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    1. n
    1) преимущество, привилегия; льгота
    2) выгода, прибыль
    3) польза, благо
    4) пенсия, пособие

    - accident benefit
    - additional benefits
    - cash benefit
    - commercial benefit
    - cost benefit
    - death benefit
    - de minimis fringe benefits
    - dependant's benefit
    - disability benefit
    - disablement benefit
    - economic benefits
    - employee benefits
    - financial benefit
    - fringe benefits
    - future death benefits
    - health benefit
    - immediate benefit
    - incidental benefit
    - industrial injuries benefit
    - injury benefit
    - insurance benefit
    - intangible benefit
    - lavish benefits
    - maternity benefit
    - medical benefit
    - medicare benefit
    - mutual benefit
    - nonwage benefits
    - old-age benefit
    - pecuniary benefit
    - pension benefit
    - personal benefit
    - potential benefit
    - preferential benefit
    - prime benefit
    - public assistance benefit
    - recognized benefit
    - residual benefit
    - retirement benefit
    - sickness benefit
    - side benefits
    - social benefit
    - social security benefits
    - strike benefit
    - survivors' benefit
    - unemployment benefit
    - veterans' benefits
    - welfare benefit
    - benefit in cash
    - benefit in kind
    - the benefit
    - be entitled to benefits
    - be entitled to full GATT membership benefits
    - derive a benefit
    - draw unemployment benefit
    - exclude benefits from gross income
    - inure to smb's benefit
    - obtain benefit
    - rework current benefits
    - benefits, provided to the victims of a terrorist act
    2. v
    1) приносить пользу; приносить прибыль
    2) получать пользу; извлекать выгоду

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    1. модульный центр обработки данных (ЦОД)

     

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    [ http://loosebolts.wordpress.com/2008/12/02/our-vision-for-generation-4-modular-data-centers-one-way-of-getting-it-just-right/]

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    Data Centers are a hot topic these days. No matter where you look, this once obscure aspect of infrastructure is getting a lot of attention. For years, there have been cost pressures on IT operations and this, when the need for modern capacity is greater than ever, has thrust data centers into the spotlight. Server and rack density continues to rise, placing DC professionals and businesses in tighter and tougher situations while they struggle to manage their IT environments. And now hyper-scale cloud infrastructure is taking traditional technologies to limits never explored before and focusing the imagination of the IT industry on new possibilities.

    В настоящее время центры обработки данных являются широко обсуждаемой темой. Куда ни посмотришь, этот некогда малоизвестный аспект инфраструктуры привлекает все больше внимания. Годами ИТ-отделы испытывали нехватку средств и это выдвинуло ЦОДы в центр внимания, в то время, когда необходимость в современных ЦОДах стала как никогда высокой. Плотность серверов и стоек продолжают расти, все больше усложняя ситуацию для специалистов в области охлаждения и организаций в их попытках управлять своими ИТ-средами. И теперь гипермасштабируемая облачная инфраструктура подвергает традиционные технологии невиданным ранее нагрузкам, и заставляет ИТ-индустрию искать новые возможности.

    At Microsoft, we have focused a lot of thought and research around how to best operate and maintain our global infrastructure and we want to share those learnings. While obviously there are some aspects that we keep to ourselves, we have shared how we operate facilities daily, our technologies and methodologies, and, most importantly, how we monitor and manage our facilities. Whether it’s speaking at industry events, inviting customers to our “Microsoft data center conferences” held in our data centers, or through other media like blogging and white papers, we believe sharing best practices is paramount and will drive the industry forward. So in that vein, we have some interesting news to share.

    В компании MicroSoft уделяют большое внимание изучению наилучших методов эксплуатации и технического обслуживания своей глобальной инфраструктуры и делятся результатами своих исследований. И хотя мы, конечно, не раскрываем некоторые аспекты своих исследований, мы делимся повседневным опытом эксплуатации дата-центров, своими технологиями и методологиями и, что важнее всего, методами контроля и управления своими объектами. Будь то доклады на отраслевых событиях, приглашение клиентов на наши конференции, которые посвящены центрам обработки данных MicroSoft, и проводятся в этих самых дата-центрах, или использование других средств, например, блоги и спецификации, мы уверены, что обмен передовым опытом имеет первостепенное значение и будет продвигать отрасль вперед.

    Today we are sharing our Generation 4 Modular Data Center plan. This is our vision and will be the foundation of our cloud data center infrastructure in the next five years. We believe it is one of the most revolutionary changes to happen to data centers in the last 30 years. Joining me, in writing this blog are Daniel Costello, my director of Data Center Research and Engineering and Christian Belady, principal power and cooling architect. I feel their voices will add significant value to driving understanding around the many benefits included in this new design paradigm.

    Сейчас мы хотим поделиться своим планом модульного дата-центра четвертого поколения. Это наше видение и оно будет основанием для инфраструктуры наших облачных дата-центров в ближайшие пять лет. Мы считаем, что это одно из самых революционных изменений в дата-центрах за последние 30 лет. Вместе со мной в написании этого блога участвовали Дэниел Костелло, директор по исследованиям и инжинирингу дата-центров, и Кристиан Белади, главный архитектор систем энергоснабжения и охлаждения. Мне кажется, что их авторитет придаст больше веса большому количеству преимуществ, включенных в эту новую парадигму проектирования.

    Our “Gen 4” modular data centers will take the flexibility of containerized servers—like those in our Chicago data center—and apply it across the entire facility. So what do we mean by modular? Think of it like “building blocks”, where the data center will be composed of modular units of prefabricated mechanical, electrical, security components, etc., in addition to containerized servers.

    Was there a key driver for the Generation 4 Data Center?

    Наши модульные дата-центры “Gen 4” будут гибкими с контейнерами серверов – как серверы в нашем чикагском дата-центре. И гибкость будет применяться ко всему ЦОД. Итак, что мы подразумеваем под модульностью? Мы думаем о ней как о “строительных блоках”, где дата-центр будет состоять из модульных блоков изготовленных в заводских условиях электрических систем и систем охлаждения, а также систем безопасности и т.п., в дополнение к контейнеризованным серверам.
    Был ли ключевой стимул для разработки дата-центра четвертого поколения?


    If we were to summarize the promise of our Gen 4 design into a single sentence it would be something like this: “A highly modular, scalable, efficient, just-in-time data center capacity program that can be delivered anywhere in the world very quickly and cheaply, while allowing for continued growth as required.” Sounds too good to be true, doesn’t it? Well, keep in mind that these concepts have been in initial development and prototyping for over a year and are based on cumulative knowledge of previous facility generations and the advances we have made since we began our investments in earnest on this new design.

    Если бы нам нужно было обобщить достоинства нашего проекта Gen 4 в одном предложении, это выглядело бы следующим образом: “Центр обработки данных с высоким уровнем модульности, расширяемости, и энергетической эффективности, а также возможностью постоянного расширения, в случае необходимости, который можно очень быстро и дешево развертывать в любом месте мира”. Звучит слишком хорошо для того чтобы быть правдой, не так ли? Ну, не забывайте, что эти концепции находились в процессе начальной разработки и создания опытного образца в течение более одного года и основываются на опыте, накопленном в ходе развития предыдущих поколений ЦОД, а также успехах, сделанных нами со времени, когда мы начали вкладывать серьезные средства в этот новый проект.

    One of the biggest challenges we’ve had at Microsoft is something Mike likes to call the ‘Goldilock’s Problem’. In a nutshell, the problem can be stated as:

    The worst thing we can do in delivering facilities for the business is not have enough capacity online, thus limiting the growth of our products and services.

    Одну из самых больших проблем, с которыми приходилось сталкиваться Майкрософт, Майк любит называть ‘Проблемой Лютика’. Вкратце, эту проблему можно выразить следующим образом:

    Самое худшее, что может быть при строительстве ЦОД для бизнеса, это не располагать достаточными производственными мощностями, и тем самым ограничивать рост наших продуктов и сервисов.

    The second worst thing we can do in delivering facilities for the business is to have too much capacity online.

    А вторым самым худшим моментом в этой сфере может слишком большое количество производственных мощностей.

    This has led to a focus on smart, intelligent growth for the business — refining our overall demand picture. It can’t be too hot. It can’t be too cold. It has to be ‘Just Right!’ The capital dollars of investment are too large to make without long term planning. As we struggled to master these interesting challenges, we had to ensure that our technological plan also included solutions for the business and operational challenges we faced as well.
    So let’s take a high level look at our Generation 4 design

    Это заставило нас сосредоточиваться на интеллектуальном росте для бизнеса — refining our overall demand picture. Это не должно быть слишком горячим. И это не должно быть слишком холодным. Это должно быть ‘как раз, таким как надо!’ Нельзя делать такие большие капиталовложения без долгосрочного планирования. Пока мы старались решить эти интересные проблемы, мы должны были гарантировать, что наш технологический план будет также включать решения для коммерческих и эксплуатационных проблем, с которыми нам также приходилось сталкиваться.
    Давайте рассмотрим наш проект дата-центра четвертого поколения

    Are you ready for some great visuals? Check out this video at Soapbox. Click here for the Microsoft 4th Gen Video.

    It’s a concept video that came out of my Data Center Research and Engineering team, under Daniel Costello, that will give you a view into what we think is the future.

    From a configuration, construct-ability and time to market perspective, our primary goals and objectives are to modularize the whole data center. Not just the server side (like the Chicago facility), but the mechanical and electrical space as well. This means using the same kind of parts in pre-manufactured modules, the ability to use containers, skids, or rack-based deployments and the ability to tailor the Redundancy and Reliability requirements to the application at a very specific level.


    Посмотрите это видео, перейдите по ссылке для просмотра видео о Microsoft 4th Gen:

    Это концептуальное видео, созданное командой отдела Data Center Research and Engineering, возглавляемого Дэниелом Костелло, которое даст вам наше представление о будущем.

    С точки зрения конфигурации, строительной технологичности и времени вывода на рынок, нашими главными целями и задачами агрегатирование всего дата-центра. Не только серверную часть, как дата-центр в Чикаго, но также системы охлаждения и электрические системы. Это означает применение деталей одного типа в сборных модулях, возможность использования контейнеров, салазок, или стоечных систем, а также возможность подстраивать требования избыточности и надежности для данного приложения на очень специфичном уровне.

    Our goals from a cost perspective were simple in concept but tough to deliver. First and foremost, we had to reduce the capital cost per critical Mega Watt by the class of use. Some applications can run with N-level redundancy in the infrastructure, others require a little more infrastructure for support. These different classes of infrastructure requirements meant that optimizing for all cost classes was paramount. At Microsoft, we are not a one trick pony and have many Online products and services (240+) that require different levels of operational support. We understand that and ensured that we addressed it in our design which will allow us to reduce capital costs by 20%-40% or greater depending upon class.


    Нашими целями в области затрат были концептуально простыми, но трудно реализуемыми. В первую очередь мы должны были снизить капитальные затраты в пересчете на один мегаватт, в зависимости от класса резервирования. Некоторые приложения могут вполне работать на базе инфраструктуры с резервированием на уровне N, то есть без резервирования, а для работы других приложений требуется больше инфраструктуры. Эти разные классы требований инфраструктуры подразумевали, что оптимизация всех классов затрат имеет преобладающее значение. В Майкрософт мы не ограничиваемся одним решением и располагаем большим количеством интерактивных продуктов и сервисов (240+), которым требуются разные уровни эксплуатационной поддержки. Мы понимаем это, и учитываем это в своем проекте, который позволит нам сокращать капитальные затраты на 20%-40% или более в зависимости от класса.

    For example, non-critical or geo redundant applications have low hardware reliability requirements on a location basis. As a result, Gen 4 can be configured to provide stripped down, low-cost infrastructure with little or no redundancy and/or temperature control. Let’s say an Online service team decides that due to the dramatically lower cost, they will simply use uncontrolled outside air with temperatures ranging 10-35 C and 20-80% RH. The reality is we are already spec-ing this for all of our servers today and working with server vendors to broaden that range even further as Gen 4 becomes a reality. For this class of infrastructure, we eliminate generators, chillers, UPSs, and possibly lower costs relative to traditional infrastructure.

