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The Japanese came up with a system called just-in-time, a way of getting parts to factories only at the moment they're needed, avoiding costly warehousing and handling. In Portugal, just-in-time is less an efficient production system than a philosophy of life - and politics.
Guterres had 115 of the 230 seats in parliament, which left him having to horse-trade with the Popular Party - whose slogan this campaign is "Portugal Needs a Right Arm" - and with the Communist Party, each of which has 15 seats in the outgoing parliament. The center-right Social Democrats...
Portugal's official 2001 budget deficit was 2.2%, enough to stir the ire of the European Commission. Durão Barroso says wryly that this was "only a slight variation of 100%" on the government's 1.1% prediction and that it's probably higher because of trick accounting. He won...
By year-end, digital radio will be available in 85% of the U.K. Several other countries, including Belgium, Germany and Portugal, also boast extensive digital coverage. But Germany is Europe's biggest market. The enormous Japanese manufacturers are unlikely to mass-produce receivers until there is sufficient consumer demand for...
The outcome is a victory of sorts for Schröder, who must face the electorate in September, but a disaster for Europe. If the preacher goes off the wagon, why should his flock stick to sobriety? How will the Commission be able to chastize Italy, Portugal and France, whose...