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                                                                   EXHIBIT 4.2

THIS WARRANT HAS NOT BEEN REGISTERED UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS
AMENDED, OR ANY STATE SECURITIES LAWS. IT MAY NOT BE SOLD OR OFFERED FOR SALE
EXCEPT PURSUANT TO AN EFFECTIVE REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER SAID ACT AND ANY
APPLICABLE STATE SECURITIES LAW OR AN APPLICABLE EXEMPTION FROM SUCH
REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS.

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February 2, 2000

                        U.S. PLASTIC LUMBER CORPORATION

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                          Common Stock Purchase Warrant

         U.S. Plastic Lumber Corporation, a Nevada corporation (the "COMPANY"),
hereby certifies that for good and valuable consideration, the receipt and
sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged, HALIFAX FUND, L.P., having an
address at c/o The Palladin Group, L.P., Investment Manager, 195 Maplewood
Avenue, Maplewood, New Jersey 07040 ("PURCHASER") or any other Warrant Holder is
entitled, on the terms and conditions set forth below, to purchase from the
Company at any time beginning on the date hereof and ending on the fifth
anniversary of the Closing Date, as extended 1.5 times the number of days
between the 90th day following the Closing Date and such anniversary on which
there had been no Effective Registration, 200,000 fully paid and nonassessable
shares of Common Stock, par value $0.0001, of the Company (the "COMMON STOCK"),
at a purchase price per share of Common Stock equal to 10.09125 (the "PURCHASE
PRICE"), as the same may be adjusted pursuant to Section 5 herein.

1.       DEFINITIONS.

         (a) The term "AGREEMENT" shall mean the Convertible Debenture Purchase
Agreement dated as of February 2, 2000, between the Company and the Investors
signatory thereto.

         (b) The term "DEBENTURE" shall mean any of the Company's 5% Convertible
Debentures Due February 2, 2005.

         (c) The term "EFFECTIVE REGISTRATION" shall have the meaning specified
in the Agreement.

         (d) The term "CLOSING DATE" shall mean February 2, 2000.

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                  (e) The term "REGISTRATION RIGHTS AGREEMENT" shall mean the
Registration Rights Agreement, dated as of February 2, 2000, between the Company
and the Investor signatory thereto.

                  (f) The term "WARRANT HOLDER" shall mean the Purchaser or any
assignee of all or any portion of this Warrant.

                  (g) The term "WARRANT SHARES" shall mean the shares of Common
Stock or other securities issuable upon exercise of this Warrant.

         Capitalized terms used but not defined in this Warrant shall have the
meanings specified in the Agreement or the Debentures.

         2.       EXERCISE OF WARRANT.

         This Warrant may be exercised by the Warrant Holder, in whole or in
part, at any time and from time to time by either of the following methods:

                  (a) The Warrant Holder may surrender this Warrant, together
with the form of subscription at the end hereof duly executed by Warrant Holder
("SUBSCRIPTION NOTICE"), at the offices of the Company or any transfer agent for
the Common Stock; or

                  (b) The Warrant Holder may also exercise this Warrant, in
whole or in part, in a "cashless" or "net-issue" exercise by delivering to the
offices of the Company or any transfer agent for the Common Stock this Warrant,
together with a Subscription Notice specifying the number of Warrant Shares to
be delivered to such Warrant Holder ("DELIVERABLE SHARES") and the number of
Warrant Shares with respect to which this Warrant is being surrendered in
payment of the aggregate Purchase Price for the Deliverable Shares ("SURRENDERED
SHARES"); provided that the Purchase Price multiplied by the number of
Deliverable Shares shall not exceed the value of the Surrendered Shares. For the
purposes of this provision, each Warrant Share as to which this Warrant is
surrendered will be attributed a value equal to the fair market value (as
defined below) of the Warrant Share minus the Purchase Price of the Warrant
Share.

         In the event that the Warrant is not exercised in full, the number of
Warrant Shares shall be reduced by the number of such Warrant Shares for which
this Warrant is exercised and/or surrendered, and the Company, at its expense,
shall within three (3) Trading Days (as defined below) issue and deliver to or
upon the order of Warrant Holder a new Warrant of like tenor in the name of
Warrant Holder or as Warrant Holder (upon payment by Warrant Holder of any
applicable transfer taxes) may request, reflecting such adjusted Warrant Shares.

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         3.       DELIVERY OF STOCK CERTIFICATES.

                  (a) Subject to the terms and conditions of this Warrant, as
soon as practicable after the exercise of this Warrant in full or in part, and
in any event within three (3) Trading Days thereafter, the Company shall
transmit the certificates of the Warrant Shares (together with any other stock
or other securities or property to which Warrant Holder is entitled upon
exercise) by messenger or overnight delivery service to reach the address
designated by such holder within three (3) Trading Days after the receipt of the
Subscription Notice ("T+3"). If such certificates are not received by the
Warrant Holder within T+3, then the Warrant Holder will be entitled to revoke
and withdraw its exercise of its Warrant at any time prior to its receipt of
those certificates.

                  In lieu of delivering physical certificates representing the
Warrant Shares deliverable upon exercise of Warrants, provided the Company's
transfer agent is participating in the Depository Trust Company ("DTC") Fast
Automated Securities Transfer ("FAST") program, upon request of the Warrant
Holder, the Company shall use its best efforts to cause its transfer agent to
electronically transmit the Warrant Shares issuable upon exercise to the Warrant
Holder, by crediting the account of Warrant Holder's prime broker with DTC
through its Deposit Withdrawal Agent Commission ("DWAC") system. The time
periods for delivery described above shall apply to the electronic transmittals
through the DWAC system. The parties agree to coordinate with DTC to accomplish
this objective. The exchange pursuant to Section 3 shall be deemed to have been
made immediately prior to the close of business on the date of the Subscription
Notice. The person or persons entitled to receive the Warrant Shares issuable
upon such exercise shall be treated for all purposes as the record holder or
holders of such Warrant Shares at the close of business on the date of the
Subscription Notice.

                  The term Trading Day means (x) if the Common Stock is listed
on the New York Stock Exchange or the American Stock Exchange, a day on which
there is trading on such stock exchange, (y) if the Common Stock is not listed
on either of such stock exchanges but sale prices of the Common Stock are
reported on an automated quotation system, a day on which trading is reported on
the principal automated quotation system on which sales of the Common Stock are
reported, or (z) if the foregoing provisions are inapplicable, a day on which
quotations are reported by National Quotation Bureau Incorporated.

                  (b) This Warrant may not be exercised as to fractional shares
of Common Stock. In the event that the exercise of this Warrant, in full or in
part, would result in the issuance of any fractional share of Common Stock, then
in such event the Warrant Holder shall be entitled to cash equal to the fair
market value of such fractional share. For purposes of this Warrant, "FAIR
MARKET VALUE" shall equal the closing trading price of the Common Stock on the
Approved Market which is the principal trading exchange or market for the Common
Stock (the "PRINCIPAL MARKET") on the date of determination or, if the Common
Stock is not listed or admitted to trading on any Approved Market, the average

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of the closing bid and asked prices on the over-the-counter market as furnished
by any New York Stock Exchange member firm reasonably selected from time to time
by the Company for that purpose and reasonably acceptable to the Warrant Holder,
or, if the Common Stock is not listed or admitted to trading on any Approved
Market or traded over-the-counter and the average price cannot be determined a
contemplated above, the fair market value of the Common Stock shall be as
reasonably determined in good faith by the Company's Board of Directors with the
concurrence of the Warrant Holder.

         4.       (A) REPRESENTATIONS AND COVENANTS OF THE COMPANY.

                  (a) The Company shall comply with its obligations under the
Registration Rights Agreement with respect to the Warrant Shares, including,
without limitation, the Company's obligation to have filed and declared and
maintained effective a registration statement registering the Warrant Shares
under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "ACT").

                  (b) The Company shall take all necessary action and
proceedings as may be required and permitted by applicable law, rule and
regulation, including, without limitation, the notification of the Principal
Market, for the legal and valid issuance of this Warrant and the Warrant Shares
to the Warrant Holder under this Warrant.

                  (c) From the date hereof through the last date on which this
Warrant is exercisable, the Company shall take all steps necessary to insure
that the Common Stock remains listed on the Principal Market.

                  (d) The Warrant Shares, when issued in accordance with the
terms hereof, will be duly authorized and, when paid for or issued in accordance
with the terms hereof, shall be validly issued, fully paid and non-assessable.
The Company has authorized and reserved for issuance to Warrant Holder the
requisite number of shares of Common Stock to be issued pursuant to this
Warrant.

                  (e) The Company shall at all times reserve and keep available,
solely for issuance and delivery as Warrant Shares hereunder, 200% of such
number of shares of Common Stock as shall from time to time be issuable
hereunder.

                  (f) With a view to making available to the Warrant Holder the
benefits of Rule 144 promulgated under the Act and any other rule or regulation
of the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") that may at any time permit
Warrant Holder to sell securities of the Company to the public without
registration, the Company agrees to use its best efforts to:

                      (i) make and keep public information available, as those
                  terms are understood and defined in Rule 144, at all times;

                      (ii) file with the SEC in a timely manner all reports and
                  other documents required of the Company under the Act and the
                  Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the "EXCHANGE
                  ACT"); and

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                      (iii) furnish to any Warrant Holder forthwith upon request
                  a written statement by the Company that it has complied with
                  the reporting requirements of Rule 144 and of the Act and the
                  Exchange Act, a copy of the most recent annual or quarterly
                  report of the Company, and such other reports and documents so
                  filed by the Company as may be reasonably requested to permit
                  any such Warrant Holder to take advantage of any rule or
                  regulation of the SEC permitting the selling of any such
                  securities without registration.

                  (B) REPRESENTATIONS AND COVENANTS OF THE PURCHASER.

                  The Purchaser shall not resell Warrant Shares, unless such
resale is pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Act or
pursuant to an applicable exemption from such registration requirements.

         5.       ADJUSTMENT OF PURCHASE PRICE AND NUMBER OF SHARES. The number
of and kind of securities purchasable upon exercise of this Warrant and the
Purchase Price shall be subject to adjustment from time to time as follows:

                  (a)   SUBDIVISIONS, COMBINATIONS AND OTHER ISSUANCES. If the
Company shall at any time after the date hereof but prior to the expiration of
this Warrant subdivide its outstanding securities as to which purchase rights
under this Warrant exist, by split-up, spin-off, or otherwise, or combine its
outstanding securities as to which purchase rights under this Warrant exist, the
number of Warrant Shares as to which this Warrant is exercisable as of the date
of such subdivision, split-up, spin-off or combination shall forthwith be
proportionately increased in the case of a subdivision, or proportionately
decreased in the case of a combination. Appropriate proportional adjustments
(decrease in the case of subdivision, increase in the case of combination) shall
also be made to the Purchase Price payable per share, so that the aggregate
Purchase Price payable for the total number of Warrant Shares purchasable under
this Warrant as of such date shall remain the same as it would have been before
such subdivision or combination.

                  (b)   STOCK DIVIDEND. If at any time after the date hereof the
Company declares a dividend or other distribution on Common Stock payable in
Common Stock or other securities or rights convertible into or exchangeable for
Common Stock ("COMMON STOCK EQUIVALENTS") without payment of any consideration
by holders of Common Stock for the additional shares of Common Stock or the
Common Stock Equivalents (including the additional shares of Common Stock
issuable upon exercise or conversion thereof), then the number of shares of
Common Stock for which this Warrant may be exercised shall be increased as of
the record date (or the date of such dividend distribution if no record date is
set) for determining which holders of Common Stock shall be entitled to receive
such dividends, in proportion to the increase in the number of outstanding
shares (and shares of Common Stock issuable upon conversion of all such
securities convertible into Common Stock) of Common Stock as a result of such
dividend, and the Purchase Price shall be proportionately reduced so that the
aggregate Purchase Price for all the Warrant Shares issuable hereunder
immediately after the record date (or on the date of such distribution, if

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applicable) for such dividend shall equal the aggregate Purchase Price so
payable immediately before such record date (or on the date of such
distribution, if applicable). For the avoidance of doubt, the Purchaser
acknowledges that dividends paid by the Company on its Series A Preferred Stock
and Series B Preferred Stock shall not cause any of the adjustments described in
this paragraph.

                  (c)   OTHER DISTRIBUTIONS. If at any time after the date
hereof the Company distributes to holders of its Common Stock, other than as
part of its dissolution, liquidation or the winding up of its affairs, any
shares of its capital stock, any evidence of indebtedness or any of its assets
(other than Common Stock), then the number of Warrant Shares for which this
Warrant is exercisable shall be increased to equal: (i) the number of Warrant
Shares for which this Warrant is exercisable immediately prior to such event,
(ii) multiplied by a fraction, (A) the numerator of which shall be the fair
market value per share of Common Stock on the record date for the dividend or
distribution, and (B) the denominator of which shall be the fair market value
price per share of Common Stock on the record date for the dividend or
distribution minus the amount allocable to one share of Common Stock of the
value (as jointly determined in good faith by the Board of Directors of the
Company and the Warrant Holder) of any and all such evidences of indebtedness,
shares of capital stock, other securities or property, so distributed. The
Purchase Price shall be reduced to equal: (i) the Purchase Price in effect
immediately before the occurrence of any event (ii) multiplied by a fraction,
(A) the numerator of which is the number of Warrant Shares for which this
Warrant is exercisable immediately before the adjustment, and (B) the
denominator of which is the number of Warrant Shares for which this Warrant is
exercisable immediately after the adjustment.

                  (d)   MERGER, ETC. If at any time after the date hereof there
shall be a merger or consolidation of the Company with or into or a transfer of
all or substantially all of the assets of the Company to another entity, then
the Warrant Holder shall be entitled to receive upon or after such transfer,
merger or consolidation becoming effective, and upon payment of the Purchase
Price then in effect, the number of shares or other securities or property of
the Company or of the successor corporation resulting from such merger or
consolidation, which would have been received by Warrant Holder for the shares
of stock subject to this Warrant had this Warrant been exercised just prior to
such transfer, merger or consolidation becoming effective or to the applicable
record date thereof, as the case may be. The Company will not merge or
consolidate with or into any other corporation, or sell or otherwise transfer
its property, assets and business substantially as an entirety to another
corporation, unless the corporation resulting from such merger or consolidation
(if not the Company), or such transferee corporation, as the case may be, shall
expressly assume, by supplemental agreement reasonably satisfactory in form and
substance to the Warrant Holder, the due and punctual performance and observance
of each and every covenant and condition of this Warrant to be performed and
observed by the Company.

                  (e)   RECLASSIFICATION, ETC. If at any time after the date
hereof there shall be a reorganization or reclassification of the securities as
to which purchase rights under this Warrant exist into the same or a different
number of securities of any other class or classes, then the Warrant Holder
shall thereafter be entitled to receive upon exercise of this Warrant, during
the period specified herein and upon payment of the Purchase Price then in

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effect, the number of shares or other securities or property resulting from such
reorganization or reclassification, which would have been received by the
Warrant Holder for the shares of stock subject to this Warrant had this Warrant
at such time been exercised.

                  (f)   PURCHASE PRICE ADJUSTMENT. In the event that within
twelve (12) months of the Closing Date the Company issues or sells any Common
Stock or securities which are convertible into or exchangeable for its Common
Stock or any convertible securities, or any warrants or other rights to
subscribe for or to purchase or any options for the purchase of its Common Stock
or any such convertible securities (other than shares or options issued or which
may be issued (i) pursuant to the Company's employee or director option plans,
(ii) upon exercise of options, warrants or rights outstanding on the date of the
Agreement and listed in the Company's most recent periodic report filed under
the Exchange Act, (iii) as compensation in connection with arrangements with
consultants and promoters of the Common Stock and (iv) as performance-related
compensation to individuals that are employees of entities that have been
acquired by or merged into the Company, pursuant to "earn out" provisions of the
acquisition or merger agreements pursuant to which the Company acquired such
entities) at an effective purchase price per share which is less than the
greater of the Purchase Price then in effect or the fair market value (as
defined in Section 3(b) above) of the Common Stock on the trading day next
preceding such issue or sale, then in each such case, the Purchase Price in
effect immediately prior to such issue or sale shall be reduced effective
concurrently with such issue or sale to an amount determined by multiplying the
Purchase Price then in effect by a fraction, (x) the numerator of which shall be
the sum of (1) the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding immediately
prior to such issue or sale, plus (2) the number of shares of Common Stock which
the aggregate consideration received by the Company for such additional shares
would purchase at such fair market value or, Purchase Price as the case may be,
then in effect; and (y) the denominator of which shall be the number of shares
of Common Stock of the Company outstanding immediately after such issue or sale.

                  For the purposes of the foregoing adjustment, in the case of
the issuance of any convertible securities, warrants, options or other rights to
subscribe for or to purchase or exchange for, shares of Common Stock
("CONVERTIBLE SECURITIES"), the maximum number of shares of Common Stock
issuable upon exercise, exchange or conversion of such Convertible Securities
shall be deemed to be outstanding, provided that no further adjustment shall be
made upon the actual issuance of Common Stock upon exercise, exchange or
conversion of such Convertible Securities.

                  The number of shares which may be purchased hereunder shall be
increased proportionately to any reduction in Purchase Price pursuant to this
paragraph 5(f), so that after such adjustments the aggregate Purchase Price
payable hereunder for the increased number of shares shall be the same as the
aggregate Purchase Price in effect just prior to such adjustments.

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                  In the event of any such issuance for a consideration which is
less than such fair market value and also less than the Purchase Price then in
effect, than there shall be only one such adjustment by reason of such issuance,
such adjustment to be that which results in the greatest reduction of the
Purchase Price computed as aforesaid.

         6.       NO IMPAIRMENT. The Company will not, by amendment of its
Certificate of Incorporation or through any reorganization, transfer of assets,
consolidation, merger, dissolution, issue or sale of securities or any other
voluntary action, avoid or seek to avoid the observance or performance of any of
the terms of this Warrant, but will at all times in good faith assist in the
carrying out of all such terms and in the taking of all such action as may be
necessary or appropriate in order to protect the rights of the Warrant Holder
against impairment. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the
Company (a) will not increase the par value of any Warrant Shares above the
amount payable therefor on such exercise, and (b) will take all such action as
may be reasonably necessary or appropriate in order that the Company may validly
and legally issue fully paid and nonassessable Warrant Shares on the exercise of
this Warrant.

         7.       NOTICE OF ADJUSTMENTS. Whenever the Purchase Price or number
of Shares purchasable hereunder shall be adjusted pursuant to Section 5 hereof,
the Company shall execute and deliver to the Warrant Holder a certificate
setting forth, in reasonable detail, the event requiring the adjustment, the
amount of the adjustment, the method by which such adjustment was calculated and
the Purchase Price and number of shares purchasable hereunder after giving
effect to such adjustment, and shall cause a copy of such certificate to be
mailed (by first class mail, postage prepaid) to the Warrant Holder.

         8.       RIGHTS AS STOCKHOLDER. Prior to exercise of this Warrant, the
Warrant Holder shall not be entitled to any rights as a stockholder of the
Company with respect to the Warrant Shares, including (without limitation) the
right to vote such shares, receive dividends or other distributions thereon or
be notified of stockholder meetings. However, in the event of any taking by the
Company of a record of the holders of any class of securities for the purpose of
determining the holders thereof who are entitled to receive any dividend (other
than a cash dividend) or other distribution, any right to subscribe for,
purchase or otherwise acquire any shares of stock of any class or any other
securities or property, or to receive any other right, the Company shall mail to
each Warrant Holder, at least 10 Trading Days prior to the date specified
therein, a notice specifying the date on which any such record is to be taken
for the purpose of such dividend, distribution or right, and the amount and
character of such dividend, distribution or right.

