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...managerial competence. Politically independent, but more centrist than the Socialists, he has managed to survive all the vicissitudes of Portuguese politics, largely as a result of his administrative skills. Educated in Lisbon and London, Nobre da Costa has been called a "supertechnocrat." For many years an employee of the Champalimaud industrial empire, Portugal's second largest financial complex, he once served as Minister of Industry in Soares' government - at Eanes' insistence. Nobre da Costa is known as a free-enterpriser who gets things done no matter how many toes he has to step on. Says an auto...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PORTUGAL: The Technocrat | 8/21/1978 | See Source »

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