Word: cavaco
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...large commercial bank Societe Generale. The idea has started to catch on elsewhere. In Portugal, where state businesses have sucked $13 billion in operating losses and subsidies from the economy since the leftist revolution of 1974, the new Social Democratic socialist government of Prime Minister Anibal Cavaco Silva has promised similar reforms...
Freitas do Amaral was strongly backed by popular Prime Minister Anibal Cavaco Silva, 46, the Social Democratic leader who led a minority government after breaking his party's alliance with Soares last June and winning parliamentary elections on Oct. 26. Cavaco Silva was gambling that victory by Freitas do Amaral would strengthen his minority government. After last week's balloting, the Prime Minister was conciliatory. Said he: "I intend to continue to consult with the President. I will not create problems." Soares responded in kind, noting that "the President is the guarantor, the moderator, not the governor." Indeed...
...another minority government. The right-of-center Social Democrats emerged as the leading party with 30% of the vote. But with about 85 seats in the 250-member parliament, they are well short of the majority needed to ensure a four-year tenure for the new Prime Minister, Anibal Cavaco Silva, 46. It was Cavaco Silva who triggered the collapse of the government last July when he pulled out of the coalition led by Socialist Prime Minister Mario Soares...