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1 program account
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2 Program Account/Allocation
Abbreviation: PAУниверсальный русско-английский словарь > Program Account/Allocation
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3 Account Network Management Program
Information technology: ANMPУниверсальный русско-английский словарь > Account Network Management Program
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4 Mailer Postage Account record
Abbreviation: MPA (2008, IMB program)Универсальный русско-английский словарь > Mailer Postage Account record
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5 Sharp National Account Program
Business: SNAPУниверсальный русско-английский словарь > Sharp National Account Program
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6 отчёт по программе
Military: program accountУниверсальный русско-английский словарь > отчёт по программе
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7 обслуживание Всемирных партнеров МОК
обслуживание Всемирных партнеров МОК
Оргкомитет «Сочи-2014» намерен полностью интегрировать осуществляемую МОК Всемирную программу и другие международные маркетинговые программы МОК в рамках своей национальной спонсорской программы. Однако Соглашением о маркетинговом плане предусматривается обслуживание Всемирных партнеров МОК силами МОК при поддержке специалистов по обслуживанию клиентов Оргкомитета «Сочи-2014». Именно подразделение по обслуживанию клиентов «Сочи-2014» будет тесно сотрудничать с МОК в целях извлечения максимальной пользы из широчайшего опыта и знаний, накопленных Всемирными партнерами МОК в ходе предыдущих Игр, а также в целях обеспечения бесперебойной координации программ МОК и Оргкомитета «Сочи-2014».
[Департамент лингвистических услуг Оргкомитета «Сочи 2014». Глоссарий терминов]EN
account service for IOC partners
Sochi 2014 is committed to the full integration of the IOC's global TOP program and other IOC worldwide marketing programs within its domestic sponsorship program. However, the Marketing Plan Agreement provides that those IOC partners are serviced by the IOC with assistance from the Sochi 2014 Client Services team. Sochi 2014 Client Services team will work closely with the IOC to ensure that Sochi 2014 derives value from the IOC sponsors' wealth of information and experience from previous Games and that there is seamless co-ordination between the IOC and Sochi 2014 programs.
[Департамент лингвистических услуг Оргкомитета «Сочи 2014». Глоссарий терминов]Тематики
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Русско-английский словарь нормативно-технической терминологии > обслуживание Всемирных партнеров МОК
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8 обслуживание национальных спонсоров Оргкомитета «Сочи-2014»
обслуживание национальных спонсоров Оргкомитета «Сочи-2014»
Оргкомитет «Сочи-2014» намерен предоставлять национальным спонсорам первоклассные услуги и оказывать им гостеприимство высочайшего уровня. Ключевыми областями обслуживания являются следующие:
• общее администрирование и управление связями со спонсорами;.
• организация и проведение рабочих встреч со спонсорами (раз в полгода);
• разработка и управление ходом реализации Программы признания спонсоров;
• создание механизма утверждения обозначений и символики для программы маркетинговой коммуникации;
• деятельность по предотвращению теневого маркетинга и обеспечение защиты бренда;
• представительские услуги спонсорам на объектах Игр.
[Департамент лингвистических услуг Оргкомитета «Сочи 2014». Глоссарий терминов]EN
account service for Sochi 2014 domestic sponsors
Sochi 2014 is committed to providing exceptional service and hospitality to its sponsors. The key areas of service include:
• overall administration and management of sponsor relationship
• organization and management of sponsor workshops semi-annually
• development and management of Sponsor recognition program
• approval of imagery and marks for marketing communications activity
• oversight for ambush marketing and brand protection
• sponsor and venue hospitality
[Департамент лингвистических услуг Оргкомитета «Сочи 2014». Глоссарий терминов]Тематики
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Русско-английский словарь нормативно-технической терминологии > обслуживание национальных спонсоров Оргкомитета «Сочи-2014»
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9 rencana
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10 Gemeinschaftsabkommen
Gemeinschaftsabkommen
joint-venture agreement;
• Gemeinschaftsanschluss (telecom.) party lines;
• Gemeinschaftsarbeit combined (coop) work, teamwork, (Autoren) joint authorship;
• Gemeinschaftsausgaben (EU) Community expenses;
• Gemeinschaftsausstellung joint presentation;
• Gemeinschaftsbesitz joint ownership;
• Gemeinschaftsbestimmungen (EU) Community rules (provisions);
• Gemeinschaftsbeteiligung joint venture;
• Gemeinschaftsbetrieb joint operation (working), common enterprise;
• Gemeinschaftsbeziehungen (EU) Community relations;
• Gemeinschaftsbilanz consolidated balance sheet;
• Gemeinschaftsbürger Community citizen;
• Gemeinschaftscharta der sozialen Grundrechte der Arbeitnehmer Community Charter of Fundamental Social Rights of Workers;
• Gemeinschaftsdepot joint deposit, alternative safe-custody (Br.) (custodianship, US) account;
• Gemeinschaftsdurchschnitt (EU) Community average;
• Gemeinschaftsebene (EU) Community level;
• auf Gemeinschaftsebene beschließen (EU) to take decision within the Community framework;
• Gemeinschaftseigentum community of goods, collective ownership, ownership in common, community estate, society goods, (Grundstück) tenancy in common;
• Gemeinschaftseinkauf group (combine) buying, cooperative purchasing, collective shopping;
• Gemeinschaftseinkauf unabhängiger Einzelhändler voluntary chain;
• Gemeinschaftseinkäufer group buyer;
• Gemeinschaftseinrichtungen (EU) Community institutions;
• Gemeinschaftserfindung joint invention;
• Gemeinschaftserzeuger EU producer;
• Gemeinschaftsetat (EU) Community budget;
• Gemeinschaftsfelder open fields;
• Gemeinschaftsfinanzierung group financing;
• Gemeinschaftsfonds joint stock, pool, mutual trust (US), (EU) Community fund;
• Gemeinschaftsforschung joint research, (EU) Community research;
• Gemeinschaftsfoto (Journalismus) pool photo;
• Gemeinschaftsgründung joint establishment;
• Gemeinschaftsgüter collective goods;
• Gemeinschaftshaushalt (EU) Community (EU) budget;
• Gemeinschaftshilfe (EU) Community aid;
• Gemeinschaftsinitiative [für den ländlichen Raum] (EU) Community initiative [for the countryside];
• Gemeinschaftskapital pooled fund;
• Gemeinschaftskasse common fund;
• Gemeinschaftskauf combine (group) buying, cooperative purchasing;
• Gemeinschaftskontenrahmen uniform system of accounts;
• Gemeinschaftskontingent (EU) Community quota;
• Gemeinschaftskonto joint (community) account;
• eheliches Gemeinschaftskonto husband-and-wife joint account;
• Gemeinschaftskonto mit Verfügungsrecht der Überlebenden survivorship account;
• Gemeinschaftskontrolle (EU) Community control;
• Gemeinschaftskredit joint and several credit;
• Gemeinschaftsmaßnahmen (EU) Community action;
• Gemeinschaftsorgan (EU) Community organ (institution);
• Gemeinschaftspatent joint patent;
• Gemeinschaftspolice joint policy, (Betrieb) group policy;
• Gemeinschaftspolitik (EU) Community (common) policy;
• Gemeinschaftspräferenzen (EU) Community preferences;
• Gemeinschaftspreise (EU) Community prices;
• Gemeinschaftsproduktion coproduction;
• Gemeinschaftsprogramm (EU) Community program(me);
• Gemeinschaftsprojekt community project;
• Gemeinschaftsrecht (EU) Community law (legislation);
• dem Gemeinschaftsrecht Geltung verschaffen (EU) to ensure enforcement of Community law;
• Gemeinschaftsrechtstexte (EU) Community legal texts;
• Gemeinschaftsrente (EU) Community pension;