    Например, некритичные или гео-избыточные системы имеют низкие требования к аппаратной надежности на основе местоположения. В результате этого, Gen 4 можно конфигурировать для упрощенной, недорогой инфраструктуры с низким уровнем (или вообще без резервирования) резервирования и / или температурного контроля. Скажем, команда интерактивного сервиса решает, что, в связи с намного меньшими затратами, они будут просто использовать некондиционированный наружный воздух с температурой 10-35°C и влажностью 20-80% RH. В реальности мы уже сегодня предъявляем эти требования к своим серверам и работаем с поставщиками серверов над еще большим расширением диапазона температур, так как наш модуль и подход Gen 4 становится реальностью. Для подобного класса инфраструктуры мы удаляем генераторы, чиллеры, ИБП, и, возможно, будем предлагать более низкие затраты, по сравнению с традиционной инфраструктурой.

    Applications that demand higher level of redundancy or temperature control will use configurations of Gen 4 to meet those needs, however, they will also cost more (but still less than traditional data centers). We see this cost difference driving engineering behavioral change in that we predict more applications will drive towards Geo redundancy to lower costs.

    Системы, которым требуется более высокий уровень резервирования или температурного контроля, будут использовать конфигурации Gen 4, отвечающие этим требованиям, однако, они будут также стоить больше. Но все равно они будут стоить меньше, чем традиционные дата-центры. Мы предвидим, что эти различия в затратах будут вызывать изменения в методах инжиниринга, и по нашим прогнозам, это будет выражаться в переходе все большего числа систем на гео-избыточность и меньшие затраты.

    Another cool thing about Gen 4 is that it allows us to deploy capacity when our demand dictates it. Once finalized, we will no longer need to make large upfront investments. Imagine driving capital costs more closely in-line with actual demand, thus greatly reducing time-to-market and adding the capacity Online inherent in the design. Also reduced is the amount of construction labor required to put these “building blocks” together. Since the entire platform requires pre-manufacture of its core components, on-site construction costs are lowered. This allows us to maximize our return on invested capital.

    Еще одно достоинство Gen 4 состоит в том, что он позволяет нам разворачивать дополнительные мощности, когда нам это необходимо. Как только мы закончим проект, нам больше не нужно будет делать большие начальные капиталовложения. Представьте себе возможность более точного согласования капитальных затрат с реальными требованиями, и тем самым значительного снижения времени вывода на рынок и интерактивного добавления мощностей, предусматриваемого проектом. Также снижен объем строительных работ, требуемых для сборки этих “строительных блоков”. Поскольку вся платформа требует предварительного изготовления ее базовых компонентов, затраты на сборку также снижены. Это позволит нам увеличить до максимума окупаемость своих капиталовложений.
    Мы все подвергаем сомнению

    In our design process, we questioned everything. You may notice there is no roof and some might be uncomfortable with this. We explored the need of one and throughout our research we got some surprising (positive) results that showed one wasn’t needed.

    В своем процессе проектирования мы все подвергаем сомнению. Вы, наверное, обратили внимание на отсутствие крыши, и некоторым специалистам это могло не понравиться. Мы изучили необходимость в крыше и в ходе своих исследований получили удивительные результаты, которые показали, что крыша не нужна.
    Серийное производство дата центров


    In short, we are striving to bring Henry Ford’s Model T factory to the data center. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Ford#Model_T. Gen 4 will move data centers from a custom design and build model to a commoditized manufacturing approach. We intend to have our components built in factories and then assemble them in one location (the data center site) very quickly. Think about how a computer, car or plane is built today. Components are manufactured by different companies all over the world to a predefined spec and then integrated in one location based on demands and feature requirements. And just like Henry Ford’s assembly line drove the cost of building and the time-to-market down dramatically for the automobile industry, we expect Gen 4 to do the same for data centers. Everything will be pre-manufactured and assembled on the pad.

    Мы хотим применить модель автомобильной фабрики Генри Форда к дата-центру. Проект Gen 4 будет способствовать переходу от модели специализированного проектирования и строительства к товарно-производственному, серийному подходу. Мы намерены изготавливать свои компоненты на заводах, а затем очень быстро собирать их в одном месте, в месте строительства дата-центра. Подумайте о том, как сегодня изготавливается компьютер, автомобиль или самолет. Компоненты изготавливаются по заранее определенным спецификациям разными компаниями во всем мире, затем собираются в одном месте на основе спроса и требуемых характеристик. И точно так же как сборочный конвейер Генри Форда привел к значительному уменьшению затрат на производство и времени вывода на рынок в автомобильной промышленности, мы надеемся, что Gen 4 сделает то же самое для дата-центров. Все будет предварительно изготавливаться и собираться на месте.
    Невероятно энергоэффективный ЦОД


    And did we mention that this platform will be, overall, incredibly energy efficient? From a total energy perspective not only will we have remarkable PUE values, but the total cost of energy going into the facility will be greatly reduced as well. How much energy goes into making concrete? Will we need as much of it? How much energy goes into the fuel of the construction vehicles? This will also be greatly reduced! A key driver is our goal to achieve an average PUE at or below 1.125 by 2012 across our data centers. More than that, we are on a mission to reduce the overall amount of copper and water used in these facilities. We believe these will be the next areas of industry attention when and if the energy problem is solved. So we are asking today…“how can we build a data center with less building”?

    А мы упоминали, что эта платформа будет, в общем, невероятно энергоэффективной? С точки зрения общей энергии, мы получим не только поразительные значения PUE, но общая стоимость энергии, затраченной на объект будет также значительно снижена. Сколько энергии идет на производство бетона? Нам нужно будет столько энергии? Сколько энергии идет на питание инженерных строительных машин? Это тоже будет значительно снижено! Главным стимулом является достижение среднего PUE не больше 1.125 для всех наших дата-центров к 2012 году. Более того, у нас есть задача сокращения общего количества меди и воды в дата-центрах. Мы думаем, что эти задачи станут следующей заботой отрасли после того как будет решена энергетическая проблема. Итак, сегодня мы спрашиваем себя…“как можно построить дата-центр с меньшим объемом строительных работ”?
    Строительство дата центров без чиллеров

    We have talked openly and publicly about building chiller-less data centers and running our facilities using aggressive outside economization. Our sincerest hope is that Gen 4 will completely eliminate the use of water. Today’s data centers use massive amounts of water and we see water as the next scarce resource and have decided to take a proactive stance on making water conservation part of our plan.

    Мы открыто и публично говорили о строительстве дата-центров без чиллеров и активном использовании в наших центрах обработки данных технологий свободного охлаждения или фрикулинга. Мы искренне надеемся, что Gen 4 позволит полностью отказаться от использования воды. Современные дата-центры расходуют большие объемы воды и так как мы считаем воду следующим редким ресурсом, мы решили принять упреждающие меры и включить экономию воды в свой план.

    By sharing this with the industry, we believe everyone can benefit from our methodology. While this concept and approach may be intimidating (or downright frightening) to some in the industry, disclosure ultimately is better for all of us.

    Делясь этим опытом с отраслью, мы считаем, что каждый сможет извлечь выгоду из нашей методологией. Хотя эта концепция и подход могут показаться пугающими (или откровенно страшными) для некоторых отраслевых специалистов, раскрывая свои планы мы, в конечном счете, делаем лучше для всех нас.

    Gen 4 design (even more than just containers), could reduce the ‘religious’ debates in our industry. With the central spine infrastructure in place, containers or pre-manufactured server halls can be either AC or DC, air-side economized or water-side economized, or not economized at all (though the sanity of that might be questioned). Gen 4 will allow us to decommission, repair and upgrade quickly because everything is modular. No longer will we be governed by the initial decisions made when constructing the facility. We will have almost unlimited use and re-use of the facility and site. We will also be able to use power in an ultra-fluid fashion moving load from critical to non-critical as use and capacity requirements dictate.

    Проект Gen 4 позволит уменьшить ‘религиозные’ споры в нашей отрасли. Располагая базовой инфраструктурой, контейнеры или сборные серверные могут оборудоваться системами переменного или постоянного тока, воздушными или водяными экономайзерами, или вообще не использовать экономайзеры. Хотя можно подвергать сомнению разумность такого решения. Gen 4 позволит нам быстро выполнять работы по выводу из эксплуатации, ремонту и модернизации, поскольку все будет модульным. Мы больше не будем руководствоваться начальными решениями, принятыми во время строительства дата-центра. Мы сможем использовать этот дата-центр и инфраструктуру в течение почти неограниченного периода времени. Мы также сможем применять сверхгибкие методы использования электрической энергии, переводя оборудование в режимы критической или некритической нагрузки в соответствии с требуемой мощностью.
    Gen 4 – это стандартная платформа

    Finally, we believe this is a big game changer. Gen 4 will provide a standard platform that our industry can innovate around. For example, all modules in our Gen 4 will have common interfaces clearly defined by our specs and any vendor that meets these specifications will be able to plug into our infrastructure. Whether you are a computer vendor, UPS vendor, generator vendor, etc., you will be able to plug and play into our infrastructure. This means we can also source anyone, anywhere on the globe to minimize costs and maximize performance. We want to help motivate the industry to further innovate—with innovations from which everyone can reap the benefits.

    Наконец, мы уверены, что это будет фактором, который значительно изменит ситуацию. Gen 4 будет представлять собой стандартную платформу, которую отрасль сможет обновлять. Например, все модули в нашем Gen 4 будут иметь общепринятые интерфейсы, четко определяемые нашими спецификациями, и оборудование любого поставщика, которое отвечает этим спецификациям можно будет включать в нашу инфраструктуру. Независимо от того производите вы компьютеры, ИБП, генераторы и т.п., вы сможете включать свое оборудование нашу инфраструктуру. Это означает, что мы также сможем обеспечивать всех, в любом месте земного шара, тем самым сводя до минимума затраты и максимальной увеличивая производительность. Мы хотим создать в отрасли мотивацию для дальнейших инноваций – инноваций, от которых каждый сможет получать выгоду.
    Главные характеристики дата-центров четвертого поколения Gen4

    To summarize, the key characteristics of our Generation 4 data centers are:

    Scalable
    Plug-and-play spine infrastructure
    Factory pre-assembled: Pre-Assembled Containers (PACs) & Pre-Manufactured Buildings (PMBs)
    Rapid deployment
    De-mountable
    Reduce TTM
    Reduced construction
    Sustainable measures

    Ниже приведены главные характеристики дата-центров четвертого поколения Gen 4:

    Расширяемость;
    Готовая к использованию базовая инфраструктура;
    Изготовление в заводских условиях: сборные контейнеры (PAC) и сборные здания (PMB);
    Быстрота развертывания;
    Возможность демонтажа;
    Снижение времени вывода на рынок (TTM);
    Сокращение сроков строительства;
    Экологичность;

    Map applications to DC Class

    We hope you join us on this incredible journey of change and innovation!

    Long hours of research and engineering time are invested into this process. There are still some long days and nights ahead, but the vision is clear. Rest assured however, that we as refine Generation 4, the team will soon be looking to Generation 5 (even if it is a bit farther out). There is always room to get better.


    Использование систем электропитания постоянного тока.

    Мы надеемся, что вы присоединитесь к нам в этом невероятном путешествии по миру изменений и инноваций!

    На этот проект уже потрачены долгие часы исследований и проектирования. И еще предстоит потратить много дней и ночей, но мы имеем четкое представление о конечной цели. Однако будьте уверены, что как только мы доведем до конца проект модульного дата-центра четвертого поколения, мы вскоре начнем думать о проекте дата-центра пятого поколения. Всегда есть возможность для улучшений.

    So if you happen to come across Goldilocks in the forest, and you are curious as to why she is smiling you will know that she feels very good about getting very close to ‘JUST RIGHT’.

