Word: carneiro
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Some scholars see more foam than substance in Katz's notion. "Hunters and gatherers did not have the pottery to put stuff in to soak," objects Anthropology Curator Robert Carneiro of the American Museum of Natural History. Other academics point out that the theory has been suggested before and remains speculative. But Katz claims no proprietary insight. "We all know nothing is so simple as a single cause," he observes. Having a tall cool one, however, "is maybe a more important part of the process toward domestication than we had previously thought...
Polls showed Soares Carneiro trailing Eanes 2 to 1 before the crash. After it, all parties agreed that Sunday's elections should proceed as scheduled, probably because none could really assess what effect the accident might have on the outcome...
With six candidates in the field, there was a clear possibility of a runoff, and no Portuguese was ready to count on political stability. A majority for Eanes might express a public desire in that direction, but a sympathy vote for Soares Carneiro might just as easily demonstrate that the country wanted to preserve the cohesion that the dead leader had established. As for the post of Prime Minister, there seemed to be no one ready to fill Sá Carneiro's shoes. His Deputy Prime Minister and acting successor, Diogo Freitas do Amaral, is a frosty Christian Democrat...
...only thing most Portuguese seemed to agree on was the singular loss in the death of Sá Carneiro, a diminutive (5 ft. 4 in.) man who as a political fighter always seemed taller than he really was. Friends and opponents alike recalled that the young Sá Carneiro braved catcalls in the National Assembly to speak out for freedom in the dying days of Portuguese dictatorship. Intolerant of criticism in office, however, he drifted rightward. His campaign for Soares Carneiro was based on a threat to resign as Prime Minister. Justifying such a potentially destabilizing tactic, Sá Carneiro...
DIED. Francisco Sa Carneiro, 46, Prime Minister of Portugal whose rightist Democratic Alliance had given his country its first stable government since the overthrow of Marcello Caetano in 1974; in a plane crash that also killed Minister...