene cada salida... — this child comes out with the funniest things...

    fue una salida que nos hizo reír muchohis remark o comment had us all in stitches

    * * *
    a) (de edificio, lugar) exit
    b) ( de tubería) outlet, outflow; ( de circuito) outlet
    2)
    a) ( acción)

    una salida al campoan outing o a trip to the country

    c) (de líquido, gas, electricidad) output
    d)
    3) ( partida)
    (de tren, avión) departure

    salidas nacionales/internacionales — domestic/international departures

    4) (Dep) ( en una carrera) start
    5)
    a) ( solución)
    6) (Com, Fin) ( gasto) payment

    este chico tiene cada salida... — this child comes out with the funniest things...

    fue una salida que nos hizo reír muchohis remark o comment had us all in stitches

    * * *
    salida1
    1 = departure, egress, exit, outlet, outing, escape route, turnover, work-around [workaround], stock turnover, turnover of stock, flight mission, way out, turn-off.

    Ex: Apart from its undoubted value in its own right, Sears' provides a valuable model or point of departure for others.

    Ex: The reduction of public access and egress to a single point well controlled by electronic or other means goes some way to reduce the loss of books.
    Ex: A cash desk should be placed by each exit.
    Ex: Hawthorne gave an uneasy laugh, which was merely the outlet for her disappointment.
    Ex: The 1st calendar of events included a slide show, a literary afternoon, travel tips, and a picnic and outing.
    Ex: At present the onus appears to be on individual library directors to develop alternative career paths and escape routes = Por ahora la responsabilidad de desarrollar trayectorias profesionales y vías de escape alternativas parece recaer sobre los directores de la biblioteca en cuestión.
    Ex: Yet the genuine stockholding bookseller is committed to holding good stocks of books for the customers' benefit which means that he does not aim simply at buying in the books with the quickest turnover.
    Ex: Obviously, the work-around is to cut-and-paste this into the end of the document, but why did this happen in the first place?.
    Ex: The booksellers in the sample 'turned over their stocks on average about four times a year' though rates of stock turnover varied widely.
    Ex: ' Turnover of stock' is, then, an important part of successful and lively bookselling.
    Ex: The collection is composed of more than 400,000 prints and negatives from photographs taken during 1,258 separate flight missions, most of which were flown over California.
    Ex: She racked her brains for a way out but could not find anything successful.
    Ex: There's a great gas station and convenience store at the turn-off.
    * a la salida = on the way out.
    * asesor de salidas profesionales = career(s) adviser.
    * bandera de salida, la = checkered flag, the.
    * callejón sin salida = blind alley, catch 22, cul-de-sac, dead end, impasse, dead end street, deadlock, standoff.
    * caudal de salida = flow rate.
    * con salida al mercado = due out.
    * consejero sobre salidas profesionales = career advisor, career counsellor.
    * control de salida = exit barrier.
    * dar el pistoletazo de salida = fire + the starting gun.
    * dar salida a = vent.
    * de salida = outgoing.
    * disco de salida = output diskette.
    * dispositivo de salida = output equipment.
    * encontrar la salida a = find + a/the way out of.
    * encontrar una salida a = find + a/the way out of.
    * entradas y salidas = comings and goings.
    * estrategia de salida = exit strategy.
    * fecha de salida = departure date.
    * fichero de salida = outgoing file.
    * fichero de salida de datos = communication output file.
    * hora de salida = departure time, check-out time.
    * información sobre salidas profesionales = career(s) information.
    * la mejor salida = the best way forward.
    * libro de registro de entrada y salida de cartas = letterbook [letter book].
    * no tener salida = be stuck, get + stuck.
    * orientación sobre salidas profesionales = career guidance.
    * parrilla de salida = starting grid.
    * pasillo de salida = exit lane.
    * pistoletazo de salida = starting signal, starting gun.
    * precio de salida = starting price.
    * primera posición de salida = pole start, pole position.
    * puerta de salida = exit door.
    * registro de salida de cartas = outward letterbook.
    * salida de aire = venting.
    * salida de artistas = stage door.
    * salida de datos = output.
    * salida de emergencia = emergency exit.
    * salida de humos = flue.
    * salida de incendios = fire exit.
    * salida de lectores = public exit.
    * salida del sol = sunrise.
    * salida del sol, la = rising of the sun, the.
    * salida en falso = false start.
    * salida lateral = side entrance.
    * salida nula = false start.
    * salida profesional = career opportunity, career path, career pattern, career option.
    * salidas profesionales = careers guidance, career development, career planning, careers education, employability, job opportunities.
    * sin salida al mar = land-bound [landbound], land-locked [landlocked].
    * sistema de control de la salida = exit control system.
    * sondeo hecho a la salida = exit survey.
    * tacos de salida = starting blocks.
    * válvula de salida = outlet valve.
    * vía de salida = exit lane.