    Generations of Evolution – some background on our data center designs

    Так что, если вы встретите в лесу девочку по имени Лютик, и вам станет любопытно, почему она улыбается, вы будете знать, что она очень довольна тем, что очень близко подошла к ‘ОПИМАЛЬНОМУ РЕШЕНИЮ’.
    Поколения эволюции – история развития наших дата-центров

    We thought you might be interested in understanding what happened in the first three generations of our data center designs. When Ray Ozzie wrote his Software plus Services memo it posed a very interesting challenge to us. The winds of change were at ‘tornado’ proportions. That “plus Services” tag had some significant (and unstated) challenges inherent to it. The first was that Microsoft was going to evolve even further into an operations company. While we had been running large scale Internet services since 1995, this development lead us to an entirely new level. Additionally, these “services” would span across both Internet and Enterprise businesses. To those of you who have to operate “stuff”, you know that these are two very different worlds in operational models and challenges. It also meant that, to achieve the same level of reliability and performance required our infrastructure was going to have to scale globally and in a significant way.

    Мы подумали, что может быть вам будет интересно узнать историю первых трех поколений наших центров обработки данных. Когда Рэй Оззи написал свою памятную записку Software plus Services, он поставил перед нами очень интересную задачу. Ветра перемен двигались с ураганной скоростью. Это окончание “plus Services” скрывало в себе какие-то значительные и неопределенные задачи. Первая заключалась в том, что Майкрософт собиралась в еще большей степени стать операционной компанией. Несмотря на то, что мы управляли большими интернет-сервисами, начиная с 1995 г., эта разработка подняла нас на абсолютно новый уровень. Кроме того, эти “сервисы” охватывали интернет-компании и корпорации. Тем, кому приходится всем этим управлять, известно, что есть два очень разных мира в области операционных моделей и задач. Это также означало, что для достижения такого же уровня надежности и производительности требовалось, чтобы наша инфраструктура располагала значительными возможностями расширения в глобальных масштабах.

    It was that intense atmosphere of change that we first started re-evaluating data center technology and processes in general and our ideas began to reach farther than what was accepted by the industry at large. This was the era of Generation 1. As we look at where most of the world’s data centers are today (and where our facilities were), it represented all the known learning and design requirements that had been in place since IBM built the first purpose-built computer room. These facilities focused more around uptime, reliability and redundancy. Big infrastructure was held accountable to solve all potential environmental shortfalls. This is where the majority of infrastructure in the industry still is today.

    Именно в этой атмосфере серьезных изменений мы впервые начали переоценку ЦОД-технологий и технологий вообще, и наши идеи начали выходить за пределы общепринятых в отрасли представлений. Это была эпоха ЦОД первого поколения. Когда мы узнали, где сегодня располагается большинство мировых дата-центров и где находятся наши предприятия, это представляло весь опыт и навыки проектирования, накопленные со времени, когда IBM построила первую серверную. В этих ЦОД больше внимания уделялось бесперебойной работе, надежности и резервированию. Большая инфраструктура была призвана решать все потенциальные экологические проблемы. Сегодня большая часть инфраструктуры все еще находится на этом этапе своего развития.

    We soon realized that traditional data centers were quickly becoming outdated. They were not keeping up with the demands of what was happening technologically and environmentally. That’s when we kicked off our Generation 2 design. Gen 2 facilities started taking into account sustainability, energy efficiency, and really looking at the total cost of energy and operations.

    Очень быстро мы поняли, что стандартные дата-центры очень быстро становятся устаревшими. Они не поспевали за темпами изменений технологических и экологических требований. Именно тогда мы стали разрабатывать ЦОД второго поколения. В этих дата-центрах Gen 2 стали принимать во внимание такие факторы как устойчивое развитие, энергетическая эффективность, а также общие энергетические и эксплуатационные.

    No longer did we view data centers just for the upfront capital costs, but we took a hard look at the facility over the course of its life. Our Quincy, Washington and San Antonio, Texas facilities are examples of our Gen 2 data centers where we explored and implemented new ways to lessen the impact on the environment. These facilities are considered two leading industry examples, based on their energy efficiency and ability to run and operate at new levels of scale and performance by leveraging clean hydro power (Quincy) and recycled waste water (San Antonio) to cool the facility during peak cooling months.

    Мы больше не рассматривали дата-центры только с точки зрения начальных капитальных затрат, а внимательно следили за работой ЦОД на протяжении его срока службы. Наши объекты в Куинси, Вашингтоне, и Сан-Антонио, Техас, являются образцами наших ЦОД второго поколения, в которых мы изучали и применяли на практике новые способы снижения воздействия на окружающую среду. Эти объекты считаются двумя ведущими отраслевыми примерами, исходя из их энергетической эффективности и способности работать на новых уровнях производительности, основанных на использовании чистой энергии воды (Куинси) и рециклирования отработанной воды (Сан-Антонио) для охлаждения объекта в самых жарких месяцах.

    As we were delivering our Gen 2 facilities into steel and concrete, our Generation 3 facilities were rapidly driving the evolution of the program. The key concepts for our Gen 3 design are increased modularity and greater concentration around energy efficiency and scale. The Gen 3 facility will be best represented by the Chicago, Illinois facility currently under construction. This facility will seem very foreign compared to the traditional data center concepts most of the industry is comfortable with. In fact, if you ever sit around in our container hanger in Chicago it will look incredibly different from a traditional raised-floor data center. We anticipate this modularization will drive huge efficiencies in terms of cost and operations for our business. We will also introduce significant changes in the environmental systems used to run our facilities. These concepts and processes (where applicable) will help us gain even greater efficiencies in our existing footprint, allowing us to further maximize infrastructure investments.

    Так как наши ЦОД второго поколения строились из стали и бетона, наши центры обработки данных третьего поколения начали их быстро вытеснять. Главными концептуальными особенностями ЦОД третьего поколения Gen 3 являются повышенная модульность и большее внимание к энергетической эффективности и масштабированию. Дата-центры третьего поколения лучше всего представлены объектом, который в настоящее время строится в Чикаго, Иллинойс. Этот ЦОД будет выглядеть очень необычно, по сравнению с общепринятыми в отрасли представлениями о дата-центре. Действительно, если вам когда-либо удастся побывать в нашем контейнерном ангаре в Чикаго, он покажется вам совершенно непохожим на обычный дата-центр с фальшполом. Мы предполагаем, что этот модульный подход будет способствовать значительному повышению эффективности нашего бизнеса в отношении затрат и операций. Мы также внесем существенные изменения в климатические системы, используемые в наших ЦОД. Эти концепции и технологии, если применимо, позволят нам добиться еще большей эффективности наших существующих дата-центров, и тем самым еще больше увеличивать капиталовложения в инфраструктуру.

    This is definitely a journey, not a destination industry. In fact, our Generation 4 design has been under heavy engineering for viability and cost for over a year. While the demand of our commercial growth required us to make investments as we grew, we treated each step in the learning as a process for further innovation in data centers. The design for our future Gen 4 facilities enabled us to make visionary advances that addressed the challenges of building, running, and operating facilities all in one concerted effort.

    Это определенно путешествие, а не конечный пункт назначения. На самом деле, наш проект ЦОД четвертого поколения подвергался серьезным испытаниям на жизнеспособность и затраты на протяжении целого года. Хотя необходимость в коммерческом росте требовала от нас постоянных капиталовложений, мы рассматривали каждый этап своего развития как шаг к будущим инновациям в области дата-центров. Проект наших будущих ЦОД четвертого поколения Gen 4 позволил нам делать фантастические предположения, которые касались задач строительства, управления и эксплуатации объектов как единого упорядоченного процесса.


