It is fair to say, though, that it is regaining its place as one of Europe's thriving, intriguing capitals.
Now, however, it is regaining its popularity as a way of helping managers and directors to think about future uncertainties.At Microsoft, Brent Callinicos, the company's treasurer, keeps track of six or seven different scenarios at a time.
"Slowly but surely, it is regaining the regard it was first held in," Jeffrey Katzenberg, the chief executive of DreamWorks Animation said in an interview.
In the last half-century or so the classic geographical approach hasn't been very popular in scholarly essays, nor in literary writing, but it is regaining a new attention under the pressure of necessity.
Now the German company that developed the popular painkiller in 1897 says it is regaining U.S. trademark rights that it lost after World War I and hopes to revive the brand.
It's regained some of its luster (though not with teens).
But that image is its trump card, and if it's lost, can it be regained?
Occupied by the British during the War of 1812, it was regained by the United States in 1815.
"It's regaining the power," she says.
"Showscan was my favorite," he said, "because it was regaining, and going beyond, what I'd done with Kubrick".