    salida2
    2 = witticism, witty remark, witty remark, quip.

    Ex: It uses humor rather than witticisms, and self-deprecation rather than deprecation of the professional field.

    Ex: Youll never be short on a witty remark with a database of almost 180000 jokes.
    Ex: Youll never be short on a witty remark with a database of almost 180000 jokes.
    Ex: His genius is sometimes most evident in his quips.

    * * *
    1 (de un edificio, lugar) exit
    [ S ] salida exit
    dimos mil vueltas buscando la salida we went round and round looking for the way out o the exit
    todas las salidas de Bilbao all the roads out of Bilbao
    Bolivia no tiene salida al mar Bolivia has no access to the sea
    es una calle sin salida it's a dead end
    2 (de una tubería) outlet, outflow; (de un circuito) outlet
    3 ( Inf) tb
    salida del sistema logoff, logout
    Compuestos:
    (en un teatro) stage door; (en una sala de conciertos) artists' entrance
    salida de emergencia/incendios
    emergency/fire exit
    B
    1
    (acción): me lo encontré a la salida I met him on the way out, I met him as I was leaving
    quedamos en encontrarnos a la salida del concierto we arranged to meet at the end of o after the concert
    acelera a la salida de la curva accelerate (as you come) out of the curve
    el gobierno les ha negado la salida del país the government has refused to allow them to leave the country
    impedir la salida de divisas to prevent currency being taken out of o leaving the country
    estaban esperando la salida de la novia they were waiting for the bride to appear
    la salida del primer toro the entry of the first bull
    2
    (como distracción): es su primera salida desde que la operaron it's the first time she's been out since her operation
    una salida a la ópera an evening at the opera
    una salida al campo an outing o a trip to the country
    3 (de un líquido, gas) output; (de un circuito) output
    4
    Compuesto:
    (para la playa) beach robe; (para la casa) bathrobe
    A (de un tren, avión) departure
    LANSA anuncia la salida del vuelo 503 LANSA announces the departure of flight 503
    el tren efectuará su salida por vía cinco the train will leave from track five
    [ S ] salidas nacionales/internacionales domestic/international departures
    dan la salida con un disparo a gun is fired to start the race o to signal the start
    Compuestos:
    false start
    false start
    A
    1
    (solución): no le veo ninguna salida a esta situación I can see no way out of this situation
    hay que buscar una salida a la crisis económica a solution must be found to the economic crisis
    vamos a tener que aceptar, no nos queda otra salida we're going to have to accept, we have no option
    2
    (posibilidades): la informática, hoy en día, tiene muchas salidas nowadays there are many openings o job opportunities in computing
    esta prenda no tiene mucha salida this garment doesn't sell very well
    B ( Com, Fin) (gasto) payment
    entradas y salidas income and expenditure, receipts and outgoings ( BrE)
    C
    (ocurrencia): este chico tiene cada salida … this child comes out with the funniest things …
    fue una salida que nos hizo reír mucho his remark o comment had us all in stitches
    Compuesto:
    fue una salida de tono it was totally out of place, it was a totally inappropriate thing to say/do
    * * *

     

    salida sustantivo femenino ( hacia el exterior)
    1
    a) (lugar, puerta) exit;

    salida de emergencia/incendios emergency/fire exit;

    todas las salidas de Bilbao all the roads out of Bilbao;
    es una calle sin salida it's a dead end

