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   One of the two major political parties in democratic Portugal. It was established originally as the Popular Democratic Party / Partido Popular Democrático (PPD) in May 1974, following the Revolution of 25 April 1974 that overthrew the Estado Novo. The PPD had its roots in the "liberal wing" of the União Nacional, the single, legal party or movement allowed under the Estado Novo during the last phase of that regime, under Prime Minister Marcello Caetano. A number of future PPD leaders, such as Francisco Sá Carneiro and Francisco Balsemão, hoped to reform the Estado Novo from within, but soon became discouraged. After the 1974 Revolution, the PPD participated in two general elections (April 1975 and April 1976), which were crucial for the establishment and consolidation of democracy, and the party won sufficient votes to become the second largest political party after the Socialist Party (PS) in the number of seats held in the legislature, the Assembly of the Republic. The PPD voting results in those two elections were 26.4 percent and 24.4 percent, respectively.

   After the 1976 elections, the party changed its name from Partido Popular Democrático to Partido Social Democrático (PSD). As political opinion swung from the left to the center and center-right, and with the leadership of Francisco Sá Carneiro, the PSD gained greater popularity and strength, and from 1979 on, the party played an important role in government. After Sá Carneiro died in the air crash of December 1980, he was replaced as party chief and then prime minister by Francisco Balsemão, and then by Aníbal Cavaco Silva. As successors, these two leaders guided the PSD to a number of electoral victories, especially beginning in 1985. After 1987, the PSD held a majority of seats in parliament, a situation that lasted until 1995, when the Socialist Party (PS) won the election.

   The PSD's principal political program has featured the de-Marxi-fication of the 1976 Constitution and the economic system, a free-market economy with privatization of many state enterprises, and close ties with the European Economic Community (EEC) and subsequently the European Union (EU). After the PSD lost several general elections in 1995 and 1999, and following the withdrawal from office of former prime minister Cavaco Silva, a leadership succession crisis occurred in the party. The party leadership shifted from Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa to Manuel Durão Barroso, and, in 2004, Pedro Santana Lopes.

   During 2000 and 2001, as Portugal's economic situation worsened, the PS's popularity waned. In the December 2001 municipal elections, the PSD decisively defeated the PS and, as a result, Prime Minister António Guterres resigned. Parliamentary elections in March 2002 resulted in a Social Democratic victory, although its margin of victory over the PS was small (40 percent to 38 percent). Upon becoming premier in the spring of 2002, then, PSD leader Durão Barroso, in order to hold a slim majority of seats in the Assembly of the Republic, was obliged to govern in a coalition with the Popular Party (PP), formerly known as the Christian Democratic Party (CDS). Although the PSD had ousted the PS from office, the party confronted formidable economic and social problems. When Durão Barroso resigned to become president of the EU Commission, Pedro Santana Lopes became the PSD's leader, as prime minister in July 2004. Under Santana Lopes's leadership, the PSD lost the parliamentary elections of 2005 to the PS. Since then, the PSD has sought to regain its dominant position with the Portuguese electorate. It made some progress in doing so when its former leader, Cavaco Silva, was elected president of the Republic of 2006.

    See also Political parties.

battle

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1 Mil bataille f (for pour, against contre, between entre) ; to die in battle mourir au combat ; to fight a battle combattre ; to win/lose a battle gagner/perdre une bataille ; the Battle of Waterloo la bataille de Waterloo ; to go into battle engager le combat ; to join battle s'engager dans la bataille ; to do battle with sb se battre avec qn ; the field of battle le champ de bataille ;

2 fig lutte f (for pour, against contre, over à propos de) ; political battle lutte f politique ; takeover battle Pol lutte f de succession ; legal battle bataille f légale ; the battle is on for/to do la lutte est engagée pour/pour faire ; the battle to prevent Aids la lutte pour la prévention du sida ; it's a battle of wills between them c'est à qui l'emportera entre eux ; a battle of words un échange acerbe ; to fight one's own battles se défendre tout seul ; to fight sb's battles se battre pour le compte de qn.