         9.       LIMITATION ON EXERCISE.

                  (a)   Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained
herein, this Warrant may not be exercised by the Warrant Holder to the extent
that, after giving effect to Warrant Shares to be issued pursuant to a
Subscription Notice, the total number of shares of Common Stock deemed
beneficially owned by such holder (other than by virtue of ownership of this
Warrant, or ownership of other securities that have limitations on the holder's

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rights to convert or exercise similar to the limitations set forth herein),
together with all shares of Common Stock deemed beneficially owned by the
holder's "affiliates" (as defined in Rule 144 of the Act) that would be
aggregated for purposes of determining whether a group under Section 13(d) of
the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the "EXCHANGE ACT") exists (an
"AGGREGATION PARTY"), would exceed 9.9% (the "RESTRICTED OWNERSHIP PERCENTAGE")
of the total issued and outstanding shares of the Company's Common Stock;
PROVIDED that (w) the Warrant Holder shall have the right at any time and from
time to time to reduce its Restricted Ownership Percentage immediately upon
notice to the Company or in the event of a Change in Control Transaction, (x)
the Warrant Holder shall have the right at any time and from time to time to
increase its Restricted Ownership Percentage or otherwise waive in whole or in
part the restrictions of this Section 9 upon 61 days' prior notice to the
Company or immediately in the event of a Change in Control Transaction, (y) the
Warrant Holder can make subsequent adjustments pursuant to (w) or (x) any number
of times from time to time (which adjustment shall be effective immediately if
it results in a decrease in the Restricted Ownership Percentage or shall be
effective upon 61 days' prior written notice or immediately in the event of a
Change in Control Transaction if it results in an increase in the Restricted
Ownership Percentage) and (z) the Warrant Holder may eliminate or reinstate this
limitation at any time and from time to time (which elimination will be
effective upon 61 days' prior notice and which reinstatement will be effective
immediately). Without limiting the foregoing, in the event of a Change in
Control Transaction, the Warrant Holder may reinstate immediately (in whole or
in part) the requirement that any increase in its Restricted Ownership
Percentage be subject to 61 days' prior written notice, notwithstanding such
Change in Control Transaction, without imposing such requirement on, or
otherwise changing the Warrant Holder's rights with respect to, any other Change
in Control Transaction. For this purpose, any material modification of the terms
of a Change in Control Transaction will be deemed to create a new Change in
Control Transaction. The term "DEEMED BENEFICIALLY OWNED" as used in this
Warrant shall exclude shares that might otherwise be deemed beneficially owned
by reason of the exercisability of the Warrants. A "CHANGE IN CONTROL
TRANSACTION" will be deemed to have occurred upon the earlier of the
announcement or consummation of a transaction or series of transactions (other
than the Merger) involving (x) any consolidation or merger of the Company with
or into any other corporation or other entity or person (whether or not the
Company is the surviving corporation), or any other corporate reorganization or
transaction or series of related transactions in which in excess of 50% of the
Company's voting power is transferred through a merger, consolidation, tender
offer or similar transaction, or (y) in excess of 50% of the Corporation's Board
of Directors consists of directors not nominated by the prior Board of Directors
of the Company, or (z) any person (as defined in Section 13(d) of the Exchange
Act) together with its affiliates and associates (as such terms are defined in
Rule 405 under the Act), beneficially owns or is deemed to beneficially own (as
described in Rule 13d-3 under the Exchange Act without regard to the 60-day
exercise period) in excess of 50% of the Company's voting power.

                  (b)   Each time (a "COVENANT TIME") the Warrant Holder makes a
Triggering Acquisition (as defined below) of shares of Common Stock (the
"TRIGGERING SHARES"), the Warrant Holder will be deemed to covenant that it will
not, during the balance of the day on which such Triggering Acquisition occurs,
and during the 61-day period beginning immediately after that day, acquire
additional shares of Common Stock pursuant to rights-to-acquire existing at that

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Covenant Time, if the aggregate amount of such additional shares so acquired
(without reducing that amount by any dispositions) would exceed (x) the
Restricted Ownership Percentage of the number of shares of Common Stock
outstanding at that Covenant Time (including the Triggering Shares) minus (y)
the number of shares of Common Stock actually owned by the Warrant Holder at
that Covenant Time (regardless of how or when acquired, and including the
Triggering Shares). A "TRIGGERING ACQUISITION" means the giving of a
Subscription Notice or any other acquisition of Common Stock by the Warrant
Holder or an aggregation party; provided, however, that with respect to the
giving of such Subscription Notice, if the associated issuance of shares of
Common Stock does not occur, such event shall cease to be a Triggering
Acquisition and the related covenant under this paragraph shall terminate. At
each Covenant Time, the Warrant Holder shall be deemed to waive any right it
would otherwise have to acquire Common Shares to the extent that such
acquisition would violate any covenant given by the Warrant Holder under this
paragraph. For the avoidance of doubt:

                        (i)   The covenant to be given pursuant to this
                  paragraph will be given at every Covenant Time and shall be
                  calculated based on the circumstances then in effect. The
                  making of a covenant at one Covenant Time shall not terminate
                  or modify any prior covenants.

                        (ii)  The Warrant Holder may therefore from time to time
                  be subject to multiple such covenants, each one having been
                  made at a different Covenant Time, and some possibly being
                  more restrictive than others. The Warrant Holder must comply
                  with all such covenants then in effect.

                  (c)   The delivery of a Subscription Notice by the Warrant
Holder shall be deemed a representation by the Warrant Holder that it is in
compliance with this Section 9.

         10.      REPLACEMENT OF WARRANT. On receipt of evidence reasonably
satisfactory to the Company of the loss, theft, destruction or mutilation of
this Warrant and, in the case of any such loss, theft or destruction of this
Warrant, on delivery of an indemnity agreement or security reasonably
satisfactory in form and amount to the Company or, in the case of any such
mutilation, on surrender and cancellation of such Warrant, the Company at its
expense promptly will execute and deliver, in lieu thereof a new Warrant of like
tenor.

         11.      SPECIFIC PERFORMANCE; CONSENT TO JURISDICTION; CHOICE OF LAW.

                  (a)   The Company and the Warrant Holder acknowledge and agree
that irreparable damage would occur in the event that any of the provisions of
this Warrant were not performed in accordance with their specific terms or were
otherwise breached. It is accordingly agreed that the parties shall he entitled
to an injunction or injunctions to prevent or cure breaches of the provisions of

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this Warrant and to enforce specifically the terms and provisions hereof, this
being in addition to any other remedy to which either of them may be entitled by
law or equity.

                  (b)   Each of the Company and the Warrant Holder (i) hereby
irrevocably submits to the exclusive jurisdiction of the state and federal
courts located in New York County, New York for the purposes of any suit, action
or proceeding arising out of or relating to this warrant and (ii) hereby waives,
and agrees not to assert in any such suit, action or proceeding, any claim that
it is not personally subject to the jurisdiction of such court, that the suit,
action or proceeding is brought in an inconvenient forum or that the venue of
the suit, action or proceeding is improper. Each of the Company and the Warrant
Holder consents to process being served in any such suit, action or proceeding
by mailing a copy thereof to such party at the address in effect for notices to
it under this Warrant and agrees that such service shall constitute good and
sufficient service of process and notice thereof. Nothing in this paragraph
shall affect or limit any right to serve process in any other manner permitted
by applicable law.

                  (c)   The Company and the Warrant Holder irrevocably waive
their right to trial by jury.

                  (d)   This Warrant shall be governed by and construed and
enforced in accordance with the internal laws of the State of New York
applicable to contracts executed and to be performed entirely within such State.

         12.      ENTIRE AGREEMENT; AMENDMENTS. This Warrant, the Exhibits
hereto and the provisions contained in the Agreement or the Registration Rights
Agreement or the Debentures contain the entire understanding of the parties with
respect to the matters covered hereby and thereby and, except as specifically
set forth herein and therein, neither the Company nor the Warrant Holder makes
any representation, warranty, covenant or undertaking with respect to such
matters. No provision of this Agreement may be waived or amended other than by a
written instrument signed by the party against whom enforcement of any such
amendment or waiver is sought.

         13.      NOTICES. Any notice or other communication required or
permitted to be given hereunder shall be in writing and shall be effective (a)
upon hand delivery or delivery by telex (with correct answer back received),
telecopy or facsimile at the address or number designated below (if delivered on
a business day during normal business hours where such notice is to be
received), or the first business day following such delivery (if delivered other
than on a business day during normal business hours where such notice is to be
received) or (b) on the second business day following the date of mailing by
express courier service, fully prepaid, addressed to such address, or upon
actual receipt of such mailing, whichever shall first occur. The addresses for
such communications shall be:

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                  to the Company:

                                    U.S. Plastic Lumber Corporation
                                    2300 Glades Road
                                    Suite 440 West
                                    Boca Raton, Florida 33431
                                    Attention:       Bruce Rosetto
                                    Facsimile:       (561) 394-5335

                  to the Warrant Holder:

                                    Halifax Fund, L.P.
                                    c/o The Palladin Group, L.P.
                                    Investment Manager
                                    195 Maplewood Avenue
                                    Maplewood, NJ  07040
                                    Attention:       Robert Chender
                                    Facsimile:       (973) 313-6491

                  with copies to:

                                    Kleinberg, Kaplan, Wolff & Cohen, P.C.
                                    551 Fifth Avenue, 18th Floor
                                    New York, New York  10176
                                    Attention:       Stephen M. Schultz, Esq.
                                    Facsimile:       (212) 986-8866

Either party hereto may from time to time change its address for notices under
this Section 13 by giving at least 10 days' prior written notice of such changed
address to the other party hereto.

         14.      MISCELLANEOUS. This Warrant and any term hereof may be
changed, waived, discharged or terminated only by an instrument in writing
signed by the party against which enforcement of such change, waiver, discharge
or termination is sought. The headings in this Warrant are for purposes of
reference only, and shall not limit or otherwise affect any of the terms hereof.
The invalidity or unenforceability of any provision hereof shall in no way
affect the validity or enforceability of any other provision.

         15.      ASSIGNMENT. This Warrant may be transferred or assigned, in
whole or in part, at any time and from time to time by the then Warrant Holder
by submitting this Warrant to the Company together with a duly executed
Assignment in substantially the form and substance of the Form of Assignment
which accompanies this Warrant and, upon the Company's receipt hereof, and in
any event, within three (3) business days thereafter, the Company shall issue a
Warrant to the Warrant Holder to evidence that portion of this Warrant, if any,
as shall not have been so transferred or assigned.

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Dated:   February 2, 2000           U.S. PLASTIC LUMBER CORPORATION

                                     By: /s/ Bruce C. Rosetto
                                        ----------------------------------
                                     Name: Bruce C. Rosetto
                                     Title: Vice President and General Counsel

CORPORATE SEAL

Attest:

By: /s/
   -----------------------------------

               (SIGNATURE PAGE OF U.S. PLASTIC LUMBER CORPORATION
                         COMMON STOCK PURCHASE WARRANT)

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                              (SUBSCRIPTION NOTICE)
                            FORM OF WARRANT EXERCISE
                   (TO BE SIGNED ONLY ON EXERCISE OF WARRANT)

TO:               U.S. PLASTIC LUMBER CORPORATION
ATTN:             SECRETARY

         The undersigned, the holder of the within Warrant, hereby irrevocably
elects to exercise this Warrant:

___ (A)  for, and to purchase thereunder,             shares of Common Stock of
         U.S. Plastic Lumber Corporation, a Nevada corporation (the
         "Common Stock"), and herewith, or by wire transfer, makes payment
         of $         therefor; or

___ (B)  in a "cashless" or "net-issue exercise" for, and to purchase
         thereunder, shares of Common Stock, and herewith makes payment
         therefor with Surrendered Warrant Shares.

The undersigned requests that the certificates for such shares be issued in the
name of, and

___ (A)  delivered to                   , whose address is              ; or

___ (B)  electronically transmitted and credited to the account of            ,
         undersigned's prime broker (Account No.                   ) with
         Depository Trust Company through its Deposit Withdrawal Agent
         Commission system.

Dated:___________________________           ___________________________________
                                            (Signature must conform to name of
                                             holder as specified on the face of
                                             the Warrant)

                                            ___________________________________
                                                      (Address)

                                            Tax Identification Number:_________

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                               FORM OF ASSIGNMENT
                   (TO BE SIGNED ONLY ON TRANSFER OF WARRANT)

For value received, the undersigned hereby sells, assigns, and transfers unto
_______________________ the right represented by the within Warrant to purchase
____________________ shares of Common Stock of U.S. PLASTIC LUMBER CORPORATION,
a Nevada corporation, to which the within Warrant relates, and appoints
__________________ Attorney to transfer such right on the books of U.S. PLASTIC
LUMBER CORPORATION, a Nevada corporation, with full power of substitution of
premises.

Dated: ___________________________          ___________________________________
                                            (Signature must conform to name of
                                             holder as specified on the face of
                                             the Warrant)

                                            ___________________________________
                                                        (Address)

Signed in the presence of:

__________________________________

                                       15<PAGE>   1
                                                                   EXHIBIT 10.14

       ==================================================================

                           REVOLVING CREDIT AGREEMENT

                          dated as of December 29, 1999

                                      among

                                CHOICEPOINT INC.,

                           THE LENDERS LISTED HEREIN,

                                       and

                               WACHOVIA BANK, N.A.

                            as Administrative Agent,

                             SUNTRUST BANK, ATLANTA,

                             as Documentation Agent,

                                       and

                           FIRST UNION NATIONAL BANK,

                                as Managing Agent

       ==================================================================

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                                TABLE OF CONTENTS

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ARTICLE I.  DEFINITIONS; CONSTRUCTION.............................................................................1

Section 1.01.  Definitions........................................................................................1
Section 1.02.  Accounting Terms and Determination................................................................16
Section 1.03.  Other Definitional Terms..........................................................................16
Section 1.04.  Exhibits and Schedules............................................................................16

ARTICLE II.  SYNDICATED LOANS....................................................................................17

Section 2.01.  Description of Revolving Credit Facilities; Use of Proceeds.......................................17
Section 2.02.  Syndicated Loans..................................................................................17
Section 2.03.  Syndicated Notes; Repayment of Principal..........................................................17
Section 2.04.  Voluntary Reduction of Syndicated Loan Commitments................................................18
Section 2.05.  Syndicated Loan Funding Notices...................................................................18

ARTICLE III.  GENERAL LOAN TERMS.................................................................................20

Section 3.01.  Disbursement of Funds.............................................................................20
Section 3.02.  Interest..........................................................................................21
Section 3.03.  Interest Periods..................................................................................22
Section 3.04.  Fees..............................................................................................23
Section 3.05.  Voluntary and Mandatory Prepayments of Borrowings.................................................23
Section 3.06.  Payments, etc.....................................................................................24
Section 3.07.  Interest Rate Not Ascertainable, etc..............................................................26
Section 3.08.  Illegality........................................................................................26
Section 3.09.  Increased Costs...................................................................................27
Section 3.10.  Lending Offices...................................................................................29
Section 3.11.  Funding Losses....................................................................................30
Section 3.12.  Assumptions Concerning Funding of Eurodollar Advances.............................................30
Section 3.13.  Apportionment of Payments.........................................................................30
Section 3.14.  Sharing of Payments, Etc..........................................................................30
Section 3.15.  Benefits to Guarantors............................................................................31

ARTICLE IV.  CONDITIONS TO BORROWINGS............................................................................31

Section 4.01.  Conditions Precedent to Initial Loans.............................................................31
Section 4.02.  Conditions to All Loans...........................................................................33
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ARTICLE V.  REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES.......................................................................33

Section 5.01.  Corporate Existence; Compliance with Law..........................................................33
Section 5.02.  Corporate Power; Authorization....................................................................34
Section 5.03.  Enforceable Obligations...........................................................................34
Section 5.04.  No Contractual or Legal Bar.......................................................................34
Section 5.05.  No Material Litigation or Investigations..........................................................34
Section 5.06.  Investment Company Act, Etc.......................................................................34
Section 5.07.  Margin Regulations................................................................................35
Section 5.08.  Compliance With Environmental Laws................................................................35
Section 5.09.  Insurance.........................................................................................35
Section 5.10.  No Default........................................................................................36
Section 5.11.  No Burdensome Restrictions........................................................................36
Section 5.12.  Taxes.............................................................................................36
Section 5.13.  Subsidiaries......................................................................................36
Section 5.14.  Financial Statements..............................................................................36
Section 5.15.  ERISA.............................................................................................37
Section 5.16.  Possession of Franchises, Licenses, Etc...........................................................38
Section 5.17.  Patents, Trademarks, Licenses, Etc................................................................38
Section 5.18.  Ownership of Property.............................................................................38
Section 5.19.  Financial Condition...............................................................................38
Section 5.20.  Labor Matters.....................................................................................39
Section 5.21.  Payment or Dividend Restrictions..................................................................39
Section 5.22.  Outstanding Indebtedness..........................................................................39
Section 5.23.  Disclosure........................................................................................39
Section 5.24.  Year 2000 Issues..................................................................................39

ARTICLE VI.  AFFIRMATIVE COVENANTS...............................................................................40

Section 6.01.  Corporate Existence, Etc..........................................................................40
Section 6.02.  Compliance with Laws, Etc.........................................................................40
Section 6.03.  Payment of Taxes and Claims, Etc..................................................................40
Section 6.04.  Keeping of Books..................................................................................40
Section 6.05.  Visitation, Inspection, Etc.......................................................................40
Section 6.06.  Insurance; Maintenance of Properties..............................................................41
Section 6.07.  Reporting Covenants...............................................................................42
Section 6.08.  Financial Covenants...............................................................................46
Section 6.09.  Additional Credit Parties.........................................................................46
Section 6.10.  Intellectual Property.............................................................................46
Section 6.11.  Notice of Year 2000 Problem.......................................................................46
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ARTICLE VII.  NEGATIVE COVENANTS.................................................................................47

Section 7.01.  Liens.............................................................................................47
Section 7.02.  Guaranties........................................................................................48
Section 7.03.  Mergers, Consolidations...........................................................................48
Section 7.04.  Asset Sales.......................................................................................49
Section 7.05   Investments, Loans, Etc...........................................................................49
Section 7.06   Sale and Leaseback Transactions...................................................................51
Section 7.07.  Transactions with Affiliates......................................................................51
Section 7.08.  ERISA.............................................................................................51
Section 7.09.  Additional Negative Pledges.......................................................................52
Section 7.10.  Changes in Business...............................................................................52
Section 7.11.  Limitation on Payment Restrictions Affecting Consolidated Companies...............................53
Section 7.12.  Actions Under Certain Documents...................................................................53
Section 7.13.  Changes in Fiscal Year............................................................................53
Section 7.14.  Amendments and Modifications to Existing Credit Agreement.........................................53

ARTICLE VIII.  EVENTS OF DEFAULT.................................................................................53

Section 8.01.  Payments..........................................................................................53
Section 8.02.  Covenants Without Notice..........................................................................53
Section 8.03.  Other Covenants...................................................................................54
Section 8.04.  Representations...................................................................................54
Section 8.05.  Non-Payments of Other Indebtedness................................................................54
Section 8.06.  Defaults Under Other Agreements...................................................................54
Section 8.07.  Bankruptcy........................................................................................54
Section 8.08.  Money Judgment....................................................................................55
Section 8.09.  Change in Control of Borrower.....................................................................55
Section 8.10.  Default Under Other Credit Documents..............................................................55
Section 8.11.  Attachments.......................................................................................56

ARTICLE IX.  THE ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT, THE DOCUMENTATION AGENT AND THE MANAGING AGENT............................56

Section 9.01.  Appointment of Administrative Agent...............................................................56
Section 9.02.  Appointment of Documentation Agent................................................................57
Section 9.03.  Appointment of Managing Agent.....................................................................57
Section 9.04.  Nature of Duties of Agents........................................................................57
Section 9.05.  Lack of Reliance on the Agents....................................................................57
Section 9.06.  Certain Rights of the Agents......................................................................58
Section 9.07.  Reliance by the Agents............................................................................58
Section 9.08.  Indemnification of the Agents.....................................................................58
Section 9.09.  The Agents in their Individual Capacities.........................................................59
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Section 9.10.  Holders of Notes..................................................................................59
Section 9.11.  Successor Agents..................................................................................59

ARTICLE X.  MISCELLANEOUS........................................................................................60

Section 10.01.  Notices..........................................................................................60
Section 10.02.  Amendments, Etc..................................................................................60
Section 10.03.  No Waiver; Remedies Cumulative...................................................................61
Section 10.04.  Payment of Expenses, Etc.........................................................................61
Section 10.05.  Right of Setoff..................................................................................62
Section 10.06.  Benefit of Agreement.............................................................................63
Section 10.07.  Governing Law; Submission to Jurisdiction; Waiver of Jury Trial..................................65
Section 10.08.  Independent Nature of Lenders' Rights............................................................66
Section 10.09.  Counterparts.....................................................................................66
Section 10.10.  Effectiveness; Survival..........................................................................66
Section 10.11.  Severability.....................................................................................66
Section 10.12.  Independence of Covenants........................................................................66
Section 10.13.  Headings Descriptive; Entire Agreement...........................................................67
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                                    SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 5.13       Organization and Ownership of Subsidiaries
SCHEDULE 5.22       Outstanding Indebtedness
SCHEDULE 7.01       Existing Liens

                                    EXHIBITS

EXHIBIT A                   -       Form of Syndicated Note
EXHIBIT B                   -       Form of Guaranty Agreement
EXHIBIT C                   -       Form of Contribution Agreement
EXHIBIT D                   -       Form of Closing Certificate
EXHIBIT E                   -       Form of Opinion
EXHIBIT F                   -       Form of Assignment and Acceptance Agreement
EXHIBIT G                   -       Form of Compliance Certificate

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                           REVOLVING CREDIT AGREEMENT

                    THIS REVOLVING CREDIT AGREEMENT made and entered into as of
December 29, 1999, by and among CHOICEPOINT INC., a Georgia corporation
("Borrower"), WACHOVIA BANK, N.A., a national banking association ("Wachovia"),
SUNTRUST BANK, ATLANTA, a Georgia banking corporation ("SunTrust"), and First
Union National Bank, a national banking association ("First Union"), and any
assignees of Wachovia, SunTrust, or First Union (Wachovia, SunTrust, and First
Union are referred to collectively herein as the "Lenders"), WACHOVIA BANK,
N.A., in its capacity as Administrative Agent for the Lenders and each successor
Administrative Agent for such Lenders as may be appointed from time to time
pursuant to Article IX hereof (the "Administrative Agent"), SUNTRUST BANK,
ATLANTA, in its capacity as Documentation Agent for the Lenders and each
successor Documentation Agent for such Lenders as may be appointed from time to
time pursuant to Article IX hereof (the "Documentation Agent"), and FIRST UNION
NATIONAL BANK, in its capacity as Managing Agent for the Lenders and each
successor Managing Agent for such Lenders as may be appointed from time to time
pursuant to Article IX hereof (the "Managing Agent");

                              W I T N E S S E T H:

                    WHEREAS, Borrower has requested that the Lenders extend to
Borrower a $100,000,000 revolving credit facility, and the Lenders are willing
to extend such revolving credit facility, on the terms and subject to the
conditions contained herein.

