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  Maria De Lourdes Pintasilgo | The San Diego Union-Tribune
Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo, the only woman to serve as Portugal's prime minister, died of heart failure July 10, news reports said.
She also held a series of senior posts, including minister of social affairs, in provisional governments after the 1974 revolution that ended 30 years of dictatorship.
Pintasilgo ran unsuccessfully as a Socialist candidate for president in 1986 and was elected to the European Parliament in 1987.
www.signonsandiego.com /uniontrib/20040815/news_1m15pinta.html   (150 words)

  
 M. Pintasilgo, Portugal's former prime minister, 74 - The Boston Globe
LISBON, Portugal -- Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo, the only woman to serve as Portugal's prime minister, died of heart failure Saturday, news reports said.
She also held a series of senior posts, including minister of social affairs, in provisional governments after the 1974 revolution which ended 30 years of dictatorship.
Pintasilgo ran unsuccessfully for president in 1986 for the Socialist party and was elected to the European Parliament in 1987.
www.boston.com /news/globe/obituaries/articles/2004/07/11/m_pintasilgo_portugals_former_prime_minister_74   (170 words)

  
 WIC Biography - Maria da Lourdes-Pintasilgo   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Portugal's first woman Prime Minister, Maria Pintasilgo, has also held the posts of Minister of Social Affairs, State Secretary for Social Security, and Minister of Social Affairs.
She was also President of the Interministerial Commission dealing with the condition of the status of women.
Maria Pintasilgo ran for the Presidency of Portugal, winning the primary election and showing the depth of her popularity among the Portuguese people.
www.wic.org /bio/pintasil.htm   (165 words)

  
 Issue 8 (July 2004) | WLP
Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo was an activist, a scientist, a scholar, a socialist, a practicing Roman Catholic, and the only woman ever to serve as Prime Minister of Portugal.
Maria was a widely read writer who brought a feminist perspective to a range of issues from economics to religion.
Maria's wisdom, dedication, and courage will be missed by the women's movements across the world.
www.learningpartnership.org /news/enews/2004/04julissue8?print=1   (2914 words)

  
 SouthCoastToday.com Obituaries: 07/12/2004
LISBON, Portugal -- Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo, the only woman to serve as Portugal's primer minister, died of heart failure Saturday, news reports said.
She held a series of senior posts, including minister of social affairs, in provisional governments after the 1974 revolution which ended 30 years of dictatorship.
Trained as a chemical and industrial engineer, Pintasilgo ran unsuccessfully for president in 1986 for the Socialist party and was elected to the European Parliament in 1987.
www.southcoasttoday.com /daily/07-04/07-12-04/zzzddobi.htm   (1675 words)

  
 SouthCoastToday.com Obituaries: 07/11/2004
MARIA N. NEW BEDFORD -- Maria Neves Quadros, 90, of Dartmouth died Thursday, July 8, 2004, at St. Luke's Hospital after a brief illness.
Born in Faial, Azores, she was the daughter of the late Antonio G. Neves and Julia de Conceicao Neves.
LISBON, Portugal -- Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo, the only woman to serve as Portugal's prime minister, died of heart failure yesterday, news reports said.
www.southcoasttoday.com /daily/07-04/07-11-04/zzzddobi.htm   (1648 words)

  
 European Union   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The group, reporting three days before EU leaders are scheduled to launch a review of the Union's future, said the treaty should guarantee citizens a fundamental list of rights ranging from education to minimum income for unemployed workers.
Echoing the same concern, European trade unions said on Tuesday that the EU leaders, who are launching an inter-governmental conference (IGC) in Turin on Friday, must enshrine into the treaty the "essential values and features of the European social model".
Pintasilgo said the EU needed to define a "social model" that it can uphold as it expands to include new members and faces competition in the global marketplace.
ourworld.compuserve.com /homepages/N_Prag/ra1igc04.htm   (419 words)

  
 washingtonpost.com: Of Note
It is used for studying cancer and diagnosing problems in the brain and heart.
Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo, 74, the only woman to serve as Portugal's prime minister, died of a heart ailment July 10 in Lisbon.
Rita "Syreeta" Wright, 58, the Motown recording artist and songwriter who collaborated with ex-husband Stevie Wonder in writing several hits including "Signed, Sealed, Delivered" and "If You Really Love Me," died July 6 at her home in Los Angeles.
www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A45437-2004Jul12?language=printer   (634 words)

  
 Informacinis Portalas Moterims
Born in 1930, the life of Maria de Lourdes PINTASILGO is closely related to the History of Portugal in the second half of the XXth century.
INTERNATIONAL SEMINAR: “SEMINARION INTERACIONAL CONTRA LA VIOLENCIA DE SEPTEMBER 2004 - This seminar is organized by the Fundacion Isonomia of the University Jaume I (Spain).
CALL FOR PAPERS/PROPOSALS/PARTICIPATION In the Women's World Congress 2005 The Organizing Committee for Women's World 2005 Congress launched a call for papers for its 9th International Interdisciplinary Congress on Women to be held in Seoul, Korea from 19 to 24 June 2005.
www.lygus.lt /ITC/news.php?id=243   (3641 words)

