"By any sort of recent historical standards, growth is just off the charts," he said.
Thanks to advances in scholarship, the flowering of the early-music movement and a rather indifferent movie in 1994, Farinelli, the great 18th-century castrato, has had a sort of renaissance in recent years.
Ms. Winer initially described her recent article as a "sort-of review".
"Labeling of someone at a time when 9/11 was sort of recent can be a very serious matter," Mr. Iacobucci said at a news conference.
MARKET OVERVIEW Oslo's real estate market has been on a sort of seesaw trajectory in recent years.
Villagers describe a sort of democratic awakening in recent years and say they are no longer willing to accept a Bangkok-knows-best patriarchal system.
Guessing whether Mr. Suharto would show up had become a sort of parlor game here in recent days, as demonstrators marched, prosecutors made tough statements, and newspapers mused about his state of mind.
But there are signs of a new, more defensive, more negative sort of nationalism, replacing the proud, more positive sort of recent decades.
"I think it's not by chance that the idea of confronting evil may have found more support in those countries that have had a recent experience with totalitarian systems compared with other European countries that haven't had the same sort of recent experience," he said.
With that sort of recent record, and given the European Commission's growth forecasts for 1999-2003 (averageage of 3% for the whole EU, a little less for Portugal), convergence could take 70 years, says Mr Mateus.Most economists expect the economy this year to grow by less than the EU average, for only the third time since Portugal became a member.