                    NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the premises and the
mutual covenants herein contained, Borrower, the Lenders, the Administrative
Agent, the Documentation Agent and the Managing Agent agree as follows:

                                   ARTICLE I.

                            DEFINITIONS; CONSTRUCTION

                    SECTION 1.01. DEFINITIONS. In addition to the other terms
defined herein, the following terms used herein shall have the meanings herein
specified (to be equally applicable to both the singular and plural forms of the
terms defined):

                    "Administrative Agent" shall mean Wachovia Bank, N.A., a
national banking association, and any successor Administrative Agent appointed
pursuant to Section 9.11.

                    "Advance" shall mean any principal amount advanced and
remaining outstanding at any time under the Loans, which Advances shall be made
or outstanding as Base Rate Advances or Eurodollar Advances, as the case may be.

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                    "Affiliate" of any Person means any other Person directly or
indirectly controlling, controlled by, or under common control with, such
Person, whether through the ownership of voting securities, by contract or
otherwise. For purposes of this definition, "control" (including with
correlative meanings, the terms "controlling", "controlled by", and "under
common control with") as applied to any Person, means the possession, directly
or indirectly, of the power to direct or cause the direction of the management
and policies of that Person.

                    "Agents" shall mean, collectively, the Administrative Agent,
the Documentation Agent and the Managing Agent.

                    "Agreement" shall mean this Revolving Credit Agreement, as
amended, modified, restated, or supplemented from time to time.

                    "Applicable Margin" shall mean the percentage designated on
the chart set forth below based on Borrower's ratio of Funded Debt to
Consolidated EBITDA, measured quarterly, effective in the fiscal quarter
immediately following the date of delivery of the Compliance Certificate to the
Administrative Agent:

<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
FUNDED DEBT TO
CONSOLIDATED                                     APPLICABLE
EBITDA RATIO                                        MARGIN
-------------                                    ----------
<S>                                              <C>
Greater than 3.0:1.0                               1.25%

Less than or Equal to 3.0:1.0
  and Greater than 2.5:1.0                         1.15%

Less than or Equal to 2.5:1.0
  and Greater than 2.0:1.0                         1.05%

Less than or Equal to 2.0:1.0                      1.00%
</TABLE>

The Applicable Margin shall become effective only upon the Borrower's election
to exercise the Term Out Option pursuant to Section 2.03(b) hereof. For purposes
of the foregoing, (i) the Applicable Margin for any fiscal quarter shall be
calculated based upon the ratio of Funded Debt to Consolidated EBITDA of
Borrower reported in the most recent Compliance Certificate delivered by the
Borrower to the Lenders; and (ii) if the Borrower fails to provide the
Compliance Certificate and related financial statements required by Section 6.07
within the applicable time period set forth therein, the Applicable Margin shall
be adjusted to 1.25% on the

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first day of the following fiscal quarter until such Compliance Certificate and
related financial statements are delivered.

                  "Asset Sale" shall mean any sale or other disposition (or a
series of related sales or other dispositions), including without limitation,
loss, damage, destruction or taking to the extent not covered by insurance, by
any Consolidated Company to any Person other than a Consolidated Company, of any
property or asset (including Capital Stock but excluding the issuance and sale
by Borrower of its own Capital Stock), other than sales or other dispositions
made in the ordinary course of business of any Consolidated Company.

                  "Assignment and Acceptance" shall mean an assignment and
acceptance entered into by a Lender and an Eligible Assignee in accordance with
the terms of this Agreement and substantially in the form of Exhibit F.

                  "Bankruptcy Code" shall mean The Bankruptcy Code of 1978, as
amended and in effect from time to time (11 U.S.C. ss. 101 et seq.).

                  "Base Rate" shall mean the higher of (with any change in the
Base Rate to be effective as of the date of change of either of the following
rates):

                           (a) the rate which the Administrative Agent so
         denominates and sets from time to time to be its prime lending rate, as
         in effect from time to time, and

                           (b) the Federal Funds Rate, as in effect from time
         to time, plus one-half of one percent (0.50%) per annum.

The Administrative Agent's prime lending rate is a reference rate and does not
necessarily represent the lowest or best rate charged to customers; the
Administrative Agent may make commercial loans or other loans at rates of
interest at, above or below the Administrative Agent's prime lending rate.

                  "Base Rate Advance" shall mean an Advance bearing interest
based on the Base Rate or (ii) an Advance bearing interest at the rate agreed
upon between Borrower and the Lenders pursuant to Section 3.07, Section 3.08 or
Section 3.09.

                  "Borrower" shall mean ChoicePoint Inc., a Georgia corporation,
and its successors.

                  "Borrowing" shall mean the incurrence by Borrower under the
Facility of Advances of one Type concurrently having the same Interest Period or
the continuation or conversion of an existing Borrowing or Borrowings in whole
or in part.

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                  "Business Day" shall mean any day which is neither a Saturday
or Sunday nor a legal holiday on which banks are required or authorized to close
in Atlanta, Georgia.

                  "Capital Stock" shall mean, with respect to any Person, all
capital stock of such Person, whether voting or nonvoting, including common
stock and preferred stock of such Person.

                  "CDB/Infotek" shall mean CDB/Infotek, a California
corporation.

                  "Change in Control Provision" shall mean any term or provision
contained in any indenture, debenture, note, or other agreement or document
evidencing or governing Indebtedness of Borrower evidencing debt or a commitment
to extend loans in excess of $5,000,000 which requires, or permits the holder(s)
of such Indebtedness of Borrower to require that such Indebtedness of Borrower
be redeemed, repurchased, defeased, prepaid or repaid, either in whole or in
part, or the maturity of such Indebtedness of Borrower to be accelerated in any
respect, as a result of a change in ownership of the Capital Stock of Borrower
or voting rights with respect thereto.

                  "Closing Date" shall mean the date on or before December 29,
1999 on which the conditions set forth in Section 4.01 are satisfied or waived
in accordance with Section 10.02.

                  "Commitment" shall mean, for any Lender at any time, its
Syndicated Loan Commitment.

                  "Commitment Date" shall mean January 3, 2000 on which date the
Commitment of each Lender hereunder becomes effective and the initial Loans are
made or deemed to be made hereunder. No Borrowing shall be made prior to the
Commitment Date.

                  "Commitment Termination Date" shall mean the earlier of (i)
December 29, 2000, and (ii) the date on which all amounts outstanding under this
Agreement have been declared or have automatically become due and payable
pursuant to the provisions of Article VIII. Upon the Commitment Termination
Date, the Commitment of any Lender hereunder shall no longer be effective and
the Lenders shall have no further obligation to make Advances to the Borrower.

                  "Compliance Certificate" shall have the meaning set forth in
Section 6.07(c).

                  "Consolidated Companies" shall mean, collectively, Borrower
and all of its Subsidiaries.

                  "Consolidated EBIT" shall mean, for any fiscal period of
Borrower, an amount equal to (A) the sum for such fiscal period of Consolidated
Net Income (Loss) and, to the extent deducted in determining such Consolidated
Net Income (Loss), provisions for (i) taxes based on

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income and (ii) Consolidated Interest Expense, minus (B) any items of gain (or
plus any items of loss) which were included in determining such Consolidated Net
Income (Loss) and were (x) not realized in the ordinary course of business
(whether or not classified as "ordinary" by GAAP), (y) the result of any sale of
assets, or (z) resulting from minority investments, together in the case of (x),
(y) or (z), any related provision for taxes included in Consolidated Net Income
(Loss) with respect thereto, plus (C) non-recurring non-cash charges, including
without limitation, accruals related to any acquisition and earnouts incurred in
connection with any acquisition to the extent not paid in cash.

                  "Consolidated EBITDA" shall mean, for any four fiscal-quarter
period of Borrower, an amount equal to the sum of (A) Consolidated EBIT plus (B)
depreciation and amortization expense to the extent deducted in determining
Consolidated Net Income (Loss), plus (C) without duplication, the sum of the
following items to the extent not included in Consolidated EBITDA for such
period:

                  (1) the net income (or net loss) for such four fiscal-quarter
         period of any Person which became a Subsidiary during such period (a
         "New Subsidiary");

                  (2) the net income (or net loss) derived during such four
         fiscal-quarter period from any assets acquired by any Consolidated
         Company during such period ("New Assets");

                  (3) the sum of (x) taxes based on income, (y) Consolidated
         Interest Expense and (z) depreciation and amortization expense, in each
         case to the extent deducted in determining net income of any New
         Subsidiary or derived from any New Assets during such four
         fiscal-quarter period, minus any items of gain (or plus any items of
         loss) which were included in determining such net income and were (aa)
         not realized in the ordinary course of business (whether or not
         classified as "ordinary" by GAAP), (bb) the result of any sale of
         assets, or (cc) resulting from minority investments, together in the
         case of (aa), (bb) or (cc), any related provision for taxes included in
         such net income with respect thereto; and

                  (4) non-recurring non-cash charges of any New Subsidiary or
         derived from any New Assets during such four fiscal-quarter period,
         including without limitation, accruals related to any acquisition and
         earnouts incurred in connection with any acquisition to the extent not
         paid in cash.

                  "Consolidated EBITR" shall mean, for any fiscal period of
Borrower, an amount equal to the sum of Consolidated EBIT plus Consolidated
Rental Expense for such period.

                  "Consolidated Fixed Charges" shall mean, for any fiscal period
of Borrower, the sum of (A) Consolidated Interest Expense, plus (B) Consolidated
Rental Expense, plus (C)

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dividends and distributions on Capital Stock paid in cash during such fiscal
period by Borrower or any other Consolidated Company, but excluding any
repurchases of Capital Stock of Borrower.

                  "Consolidated Interest Expense" shall mean, for any fiscal
period of Borrower, total interest expense of the Consolidated Companies
(including without limitation, interest expense attributable to capitalized
leases in accordance with GAAP, all commissions, discounts and other fees and
charges owed with respect to bankers acceptance financing, and total interest
expense (whether shown as interest expense or as loss and expenses on sale of
receivables) under a receivables purchase facility) determined on a consolidated
basis in accordance with GAAP.

                  "Consolidated Net Income (Loss)" shall mean, for any fiscal
period of Borrower, the net income (or loss) of the Consolidated Companies for
such period (taken as a single accounting period), but excluding therefrom (to
the extent otherwise included therein) the income of any Consolidated Company to
the extent that the declaration or payment of dividends or similar distributions
by such Consolidated Company of that income is not at the time permitted by
operation of the terms of its charter or any agreement, instrument, judgment,
decree, order, statute, rule or governmental regulation; provided that the
foregoing exclusion shall not apply to CDB/Infotek so long as there is at least
$1 of outstanding intercompany debt owed by CDB/Infotek to another Consolidated
Company.

                  "Consolidated Net Worth" shall mean, as of any date of
determination, shareholders' equity of Borrower, determined on a consolidated
basis in conformity with GAAP.

                  "Consolidated Rental Expense" shall mean, for any fiscal
period of Borrower, the operating lease expense of the Consolidated Companies
determined in accordance with GAAP for leases with an initial term greater than
one year, as disclosed in the notes to Borrower's consolidated financial
statements of the Consolidated Companies, determined on a consolidated basis in
accordance with GAAP.

                  "Contractual Obligation" of any Person shall mean any
provision of any security issued by such Person or of any agreement, instrument
or undertaking under which such Person is obligated or by which it or any of the
property owned by it is bound.

                  "Contribution Agreements" shall mean, collectively, the
Contribution Agreement, dated as of even date herewith, executed by each of the
Guarantors and the Borrower, in favor of the Lenders and the Agents,
substantially in the form of Exhibit C, as the same may be amended, restated or
supplemented from time to time.

                  "Credit Documents" shall mean, collectively, this Agreement,
the Notes, the Guaranty Agreements, and all other documents, instruments,
certificates and opinions executed and delivered in connection with the
foregoing.

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                  "Credit Parties" shall mean, collectively, each of Borrower,
the Guarantors, and every other Person who from time to time executes a
supplement to the Guaranty Agreements with respect to all or any portion of the
Obligations.

                  "Default" shall mean any condition or event which, with notice
or lapse of time or both, would constitute an Event of Default.

                  "Documentation Agent" shall mean SunTrust Bank, Atlanta, a
Georgia banking corporation, and any successor Documentation Agent appointed
pursuant to Section 9.11 hereof.

                  "Dollar" and "U.S. Dollar" and the sign "$" shall mean lawful
money of the United States of America.

                  "Eligible Assignee" shall mean any of the following (i) a
commercial bank organized under the laws of the United States, or any State
thereof, and having total assets in excess of $100,000,000; (ii) a savings and
loan association or savings bank organized under the laws of the United States,
or any State thereof, and having total assets in excess of $100,000,000; (iii) a
commercial bank organized under the laws of any other country having total
assets in excess of $100,000,000, provided that such bank is acting through a
branch or agency located in the United States; (iv) a finance company, insurance
company or other financial institution, lender or fund (whether a corporation,
partnership or other entity) which is engaged in making, purchasing or otherwise
investing in commercial loans in the ordinary course of its business, and having
total assets in excess of at least $100,000,000; (v) any Lender or any Affiliate
of any Lender; or (vi) any other Person consented to by the Borrower and the
Administrative Agent, such consent not unreasonably to be withheld.

                  "Environmental Laws" shall mean all federal, state, local and
foreign statutes and codes or regulations, rules or ordinances issued,
promulgated, or approved thereunder, now or hereafter in effect (including,
without limitation, those with respect to asbestos or asbestos containing
material or exposure to asbestos or asbestos containing material), relating to
pollution or protection of the environment and relating to public health and
safety, relating to (i) emissions, discharges, releases or threatened releases
of pollutants, contaminants, chemicals or industrial toxic or hazardous
constituents, substances or wastes, including without limitation, any Hazardous
Substance, petroleum including crude oil or any fraction thereof, any petroleum
product or other waste, chemicals or substances regulated by any Environmental
Law into the environment (including without limitation, ambient air, surface
water, ground water, land surface or subsurface strata), or (ii) the
manufacture, processing, distribution, use, generation, treatment, storage,
disposal, transport or handling of any Hazardous Substance, petroleum including
crude oil or any fraction thereof, any petroleum product or other waste,
chemicals or substances regulated by any Environmental Law, and (iii)
underground storage tanks and related piping, and emissions, discharges and
releases or threatened releases therefrom, such Environmental Laws to include,
without limitation (i) the Clean Air Act (42 U.S.C. ss. 7401 et seq.), (ii) the
Clean Water Act (33 U.S.C. ss. 1251 et seq.), (iii) the Resource Conservation
and Recovery Act (42 U.S.C.

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ss. 6901 et seq.), (iv) the Toxic Substances Control Act (15 U.S.C. ss. 2601 et
seq.), (v) the Comprehensive Environmental Response Compensation and Liability
Act, as amended by the Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act (42 U.S.C.
ss. 9601 et seq.), and (vi) all applicable national and local laws or
regulations with respect to environmental control (including applicable laws of
the Federal Republic of Germany or any applicable international agreements).

                  "ERISA" shall mean the Employee Retirement Income Security Act
of 1974, as amended and in effect from time to time.

                  "ERISA Affiliate" shall mean, with respect to any Person, each
trade or business (whether or not incorporated) which is a member of a group of
which that Person is a member and which is under common control within the
meaning of the regulations promulgated under Section 414 of the Tax Code.

                  "Eurodollar Advance" shall mean an Advance bearing interest
based on LIBOR.

                  "Eurodollar Business Day" shall mean a Business Day on which
trading is carried on by and between banks in deposits of Dollars in the London
interbank market.

                  "Eurodollar Reserve Percentage" shall mean, for any Bank which
is a member bank of the Federal Reserve System, on any day that percentage
(expressed as a decimal) which is in effect on such day, as prescribed by the
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (or any successor) for
determining the reserve requirement for such Bank in respect of "Eurocurrency
liabilities" (or in respect of any other category of liabilities which includes
deposits by reference to which the interest rate on Eurodollar Advances is
determined or any category of extensions of credit or other assets which
includes loans by a non-United States office of any Bank to the United States
residents).

                  "Event of Default" shall have the meaning provided in Article
VIII.

                  "Exchange Act" shall mean the Securities Exchange Act of 1934,
as amended from time to time, and any successor statute thereto.

                  "Executive Officer" shall mean, with respect to any Person,
Chief Executive Officer, President, Chief Financial Officer, the Chief Legal
Officer, the Treasurer, any Assistant Treasurer and any Person holding
comparable offices or duties.

                  "Existing Credit Agreement" shall mean that certain Credit
Agreement dated as of August 5, 1997 by and among Borrower, Wachovia Bank, N.A.,
as administrative agent, SunTrust Bank, Atlanta, as documentation agent, and the
Lenders listed therein, as amended, restated, supplemented or otherwise modified
from time to time.

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                  "Existing Lenders" shall mean all lenders from time to time
party to the Existing Credit Agreement.

                  "Facility" or "Facilities" shall mean the credit facilities
made available to the Borrower pursuant to the Syndicated Loan Commitments.

                  "Federal Funds Rate" shall mean for any period, a fluctuating
interest rate per annum equal for each day during such period to the weighted
average of the rates on overnight Federal funds transactions with member banks
of the Federal Reserve System arranged by Federal funds brokers, as published
for such day (or, if such day is not a Business Day, for the next preceding
Business Day) by the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, or, if such rate is not so
published for any day which is a Business Day, the average of the quotations for
such day on such transactions received by the Administrative Agent from three
Federal funds brokers of recognized standing selected by the Administrative
Agent.

                  "Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio" shall mean, as of the last day
of any fiscal quarter of Borrower, the ratio of (A) Consolidated EBITR to (B)
Consolidated Fixed Charges, in each case calculated with respect to the
immediately preceding four fiscal quarters ending on such date.

                  "Foreign Plan" shall mean any pension, profit sharing,
deferred compensation, or other employee benefit plan, program or arrangement
maintained by any Foreign Subsidiary which, under applicable local law, is
required to be funded through a trust or other funding vehicle, but shall not
include any benefit provided by a foreign government or its agencies.

                  "Foreign Subsidiary" shall mean each Consolidated Company that
is organized under the laws of a jurisdiction other than the United States of
America or any State thereof.

                  "Funded Debt" shall mean all Indebtedness for money borrowed,
Indebtedness evidenced or secured by purchase money Liens, capitalized leases,
outstandings under asset securitization vehicles, conditional sales contracts
and similar title retention debt instruments, including any current maturities
of the foregoing, which by its terms matures more than one year from the date of
any calculation thereof or which is renewable or extendable at the option of the
obligor to a date beyond one year from such date. The calculation of Funded Debt
shall include (i) all Funded Debt of the Consolidated Companies, plus (ii) all
Funded Debt of other Persons to the extent guaranteed by a Consolidated Company,
to the extent supported by a letter of credit issued for the account of a
Consolidated Company, or as to which and to the extent which a Consolidated
Company or its assets otherwise have become liable for payment thereof, plus
(iii) the redemption amount with respect to the stock of the Borrower required
to be redeemed during the next succeeding twelve months at the option of the
holder or its Subsidiaries. Notwithstanding the foregoing, "Funded Debt" shall
exclude the Lease Documents and all operating lease obligations.

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                  "GAAP" shall mean generally accepted accounting principles set
forth in the opinions and pronouncements of the Accounting Principles Board of
the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and statements and
pronouncements of the Financial Accounting Standards Board or in such other
statements by such other entity as may be approved by a significant segment of
the accounting profession, which are applicable to the circumstances as of the
date of determination.

                  "Guarantors" shall mean, collectively, ChoicePoint Services
Inc., a Georgia corporation, Osborn Group Inc., a Delaware corporation,
ChoicePoint Capital Corporation, a Delaware corporation, and all other Material
Subsidiaries formed, acquired or existing after the Closing Date, but excluding
(i) all Foreign Subsidiaries and (ii) CDB/Infotek so long as it is not directly
or indirectly wholly owned by other Consolidated Companies.

                  "Guaranty" shall mean any contractual obligation, contingent
or otherwise, of a Person with respect to any Indebtedness or other obligation
or liability of another Person, including without limitation, any such
Indebtedness, obligation or liability directly or indirectly guaranteed,
endorsed, co-made or discounted or sold with recourse by that Person, or in
respect of which that Person is otherwise directly or indirectly liable,
including contractual obligations (contingent or otherwise) arising through any
agreement to purchase, repurchase, or otherwise acquire such Indebtedness,
obligation or liability or any security therefor, or any agreement to provide
funds for the payment or discharge thereof (whether in the form of loans,
advances, stock purchases, capital contributions or otherwise), or to maintain
solvency, assets, level of income, or other financial condition, or to make any
payment other than for value received. The amount of any Guaranty shall be
deemed to be an amount equal to the stated or determinable amount of the primary
obligation in respect of which guaranty is made or, if not so stated or
determinable, the maximum reasonably anticipated liability in respect thereof
(assuming such Person is required to perform thereunder) as determined by such
Person in good faith.

