mining agents

(n.) = intelligent agent, mining agent, intelligent search agent, search agent

Ex. Intelligent agents are specialized software designed to search through electronic mail and databases, and scan networks for interesting pieces of news and information on behalf of a single searcher.

Ex. The article is entitled 'Complementing search engines with online web mining agents'.

Ex. The author reviews the range of software designed to act as intelligent search agents to assist users find materials of interest in the Internet.

Ex. Search agents could be used for monitoring the World Wide Web, or searching newspapers.

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1 seeking, searching.

2 homing.

1 seeker, searcher.

2 search engine.

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► adjetivo

1 searching

► nombre masculino,nombre femenino

1 searcher, seeker

► nombre masculino buscador

1 (anteojo) finder

2 INFORMÁTICA search engine

► nombre masculino

1 (anteojo) finder

2 INFORMÁTICA search engine

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SM / F (=persona)

2. SM

1) (Internet) search engine

2) (=mecanismo) scanner

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- dora masculino, femenino

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= seeker, portal, search engine, crawler, Web crawler, spider, intelligent agent, mining agent, intelligent search agent, search agent, digger, prospector.

Ex. The cards in the index are liable to become disorganized if inexperienced information seekers tamper with the index.

Ex. Portals are those Web sites which tend to be the starting points for Internet users and are the most intensively used consumer Web sites in the world.

Ex. The number of World Wide Web (WWW) databases or search engines has grown rapidly = El total de bases de datos o buscadores World Wide Web ha aumentado rápidamente.

Ex. Automated ' crawlers' index the complete text of Web documents = Los ' motores de búsqueda' indizan el texto completo de los documentos web.

Ex. The Internet search engines, such as AltaVista and Excite, send out robots or Web crawlers to trawl the Internet and automatically index the files that they find.

Ex. These spiders dynamically take a user's selected starting homepages and search the most closely related homepages on the Web, based on links and keyword indexing = Estos buscadores usan dinámicamente las páginas web principales seleccionadas por un usuario y buscan en la web las páginas más estrechamente relacionadas que contengan enlaces y palabras clave asignadas similares.

Ex. Intelligent agents are specialized software designed to search through electronic mail and databases, and scan networks for interesting pieces of news and information on behalf of a single searcher.

Ex. The article is entitled 'Complementing search engines with online web mining agents'.

Ex. The author reviews the range of software designed to act as intelligent search agents to assist users find materials of interest in the Internet.

Ex. Search agents could be used for monitoring the World Wide Web, or searching newspapers.

Ex. Based on real events on the Australian goldfields in the 1850s, 'Three Diggers' chronicles the adventures of three gold prospectors.

Ex. In 1897 he quit a wretchedly underpaid job and set out to make his fortune as a prospector in the gemstone fields of Alice Springs.

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* buscador de empleo = job applicant, job seeker.

* buscador de información = information seeker, searcher.

* buscador de oro = gold digger, gold prospector.

* buscador de trabajo = job applicant, job seeker.

* buscador por materias = subject gateway.

* buscador web = Web spider.

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- dora masculino, femenino

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buscador de oro gold prospector

buscador de tesoros treasure hunter

buscador masculine ( Inf) search engine

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◊ - dora sustantivo masculino, femenino: buscador de oro gold prospector;

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♦ nm,f

hunter;

buscador de oro gold prospector

♦ nm

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I m, buscadora f searcher

II m INFOR search engine

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buscador, - dora n

: hunter (for treasure, etc.), prospector

(1939-1945)

   In the European phase of the war, neutral Portugal contributed more to the Allied victory than historians have acknowledged. Portugal experienced severe pressures to compromise her neutrality from both the Axis and Allied powers and, on several occasions, there were efforts to force Portugal to enter the war as a belligerent. Several factors lent Portugal importance as a neutral. This was especially the case during the period from the fall of France in June 1940 to the Allied invasion and reconquest of France from June to August 1944.