    ( de circuito) outlet
    2
    a) ( acción):


    nos encontramos a la salida del concierto we met at the door after the concert;
    una salida al campo an outing o a trip to the country
    b) (de líquido, gas, electricidad) output

    c)


    ( partida)
    1 (de tren, avión) departure;


    ( on signs) salidas nacionales/internacionales domestic/international departures
    2 (Dep) ( en una carrera) start
    1 ( solución):

    no nos queda otra salida we have no other option
    2 (Com, Fin) ( gasto) payment
    salido,-a adjetivo
    1 (saliente, prominente) projecting
    (frente, pómulos, etc) prominent
    (ojos) bulging
    familiar sticky-out
    2 fam pey (cachondo) horny, randy
    salida sustantivo femenino
    1 (lugar por donde se sale) exit, way out: nos pasamos diez minutos buscando la salida, we spent ten minutes looking for the way out
    este carril tiene salida a la autopista, this lane leads onto the motorway
    callejón sin salida, dead end
    (de una tubería, desagüe) outlet, outflow
    Inform output
    2 (acción de salir) leaving
    a la salida del trabajo, on leaving work
    (de un tren, un avión) departure
    (del Sol, de la Luna, etc) rising
    salida del sol, sunrise
    (viaje corto, excursión) trip
    una salida al campo, an outing to the country
    3 Dep start
    dar la salida, to give the signal to start
    línea de salida, starting line
    4 (solución) option, solution: este problema no tiene salida, there's no solution to this problem
    5 Lab prospect: la filosofía no tiene muchas salidas, there aren't many job opportunities in philosophy
    6 (cese de una actividad) el próximo año se producirá mi salida del cargo, I'll be leaving the post next year
    7 fig (agudeza, ocurrencia) witty remark
    8 (comentario inapropiado) salida de tono, inappropriate remark
    9 (puesta en venta, lanzamiento de un producto) la salida del nuevo periódico se producirá el lunes, the new newspaper will be launched onto the market next Monday
    10 Fin (gasto) hemos tenido demasiadas salidas en concepto de compra de materiales, purchase of materials has led to an unacceptable increase in spending
    ' salida' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    acaso
    - callejón
    - dirigir
    - efectuar
    - emergencia
    - empujar
    - escape
    - escorrentía
    - expectante
    - fichar
    - forzuda
    - forzudo
    - panel
    - prever
    - punto
    - retardar
    - taponar
    - bloquear
    - cortada
    - desvío
    - escapatoria
    - excursión
    - lateral
    - línea
    - obstruir
    - partida
    - retrasar
    - tapar
    - ver
    English:
    blind alley
    - checkout
    - clock off
    - clock out
    - crowd
    - cul-de-sac
    - dead end
    - departure
    - exit
    - false start
    - fight
    - fire exit
    - hasty
    - off
    - out
    - outlet
    - output
    - rise
    - rising
    - sailing
    - seal off
    - stampede
    - start
    - starter
    - starting block
    - starting line
    - starting post
    - starting price
    - sunrise
    - sunup
    - takeoff
    - turn off
    - way
    - wisecrack
    - block
    - catch
    - curtain
    - dead
    - emergency
    - false
    - flotation
    - flying
    - land
    - mark
    - quip
    - ramp
    - release
    - rush
    - stand
    - starting
    * * *
    salida nf
    1. [partida, marcha] departure;
    tenían prevista la salida al amanecer they intended to leave at dawn;
    el tren con destino a Santiago va a efectuar su salida por la vía 4 the Santiago train is about to depart from platform 4;
    salidas nacionales/internacionales [en aeropuerto] national/international departures
    2. [lugar para salir] [de edificio, recinto] exit, way out;
    [de red de cables, cañerías] outlet;
    gira en la próxima salida turn off at the next exit;
    la región no tiene salida al mar the region has no outlet to the sea;
    salida 20 [en autopista] junction 20;
    ¿dónde está la salida? where's the way out?;