• Gemeinschaftsschuld (Ehepaar) community debt;
• Gemeinschaftssekretariat typing (secretarial, typists’) pool;
• Gemeinschaftssteuer (EU) Community tax;
• Gemeinschaftsstreitigkeit dispute with the Community;
• Gemeinschaftssystem für das Umweltmanagement und die Umweltbetriebsprüfung Environmental management and audit scheme (EMAS);
• Gemeinschaftsunternehmen joint undertaking (enterprise, venture), cooperative [business] venture;
• Gemeinschaftsunternehmungen community works;
• Gemeinschaftsverfahren (EU) Community procedure;
• Gemeinschaftsverkauf cooperative selling (sales), consolidation sale;
• Gemeinschaftsvermögen collective property, social wealth;
• Gemeinschaftsverordnung (EU) Community Regulation;
• Gemeinschaftsversicherung group (collective) insurance, (Kraftfahrzeuge) fleet insurance;
• Gemeinschaftsvertrag joint compact (contract);
• Gemeinschaftsvertrieb cooperative marketing;
• Gemeinschaftsvorhaben community project, (Europäische Kernenergie Agentur) joint services;
• Gemeinschaftsvorschriften (EU) Community legislation;
• Gemeinschaftswährungen (EU) Community currencies;
• Gemeinschaftswerbesendungen cooperative programme (Br.);
• Gemeinschaftswerbung association (group, joint, cooperative, Br., coop) advertising;
• Gemeinschafts werbung in Funk und Fernsehen participating program(me);
• Gemeinschaftswerbung von Händlern und Herstellern vertical cooperative advertement;
• Gemeinschaftszentrum community center (US) (centre, Br.);
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11 Verkauf
Verkauf m 1. GEN sale, selling, vending; 2. V&M sale, sales department, selling, vending • einen Verkauf tätigen BÖRSE make a sale* * *m 1. < Geschäft> sale, selling, vending; 2. <V&M> sale, sales department, selling, vending ■ einen Verkauf tätigen < Börse> make a sale* * *Verkauf
sale, selling, vending, disposal, disposition, (Realisierung) realization;
• auf dem Bürgersteig zum Verkauf ausgelegt peddled on the pavement;
• für den Verkauf zurechtgemacht faked up for sale;
• mit dem Verkauf beauftragt entrusted with the sale of;
• zum Verkauf for (on) sale, for disposal, on the market;
• abgeschlossener Verkauf definite sale;
• bedingungsloser Verkauf absolute sale;
• betrügerischer Verkauf [mit der Absicht der Gläubigerschädigung] bogus (fraudulent) sale;
• direkter Verkauf direct sale;
• zwangsweise durchgeführter Verkauf forced (sheriff’s) sale;
• fester Verkauf firm sale;
• fiktiver Verkauf fictitious (sham) sale;
• freihändiger Verkauf voluntary (private, off-hand) sale, private treaty, sale by private contract, (Effekten) sale in the open market, over-the-counter sale (trade) (US);
• rückgängig gemachter Verkauf countermanded sale;
• frei gestalteter Verkauf sale by private treaty;
• kommissionsweiser Verkauf sale on consignment, memorandum (consignment) sale, consignment marketing;
• langsamer Verkauf (Börse) dull sales;
• lebhafter Verkauf brisk sales;
• leichter Verkauf quick sales, wrap-up;
• rascher Verkauf ready (quick) sale;
• schwerer Verkauf dull sale;
• stoßartiger Verkauf (Börse) unloading;
• vollständiger Verkauf clearance sale;
• voraussichtlicher Verkauf proforma;
• zwangsweiser Verkauf compulsory (judicial) sale;
• Terminkauf- und Verkauf double option;
• Verkauf auf Abzahlungsbasis instal(l)ment sale, hire purchase (Br.), deferred-payment sale (US);
• Verkauf von Aktien selling off of stock, sale of shares;
• Verkauf vorbehaltlich sicherer Ankunft sale to arrive (on arrival);
• Verkauf gegen Anschreiben charge sale;
• Verkauf mit Anzahlung sale on account;
• Verkauf von Anzeigenraum space selling (US coll.);
• Verkauf wegen Aufgabe des Geschäfts winding-up (liquidation) sale;
• Verkauf aufgrund einer Ausschreibung sale by tender;
• Verkauf auf Baisse bear sale (selling, Br.), selling stocks short (US), short sale (US), going short (US);
• Verkauf gegen bar cash sale;
• Verkauf gegen Barzahlung und ohne Kundendienst cash sale, sold over the counter, cash and carry (US), (Börse) cash contract;
• Verkauf gegen Barzahlung bei Lieferung cash-on-delivery sale;
• Verkauf in Bausch und Bogen sale in gross, loose-leaf (bulk, US) sale, sale per aversionem (by the bulk);
• Verkauf auf Besichtigung sale on inspection;
• Verkauf aus eigenen Beständen (Effekten) long sale;
• Verkauf von Debitoren selling accounts receivable outright (US), factoring;
• Verkauf ohne Deckung uncovered sale, bear sale (selling, Br.) [selling] short (US), short sales (US);
• Verkauf zu Deckungszwecken hedging sale;
• freihändiger Verkauf von Effekten sale in the open market;
• Verkauf mit Eigentumsübergang executed sale;
• Verkauf unter Eigentumsvorbehalt conditional sale (US) (sales contract);
• Verkauf mit persönlichem Einsatz personal selling;
• Verkauf zu Einzelhandelspreisen sail at retail, retail sale;
• Verkauf von Flugplätzen für Gruppenreisen bulk-seat sale (US);
• Verkauf im Freiverkehr sale in the open market, over-the-counter sale (US);
• Verkauf pro forma sham (pro forma) sale;
• Verkauf nach Gewicht sale according to weight;
• Verkauf mit Gewinn sale at a profit;
• Verkauf zwecks Gewinnrealisierung profit-taking sale;
• Verkauf durch den Großhandel wholesale, sale (selling) by wholesale;
• Verkauf von Grundbesitz sale of real property (realty);
• Verkauf aus zweiter Hand secondhand sale, resale;
• Verkauf durch einen Hausierer house-to-house selling;
• Verkauf einer Kapitalanleihe vor Zinsfälligkeit bond washing;
• Verkauf durch ein Kartell pool selling;
• Verkauf gegen Kasse cash sale;
• Verkauf laut Katalog sale by description;
• Verkauf aufgrund übersandten Katalogs catalog(ue) (mail-order, US) sale;
• Verkauf auf Kommissionsbasis sale on consignment, consignment (memorandum) sale;
• Verkauf auf Kreditbasis credit sale (Br.);
• direkter Verkauf an Kunden (Fabrik) direct-to-customer selling;
• Verkauf über den Ladentisch over-the-counter sale;
• Verkauf unter dem Ladentisch under-the-counter sale (trade);
• Verkauf auf Lieferung (Börse) forward sale, sale for forward (future, US) delivery, sale for account;
• Verkauf zur sofortigen Lieferung sale for prompt delivery;
• Verkauf für zukünftige Lieferung (Börse) sale for the account (Br.);
• Verkauf mit Lieferung nach Bezahlung deposit sale;
• Verkauf auf Lieferung am folgenden Tag (Börse) regular sale;
• Verkauf am offenen Markt market overt, open-market sale;
• Verkauf durch Mittelsleute indirect selling (US);
• Verkauf nach Muster sale by sample (to pattern);
• Verkauf gegen Nachnahme cash-on-delivery sale;
• Verkauf an Ort und Stelle sales on the spot;
• Verkauf durch Postversand catalog(ue) selling, direct-mail selling (US), selling by direct mail (US);
• Verkauf zu herabgesetzten Preisen bargain sale;
• Verkauf um jeden Preis hard selling;
• Verkauf unter Preis sale under price, drive (US);
• Verkauf nur an Private privately sold;
• Verkauf nach Probe sale by sample (on approval);
• Verkauf zur Probe sale on trial, memorandum sale;
• Verkauf im Rahmen eines Kartells pool selling;
• Verkauf von Ramschware rummage sale;
• Verkauf gegen Ratenzahlung hire purchase (Br.) (deferred-payment, US) sale;
• Verkauf auf Rechnung sale on account;
• Verkauf auf eigene Rechnung sale for own account;
• Verkauf auf feste Rechnung outright sale;
• Verkauf für fremde Rechnung sale for third account;
• Verkauf mit Rückgaberecht sale and return, sale with right of redemption;
• Verkauf und gleichzeitiger Rückkauf von Aktien bed and breakfast operation (Br.);
• Verkauf mit Rückkaufsrecht sale with privilege (option) of repurchase;
• Verkauf beweglicher Sachen sale of personal property, sale of chattels;
• Verkauf nach dem Schneeballsystem pyramid selling;
• Verkauf durch Selbstbedienung automatic selling;
• Verkauf unter Selbstkosten sale below cost, selling below cost (under price);
• Verkauf zum Selbstkostenpreis sale at cost price, marginal sale;
• Verkauf aufgrund einer Sonderermächtigung sale under a special power;