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    женщина-пэр - a queen in her own * царствующая королева, королева по себе (в отличие от жены короля) - Marie Curie was a great scientist in her own * Мария Кюри и сама была выдающимся ученым - by * of по праву (чего-л.) - by *(s) по праву, справедливо - the property is not mine by * это имущество не принадлежит мне по праву pl право на разработку или эксплуатацию чего-л. - mineral *s право на разработку недр - fishing *s право на рыбную ловлю право на использование произведения искусства - film *s of the novel право на экранизацию романа - stage * право на постановку пьесы обыкн. pl действительные факты, истинное положение вещей - the *s (and wrongs) of a case состояние дела pl порядок - to bring /to set, to put/ to *s приводить в порядок /в должное состояние/;
    наводить порядок;
    восстановить силы, вылечить - he set the boy to *s and showed him where his duty lay он разъяснил юноше его заблуждения и указал ему на его истинные обязанности - to be to *s быть в порядке правый, справедливый - to be * быть правым - to do the * thing by smb. справедливо поступить с кем-л. - to do what is * правильно поступить;
    сделать то, что следует - it would be only * to tell you было бы только справедливо сказать вам - it is not * to tell lies лгать нехорошо верный, правильный - the * answer верный /правильный/ ответ - * use of words правильное употребление слов - * account of the matter правильное изложение дела - to get smth. * прекрасно понять что-л., быть /стать/ совершенно ясным (для кого-л.) - to get it * понять правильно - that's * верно, совершенно справедливо, правильно - * you are! верно!, ваша правда!;
    идет!, есть такое дело! - is that the * address? это правильный адрес? - can you tell me the * time? скажите, пожалуйста, точно, который сейчас час? надлежащий;
    подходящий, уместный - the * size нужный размер - just the * colour как раз подходящий цвет - the * man in the * place человек на своем месте, подходящий для данного дела человек - the * house тот самый дом( который нужен) - not the * Mr. Smith не тот г-н Смит (а другой) - he will always find the * thing to say он всегда говорит подходящие слова /кстати;
    то, что следует/ - he understood that it was not the * thing to do он понял, что этого не следовало делать здоровый, в хорошем состоянии;
    исправный - to feel all * хорошо себя чувствовать - to be all * быть в порядке;
    чувствовать себя хорошо - not * in the head ненормальный, безумный - in one's * mind в здравом уме;
    нормальный - to put /to set/ smth. * исправить /поправить/ что-л. - to set things * уладить дела - to set oneself * with smb. оправдать себя в чьих-л. глазах - this medicine will soon put you * от этого лекарства вы скоро поправитесь - a good night's rest will set you * за ночь вы отдохнете как следует и снова будете чувствовать себя хорошо (часто with) наиболее удобный, предпочтительный - if it is all * with you если это вас устраивает - are you all * now? удобно ли вам теперь? - is it all * for me to come this evening? вы не возражаете, если я приду сегодня вечером? - it is all * with him он согласен, он не против этого прямой (о линии, угле) лицевой, правый (о стороне материи) - to iron the * side гладить с лица - * side up налицо, лицевой стороной /лицом/ кверху( редкое) праведный часто (ироничное) занимающий положение в обществе - he knows all the * people он знает всех нужных людей > Miss R. будущая жена;
    суженая > Mr. R. будущий муж;
    суженый > on the * side of 40 моложе 40 лет > * as rain /as a trivet/ в хорошем состоянии, в полном порядке;
    совершенно здоров;
    в добром здравии, цел и невредим справедливо - to act * действовать /поступать/ справедливо - to live * жить честно - it serves him * поделом ему, так ему и надо верно, правильно - about * более или менее правильно /достаточно/ - to guess * догадаться, отгадать - to get /to do/ a sum * правильно решить пример надлежащим образом - to do a thing * делать что-л. как следует - do it * or not at all делайте это как следует или не беритесь вовсе - nothing goes * with him у него все идет не так точно, как раз - * in the middle как раз /точно/ в середине - * at the moment как раз в тот самый момент прямо - * opposite прямо напротив - * after lunch сразу после завтрака - to go * ahead идти прямо вперед - the wind was * behind us ветер дул нам прямо в спину - curtains * to the floor шторы до самого пола - come * in! (американизм) входите (пожалуйста) ! (эмоционально-усилительно) совершенно, полностью - * to the end до самого конца - rotten * through прогнивший насквозь - to turn * round повернуться кругом, сделать полный поворот - to sink * to the bottom погрузиться на самое дно - veranda * round the house веранда вокруг всего дома - he felt * at home он чувствовал себя совсем как дома (устаревшее) очень - a * pleasant day прекрасный /очень приятный/ день - to know * well очень хорошо знать (что-л.) - a * cunning worker очень искусный работник - to feast * royally пировать совсем по-царски - I was * glad to hear it я был искренне рад услышать это > * here как раз здесь;
    в эту минуту > * now в этот момент, сейчас, сегодня же, сразу > * away, (американизм) * off сразу, немедленно > let's go * away or we'll be late пойдем сейчас же, иначе мы опоздаем > I'll do it * я сразу же сделаю это > to put /to set/ oneself * with smb. снискать чью-л. благосклонность;
    оправдать себя в чьих-л. глазах;
    помириться с кем-л. > to put smb. * with smb. оправдать кого-л. в чьих-л. глазах > * off the boat (американизм) с места в карьер, сразу же > R. Reverend Его преосвященство;
    епископ > R. Honourable достопочтенный( титулование пэров, министров и т. п.) исправлять;
    восстанавливать справедливость - to * injustice устранять несправедливость - to * an error исправить ошибку - to * a wrong восстановить справедливость защищать права - to * the oppressed защищать права угнетенных исправлять (ошибки и т. п.) - that is a fault that will * itself это само собой исправится выпрямлять - to * a boat выравнивать лодку - to * the helm (морское) поставить руль прямо - to * oneself выпрямляться;
    реабилитировать себя - the driver quickly *ed the car after it skidded водитель быстро справился с машиной, когда ее занесло выпрямляться приводить в порядок - to * a room убирать комнату, наводить порядок в комнате компенсировать( что-л.), возмещать (убытки) правая сторона - to turn to the * повернуть направо - to keep to the * держаться правой стороны - to sit on the * of the host сидеть направо /по правую руку/ от хозяина (военное) правый фланг - our troops attacked the enemy's * наши войска атаковали правый фланг противника (the R.) (собирательнле) (политика) правая партия, правые консерваторы удар правой рукой;
    правая рука (бокс) - he got in one with his * он нанес удар правой (рукой) - he gave him a hard * on the jaw правой рукой он нанес ему сильный удар в челюсть правая перчатка, правый ботинок и т. п. правый - * hand правая рука - to the * hand направо - on the * hand справа - * turn правый поворот;
    поворот направо - * driving езда по правой стороне;
    правостороннее движение - * back правый защитник (футбол) - * forward( спортивное) правый нападающий - * man (военное) правофланговый( часто R.) (политика) правый, реакционный - the * wing of a party правое крыло партии > to put one's * hand to the work работать энергично направо - he looked neither * nor left он не посмотрел ни вправо, ни влево - * step! шаг вправо! (команда) - * face /turn/! направо!( команда) - * about face! (через правое плечо) кругом! (команда) - eyes *! равнение направо! (команда) > * and left справа и слева;
    везде, где попало > he owes money * and left он кругом в долгу acknowledge a ~ признавать право acquire a ~ получать право acquired ~ юр. полученное право acquired ~ юр. приобретенное право adverse ~ противоположное право all ~ в порядке;
    вполне удовлетворительный;
    he is all right он чувствует себя хорошо;
    everything is all right with your plan с вашим планом все в порядке all ~ вполне удовлетворительно, приемлемо;
    как нужно all ~ подходящий, устраивающий (кого-л.) ;
    is it all right with you? вас это устраивает? all ~ хорошо!, ладно!, согласен! appendant ~ дополнительное право ~ здоровый, в хорошем состоянии;
    исправный;
    to put right исправить;
    are you right now? удобно ли вам теперь?;
    I feel all right я чувствую себя хорошо artist's ~ право на художественную собственность asylum ~ право убежища ~ прямой (о линии, об угле) ;
    at the right angle под прямым углом bargaining ~ право ведения переговоров to be all ~ быть в порядке to be all ~ чувствовать себя хорошо;
    if it's all right with you если это вас устраивает, если вы согласны;
    on the right side of thirty моложе 30 лет ~ справедливость;
    правильность;
    to do (smb.) right отдавать (кому-л.) должное, справедливость;
    to be in the right быть правым ~ правый, справедливый;
    to be right быть правым be sure you bring the ~ book смотрите, принесите ту книгу, которую нужно;
    the right size нужный размер ~ pl порядок;
    to set (или to put) to rights навести порядок;
    привести в порядок;
    to be to rights быть в порядке;
    by right or wrong всеми правдами и неправдами beneficial ~ право получения доходов с доверительной собственности beneficial ~ право пользования собственностью для извлечения выгоды birth ~ право первородства birth ~ право по рождению bonus ~ право на получение льгот ~ право;
    справедливое требование (to) ;
    привилегия;
    right to work право на труд;
    rights and duties права и обязанности;
    by right of по праву (чего-л.) ~ pl порядок;
    to set (или to put) to rights навести порядок;
    привести в порядок;
    to be to rights быть в порядке;
    by right or wrong всеми правдами и неправдами civil ~ гражданское право ~ here в эту минуту;
    right now в этот момент;
    come right in амер. входите consequential ~ право, вытекающее из другого права constitutional ~ конституционное право contractual ~ право, вытекающее из контракта conversion ~ право конверсии corporeal ~ вещное право create a ~ создавать право diffusion ~ право распространения ~ справедливость;
    правильность;
    to do (smb.) right отдавать (кому-л.) должное, справедливость;
    to be in the right быть правым ~ верный, правильный;
    right use of words правильное употребление слов;
    to do what is right делать то, что правильно;
    he is always right он всегда прав drawing ~ право жеребьевки drawing ~ право заимствования equal ~ равноправный all ~ в порядке;
    вполне удовлетворительный;
    he is all right он чувствует себя хорошо;
    everything is all right with your plan с вашим планом все в порядке exclusive ~ исключительное право extinguishing a ~ аннулирование права first mortgage ~ право первой закладной flush ~ вчт. выровненное правое поле full legal ~ законное право собственности, соединенное с фактическим владением fundamental ~ основное право ~ правильно, верно;
    справедливо;
    to get it right понять правильно;
    to get (или to do) a sum right верно решить задачу;
    to guess right правильно угадать ~ прямо;
    go right ahead идите прямо вперед ~ правильно, верно;
    справедливо;
    to get it right понять правильно;
    to get (или to do) a sum right верно решить задачу;
    to guess right правильно угадать all ~ в порядке;
    вполне удовлетворительный;
    he is all right он чувствует себя хорошо;
    everything is all right with your plan с вашим планом все в порядке ~ верный, правильный;
    right use of words правильное употребление слов;
    to do what is right делать то, что правильно;
    he is always right он всегда прав honorary ~ почетное право human ~ права человека human ~ право человека ~ здоровый, в хорошем состоянии;
    исправный;
    to put right исправить;
    are you right now? удобно ли вам теперь?;
    I feel all right я чувствую себя хорошо ~ очень;
    I know right well я очень хорошо знаю;
    right away, right off сразу;
    немедленно;
    right off the bat амер. = с места в карьер;
    сразу же to be all ~ чувствовать себя хорошо;
    if it's all right with you если это вас устраивает, если вы согласны;
    on the right side of thirty моложе 30 лет in one's own ~ по праву (благодаря титулу, образованию и т. п.) ;
    to reserve the right оставлять за собой право inalienable ~ неотъемлемое право incorporeal ~ право требования;
    право, могущее быть основанием для иска indefeasible ~ неотъемлемое право indisputable ~ неоспоримое право individual ~ частное право all ~ подходящий, устраивающий (кого-л.) ;
    is it all right with you? вас это устраивает? landing ~ право на высадку legal ~ субъективное право, основанное на нормах общего права licensing ~ лицензионное право licensing ~ разрешительное право maintenance of acquired ~s сохранение приобретенных прав (на пению, другие виды социального обеспечения) managerial ~ право руководителя marital ~ супружеское право;
    право, возникающее в связи с вступлением в брак marketing ~s права на продажу membership ~ право членства minority ~ право меньшинства moral ~ моральное право natural ~ естественное право the ~ man in the ~ place человек на своем месте, человек, подходящий для данного дела;
    not the right Mr Jones не тот мр Джоунз notification ~ право уведомления to be all ~ чувствовать себя хорошо;
    if it's all right with you если это вас устраивает, если вы согласны;
    on the right side of thirty моложе 30 лет ore mining ~ право на горнорудные разработки partial ~ неполное право participation ~ право на участие в прибылях partnership ~ право на участие pension ~ право на получение пенсии personal ~ личное право political ~ политическое право possessory ~ право собственности preemption ~ преимущественное право на покупку preemptive ~ преимущественное право на покупку preemptive subscription ~ преимущественное право на покупку акций по подписке preferential subscription ~ преимущественное право подписки на акции prescriptive ~ право, основанное на давности prior ~ преимущественное право priority ~ преимущественное право proprietary ~ вещное право proprietary ~ право собственности protective ~ защитительное право prove one's ~ доказывать право publishing ~ право на издание ~ здоровый, в хорошем состоянии;
    исправный;
    to put right исправить;
    are you right now? удобно ли вам теперь?;
    I feel all right я чувствую себя хорошо reemployment ~ право на получение нового места работы в случае увольнения reporting ~ право представления отчета restricted voting ~ ограниченное право голоса reversionary ~ возвратное право reversionary ~ право на обратный переход имущества right в хорошем состоянии ~ верный, правильный;
    right use of words правильное употребление слов;
    to do what is right делать то, что правильно;
    he is always right он всегда прав ~ выпрямлять(ся) ;
    исправлять(ся) ~ защищать права;
    to right the oppressed заступаться за угнетенных ~ здоровый, в хорошем состоянии;
    исправный;
    to put right исправить;
    are you right now? удобно ли вам теперь?;
    I feel all right я чувствую себя хорошо ~ именно тот, который нужен (или имеется в виду) ;
    подходящий, надлежащий;
    уместный ~ исправный ~ (обыкн. pl) истинное положение вещей, действительность;
    the rights of the case положение дела ~ лицевой, правый (о стороне материала) ~ надлежащий ~ надлежащим или должным образом ~ направо ~ нужный ~ очень;
    I know right well я очень хорошо знаю;
    right away, right off сразу;
    немедленно;
    right off the bat амер. = с места в карьер;
    сразу же ~ подходящий ~ pl порядок;
    to set (или to put) to rights навести порядок;
    привести в порядок;
    to be to rights быть в порядке;
    by right or wrong всеми правдами и неправдами ~ правая сторона;
    on the right справа (где) ;
    to the right направо (куда) ~ правильно, верно;
    справедливо;
    to get it right понять правильно;
    to get (или to do) a sum right верно решить задачу;
    to guess right правильно угадать ~ правильный ~ право;
    справедливое требование (to) ;
    привилегия;
    right to work право на труд;
    rights and duties права и обязанности;
    by right of по праву (чего-л.) ~ право (обычно в субъективном смысле) ~ право ~ правомерный, правый, справедливый, правильный, надлежащий ~ правомерный ~ правопритязание ~ (the Rights) pl собир. полит. правые ~ полит. правый, реакционный ~ правый ~ правый, справедливый;
    to be right быть правым ~ правый ~ привилегия ~ прямо;
    go right ahead идите прямо вперед ~ прямой (о линии, об угле) ;
    at the right angle под прямым углом ~ совершенно, полностью;
    right to the end до самого конца ~ справедливость;
    правильность;
    to do (smb.) right отдавать (кому-л.) должное, справедливость;
    to be in the right быть правым ~ справедливость ~ справедливый ~ точно, как раз;
    right in the middle как раз в середине to ~ oneself реабилитировать себя;
    to right a wrong исправить несправедливость;
    загладить обиду ~ after сразу после ~ and left во все стороны;
    right turn( или face) ! воен. направо! (команда) ~ and left направо и налево ~ here в эту минуту;
    right now в этот момент;
    come right in амер. входите ~ here как раз здесь ~ in personam обязательственное право ~ in personam относительное право ~ in personam право обязательственного характера ~ in rem абсолютное право ~ in rem вещное право ~ точно, как раз;
    right in the middle как раз в середине the ~ man in the ~ place человек на своем месте, человек, подходящий для данного дела;
    not the right Mr Jones не тот мр Джоунз ~ of abandonment право отказа ~ of abode право на жилище ~ of accrual право увеличения доли ~ of action право на иск ~ of action право предъявления иска ~ of administration and disposal of property право распоряжения и передачи имущества ~ of all workers to a fair remuneration право всех рабочих на справедливое вознаграждение за труд;
    это понятие шире, чем концепция заработной платы и включает основную или минимальную зарплату (и любые другие прямые или косвенные выплаты деньгами и ~ of appointment право назначения ~ of assembly право собраний ~ of audience право аудиенции ~ of cancellation право аннулирования ~ of cancellation право отмены ~ of cancellation право расторжения контракта ~ of challenge право отвода присяжного заседателя ~ of chastisement право наказания ~ of claim право заявлять претензию ~ of complaint право подавать иск ~ of consultation право давать консультацию ~ of deduction право удержания ~ of deposit право депонирования ~ of detention право задержания ~ of disposal право передачи ~ of disposal право распоряжения ~ of exchange право обмена ~ of execution право оформления ~ of execution право приведения в исполнение ~ of exploitation пат. право использования ~ of first refusal право преимущественной покупки ~ of free lodging право бесплатного хранения ~ of inheritance право наследования ~ of intervention право вступления в процесс ~ of intervention право на вмешательство ~ of litigant to be present in court право тяжущейся стороны присутствовать в суде ~ of notification право уведомления ~ of occupation право владения ~ of occupation право завладения ~ of occupation of the matrimonial home право завладения домом супруга ~ of option бирж. право опциона ~ of option бирж. право сделки с премией ~ of ownership право собственности ~ of passage право проезда, прохода ~ of passage право прохода судов ~ of pledge право отдавать в залог ~ of possession право владения ~ of preemption преимущественное право покупки ~ of primogeniture насл. право первородства ~ of priority преимущественное право ~ of property право собственности ~ of recourse право оборота ~ of recourse право регресса ~ of redemption право возвращения ~ of redemption право выкупа заложенного имущества ~ of redemption право изъятия из обращения ~ of redemption право погашения ~ of regress право регресса ~ of removal орг.бизн. право отстранения от должности ~ of reply право ответа истца на возражения по иску ~ of reproduction право воспроизведения ~ of repurchase право выкупа ~ of repurchase право перекупки ~ of rescission право аннулирования ~ of rescission право расторжения ~ of residence право пребывания ~ of residence право проживания ~ of retainer право удержания ~ of retention право сохранения ~ of retention право удержания ~ of review право пересмотра ~ of review право проверки ~ of search право обыска search: ~ обыск;
    right of search юр. право обыска судов ~ of setoff право судебного зачета ~ of stoppage in transit право задержания в пути ~ of stoppage in transit право остановки в пути ~ of subscription право подписки ~ of succession право наследования ~ of surrender право отказа ~ of surrender право признания себя несостоятельным должником ~ of surrender право уступки ~ of survivorship право наследования, возникшее в результате смерти одного или нескольких наследников ~ of termination право прекращения действия ~ of testation право представлять доказательства ~ of use право использования ~ of use право пользования ~ of use право применения ~ of use and consumption право пользования и потребления ~ of veto право вето ~ of voting право голосования ~ of way полоса отчуждения ~ of way право проезда ~ of way право прохода, проезда ~ of way право прохода ~ очень;
    I know right well я очень хорошо знаю;
    right away, right off сразу;
    немедленно;
    right off the bat амер. = с места в карьер;
    сразу же ~ очень;
    I know right well я очень хорошо знаю;
    right away, right off сразу;
    немедленно;
    right off the bat амер. = с места в карьер;
    сразу же to ~ oneself выпрямляться to ~ oneself реабилитировать себя;
    to right a wrong исправить несправедливость;
    загладить обиду be sure you bring the ~ book смотрите, принесите ту книгу, которую нужно;
    the right size нужный размер ~ защищать права;
    to right the oppressed заступаться за угнетенных ~ to annul an agreement право аннулировать договор ~ to annul an agreement право аннулировать соглашение ~ to be consulted право на получение консультации ~ to be informed право на получение информации ~ to begin восстанавливать исходное юридическое положение ~ to benefits право на льготы ~ to bind the company право связать компанию договором ~ to call for repayment право требовать возмещения ~ to claim for damages право предъявлять иск за нанесенный ущерб ~ to collect firewood право заготавливать дрова ~ to compensation право на возмещение ~ to compensation право на компенсацию ~ to cut turf право резать торф ~ to decide право принимать решения ~ to dispose of shares право изымать акции ~ to dividend право на получение дивиденда ~ to know право быть в курсе дел ~ to know право на информацию ~ to negotiate право вести переговоры ~ to obtain satisfaction право получать встречное удовлетворение ~ to organize право создавать организацию ~ to pay off a creditor право полностью расплатиться с кредитором ~ to petition the Community institutions право обращаться с заявлениями в учреждения Европейского экономического сообщества ~ to purchase shares право приобретать акции ~ to put questions право обращаться с вопросами ~ to put questions to minister право обращаться с вопросами к министру ~ to recovery of property право на возвращение имущества ~ to restitution право реституции ~ to retain the necessaries of life право сохранять личное имущество ~ to return право возврата ~ to share in any winding up surplus право на долю прибыли при ликвидации фирмы ~ to speak право на высказывание speak: right to ~ право говорить ~ to stand for election право выдвигать кандидатуру для избрания ~ to strike право на забастовку ~ to take industrial action право на проведение производственных мероприятий ~ to take proceedings право вести судебное разбирательство ~ совершенно, полностью;
    right to the end до самого конца ~ to unionize право объединяться в профсоюз ~ to unobstructed view право на свободный осмотр места преступления ~ to use beach право выхода на берег ~ to vote право на голосование ~ право;
    справедливое требование (to) ;
    привилегия;
    right to work право на труд;
    rights and duties права и обязанности;
    by right of по праву (чего-л.) ~ and left во все стороны;
    right turn (или face) ! воен. направо! (команда) ~ верный, правильный;
    right use of words правильное употребление слов;
    to do what is right делать то, что правильно;
    he is always right он всегда прав ~ you are! разг. верно!, ваша правда ~ you are! разг. идет!, есть такое дело! ~ право;
    справедливое требование (to) ;
    привилегия;
    right to work право на труд;
    rights and duties права и обязанности;
    by right of по праву (чего-л.) ~ (обыкн. pl) истинное положение вещей, действительность;
    the rights of the case положение дела sales ~ право продажи secondary ~ дополнительное право selling ~ право продажи to set (или to put) oneself ~ (with smb.) помириться (с кем-л.) to set (или to put) oneself ~ (with smb.) снискать (чью-л.) благосклонность ~ pl порядок;
    to set (или to put) to rights навести порядок;
    привести в порядок;
    to be to rights быть в порядке;
    by right or wrong всеми правдами и неправдами share ~ право на акции social ~s социальные права sole ~ исключительное право;
    монопольное право sole selling ~ исключительное право на продажу;
    монопольное право на продажу sovereign ~ суверенное право special ~ специальное право stage ~ исключительное право театра на постановку пьесы stock ~ право на покупку некоторого числа акций компании по фиксированной цене stockholders' preemptive ~ преимущественное право акционера subscription ~ право подписки на акции succession ~ право наследования supervisory ~ право контроля taxation ~ право взимания налогов ~ правая сторона;
    on the right справа (где) ;
    to the right направо (куда) transfer a ~ передавать право under a ~ in international law в соответствии с нормами международного права union ~ право на создание профессионального союза user ~ право пользователя usufructuary ~ право на узуфрукт veto ~ право вето visiting ~s право посещения (ребенка) voting ~ право голоса voting ~ право участия в голосовании;
    право голоса