   In four respects, Portugal became briefly a modest strategic asset for the Allies and a war materiel supplier for both sides: the country's location in the southwesternmost corner of the largely German-occupied European continent; being a transport and communication terminus, observation post for spies, and crossroads between Europe, the Atlantic, the Americas, and Africa; Portugal's strategically located Atlantic islands, the Azores, Madeira, and Cape Verde archipelagos; and having important mines of wolfram or tungsten ore, crucial for the war industry for hardening steel.

   To maintain strict neutrality, the Estado Novo regime dominated by Antônio de Oliveira Salazar performed a delicate balancing act. Lisbon attempted to please and cater to the interests of both sets of belligerents, but only to the extent that the concessions granted would not threaten Portugal's security or its status as a neutral. On at least two occasions, Portugal's neutrality status was threatened. First, Germany briefly considered invading Portugal and Spain during 1940-41. A second occasion came in 1943 and 1944 as Great Britain, backed by the United States, pressured Portugal to grant war-related concessions that threatened Portugal's status of strict neutrality and would possibly bring Portugal into the war on the Allied side. Nazi Germany's plan ("Operation Felix") to invade the Iberian Peninsula from late 1940 into 1941 was never executed, but the Allies occupied and used several air and naval bases in Portugal's Azores Islands.

   The second major crisis for Portugal's neutrality came with increasing Allied pressures for concessions from the summer of 1943 to the summer of 1944. Led by Britain, Portugal's oldest ally, Portugal was pressured to grant access to air and naval bases in the Azores Islands. Such bases were necessary to assist the Allies in winning the Battle of the Atlantic, the naval war in which German U-boats continued to destroy Allied shipping. In October 1943, following tedious negotiations, British forces began to operate such bases and, in November 1944, American forces were allowed to enter the islands. Germany protested and made threats, but there was no German attack.

   Tensions rose again in the spring of 1944, when the Allies demanded that Lisbon cease exporting wolfram to Germany. Salazar grew agitated, considered resigning, and argued that Portugal had made a solemn promise to Germany that wolfram exports would be continued and that Portugal could not break its pledge. The Portuguese ambassador in London concluded that the shipping of wolfram to Germany was "the price of neutrality." Fearing that a still-dangerous Germany could still attack Portugal, Salazar ordered the banning of the mining, sale, and exports of wolfram not only to Germany but to the Allies as of 6 June 1944.

   Portugal did not enter the war as a belligerent, and its forces did not engage in combat, but some Portuguese experienced directly or indirectly the impact of fighting. Off Portugal or near her Atlantic islands, Portuguese naval personnel or commercial fishermen rescued at sea hundreds of victims of U-boat sinkings of Allied shipping in the Atlantic. German U-boats sank four or five Portuguese merchant vessels as well and, in 1944, a U-boat stopped, boarded, searched, and forced the evacuation of a Portuguese ocean liner, the Serpa Pinto, in mid-Atlantic. Filled with refugees, the liner was not sunk but several passengers lost their lives and the U-boat kidnapped two of the ship's passengers, Portuguese Americans of military age, and interned them in a prison camp. As for involvement in a theater of war, hundreds of inhabitants were killed and wounded in remote East Timor, a Portuguese colony near Indonesia, which was invaded, annexed, and ruled by Japanese forces between February 1942 and August 1945. In other incidents, scores of Allied military planes, out of fuel or damaged in air combat, crashed or were forced to land in neutral Portugal. Air personnel who did not survive such crashes were buried in Portuguese cemeteries or in the English Cemetery, Lisbon.

   Portugal's peripheral involvement in largely nonbelligerent aspects of the war accelerated social, economic, and political change in Portugal's urban society. It strengthened political opposition to the dictatorship among intellectual and working classes, and it obliged the regime to bolster political repression. The general economic and financial status of Portugal, too, underwent improvements since creditor Britain, in order to purchase wolfram, foods, and other materials needed during the war, became indebted to Portugal. When Britain repaid this debt after the war, Portugal was able to restore and expand its merchant fleet. Unlike most of Europe, ravaged by the worst war in human history, Portugal did not suffer heavy losses of human life, infrastructure, and property. Unlike even her neighbor Spain, badly shaken by its terrible Civil War (1936-39), Portugal's immediate postwar condition was more favorable, especially in urban areas, although deep-seated poverty remained.