• Verkauf am Sonntag Sunday trading;
• Verkauf unter Spekulation auf Baisse bear sale (selling) (Br.), short sale (US), going short (US);
• Verkauf von Spezialartikeln specialty selling;
• Verkauf wie es steht und liegt as is sale, sale with all faults;
• Verkauf auf offener Straße street vending;
• Verkauf auf Termin forward sale, selling forward;
• Verkauf mit Verlust (zu Verlustpreisen) selling at a loss, losing (ruinous, sacrifice) sale, (Börse) slaughtering;
• Verkauf durch Versandgeschäft catalog(ue) (mail order, US) selling, selling by direct mail (US);
• Verkauf durch Vertreter house-to-house selling;
• Verkauf durch bestimmte Vertreter selective selling;
• Verkauf nach erfolgter Verzollung duty-paid sale;
• Verkauf unter Vorbehalt conditional sales contract;
• Verkauf unberechtigt als Markenartikel ausgezeichneter Waren passing off one’s goods as those of another make (US);
• Verkauf feuerbeschädigter Waren fire sale (US);
• Verkauf steuerfreier Waren duty-free goods sale;
• Verkauf im Wege der Versteigerung sale by (Br.) (at, US) auction;
• Verkauf unter dem Wert sacrifice sale;
• Verkauf zu Wohltätigkeitszwecken sale of work;
• Verkauf auf Zeit forward time (future, US) sale;
• Verkauf zu verschiedener Zeit und zu verschiedenen Preisen (Börse) split sale;
• Verkauf auf Ziel credit sale;
• Verkauf ab Zollager sale ex bond;
• Verkauf mit Zugaben selling with premium, premium offer (US);
• Verkauf in der Zwangsversteigerung forced (sheriff’s, execution) sale;
• Verkauf ohne Zwischenhandel direct selling (sale), sale to the market;
• Verkauf abschließen to effect (negotiate) a sale, to consummate a deal;
• günstigen Verkauf abschließen to conclude (close) a bargain;
• zum Verkauf anbieten to offer (put up) for sale;
• Verkauf annullieren to cancel (rescind) a sale;
• zum Verkauf anstehen to be on the auction block;
• Verkauf anzeigen to advertise a sale;
• zum Verkauf aufgeben to give a selling order;
• zum Verkauf aufliegen to be exposed for sale;
• zum Verkauf auslegen (ausstellen) to expose (put up, display, exhibit) for sale;
• j. mit dem Verkauf betrauen to entrust s. o. with the sale;
• Verkauf einer Sache bewirken to make sale of a thing;
• vom Verkauf übrig bleiben to be left over from a sale;
• zum Verkauf bringen to put to sale;
• Verkauf zum Abschluss bringen to negotiate a sale;
• Verkauf einstellen to suspend the sale, to stop selling;
• sich zum Verkauf entschließen to settle on selling;
• Verkauf fördern to promote sale;
• zum Verkauf gelangen to go on sale;
• für den Verkauf herrichten to adapt for sale;
• zum Verkauf kommen to be sold, to come into the market;
• Verkauf rückgängig machen to rescind a sale;
• bei einem Verkauf mitwirken to attend a sale;
• zum Verkauf staatliche Finanzierungshilfe in Anspruch nehmen to sell by working through government program(me)s;
• zum Verkauf [auf dem Grundstücksmarkt] angeboten sein to be in the [real-estate] market;
• mit dem Verkauf von etw. beauftragt sein to be entrusted with the selling of s. th.;
• zum Verkauf stehen to be [up] for sale;
• Verkauf tätigen to negotiate (effect) a sale;
• beim Verkauf übergehen (Eigentum) to pass by sale;
• zum Verkauf übernehmen to take on sale;
• jem. den Verkauf übertragen to entrust s. o. with the sale;
• zum Verkauf angeboten werden to come into the market;
• Verkauf widerrufen to avoid a sale;
• zum freien Verkauf zulassen to deration (Br.);
• vom Verkauf zurücktreten to rescind a sales contract;
• einem vom bevollmächtigten Vertreter getätigten Verkauf zustimmen to ratify a sale made under power of attorney;
• zum Verkauf zwingen (Börse) to squeeze out. -
12 dudoso
adj.1 doubtful, insecure, in doubt, hesitant.2 doubtful, uncertain, unlikely, improbable.3 dubious, arguable, doubtable, doubtful.4 of dubious origin, fishy, louche.* * *► adjetivo1 (incierto) doubtful, uncertain2 (vacilante) hesitant, undecided3 (sospechoso) suspicious, dubious4 (poco seguro) questionable* * *(f. - dudosa)adj.1) doubtful2) dubious3) questionable* * *dudoso, -a1. ADJ1) (=incierto) [diagnóstico, futuro] doubtful, uncertain; [resultado] indecisivede origen dudoso — of doubtful o uncertain origin
aún es dudosa su colaboración — it's still uncertain whether he will collaborate, his collaboration is still uncertain
2) (=vacilante) [persona] hesitantestar dudoso — to be undecided, be in two minds
3) (=sospechoso) [actuación, dinero, reputación] dubiousel empleo de tácticas dudosas — the use of suspect o dubious tactics
2.SM / Fel voto de los dudosos — the "undecided" vote
* * *- sa adjetivoa) ( incierto) doubtfullo veo dudoso — it's doubtful, I doubt it
b) <costumbres/moral> dubious, questionable; < victoria> dubious; < decisión> dubiousc) ( indeciso) hesitant, undecided* * *= suspect, dodgy [dodgier -comp., dodgiest -sup.], doubtful, dubious, questionable, suspicious, suspicious, unconvinced, dicey [dicier -comp., diciest -sup.], uncleared, iffy [iffier -comp., iffiest -sup.], rocky [rockier -comp., rockiest -sup.], borderline, fishy [fishier -comp., fishiest -sup.], fly-by-night, dubious-sounding.Ex. The utility, in information service terms, of a narrow technical education is suspect.Ex. The statistical procedures from Czchekoslovakia and Romania have been pretty dodgy and unsatisfactory.Ex. Without AACR is doubtful whether computerised cataloguing would have been implemented so relatively painlessly and successfully = Sin las RCAA es dudoso que la catalogación automatizada se hubiera implementado tan fácilmente y con tanto éxito, relativamente hablando.Ex. On no account should the schedules of a classification scheme be modified in order to gain some dubious advantage of this kind.Ex. It was questionable if the talent available was fit for the rather specific purposes of SLIS.Ex. This can make them reluctant to accept or suspicious of outside help.Ex. This program can also discover misconfigured or faulty applications that generate suspicious data traffic.Ex. Many educators still remain unconvinced of the value of school libraries in the school.Ex. Predicting the future is dicey.Ex. Its relation to cognitive impairment is as yet uncleared.Ex. I think we have some chance to get Friday in, but Saturday is dead meat without any doubt whatsoever and Sunday is pretty iffy.Ex. The English is a little rocky on this lovely web site but we have it on good word that the original French is très bien.Ex. An indication that the Commission would be prepared to accept a borderline project would provide a useful lever when the application is passed to the UK Government.Ex. This is when children are not really concerned with scientific truth; they believe in Father Christmas anyway, even if there lurks the suspicion that there is something rather fishy about it all.Ex. What I was reading about looked like a really genuine and reliable way of earning good money that didn't involve some fly-by-night, get-rich-quick scheme.Ex. But I seem to get an awful lot of people trying to interest me in dubious-sounding business propositions.----* con dudosa reputación = disreputable.* conseguido de manera dudosa = ill-gotten.* estar dudoso = be doubtful.* proceder dudoso = unfair practice.* que parece dudoso = dubious-sounding.* ser dudoso = be doubtful.* * *- sa adjetivoa) ( incierto) doubtfullo veo dudoso — it's doubtful, I doubt it
b) <costumbres/moral> dubious, questionable; < victoria> dubious; < decisión> dubiousc) ( indeciso) hesitant, undecided* * *= suspect, dodgy [dodgier -comp., dodgiest -sup.], doubtful, dubious, questionable, suspicious, suspicious, unconvinced, dicey [dicier -comp., diciest -sup.], uncleared, iffy [iffier -comp., iffiest -sup.], rocky [rockier -comp., rockiest -sup.], borderline, fishy [fishier -comp., fishiest -sup.], fly-by-night, dubious-sounding.Ex: The utility, in information service terms, of a narrow technical education is suspect.