    Большой англо-русский и русско-английский словарь > right

  • 9 claim

    kleim
    1. verb
    1) (to say that something is a fact: He claims to be the best runner in the class.) afirmar
    2) (to demand as a right: You must claim your money back if the goods are damaged.) reclamar
    3) (to state that one is the owner of: Does anyone claim this book?) reclamar

    2. noun
    1) (a statement (that something is a fact): Her claim that she was the millionaire's daughter was disproved.) afirmación
    2) ((a demand for) a payment of compensation etc: a claim for damages against her employer.) reclamación
    3) (a demand for something which (one says) one owns or has a right to: a rightful claim to the money.) reivindicación
    claim1 n
    1. reclamación / reivindicación
    2. afirmación
    claim2 vb
    1. reclamar
    2. afirmar / sostener
    tr[kleɪm]
    1 (demand - for insurance) reclamación nombre femenino; (for wages) demanda, reivindicación nombre femenino; (for benefit, allowance) solicitud nombre femenino
    2 (right - to title, right, property) derecho
    1 (right, property, title) reclamar; (land) reclamar, reivindicar; (compensation) exigir, reclamar; (immunity) alegar
    2 (apply for - benefit, allowance) solicitar; (- expenses) pedir, solicitar; (receive) cobrar
    3 (of disaster, accident, etc) cobrar
    4 (assert) afirmar, sostener, decir
    5 (attention) reclamar; (time) exigir
    1 presentar un reclamación, reclamar
    \
    SMALLIDIOMATIC EXPRESSION/SMALL
    somebody's only claim to fame lo más cerca que alguien ha estado de la fama
    to claim for something reclamar algo
    to claim on one's insurance reclamar el seguro
    to have a claim on something tener derecho a algo
    to lay claim to something (property etc) reclamar el derecho a algo, reivindicar algo 2 (to knowledge etc) pretender algo
    to make a claim for damages presentar una demanda por daños, demandar por daños
    claim ['kleɪm] vt
    1) demand: reclamar, reivindicar
    she claimed her rights: reclamó sus derechos
    2) maintain: afirmar, sostener
    they claim it's theirs: sostienen que es suyo
    1) demand: demanda f, reclamación f
    2) declaration: declaración f, afirmación f
    3)
    to stake a claim : reclamar, reivindicar
    n.
    afirmación s.f.
    demanda (Jurisprudencia) s.f.
    pedimento s.m.
    pretensión s.f.
    reclamación s.f.
    solicitud (Gobierno) s.f.
    v.
    afirmar v.
    demandar v.
    pretender v.
    reclamar v.
    reivindicar v.
    kleɪm
    I
    1) ( demand)

    wage o pay claim — reivindicación f salarial, demanda f de aumento salarial

    insurance claimreclamación f al seguro

    claim FOR something: to put in a claim for expenses presentar una solicitud de reembolso de gastos; she makes enormous claims on my time — me quita muchísimo tiempo

    2) (to right, title)

    to lay claim to something — reivindicar* algo

    3) ( allegation) afirmación f
    4) ( piece of land) concesión f; see also stake II 2) a)

    II
    1.
    1)
    a) ( assert title to) \<\<throne/inheritance/land\>\> reclamar; \<\<right\>\> reivindicar*

    to claim diplomatic immunity — alegar* inmunidad diplomática

    b) ( demand as being one's own) \<\<lost property\>\> reclamar
    c) \<\<social security/benefits\>\> ( apply for) solicitar; ( receive) cobrar

    he's going to claim compensation — va a exigir que se lo indemnice, va a reclamar una indemnización

    2) (allege, profess)

    he claimed (that) he knew nothing about itaseguraba or afirmaba no saber nada de ello

    to claim to + INF: they claim to have found the cure dicen or aseguran haber encontrado la cura; I can't claim to be an intellectual — no pretendo ser un intelectual