   Portugal experienced other effects, especially during 1939-42, as there was an influx of about a million war refugees, an infestation of foreign spies and other secret agents from 60 secret intelligence services, and the residence of scores of international journalists who came to report the war from Lisbon. There was also the growth of war-related mining (especially wolfram and tin). Portugal's media eagerly reported the war and, by and large, despite government censorship, the Portuguese print media favored the Allied cause. Portugal's standard of living underwent some improvement, although price increases were unpopular.

   The silent invasion of several thousand foreign spies, in addition to the hiring of many Portuguese as informants and spies, had fascinating outcomes. "Spyland" Portugal, especially when Portugal was a key point for communicating with occupied Europe (1940-44), witnessed some unusual events, and spying for foreigners at least briefly became a national industry. Until mid-1944, when Allied forces invaded France, Portugal was the only secure entry point from across the Atlantic to Europe or to the British Isles, as well as the escape hatch for refugees, spies, defectors, and others fleeing occupied Europe or Vichy-controlled Morocco, Tunisia, and Algeria. Through Portugal by car, ship, train, or scheduled civil airliner one could travel to and from Spain or to Britain, or one could leave through Portugal, the westernmost continental country of Europe, to seek refuge across the Atlantic in the Americas.

   The wartime Portuguese scene was a colorful melange of illegal activities, including espionage, the black market, war propaganda, gambling, speculation, currency counterfeiting, diamond and wolfram smuggling, prostitution, and the drug and arms trade, and they were conducted by an unusual cast of characters. These included refugees, some of whom were spies, smugglers, diplomats, and business people, many from foreign countries seeking things they could find only in Portugal: information, affordable food, shelter, and security. German agents who contacted Allied sailors in the port of Lisbon sought to corrupt and neutralize these men and, if possible, recruit them as spies, and British intelligence countered this effort. Britain's MI-6 established a new kind of "safe house" to protect such Allied crews from German espionage and venereal disease infection, an approved and controlled house of prostitution in Lisbon's bairro alto district.

   Foreign observers and writers were impressed with the exotic, spy-ridden scene in Lisbon, as well as in Estoril on the Sun Coast (Costa do Sol), west of Lisbon harbor. What they observed appeared in noted autobiographical works and novels, some written during and some after the war. Among notable writers and journalists who visited or resided in wartime Portugal were Hungarian writer and former communist Arthur Koestler, on the run from the Nazi's Gestapo; American radio broadcaster-journalist Eric Sevareid; novelist and Hollywood script-writer Frederick Prokosch; American diplomat George Kennan; Rumanian cultural attache and later scholar of mythology Mircea Eliade; and British naval intelligence officer and novelist-to-be Ian Fleming. Other notable visiting British intelligence officers included novelist Graham Greene; secret Soviet agent in MI-6 and future defector to the Soviet Union Harold "Kim" Philby; and writer Malcolm Muggeridge. French letters were represented by French writer and airman, Antoine Saint-Exupery and French playwright, Jean Giroudoux. Finally, Aquilino Ribeiro, one of Portugal's premier contemporary novelists, wrote about wartime Portugal, including one sensational novel, Volframio, which portrayed the profound impact of the exploitation of the mineral wolfram on Portugal's poor, still backward society.

   In Estoril, Portugal, the idea for the world's most celebrated fictitious spy, James Bond, was probably first conceived by Ian Fleming. Fleming visited Portugal several times after 1939 on Naval Intelligence missions, and later he dreamed up the James Bond character and stories. Background for the early novels in the James Bond series was based in part on people and places Fleming observed in Portugal. A key location in Fleming's first James Bond novel, Casino Royale (1953) is the gambling Casino of Estoril. In addition, one aspect of the main plot, the notion that a spy could invent "secret" intelligence for personal profit, was observed as well by the British novelist and former MI-6 officer, while engaged in operations in wartime Portugal. Greene later used this information in his 1958 spy novel, Our Man in Havana, as he observed enemy agents who fabricated "secrets" for money.