Ex: The statistical procedures from Czchekoslovakia and Romania have been pretty dodgy and unsatisfactory.Ex: Without AACR is doubtful whether computerised cataloguing would have been implemented so relatively painlessly and successfully = Sin las RCAA es dudoso que la catalogación automatizada se hubiera implementado tan fácilmente y con tanto éxito, relativamente hablando.Ex: On no account should the schedules of a classification scheme be modified in order to gain some dubious advantage of this kind.Ex: It was questionable if the talent available was fit for the rather specific purposes of SLIS.Ex: This can make them reluctant to accept or suspicious of outside help.Ex: This program can also discover misconfigured or faulty applications that generate suspicious data traffic.Ex: Many educators still remain unconvinced of the value of school libraries in the school.Ex: Predicting the future is dicey.Ex: Its relation to cognitive impairment is as yet uncleared.Ex: I think we have some chance to get Friday in, but Saturday is dead meat without any doubt whatsoever and Sunday is pretty iffy.Ex: The English is a little rocky on this lovely web site but we have it on good word that the original French is très bien.Ex: An indication that the Commission would be prepared to accept a borderline project would provide a useful lever when the application is passed to the UK Government.Ex: This is when children are not really concerned with scientific truth; they believe in Father Christmas anyway, even if there lurks the suspicion that there is something rather fishy about it all.Ex: What I was reading about looked like a really genuine and reliable way of earning good money that didn't involve some fly-by-night, get-rich-quick scheme.Ex: But I seem to get an awful lot of people trying to interest me in dubious-sounding business propositions.* con dudosa reputación = disreputable.* conseguido de manera dudosa = ill-gotten.* estar dudoso = be doubtful.* proceder dudoso = unfair practice.* que parece dudoso = dubious-sounding.* ser dudoso = be doubtful.* * *dudoso -sa1 (incierto) doubtfullo veo dudoso it's doubtful, I doubt itsu participación aún está dudosa it is still uncertain whether they will take partes dudoso que cumpla su promesa it's doubtful o I doubt whether he'll keep his promise2 ‹costumbres/moral› dubious, questionable; ‹victoria› dubiousuna campaña publicitaria de dudoso gusto an advertising campaign in dubious o doubtful tasteuna decisión dudosa a doubtful o dubious decision3 (indeciso) hesitant, undecided* * *
dudoso◊ -sa adjetivo
dudoso,-a adjetivo
1 (poco probable) unlikely, doubtful
(incierto) los orígenes de la creación son dudosos, the origins of creation are uncertain
(con pocas garantías) la atribución a Velázquez es dudosa, the attribution to Velazquez is doubtful
2 (indeciso, vacilante) undecided: estaba dudoso, he was hesitant
3 (turbio) dubious
' dudoso' also found in these entries:
Spanish:
dudosa
- incierto
- oscuro
English:
bad debt
- borderline
- doubtful
- dubious
- moot
- questionable
- touch
- uncertain
- border
* * *dudoso, -a adj1. [improbable] doubtful;una palabra de origen dudoso a word of doubtful origin;lo veo dudoso I doubt it;ser dudoso (que) to be doubtful (whether), to be unlikely (that);es dudoso que asista a la reunión it's unlikely (that) he'll attend the meeting, it's doubtful whether he'll attend the meeting2. [vacilante] hesitant, indecisive;estaba dudoso sobre qué hacer she was unsure about what to do3. [sospechoso] questionable, dubious;un individuo de dudosa reputación an individual of dubious reputation;una broma de gusto dudoso a joke in questionable taste;un penalti dudoso a dubious penalty* * *adj1 ( incierto) doubtful, dubious2 ( indeciso) hesitant* * *dudoso, -sa adj1) : doubtful2) : dubious, questionable♦ dudosamente adv* * *dudoso adj (en general) doubtfulestoy dudoso, no sé qué coche elegir I'm doubtful, I don't know which car to choose -
13 en gran medida
= broadly, by and large, extensively, greatly, heavily, largely, to a considerable extent, to a high degree, to a large extent, tremendously, vastly, very much, keenly, in no small way, to any great degree, in many ways, in large part, in large measure, in no small measure, to a great extent, to a large degree, to a great degreeEx. These can be broadly categorised into the following two groups.Ex. This has been the case with newspapers which by and large have changed very little over the past century.Ex. Fiction classifications are used extensively in public libraries.Ex. The computer can greatly assist in thesaurus compilation and updating.Ex. Regular overhaul of guiding is important, especially for the new user who may rely heavily upon it.Ex. The reason for its popularity was largely that it was based upon a principle of conformity in essentials, and freedom in details.Ex. If the report is to a considerable extent in the words of the reporter then entry will be made under the heading for the reporter.Ex. UDC recognizes, to a high degree, the value of synthesis in classification.Ex. Variations in the extent of the description between a set of entries account to a large extent for the distinction between main, added and unit entries.Ex. The importance of the practicum in the curriculum has ebbed and flowed tremendously throughout the history of library education.Ex. And with the advent of computers, we have vastly accelerated the pace at which we are proceeding.Ex. She is still very much a children's book borrower with a smattering of titles taken from the applied sciences, which in Susan's case meant books on cookery and needlework.Ex. Those of us who deal with cooperatively produced catalogs and buy MARC tapes from a vendor will certainly feel the effects of all this keenly.Ex. His excellent rapport with Congress was in no small way responsible for the progress made by LC during his administration.Ex. Consumer advice centres were not used to any great degree by the working classes or those groups most at risk as consumers -- the elderly, divorced, widowed and separated.Ex. In many ways, the order in DC is poor, separating language (400) from literature (800), and history (900) from the other social sciences (300) = En muchos sentidos, el orden de la CD es pobre al separar la lengua (400) de la literatura (800) y la historia (900) de las otras ciencias sociales (300).Ex. Only journals published in the USA and devoted exclusively or in large part to the literature of social gerontology are described here.Ex. Despite their weight of numbers, nurses have not been accorded a pre-eminent place in hospitals, and in large measure they continue to rely on medical libraries for their information needs.Ex. Although it may have taken a little while to find its feet, this collection is now a most significant resource in its own right, due in no small measure by the stimulation provided by Victorian historians.Ex. To a great extent, these are self-explanatory reasons.Ex. To a large degree, the image an institution creates is determined by the leader who is the directing force of that institution.Ex. To a great degree, it is the faculty that make the Stanford psychology program so reputable.* * *= broadly, by and large, extensively, greatly, heavily, largely, to a considerable extent, to a high degree, to a large extent, tremendously, vastly, very much, keenly, in no small way, to any great degree, in many ways, in large part, in large measure, in no small measure, to a great extent, to a large degree, to a great degreeEx: These can be broadly categorised into the following two groups.