    salida [en letrero] exit, way out;
    esta calle no tiene salida this road's a dead end;
    todas las salidas de Caracas estaban colapsadas traffic was at a standstill on all the roads leading out of Caracas;
    dar salida a [sentimientos] to vent, to let out;
    [ideas] to find an outlet for salida de emergencia emergency exit;
    salida de humos air vent;
    3. [en deportes, carreras] start;
    salida nula false start
    4. [viaje] trip;
    una salida al extranjero a trip abroad;
    hicimos una salida al campo de un día we went out for the day to the country, we went on an outing to the country for a day
    5. [aparición] [de revista, nuevo modelo, producto] appearance;
    a la salida del sol at sunrise;
    su salida a escena fue recibida con aplausos her entry on stage was greeted with applause, she was applauded as she came on stage;
    esta llave regula la salida del agua this Br tap o US faucet controls the flow of water
    Fin salida a bolsa [de empresa] flotation
    6. [momento]
    quedamos a la salida del trabajo we agreed to meet after work;
    te espero a la salida del cine I'll meet you after the movie
    7. [solución] way out;
    es preciso encontrar una salida al problema/a esta situación we need to find a way round the problem/a way out of this situation;
    si no hay otra salida if there's no alternative
    8. [ocurrencia] witty remark;
    [pretexto] excuse;
    tener salidas to be witty;
    desde luego tiene cada salida… she certainly comes out with some witty remarks
    salida de tono out-of-place remark
    9. Com [producción] output;
    [posibilidades] market;
    dar salida a [producto] to find an outlet for;
    este producto tiene mucha salida [posibilidades de venta] there's a big market for this product;
    [se vende] this product sells well;
    este producto no tiene salida [posibilidades de venta] there's no market for this product;
    [no se vende] this product doesn't sell
    10.
    salidas [en contabilidad] outgoings
    11. Informát output
    12. Dep [partido fuera de casa] away game
    13.
    salidas [posibilidades laborales] openings, opportunities;
    carreras con salidas university courses with good job prospects
    14. Am [ropa] salida de baño bathrobe;
    salida de playa beach robe
    SALIDA AL MAR
    The War of the Pacific, fought victoriously by Chile against Peru and Bolivia (1879-1883), was to have a huge influence on the later development of all three countries. The major incentive for turning a territorial dispute into a war was the rich deposits of nitrates (then a vital raw material for the production of fertilizers and explosives) in the Atacama Desert. By acquiring the Atacama, Chile also deprived Bolivia of its only access to the sea at the port of Antofagasta, with inevitably damaging consequences for the future economic and commercial development of the country. Bolivia's desire for a salida al mar (“outlet to the sea”) led it to seek alternative access to the Atlantic, and this was partly behind the outbreak of the horrific Chaco War with Paraguay (1932-1935), though the interest of foreign oil companies in possible oil deposits in the Chaco region was at least as important a factor. Today, Bolivia has adopted the peaceful road of negotiations with Chile to resolve the problem.
    * * *
    f
    1 de edificio, zoo etc exit, way out; de autopista exit
    2 TRANSP departure
    3 DEP de carrera start;
    dar la salida give the starting signal o the off
    4 COM
    :
    tiene salida there’s a market for it;
    salida a bolsa flotation
    5 fig
    opportunity, opening;
    salida profesional career opportunity
    * * *
    salida nf
    1) : exit
    salida de emergencia: emergency exit
    2) : leaving, departure
    3) solución: way out, solution
    4) : start (of a race)
    5) ocurrencia: wisecrack, joke
    6)
    salida del sol : sunrise
    * * *
    1. (puerta) exit / way out
    3. (acción de irse) departure
    5. (excursión) outing
    6. (viaje) trip
    7. (solución) solution