    3) \<\<attention/interest\>\> reclamar

    2.
    vi presentar una reclamación

    to claim on: you can claim on the insurance — puedes reclamar al seguro

    [kleɪm]
    1. N
    1) (=demand) (for rights, wages) reivindicación f, demanda f ; (for damages, on insurance) reclamación f ; (for expenses, benefit) solicitud f ; (Jur) demanda f

    pay or wage claim — reivindicación f salarial

    to file a claim — (Jur) presentar or interponer una demanda

    she lost her claim for damages — el tribunal rechazó su demanda de daños y perjuicios

    to make a claim — (on insurance) reclamar

    have you made a claim since last year? (for benefit) ¿ha solicitado alguna ayuda estatal desde el año pasado?

    there are many claims on my time — tengo una agenda muy apretada

    to put in a claim (for sth) — (for expenses) presentar una solicitud (de algo); (on insurance) reclamar (algo)

    2) (=right) (to property, title) derecho m

    the town's main claim to fame is its pub — este pueblo se destaca más que nada por el bar

    to lay claim to sth — (lit) reclamar algo; (fig) atribuirse algo

    he cannot lay claim to much originality — no puede atribuirse mucha originalidad, no puede presumir de original

    stake 2., 2), a), prior I, 1., 1)
    3) (=assertion) afirmación f
    2. VT
    1) (=demand as due) [+ rights] reivindicar; [+ lost property] reclamar; [+ allowance, benefit] (=apply for) solicitar; (=receive) cobrar

    25% of people who are entitled to claim State benefits do not do so — el 25% de las personas que tienen derecho a cobrar ayuda del Estado no lo hace

    he claimed damages for negligence on the part of the hospital — exigió que el hospital le compensara por haber cometido negligencia, demandó al hospital por negligencia

    2) (=state title to) [+ territory] reivindicar; [+ victory] atribuirse; [+ prize] llevarse; [+ throne] reclamar

    he was too modest to claim the creditera demasiado modesto como para atribuirse el mérito

    so far no one has claimed responsibility for the bomb — hasta ahora nadie ha reivindicado la colocación de de la bomba

    3) (=assert)

    he claims a 70% success rate — afirma or alega que resuelve satisfactoriamente un 70% de los casos

    to claim thatafirmar que

    he claims to have seen her — afirma haberla visto

    4) (=require) [+ attention] requerir, exigir
    5) (=take) [+ life] cobrarse
    3.
    VI (=make demand) presentar reclamación

    make sure you claim within a month of the accident — asegúrese de presentar reclamación antes de un mes desde la fecha del accidente

    4.
    CPD

    claim form N (for benefit) (impreso m de) solicitud f ; (for expenses) impreso m de reembolso

    claims adjuster, claims adjustor N(US) (=insurance adjuster) perito(-a) m / f de siniestros

    * * *
    [kleɪm]
    I
    1) ( demand)

    wage o pay claim — reivindicación f salarial, demanda f de aumento salarial

    insurance claimreclamación f al seguro

    claim FOR something: to put in a claim for expenses presentar una solicitud de reembolso de gastos; she makes enormous claims on my time — me quita muchísimo tiempo

    2) (to right, title)

    to lay claim to something — reivindicar* algo

    3) ( allegation) afirmación f
    4) ( piece of land) concesión f; see also stake II 2) a)

    II
    1.
    1)
    a) ( assert title to) \<\<throne/inheritance/land\>\> reclamar; \<\<right\>\> reivindicar*

    to claim diplomatic immunity — alegar* inmunidad diplomática

    b) ( demand as being one's own) \<\<lost property\>\> reclamar
    c) \<\<social security/benefits\>\> ( apply for) solicitar; ( receive) cobrar

    he's going to claim compensation — va a exigir que se lo indemnice, va a reclamar una indemnización

    2) (allege, profess)

    he claimed (that) he knew nothing about itaseguraba or afirmaba no saber nada de ello

    to claim to + INF: they claim to have found the cure dicen or aseguran haber encontrado la cura; I can't claim to be an intellectual — no pretendo ser un intelectual

    3) \<\<attention/interest\>\> reclamar

    2.
    vi presentar una reclamación

    to claim on: you can claim on the insurance — puedes reclamar al seguro

    English-spanish dictionary > claim

  • 10 right

    [̈ɪraɪt]
    acknowledge a right признавать право acquire a right получать право acquired right юр. полученное право acquired right юр. приобретенное право adverse right противоположное право all right в порядке; вполне удовлетворительный; he is all right он чувствует себя хорошо; everything is all right with your plan с вашим планом все в порядке all right вполне удовлетворительно, приемлемо; как нужно all right подходящий, устраивающий (кого-л.); is it all right with you? вас это устраивает? all right хорошо!, ладно!, согласен! appendant right дополнительное право right здоровый, в хорошем состоянии; исправный; to put right исправить; are you right now? удобно ли вам теперь?; I feel all right я чувствую себя хорошо artist's right право на художественную собственность asylum right право убежища right прямой (о линии, об угле); at the right angle под прямым углом bargaining right право ведения переговоров to be all right быть в порядке to be all right чувствовать себя хорошо; if it's all right with you если это вас устраивает, если вы согласны; on the right side of thirty моложе 30 лет right справедливость; правильность; to do (smb.) right отдавать (кому-л.) должное, справедливость; to be in the right быть правым right правый, справедливый; to be right быть правым be sure you bring the right book смотрите, принесите ту книгу, которую нужно; the right size нужный размер right pl порядок; to set (или to put) to rights навести порядок; привести в порядок; to be to rights быть в порядке; by right or wrong всеми правдами и неправдами beneficial right право получения доходов с доверительной собственности beneficial right право пользования собственностью для извлечения выгоды birth right право первородства birth right право по рождению bonus right право на получение льгот right право; справедливое требование (to); привилегия; right to work право на труд; rights and duties права и обязанности; by right of по праву (чего-л.) right pl порядок; to set (или to put) to rights навести порядок; привести в порядок; to be to rights быть в порядке; by right or wrong всеми правдами и неправдами civil right гражданское право right here в эту минуту; right now в этот момент; come right in амер. входите consequential right право, вытекающее из другого права constitutional right конституционное право contractual right право, вытекающее из контракта conversion right право конверсии corporeal right вещное право create a right создавать право diffusion right право распространения right справедливость; правильность; to do (smb.) right отдавать (кому-л.) должное, справедливость; to be in the right быть правым right верный, правильный; right use of words правильное употребление слов; to do what is right делать то, что правильно; he is always right он всегда прав drawing right право жеребьевки drawing right право заимствования equal right равноправный all right в порядке; вполне удовлетворительный; he is all right он чувствует себя хорошо; everything is all right with your plan с вашим планом все в порядке exclusive right исключительное право extinguishing a right аннулирование права first mortgage right право первой закладной flush right вчт. выровненное правое поле full legal right законное право собственности, соединенное с фактическим владением fundamental right основное право right правильно, верно; справедливо; to get it right понять правильно; to get (или to do) a sum right верно решить задачу; to guess right правильно угадать right прямо; go right ahead идите прямо вперед right правильно, верно; справедливо; to get it right понять правильно; to get (или to do) a sum right верно решить задачу; to guess right правильно угадать all right в порядке; вполне удовлетворительный; he is all right он чувствует себя хорошо; everything is all right with your plan с вашим планом все в порядке right верный, правильный; right use of words правильное употребление слов; to do what is right делать то, что правильно; he is always right он всегда прав honorary right почетное право human right права человека human right право человека right здоровый, в хорошем состоянии; исправный; to put right исправить; are you right now? удобно ли вам теперь?; I feel all right я чувствую себя хорошо right очень; I know right well я очень хорошо знаю; right away, right off сразу; немедленно; right off the bat амер. = с места в карьер; сразу же to be all right чувствовать себя хорошо; if it's all right with you если это вас устраивает, если вы согласны; on the right side of thirty моложе 30 лет in one's own right по праву (благодаря титулу, образованию и т. п.); to reserve the right оставлять за собой право inalienable right неотъемлемое право incorporeal right право требования; право, могущее быть основанием для иска indefeasible right неотъемлемое право indisputable right неоспоримое право individual right частное право all right подходящий, устраивающий (кого-л.); is it all right with you? вас это устраивает? landing right право на высадку legal right субъективное право, основанное на нормах общего права licensing right лицензионное право licensing right разрешительное право maintenance of acquired rights сохранение приобретенных прав (на пению, другие виды социального обеспечения) managerial right право руководителя marital right супружеское право; право, возникающее в связи с вступлением в брак marketing rights права на продажу membership right право членства minority right право меньшинства moral right моральное право natural right естественное право the right man in the right place человек на своем месте, человек, подходящий для данного дела; not the right Mr Jones не тот мр Джоунз notification right право уведомления to be all right чувствовать себя хорошо; if it's all right with you если это вас устраивает, если вы согласны; on the right side of thirty моложе 30 лет ore mining right право на горнорудные разработки partial right неполное право participation right право на участие в прибылях partnership right право на участие pension right право на получение пенсии personal right личное право political right политическое право possessory right право собственности preemption right преимущественное право на покупку preemptive right преимущественное право на покупку preemptive subscription right преимущественное право на покупку акций по подписке preferential subscription right преимущественное право подписки на акции prescriptive right право, основанное на давности prior right преимущественное право priority right преимущественное право proprietary right вещное право proprietary right право собственности protective right защитительное право prove one's right доказывать право publishing right право на издание right здоровый, в хорошем состоянии; исправный; to put right исправить; are you right now? удобно ли вам теперь?; I feel all right я чувствую себя хорошо reemployment right право на получение нового места работы в случае увольнения reporting right право представления отчета restricted voting right ограниченное право голоса reversionary right возвратное право reversionary right право на обратный переход имущества right в хорошем состоянии right верный, правильный; right use of words правильное употребление слов; to do what is right делать то, что правильно; he is always right он всегда прав right выпрямлять(ся); исправлять(ся) right защищать права; to right the oppressed заступаться за угнетенных right здоровый, в хорошем состоянии; исправный; to put right исправить; are you right now? удобно ли вам теперь?; I feel all right я чувствую себя хорошо right именно тот, который нужен (или имеется в виду); подходящий, надлежащий; уместный right исправный right (обыкн. pl) истинное положение вещей, действительность; the rights of the case положение дела right лицевой, правый (о стороне материала) right надлежащий right надлежащим или должным образом right направо right нужный right очень; I know right well я очень хорошо знаю; right away, right off сразу; немедленно; right off the bat амер. = с места в карьер; сразу же right подходящий right pl порядок; to set (или to put) to rights навести порядок; привести в порядок; to be to rights быть в порядке; by right or wrong всеми правдами и неправдами right правая сторона; on the right справа (где); to the right направо (куда) right правильно, верно; справедливо; to get it right понять правильно; to get (или to do) a sum right верно решить задачу; to guess right правильно угадать right правильный right право; справедливое требование (to); привилегия; right to work право на труд; rights and duties права и обязанности; by right of по праву (чего-л.) right право (обычно в субъективном смысле) right право right правомерный, правый, справедливый, правильный, надлежащий right правомерный right правопритязание right (the Rights) pl собир. полит. правые right полит. правый, реакционный right правый right правый, справедливый; to be right быть правым right правый right привилегия right прямо; go right ahead идите прямо вперед right прямой (о линии, об угле); at the right angle под прямым углом right совершенно, полностью; right to the end до самого конца right справедливость; правильность; to do (smb.) right отдавать (кому-л.) должное, справедливость; to be in the right быть правым right справедливость right справедливый right точно, как раз; right in the middle как раз в середине to right oneself реабилитировать себя; to right a wrong исправить несправедливость; загладить обиду right after сразу после right and left во все стороны; right turn (или face)! воен. направо! (команда) right and left направо и налево right here в эту минуту; right now в этот момент; come right in амер. входите right here как раз здесь right in personam обязательственное право right in personam относительное право right in personam право обязательственного характера right in rem абсолютное право right in rem вещное право right точно, как раз; right in the middle как раз в середине the right man in the right place человек на своем месте, человек, подходящий для данного дела; not the right Mr Jones не тот мр Джоунз right of abandonment право отказа right of abode право на жилище right of accrual право увеличения доли right of action право на иск right of action право предъявления иска right of administration and disposal of property право распоряжения и передачи имущества right of all workers to a fair remuneration право всех рабочих на справедливое вознаграждение за труд; это понятие шире, чем концепция заработной платы и включает основную или минимальную зарплату (и любые другие прямые или косвенные выплаты деньгами и right of appointment право назначения right of assembly право собраний right of audience право аудиенции right of cancellation право аннулирования right of cancellation право отмены right of cancellation право расторжения контракта right of challenge право отвода присяжного заседателя right of chastisement право наказания right of claim право заявлять претензию right of complaint право подавать иск right of consultation право давать консультацию right of deduction право удержания right of deposit право депонирования right of detention право задержания right of disposal право передачи right of disposal право распоряжения right of exchange право обмена right of execution право оформления right of execution право приведения в исполнение right of exploitation пат. право использования right of first refusal право преимущественной покупки right of free lodging право бесплатного хранения right of inheritance право наследования right of intervention право вступления в процесс right of intervention право на вмешательство right of litigant to be present in court право тяжущейся стороны присутствовать в суде right of notification право уведомления right of occupation право владения right of occupation право завладения right of occupation of the matrimonial home право завладения домом супруга right of option бирж. право опциона right of option бирж. право сделки с премией right of ownership право собственности right of passage право проезда, прохода right of passage право прохода судов right of pledge право отдавать в залог right of possession право владения right of preemption преимущественное право покупки right of primogeniture насл. право первородства right of priority преимущественное право right of property право собственности right of recourse право оборота right of recourse право регресса right of redemption право возвращения right of redemption право выкупа заложенного имущества right of redemption право изъятия из обращения right of redemption право погашения right of regress право регресса right of removal орг.бизн. право отстранения от должности right of reply право ответа истца на возражения по иску right of reproduction право воспроизведения right of repurchase право выкупа right of repurchase право перекупки right of rescission право аннулирования right of rescission право расторжения right of residence право пребывания right of residence право проживания right of retainer право удержания right of retention право сохранения right of retention право удержания right of review право пересмотра right of review право проверки right of search право обыска search: right обыск; right of search юр. право обыска судов right of setoff право судебного зачета right of stoppage in transit право задержания в пути right of stoppage in transit право остановки в пути right of subscription право подписки right of succession право наследования right of surrender право отказа right of surrender право признания себя несостоятельным должником right of surrender право уступки right of survivorship право наследования, возникшее в результате смерти одного или нескольких наследников right of termination право прекращения действия right of testation право представлять доказательства right of use право использования right of use право пользования right of use право применения right of use and consumption право пользования и потребления right of veto право вето right of voting право голосования right of way полоса отчуждения right of way право проезда right of way право прохода, проезда right of way право прохода right очень; I know right well я очень хорошо знаю; right away, right off сразу; немедленно; right off the bat амер. = с места в карьер; сразу же right очень; I know right well я очень хорошо знаю; right away, right off сразу; немедленно; right off the bat амер. = с места в карьер; сразу же to right oneself выпрямляться to right oneself реабилитировать себя; to right a wrong исправить несправедливость; загладить обиду be sure you bring the right book смотрите, принесите ту книгу, которую нужно; the right size нужный размер right защищать права; to right the oppressed заступаться за угнетенных right to annul an agreement право аннулировать договор right to annul an agreement право аннулировать соглашение right to be consulted право на получение консультации right to be informed право на получение информации right to begin восстанавливать исходное юридическое положение right to benefits право на льготы right to bind the company право связать компанию договором right to call for repayment право требовать возмещения right to claim for damages право предъявлять иск за нанесенный ущерб right to collect firewood право заготавливать дрова right to compensation право на возмещение right to compensation право на компенсацию right to cut turf право резать торф right to decide право принимать решения right to dispose of shares право изымать акции right to dividend право на получение дивиденда right to know право быть в курсе дел right to know право на информацию right to negotiate право вести переговоры right to obtain satisfaction право получать встречное удовлетворение right to organize право создавать организацию right to pay off a creditor право полностью расплатиться с кредитором right to petition the Community institutions право обращаться с заявлениями в учреждения Европейского экономического сообщества right to purchase shares право приобретать акции right to put questions право обращаться с вопросами right to put questions to minister право обращаться с вопросами к министру right to recovery of property право на возвращение имущества right to restitution право реституции right to retain the necessaries of life право сохранять личное имущество right to return право возврата right to share in any winding up surplus право на долю прибыли при ликвидации фирмы right to speak право на высказывание speak: right to right право говорить right to stand for election право выдвигать кандидатуру для избрания right to strike право на забастовку right to take industrial action право на проведение производственных мероприятий right to take proceedings право вести судебное разбирательство right совершенно, полностью; right to the end до самого конца right to unionize право объединяться в профсоюз right to unobstructed view право на свободный осмотр места преступления right to use beach право выхода на берег right to vote право на голосование right право; справедливое требование (to); привилегия; right to work право на труд; rights and duties права и обязанности; by right of по праву (чего-л.) right and left во все стороны; right turn (или face)! воен. направо! (команда) right верный, правильный; right use of words правильное употребление слов; to do what is right делать то, что правильно; he is always right он всегда прав right you are! разг. верно!, ваша правда right you are! разг. идет!, есть такое дело! right право; справедливое требование (to); привилегия; right to work право на труд; rights and duties права и обязанности; by right of по праву (чего-л.) right (обыкн. pl) истинное положение вещей, действительность; the rights of the case положение дела sales right право продажи secondary right дополнительное право selling right право продажи to set (или to put) oneself right (with smb.) помириться (с кем-л.) to set (или to put) oneself right (with smb.) снискать (чью-л.) благосклонность right pl порядок; to set (или to put) to rights навести порядок; привести в порядок; to be to rights быть в порядке; by right or wrong всеми правдами и неправдами share right право на акции social rights социальные права sole right исключительное право; монопольное право sole selling right исключительное право на продажу; монопольное право на продажу sovereign right суверенное право special right специальное право stage right исключительное право театра на постановку пьесы stock right право на покупку некоторого числа акций компании по фиксированной цене stockholders' preemptive right преимущественное право акционера subscription right право подписки на акции succession right право наследования supervisory right право контроля taxation right право взимания налогов right правая сторона; on the right справа (где); to the right направо (куда) transfer a right передавать право under a right in international law в соответствии с нормами международного права union right право на создание профессионального союза user right право пользователя usufructuary right право на узуфрукт veto right право вето visiting rights право посещения (ребенка) voting right право голоса voting right право участия в голосовании; право голоса