Ex: This has been the case with newspapers which by and large have changed very little over the past century.Ex: Fiction classifications are used extensively in public libraries.Ex: The computer can greatly assist in thesaurus compilation and updating.Ex: Regular overhaul of guiding is important, especially for the new user who may rely heavily upon it.Ex: The reason for its popularity was largely that it was based upon a principle of conformity in essentials, and freedom in details.Ex: If the report is to a considerable extent in the words of the reporter then entry will be made under the heading for the reporter.Ex: UDC recognizes, to a high degree, the value of synthesis in classification.Ex: Variations in the extent of the description between a set of entries account to a large extent for the distinction between main, added and unit entries.Ex: The importance of the practicum in the curriculum has ebbed and flowed tremendously throughout the history of library education.Ex: And with the advent of computers, we have vastly accelerated the pace at which we are proceeding.Ex: She is still very much a children's book borrower with a smattering of titles taken from the applied sciences, which in Susan's case meant books on cookery and needlework.Ex: Those of us who deal with cooperatively produced catalogs and buy MARC tapes from a vendor will certainly feel the effects of all this keenly.Ex: His excellent rapport with Congress was in no small way responsible for the progress made by LC during his administration.Ex: Consumer advice centres were not used to any great degree by the working classes or those groups most at risk as consumers -- the elderly, divorced, widowed and separated.Ex: In many ways, the order in DC is poor, separating language (400) from literature (800), and history (900) from the other social sciences (300) = En muchos sentidos, el orden de la CD es pobre al separar la lengua (400) de la literatura (800) y la historia (900) de las otras ciencias sociales (300).Ex: Only journals published in the USA and devoted exclusively or in large part to the literature of social gerontology are described here.Ex: Despite their weight of numbers, nurses have not been accorded a pre-eminent place in hospitals, and in large measure they continue to rely on medical libraries for their information needs.Ex: Although it may have taken a little while to find its feet, this collection is now a most significant resource in its own right, due in no small measure by the stimulation provided by Victorian historians.Ex: To a great extent, these are self-explanatory reasons.Ex: To a large degree, the image an institution creates is determined by the leader who is the directing force of that institution.Ex: To a great degree, it is the faculty that make the Stanford psychology program so reputable. -
14 orden permanente de pago
* * *(n.) = standing accountEx. The program is written in dBase 3 and runs on an IBM PC/XT, and reports the number of searches performed and prints end-of-the-month invoices for users unassociated with the university but with standing accounts.* * ** * *(n.) = standing accountEx: The program is written in dBase 3 and runs on an IBM PC/XT, and reports the number of searches performed and prints end-of-the-month invoices for users unassociated with the university but with standing accounts.
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15 pelea
f.1 fight (a golpes).peleas callejeras street fighting2 row, quarrel (riña).3 combat, armed struggle, engagement.pres.indicat.3rd person singular (él/ella/ello) present indicative of spanish verb: pelear.imperat.2nd person singular (tú) Imperative of Spanish verb: pelear.* * *2 (esfuerzo) struggle\buscar pelea to look for trouble* * *noun f.1) fight2) quarrel3) row* * *SF [a golpes, patadas] fight; (=discusión, riña) quarrel, rowgallo de pelea — fighting cock, gamecock
* * *a) ( discusión) quarrel, fight (colloq), argumentbuscar pelea — to try to pick a quarrel o fight
tuvimos una pelea — we quarreled o had an argument
b) ( en sentido físico) fightc) ( en boxeo) fight* * *= scramble, fight, quarrel, fray, donnybrook, run-in, altercation, fighting, bickering, squabble, squabbling, brawl, rumble, fistfight, dust-up.Ex. Mergers and acquisitions are playing an increasing important part in corporate strategies, stimulated by the scramble for market position in the new Europe.Ex. The proud mother, as a result, had been a leader in the fight to establish a program for the 'gifted and talented' in the public school system.Ex. The following account of a quarrel which took place in about 1540 between Thomas Platter and Balthasar Ruch comes from Platter's autobiography = El siguiente relato de la pelea que tuvo lugar alreadedor de 1540 entre Thomas Platter y Balthasar Ruch procede de la autobiografía del mismo Platter.Ex. The academic librarian, by remaining neutral, can stay above the fray and does not need to take sides in order to provide scholars with access to the truth.Ex. Feaver mentioned that she and Claverhouse frequently engage in some real ' donnybrooks,' as she put it, which invariably include a lot of amicable bantering, whenever they discuss anything.Ex. 'When you've been here a while, you'll see that it's hard to avoid run-ins with her,' Lehmann spoke up.Ex. Then I came within this disagreeable person's atmosphere, and lo! before I know what's happened I'm involved in an unpleasant altercation.Ex. The children were involved in manual labour, guard duty, front-line fighting, bomb manufacture, setting sea/land mines & radio & communication.Ex. Even if the management decided to make an arbitrary decision, it would be better than the endless bickering and ad-hoc measures we are having to put up with.Ex. One might mistakenly be left with the impression that the crisis is a mere 'banana republic' squabble over power.Ex. The DVD-RW drive has arrived but not without lots of squabbling among industry competitors.Ex. About 75% of all personal acts of violence (murder, assault and battery), 90% of vandalism, 75% of public brawls, & more than 50% of burglaries & thefts are alcohol-related.Ex. It is common practice for gang members to make sure that the police are informed of an impending rumble.Ex. Gone are the days of the good old fistfight, where instead of grabbing a gun, a knife or a bat to end an argument, you actually used your fist to make your point.Ex. The annual global dust-up over whale hunting is about to kick off again.----* pelea a bofetadas = face-slapping.* pelea a muerte = fight to death.* pelea a puñetazos = fistfight.* pelea de almohadas = pillow fight.* pelea de boxeo = prize fight, boxing match.* pelea de perros = dogfight [dog fight].* pelea hasta la muerte = fight to death.* separar una pelea = break up + fight.* * *a) ( discusión) quarrel, fight (colloq), argumentbuscar pelea — to try to pick a quarrel o fight
tuvimos una pelea — we quarreled o had an argument
b) ( en sentido físico) fightc) ( en boxeo) fight* * *= scramble, fight, quarrel, fray, donnybrook, run-in, altercation, fighting, bickering, squabble, squabbling, brawl, rumble, fistfight, dust-up.Ex: Mergers and acquisitions are playing an increasing important part in corporate strategies, stimulated by the scramble for market position in the new Europe.
