Pedro Passos Coelho said social security, health, education and public enterprises would have to be cut.

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Scott Fitzgerald, Picasso, John Dos Passos, Fernand Lger, Cole Porter and Archibald MacLeish.

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Mr Passos Coelho has used the phrase "national emergency" to describe Portugal's situation.

BBC: Union protest in Lisbon, 22 March

Prime Minister Pedro Passos Coelho did not react to the decision immediately but called an extraordinary cabinet meeting for Saturday.

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In a statement to the nation on Sunday evening, Mr Passos Coelho repeatedly used the phrase "national emergency" to describe Portugal's situation.

BBC: Union protest in Lisbon, 22 March

Opposition leaders have accused Mr Passos Coelho of using the court ruling as an excuse to press ahead with cuts to public services that he was planning anyway.

BBC: Union protest in Lisbon, 22 March

The most intriguing name continually flying around is that of Larri Passos, who won Grand Slams with Gustavo Kuerten and has watched many Murray matches over the past year.

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The country may need to be granted an extra year to bring its deficit within the long-term target of 3% of GDP from an expected 4.9% this year, Prime Minister Pedro Passos said, at a specially-called press conference.

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And on the eve of the publication of The Grapes of Wrath, she had lauded him as "one of our major creative writers in America today, " a literary force on par with Faulkner, Hemingway, Saroyan, and Dos Passos.

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But the scale of the tax rises and uncertainties over whether they will produce the desired results have exposed Pedro Passos Coelho, the prime minister, to stinging criticism from both left-wing political opponents and senior figures close to the governing coalition parties.

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