    Spanish-English dictionary > salida

  • 9 Anglo-Portuguese Alliance

       The world's oldest diplomatic connection and alliance, an enduring arrangement between two very different nations and peoples, with important practical consequences in the domestic and foreign affairs of both Great Britain (England before 1707) and Portugal. The history of this remarkable alliance, which has had commercial and trade, political, foreign policy, cultural, and imperial aspects, can be outlined in part with a list of the main alliance treaties after the first treaty of commerce and friendship signed between the monarchs of England and Portugal in 1373. This was followed in 1386 by the Treaty of Windsor; then in 1654, 1661, 1703, the Methuen Treaty; and in 1810 and 1899 another treaty also signed at Windsor.
       Common interests in the defense of the nation and its overseas empire (in the case of Portugal, after 1415; in the case of England, after 1650) were partly based on characteristics and common enemies both countries shared. Even in the late Middle Ages, England and Portugal faced common enemies: large continental countries that threatened the interests and sovereignty of both, especially France and Spain. In this sense, the Anglo-Portuguese Alliance has always been a defensive alliance in which each ally would assist the other when necessary against its enemies. In the case of Portugal, that enemy invariably was Spain (or component states thereof, such as Castile and Leon) and sometimes France (i.e., when Napoleon's armies invaded and conquered Portugal as of late 1807). In the case of England, that foe was often France and sometimes Spain as well.
       Beginning in the late 14th century, England and Portugal forged this unusual relationship, formalized with several treaties that came into direct use during a series of dynastic, imperial, naval, and commercial conflicts between 1373 and 1961, the historic period when the Anglo-Portuguese Alliance had its most practical political significance. The relative world power and importance of each ally has varied over the centuries. During the period 1373-1580, the allies were similar in respective ranking in European affairs, and during the period 1480-1550, if anything, Portugal was a greater world power with a more important navy than England. During 1580-1810, Portugal fell to the status of a third-rank European power and, during 1810-1914, England was perhaps the premier world power. During 1914-61, England's world position slipped while Portugal made a slow recovery but remained a third- or fourth-rank power.
       The commercial elements of the alliance have always involved an exchange of goods between two seafaring, maritime peoples with different religions and political systems but complementary economies. The 1703 Methuen Treaty establ ished a trade link that endured for centuries and bore greater advantages for England than for Portugal, although Portugal derived benefits: English woolens for Portuguese wines, especially port, other agricultural produce, and fish. Since the signing of the Methuen Treaty, there has been a vigorous debate both in politics and in historical scholarship as to how much each nation benefited economically from the arrangement in which Portugal eventually became dependent upon England and the extent to which Portugal became a kind of economic colony of Britain during the period from 1703 to 1910.
       There is a vast literature on the Alliance, much of it in Portuguese and by Portuguese writers, which is one expression of the development of modern Portuguese nationalism. During the most active phase of the alliance, from 1650 to 1945, there is no doubt but that the core of the mutual interests of the allies amounted to the proposition that Portugal's independence as a nation in Iberia and the integrity of its overseas empire, the third largest among the colonial powers as of 1914, were defended by England, who in turn benefited from the use by the Royal Navy of Portugal's home and colonial ports in times of war and peace. A curious impact on Portuguese and popular usage had also come about and endured through the impact of dealings with the English allies. The idiom in Portuguese, "é para inglês ver," means literally "it is for the Englishman to see," but figuratively it really means, "it is merely for show."
       The practical defense side of the alliance was effectively dead by the end of World War II, but perhaps the most definitive indication of the end of the political significance of an alliance that still continues in other spheres occurred in December 1961, when the army of the Indian Union invaded Portugal's colonial enclaves in western India, Goa, Damão, and Diu. While both nations were now North Atlantic Treaty Organization allies, their interests clashed when it came to imperial and Commonwealth conflicts and policies. Portugal asked Britain for military assistance in the use of British bases against the army of Britain's largest former colony, India. But Portugal was, in effect, refused assistance by her oldest ally. If the alliance continues into the 21st century, its essence is historical, nostalgic, commercial, and cultural.
        See also Catherine of Braganza.