Ex: The proud mother, as a result, had been a leader in the fight to establish a program for the 'gifted and talented' in the public school system.Ex: The following account of a quarrel which took place in about 1540 between Thomas Platter and Balthasar Ruch comes from Platter's autobiography = El siguiente relato de la pelea que tuvo lugar alreadedor de 1540 entre Thomas Platter y Balthasar Ruch procede de la autobiografía del mismo Platter.Ex: The academic librarian, by remaining neutral, can stay above the fray and does not need to take sides in order to provide scholars with access to the truth.Ex: Feaver mentioned that she and Claverhouse frequently engage in some real ' donnybrooks,' as she put it, which invariably include a lot of amicable bantering, whenever they discuss anything.Ex: 'When you've been here a while, you'll see that it's hard to avoid run-ins with her,' Lehmann spoke up.Ex: Then I came within this disagreeable person's atmosphere, and lo! before I know what's happened I'm involved in an unpleasant altercation.Ex: The children were involved in manual labour, guard duty, front-line fighting, bomb manufacture, setting sea/land mines & radio & communication.Ex: Even if the management decided to make an arbitrary decision, it would be better than the endless bickering and ad-hoc measures we are having to put up with.Ex: One might mistakenly be left with the impression that the crisis is a mere 'banana republic' squabble over power.Ex: The DVD-RW drive has arrived but not without lots of squabbling among industry competitors.Ex: About 75% of all personal acts of violence (murder, assault and battery), 90% of vandalism, 75% of public brawls, & more than 50% of burglaries & thefts are alcohol-related.Ex: It is common practice for gang members to make sure that the police are informed of an impending rumble.Ex: Gone are the days of the good old fistfight, where instead of grabbing a gun, a knife or a bat to end an argument, you actually used your fist to make your point.Ex: The annual global dust-up over whale hunting is about to kick off again.* pelea a bofetadas = face-slapping.* pelea a muerte = fight to death.* pelea a puñetazos = fistfight.* pelea de almohadas = pillow fight.* pelea de boxeo = prize fight, boxing match.* pelea de perros = dogfight [dog fight].* pelea hasta la muerte = fight to death.* separar una pelea = break up + fight.* * *1 (riña, discusión) quarrel, fight ( colloq), argumentanda siempre buscando pelea he's always trying to pick a quarrel o fight, he's always looking for an argumentes ella la que siempre está armando pelea she's the one who always starts the fightstuvimos una pelea we quarreled o had an argument2 (en sentido físico) fight3 (en boxeo) fightCompuesto:(literal) cockfight; (discusión acalorada) shouting match* * *
Del verbo pelear: ( conjugate pelear)
pelea es:
3ª persona singular (él/ella/usted) presente indicativo2ª persona singular (tú) imperativo
Multiple Entries:
pelea
pelear
pelea sustantivo femenino
◊ buscar pelea to try to pick a quarrel o fight;
tuvimos una pelea we quarreled o had an argument
pelear ( conjugate pelear) verbo intransitivo
◊ peleaon por una tontería they quarreled o (colloq) had a fight over a silly little thing
( terminar) to break up, split up
pelea por algo to fight over sth
pelearse verbo pronominal
( pegarse) to fight;
pelease por algo to quarrel/fight over sth
( terminar) to break up, split up
pelea sustantivo femenino
1 (lucha) fight
2 (discusión) row, quarrel: siempre está buscando pelea, he's always trying to pick a quarrel
pelear verbo intransitivo
1 (luchar) to fight
2 (discutir) to quarrel, argue
3 (esforzarse por algo) to work hard
' pelea' also found in these entries:
Spanish:
bronca
- callejera
- callejero
- contienda
- deslucir
- disputa
- gallera
- gallero
- gallo
- gresca
- lance
- reñida
- reñido
- riña
- tomo
- trapisonda
- amañar
- andar
- armar
- bochinche
- interponerse
- intervenir
- lucha
- parado
- peleador
- rendir
- tongo
English:
aggro
- argument
- bang
- bust-up
- culminate
- fight
- fistfight
- pick
- punch-up
- rough-and-tumble
- roughhouse
- row
- run-in
- scrap
- spoil for
- struggle
- tussle
- work up to
- brawl
- bust
- ensue
- falling
- fist
- quarrel
- spoil
* * *pelea nf1. [a golpes] fight;una pelea cuerpo a cuerpo a hand-to-hand fight2. [discusión] row, quarrel3. [combate] fight;una pelea de gallos a cockfight* * *f fight* * *pelea nf1) lucha: fight2) : quarrel* * *pelea n1. (lucha) fight2. (riña) quarrel / row -
16 piano
1. adj flat2. adv ( adagio) slowly( a voce bassa) quietly, in a low voice3. m plan( pianura) planedi edificio floormusic pianopiano rialzato mezzanine (floor)primo piano foregroundphotography close-up* * *piano1 agg.1 flat, level, even: paese piano, flat country; strada piana, level road; superficie piana, level (o even) surface; terreno piano, level ground // mettere in piano, to lay flat // corsa piana, flat race; correre i 400 metri piani, to run the 400 metres flat race6 (gramm.) paroxytone7 (mus.) piano.piano2 avv.1 ( sommessamente) softly, quietly: puoi suonare un po' più piano, per favore?, could you play more quietly please?; fa' piano, altrimenti lo svegli, don't make a noise or you'll wake him up; parla così piano che non lo sento, he speaks in such a low voice (o so low) that I can't hear him2 (mus.) piano3 ( lentamente) slowly, slow: va' piano, go slowly; camminare piano, to walk slowly; la nebbia si diradò pian piano, the fog gradually dispersed; sto cominciando pian piano a capire, I'm just beginning to understand; pian piano ci riuscirò, little by little I shall succeed in it // chi va piano va sano e va lontano, (prov.) slow and steady wins the race4 ( con cautela) gently, carefully: fa' piano, ché lo strappi, be careful or you'll tear it; sollevalo piano perché si rompe facilmente, lift it up gently because it breaks easily; piano con le spese!, go easy on spending!; vacci piano con quel vino: è forte, go easy with that wine, it's very strong.piano3 s.m.1 ( terreno pianeggiante) plain; flat land, level land: dopo qualche chilometro di piano, comincia la salita, after some miles on the level, the ground begins to rise; scendere dalla montagna al piano, to go down the mountain to the plain2 ( superficie piana) plane (anche fis.); surface; top: il piano della tavola, the top of the table; piano di lavoro, work top (o work surface); (amer.) ( in cucina) counter; piano di marmo, marble top; il piano della seggiola, the seat of the chair // piano cottura, hob // piano stradale, road surface // (fis.): piano orizzontale, inclinato, horizontal, inclined plane; piano principale, principal plane; piano di simmetria, plane of symmetry; piano equatoriale, equatorial plane; piano di polarizzazione, plane of polarization // (aer.): piano alare, wing plane; piani di coda, tail unit // (mar.) piano di galleggiamento, water plane // (mecc.) piano di riscontro, surface plate // (ferr.) piano di caricamento, loading platform // (geol.): piano stratigrafico, stage; piano di stratificazione, bedding plane; piano di faglia, fault plane3 ( di casa) floor, storey; (di nave, autobus) deck: il piano superiore di un edificio, the top storey (o floor) of a building; piano terreno, piano terra, ground floor (o amer. first floor); primo piano, first floor (o amer. second floor); abito al terzo piano, I live on the third floor; a due piani, two-storied; autobus a due piani, double-decker; una casa di quindici piani, a fifteen-storied building (o a building of fifteen storeys) // una torta a tre piani, a three-tier (ed) cake4 ( livello) plane, level: siamo sullo stesso piano, we are on the same plane (o level); mettere due cose sullo stesso piano, to put two things on the same level // un artista di primo piano, an artist of the first rank (o a first-rate artist); una persona di primo piano, a prominent person (o a person in the limelight o in the public eye) // un particolare di secondo piano, a detail of secondary importance // passare in secondo piano, to be overshadowed (o superseded)6 (inform.) desk; scheme.piano4 s.m.1 plan; scheme, project, programme: piano di studi, plan (o programme) of studies; piano di lavoro, schedule (o work programme); piano d'azione, policy; piano operativo, operations plan; fare piani, to plan (o to make plans); avere dei piani per il futuro, to have plans for the future; rovinare, far saltare i piani a qlcu., to wreck s.o.'s plans; la polizia è riuscita a sventare il piano dei rapinatori, the police managed to foil the robbers' plan // (amm.): piano dei conti, chart of accounts (o account classification); piano regolatore, town-planning scheme (o spec. amer. zoning regulations); piano di pensionamento, pension scheme; piano di prepensionamento, job release scheme (o project) // (econ.): piano economico, economic plan; piano quinquennale dell'agricoltura, five-year agricultural plan; piano di investimento, investment plan; piano di riparto degli utili, profit appropriation account; piano di pubblicità, advertising plan; piano delle vendite, sales plan; piano di sviluppo, development plan; piano di sviluppo delle vendite, sales promotion plan; piano di compartecipazione agli utili, profit-sharing scheme; piano di finanziamento, credit scheme; piano di pagamento rateale, time-payment plan; piano verde, Agricultural Development Scheme; piano per la Ricostruzione Economica, piano Marshall, Marshall Plan // ( assicurazioni) piano assicurativo, insurance schemepiano5 → pianoforte.* * *['pjano] I piano (-a)1. agg1) (piatto) flat, level, (senza asperità) smooth, Mat plane attrcorsa piana Sport — flat race
2. avvvai piano! — (in macchina) drive slowly!