  
 ZaMirZINE - Radionica Literacy of women for leadership
Radionicu ce voditi dvije iskusne teoreticarke/ aktivistkinje, Marijke de Koning i Ine van Emmerik iz organizacije Foundation Caring for the Future (Portugal/ Nizozemska).
Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo, former prime-minister of Portugal, founder of Caring for the Future In: New energy needed: women’s leadership.
Lecture by Marijke de Koning based on her publications on conscientization processes of women for societal change
www.zamirzine.net /article.php3?id_article=3332   (755 words)

  
 95-03-12: Statement by Ind. Comm. for Pop. and Quality of Life, Ms. Maria L. Pintasilgo (EN)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The written statement was not available in a scannable language at the time of presentation in the conference.
*************************************************************************** MARIA LOURDES PINTASILGO, of the Independent Commission for Population and Quality of Life.
Social development is a right of all people on the planet today, but 1 billion people live in absolute poverty.
www.un.org /documents/ga/conf166/ngo/950312114453.htm   (185 words)

  
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Maria Coughlin has been indexing for more than 16 years and specializes in medical and scientific texts.
I recently indexed a biography on De Gaulle in which there was much discussion of Gaullism, naturally, and we had a lot of 'fun' deciding what to do with "de Gaulle"....
The publisher was concerned as their style follows Webster's Biographical Dictionary, in which you''ll find de Gaulle under G. You'll find the same recommendation for French names in both Hans Wellisch and Nancy Mulvany's books.
www.indexpup.com /index-list/1996/01_September_1996.txt   (19258 words)

  
 Untitled Document   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
1974: Maria Estela (Isabela) Martinez de Peron becomes the first woman President of Argentina and the first female head of state in the Americas.
1979: Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo becomes the first woman Prime Minister of Portugal.
1985: Maria Liberia-Peters is the first woman to become Prime Minister of the Netherlands Antilles.
www.iwdc.org /resources/timeline.htm   (886 words)

  
 ASUC
On 10.07.2004, Maria de Lourdes PINTASILGO died suddenly from a heart attack in Lisbon.
She fought for an active society where each person exerts her rights and assumes her responsibilities towards the community and others; she was a living example.
This seminar is organized by the Fundacion Isonomia of the University Jaume I (Spain).
www.uominicasalinghi.it /index.asp?pg=1052   (2651 words)

  
 Portuguese EU election campaigning stops after top candidate dies - EUbusiness - EU law, politics and finance   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Outgoing European Parliament president Pat Cox told reporters in Brussels he was "deeply shocked" by Sousa Franco's death.
Sousa Franco was finance minister from 1979 to 1980 under prime minister Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo, Portugal's first woman prime minister, and again from 1995 to 1999 under prime minister Antonio Guterres.
He was considered the "father" of Portugal's entry into the euro single currency because of his efforts to clear up the nation's public finances when he served as finance minister under Guterres.
www.eubusiness.com /Portugal/040609174432.xjjwh47c   (594 words)

  
 SR.com: In passing   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Lisbon, Portugal Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo, the only woman to serve as Portugal's prime minister, died of heart failure Saturday, news reports said.
Los Angeles Edward J. Hoffman, who helped invent the PET scanner, the most commonly used whole-body scanning procedure for detecting disease, died July 1.
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www.spokesmanreview.com /tools/story_pf.asp?ID=15098   (383 words)

  
 SignOnSanDiego > The San Diego Union-Tribune
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Former Portuguese prime minister; 74 Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo, the only woman to serve as Portugal's prime minister, died of heart failure July 10, news reports said.
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www.signonsandiego.com /uniontrib/20040815/inside13.html   (686 words)

  
 TIME.com: Portugal Squaring Off for Round 2 -- Feb. 10, 1986 -- Page 1   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
In addition to Soares, Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo, who served as Prime Minister for five months in 1979, and Francisco Salgado Zenha, a former Socialist Party member, were also running.
Soares also emphasized his political experience and his achievements, including the country's entry into the E.C. Ultimately, Soares won back support from Socialists who had defected from Salgado Zenha after he won Communist backing.
Salgado Zenha ended up with 20.9% of the vote and Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo got just 7.4%.
www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,960621,00.html   (756 words)

  
 50 years for Education p.216
Publication of Caring for the Future, Report of the Independent Commission on Population and Quality of Life, chaired by Ms Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo
In: Des virus et des hommes, Editions Odile Jacob, Paris, 1994
Guide pratique pour la gestion et l’administration des projets d’éducation en matière de population.
www.unesco.org /education/information/50y/brochure/promotin/216.htm   (902 words)

  
 osCommerce Experts - Maria Pintasilgo, 74, Dies; Portuguese Premier in '79 (New York Times) - Practical Advice for Open ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Maria Pintasilgo, 74, Dies; Portuguese Premier in '79 (New York Times)
Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo was Portugal's only woman to serve as prime minister.
Indian economy tipped to grow by 6 to 7 per cent this year (The New Zealand Herald)
www.oscommerce-experts.com /news/28477.html   (514 words)

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