    Historical dictionary of Portugal > Anglo-Portuguese Alliance

  • 10 bank

    ̈ɪbæŋk I
    1. сущ.
    1) вал, насыпь
    2) берег( реки) ;
    край;
    тж. перен. The left bank of the glacier. ≈ Левый край ледника. Within the banks of his remembrance. ≈ Насколько он мог помнить.
    3) банка, отмель
    4) нанос;
    занос bank of cloudsгряда облаков
    5) авиац. крен (специально создаваемый летчиком при выполнении виража)
    6) горн. залежь, пласт
    7) уст. муравейник
    2. гл.
    1) делать насыпь
    2) образовать заносы, кучи (тж. to bank up) The morning began fine, but now clouds are banking up. ≈ Утро было отличное, но теперь на небе появились облака. The wind had banked the snow up against the wall. ≈ От сильного ветра у стены вырос огромный сугроб.
    3) а) сгребать в кучу, наваливать;
    окружать валом Every spring we have to bank up the river to prevent flooding. ≈ Весной нам приходится насыпать валы вдоль реки, чтобы нас не затопило. At night we bank the fire up so that it is still burning in the morning. ≈ Вечером мы сгребаем уголья в кучу, чтобы утром они еще тлели. б) готовить лес к сплаву
    4) авиац. закладывать вираж
    5) играть от борта (на биллиарде - шар отскакивает рикошетом от борта и ударяет другой)
    6) высаживаться на берег, сгружать на берег II
    1. сущ.
    1) банк to open an account in/with a bank ≈ открыть счет в банке to charter bank;
    to establish a bankучредить банк central bankцентральный банк commercial bankкоммерческий банк credit bankкредитный банк drive-in bank ≈ банк, где обслуживают клиентов прямо в автомобилях national bankнациональный банк people's bankнародный банк pet bank ≈ банк-любимчик (банк, в котором хранятся государственные средства вследствие особого расположения властей) postal savings bank ≈ почтово-сберегательный банк state bankгосударственный банк merchant bankкоммерческий банк savings bank ≈ сберегательный банк bank of issueэмиссионный банк the Bank for Foreign Trade of Russia ≈ Внешторгбанк России bank accountсчет в банке bank currencyбанкноты, выпущенные в обращение национальными банками bank holidayофициальный нерабочий день (установленный законом)
    2) карт. банк break the bank
    3) место хранения запасов - blood bank data bank ∙ you can't put it in the bank ≈ амер.;
    разг. это ни к чему, от этого никакого толку
    2. гл.
    1) класть (деньги) в банк;
    держать( деньги) в банке;
    откладывать bank with
    2) карт. метать банк
    3) держать банк, быть владельцем банка Giovanni Medici had been a banker before everything, Cosimo an administrator. Lorenzo continued to bank but mismanaged the work and lost heavily. ≈ Джованни Медичи был прежде всего банкиром, Козимо - администратором. Лоренцо тоже вел банковские дела, но шли они неважно и он нес большие убытки.
    4) сдавать выручку в банк;
    обналичивать
    5) хранить что-л. про запас (кровь и т.д.) ∙ bank on bank upon III сущ. ист.
    1) скамья, банка ( в лодке)
    2) ряд весел (на исторических судах типа трирем и кватрирем, имевших несколько рядов весел один над другим)
    3) мануал (органа) ;
    ряд клавиш( на пишущей машинке) The organ of Riga Dome has four banks. ≈ У органа Рижского Домского Собора четыре мануала.
    4) верстакнекоторых ремеслах)
    5) архаич. суд (от скамьи, на которой сидели судьи)
    6) дно емкости для плавления стекла
    7) тех. набор одинаковых устройств для массовой работы (напр., в старых АТС)
    вал, насыпь;
    дамба - to dig up a * of earth возвести земляной вал крутой склон берег (реки, озера) отмель, банка, риф - oyster * устричная отмель /банка/ - fisheries * (специальное) рыбная банка - ice * ледяное поле нанос, занос - snow *s сугробы, снежные заносы - the * of clouds spelled rain гряда облаков предвещала дождь - we ran into a * of fog мы попали в полосу тумана борт бильярдного стола (авиация) крен, вираж (горное) забой;
    залежь - * of ore пластообразная рудная залежь (горное) уступ( горное) устье шахты сгребать в кучу;