vacci piano! — (fig : non esagerare: nel bere) take it easy with that!, (nelle minacce) calm down!, (nel lodarsi) come off it!
attento, fai piano! — (fa' meno rumore) don't make so much noise!, (sta' attento) watch out!, be careful!
parla più piano — (lentamente) speak more slowly, (a bassa voce) lower your voice, keep your voice down
pian piano — (lentamente) very slowly, (poco a poco) little by little
pian pianino o pian piano siamo arrivati — slowly but surely we got there
pian pianino o pian piano ha acquistato una certa esperienza — he gradually acquired experience
3. smII ['pjano]mettere tutto sullo stesso piano — to lump everything together, give equal importance to everything
1. smnon era nei nostri piani — we hadn't intended to do it, we hadn't planned on doing so
2.III ['pjano] smMus piano* * *I 1. ['pjano]1) (piatto) [ superficie] flat, level, even2) mat. [geometria, figura] plane3) (semplice) [spiegazione, discorso] plain, clear, simple4) ling.parola -a — = word having an accent on the penultimate syllable
5) sport2.posare qcs. in piano — to lay sth. (down) flat
1) (con delicatezza) [partire, frenare] slowly, gently2) (a bassa voce) [ parlare] softly, gently, quietly3) (lentamente) [avvicinarsi, camminare] slowly4) pian(o) piano little by little••••chi va piano va sano e va lontano — prov. slow and steady wins the race
Note:Quando ci si riferisce al piano di un edificio, bisogna ricordare che in inglese britannico piano terra si dice ground floor mentre primo / secondo... piano si traducono first / second... floor. In inglese americano, piano terra si dice invece first floor, cosicché il primo piano sarà second floor ecc. Si ricordi anche che si usa floor per indicare il singolo piano ( abito al quinto piano = I live on the fifth floor) ma storey per indicare il numero dei piani di un edificio ( un grattacielo di 55 piani = a 55-storey skyscraper)II ['pjano]sostantivo maschile1) (superficie piana) flat surface; (di tavolo, mobile) top2) (terreno pianeggiante) plain, flat land3) (livello) levelbalzare in primo piano — [notizia, problema] to come to the fore
passare in secondo piano — [persona, problema] to be pushed (in)to the background, to take second place
di primo piano — [personaggio, ruolo] leading; [opera, evento] major
di secondo piano — [personaggio, ruolo, evento] minor
4) cinem. fot. (inquadratura)in primo piano — in close-up, in the foreground
5) (di edificio) floor, storey BE, story AE; (di autobus, aereo) deckprimo piano — first BE o second AE floor
al piano superiore o di sopra upstairs, on the next floor; al piano inferiore o di sotto — downstairs, on the floor below
•piano americano — cinem. thigh shot
piano sequenza — cinem. sequence shot
III ['pjano]piano stradale — roadway, road surface
sostantivo maschile1) (programma) plan, scheme, programme BE, program AE2) (progetto) plan, layout•piano di battaglia — mil. battle map; fig. plan of action
IV ['pjano]piano pensionistico o di pensionamento pension plan; piano regolatore = urban planning regulations; piano di studi — univ. = list of courses that a university student plans to take in a term
* * *piano1/'pjano/2 mat. [geometria, figura] plane3 (semplice) [spiegazione, discorso] plain, clear, simple4 ling. parola -a = word having an accent on the penultimate syllable5 sport cento metri -i hundred metres sprintII avverbio1 (con delicatezza) [partire, frenare] slowly, gently; piano! piano! easy (does it)! steady! vacci piano con il gin! go easy on the gin!3 (lentamente) [avvicinarsi, camminare] slowly; vai più piano! slow down!4 pian(o) piano little by littlechi va piano va sano e va lontano prov. slow and steady wins the race.————————piano2/'pjano/Quando ci si riferisce al piano di un edificio, bisogna ricordare che in inglese britannico piano terra si dice ground floor mentre primo / secondo... piano si traducono first / second... floor. In inglese americano, piano terra si dice invece first floor, cosicché il primo piano sarà second floor ecc. Si ricordi anche che si usa floor per indicare il singolo piano ( abito al quinto piano = I live on the fifth floor) ma storey per indicare il numero dei piani di un edificio ( un grattacielo di 55 piani = a 55-storey skyscraper).sostantivo m.1 (superficie piana) flat surface; (di tavolo, mobile) top2 (terreno pianeggiante) plain, flat land3 (livello) level; mettere due persone sullo stesso piano to put two people on the same level; balzare in primo piano [notizia, problema] to come to the fore; passare in secondo piano [persona, problema] to be pushed (in)to the background, to take second place; di primo piano [personaggio, ruolo] leading; [opera, evento] major; di secondo piano [personaggio, ruolo, evento] minor4 cinem. fot. (inquadratura) primo piano close-up; in primo piano in close-up, in the foreground; secondo piano middle distance5 (di edificio) floor, storey BE, story AE; (di autobus, aereo) deck; primo piano first BE o second AE floor; al piano superiore o di sopra upstairs, on the next floor; al piano inferiore o di sotto downstairs, on the floor belowpiano americano cinem. thigh shot; piano ammezzato mezzanine; piano di cottura hob; piano interrato basement; piano di lavoro worktop; piano sequenza cinem. sequence shot; piano stradale roadway, road surface.————————piano3/'pjano/sostantivo m.1 (programma) plan, scheme, programme BE, program AE; piano quinquennale five-year plan; fare -i to make plans; tutto è andato secondo i -i everything went according to plan2 (progetto) plan, layoutpiano d'azione plan of action; piano di battaglia mil. battle map; fig. plan of action; piano pensionistico o di pensionamento pension plan; piano regolatore = urban planning regulations; piano di studi univ. = list of courses that a university student plans to take in a term.————————piano4/'pjano/ ⇒ 34→ pianoforte. -
17 anécdota
f.anecdote, tale, story, account.* * *1 anecdote* * *SF anecdote, story* * *femenino anecdote* * *= yarn, anecdote.Ex. Every teacher, I suppose, has his own collection of favorite yarns based on personal experiences.Ex. For instance, if a person is working on building a radio program, the librarian should provide her with background information that helps to set the tone of the program, with facts and foibles of celebrities, with case histories of successful campaigns, with analogies, quotations, and anecdotes, and so on.----* contar una anécdota = tell + story.* persona que sabe contar anécdotas = raconteur.* * *femenino anecdote* * *= yarn, anecdote.Ex: Every teacher, I suppose, has his own collection of favorite yarns based on personal experiences.