B modif Mil [formation, stations, zone] de combat.

C vtr US lutter contre.

D vi Mil, fig combattre (with sb contre qn) ; to battle for se disputer [supremacy] ; lutter pour [life, survival] ; to battle to do lutter pour faire ; to battle one's way through vaincre [qch] de haute lutte [difficulties, opposition] ; he battled his way to a victory il a remporté la victoire de haute lutte.

that's half the battle c'est déjà un grand pas de fait.

■ battle on persévérer.

■ battle out: to battle it out lutter avec acharnement (for pour).

SUBJECT AREA: Electronics and information technology

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After early education at the Jonkoping elementary school and the Weixo Gymnasium, George Scheutz entered the University of Lund, gaining a degree in law in 1805. Following five years' legal work, he moved to Stockholm in 1811 to work at the Supreme Court and, in 1814, as a military auditor. In 1816, he resigned, bought a printing business and became editor of a succession of industrial and technical journals, during which time he made inventions relating to the press. It was in 1830 that he learned from the Edinburgh Review of Babbage's ideas for a difference engine and started to make one from wood, pasteboard and wire. In 1837 his 15-yearold student son, Edvard Raphael Scheutz, offered to make it in metal, and by 1840 they had a working machine with two five-digit registers, which they increased the following year and then added a printer. Obtaining a government grant in 1851, by 1853 they had a fully working machine, now known as Swedish Difference Engine No. 1, which with an experienced operator could generate 120 lines of tables per hour and was used to calculate the logarithms of the numbers 1 to 10,000 in under eighty hours. This was exhibited in London and then at the Paris Great Exhibition, where it won the Gold Medal. It was subsequently sold to the Dudley Observatory in Albany, New York, for US$5,000 and is now in a Chicago museum.

In England, the British Registrar-General, wishing to produce new tables for insurance companies, and supported by the Astronomer Royal, arranged for government finance for construction of a second machine (Swedish Difference Engine No. 2). Comprising over 1,000 working parts and weighing 1,000 lb (450 kg), this machine was used to calculate over 600 tables. It is now in the Science Museum.