                  "Guaranty Agreements" shall mean, collectively, (i) the
Guaranty Agreement, dated as of even date herewith, executed by each of the
Guarantors in favor of the Lenders and the Agents, substantially in the form of
Exhibit B, as the same may be amended, restated or supplemented from time to
time and (ii) the Contribution Agreement, dated as of even date herewith,
executed by each of the Guarantors and the Borrower in favor of the Lenders and
the Agents, substantially in the form of Exhibit C, as the same may be amended,
restated or supplemented from time to time.

                  "Hazardous Substances" shall have the meaning assigned to that
term in the Comprehensive Environmental Response Compensation and Liability Act
of 1980, as amended by the Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act of 1986.

                  "Indebtedness" of any Person shall mean, without duplication
(i) all obligations of such Person which in accordance with GAAP would be shown
on the balance sheet of such Person as a liability (including, without
limitation, obligations for borrowed money and for the

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deferred purchase price of property or services, and obligations evidenced by
bonds, debentures, notes or other similar instruments); (ii) all rental
obligations under leases required to be capitalized under GAAP; (iii) all
Guaranties of such Person (including contingent reimbursement obligations under
undrawn letters of credit); (iv) Indebtedness of others secured by any Lien upon
property owned by such Person, whether or not assumed; and (v) obligations or
other liabilities under currency contracts, interest rate hedging contracts, or
similar agreements or combinations thereof to the extent required to be
disclosed in such Person's financial statements in accordance with GAAP.

                  "Interest Period" shall mean, as to any Eurodollar Advances,
the interest period selected by Borrower pursuant to Section 3.03(a).

                  "Investment" shall mean, when used with respect to any Person,
any direct or indirect advance, loan or other extension of credit (other than
the creation of receivables in the ordinary course of business) or capital
contribution by such Person (by means of transfers of property to others or
payments for property or services for the account or use of others, or
otherwise) to any Person, or any direct or indirect purchase or other
acquisition by such Person of, or of a beneficial interest in, Capital Stock,
partnership interests, bonds, notes, debentures or other securities issued by
any other Person. Each Investment shall be valued as of the date made; provided
that any Investment or portion of an Investment consisting of Debt shall be
valued at the outstanding principal balance thereof as of the date of
determination.

                  "Lease Documents" shall mean, collectively, (i) that certain
Lease Agreement, dated as of July 31, 1997, by and between Borrower as lessee
and SunTrust Banks, Inc., as lessor, pursuant to which the Borrower has leased
its office building, (ii) that certain Master Agreement, dated as of July 31,
1997, by and among Borrower as lessee, SunTrust Banks, Inc., as lessor and
SunTrust Bank, Atlanta, as Agent, and (iii) all other documents, instruments and
agreements executed in connection therewith.

                  "Lender" or "Lenders" shall mean SunTrust, Wachovia, First
Union, and each assignee thereof, if any, pursuant to Section 10.06(c).

                  "Lending Office" shall mean for each Lender the office such
Lender may designate in writing from time to time to Borrower and the
Administrative Agent with respect to each Type of Loan.

                  "LIBOR" shall mean, for any Interest Period, with respect to
Eurodollar Advances, the offered rate for deposits in Dollars, for a period
comparable to the Interest Period and in an amount comparable to the
Administrative Agent's portion of such Advances, appearing on Telerate Page 3750
as of 11:00 AM (London, England time) on the day that is two Eurodollar Business
Days prior to the first day of the Interest Period. If two or more of such rates
appear on such Telerate Page, the rate shall be the arithmetic mean of such
rates. If the foregoing rate is unavailable from Telerate for any reason, then
such rate shall be determined by the

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Administrative Agent from the Reuters Screen LIBO Page or, if such rate is also
unavailable on such service, then on any other interest rate reporting service
of recognized standing designated in writing by the Administrative Agent to
Borrower and the other Lenders; in any such case rounded, if necessary, to the
next higher 1/100 of 1.0%, if the rate is not such a multiple.

                  "Lien" shall mean any mortgage, pledge, security interest,
lien, charge, hypothecation, assignment, deposit arrangement, title retention,
preferential property right, trust or other arrangement having the practical
effect of the foregoing and shall include the interest of a vendor or lessor
under any conditional sale agreement, capitalized lease or other title retention
agreement.

                  "Loans" shall mean, collectively, the Syndicated Loans.

                  "Managing Agent" shall mean First Union National Bank, a
national banking association, and any successor Managing Agent appointed
pursuant to Section 9.11 hereof.

                  "Margin Regulations" shall mean Regulation T, Regulation U and
Regulation X of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, as the
same may be in effect from time to time.

                  "Margin Stock" shall have the meaning set forth in the Margin
Regulations.

                  "Materially Adverse Effect" shall mean any materially adverse
change in (i) the business, assets, liabilities, financial condition or results
of operations of the Consolidated Companies, taken as a whole, (ii) the ability
of Borrower to perform its obligations under this Agreement, or (iii) the
ability of the other Credit Parties (taken as a whole) to perform their
respective obligations under the Credit Documents.

                  "Material Subsidiary" shall mean each Subsidiary of Borrower,
now existing or hereafter established or acquired, that at any time prior to the
Commitment Termination Date or, if Borrower elects to exercise the Term Out
Option, the Maturity Date (i) has or acquires assets which constitute fifteen
percent (15%) or more of the Total Assets or (ii) accounts for or produces
fifteen percent (15%) or more of Consolidated EBITDA during the most recently
completed fiscal year of Borrower.

                  "Maturity Date" shall mean the earlier of (i) December 29,
2001, and (ii) the date on which all amounts outstanding under this Agreement
have been declared or have automatically become due and payable pursuant to the
provisions of Article VIII.

                  "Multiemployer Plan" shall have the meaning set forth in
Section 4001(a)(3) of ERISA.

                  "Notes" shall mean, collectively, the Syndicated Notes.

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                  "Notice of Borrowing" shall have the meaning provided in
Section 2.05(a).

                  "Notice of Continuation/Conversion" shall have the meaning
provided in Section 2.08(b).

                  "Obligations" shall mean all amounts owing to any Agent or any
Lender pursuant to the terms of this Agreement or any other Credit Document,
including without limitation, all Loans (including all principal and interest
payments due thereunder), fees, expenses, indemnification and reimbursement
payments, indebtedness, liabilities, and obligations of the Credit Parties,
direct or indirect, absolute or contingent, liquidated or unliquidated, now
existing or hereafter arising, together with all renewals, extensions,
modifications or refinancings thereof.

                  "Payment Office" shall mean the office specified as the
"Payment Office" for the Administrative Agent on the signature page of the
Administrative Agent, or such other location as to which the Administrative
Agent shall have given written notice to Borrower and the Lenders.

                  "PBGC" shall mean the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation, or
any successor thereto.

                  "Permitted Liens" shall mean those Liens expressly permitted
by Section 7.01.

                  "Person" shall mean any individual, limited liability company,
partnership, firm, corporation, association, joint venture, trust or other
entity, or any government or political subdivision or agency, department or
instrumentality thereof.

                  "Plan" shall mean any "employee benefit plan" (as defined in
Section 3(3) of ERISA), including, but not limited to, any defined benefit
pension plan, profit sharing plan, money purchase pension plan, savings or
thrift plan, stock bonus plan, employee stock ownership plan, Multiemployer
Plan, or any plan, fund, program, arrangement or practice providing for medical
(including post-retirement medical), hospitalization, accident, sickness,
disability, or life insurance benefits, but shall exclude any Foreign Plan.

                  "Pro Rata Share" shall mean, with respect to each of the
Syndicated Loan Commitments of each Lender and each Syndicated Loan to be made
by and each payment (including, without limitation, any payment of principal,
interest or fees) to be made to each such Lender, the percentage designated as
such Lender's Pro Rata Share of such Commitments, such Loans or such payments,
as applicable, set forth under the name of such Lender on the respective
signature page for such Lender, as such percentage may change based upon
amendments, assignments or reductions made pursuant to this Agreement.

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                  "Regulation D" shall mean Regulation D of the Board of
Governors of the Federal Reserve System, as the same may be in effect from time
to time.

                  "Required Lenders" shall mean at any time prior to the
termination of the Syndicated Loan Commitments, Lenders holding at least 60% of
the then aggregate amount of the Syndicated Loan Commitments, or, following the
termination of the Syndicated Loan Commitments hereunder, Lenders holding at
least 60% of the sum of the aggregate outstanding Loans.

                  "Requirement of Law" for any person shall mean the articles or
certificate of incorporation and by-laws or other organizational or governing
documents of such Person, and any law, treaty, rule or regulation, or
determination of an arbitrator or a court or other governmental authority, in
each case applicable to or binding upon such Person or any of its property or to
which such Person or any of its property is subject.

                  "Reuters Screen" shall mean, when used in connection with any
designated page and LIBOR, the display page so designated on the Reuters Monitor
Money Rates Service (or such other page as may replace that page on that service
for the purpose of displaying rates comparable to LIBOR).

                  "Solvent" shall mean, as to Borrower or any Guarantor at any
time, that (i) each of the fair value and the present fair saleable value of
such Person's assets (including any rights of subrogation or contribution to
which such Person is entitled, under any of the Credit Documents or otherwise)
is greater than such Person's debts and other liabilities (including contingent,
unmatured and unliquidated debts and liabilities) and the maximum estimated
amount required to pay such debts and liabilities as such debts and liabilities
mature or otherwise become payable; (ii) such Person is able and expects to be
able to pay its debts and other liabilities (including, without limitation,
contingent, unmatured and unliquidated debts and liabilities) as they mature;
and (iii) such Person does not have unreasonably small capital to carry on its
business as conducted and as proposed to be conducted.

                  "Subsidiary" shall mean, with respect to any Person, any
corporation or other entity (including, without limitation, partnerships, joint
ventures, and associations) regardless of its jurisdiction of organization or
formation, at least a majority of the total combined voting power of all classes
of voting stock or other ownership interests of which shall, at the time as of
which any determination is being made, be owned by such Person, either directly
or indirectly through one or more other Subsidiaries.

                  "Syndicated Advance" shall mean a Borrowing pursuant to
Section 2.02 consisting of the aggregate amount of Syndicated Loans made by the
Syndicated Lenders to Borrower at the same time, on the same interest rate basis
and, if made as a Eurodollar Advance, for the same Interest Period.

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                  "Syndicated Borrowing" shall mean a Borrowing consisting or to
consist of a Syndicated Advance.

                  "Syndicated Facility" shall mean the credit facility made
available by the Syndicated Lenders to Borrower as described in Section 2.02(a).

                  "Syndicated Lenders" shall mean, collectively, the Lenders
extending the Syndicated Loan Commitments to Borrower pursuant to Section
2.02(a).

                  "Syndicated Loan Commitments" shall mean, at any time for any
Lender, the amount of such commitment set forth opposite such Lender's name on
the signature pages of this Agreement, as the same may be increased or decreased
from time to time as a result of any reduction thereof pursuant to Section 2.04
or Section 3.05(f), any assignment thereof pursuant to Section 10.06, or any
amendment thereof pursuant to Section 10.02.

                  "Syndicated Loans" shall mean, collectively, the loans made to
Borrower by the Lenders pursuant to Section 2.02.

                  "Syndicated Notes" shall mean, collectively, the promissory
notes evidencing the Syndicated Loans in the form attached hereto as Exhibit A
duly completed in accordance with the terms hereof, either as originally
executed or as hereafter amended, modified or substituted.

                  "Tax Code" shall mean the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as
amended and in effect from time to time.

                  "Taxes" shall mean any present or future taxes, levies,
imposts, duties, fees, assessments, deductions, withholdings or other charges of
whatever nature, including without limitation, income, receipts, excise,
property, sales, transfer, license, payroll, withholding, social security and
franchise taxes now or hereafter imposed or levied by the United States, or any
state, local or foreign government or by any department, agency or other
political subdivision or taxing authority thereof or therein and all interest,
penalties, additions to tax and similar liabilities with respect thereto.

                  "Telerate" shall mean, when used in connection with any
designated page and LIBOR, the display page so designated on the Dow Jones
Telerate Service (or such other page as may replace that page on that service
for the purpose of displaying rates comparable to LIBOR).

                  "Term Out Option" shall have the meaning assigned to such term
in Section 2.03(b) hereof.

                  "Total Assets" shall mean the total assets of the Consolidated
Companies, determined in accordance with GAAP.

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                  "Type" of Borrowing shall mean a Borrowing consisting of Base
Rate Advances or Eurodollar Advances.

                  "Unused Commitment" shall mean, at any date, with respect to
each lender, an amount equal to its Syndicated Loan Commitment less the
outstanding principal amount of its Syndicated Loans then outstanding.

                  "Unused Fee" shall have the meaning assigned to such term in
Section 3.04(a).

                  "Upfront Fee" shall have the meaning assigned to such term in
Section 3.04(b).

                  "Year 2000 Compliant" shall have the meaning assigned to such
term in Section 5.24.

                  "Year 2000 Plan" shall have the meaning assigned to such term
in Section 5.24.

                  SECTION 1.02. ACCOUNTING TERMS AND DETERMINATION. Unless
otherwise defined or specified herein, all accounting terms shall be construed
herein, all accounting determinations hereunder shall be made, all financial
statements required to be delivered hereunder shall be prepared, and all
financial records shall be maintained in accordance with, GAAP, except that
financial records of Foreign Subsidiaries may be maintained in accordance with
generally accepted accounting principles in effect from time to time in the
jurisdiction of organization of such Foreign Subsidiary; provided, however, that
compliance with the financial covenants and calculations set forth in Section
6.08, Article VII and elsewhere herein, and in the definitions used in such
covenants and calculations, shall be calculated, made and applied in accordance
with GAAP and such generally accepted accounting principles in such foreign
jurisdictions, as the case may be, as in effect on the date of this Agreement
applied on a basis consistent with the preparation of the financial statements
referred to in Section 5.14 unless and until Borrower and the Required Lenders
enter into an agreement with respect thereto in accordance with Section 10.13.

                  SECTION 1.03. OTHER DEFINITIONAL TERMS. The words "hereof",
"herein" and "hereunder" and words of similar import when used in this Agreement
shall refer to this Agreement as a whole and not to any particular provision of
this Agreement, and Article, Section, Schedule, Exhibit and like references are
to this Agreement unless otherwise specified. Any of the terms defined in
Section 1.01 may, unless the context otherwise requires, be used in the singular
or the plural depending on the reference.

                  SECTION 1.04. EXHIBITS AND SCHEDULES. All Exhibits and
Schedules attached hereto are by reference made a part hereof.

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                                   ARTICLE II.

                                SYNDICATED LOANS

                  SECTION 2.01. DESCRIPTION OF REVOLVING CREDIT FACILITIES; USE
                                OF PROCEEDS.

                  (a)      Subject to and upon the terms and conditions herein
set forth, the Lenders hereby establish in favor of Borrower a revolving credit
facility pursuant to which such Lenders agree to make Syndicated Loans to
Borrower in accordance with Section 2.02, provided, however, that (i) in no
event may the aggregate principal amount of all outstanding Syndicated Loans
exceed at any time the total Syndicated Loan Commitments from time to time in
effect and (ii) in no event shall the outstanding principal amount of the
Syndicated Loans of each Lender exceed each Lender's Pro Rata Share of the
Syndicated Loan Commitments.

                  (b)      The proceeds of the Syndicated Loans shall be used as
working capital and for other general corporate purposes of Borrower and its
Subsidiaries, including without limitation, acquisitions of the assets of, or
the Capital Stock of, any other Person.

                  (c)      At no time shall the number of outstanding Borrowings
comprised of Eurodollar Advances exceed eight.

                  SECTION 2.02.  SYNDICATED LOANS.

                  (a)      Subject to and upon the terms and conditions herein
set forth (including the limitation set forth in Section 2.01), each Lender
severally agrees to make to Borrower, from time to time on and after the
Commitment Date, but prior to the Commitment Termination Date, Syndicated Loans
in an aggregate principal amount outstanding at any time not to exceed an amount
equal to such Lender's Syndicated Loan Commitment. Borrower shall be entitled to
repay and reborrow Syndicated Loans in accordance with the provisions, and
subject to the limitations, set forth herein (including the limitation set forth
in Section 2.01).

                  (b)      Each Syndicated Loan shall, at the option of
Borrower, be made or continued as, or converted into, part of one or more
Borrowings that shall consist entirely of Base Rate Advances or Eurodollar
Advances. The aggregate principal amount of each Borrowing of Syndicated Loans
shall be not less than $5,000,000 or a greater integral multiple of $500,000,
provided that each Borrowing of Syndicated Loans comprised of Base Rate Advances
shall be not less than $1,000,000 or a greater integral multiple of $100,000.

                  SECTION 2.03. SYNDICATED NOTES; REPAYMENT OF PRINCIPAL.

                  (a)      Borrower's obligations to pay the principal of, and
interest on, the Syndicated Loans to each Lender shall be evidenced by the
records of the Administrative Agent

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and such Lender and by the Syndicated Note payable to such Lender (or the
assignor of such Lender) completed in conformity with this Agreement.

                  (b)      All outstanding principal amounts under the
Syndicated Loan Commitments shall be due and payable in full on the Commitment
Termination Date; provided, however, that on the Commitment Termination Date, so
long as no Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, Borrower
shall have the right to defer payment of the balance of outstanding principal
amounts under the Syndicated Loan Commitments for a term of one (1) year (the
"Term Out Option"); provided that Borrower notifies the Administrative Agent of
its intent to exercise this Term Out Option at least thirty (30) days prior to
the Commitment Termination Date. Upon the Commitment Termination Date and at
anytime thereafter, no additional Borrowings shall be made and Borrower shall
not be entitled to reborrow any amounts paid with respect to the Loans extended
under this Agreement. The entire outstanding principal amount of the Loans,
together with all accrued and unpaid interest thereon and any other amounts
owing under this Agreement, shall be due and payable in full on the Maturity
Date. Except as otherwise provided in this Section 2.03(b), all continuation or
conversion of Advances made during the one (1) year term of deferment permitted
in connection with the Term Out Option shall be subject to the provisions and
limitations of this Article II.

                  SECTION 2.04. VOLUNTARY REDUCTION OF SYNDICATED LOAN
COMMITMENTS. Upon at least three (3) Business Days' prior written notice
(promptly confirmed in writing) to the Administrative Agent, Borrower shall have
the right, without premium or penalty, to terminate the unutilized Syndicated
Loan Commitments, in part or in whole, provided that (i) any such termination
shall apply to proportionately and permanently reduce the Syndicated Loan
Commitments of each of the Lenders, and (ii) any partial termination pursuant to
this Section 2.04 shall be in an amount of at least $5,000,000 and integral
multiples of $1,000,000. Any portion of the Syndicated Loan Commitments
terminated pursuant to this Section 2.04 may not be reinstated.

                  SECTION 2.05. SYNDICATED LOAN FUNDING NOTICES.

                  (a)      Whenever Borrower desires to obtain a Syndicated Loan
with respect to the Syndicated Loan Commitments (other than one resulting from a
conversion or continuation pursuant to Section 2.05(b)), it shall give the
Administrative Agent prior written notice (or telephonic notice promptly
confirmed in writing) of such Borrowing (a "Notice of Borrowing"), such Notice
of Borrowing to be given prior to 11:00 AM (Atlanta, Georgia time) at its
Payment Office (x) three Eurodollar Business Days prior to the requested date of
such Borrowing in the case of Eurodollar Advances, and (y) on the date of such
Borrowing (which shall be a Business Day) in the case of a Borrowing consisting
of Base Rate Advances. Notices received after 11:00 AM shall be deemed received
on the next Business Day. Each Notice of Borrowing shall be irrevocable and
shall specify the aggregate principal amount of the Borrowing, the date of
Borrowing (which shall be a Business Day), and whether the Borrowing

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is to consist of Base Rate Advances or Eurodollar Advances and (in the case of
Eurodollar Advances) the interest period to be applicable thereto.

                  (b)      Whenever Borrower desires to convert all or a portion
of an outstanding Borrowing under the Syndicated Loan Commitments, consisting of
Base Rate Advances into one or more Borrowings consisting of Eurodollar
Advances, or to continue outstanding a Borrowing consisting of Eurodollar
Advances for a new Interest Period, it shall give the Administrative Agent at
least three Eurodollar Business Days' prior written notice (or telephonic notice
promptly confirmed in writing) of each such Borrowing to be converted into or
continued as Eurodollar Advances. Such notice (a "Notice of
Conversion/Continuation") shall be given prior to 11:00 AM (Atlanta, Georgia
time) on the date specified at the Payment Office of the Administrative Agent.
Each such Notice of Conversion/Continuation shall be irrevocable and shall
specify the aggregate principal amount of the Advances to be converted or
continued, the date of such conversion or continuation, whether the Advances are
being converted into or continued as Eurodollar Advances and the Interest Period
applicable thereto. If, upon the expiration of any Interest Period in respect of
any Borrowing, Borrower shall have failed to deliver the Notice of
Conversion/Continuation, Borrower shall be deemed to have elected to convert or
continue such Borrowing to a Borrowing consisting of Base Rate Advances. So long
as any Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, no
Borrowing may be converted into or continued as (upon expiration of the current
Interest Period) Eurodollar Advances unless the Administrative Agent and each of
the Lenders shall have otherwise consented in writing. No conversion of any
Borrowing of Eurodollar Advances shall be permitted except on the last day of
the Interest Period in respect thereof.