Ex: For instance, if a person is working on building a radio program, the librarian should provide her with background information that helps to set the tone of the program, with facts and foibles of celebrities, with case histories of successful campaigns, with analogies, quotations, and anecdotes, and so on.* contar una anécdota = tell + story.* persona que sabe contar anécdotas = raconteur.* * *anecdote* * *
anécdota sustantivo femenino
anecdote
anécdota sustantivo femenino anecdote
' anécdota' also found in these entries:
Spanish:
sabrosa
- sabroso
- jugoso
- salado
English:
anecdote
- off-color
- off-colour
- story
* * *anécdota nf1. [historia] anecdote;nos contó una anécdota muy graciosa he told us a very amusing anecdote o story2. [suceso trivial] matter of little importance;el incidente fue una mera anécdota the incident was of no importance* * *f anecdote* * *anécdota nf: anecdote -
18 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, 714-1140The 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, 1140-1385Two 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 inPortugal (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, 1385-1580The 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, 1580-1640Despite 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, 1640-1822Foreign 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 theChurch (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, 1822-1910During 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, 1910-26Portugal'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), 1926-74During 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, 1974-76Following 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 untilUN intervention in September 1999. Following UN rule for several years, East Timor attained full independence on 20 May 2002.Consolidation of Democracy, 1976-2000After 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. -
19 crónica
adj.&f.feminine of CRÓNICO.f.chronicle, documented report, article, report.* * *1 (gen) account, chronicle2 (en periódico) article, column, feature4 HISTORIA chronicle\crónica de sociedad society column, social columncrónica de sucesos news in brief, news headlines plural* * *1. noun f. 2. f., (m. - crónico)* * *SF1) [de periódico] feature, article; (Radio, TV) report"Crónica de sucesos" — "News in Brief"
crónica de sociedad — society column, gossip column
2) ( Hist) chronicle; (fig) account, chronicle3) pl Crónicas (Biblia) Chronicles* * *a) (Period) report, article; (Rad, TV) reportcrónica deportiva/de sociedad — sport(s)/society page (o section etc)
b) (Hist) chronicle* * *= chronicle.Ex. The economically told chronicle of Slake's adventures is an eloquent study of poverty, of fear, and finally of hope as circumstances converge to force Slake from his temporary limbo.----* crónica de sociedad = gossip column.* * *a) (Period) report, article; (Rad, TV) reportcrónica deportiva/de sociedad — sport(s)/society page (o section etc)
b) (Hist) chronicle* * *= chronicle.Ex: The economically told chronicle of Slake's adventures is an eloquent study of poverty, of fear, and finally of hope as circumstances converge to force Slake from his temporary limbo.
* crónica de sociedad = gossip column.* * *crónica deportiva/literaria/de sociedad sport(s)/literary/society page ( o section etc)2 ( Hist) chronicle* * *
crónica sustantivo femenino
(Rad, TV) report;◊ crónica deportiva/de sociedad sport(s)/society page (o section etc)b) (Hist) chronicle
crónico,-a adjetivo chronic
crónica sustantivo femenino
1 Hist chronicle: nos hizo una crónica apasionante de su viaje, he gave us a thrilling account of his journey
2 Prensa feature, article
' crónica' also found in these entries:
Spanish:
enfermedad
- producir
English:
chronic
- chronicle
- history
- commentary
- gossip
- repetitive
- report
* * *crónica nf1. [de la historia] chronicle2. [de un periódico] column;[de la televisión] feature, programme;la crónica deportiva the sports news o report;Amla crónica roja the crime reports* * *f chronicle; en periódico report* * *crónica nf1) : news report2) : chronicle, history -
20 Ausgabenfreudigkeit
Ausgabenfreudigkeit
free spending;
• Ausgabenfreudigkeit der Verbraucherschaft consumer spending;
• Ausgabengesetz spending bill;
• Ausgabengewohnheit spending habit;
• amtlich festgelegte Ausgabengrenzen cash ceilings;
• Ausgabengröße level of spending;
• Ausgabengruppe category of expenditure;
• jährliche Ausgabenhöchstbeträge festsetzen to lay down annual expenditure limits;
• Ausgabenhöchstgrenze festsetzen to set a limit to expenses, to put a ceiling on spending;
• Ausgabenhöhe expenditure ceiling;
• Ausgabenkonto expense account;
• Ausgabenkontrollbogen check register;
• steuerlich anerkannte Ausgabenkosten allowable expenditure;
• Ausgabenkürzung cut in expenditure, expenditure (spending) cut, curtailment (retrenchment) of expenses;
• Ausgabenneigung [marginal] propensity (willingness) to spend;
• wieder belebte Ausgabenneigung spending revival;
• Ausgabenobergrenze spending ceiling;
• Ausgaben-Orgie spend-fest (sl.);
• Ausgabenplafond expenditure ceiling;
• Ausgabenposten expense item, item of expense;
• steuerlich anerkannte Ausgabenposten allowable expenditure;
• Ausgabenprioritäten spending priorities;
• Ausgabenprogramm expenditure program(me);
• staatliches Ausgabenprogramm government spending program(me);
• Ausgabenprogramm der öffentlichen Hand (Regierung) public spending plan, government’s spending program(me);
• Ausgabenquote spending rate;
• Ausgabenrechnung calculation of expenses (expenditure), bill of costs;
• Ausgabenrückgang spending shortfall;
• Ausgabenschätzung budget (spending) estimate;
• Ausgabenschema scheme of expenditure;
• Ausgabenschwerpunkt budget emphasis;
• Ausgabenseite payment (spending) side;
• Ausgabensektor der öffentlichen Hand sector of public expenditure;
• Ausgabenspielraum scope for spending;
• Ausgabensteuern outlay taxes;
• Ausgabenstimmung spending mood;
• staatlicher Ausgabenstopp ceiling to government spending;
• Ausgabenstreichung disallowance of disbursement, spending axe;
• Ausgabenstrom cash outflow;
• Ausgabenstruktur expenditure (cost) pattern;
• gesteigertes Ausgabentempo acceleration of spending;
• Ausgabentrend trend of spending;
• Ausgabenüberhang excess of expenditure over revenue;
• Ausgabenübernahme auf Kapitalkonto capitalization of expenditure;
• Ausgabenüberschüsse excessive spending;
• Ausgabenverhalten der Verbraucher spending behavio(u)r of consumers;
• Ausgabenverteilung distribution of expenses;
• Ausgabenverzeichnis list (schedule) of expenses;
• Ausgabenverzögerung expenditure lag;
• Ausgabenvollmacht spending power;
• Ausgabenvolumen total expenditure, volume of spending;
• Ausgabenvoranschlag estimates of expenditure;
• Ausgabenvorgabe expenditure target.
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program trading — Trading on financial markets using computer programs. The programs used trigger trading automatically once certain limits are reached. It was said to account for some 10% of the daily turnover on the New York Stock Exchange in the late 1980s and… … Big dictionary of business and management
User Account Control — (UAC) is a technology and security infrastructure introduced with Microsoft s Windows Vista operating system. It aims to improve the security of Microsoft Windows by limiting application software to standard user privileges until an administrator … Wikipedia
Medical savings account (United States) — Health care in the United States Public health care Federal Employees Health Benefits Program Indian Health Service Medicaid Medicare Military Health System / TRICARE State Children s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) Veterans Health… … Wikipedia
Millennium Challenge Account — The Millennium Challenge Account (MCA), run by the Millennium Challenge Corporation, is a bilateral development fund announced by the Bush administration in 2002 and created in January, 2004. OriginAt the Inter American Development Bank on March… … Wikipedia
TM-Sidhi program — The TM Sidhi program is a form of meditation introduced by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi in 1975. It is based on, and described as a natural extension of the Transcendental Meditation technique (TM).[1][2] The purpose of the TM Sidhi program is to… … Wikipedia
Frequent-flyer program — For other uses, see frequent flyer (disambiguation). A frequent flyer program (FFP) is a loyalty program offered by many airlines. Typically, airline customers enrolled in the program accumulate frequent flyer miles (kilometers, points, segments) … Wikipedia
State Children's Health Insurance Program — The State Children s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) – later known more simply as the Children s Health Insurance Program (CHIP)[1] – is a program administered by the United States Department of Health and Human Services that provides matching… … Wikipedia
Community bicycle program — Community bicycle programs (also known as Yellow bicycle programs, White bicycle programs, bike sharing, public bike or free bike) are one element of an international movement to build environmentally friendly transportation.Community programs… … Wikipedia