   Thus, Portugal's World War II experiences introduced the country and her people to a host of new peoples, ideas, products, and influences that altered attitudes and quickened the pace of change in this quiet, largely tradition-bound, isolated country. The 1943-45 connections established during the Allied use of air and naval bases in Portugal's Azores Islands were a prelude to Portugal's postwar membership in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).

SUBJECT AREA: Canals, Mining and extraction technology

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Younger son of a gentleman farmer, Gilbert was apprenticed to Matthew Boulton, a buckle maker of Birmingham and father of the Matthew Boulton who was associated with James Watt. He also gained mining experience. Through the influence of his older brother, Thomas Gilbert, he became Land Agent to the Duke of Bridgewater (Francis Egerton) for the Worsley estate. He proposed extensions to the underground waterway system and also made a preliminary survey for a canal from Worsley to Salford, a project which Brindley joined as Assistant Engineer. Gilbert was therefore the prime mover in the construction of the Bridgewater Canal, which received its Act in 1759. He then collected evidence for the second Act to permit construction of the aqueduct across the Irwell at Barton. He was involved in a consortium with his brother Thomas and Earl Gower to develop the Earl's East Shropshire mines and to build the Shrewsbury and the Shropshire Coal Canals. He also excavated the Speedwell Mine at Castleton in Derbyshire between 1774 and 1781 and constructed the underground canal to serve the workings. With his brother, he was involved in the promotion of the Trent \& Mersey Canal and was a shareholder in the undertaking. Among his other entrepreneurial activities, he entered the canal-carrying business. His last work was beginning the underground inclined planes at Worsley, but these were not completed until after his death. His important place in the historical development of the inland navigational system in England has been very much overlooked.

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1) Meteorology: atmospheric effects

2) Mining: atmospheric agent

3) Makarov: atmospheric phenomena

4) Cement: atmospheric agents

1) General subject: direct action, direct-action, nondelay

2) Military: immediate action (о взрывателе), quick-acting, superquick

3) Engineering: direct-acting

4) Mining: instantaneous (об электродетонаторе), non-delay

5) Electronics: snap-action

6) Drilling: instantaneous, snappy

7) Arms production: nondelay (о взрывателе), nondelay-action (о взрывателе)

8) Chemical weapons: instant agents OB

9) Makarov: immediate-action

1) Military: blasting gear, demolition means, firing system

2) Mining: blasting agents, blasting suppls, means of initiation

3) Makarov: blasting supplies

1) Mining: floatation chemicals

2) Makarov: flotation agents

1) Naval: chemical resistance

2) Engineering: chemical durability, chemical endurance, chemical stability

3) Chemistry: reagent resistance

4) Construction: resistance to chemical attack

5) Mining: stability (взрывчатого вещества)

6) Packing: resistance to chemical agents

7) Polymers: chemical fastness, chemical inertness

8) Combustion gas turbines: resistance to chemical attack (материала, детали)

SUBJECT AREA: Canals, Mining and extraction technology

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He was the older brother of John Gilbert and, trained as a lawyer, he became Land Agent to Earl Gower and Legal Adviser to the Duke of Bridgewater (Francis Egerton). Brindley had carried out work for Gilbert on the Gower estates and the standard of work impressed him. In 1759 he recommended Brindley to his brother at Worsley as a competent engineer who would be valuable in the construction of the new canal. Gilbert became Member of Parliament for Newcastle under Lyme in 1763 and was thus able to sponsor the Trent and Mersey Bill when it came before Parliament. He joined the committee of the Trent and Mersey, representing the interests of both Earl Gower and himself. He was also involved with the East Shropshire mines and canals with his brother. He continued as a Member of Parliament (until 1768 for Newcastle and afterwards for Lichfield) until December 1794.

