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...Federal regulators want the institution to increase its capital by about 20% in order to create a larger reserve against uncollectible loans. This can be done by limiting dividend payments to shareholders or issuing additional stock. After the disciplinary action, Bank of America Chairman Leland Prussia admitted, "I guess you could say it was our turn." But, he added, "we have a very stable, solid institution...
Because his scenes were bathed in an aura of privilege, many people still think of him as a court painter. Nothing could be further from the truth. After he died, Watteau's work appealed irresistibly to the high and mighty of Europe: Frederick the Great of Prussia had no fewer than 89 paintings by or in the manner of Watteau in his palaces at Potsdam, Sans Souci and Charlottenburg. Alive, Watteau had no time for courts, and little access to them anyway. He sensibly preferred the theater, whose troupes and characters he painted so often, shifting them from...
...Communist regime has responded to the growing sense of dislocation by appealing to German nationalism and the past glories of Prussia and Saxony. At least 80 local artists and 400 craftsmen have spent four years and $120 million meticulously restoring the Semper Opera in Dresden, which was destroyed in an Anglo-American fire bombing raid in 1945. The famous equestrian statue of Frederick the Great that graced the Unter den Linden until World War II has returned to its pedestal like an old piece of furniture reclaimed from the attic and restored to its proper place. The sudden fascination with...
...president of the new National Assembly the day before the Bastille was stormed. By trying to give the monarchy a republican patina, however, he earned the enmity of both commoners and nobility. As the Revolution turned bloody, he fled across Austrian lines toward Belgium but was imprisoned. Austria and Prussia considered him a dangerous insurrectionary influence...
...more once they are in the store. So far the company thinks it has succeeded. In the new stores, according to Brennan, "the average transaction per customer is substantially higher. In towels, washcloths, carpeting, toilet covers, for instance, people are picking up armfuls." At new stores in King of Prussia, Pa., and Valley Stream, N.Y., sales per sq. ft. are projected to be 50% higher than at newly opened traditional stores...