"I just don't see a realistic plan on the table, " said Steve Spinola, president of the Real Estate Board of New York.

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The Spanish made a point of burning it in 1625, after a ten-month siege led by the brilliant Genoese aristocrat Ambrogio Spinola.

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He concluded that a conservative programme was needed for the revolution to gain the crucial support of some of the top brass, above all of the heavyweight General Antonio de Spinola.

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Antonio de Spinola who became president the following month.

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Spinola was duly installed as president after the coup and then provoked into resigning five months later in protest against too rapid a withdrawal from Africa, where Portugal's colonial involvement dated back to 1415.

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"This is a vehicle to be able to build taller buildings, bigger building and to be competitive with the rest of the world, " said Steven Spinola, president of the Real Estate Board of New York.

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The Dutch commander, Justin of Nassau, bowing as he proffers the key to the city, raises his head, surprised, to meet the eyes of Spinola, who touches him on the shoulder with one hand while dangling a mace of command in the other.

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