                  (c)      Without in any way limiting Borrower's obligation to
confirm in writing any telephonic notice, the Administrative Agent may act
without liability upon the basis of telephonic notice believed by the
Administrative Agent in good faith to be from Borrower prior to receipt of
written confirmation. In each such case, Borrower hereby waives the right to
dispute the Administrative Agent's records of the terms of such telephonic
notice, absent manifest error.

                  (d)      The Administrative Agent shall promptly give each
Lender notice by telephone (confirmed in writing) or by telex, telecopy or
facsimile transmission of the matters covered by the notices given to the
Administrative Agent pursuant to this Section 2.05 with respect to the
Syndicated Loan Commitments.

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                                  ARTICLE III.

                               GENERAL LOAN TERMS

                    SECTION 3.01.  DISBURSEMENT OF FUNDS.

                  (a)      No later than 12:00 Noon (Atlanta, Georgia time) on
the date of each Syndicated Loan pursuant to the Syndicated Loan Commitments
(other than one resulting from a conversion or continuation pursuant to Section
2.05(b)), each Lender will make available its Pro Rata Share of such Syndicated
Loan in immediately available funds at the Payment Office of the Administrative
Agent. The Administrative Agent will make available to Borrower the aggregate of
the amounts (if any) so made available by the Lenders to the Administrative
Agent no later than 2:00 P.M. (Atlanta, Georgia time) by crediting such amounts
to Borrower's demand deposit account maintained with the Administrative Agent or
at Borrower's option, effecting a wire transfer of such amounts to an account
specified by Borrower, by the close of business on such Business Day. In the
event that the Lenders do not make such amounts available to the Administrative
Agent by the time prescribed above, but such amount is received later that day,
such amount may be credited to Borrower in the manner described in the preceding
sentence on the next Business Day (with interest on such amount to begin
accruing hereunder on such next Business Day).

                  (d)      Unless the Administrative Agent shall have been
notified by any Lender prior to the date of a Borrowing that such Lender does
not intend to make available to the Administrative Agent such Lender's portion
of such Borrowing to be made on such date, the Administrative Agent may assume
that such Lender has made such amount available to the Administrative Agent on
such date and the Administrative Agent may make available to Borrower a
corresponding amount. If such corresponding amount is not in fact made available
to the Administrative Agent by such Lender on the date of such Borrowing, the
Administrative Agent shall be entitled to recover such corresponding amount on
demand from such Lender together with interest at the Federal Funds Rate. If
such Lender does not pay such corresponding amount forthwith upon the
Administrative Agent's demand therefor, the Administrative Agent shall promptly
notify Borrower, and Borrower shall immediately pay such corresponding amount to
the Administrative Agent together with interest at the rate specified for such
Borrowing. Nothing in this subsection shall be deemed to relieve any Lender from
its obligation to fund its Syndicated Loan Commitment hereunder or to prejudice
any rights which Borrower may have against any Lender as a result of any default
by such Lender hereunder.

                  (e)      All Syndicated Loans under the Syndicated Loan
Commitments shall be loaned by the Lenders on the basis of their Pro Rata Share
of the Syndicated Loan Commitments. No Lender shall be responsible for any
default by any other Lender in its obligations hereunder, and each Lender shall
be obligated to make the Loans provided to be made by it hereunder, regardless
of the failure of any other Lender to fund its Commitments hereunder.

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                  SECTION 3.02.  INTEREST.

                  (a)      Until such time as the Borrower elects to exercise
the Term Out Option, Borrower agrees to pay interest in respect of all unpaid
principal amounts of Syndicated Loans from the respective dates such principal
amounts were advanced to maturity (whether by acceleration, notice of
prepayment, or otherwise) at rates per annum equal to the applicable rates
indicated below:

                           (i)      For Base Rate Advances--The Base Rate in
         effect from time to time;

                           (ii)     For Eurodollar Advances--The relevant LIBOR
         plus eighty-five one hundredths of one percent (0.85%); or

                  (b)      In the event that Borrower elects to exercise the
Term Out Option, Borrower agrees to pay interest in respect of all unpaid
principal amounts of Syndicated Loans from the respective dates such principal
amounts were converted under the Term Out Option to maturity (whether by
acceleration, notice of prepayment, or otherwise) at rates per annum equal to
the applicable rates indicated below:

                           (i)      For Base Rate Advances--The Base Rate in
         effect from time to time;

                           (ii)     For Eurodollar Advances--The relevant LIBOR
         plus the Applicable Margin;

                  (c)      Overdue principal and, to the extent not prohibited
by applicable law, overdue interest, in respect of the Loans, and all other
overdue amounts owing hereunder, shall bear interest from each date that such
amounts are overdue:

                           (i)      in the case of overdue principal and
         interest with respect to all Loans outstanding as Eurodollar Advances,
         at the rate otherwise applicable for the then current Interest Period
         plus an additional two percent (2.0%) per annum; thereafter at the rate
         in effect for Base Rate Advances plus an additional two percent (2.0%)
         per annum; and

                           (ii)     in the case of overdue principal and
         interest with respect to all other Loans outstanding as Base Rate
         Advances, and all other Obligations hereunder (other than Loans), at a
         rate equal to the applicable Base Rate plus an additional two percent
         (2.0%) per annum;

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                  (d)      Interest on each Loan shall accrue from and including
the date of such Loan to but excluding the date of any repayment thereof;
provided that, if a Loan is repaid on the same day made, one day's interest
shall be paid on such Loan. Interest on all Base Rate Advances shall be payable
quarterly in arrears on the last calendar day of each calendar quarter in each
year. Interest on all outstanding Eurodollar Advances shall be payable on the
last day of each Interest Period applicable thereto, and, in the case of
Interest Periods in excess of three months (in the case of Eurodollar Advances),
on each day which occurs every 3 months, as the case may be, after the initial
date of such Interest Period. Interest on all Loans shall be payable on any
conversion of any Advances comprising such Loans into Advances of another Type,
prepayment (on the amount prepaid), conversion pursuant to the Term Out Option,
at maturity (whether by acceleration, notice of prepayment or otherwise) and,
after maturity, on demand; and

                  (e)      The Administrative Agent, upon determining LIBOR for
any Interest Period, shall promptly notify by telephone (confirmed in writing)
or in writing Borrower and the other Lenders. Any such determination shall,
absent manifest error, be final, conclusive and binding for all purposes.

                  SECTION 3.03. INTEREST PERIODS.

                  (a)      In connection with the making or continuation of, or
conversion into, each Borrowing of Eurodollar Advances, Borrower shall select an
Interest Period to be applicable to such Eurodollar Advances, which Interest
Period shall be either a 1, 2, 3 or 6 month period.

                  (b)      Notwithstanding paragraphs (a) above:

                           (i)      The initial Interest Period for any
         Borrowing of Eurodollar Advances shall commence on the date of such
         Borrowing (including the date of any conversion from a Borrowing
         consisting of Base Rate Advances) and each Interest Period occurring
         thereafter in respect of a continuation of such Borrowing shall
         commence on the day on which the immediately preceding Interest Period
         expires;

                           (ii)     If any Interest Period would otherwise
         expire on a day which is not a Business Day, such Interest Period shall
         expire on the next succeeding Business Day, provided that if any
         Interest Period in respect of Eurodollar Advances would otherwise
         expire on a day that is not a Business Day but is a day of the month
         after which no further Business Day occurs in such month, such Interest
         Period shall expire on the next preceding Business Day;

                           (iii)    Any Interest Period in respect of Eurodollar
         Advances which begins on a day for which there is no numerically
         corresponding day in the calendar month at the end of such Interest
         Period shall, subject to part (iv) below, expire on the last Business
         Day of such calendar month; and

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                           (iv)     No Interest Period with respect to the Loans
         shall extend beyond the Commitment Termination Date; provided, however
         that in the event Borrower elects to exercise the Term Out Option, such
         Interest Periods may extend beyond the Commitment Termination Date but
         shall not extend beyond the Maturity Date.

                  SECTION 3.04. FEES.

                  (a)      Borrower shall pay to the Administrative Agent, for
the account of and distribution of the respective Pro Rata Share to each Lender
(subject to the last sentence hereof), an unused Fee (the "Unused Fee") for the
period commencing on the Commitment Date to and including the Commitment
Termination Date, computed at a rate equal to fifteen hundredths of one percent
(0.15%) per annum multiplied by the average daily amount of such Lender's Unused
Commitment. Such fee being payable quarterly in arrears on the date which is
five days following the last day of each fiscal quarter of Borrower and on the
Commitment Termination Date.

                  (b)      On the Closing Date, Borrower shall pay to the
Administrative Agent, for the account of and distribution of the respective Pro
Rata Share to each Lender (subject to the last sentence hereof), a
non-refundable and fully earned upfront fee (the "Upfront Fee") equal in amount
to one tenth of one percent (0.10%) of the Syndicated Loan Commitments of the
Lenders.

                  (c)      On the Closing Date Borrower shall pay to the
Administrative Agent such fees for services as previously agreed in writing by
Borrower with the Administrative Agent.

                  SECTION 3.05. VOLUNTARY AND MANDATORY PREPAYMENTS OF
BORROWINGS.

                  (a)      Borrower may, at its option, prepay Borrowings, at
any time in whole, or from time to time in part, in amounts aggregating
$1,000,000 or any greater integral multiple of $100,000, by paying the principal
amount to be prepaid together with interest accrued and unpaid thereon to the
date of prepayment, together with, in the case of Eurodollar Advances, all
compensation payments pursuant to Section 3.11 if such prepayment is made on a
date other than the last day of the Interest Period applicable thereto. Each
such optional prepayment shall be applied in accordance with Section 3.05(c)
below.

                  (b)      Borrower shall give written notice (or telephonic
notice confirmed in writing) to the Administrative Agent of any intended
prepayment of the Loans not less than two Business Days prior to any prepayment
of Borrowings. Such notice, once given, shall be irrevocable. Upon receipt of
such notice of prepayment, the Administrative Agent shall promptly notify each
Lender of the contents of such notice and of such Lender's share of such
prepayment.

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                  (c)      Borrower, when providing notice of prepayment
pursuant to Section 3.05(b), may designate the Types of Advances and the
specific Borrowing or Borrowings which are to be prepaid provided that each
prepayment made pursuant to a single Borrowing shall be applied pro rata among
the Advances comprising such Borrowing. In the absence of a designation by
Borrower, the Administrative Agent shall, subject to the foregoing, make such
designation in its sole discretion. All voluntary prepayments shall be applied
to the payment of interest on the Borrowings prepaid before application to
principal.

                  (d)      Immediately upon receipt by Borrower or any Guarantor
of proceeds of any Asset Sale (including condemnation proceeds, but excluding
proceeds of Asset Sales permitted by Section 7.04 and any such sales or
dispositions which occur in Borrower's or any Guarantor's ordinary course of
business), Borrower shall prepay the Loans in an amount equal to all such
proceeds, net of commissions and other reasonable and customary transaction
costs, fees and expenses properly attributable to such transaction and payable
by Borrower in connection therewith (in each case, paid to non-Affiliates). Any
such prepayment shall be applied in accordance with Section 3.05(f) below.

                  (e)      If Borrower or Guarantor issues equity or any debt
securities, then no later than the Business Day following the date of receipt of
the proceeds thereof, Borrower shall prepay the Loans in an amount equal to all
such proceeds, net of underwriting discounts and commissions and other
reasonable costs paid to non-Affiliates in connection therewith. Any such
prepayment shall be applied in accordance with Section 3.05(f) below.

                  (f)      Any prepayments made by Borrower pursuant to Sections
3.05(d) or (e) above shall be applied as follows: first, to the reimbursable
expenses of the Agents then due and payable pursuant to any of the Credit
Documents; second, to all other fees and reimbursable expenses of the Lenders
then due and payable pursuant to any of the Credit Documents, pro rata to the
Lenders based on their respective Pro Rata Shares; third, to interest then due
and payable on Loans made to Borrower, pro rata to the Lenders based on their
respective Pro Rata Shares of the outstanding Loans; fourth, to the principal
balance of the Loans, until the same shall have been paid in full, pro rata to
the Lenders based on their respective Pro Rata Shares of the Syndicated Loan
Commitments. The Syndicated Loan Commitments shall be permanently reduced by the
amount of any prepayments made pursuant to clause fourth above.

                  SECTION 3.06. PAYMENTS, ETC.

                  (a)      Except as otherwise specifically provided herein, all
payments under this Agreement and the other Credit Documents, other than the
payments specified in clause (ii) below, shall be made without defense, set-off
or counterclaim to the Administrative Agent not later than 12:00 Noon (Atlanta,
Georgia time ) on the date when due and shall be made in Dollars in immediately
available funds at its Payment Office.

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                  (b)      (i) All such payments shall be made free and clear of
and without deduction or withholding for any Taxes in respect of this Agreement,
the Notes or other Credit Documents, or any payments of principal, interest,
fees or other amounts payable hereunder or thereunder (but excluding, except as
provided in paragraph (iii) hereof, any Taxes imposed on the overall net income
of the Lenders pursuant to the laws of the jurisdiction in which the principal
executive office or appropriate Lending Office of such Lender is located). If
any Taxes are so levied or imposed, Borrower agrees (A) to pay the full amount
of such Taxes, and such additional amounts as may be necessary so that every net
payment of all amounts due hereunder and under the Notes and other Credit
Documents, after withholding or deduction for or on account of any such Taxes
(including additional sums payable under this Section 3.06), will not be less
than the full amount provided for herein had no such deduction or withholding
been required, (B) to make such withholding or deduction and (C) to pay the full
amount deducted to the relevant authority in accordance with applicable law.
Borrower will furnish to the Administrative Agent and each Lender, within 30
days after the date the payment of any Taxes is due pursuant to applicable law,
certified copies of tax receipts evidencing such payment by Borrower. Borrower
will indemnify and hold harmless the Administrative Agent and each Lender and
reimburse the Administrative Agent and each Lender upon written request for the
amount of any Taxes so levied or imposed and paid by the Administrative Agent or
Lender and any liability (including penalties, interest and expenses) arising
therefrom or with respect thereto, whether or not such Taxes were correctly or
illegally asserted. A certificate as to the amount of such payment by such
Lender or the Administrative Agent, absent manifest error, shall be final,
conclusive and binding for all purposes.

                           (ii) Each Lender that is organized under the laws of
any jurisdiction other than the United States of America or any State thereof
(including the District of Columbia) agrees to furnish to Borrower and the
Administrative Agent, on the Closing Date and otherwise prior to the time it
becomes a Lender hereunder, two copies of either U.S. Internal Revenue Service
Form 4224 or U.S. Internal Revenue Service Form 1001 or any successor forms
thereto (wherein such Lender claims entitlement to complete exemption from or
reduced rate of U.S. Federal withholding tax on interest paid by Borrower
hereunder) and to provide to Borrower and the Administrative Agent a new Form
4224 or Form 1001 or any successor forms thereto if any previously delivered
form is found to be incomplete or incorrect in any material respect or upon the
obsolescence of any previously delivered form.

                           (iii) Borrower shall also reimburse the
Administrative Agent and each Lender, upon written request, for any Taxes
imposed (including, without limitation, Taxes imposed on the overall net income
of the Administrative Agent or Lender or its applicable Lending Office pursuant
to the laws of the jurisdiction in which the principal executive office or the
applicable Lending Office of the Administrative Agent or Lender is located) as
the Administrative Agent or Lender shall determine are payable by the
Administrative Agent or Lender in respect of amounts paid by or on behalf of
Borrower to or on behalf of the Administrative Agent or Lender pursuant to
paragraph (i) hereof.

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                  (c)      Subject to Section 3.03(ii), whenever any payment to
be made hereunder or under any Note shall be stated to be due on a day which is
not a Business Day, the due date thereof shall be extended to the next
succeeding Business Day and, with respect to payments of principal, interest
thereon shall be payable at the applicable rate during such extension.

                  (d)      All computations of interest and fees shall be made
on the basis of a year of 360 days for the actual number of days (including the
first day but excluding the last day) occurring in the period for which such
interest or fees are payable (to the extent computed on the basis of days
elapsed), except that interest on Base Rate Advances shall be computed on the
basis of a year of 365/366 days for the actual number of days. Interest on Base
Rate Advances shall be calculated based on the Base Rate from and including the
date of such Loan to but excluding the date of the repayment or conversion
thereof. Interest on Eurodollar Advances shall be calculated as to each Interest
Period from and including the first day thereof to but excluding the last day
thereof. Each determination by the Administrative Agent of an interest rate or
fee hereunder shall be made in good faith and, except for manifest error, shall
be final, conclusive and binding for all purposes.

                  (e)      Payment by Borrower to the Administrative Agent in
accordance with the terms of this Agreement shall, as to Borrower, constitute
payment to the Lenders under this Agreement.

                  SECTION 3.07. INTEREST RATE NOT ASCERTAINABLE, ETC. In the
event that the Administrative Agent shall have determined (which determination
shall be made in good faith and, absent manifest error, shall be final,
conclusive and binding upon all parties) that on any date for determining LIBOR
for any Interest Period, by reason of any changes arising after the date of this
Agreement affecting the London interbank market, or the Administrative Agent's
position in such market, adequate and fair means do not exist for ascertaining
the applicable interest rate on the basis provided for in the definition of
LIBOR then, and in any such event, the Administrative Agent shall forthwith give
notice (by telephone confirmed in writing) to Borrower and to the Lenders, of
such determination and a summary of the basis for such determination. Until the
Administrative Agent notifies Borrower that the circumstances giving rise to the
suspension described herein no longer exist, the obligations of the Lenders to
make or permit portions of the Loans to remain outstanding past the last day of
the then current Interest Periods as Eurodollar Advances shall be suspended, and
such affected Advances shall bear interest at the Base Rate (or at such other
rate of interest per annum as Borrower and each of the Administrative Agent and
the Lenders shall have agreed to in writing).

                  SECTION 3.08. ILLEGALITY.

                  (a)      In the event that any Lender shall have determined
(which determination shall be made in good faith and, absent manifest error,
shall be final, conclusive and binding upon all parties) at any time that the
making or continuance of any Eurodollar

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Advance has become unlawful by compliance by such Lender in good faith with any
applicable law, governmental rule, regulation, guideline or order (whether or
not having the force of law and whether or not failure to comply therewith would
be unlawful), then, in any such event, the Lender shall give prompt notice (by
telephone confirmed in writing) to Borrower and to the Administrative Agent of
such determination and a summary of the basis for such determination (which
notice the Administrative Agent shall promptly transmit to the other Lenders).

                  (b)      Upon the giving of the notice to Borrower referred to
in subsection (a) above, (i) Borrower's right to request and such Lender's
obligation to make Eurodollar Advances shall be immediately suspended, and such
Lender shall make an Advance as part of the requested Borrowing of Eurodollar
Advances, bearing interest at the Base Rate (or at such other rate of interest
per annum as Borrower and each of the Administrative Agent and the Lenders shall
have agreed to in writing), which Base Rate Advance shall, for all other
purposes, be considered part of such Borrowing, and (ii) if the affected
Eurodollar Advance or Advances are then outstanding, Borrower shall immediately,
or if permitted by applicable law, no later than the date permitted thereby,
upon at least one Business Day's written notice to the Administrative Agent and
the affected Lender, convert each such Advance into an Advance or Advances of a
different Type with an Interest Period ending on the date on which the Interest
Period applicable to the affected Eurodollar Advances expires, provided that if
more than one Lender is affected at any time, then all affected Lenders must be
treated the same pursuant to this Section 3.08(b).

                  SECTION 3.09. INCREASED COSTS.

