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This excerpt taken from the C DEF 14A filed Jun 18, 2009.

Preferred Stock Amendments

We are also seeking approval from our holders of our Public Preferred Depositary Shares and our common stock to approve the following proposals (the Preferred Stock Amendments):

 

   

to eliminate the requirement that:

 

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full dividends on all outstanding shares of the series of Public Preferred Stock must have been declared and paid or declared and set aside before we may pay any dividend on, make any distributions relating to, or redeem, purchase, acquire or make a liquidation payment relating to our common stock or any other securities junior to such series of Public Preferred Stock;

 

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if full dividends are not declared and paid in full on any series of Public Preferred Stock, dividends with respect to all series of stock ranking equally with such series of Public Preferred Stock will be declared on a proportional basis, such that no series is paid a greater percentage of its stated dividend than any other equally ranking series; and

 

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dividends on outstanding shares of preferred stock be paid or declared and set apart for payment, before any dividends may be paid or declared and set apart for payment on any outstanding shares of common stock (collectively, the Dividend Blocker Amendment);

 

   

to eliminate, upon the delisting of a series of Public Preferred Depositary Shares, the right of holders of Public Preferred Stock to elect two directors if dividends have not been paid for six quarterly dividend periods (or, in the case of the Series E Public Preferred Stock, for three semi-annual dividend periods), whether or not consecutive (the Director Amendment);

 

   

to clarify that any shares of any series of Public Preferred Stock acquired by us may not be reissued by us as part of such series, and will instead be restored to the status of authorized but unissued shares of preferred stock without designation as to series (the Retirement Amendment); and

 

   

to increase the number of authorized shares of preferred stock from 30 million to 2 billion (the Authorized Preferred Stock Increase).

Under Delaware law and our restated certificate of incorporation, the affirmative written consent of holders, as of the close of business on the record date for the Preferred Proxy Statement, of (i) two-thirds of the Public Preferred Depositary Shares, voting together as a class, and a majority of the common stock, voting as a class, are required to approve each of the Dividend Blocker Amendment, the Director Amendment and the Retirement Amendment and (ii) a majority of the Public Preferred Depositary Shares and the Fixed Rate Cumulative Perpetual Preferred Stock, Series G, Series H and Series I (the

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