"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.

ECONOMIST: Melo Antunes