                  (a)      (i) If, by reason of (x) after the date hereof, the
introduction of or any change (including, without limitation, any change by way
of imposition or increase of reserve requirements) in or in the interpretation
of any law or regulation, or (y) the compliance with any guideline or request
from any central bank or other governmental authority or quasi-governmental
authority exercising control over banks or financial institutions generally
(whether or not having the force of law):

                           (1) any Lender (or its applicable Lending Office)
         shall be subject to any tax, duty or other charge with respect to its
         Eurodollar Advances, or its obligation to make Eurodollar Advances, or
         the basis of taxation of payments to any Lender of the principal of or
         interest on its Eurodollar Advances or its obligation to make
         Eurodollar Advances shall have changed (except for changes in the tax
         on the overall net income of such Lender or its applicable Lending
         Office imposed by the jurisdiction in which such Lender's principal
         executive office or applicable Lending Office is located); or

                           (2) any reserve (including, without limitation, any
         imposed by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System),
         special deposit or similar requirement against assets of, deposits with
         or for the account of, or credit extended by, any Lender's applicable
         Lending Office shall be imposed or deemed applicable or any other
         condition affecting its Eurodollar Advances, or its obligation to make
         Eurodollar

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         Advances shall be imposed on any Lender or its applicable Lending
         Office or the London interbank market;

and as a result thereof there shall be any increase in the cost to such Lender
of agreeing to make or making, funding or maintaining Eurodollar Advances, or
there shall be a reduction in the amount received or receivable by such Lender
or its applicable Lending Office, or

         (ii) in the event that any Lender shall have determined that any law,
treaty, governmental (or quasi-governmental) rule, regulation, guideline or
order regarding capital adequacy not currently in effect or fully applicable as
of the Closing Date, or any change therein or in the interpretation or
application thereof after the Closing Date, or compliance by such Lender with
any request or directive regarding capital adequacy not currently in effect or
fully applicable as of the Closing Date (whether or not having the force of law
and whether or not failure to comply therewith would be unlawful) from a central
bank or governmental authority or body having jurisdiction, does or shall have
the effect of reducing the rate of return on such Lender's capital as a
consequence of its obligations hereunder to a level below that which such Lender
could have achieved but for such law, treaty, rule, regulation, guideline or
order, or such change or compliance (taking into consideration such Lender's
policies with respect to capital adequacy) by an amount deemed by such Lender to
be material;

then, in the case of (i) or (ii) above, upon written notice from and demand by
such Lender on Borrower (with a copy of such notice and demand to the
Administrative Agent), Borrower shall pay to the Administrative Agent for the
account of such Lender within five Business Days after the date of such notice
and demand, additional amounts sufficient to indemnify such Lender against such
increased cost or reduced yield. A certificate as to the amount of such
increased cost or reduced yield submitted to Borrower and the Administrative
Agent by such Lender in good faith and accompanied by a statement prepared by
such Lender describing in reasonable detail the basis for and calculation of
such increased cost, shall, except for manifest error, be final, conclusive and
binding for all purposes.

                    In addition, if at any time a Eurodollar Reserve Percentage
greater than 0% is imposed on any Bank, the Borrower shall pay to such Bank
additional interest on the unpaid principal amount of the Eurodollar Advances of
such Bank until such principal amount is paid in full at an interest rate per
annum equal at all times to the quotient obtained (rounded upwards, if
necessary, to the next higher 1/100th of 1%) by dividing (i) the applicable
LIBOR for such Eurodollar Advance for such Interest Period by (ii) 1.00 minus
the Eurodollar Reserve Percentage, payable on each date on which interest is
payable on such Eurodollar Advance. Such additional interest, if any, shall be
determined by such Lender and notified to the Borrower through the
Administrative Agent.

                  (b)      If any Lender shall advise the Administrative Agent
that at any time, because of the circumstances described in clauses (x) or (y)
in Section 3.09(a) or any other circumstances beyond such Lender's reasonable
control arising after the date of this Agreement

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affecting such Lender or the London interbank market or such Lender's position
in such markets, LIBOR as determined by the Administrative Agent, will not
adequately and fairly reflect the cost to such Lender of funding its Eurodollar
Advances, then, and in any such event:

                           (i) the Administrative Agent shall forthwith give
         notice (by telephone confirmed in writing) to Borrower and to the other
         Lenders of such advice;

                           (ii) Borrower's right to request and such Lender's
         obligation to make or permit portions of the Loans to remain
         outstanding past the last day of the then current Interest Periods as
         Eurodollar Advances shall be immediately suspended; and

                           (iii) such Lender shall make an Advance as part of
         the requested Borrowing of Eurodollar Advances, as the case may be,
         bearing interest at the Base Rate (or at such other rate of interest
         per annum as Borrower and each of the Administrative Agent and the
         Lenders shall have agreed to in writing), which Base Rate Advance
         shall, for all other purposes, be considered part of such Borrowing.

                  (c)      Each Lender or Administrative Agent shall make
written demand on Borrower for indemnification or compensation pursuant to this
Section 3.09 no later than 60 days after the event giving rise to the claim for
indemnification or compensation occurs. In the event that any Lender or
Administrative Agent fails to give Borrower notice within the time limitations
prescribed in the foregoing sentence, Borrower shall not have any obligation to
pay such claim for compensation or indemnification.

                  SECTION 3.10. LENDING OFFICES.

                  (a)      Each Lender agrees that, if requested by Borrower, it
will use reasonable efforts (subject to overall policy considerations of such
Lender) to designate an alternate Lending Office with respect to any of its
Eurodollar Advances affected by the matters or circumstances described in
Sections 3.06(b), 3.07, 3.08 or 3.09 to reduce the liability of Borrower or
avoid the results provided thereunder, so long as such designation is not
materially disadvantageous to such Lender as determined by such Lender, which
determination if made in good faith, shall be conclusive and binding on all
parties hereto. Nothing in this Section 3.10 shall affect or postpone any of the
obligations of Borrower or any right of any Lender provided hereunder.

                  (b)      If any Lender that is organized under the laws of any
jurisdiction other than the United States of America or any State thereof
(including the District of Columbia) issues a public announcement with respect
to the closing of its lending offices in the United States such that any
withholdings or deductions and additional payments with respect to Taxes may be
required to be made by Borrower thereafter pursuant to Section 3.06(b), such
Lender shall use reasonable efforts to furnish Borrower notice thereof as soon
as practicable thereafter; provided, however, that no delay or failure to
furnish such notice shall in any event release or

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discharge Borrower from its obligations to such Lender pursuant to Section
3.06(b) or otherwise result in any liability of such Lender.

                  SECTION 3.11. FUNDING LOSSES. Borrower shall compensate each
Lender, upon its written request to Borrower (which request shall set forth the
basis for requesting such amounts in reasonable detail and which request shall
be made in good faith and, absent manifest error, shall be final, conclusive and
binding upon all of the parties hereto), for all losses, expenses and
liabilities (including, without limitation, any interest paid by such Lender to
lenders of funds borrowed by it to make or carry its Eurodollar Advances), in
either case to the extent not recoverable by such Lender in connection with a
re-employment of such funds and including loss of anticipated profits, which the
Lender may sustain: (i) if for any reason (other than a default by such Lender)
a borrowing of, or conversion to or continuation of, Eurodollar Advances to
Borrower does not occur on the date specified therefor in a Notice of Borrowing
or Notice of Conversion/Continuation, (whether or not withdrawn), (ii) if any
repayment (including mandatory prepayments and any conversions pursuant to
Section 3.08(b)) of any Eurodollar Advances by Borrower occurs on a date which
is not the last day of an Interest Period applicable thereto, or (iii) if, for
any reason, Borrower defaults in its obligation to repay its Eurodollar Advances
when required by the terms of this Agreement. In no circumstance will Borrower
be responsible for losses (other than administrative costs) where interest rates
have increased as of the date of determination of funding losses hereunder.

                  SECTION 3.12. ASSUMPTIONS CONCERNING FUNDING OF EURODOLLAR
ADVANCES. Calculation of all amounts payable to a Lender under this Article III
shall be made as though that Lender had actually funded its relevant Eurodollar
Advances through the purchase of deposits in the relevant market bearing
interest at the rate applicable to such Eurodollar Advances in an amount equal
to the amount of the Eurodollar Advances and having a maturity comparable to the
relevant Interest Period and through the transfer of such Eurodollar Advances
from an offshore office of that Lender to a domestic office of that Lender in
the United States of America; provided, however, that each Lender may fund each
of its Eurodollar Advances in any manner it sees fit and the foregoing
assumption shall be used only for calculation of amounts payable under this
Article III.

                  SECTION 3.13. APPORTIONMENT OF PAYMENTS. Aggregate principal
and interest payments in respect of Loans and payments in respect of the Unused
Fee shall be apportioned among all outstanding Commitments and Loans to which
such payments relate, proportionately to the Lenders' respective pro rata
portions of such Commitments and outstanding Loans. The Administrative Agent
shall promptly distribute to each Lender at its Payment Office set forth beside
its name on the appropriate signature page hereof or such other address as any
Lender may request its share of all such payments received by the Administrative
Agent.

                  SECTION 3.14. SHARING OF PAYMENTS, ETC. If any Lender shall
obtain any payment or reduction (including, without limitation, any amounts
received as adequate protection of a deposit treated as cash collateral under
the Bankruptcy Code) of the Obligations

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(whether voluntary, involuntary, through the exercise of any right of set-off,
or otherwise) in excess of its pro rata portion of payments or reductions on
account of such obligations obtained by all the Lenders, such Lender shall
forthwith (i) notify each of the other Lenders and Administrative Agent of such
receipt, and (ii) purchase from the other Lenders such participations in the
affected obligations as shall be necessary to cause such purchasing Lender to
share the excess payment or reduction, net of costs incurred in connection
therewith, ratably with each of them, provided that if all or any portion of
such excess payment or reduction is thereafter recovered from such purchasing
Lender or additional costs are incurred, the purchase shall be rescinded and the
purchase price restored to the extent of such recovery or such additional costs,
but without interest unless the Lender obligated to return such funds is
required to pay interest on such funds. Borrower agrees that any Lender so
purchasing a participation from another Lender pursuant to this Section 3.14
may, to the fullest extent permitted by law, exercise all its rights of payment
(including the right of set-off) with respect to such participation as fully as
if such Lender were the direct creditor of Borrower in the amount of such
participation.

                  SECTION 3.15. BENEFITS TO GUARANTORS. In consideration of the
execution and delivery by the Guarantors of the Guaranty Agreements, Borrower
agrees, subject to the terms hereof, to make extensions of credit hereunder
available to the Guarantors.

                                   ARTICLE IV.

                            CONDITIONS TO BORROWINGS

                  The obligations of each Lender to make Advances to Borrower
hereunder is subject to the satisfaction of the following conditions:

                  SECTION 4.01. CONDITIONS PRECEDENT TO INITIAL LOANS. On the
Closing Date, all obligations of Borrower hereunder incurred prior to such date
(including, without limitation, Borrower's obligations to pay any arrangement
fee and all agency fees due and payable to the Agents on the Closing Date as
previously agreed with Borrower), shall have been paid in full, and the
Administrative Agent shall have received the following, in form and substance
reasonably satisfactory in all respects to the Lenders and (except for the
Notes) in sufficient number for each Lender:

                  (a)      the duly executed counterparts of this Agreement;

                  (b)      the duly executed Syndicated Notes;

                  (c)      the duly executed Guaranty Agreements;

                  (d)      a duly executed certificate of Borrower, in
substantially the form of Exhibit D attached hereto and appropriately completed,
certifying that (i) the representations and

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warranties set forth in Article 5 hereof are true and correct on and as of such
date with the same effect as though made on and as of such date, (ii) Borrower
and the Guarantors are in compliance with all the terms and provisions set forth
in this Agreement and the other Credit Documents on their respective parts to be
observed or performed, (iii) on the Closing Date, no Default or Event of
Default, will have occurred or be continuing and (iv) as of the Closing Date,
there has been no materially adverse change in the financial condition of the
Borrower and its Subsidiaries as reflected in the financial statements delivered
to the Agents prior to the Closing Date;

                  (e)      a duly executed solvency certificate of Borrower and
the Guarantors, in form and substance satisfactory to the Lenders;

                  (f)      certificates of the Secretary or Assistant Secretary
of each of the Credit Parties attaching and certifying copies of the resolutions
of the boards of directors of the Credit Parties, authorizing as applicable the
execution, delivery and performance of the Credit Documents;

                  (g)      certificates of the Secretary or an Assistant
Secretary of each of the Credit Parties certifying (i) the name, title and true
signature of each officer of such entities executing the Credit Documents, and
(ii) the bylaws or comparable governing documents of such entities;

                  (h)      certified copies of the certificate or articles of
incorporation of each Credit Party certified by the Secretary of State or the
Secretary or Assistant Secretary of such Credit Party, together with
certificates of good standing or existence, as may be available from the
Secretary of State of the jurisdiction of incorporation or organization of such
Credit Party;

                  (i)      copies of all documents and instruments, including
all consents, authorizations and filings, required or advisable under any
Requirement of Law or by any material Contractual Obligation of the Credit
Parties, in connection with the execution, delivery, performance, validity and
enforceability of the Credit Documents and the other documents to be executed
and delivered hereunder, and such consents, authorizations, filings and orders
shall be in full force and effect and all applicable waiting periods shall have
expired;

                  (j)      certificates of insurance issued on behalf of
insurers of Borrower and the Guarantors, describing in reasonable detail the
types and amounts of insurance (property and liability) maintained by Borrower
and the Guarantors;

                  (k)      the favorable opinion of Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue,
counsel to the Credit Parties, substantially in the form of Exhibit E-1
addressed to the Agents and each of the Lenders and the favorable opinion of
in-house general counsel to the Credit Parties, substantially in the form of
Exhibit E-2 addressed to the Agents and each of the Lenders;

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                  (l)      all corporate proceedings and all other legal matters
in connection with the authorization, legality, validity and enforceability of
the Credit Documents shall be reasonably satisfactory in form and substance to
the Required Lenders.

                  SECTION 4.02. CONDITIONS TO ALL LOANS. At the time of the
making of all Loans (before as well as after giving effect to such Loans and to
the proposed use of the proceeds thereof), the following conditions shall have
been satisfied or shall exist:

                  (a)      there shall exist no Default or Event of Default;

                  (b)      all representations and warranties by Borrower
contained herein (excepting therefrom any made as of a prior date) shall be true
and correct in all material respects with the same effect as though such
representations and warranties had been made on and as of the date of such
Loans; and

                  (c)      the Loans to be made and the use of proceeds thereof
shall not contravene, violate or conflict with, or involve the Administrative
Agent or any Lender in a violation of, the Margin Regulations or any other
material law, rule, injunction, or regulation, or determination of any court of
law or other governmental authority applicable to Borrower.

                  Each request for a new Borrowing and the acceptance by
Borrower of the proceeds thereof (but not the continuation or conversion of an
existing Borrowing ) shall constitute a representation and warranty by Borrower,
as of the date of the Loans comprising such Borrowing, that the applicable
conditions specified in Sections 4.01 and 4.02 have been satisfied or waived in
writing.

                                   ARTICLE V.

                         REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES

                  Borrower (as to itself and all other Consolidated Companies)
represents and warrants as follows:

                  SECTION 5.01. CORPORATE EXISTENCE; COMPLIANCE WITH LAW. Each
of the Credit Parties is a corporation duly organized, validly existing, and in
good standing under the laws of the jurisdiction of its incorporation. Each of
the Credit Parties (i) has the corporate power and authority and the legal right
to own and operate its property and to conduct its business, (ii) is duly
qualified as a foreign corporation and in good standing under the laws of each
jurisdiction where its ownership of property or the conduct of its business
requires such qualification, and (iii) is in compliance with all Requirements of
Law, except where the failure to duly qualify or to comply with applicable
Requirements of Law would not have a Materially Adverse Effect.

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                  SECTION 5.02. CORPORATE POWER; AUTHORIZATION. Each of the
Credit Parties has the corporate power and authority to make, deliver and
perform the Credit Documents to which it is a party and has taken all necessary
corporate action to authorize the execution, delivery and performance of such
Credit Documents. No consent or authorization of, or filing with, any Person
(including, without limitation, any governmental authority), is required in
connection with the execution, delivery or performance by any Credit Party, or
the validity or enforceability against any Credit Party, of the Credit
Documents, other than such consents, authorizations or filings which have been
made or obtained.

                  SECTION 5.03. ENFORCEABLE OBLIGATIONS. This Agreement and each
other Credit Document has been duly authorized, executed and delivered by the
respective Credit Parties, and this Agreement and each other Credit Document
constitute legal, valid and binding obligations of the Credit Parties,
respectively, enforceable against the Credit Parties in accordance with their
respective terms, except as may be limited by applicable bankruptcy, insolvency,
reorganization, moratorium, or similar laws affecting the enforcement of
creditors' rights generally and by general principles of equity.

                  SECTION 5.04. NO CONTRACTUAL OR LEGAL BAR. The execution,
delivery and performance by the Borrower and each Guarantor of the Credit
Documents to which it is a party (a) will not contravene any material provision
of any Requirement of Law, (b) will not conflict with or be inconsistent with or
result in any breach of, or constitute a default under, any Contractual
Obligations of any Consolidated Company that would result in liability to any
Credit Party of $500,000 or more in the aggregate or otherwise result in a
Materially Adverse Effect, (c) will not violate any provision of the certificate
of incorporation (or equivalent thereof) or bylaws (or equivalent thereof) of
the Borrower or any Guarantor, (d) will not require the consent, approval or
authorization of any governmental or non-governmental authority or Person and
(e) will not result in the creation of any Lien upon the assets or properties of
the Borrower and its Subsidiaries, other than those Liens permitted under
Section 7.01.

                  SECTION 5.05. NO MATERIAL LITIGATION OR INVESTIGATIONS. No
litigation, investigations or proceedings of or before any courts, tribunals,
arbitrators or governmental authorities are pending or, to the knowledge of
Borrower, threatened by or against any of the Consolidated Companies, or against
any of their respective properties or rights, existing or future (a) with
respect to any Credit Document or any of the transactions contemplated hereby or
thereby, or (b) which, if adversely determined, would reasonably be expected to
have a Materially Adverse Effect.

                  SECTION 5.06. INVESTMENT COMPANY ACT, ETC. None of the
Consolidated Companies is an "investment company" or a company "controlled" by
an "investment company" (as each of the quoted terms is defined or used in the
Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended). None of the Consolidated Companies
is subject to regulation under the Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935,
the Federal Power Act, or any foreign, federal or local statute or

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regulation limiting its ability to incur indebtedness for money borrowed,
guarantee such indebtedness, or pledge its assets to secure such indebtedness,
as contemplated hereby or by any other Credit Document.

                  SECTION 5.07. MARGIN REGULATIONS. No part of the proceeds of
any of the Loans will be used for any purpose which violates, or which would be
inconsistent or not in compliance with, the provisions of the applicable Margin
Regulations.

                  SECTION 5.08. COMPLIANCE WITH ENVIRONMENTAL LAWS.

                  (a)      The Consolidated Companies have received no notices
of claims or potential liability under, and are in compliance with, all
applicable Environmental Laws, where such claims and liabilities under, and
failures to comply with, such statutes, regulations, rules, ordinances, laws or
licenses, would reasonably be expected to result in penalties, fines, claims or
other liabilities to the Consolidated Companies having a Materially Adverse
Effect.

                  (b)      None of the Consolidated Companies has received any
notice of violation, or notice of any action, either judicial or administrative,
from any governmental authority (whether United States or foreign) relating to
the actual or alleged violation of any Environmental Law, including, without
limitation, any notice of any actual or alleged spill, leak, or other release of
any Hazardous Substance, waste or hazardous waste by any Consolidated Company or
its employees or agents, or as to the existence of any contamination on any
properties owned by any Consolidated Company, where any such violation, spill,
leak, release or contamination would reasonably be expected to result in
penalties, fines, claims or other liabilities to the Consolidated Companies
having a Materially Adverse Effect.

                  (c)      The Consolidated Companies have obtained all
necessary governmental permits, licenses and approvals which are material to the
operations conducted on their respective properties, including without
limitation, all required material permits, licenses and approvals for (i) the
emission of air pollutants or contaminants, (ii) the treatment or pretreatment
and discharge of waste water or storm water, (iii) the treatment, storage,
disposal or generation of hazardous wastes, (iv) the withdrawal and usage of
ground water or surface water, and (v) the disposal of solid wastes.

                  SECTION 5.09. INSURANCE. The Credit Parties currently maintain
insurance with respect to their respective properties and businesses, with
financially sound and reputable insurers, having coverages against losses or
damages of the kinds customarily insured against by reputable companies in the
same or similar businesses, such insurance being the types, and in amounts no
less than those amounts which are, customary for such companies under similar
circumstances; provided, however, that the Company may self insure in amounts
satisfactory to management, subject to the provisions of Section 6.06(a). The
Consolidated Companies have paid all material amounts of insurance premiums now
due and owing with respect to such insurance policies and coverages, and such
policies and coverages are in full force and effect.

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                  SECTION 5.10. NO DEFAULT. None of the Consolidated Companies
is in default under or with respect to any material Contractual Obligation in
any respect.

                  SECTION 5.11. NO BURDENSOME RESTRICTIONS. None of the
Consolidated Companies is a party to or bound by any Contractual Obligation or
Requirement of Law which has had or would reasonably be expected to have a
Materially Adverse Effect.

                  SECTION 5.12. TAXES. Each of the Consolidated Companies has
filed or caused to be filed all declarations, reports and tax returns which are
required to have been filed, and has paid all taxes, custom duties, levies,
charges and similar contributions ("taxes" in this Section 5.12) shown to be due
and payable on said returns or on any assessments made against it or its
properties, and all other taxes, fees or other charges imposed on it or any of
its properties by any governmental authority (other than those the amount or
validity of which is currently being contested in good faith by appropriate
proceedings and with respect to which reserves in conformity with GAAP have been
provided in its books or where the aggregate sum of taxes unpaid is less than
$500,000); and no tax liens have been filed and, to the knowledge of Borrower,
no claims are being asserted with respect to any such taxes, fees or other
charges.