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  • 11 Computer Psychometrics

       The computer is changing most aspects of [psychological] testing, bringing benefits and costs. Automation of test administration and interpretation is gaining ground, although it tends to reduce interaction between assessor and examinee-with consequent impoverishment of information on both sides. Supplying computer-generated "self-interpreting" reports to clients seems likely to invite misunderstanding, and to encourage overreliance on the test as authority. Persons not qualified as test interpreters are writing software for start-up companies in the field; the risks are obvious. On the positive side, if the computer is kept in an adjunct role it reduces testing costs, and its reports stimulate thought in the professional interpreter. Adaptive testing is paying off, and we are beginning to see new tasks, resembling video arcade displays, which have obvious potential. (Cronbach, 1990, p. xxiii)

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  • 12 Historical Portugal

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

    Historical dictionary of Portugal > Historical Portugal

  • 13 track

    track [træk]
    1 noun
    (a) (path, route) chemin m, sentier m; (of planet, star, aeroplane) trajectoire f;
    a mountain track un sentier de montagne;
    a farm track un chemin de campagne;
    figurative to be on the right track être sur la bonne voie;
    figurative he's on the wrong track il fait fausse route;
    familiar you're way off track! tu es complètement à côté de la plaque!
    British motor-racing track autodrome m;
    track and field athlétisme m;
    track and field events épreuves fpl d'athlétisme;
    Cycling to do a track stand faire du surplace
    (c) Railways voie f, rails mpl;
    the train jumped the tracks le train a déraillé ou a quitté les rails;
    esp American to live on the right/wrong side of the tracks habiter un bon/mauvais quartier;
    esp American to come from the wrong side of the tracks être issu d'un milieu défavorisé
    (d) (mark, trail) trace f, piste f; (of animal, person) piste f; (of boat) sillage m;
    to be on sb's track or tracks être sur la piste de qn;
    the terrorists had covered their tracks well les terroristes n'avaient pas laissé de traces;
    to throw sb off the track dépister qn;
    that should throw them off my track avec ça, je devrais arriver à les semer;
    to keep track of suivre;
    it's hard to keep track of her, she moves around so much il est difficile de rester en contact avec elle, elle bouge tout le temps;
    we like to keep track of current events nous aimons nous tenir au courant de l'actualité;
    why can't you keep track of your things? tu ne peux pas faire attention où tu mets tes affaires?;
    we'll have to keep track of the time! il ne faudra pas oublier l'heure!;
    don't lose track of those files n'égarez pas ces dossiers;
    they've lost track of the situation ils ne suivent plus ou ne sont plus au courant de ce qui se passe;
    I lost track of them years ago j'ai perdu le contact avec eux ou je les ai perdus de vue il y a des années;
    she lost all track of time elle a perdu toute notion du temps;
    he lost track of what he was saying il a perdu le fil de ce qu'il disait;
    familiar to make tracks mettre les voiles;
    she made tracks for home elle a filé chez elle
    (e) (on CD, LP, tape) morceau m; Computing (of disk) piste f;
    Computing tracks per inch pistes fpl par pouce
    (f) Cars (of tracked vehicle) chenille f; (tyre tread) chape f; (space between wheels) écartement m
    (g) American School classe f de niveau
    (h) familiar drugs slang trace f de piqûre
    (a) (follow → animal) suivre à la trace, filer; (→ rocket) suivre la trajectoire de; (→ criminal) traquer
    don't track mud into the house! ne traîne pas de boue dans la maison!
    (a) (stylus) suivre le sillon
    (b) (with camera) faire un traveling ou travelling
    ►► Cars track arm bras m de direction;
    Railways track bed plate-forme f;
    Sport track event épreuve f sur piste;
    American Sport track meet rencontre f d'athlétisme;
    Sport track racing (UNCOUNT) courses fpl sur piste;
    Sport & figurative track record (past record, career to date) antécédents mpl; (list of achievements) palmarès m;
    she has a good track record elle a fait ses preuves;
    he doesn't have a very good track record for punctuality il n'est pas réputé pour sa ponctualité;
    in view of his track record of getting home late every Friday night… vu l'habitude qu'il a de rentrer tard tous les vendredis soirs…;
    a company with a good/poor track record in winning export orders une entreprise avec un bon/mauvais palmarès sur le plan des commandes à l'exportation;
    no wonder the insurance is high with your track record! pas étonnant que l'assurance soit chère avec ton palmarès!;
    given the government's track record in the field of cutting benefits vu les antécédents du gouvernement en matière de réduction des prestations sociales;
    British Cars track rod biellette f de connexion;
    Sport track shoe chaussure f d'athlétisme;
    Sport track star star f de l'athlétisme;
    American School track system = répartition des élèves en sections selon leurs aptitudes;
    track vehicle véhicule m chenillé
    retrouver, localiser; (animal, criminal) traquer et capturer

    Un panorama unique de l'anglais et du français > track

  • 14 liability

    сущ.
    сокр. liab.
    1) общ. обязанность
    Syn:
    2) юр. ответственность (за какое-л. действие)

    to accept [acknowledge, assume, incur, take on\] a liability — принимать (на себя), нести ответственность

    We assumed full liability for our children's debts. — Мы приняли на себя полную ответственность за долги наших детей.

    Your employer's liability does not cover accidents that you have on your way to work. — Ответственность вашего работодателя не распространяются на несчастные случаи, которые происходят с вами по пути на работу.

