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  </nonDerivativeTable>
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   <derivativeTransaction>
      <securityTitle>
          <value>Option (w/LSAR) (Right to Buy)</value>
      </securityTitle>
      <conversionOrExercisePrice>
          <value>63.6267</value>
      </conversionOrExercisePrice>
      <transactionDate>
          <value>2003-12-05</value>
      </transactionDate>
      <transactionCoding>
          <transactionFormType>4</transactionFormType>
          <transactionCode>M</transactionCode>
          <equitySwapInvolved>0</equitySwapInvolved>
      </transactionCoding>
      <transactionAmounts>
          <transactionShares>
              <value>17144.00</value>
          </transactionShares>
          <transactionPricePerShare>
              <value>63.6267</value>
          </transactionPricePerShare>
          <transactionAcquiredDisposedCode>
              <value>D</value>
          </transactionAcquiredDisposedCode>
      </transactionAmounts>
      <exerciseDate>
              <footnoteId id="F2" />
      </exerciseDate>
      <expirationDate>
          <value>1997-05-22</value>
      </expirationDate>
      <underlyingSecurity>
          <underlyingSecurityTitle>
              <value>Common Stock</value>
          </underlyingSecurityTitle>
          <underlyingSecurityShares>
              <value>17144.00</value>
          </underlyingSecurityShares>
      </underlyingSecurity>
      <postTransactionAmounts>
          <sharesOwnedFollowingTransaction>
              <value>14201.00</value>
          </sharesOwnedFollowingTransaction>
      </postTransactionAmounts>
      <ownershipNature>
          <directOrIndirectOwnership>
              <value>D</value>
          </directOrIndirectOwnership>
      </ownershipNature>
   </derivativeTransaction>
   <derivativeTransaction>
      <securityTitle>
          <value>Option, Right to Buy</value>
      </securityTitle>
      <conversionOrExercisePrice>
          <value>50.70</value>
      </conversionOrExercisePrice>
      <transactionDate>
          <value>2003-12-05</value>
      </transactionDate>
      <transactionCoding>
          <transactionFormType>4</transactionFormType>
          <transactionCode>M</transactionCode>
          <equitySwapInvolved>0</equitySwapInvolved>
      </transactionCoding>
      <transactionAmounts>
          <transactionShares>
              <value>1930.00</value>
          </transactionShares>
          <transactionPricePerShare>
              <value>50.70</value>
          </transactionPricePerShare>
          <transactionAcquiredDisposedCode>
              <value>D</value>
          </transactionAcquiredDisposedCode>
      </transactionAmounts>
      <exerciseDate>
              <footnoteId id="F2" />
      </exerciseDate>
      <expirationDate>
          <value>2007-05-22</value>
      </expirationDate>
      <underlyingSecurity>
          <underlyingSecurityTitle>
              <value>Common Stock</value>
          </underlyingSecurityTitle>
          <underlyingSecurityShares>
              <value>1930.00</value>
          </underlyingSecurityShares>
      </underlyingSecurity>
      <postTransactionAmounts>
          <sharesOwnedFollowingTransaction>
              <value>0.00</value>
          </sharesOwnedFollowingTransaction>
      </postTransactionAmounts>
      <ownershipNature>
          <directOrIndirectOwnership>
              <value>D</value>
          </directOrIndirectOwnership>
      </ownershipNature>
   </derivativeTransaction>
  </derivativeTable>
<footnotes>
   <footnote id="F1">Option exercise and sale of shares in accordance with a written plan established July 15, 2003 pursuant to the requirements of Ru
le 10b5-1 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.</footnote>
   <footnote id="F2">This option fully vested on September 30, 1998, with the merger between BankAmerica Corporation and NationsBank Corporation.
     </footnote>
</footnotes>
<remarks></remarks>    <ownerSignature>
       <signatureName>Barbara J. Desoer/Roger C. McClary POA</signatureName>
       <signatureDate>2003-12-08</signatureDate>
    </ownerSignature>
</ownershipDocument>