                  SECTION 5.13. SUBSIDIARIES. Schedule 5.13 accurately describes
as of the Closing Date (1) the complete name of each Subsidiary of the Borrower,
(2) the jurisdiction of incorporation or organization of each Subsidiary of the
Borrower, (3) the ownership of all issued and outstanding Capital Stock of each
Subsidiary of the Borrower and (4) whether such Subsidiary is a Material
Subsidiary. Except as disclosed on Schedule 5.13, Borrower has no Subsidiaries
and neither Borrower nor any Subsidiary is a joint venture partner or general
partner in any partnership. Each of the Subsidiaries that is not a Guarantor is
a corporation duly organized, validly existing and in good standing under the
laws of its jurisdiction of incorporation, is duly qualified to transact
business in every jurisdiction where the failure to so qualify would have a
Materially Adverse Effect, and has all corporate powers and all governmental
licenses, authorizations, consents and approvals required to carry on its
business as now as now conducted in each case where the failure to have the same
would have a Materially Adverse Effect.

                  SECTION 5.14. FINANCIAL STATEMENTS. The unaudited balance
sheet of the Consolidated Companies as of September 30, 1999, setting forth the
financial position of the Consolidated Companies, a copy of which has been
delivered to the Lenders, fairly presents, in conformity with generally accepted
accounting principles, the financial position of the Consolidated Companies as
of such date and time. The Consolidated Companies do not have any material
contingent obligations, contingent liabilities or other obligations which are
not reflected in the balance sheet referenced above (the "September 1999
Financial Statements"). Since September 30, 1999, there have been no changes
with respect to the Consolidated Companies which has had or would reasonably be
expected to have a Materially Adverse Effect.

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                  SECTION 5.15. ERISA.

                  (a)(1) Identification of Plans. (A) None of the Consolidated
Companies nor any of their respective ERISA Affiliates maintains or contributes
to, or has during the past two years maintained or contributed to, any Plan that
is subject to Title IV of ERISA other than the Equifax Inc. U.S. Retirement
Income Plan, and (B) none of the Consolidated Companies maintains or contributes
to any Foreign Plan other than the Equifax Europe (U.K.) Ltd. Pension Plan;

                  (2) Compliance. Each Plan and each Foreign Plan maintained by
the Consolidated Companies have at all times been maintained, by their terms and
in operation, in compliance with all applicable laws, and the Consolidated
Companies are subject to no tax or penalty with respect to any Plan maintained
or contributed to by such Consolidated Company or any ERISA Affiliate thereof,
including without limitation, any tax or penalty under Title I or Title IV of
ERISA or under Chapter 43 of the Tax Code, or any tax or penalty resulting from
a loss of deduction under Sections 404, or 419 of the Tax Code, where the
failure to comply with such laws, and such taxes and penalties, together with
all other liabilities referred to in this Section 5.15 (taken as a whole), would
in the aggregate have a Materially Adverse Effect;

                  (3) Liabilities. The Consolidated Companies are subject to no
liabilities (including withdrawal liabilities) with respect to any Plans or
Foreign Plans maintained or contributed to by such Consolidated Companies or any
of their ERISA Affiliates, including without limitation, any liabilities arising
from Titles I or IV of ERISA, other than obligations to fund benefits under an
ongoing such Plan and to pay current contributions, expenses and premiums with
respect to such Plans or Foreign Plans, where such liabilities, together with
all other liabilities referred to in this Section 5.15 (taken as a whole), would
in the aggregate have a Materially Adverse Effect;

                  (4) Funding. The Consolidated Companies and, with respect to
any Plan which is subject to Title IV of ERISA, each of their respective ERISA
Affiliates, have made full and timely payment of all amounts (A) required to be
contributed by any of them under the terms of each Plan and applicable law, and
(b) required to be paid as expenses by any of them (including PBGC or other
premiums) of each Plan, where the failure to pay such amounts (when taken as a
whole, including any penalties attributable to such amounts) would have a
Materially Adverse Effect. No Plan maintained by a Consolidated Company subject
to Title IV of ERISA has an "amount of unfunded benefit liabilities" (as defined
in Section 4001(a)(18) of ERISA, determined as if such Plan terminated on any
date on which this representation and warranty is deemed made, in any amount
which, together with all other liabilities referred to in this Section 5.15
(taken as a whole), would have a Materially Adverse Effect if such amount were
then due and payable. The Consolidated Companies are subject to no liabilities
with respect to post-retirement medical benefits other than those accrued on
Borrower's financial statements.

                  (b)      With respect to any Foreign Plan, reasonable reserves
have been established in accordance with prudent business practice or where
required by ordinary

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accounting practices in the jurisdiction where the Foreign Subsidiary maintains
its principal place of business or in which the Foreign Plan is maintained. The
aggregate unfunded liabilities, after giving effect to any reserves for such
liabilities, with respect to such Foreign Plans, together with all other
liabilities referred to in this Section 5.15 (taken as a whole), would not have
a Materially Adverse Effect.

                  SECTION 5.16. POSSESSION OF FRANCHISES, LICENSES, ETC. Each of
the Consolidated Companies possesses all franchises, certificates, licenses,
permits and other authorizations from governmental political subdivisions or
regulatory authorities, that are necessary in any material respect for the
ownership, maintenance and operation of its properties and assets, and none of
the Consolidated Companies is in violation of any thereof in any material
respect.

                  SECTION 5.17. PATENTS, TRADEMARKS, LICENSES, ETC. (i) The
Consolidated Companies have obtained and hold in full force and effect all
patents, trademarks, service marks, trade names, copyrights, licenses and other
such rights, free from burdensome restrictions, which are necessary for the
operation of their respective businesses as presently conducted and where the
result of a failure to obtain and hold such patents, trademarks, service marks,
trade names, copyrights, licenses and other such rights would have a Materially
Adverse Effect, and (ii) to the best of Borrower's knowledge, no product,
process, method, service or other item presently sold by or employed by any
Consolidated Company in connection with such business infringes any patents,
trademark, service mark, trade name, copyright, license or other right owned by
any other person and there is not presently pending, or to the knowledge of
Borrower, threatened, any claim or litigation against or affecting any
Consolidated Company contesting such Person's right to sell or use any such
product, process, method, substance or other item where the result of such
failure to obtain and hold such benefits or such infringement would have a
Materially Adverse Effect.

                  SECTION 5.18. OWNERSHIP OF PROPERTY. Each Consolidated Company
has good and marketable fee simple title to or a valid leasehold interest in all
of its real property and good title to, or a valid leasehold interest in, all of
its other material assets, as such properties are reflected in the most recent
financial statements (including the September 1999 Financial Statements)
delivered by Borrower to the Administrative Agent, other than properties
disposed of in the ordinary course of business since such date or as otherwise
permitted by the terms of this Agreement, subject to no Lien or title defect of
any kind, except Liens permitted under Section 7.01. The Consolidated Companies
enjoy peaceful and undisturbed possession under all of their respective leases.

                  SECTION 5.19. FINANCIAL CONDITION. On the Closing Date and
after giving effect to the transactions contemplated by this Agreement, the
Guaranty Agreements and the other Credit Documents, including without
limitation, the use of the proceeds of the Loans as provided in Section 2.01(b),
each of the Credit Parties is Solvent.

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                  SECTION 5.20. LABOR MATTERS. The Consolidated Companies have
experienced no strikes, labor disputes, slow downs or work stoppages due to
labor disagreements which have had, or would reasonably be expected to have, a
Materially Adverse Effect, and, to the best knowledge of Borrower, there are no
such strikes, disputes, slow downs or work stoppages threatened against any
Consolidated Company which if they occurred, would reasonably be expected to
have a Materially Adverse Effect. The hours worked and payment made to employees
of the Consolidated Companies have not been in violation in any material respect
of the Fair Labor Standards Act (in the case of Consolidated Companies that are
not Foreign Subsidiaries) or any other applicable law dealing with such matters.
All payments due from the Consolidated Companies, or for which any claim may be
made against the Consolidated Companies, on account of wages and employee health
and welfare insurance and other benefits have been paid or accrued as
liabilities on the books of the Consolidated Companies in all jurisdictions
where the failure to pay or accrue such liabilities would reasonably be expected
to have a Materially Adverse Effect.

                  SECTION 5.21. PAYMENT OR DIVIDEND RESTRICTIONS. None of the
Consolidated Companies is party to or subject to any agreement or understanding
restricting or limiting the payment of any dividends or other distributions by
any such Consolidated Company, other than CDB/Infotek.

                  SECTION 5.22. OUTSTANDING INDEBTEDNESS. Schedule 5.22 lists
all outstanding Indebtedness of the Consolidated Companies as of September 30,
1999, and since September 30, 1999, no additional material Indebtedness has been
incurred by the Consolidated Companies. There exists no default under the
provisions of any instrument evidencing or securing Indebtedness of the Borrower
or any of its Subsidiaries or of any agreement otherwise relating thereto which
has had or would reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

                  SECTION 5.23. DISCLOSURE. No representation or warranty
contained in this Agreement (including the Schedules attached hereto) or in any
other document furnished from time to time pursuant to the terms of this
Agreement, contains or will contain any untrue statement of a material fact or
omits or will omit to state any material fact necessary to make the statements
herein or therein not misleading in any material respect as of the date made or
deemed to be made. There is no fact known to Borrower which is having, or is
reasonably expected to have, a Materially Adverse Effect.

                  SECTION 5.24. YEAR 2000 ISSUES. Prior to the Closing Date,
Borrower and each Consolidated Company have (i) reviewed the areas, sites and
systems within their businesses and operations which could be materially and
adversely affected by failure to become "Year 2000 Compliant" (that is, that
computer applications, imbedded microchips and other systems used by Borrower,
any Consolidated Company, or any material vendor of Borrower or a Consolidated
Company, will be able to properly recognize and perform date-sensitive functions
involving certain dates prior to and any date after December 31, 1999) and (ii)
developed, implemented and fully tested a detailed plan (the "Year 2000 Plan")
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Consolidated Company are Year 2000 Compliant in all respects (except where the
failure to be so does not or would not reasonably be expected to have a Material
Adverse Effect).

                                   ARTICLE VI.

                              AFFIRMATIVE COVENANTS

                  So long as any Commitment remains in effect hereunder or any
Note shall remain unpaid, Borrower will (unless waived in writing by the
Required Lenders):

                  SECTION 6.01. CORPORATE EXISTENCE, ETC. Preserve and maintain,
and cause each of its Subsidiaries to preserve and maintain, its corporate
existence (except for mergers, divestitures and consolidations permitted
pursuant to Section 7.03), and except where the failure to be so qualified would
reasonably be expected to have a Materially Adverse Effect, its qualification to
do business as a foreign corporation in all jurisdictions where it conducts
business or other activities making such qualification necessary.

                  SECTION 6.02. COMPLIANCE WITH LAWS, ETC. Comply, and cause
each of its Subsidiaries to comply with, all Requirements of Law (including,
without limitation, the Environmental Laws, ERISA and employee benefit laws) and
Contractual Obligations applicable to or binding on any of them where the
failure to comply with such Requirements of Law and Contractual Obligations
would reasonably be expected to have a Materially Adverse Effect.

                  SECTION 6.03. PAYMENT OF TAXES AND CLAIMS, ETC. Pay, and cause
each of its Subsidiaries to pay, (i) all taxes, assessments and governmental
charges imposed upon it or upon its property, and (ii) all claims (including,
without limitation, claims for labor, materials, supplies or services) which
might, if unpaid, become a Lien upon its property, unless, in each case, the
validity or amount thereof is being contested in good faith by appropriate
proceedings and adequate reserves are maintained with respect thereto or the
aggregate sum of taxes unpaid is less than $500,000.

                  SECTION 6.04. KEEPING OF BOOKS. Keep, and cause each of its
Subsidiaries to keep, proper books of record and account, containing complete
and accurate entries of all their respective financial and business
transactions.

                  SECTION 6.05. VISITATION, INSPECTION, ETC. (a) Prior to the
occurrence of a Default, permit, and cause each of its Subsidiaries to permit,
any representative of any Lender at such Lender's expense after reasonable
notice during regular business hours (which date of visit shall be mutually
agreed upon but shall not be later than 2 weeks after the date requested by such
Lender) to visit and inspect, in the company of any of the Executive Officers or
their designees and their independent public accountants, any of their
respective properties, and to examine and make abstracts from any of their
respective books and records and to discuss with any of the

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Executive Officers the respective affairs, finances and accounts of the Borrower
and its Subsidiaries. Prior to the occurrence of a Default, each Lender shall be
entitled to no more than two (2) such visits and inspections per year.

                  (b)      After the occurrence of a Default, permit, and cause
each of its Subsidiaries to permit, any representative of any Lender at the
Borrower's expense to visit and inspect, in the company of any of the Executive
Officers or their designees and their independent public accountants, any of
their respective properties, and to examine and make abstracts from any of their
respective books and records and to discuss with any of the Executive Officers
the respective affairs, finances and accounts of the Borrower and its
Subsidiaries.

                  (c)      To cooperate and assist, and to cause each of its
Subsidiaries to cooperate and assist, in such visits and inspections set forth
in paragraphs (a) and (b) above in this Section, in each case at such reasonable
times and as often as may reasonably be desired; provided, however, that (i) in
no event shall any Lender have access to information prohibited by law, and (ii)
in the event any Lender desires to inspect confidential matters (which matters
shall in no event include financial information and data of the Borrower or its
Subsidiaries or other information the Lenders may require in order to determine
compliance this Agreement) under this Section, such Lender shall executed a
confidentiality agreement relating to such matters, which agreement shall
contain reasonable terms acceptable to such Lender and its counsel.

                  SECTION 6.06. INSURANCE; MAINTENANCE OF PROPERTIES.

                  (a)      Maintain or cause to be maintained with financially
sound and reputable insurers, insurance with respect to its properties and
business, and the properties and business of its Subsidiaries, against loss or
damage of the kinds customarily insured against by reputable companies in the
same or similar businesses, such insurance to be of such types and in such
amounts as are customary for such companies under similar circumstances;
provided, however, that the Credit Parties may self-insure in amounts
satisfactory to management. Upon the request of the Administrative Agent,
Borrower shall file with the Administrative Agent a detailed list of such
insurance then in effect stating the names of the insurance companies, the
limits of liability of insurance, the date of expiration thereof, the Property
and risks covered thereby and the insured with respect thereto, and, within 60
days after notice in writing from the Administrative Agent, obtain such
additional insurance as the Required Lenders may reasonably request as a result
of a material change in the circumstances or conditions affecting Borrower's
business specifically or its type of business generally, provided that such
additional insurance is available at a commercially reasonable cost.

                  (b)      Cause, and cause each of the Consolidated Companies
to cause, all properties used or useful in the conduct of its business to be
maintained and kept in good condition, repair and working order and supplied
with all necessary equipment and will cause to be made all necessary repairs,
renewals, replacements, settlements and improvements thereof, all as in the
judgment of Borrower may be necessary so that the business carried on in
connection

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therewith may be properly and advantageously conducted at all times; provided,
however, that nothing in this Section 6.06 shall prevent Borrower from
discontinuing the operation or maintenance of any such properties if such
discontinuance is, in the judgment of Borrower, desirable in the conduct of its
business or the business of any Consolidated Company.

                  (c)      Maintain in full force and effect all material
patents, trademarks, service marks, trade names, copyrights, licenses and other
such rights, free from burdensome restrictions, which are necessary for the
operation of the businesses of the Consolidated Companies as presently
conducted, where the result of failure to obtain and hold such benefits would
have a Materially Adverse Effect.

                  SECTION 6.07. REPORTING COVENANTS. Furnish to each Lender:

                  (a)      Annual Financial Statements. As soon as available and
         in any event within 105 days after the end of each fiscal year of
         Borrower, balance sheets of the Consolidated Companies as at the end of
         such year, presented on a consolidated basis, and the related
         statements of income, and cash flows of the Consolidated Companies for
         such fiscal year, presented on a consolidated basis, setting forth in
         each case in comparative form the figures for the previous fiscal year,
         all in reasonable detail and accompanied by a report thereon of the
         independent public accountants of comparable recognized national
         standing, which such report shall be unqualified as to going concern
         and scope of audit and shall state that such financial statements
         present fairly in all material respects the financial condition as at
         the end of such fiscal year on a consolidated basis, and the results of
         operations and statements of cash flows of the Consolidated Companies
         for such fiscal year in accordance with GAAP and that the examination
         by such accountants in connection with such consolidated financial
         statements has been made in accordance with generally accepted auditing
         standards;

                  (b)      Quarterly Financial Statements. As soon as available
         and in any event within 60 days after the end of each fiscal quarter of
         Borrower (other than the fourth fiscal quarter), balance sheets of the
         Consolidated Companies as at the end of such quarter presented on a
         consolidated basis and the related statements of income, shareholders'
         equity, and cash flows of the Consolidated Companies for such fiscal
         quarter and for the portion of Borrower's fiscal year ended at the end
         of such quarter, presented on a consolidated basis setting forth in
         each case in comparative form the figures for the corresponding quarter
         and the corresponding portion of Borrower's previous fiscal year, all
         in reasonable detail and accompanied by a certification by the chief
         financial officer of Borrower that such financial statements fairly
         present in all material respects the financial condition of the
         Consolidated Companies as at the end of such fiscal quarter on a
         consolidated basis, and the results of operations and statements of
         cash flows of the Consolidated Companies for such fiscal quarter and
         such portion of Borrower's fiscal year, in accordance with GAAP
         consistently applied (subject to normal year-end audit adjustments and
         the absence of certain footnotes);

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                  (c)      No Default/Compliance Certificate. Together with the
         financial statements required pursuant to subsections (a) and (b)
         above, a certificate (with supporting details) of the chief financial
         officer of Borrower substantially in the form of Exhibit G attached
         hereto (the "Compliance Certificate") (i) to the effect that, based
         upon a review of the activities of the Consolidated Companies and such
         financial statements during the period covered thereby, there exists no
         Event of Default and no Default under this Agreement, or if there
         exists an Event of Default or a Default hereunder, specifying the
         nature thereof and the proposed response thereto, and (ii)
         demonstrating in reasonable detail compliance as at the end of such
         fiscal year or such fiscal quarter with Sections 6.08, 7.01, 7.04 and
         7.05;

                  (d)      Auditor's Statement. Together with the financial
         statements required pursuant to subsection (a) above, a statement of
         the accountants who prepared the report referred to therein, to the
         effect that, nothing has come to their attention which would cause them
         to believe that a Default or Event of Default existed as of the date of
         such financial statements, or if there existed a Default or Event of
         Default, specifying the nature thereof;

                  (e)      Notice of Default. Promptly, and no later than five
         (5) Business Days after any Executive Officer of Borrower has notice or
         knowledge of the occurrence of an Event of Default or a Default, a
         certificate of the chief financial officer of Borrower specifying the
         nature thereof and the proposed response thereto;

                  (f)      Litigation and Investigations. Promptly, and no later
         than ten (10) Business Days after any Executive Officer of Borrower has
         notice or knowledge thereof, notice of the institution of or any
         material adverse development in any material action, suit or proceeding
         or any governmental investigation or any arbitration, before any court
         or arbitrator or any governmental or administrative body, agency or
         official, against any Consolidated Company, or any material property of
         any thereof, or the threat of any such action, suit, proceeding,
         investigation or arbitration;

                  (g)      Environmental Notices. Promptly, and no later than
         ten (10) Business Days after any Executive Officer of Borrower has
         notice or knowledge thereof, notice of any actual or alleged violation,
         or notice of any action, claim or request for information, either
         judicial or administrative, from any governmental authority relating to
         any actual or alleged claim, notice of potential responsibility under
         or violation of any Environmental Law, or any actual or alleged spill,
         leak, disposal or other release of any waste, petroleum product, or
         hazardous waste or Hazardous Substance by any Consolidated Company
         which could result in a Materially Adverse Effect;

                  (h)      ERISA. (i) Promptly, and no later than ten (10)
         Business Days after any Executive Officer of Borrower has notice or
         knowledge thereof, (A) with respect to

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         any Plan maintained by any Consolidated Company or any ERISA Affiliate
         thereof, or any trust established thereunder, notice of a "reportable
         event" described in Section 4043 of ERISA and the regulations issued
         from time to time thereunder (other than a "reportable event" not
         subject to the provisions for 30-day notice to the PBGC under such
         regulations); or (B) any other event which could subject any
         Consolidated Company to any tax, penalty or liability under Title I or
         Title IV of ERISA or Chapter 43 of the Tax Code, or any tax or penalty
         resulting from a loss of deduction under Sections 404 or 419 of the Tax
         Code, or any tax, penalty or liability under any Requirement of Law
         applicable to any Foreign Plan, where any such taxes, penalties or
         liabilities could result in a Material Adverse Effect;

                           (ii)     Promptly after such notice must be provided
         to the PBGC, or to a Plan participant, beneficiary or alternative
         payee, any notice required under Section 101(d), 302(f)(4), 303, 304,
         307, 4041(a)(2), 4041(b)(1)(A) or 4041(c)(1)(A) of ERISA or under
         Section 401(a)(29) or 412 of the Tax Code with respect to any Plan
         maintained by any Consolidated Company or any ERISA Affiliate thereof;

                           (iii)    Promptly after receipt, any notice received
         by any Consolidated Company or any ERISA Affiliate thereof concerning
         the intent of the PBGC or any other governmental authority to terminate
         a Plan maintained or contributed to by such Company or ERISA Affiliate
         thereof which is subject to Title IV of ERISA, to impose any liability
         on such Company or ERISA Affiliate under Title IV of ERISA or Chapter
         43 of the Tax Code;

                           (iv)     Upon the request of the Administrative
         Agent, promptly upon the filing thereof with the Internal Revenue
         Service ("IRS") or the Department of Labor ("DOL"), a copy of IRS Form
         5500 or annual report for each Plan maintained by any Consolidated
         Company or ERISA Affiliate thereof which is subject to Title IV of
         ERISA;

                           (v)      Upon the request of the Administrative
         Agent, but no more frequently than twice each calendar year, (A) true
         and complete copies of any and all documents, government reports and
         IRS determination or opinion letters or rulings for any Plan maintained
         or contributed to by any Consolidated Company from the IRS, PBGC or
         DOL, received within the preceding 12 months, (B) any reports filed
         with the IRS, PBGC or DOL with respect to a Plan maintained or
         contributed to by the Consolidated Companies or any ERISA Affiliate
         thereof filed within the preceding 12 months, or (C) a current
         statement of withdrawal liability for each Multiemployer Plan
         contributed to by any Consolidated Company or any ERISA Affiliate
         thereof;

                           (B)      Promptly, and no later than give (5)
         Business Days after any Executive Officer has notice of knowledge
         thereof, notice that (i) any material contributions to any Foreign Plan
         have not been made by the required due date for such

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         contribution and such default cannot immediately be remedied, (ii) any
         Foreign Plan is not funded to the extent required by the law of the
         jurisdiction whose law governs such Foreign Plan based on the actuarial
         assumptions reasonably used at any time, or (iii) a material change is
         anticipated to any Foreign Plan that may have a Materially Adverse
         Effect.