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accident office бюро по несчастным случаям accountant's office бухгалтерия accounting office бухгалтерия office служба, должность; an office under Government место на государственной службе; an honorary office почетная должность under: England office the Stuarts Англия в эпоху Стюартов; an office under Government государственная служба application for office просьба о зачислении на должность appointment to office назначение на должность appointment to office назначение на место appointment to office назначение на пост assay office пробирная палата assessment office налоговое управление audit office ревизионное управление automated office автоматизированное бюро to take (или to enter upon) office вступать в должность; to be in office быть у власти office контора, канцелярия; амер. кабинет врача; to be in the office служить в конторе, в канцелярии; dentist's office амер. зубоврачебный кабинет booking office билетная касса branch office отделение branch office филиал branch post office местное почтовое отделение branch post office филиал почтового отделения broking firm's office представительство брокерской фирмы building office строительное управление business office торговая контора Cabinet office секретариат кабинета министров cargo registration office бюро регистрации грузов cash office касса cash office помещение кассы cashier's office касса cashier's office помещение кассы central office главная контора central office главный офис clearance office расчетная палата clearance office расчетное учреждение clearing office расчетная палата clearing office расчетное учреждение company registration office бюро регистрации компаний complaints office бюро рекламаций county revenue office налоговая инспекция округа criminal records office учреждение, ведущее регистрацию преступлений customs office таможня data processing office отдел обработки данных delivery post office почтовое отделение доставки office контора, канцелярия; амер. кабинет врача; to be in the office служить в конторе, в канцелярии; dentist's office амер. зубоврачебный кабинет dismissal from office освобождение от должности dispatch office экспедиционная контора distraint office орган, налагающий арест на имущество в обеспечение выполнения долга district office окружная контора district office районное отделение district office районный офис drawing office конструкторский отдел drawing office конструкторское бюро eligibility for office право на занятие должности eligible for office имеющий право на занятие должности employment office бюро по найму рабочей силы employment office бюро по трудоустройству exchange control office центр валютного контроля exchange office пункт обмена валюты express parcels office отделение срочной доставки посылок foreign exchange office пункт обмена иностранной валюты forwarding office станция отправления forwarding office транспортно-экспедиторская контора forwarding office транспортно-экспедиторское учреждение front office администрация корпорации front office главное управление front office дилерская комната front office дирекция front office правление фирмы front office руководство организации front office руководящие круги full-time office штатная должность general post office главный почтамт to get (или to come) into office принять дела, приступить к исполнению служебных обязанностей; to win office победить на выборах, прийти к власти office разг. намек, знак; to give (to take) the office сделать (понять) намек office услуга; good office любезность, одолжение; ill office плохая услуга government office правительственное учреждение head office главная контора head office правление head office управление head post office почт. главный почтамт honorary office неоплачиваемая должность honorary office почетная должность housing office управление по жилищному строительству office услуга; good office любезность, одолжение; ill office плохая услуга in office в должности in office у власти ineligible for office лишенный права занятия должности, лишенный права на пребывание в должности information office справочно-информационное бюро inquiry office справочное бюро inquiry office справочный стол recruiting office призывной пункт; inquiry office справочное бюро; our London office наш филиал в Лондоне issuing office отдел исходящих документов office обязанность, долг; функция; it is my office to open the mail в мои обязанности входит вскрывать почту joint sales office совместный отдел сбыта judicial office судебная должность judicial office юридическое бюро (палаты лордов) labour office отдел кадров land registry office государственная контора, регистрирующая земельные сделки office церковная служба; обряд; Office for the Dead заупокойная служба; the Office of the Mass обедня; the last offices похоронный обряд law office адвокатская фирма law office контора адвокатов law office судебное ведомство law office юридическая фирма to hold office занимать пост; to leave (или to resign) office уйти с должности licensing office отдел лицензий life office контора по страхованию жизни local branch office контора местного отделения local government office муниципальное учреждение local office местная контора; местное бюро local office местная контора lost property office бюро находок luggage registration office отделение регистрации багажа main office главная контора main office главное управление mining office управление горной промышленности