    наваливать - to * snow сгребать снег в кучи - the chairs were *ed one upon the other стулья взгромоздили один на другой делать насыпь;
    окружать валом, насыпью - to * in окапываться громоздиться, вздыматься - clouds are *ing along the horizon облака скучились на горизонте;
    горизонт затянут облаками запруживать окружать, окаймлять - the river is *ed high on both sides река заключена в крутые берега прикрывать (костер) валежником (чтобы он горел спокойно и долго) (авиация) делать вираж;
    накреняться сесть на мель (гребля) (сленг) играть шара от борта (бильярд) банк - B. of England, the B. Английский банк (государственный банк Великобритании) - branch * отделение банка - * of issue /of circulation/ эмиссионный банк - to keep an account at a * иметь счет в банке - to keep an account with the National B. иметь счет в государственном банке копилка - father gave her a quarter for her piggy * отец дал ей двадцать пять центов (положить) в копилку (историческое) лавка ростовщика;
    стол или лавка менялы фонд;
    общий запас;
    резерв - blood * запас /банк/ крови (для переливания) ;
    донорский пункт - cornea * запас роговицы( для пересадки) банк (в азартных играх) - to keep the * держать банк - to break the * сорвать банк > he is as safe as a * он вполне надужный человек > in the * в убытке > three discount houses were in the * for a small amount три учетные конторы понесли небольшой убыток > to keep smth. in * держать что-л. про запас > you can't put it in the * (американизм) из спасиба шубу не сошьешь класть деньги в банк;
    держать, иметь деньги в банке или сберкассе - to * at /with/ the B. of England держать деньги в Английском банке;
    (финансовое) вести дела с Английским банком владеть банком, быть банкиром;
    заниматься банковским делом превращать (имущество) в деньги - to * an estate продать имение метать банк (в картах и т. п.) (on, upon) (разговорное) рассчитывать, полагаться - to * on /upon/ smb.'s support рассчитывать на чью-л. поддержку - I was *ing on his honesty when I closed the deal я полагался на его честность, когда заключал сделку - you can * on it being true можете быть уверены - это правда преим. (специальное) рад, комплект, набор;
    серия - * of cylinders блок цилиндров - * of boilers батарея котлов - * of needles( текстильное) ряд игл;
    игольница - * of sieves набор сит - * of lamps (кинематографический) осветительный агрегат - * of keys клавиатура( пишущей машинки, линотипа, органа и т. п.) (устаревшее) скамья (на галере и т. п.) (устаревшее) суд;
    судебное присутствие верстак (полиграфия) подзаголовок( специальное) группировать для совместной работы;
    комплектовать - the electric lamps were *ed in rows of ten электролампы были сгруппированы по десять в ряд
    advising ~ банк-консультант
    agency ~ банк-посредник
    agent ~ банк-агент
    bank карт. банк;
    to break the bank сорвать банк ~ банк;
    bank of issue эмиссионный банк;
    to open an account in (или with) a bank открыть счет в банке ~ банк ~ банкирский дом ~ берег (особ. реки) ~ быть банкиром ~ быть банкиром ~ вал, насыпь ~ ист. верстак (в некоторых ремеслах) ~ владеть банком ~ вносить деньги в банк ~ тех. группа( баллонов, трансформаторов и т. п.) ~ вчт. группа устройств ~ ав. делать вираж;
    накреняться ~ делать насыпь ~ держать деньги в банке ~ горн. залежь, пласт (руды, угля в открытых разработках) ~ заниматься банковским делом ~ запас ~ запруживать ~ играть шара от борта, бортов (на бильярде) ~ касса ~ ист. клавиатура (органа) ;
    bank of keys полигр. клавиатура линотипа ~ класть (деньги) в банк;
    держать (деньги) в банке;
    откладывать ~ кредитное учреждение ~ ав. крен ~ место хранения запасов ~ карт. метать банк;
    to bank (up) (on smb.) полагаться (на кого-л.) ~ карт. метать банк;
    to bank (up) (on smb.) полагаться (на кого-л.) ~ нанос;
    занос;
    bank of snow снежный занос;
    сугроб;
    bank of clouds гряда облаков ~ образовать наносы( о песке, снеге;