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adoptive state страна пребывания allied state союзническая держава belligerent state государство, находящееся в состоянии войны border state (амер.) пограничный штат buffer state буферное государство central state центральный штат coastal state прибрежный штат common state известное состояние conquering state завоевательное государство constituent state составная страна constitutional state конституционное государство contracting state договаривающееся государство corporate state корпоративное государство (фашистского типа) current state текущее состояние demented state слабоумие in a state в волнении, в возбуждении; to work oneself into a state взвинтить себя; don't get into a state! разг. не заводись! empty state состояние незанятости federal state федеральное государство federal state федерация foreign state иностранное государство frontline state прифронтовое государство guarantor state государство-поручитель host state государство-устроитель (конференции и т.п.) in a state в беспорядке in a state в волнении, в возбуждении; to work oneself into a state взвинтить себя; don't get into a state! разг. не заводись! in a state в затруднении state положение, ранг; in a style befitting his state как подобает человеку его положения; persons in every state of life люди разного звания state великолепие, пышность; in state с помпой; to lie in state быть выставленным для прощания (о покойнике); to receive in state устраивать торжественный прием insane state состояние безумия insular state островное государство intermediate state промежуточное государство legal state правовое государство state великолепие, пышность; in state с помпой; to lie in state быть выставленным для прощания (о покойнике); to receive in state устраивать торжественный прием militaristic state военное государство nation state национальное государство no-queue state отсутствие очереди nonequilibrium state состояние неравновесия occupied state состояние занятости state положение, ранг; in a style befitting his state как подобает человеку его положения; persons in every state of life люди разного звания police state полицейское государство process state вчт. состояние процесса processor state вчт. состояние процессора protected state государство-протекторат queueing state образование очереди ready state вчт. состояние готовности state великолепие, пышность; in state с помпой; to lie in state быть выставленным для прощания (о покойнике); to receive in state устраивать торжественный прием riparian state прибрежное государство signatory state подписавшаяся страна signatory state подписавшееся государство signatory state страна, подписавшая документ stable state устойчивое состояние state великолепие, пышность; in state с помпой; to lie in state быть выставленным для прощания (о покойнике); to receive in state устраивать торжественный прием state выражать state высказывать state государственный; state business дело государственной важности; state prisoner государственный преступник; state trial суд над государственным преступником state государственный state государственный аппарат state (тж. S.) государство state государство state заявлять, утверждать state заявлять, сообщать, указывать, излагать, формулировать, констатировать, утверждать state заявлять state излагать state констатировать; формулировать; излагать; to state one's case изложить свое дело state констатировать state общественное положение state амер. относящийся к отдельному штату (в отличие от federal); State rights автономия отдельных штатов США; State Board of Education управление по делам образования в штате state относящийся к штату state парадный; торжественный; state coach парадная карета; state call разг. официальный визит state положение, состояние state положение, ранг; in a style befitting his state как подобает человеку его положения; persons in every state of life люди разного звания state положение state вчт. режим state сообщать state состояние; state of mind душевное состояние; state of health состояние здоровья; things were in an untidy state все было в беспорядке state состояние state вчт. состояние state строение, структура, форма state строение state структура state точно определять state указывать state устанавливать, точно определять; this condition was expressly stated это условие было специально оговорено state устанавливать state утверждать state формулировать state мат. формулировать, выражать знаками state штат state штат (в США) state штат state aids for industrial and service enterprises государственная помощь для предприятий промышленности и сферы услуг state амер. относящийся к отдельному штату (в отличие от federal); State rights автономия отдельных штатов США; State Board of Education управление по делам образования в штате state государственный; state business дело государственной важности; state prisoner государственный преступник; state trial суд над государственным преступником state парадный; торжественный; state coach парадная карета; state call разг. официальный визит state парадный; торжественный; state coach парадная карета; state call разг. официальный визит state in detail точно определять state of affairs положение дел state of alarm состояние боевой готовности state состояние; state of mind душевное состояние; state of health состояние здоровья; things were in an untidy state все было в беспорядке state of law правовое положение state of martial law военное положение state состояние; state of mind душевное состояние; state of health состояние здоровья; things were in an untidy state все было в беспорядке state of mind душевное состояние state of mind умонастроение state of the art pat. существующий уровень техники state of the evidence дача показаний state of the market состояние рынка state of trade состояние торговли state of war состояние войны state государственный; state business дело государственной важности; state prisoner государственный преступник; state trial суд над государственным преступником state амер. относящийся к отдельному штату (в отличие от federal); State rights автономия отдельных штатов США; State Board of Education управление по делам образования в штате state государственный; state business дело государственной важности; state prisoner государственный преступник; state trial суд над государственным преступником stationary state устойчивое состояние succession state состояние правопреемства supervisor state вчт. режим супервизора suspended state вчт. состояние ожидания task state вчт. состояние задачи terminal state вчт. окончательное состояние state состояние; state of mind душевное состояние; state of health состояние здоровья; things were in an untidy state все было в беспорядке state устанавливать, точно определять; this condition was expressly stated это условие было специально оговорено totalitarian state тоталитарное государство transitory state быстро меняющееся состояние tutelage state государство, находящееся под опекой up state вчт. работоспособное состояние user state вчт. режим пользователя vassal state вассальное государство victorious state победоносное государство wait state вчт. период ожидания welfare state государство всеобщего благосостояния welfare: the Welfare State полит. "государство всеобщего благосостояния"; welfare work мероприятия по улучшению бытовых условий (неимущих и т. п.); благотворительность what a state you are in! разг. в каком вы виде! in a state в волнении, в возбуждении; to work oneself into a state взвинтить себя; don't get into a state! разг. не заводись!