    See:
    absolute liability, accountant's liability, advertising liability, automobile liability, bodily injury liability, cargo liability, civil liability, commercial general liability, completed operations liability, damage liability, employee benefits liability, employment practices liability, environmental liability, general liability, joint liability, joint and several liability, legal liability, lender liability, long-tail liability, market share liability, personal injury liability, premises liability, product liability, professional liability, public liability, shipowner's liability, termination liability, third party liability, accountability-as-liability, liability claim, liability insurance, liability limit, liability policy, liability reinsurance, liability risk, property-liability insurance, accountability
    3)
    а) фин., учет, преим. мн. обязательство ( финансового характера), долг, задолженность

    The business has liabilities of 2 million dollars. — Фирма имеет задолженность в 2 млн долл.

    He denies any liability for the cost of the court case. — Он отрицает какую-л. ответственность по судебным издержкам.

    See:
    б) учет, мн. обязательства (общая сумма долгов организации, возникших в результате экономических операций отчетного периода; отражаются в правой стороне бухгалтерского баланса, в сумме с собственным капиталом равны активам организации)
    See:
    в) учет пассивная [убыточная\] позиция ( превышение расходов над доходами)
    4) общ. помеха, трудность, источник неприятностей

    He should go because he has become a liability. — Он должен уйти, ибо он стал помехой.

    Employers saw her age as a liability rather than an asset. — Работодателям ее возраст казался скорее помехой, чем ценным качеством.

    Syn:
    hindrance, drawback
    See:
    5) учет, мн. привлеченный капитал (часть бухгалтерского баланса, в которой отражаются источники образования средств организации, сгруппированные по их принадлежности и назначению)
    Syn:
    See:

    * * *
    обязательство, задолженность, пассив; денежные средства и иные ресурсы или товары, которые данное юридическое лицо кому-то должно; требования на активы физического или юридического лица; обязательства являются следствием контракта или действия, их выполнение обязательно для должника; см. asset;
    * * *
    Обязательство (задолженность, пассив)
    . Финансовое обязательство или денежные расходы, которые должны быть исполнены/понесены в определенное время в соответствии с контрактными условиями данного обязательства . Инвестиционная деятельность .
    * * *
    обязанность; долг; пассив; денежные обязательства

    Англо-русский экономический словарь > liability

  • 15 FSB

    1) Компьютерная техника: File Selection Box
    3) Техника: fire control switchboard
    5) Металлургия: Flat Slip on Bottom
    6) Сокращение: Faltschwimmbrucke (Germany), Forward Support Battalion
    7) Вычислительная техника: function system block, For Small Business (Novell)
    10) Глоссарий компании Сахалин Энерджи: Front Side Bus
    12) Сахалин Р: Federal Security Service
    13) Нефть и газ: field support base
    14) Ebay. Factory Sealed Box

    Универсальный англо-русский словарь > FSB

  • 16 positive

    'pozətiv
    1. adjective
    1) (meaning or saying `yes': a positive answer; They tested the water for the bacteria and the result was positive (= the bacteria were present).) positivo, afirmativo
    2) (definite; leaving no doubt: positive proof.) definitivo, concluyente
    3) (certain or sure: I'm positive he's right.) seguro
    4) (complete or absolute: His work is a positive disgrace.) completo, verdadero, absoluto
    5) (optimistic and prepared to make plans for the future: Take a more positive attitude to life.) positivo
    6) (not showing any comparison; not comparative or superlative.) positivo
    7) ((of a number etc) greater than zero.) positivo
    8) (having fewer electrons than normal: In an electrical circuit, electrons flow to the positive terminal.) positivo

    2. noun
    1) (a photographic print, made from a negative, in which light and dark are as normal.) positivo
    2) ((an adjective or adverb of) the positive (not comparative or superlative) degree.) positivo
    - positively
    1. positivo
    2. seguro
    tr['pɒzɪtɪv]
    1 (gen) positivo,-a
    2 (definite - proof, evidence) concluyente, definitivo,-a; (- refusal, decision) categórico,-a; (- answer) firme; (- instruction, order) preciso,-a
    3 (effective - criticism, advice) constructivo,-a; (- attitude, experience) positivo,-a
    4 (quite certain) seguro,-a ( about, de)
    5 familiar (absolute, complete, real) auténtico,-a, verdadero,-a
    1 positivo
    \
    SMALLIDIOMATIC EXPRESSION/SMALL
    to think positive ser positivo,-a
    positive discrimination discriminación nombre femenino positiva
    positive ['pɑzət̬ɪv] adj
    1) definite: incuestionable, inequívoco
    positive evidence: pruebas irrefutables
    2) confident: seguro
    3) : positivo (en gramática, matemáticas, y física)
    4) affirmative: positivo, afirmativo
    a positive response: una respuesta positiva
    adj.
    afirmativo, -a adj.
    enfático, -a adj.
    positivo (Matemática) adj.
    seguro, -a adj.
    n.
    positiva s.f.
    positivo s.m.
    'pɑːzətɪv, 'pɒzətɪv
    1)
    a) <number/quantity> positivo; < electrode> positivo

    the test was positive — ( Med) el análisis dio positivo

    b) ( Phot) <image/print> positivo
    2)
    a) ( constructive) < attitude> positivo; < criticism> constructivo

    positive discrimination — (BrE) discriminación f positiva

    b) ( for the good) <influence/development> positivo
    3) ( definite)
    4) ( absolute) (before n) auténtico, verdadero

    it's a positive disgracees una auténtica or verdadera vergüenza

    5)
    a) ( decisive) categórico
    b) ( sure) (colloq) (pred)

    are you sure? - positive — ¿estás seguro? - segurísimo or más que seguro

    ['pɒzɪtɪv]
    1. ADJ
    1) (=sure, certain) seguro

    "are you sure?" - "yes, positive" — -¿estás seguro? -segurísimo or -no me cabe la menor duda

    he's positive about it — está seguro de ello

    we have positive proof that... — tenemos pruebas concluyentes de que...; see proof 1., 1)

    2) (=affirmative, constructive) [attitude, view, influence] positivo; [criticism] constructivo; [person] que tiene una actitud positiva

    to take positive actiontomar medidas firmes

    positive discriminationdiscriminación f positiva

    on the positive sideen el lado positivo

    positive vettinginvestigación f de antecedentes

    3) (=real) [disgrace, disadvantage] verdadero, auténtico

    he's a positive nuisancees un verdadero or auténtico pelmazo *

    4) (Elec, Phot, Ling) positivo; (Med) [result] positivo; (Math) [number] positivo

    positive cash flowflujo m positivo de caja

    2.
    N (=plus point) aspecto m positivo; (Phot) positivo m ; (Math) número m positivo, valor m positivo

    to give a false positive — (Med) dar un resultado positivo falso

    3.
    ADV

    to test positive — dar positivo

    you have to think positive — hay que ser positivo

    4.
    CPD

    positive thinking Npensamiento m positivo

    the benefits of positive thinking — los beneficios del pensamiento positivo

    these people believe positive thinking can cure diseases — estas personas creen que pensar positivamente puede curar las enfermedades

    * * *
    ['pɑːzətɪv, 'pɒzətɪv]
    1)
    a) <number/quantity> positivo; < electrode> positivo

    the test was positive — ( Med) el análisis dio positivo

    b) ( Phot) <image/print> positivo
    2)
    a) ( constructive) < attitude> positivo; < criticism> constructivo

    positive discrimination — (BrE) discriminación f positiva

    b) ( for the good) <influence/development> positivo
    3) ( definite)
    4) ( absolute) (before n) auténtico, verdadero

    it's a positive disgracees una auténtica or verdadera vergüenza

    5)
    a) ( decisive) categórico
    b) ( sure) (colloq) (pred)

    are you sure? - positive — ¿estás seguro? - segurísimo or más que seguro

    English-spanish dictionary > positive

  • 17 adjustment

    1. n регулирование; согласование
    2. n улаживание, урегулирование
    3. n разрешение спора; мировое соглашение
    4. n установка; сборка
    5. n регулировка, пригонка, настройка; выверка, юстировка

    address adjustment — настройка адреса; корректировка адреса

    6. n воен. корректирование

    adjustment fire — пристрелка, корректирование огня

    7. n регулирующее устройство, регулятор
    8. n приспособляемость; адаптация, привыкание
    9. n биол. приспособленность
    10. n амер. страх. составление диспаши, расчёт убытков по общей аварии
    11. n уценка
    12. n бухг. поправка, исправление записи
    Синонимический ряд:
    1. acclimation (noun) acclimation; familiarization; orientation
    2. accommodation (noun) accommodation; adaptation; conformation
    3. alteration (noun) alteration; change; shift; variation
    4. arrangement (noun) agreement; allotment; arrangement; compensation; compromise; reconciliation; regulation; remuneration; settlement
    5. minor modification (noun) alignment; alleviation; correction; fine tuning; fixing; improvement; justification; minor modification; modification; regulating
    6. reconcilement (noun) reconcilement
    7. turn (noun) manoeuvre; move; movement; turn

    English-Russian base dictionary > adjustment

  • 18 Anglo-Portuguese Alliance

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

    Historical dictionary of Portugal > Anglo-Portuguese Alliance

  • 19 balance

    A n
    1 ( stable position) lit, fig équilibre m (between entre) ; to lose one's balance perdre l'équilibre ; to keep one's balance garder son équilibre ; to knock sb off balance faire perdre l'équilibre à qn ; to catch sb off balance fig prendre qn au dépourvu ; to throw sb off balance fig perturber qn ; ecological/racial balance équilibre m écologique/racial ; to achieve a balance parvenir à un équilibre ; to upset the balance bouleverser l'équilibre ; to bring sth into balance équilibrer qch ; the right balance le juste milieu ; the balance of nature l'équilibre naturel ; the balance of sb's mind l'équilibre mental de qn ; while the balance of his mind was disturbed alors qu'il était en état de démence ; the balance of interests Pol l'équilibre des intérêts ; the balance of power l'équilibre des forces ; to hold the balance of power être en position d'inverser l'équilibre des forces ;
    2 ( scales) lit, fig balance f ; to be in the balance fig être dans la balance ; to hang in the balance fig être en jeu ; on balance tout compte fait ; on balance it has been a good year tout compte fait l'année a été bonne ;
    3 Accts, Comm ( in account) solde m ; balance in hand/brought forward le solde en caisse/reporté ; to pay the balance verser le surplus ;
    4 ( remainder) restant m ; if we pay off £100, that will leave a balance of £50 si nous remboursons 100 livres sterling, il en restera 50 livres sterling à payer.
    B vtr
    1 fig ( compensate for) ( also balance out) compenser, équilibrer ; the losses are balanced by the profits les pertes sont compensées par les profits ; to balance each other (out) s'équilibrer ;
    2 ( counterbalance) contrebalancer [weights, design, elements] ; you need something to balance the picture on that side il vous faut quelque chose pour contrebalancer le tableau de ce côté ;
    3 ( perch) poser or mettre [qch] en équilibre (on sur) ; the ball was balanced on his nose le ballon était en équilibre sur son nez ;
    4 ( adjust) équilibrer [diet, activity, timetable] ;
    5 (weigh up, compare) peser ; to balance the pros and cons peser le pour et le contre ; to balance sth against sth mesurer qch en fonction de qch ;
    6 Accts, Comm équilibrer [account, books, budget, economy] ;
    7 Aut équilibrer [wheels].
    C vi
    1 lit [one person] se tenir en équilibre (on sur) ; [one thing] tenir en équilibre (on sur) ; [two things, persons] s'équilibrer ;
    2 fig ( also balance out) [benefits, drawbacks] se compenser ;
    3 Accts, Comm [books, figures, budget] être en équilibre ; to make sth balance, to get sth to balance équilibrer qch.
    D balanced pp adj [person, behaviour, discussion, view, diet, meal, schedule, curriculum, budget] équilibré ; [article, report] objectif/-ive ; [decision] réfléchi.

    Big English-French dictionary > balance

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