    часто bank up) ~ отмель, банка ~ полный состав суда ~ ист. ряд весел (на галере) ~ сгребать (в кучу), наваливать;
    окружать валом ~ ист. скамья (на галере) ~ суд ~ судейская скамья ~ фонд Bank: Bank: World ~ Международный банк реконструкции и развития
    ~ attr. банковый, банковский;
    bank account счет в банке;
    bank currency банкноты, выпущенные в обращение национальными банками
    ~ attr. банковый, банковский;
    bank account счет в банке;
    bank currency банкноты, выпущенные в обращение национальными банками
    ~ holiday установленные или дополнительные неприсутственные дни для английских служащих;
    you can't put it in the bank амер. разг. это ни к чему, от этого толку мало
    ~ нанос;
    занос;
    bank of snow снежный занос;
    сугроб;
    bank of clouds гряда облаков
    ~ банк;
    bank of issue эмиссионный банк;
    to open an account in (или with) a bank открыть счет в банке ~ of issue эмиссионный банк
    ~ ист. клавиатура (органа) ;
    bank of keys полигр. клавиатура линотипа
    ~ нанос;
    занос;
    bank of snow снежный занос;
    сугроб;
    bank of clouds гряда облаков
    blood ~ донорский пункт blood ~ запас консервированной крови и плазмы для переливания blood ~ запасы консервированной крови для переливания blood ~ хранилище консервированной крови и плазмы
    bank карт. банк;
    to break the bank сорвать банк
    chartered ~ банк, созданный на основе королевского декрета (Великобритания) chartered ~ банк, созданный на основе Закона о банках (Канада)
    clearing ~ банк - член расчетной палаты clearing ~ клиринговый банк
    commercial ~ коммерческий банк
    consortium ~ консорциальный банк
    correspondent ~ (амер.) банк-корреспондент correspondent ~ банк-корреспондент
    credit ~ кредитный банк
    data ~ вчт. банк данных data ~ банк данных data ~ вчт. банк данных data ~ вчт. информационный банк data ~ вчт. хранилище данных
    district ~ окружной банк district ~ районный банк
    drawee ~ банк, на который выписан чек drawee ~ банк-трассат
    federally chartered ~ федеральный коммерческий банк
    giro ~ жиробанк
    joint-stock ~ акционерный коммерческий банк
    learning element ~ банк учебных материалов;
    собрание учебных материалов
    lending ~ кредитный банк lending ~ ссудный банк
    loan ~ кредитный банк loan ~ ссудный банк
    member ~ банк - член Федеральной резервной системы
    merchant ~ коммерческий банк merchant ~ торговый банк
    money-center ~ банк, наиболее активно оперирующий на денежном рынке money-center ~ банк в ведущем финансовом центре
    mutual savings ~ взаимно-сберегательный банк (США)
    national ~ национальный банк national: ~ государственный;
    national anthem государственный гимн;
    national bank государственный банк;
    national park амер. заповедник;
    национальный парк
    nationwide ~ государственный банк
    note issuing ~ эмиссионнный банк
    ~ банк;
    bank of issue эмиссионный банк;
    to open an account in (или with) a bank открыть счет в банке
    parent ~ банк, владеющий контрольным пакетом акций другого банка parent ~ родительский банк
    paying ~ банк-плательщик
    piggy ~ копилка
    post office ~ почтово-сберегательный банк
    postal savings ~ почтово-сберегательный банк
    private ~ неакционерный банк private ~ семейный банк private ~ частный банк private ~ частный банкирский дом
    private credit ~ частный кредитный банк
    public ~ государственный банк
    public savings ~ государственный сберегательный банк
    satellite ~ банк-спутник
    savings ~ сберегательный банк
    state ~ государственный банк
    syndicated ~ банковский консорциум
    term ~ банк терминов
    trustee savings ~ доверительно-сберегательный банк (Великобритания)
    ~ holiday установленные или дополнительные неприсутственные дни для английских служащих;
    you can't put it in the bank амер. разг. это ни к чему, от этого толку мало

    Большой англо-русский и русско-английский словарь > bank

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