ministerial office канцелярия министра ministerial office министерство misconduct in office нарушение служебных обязанностей municipal architect's office управление архитектора города municipal office муниципальное управление national debt office отдел банка по государственному долгу national registration office государственное бюро записи актов гражданского состояния non-eligibility for office отсутствие права на занятие должности non-eligible for office не имеющий права на зянятие должности notary's office нотариальная контора office бюро office ведомство, министерство, контора, канцелярия office ведомство, министерство; управление; Office of Education Федеральное управление просвещения (в США) office ведомство office должность office канцелярия office контора, канцелярия; амер. кабинет врача; to be in the office служить в конторе, в канцелярии; dentist's office амер. зубоврачебный кабинет office контора office министерство office разг. намек, знак; to give (to take) the office сделать (понять) намек office обязанность, долг; функция; it is my office to open the mail в мои обязанности входит вскрывать почту office обязанность office офис office пост office расследование по вопросам, связанным с правом короны на недвижимое или движимое имущество office служба, должность; an office under Government место на государственной службе; an honorary office почетная должность office служба office pl службы при доме (кладовые и т. п.) office служебное помещение office управление office услуга office услуга; good office любезность, одолжение; ill office плохая услуга office учреждение office функция office церковная служба; обряд; Office for the Dead заупокойная служба; the Office of the Mass обедня; the last offices похоронный обряд office block административное здание; здание, в котором помещаются конторы разных фирм office церковная служба; обряд; Office for the Dead заупокойная служба; the Office of the Mass обедня; the last offices похоронный обряд office ведомство, министерство; управление; Office of Education Федеральное управление просвещения (в США) office of future отдел перспективного планирования office of issue эмитент office of notary public государственная нотариальная контора office of patent agents бюро патентных поверенных office церковная служба; обряд; Office for the Dead заупокойная служба; the Office of the Mass обедня; the last offices похоронный обряд recruiting office призывной пункт; inquiry office справочное бюро; our London office наш филиал в Лондоне paperless office вчт. безбумажное учреждение paperless office организация с безбумажным делопроизводством parcels office грузовая контора parcels office ж.-д. посылочное отделение patent office патентное бюро patent office патентное ведомство patent: office office бюро патентов; patent right амер. патент pay office платежная касса pay office платежное учреждение pay office финансовая часть payment office касса period in office период нахождения в должности personnel office отдел кадров placement office бюро трудоустройства post office почтовое отделение prefect's office префектура Prime Minister's Office канцелярия премьер-министра public employment office государственная контора по трудоустройству public office государственное учреждение public office муниципальное учреждение public: office общественный; государственный; public man общественный деятель; public office государственное, муниципальное или общественное учреждение public prosecutor's office прокуратура public record office государственный архив record: Record Office, Public Record Office Государственный архив public relations office отдел по связям с общественными организациями purchasing office офис компании, где оформляются все ее покупки Record Office государственный архив (Великобритания) record: Record Office, Public Record Office Государственный архив recruiting office призывной пункт; inquiry office справочное бюро; our London office наш филиал в Лондоне regional office региональное бюро regional office региональное управление register office бюро записи актов гражданского состояния register office регистратура register: office office = registry registered office зарегистрированная контора registered office официальный адрес правления компании registered office юридический адрес компании registrar's office регистрационное бюро registry office регистратура; отдел записи актов гражданского состояния removal from office смещение с должности representative office представительство revenue office бюро налогов и сборов salary office отдел заработной платы sales office отдел сбыта shipping office транспортная контора social service office бюро социального обслуживания social welfare office бюро социального обеспечения sorting office сортировочный отдел State Accident Compensation Office Государственное управление (бюро) по выплате компенсаций в связи с несчастным случаем status inquiry office орган обследования общественного положения to take (или to enter upon) office вступать в должность; to be in office быть у власти take office вступать в должность tax collector's office налоговое управление tax office налоговое управление ticket office билетная касса tourist information office туристическое бюро vacant office вакансия vacant office вакантная должность wage office касса wage office расчетный отдел to get (или to come) into office принять дела, приступить к исполнению служебных обязанностей; to win office победить на выборах, прийти к власти