Hardly, especially when you consider the near-complete collapse of the Spanish economy during his tenure.

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Even in the highly competitive, highly disruptive tech industry, old giants like Microsoft and IBM, though hardly trendy any more, are not sitting on the verge of collapse.

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The city's biggest disaster, the collapse of the steel industry in the early 1980s, can hardly be blamed on the council.

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