                  (i)      Liens. Promptly, and no later than five (5) Business
         Days after any Executive Officer of Borrower has notice or knowledge
         thereof, notice of the filing of any federal statutory Lien, tax or
         other state or local government Lien or any other Lien affecting their
         respective properties, other than those Liens expressly permitted by
         Section 7.01;

                  (j)      Public Filings, Etc. Promptly upon the filing thereof
         or otherwise becoming available, copies of all financial statements,
         annual, quarterly and special reports, proxy statements and notices
         sent or made available generally by Borrower to its public security
         holders, of all regular and periodic reports and all registration
         statements and prospectuses, if any, filed by any of them with any
         securities exchange, and of all press releases and other statements
         made available generally to the public containing material developments
         in the business or financial condition of Borrower and the other
         Consolidated Companies;

                  (k)      New Material Subsidiaries. Within 30 days after the
         formation, acquisition or existence of any new Material Subsidiary, or
         any other event resulting in the creation of a new Material Subsidiary,
         or the domestication of any Foreign Subsidiary, notice of the formation
         or acquisition of such Subsidiary or such occurrence, including a
         description of the assets of such entity, the activities in which it
         will be engaged, and such other information as the Administrative Agent
         may request;

                  (l)      Default under Other Debt. Immediately upon its
         receipt thereof, copies of any notice received by the Borrower or any
         other Consolidated Company from the holder(s) of Indebtedness of the
         Consolidated Companies (or from any trustee, agent, attorney, or other
         party acting on behalf of such holder(s)) in an amount which, in the
         aggregate, exceeds $5,000,000, where such notice states or claims the
         existence or occurrence of any default or event of default with respect
         to such Indebtedness under the terms of any indenture, loan or credit
         agreement, debenture, note, or other document evidencing or governing
         such Indebtedness;

                  (m)      Complete Lien Search Results. As soon as available
         and in any event within 30 days after the Closing Date, copies of all
         UCC, judgment and tax lien search results for all of the Borrower's and
         the Guarantors' locations in the United States other than field offices
         at which is located tangible personal property (having an aggregate
         value not in excess of $6,000,000);

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                  (n)      Update of Schedule 7.01. As soon as available and in
         any event within 30 days after the Closing Date, a revised Schedule
         7.01 listing all Liens existing on the Closing Date, which shall not be
         materially different from Schedule 7.01 provided by the Borrower on the
         Closing Date and which shall automatically be deemed to amend Schedule
         7.01 to this Credit Agreement;

                  (o)      Other Information. With reasonable promptness, any
         other information as the Administrative Agent on behalf of any Lender
         may reasonably request from time to time.

                  SECTION 6.08. FINANCIAL COVENANTS.

                  (a)      Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio. (i) Maintain as of the
last day of each fiscal quarter, a Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio, calculated for
the fiscal quarter then ended and the immediately preceding three fiscal
quarters, equal to or greater than 2.5:1.0.

                  (b)      Funded Debt to Consolidated EBITDA. Maintain as of
the last day of each fiscal quarter, a maximum ratio of Funded Debt to
Consolidated EBITDA, calculated for the fiscal quarter then ended and the
immediately preceding three fiscal quarters, of less than or equal to 3.5:1.0.

                  SECTION 6.09. ADDITIONAL CREDIT PARTIES. If at any time a U.S.
Subsidiary that is not a Credit Party becomes a Material Subsidiary, Borrower
shall cause such subsidiary to execute and deliver to the Administrative Agent a
supplement to each of the Guaranty Agreements in the forms attached thereto,
together with related documents with respect to such new Subsidiary of the kind
described in Section 4.01 (e), (f), (g), (h), and (i), all in form and substance
satisfactory to the Administrative Agent and the Required Lenders.

                  SECTION 6.10. INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY. Preserve and maintain,
and cause each of its Subsidiaries to preserve and maintain, its rights,
franchises, and licenses, and its patents and copyrights (for the scheduled
duration thereof), trademarks, trade names, and service marks, necessary or
desirable in the normal conduct of its business, except where the failure to
maintain such rights, franchises, and licenses, patents, copyrights trademarks,
trade names, and service marks would reasonably be expected to have a Materially
Adverse Effect.

                  SECTION 6.11. NOTICE OF YEAR 2000 PROBLEM. Borrower will
promptly notify the Administrative Agent in writing immediately upon determining
that any computer application or system which is material to the operations of
the Borrower or any Consolidated Company or any material vendor or supplier of
Borrower or a Consolidated Company is not Year 2000 Complaint, if and to the
extent that such condition has had, or could reasonably be expected to have, a
Material Adverse Effect.

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                                  ARTICLE VII.

                               NEGATIVE COVENANTS

                  So long as any Commitment remains in effect hereunder or any
Note shall remain unpaid or any Loan shall remain outstanding, Borrower will not
and will not permit any Subsidiary to (unless waived in writing by the Required
Lenders):

                  SECTION 7.01. LIENS. Create, incur, assume or suffer to exist
any Lien on any of its property now owned or hereafter acquired to secure any
Indebtedness other than:

                  (a) Liens existing on the Closing Date (A) securing an
         aggregate not in excess of $5,400,000 and disclosed on Schedule 7.01,
         (B) securing obligations of CDB/Infotek owning to the Borrower or (C)
         securing an amount not to exceed $250,000 in the aggregate;

                  (b) Liens on any property securing Indebtedness incurred or
         assumed for the purpose of financing all or any part of the acquisition
         cost of such property and any refinance thereof, provided that such
         lien does not extend to any other property and further provided that
         the amount of Indebtedness secured by such Liens does not exceed
         $10,000,000 in aggregate principal amount at any one time outstanding.

                  (c) Liens for taxes not yet due and payable, and Liens for
         taxes which are being contested in good faith by appropriate
         proceedings and with respect to which adequate reserves are being
         maintained;

                  (d) statutory Liens of landlords and Liens of carriers,
         warehousemen, mechanics, materialmen and other Liens imposed by law
         created in the ordinary course of business for amounts not yet due or
         which are being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings and
         with respect to which adequate reserves are being maintained;

                  (e) Liens incurred or deposits made in the ordinary course of
         business in connection with workers' compensation, unemployment
         insurance and other types of social security, or to secure the
         performance of tenders, statutory obligations, surety and appeal bonds,
         bids, leases, government contracts, performance and return-of-money
         bonds and other similar obligations (exclusive of obligations for the
         payment of borrowed money);

                  (f) zoning, easements and restrictions on the use of real
         property which do not materially impair the use of such property;

                  (g) Liens arising under ERISA;

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                  (h) rights in property reserved or vested in any governmental
         authority which do not materially impair the use of such property;

                  (i) Liens on assets of newly acquired Subsidiaries which were
         in existence at the time of acquisition and not created in
         contemplation thereof;

                  (j) Liens granted under the Lease Documents;

                  (k) Liens granted in favor of the Borrower or any Guarantor
         securing intercompany indebtedness owed by another Consolidated
         Company;

                  (l) Liens (other than those permitted by paragraphs (b)
         through (k) of this Section 7.01) securing Indebtedness in an aggregate
         principal amount outstanding at any time not to exceed fifteen percent
         (15%) of the Consolidated Net Worth of the Consolidated Companies as of
         the last day of the immediately preceding fiscal quarter of the
         Borrower; and

                  (m) Liens arising under or in connection with this Agreement.

                  SECTION 7.02. GUARANTIES. Create, incur, assume, guarantee,
suffer to exist or otherwise become liable on or with respect to, directly or
indirectly, any Guaranties other than:

                  (a)      endorsements of instruments for deposit or collection
         in the ordinary course of business;

                  (b)      guarantees of Indebtedness owed by any Consolidated
         Company to another Consolidated Company;

                  (c)      Guaranties of Indebtedness to the extent such
         Indebtedness is permitted under Section 6.08(b).

                  SECTION 7.03. MERGERS, CONSOLIDATIONS. Merge or consolidate
with any other Person, except that the foregoing restrictions shall not be
applicable to:

                  (a)      mergers or consolidations of (x) any Subsidiary with
         any other Subsidiary which is a Guarantor or (y) any Subsidiary with
         Borrower; or

                  (b)      mergers or consolidations in which any Person engaged
         in businesses in which Borrower is engaged as of the Closing Date or
         substantially related thereto merges or consolidates with Borrower or
         any of its Subsidiaries where the surviving corporation is Borrower or
         such Subsidiary;

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provided that before and after giving effect to any such merger or
consolidations and any Funded Debt incurred by the Borrower or such Subsidiary
in connection with such merger or consolidation, (x) Borrower is and will be in
compliance with Section 6.08 hereof and if the consideration paid by Borrower or
such Subsidiary in connection with such merger or consolidation is greater than
$75,000,000, Borrower has delivered pro forma financial covenants calculations
demonstrating such compliance, in such detail and using such form of
presentation of historical and forecasted financial information as may be
satisfactory to the Agents with copies provided to each Lender (based on the
projected Fixed Charges or Funded Debt, as the case may be, for the immediately
succeeding four fiscal quarters (including Fixed Charges incurred as a result of
the incurrence of any such Funded Debt) and the historical Consolidated EBIT
(including the Consolidated EBIT of such Person)); (y) no other Default or Event
of Default exists hereunder; and (z) if the surviving Person is a Material
Subsidiary, it promptly complies with Section 6.09 hereof, if applicable;

                  SECTION 7.04. ASSET SALES. Sell, lease or otherwise dispose of
its accounts, property, stock of its Subsidiaries or other assets; provided,
however, that the foregoing restrictions on Asset Sales shall not be applicable
to:

                  (a)      sales, leases, transfers or dispositions of assets of
         any Consolidated Company to the Borrower or any Consolidated Company;

                  (b)      sales of inventory in the ordinary course of business
         and unneeded, worn out or obsolete equipment;

                  (c)      sales of accounts receivable (or of undivided
         ownership interests therein) pursuant to the asset securitization
         facilities;

                  (d)      Asset Sales comprised of assets of any Consolidated
         Company where, on the date of execution of a binding obligation to make
         such Asset Sale, the assets which are the subject of the proposed Asset
         Sale, together with all other such Asset Sales of the Consolidated
         Companies during the current fiscal year of Borrower, did not generate
         ten percent (10%) or more of Consolidated EBITDA for the immediately
         preceding fiscal year of Borrower;

provided that notwithstanding the foregoing, no transaction pursuant to clauses
(c) or (d) above shall be permitted if any Default or Event of Default exists at
the time of such transaction or would exist as a result of such transaction.

                  SECTION 7.05 INVESTMENTS, LOANS, ETC. Make, permit or hold any
Investments other than:

                  (a)      Investments in the stock of Subsidiaries of Borrower
         existing as of the Closing Date or existing as Subsidiaries of Borrower
         immediately prior to the making of

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         such Investment, and Investments in the form of loans and advances by
         the Borrower to any Guarantor;

                  (b)      Investments in the stock or other assets of any other
         Person that is engaged in a business permitted by Section 7.10 hereof;
         provided, that after giving effect to such Investment and any Funded
         Debt incurred by the Borrower or such Subsidiary in connection with
         making such Investment, (x) Borrower is and will be in compliance with
         Section 6.08 hereof and if the Investment is greater than $75,000,000,
         the Borrower has delivered pro forma financial covenants calculations
         demonstrating such compliance, in such detail and using such form of
         presentation of historical and forecasted financial information as may
         be satisfactory to the Agents; (y) no other Default or Event of Default
         exists hereunder (based on the projected Fixed Charges or Funded Debt,
         as the case may be, for the immediately succeeding four fiscal quarters
         (including Fixed Charges incurred a result of the incurrence of any
         such Funded Debt) and the historical Consolidated EBIT (including the
         Consolidated EBIT of such Person)); and (z) as a result of such
         Investment, such Person becomes a Subsidiary of Borrower, and promptly
         complies with Section 6.09 if it becomes a Material Subsidiary of
         Borrower;

                  (c)      marketable direct obligations of the United States or
         any agency thereof, or obligations guaranteed by the United States or
         any agency thereof, in each case supported by the full faith and credit
         of the United States and maturing within one year from the date of
         creation thereof;

                  (d)      Investments received in settlement of Indebtedness
         created in the ordinary course of business, and the endorsement of
         negotiable instruments in the ordinary course of business;

                  (e)      commercial paper issued by corporations, each of
         which has a consolidated net worth of not less than $500,000,000, and
         conducts a substantial portion of its business in the United States of
         America, maturing no more than 365 days from the date of acquisition
         thereof and having as at any date of determination a rating of P-1, P-2
         or P-3 from Standard & Poor's or a rating of A-1, A-2 or A-3 from
         Moody's;

                  (f)      money market or similar depository accounts,
         certificates of deposit or bankers acceptances, in each case redeemable
         upon demand or maturing within one year from the date of acquisition
         thereof, issued by commercial banks incorporated under the laws of the
         United States of America or any state thereof or the District of
         Columbia, provided (x) each such bank has at any date of determination
         combined capital and surplus of not less than $1,000,000,000 and a
         rating of its long-term debt of at least A by Standard & Poor's or at
         least A by Moody's or a long-term deposit rating of at least A issued
         by Standard & Poor's or at least A issued by Moody's, (y) the aggregate
         amount of all such certificates of deposit issued by such bank are
         fully insured at all times by the Federal Deposit Insurance Company;

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                  (g)      Loans and advances to officers and employees of the
         Consolidated Companies made in the ordinary course of business,
         including without limitation, loans to executives for the purchase of
         stock of the Borrower pursuant to a program established by the Board of
         Directors or a committee thereof from time to time in an amount not to
         exceed $15,000,000;

                  (h)      Investments in joint ventures in an aggregate amount
         during any fiscal year of Borrower not to exceed an amount equal to ten
         percent (10%) of Borrower's Consolidated Net Worth as of the end of the
         immediately preceding fiscal year of Borrower; and

                  (i)      Investments (other than those permitted by paragraphs
         (a) through (h) above) in an aggregate amount during any fiscal year of
         Borrower not to exceed an amount equal to five (5%) percent of
         Borrower's Consolidated Net Worth as of the end of the immediately
         preceding fiscal year of Borrower.

                  SECTION 7.06 SALE AND LEASEBACK TRANSACTIONS. Sell or transfer
any property, real or personal, whether now owned or hereafter acquired, and
thereafter rent or lease such property or other property which any Consolidated
Company intends to use for substantially the same purpose or purposes as the
property being sold or transferred.

                  SECTION 7.07. TRANSACTIONS WITH AFFILIATES. Enter into any
transaction or series of related transactions, whether or not in the ordinary
course of business, with any Affiliate of any Consolidated Company (but
excluding any Affiliate which is also a Subsidiary that is directly or
indirectly wholly owned by the Credit Parties), other than on terms and
conditions substantially as favorable to such Consolidated Company as would be
obtained by such Consolidated Company at the time in a comparable arm's-length
transaction with a Person other than an Affiliate.

                  SECTION 7.08. ERISA. (a) Take or fail to take any action with
respect to any Plan maintained or contributed to by any Consolidated Company or,
with respect to its ERISA Affiliates, any Plans which are subject to Title IV of
ERISA or to continuation health care requirements for group health plans under
Section 4980B of the Tax Code, including without limitation (i) establishing any
such Plan, (ii) amending any such Plan (except where required to comply with
applicable law), (iii) terminating or withdrawing from any such Plan, or (iv)
incurring an amount of unfunded benefit liabilities, as defined in Section
4001(a)(18) of ERISA, or any withdrawal liability under Title IV of ERISA with
respect to any such Plan, or any unfunded liabilities under any Foreign Plan,
without first obtaining the written approval of the Required Lenders, where such
actions or failures could result in a Material Adverse Effect; or

         (b)      Permit a Plan or Foreign Plan maintained by a Consolidated
Company or a Plan subject to Title IV of ERISA of any of its ERISA Affiliates:

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                  (i)      to fail to be funded in accordance with the minimum
         funding standard required by applicable law, the terms of such Plan or
         Foreign Plan, Section 412 of the Tax Code or Section 302 of ERISA for
         any plan year or a waiver of such standard is sought or granted with
         respect to such Plan or Foreign Plan under applicable law, the terms of
         such Plan or Foreign Plan or Section 412 of the Tax Code or Section 303
         of ERISA; or

                  (ii)     to be terminated or the subject of termination
         proceedings under applicable law or the terms of such Plan or Foreign
         Plan; or

                  (iii)    to require a Consolidated Company to provide security
         under applicable law, the terms of such Plan or Foreign Plan, Section
         401 or 412 of the Tax Code or Section 306 or 307 of ERISA; or

                  (iv)     to result for any reason, in a liability (including
         without limitation, withdrawal liability) to a Consolidated Company
         under applicable law, the terms of such Plan or Foreign Plan, or Title
         IV of ERISA;

if the result from any such failure, waiver, termination or other event a
liability to the PBGC (or any similar Person with respect to any Foreign Plan),
a Plan or any other Person that would have a Materially Adverse Effect.

                  SECTION 7.09. ADDITIONAL NEGATIVE PLEDGES. Create or otherwise
cause or suffer to exist or become effective, directly or indirectly, any
prohibition or restriction on the creation or existence of any Lien upon any
asset of any Consolidated Company, other than the prohibitions and restrictions
contained in this Agreement and the prohibitions and restrictions contained in
the Existing Credit Agreement.

                  SECTION 7.10. CHANGES IN BUSINESS. Enter into any business
which is substantially different from that presently conducted by the
Consolidated Companies taken as a whole, which includes providing risk
management and fraud prevention information and related technology solutions to
the property and casualty insurance industry, life and health insurance industry
and other industries, (including, without limitation, (1) providing automated
and traditional underwriting and claim information services to assist U.S.
insurance companies in assessing the insurability of individuals and property
and the validity of insurance claims, (2) furnishing access to motor vehicles
reports, (3) maintaining a database of claims histories, (4) providing
pre-employment background investigations, pre-employment and regulatory
compliance drug testing services and public record information to other
corporate and government organizations, (5) providing direct marketing services
to corporations, and (6) providing people and shareholder locator services to
corporations).

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                  SECTION 7.11. LIMITATION ON PAYMENT RESTRICTIONS AFFECTING
CONSOLIDATED COMPANIES. Except for any applicable consensual encumbrances or
restrictions under the Existing Credit Agreement, create or otherwise cause or
suffer to exist or become effective, any consensual encumbrance or restriction
on the ability of any Consolidated Company to (i) pay dividends or make any
other distributions to Borrower or any other Subsidiary on such Consolidated
Company's stock, provided that this provision shall not affect CBD/Infotek's
payment of dividends or distributions on its stock to Borrower, or (ii) pay any
indebtedness owed to Borrower or any other Consolidated Company, or (iii)
transfer any of its property or assets to Borrower or any other Consolidated
Company, except any consensual encumbrance or restriction existing under the
Credit Documents.

                  SECTION 7.12. ACTIONS UNDER CERTAIN DOCUMENTS. Without the
prior written consent of the Agents and the Required Lenders, modify, amend or
supplement the Lease Documents to (i) increase the principal amount of the
indebtedness thereunder or the lease payments required thereunder, (ii) increase
the interest rate thereunder, (iii) modify any requirement of prepayment or
repayment thereunder which would shorten the final maturity or average life of
the indebtedness or lease obligations outstanding thereunder or make the
requirement of prepayment more onerous, or (iv) make any more onerous any other
provision thereof.

                  SECTION 7.13. CHANGES IN FISCAL YEAR. Change the calculation
of the fiscal year of the Borrower.

                  SECTION 7.14. AMENDMENTS AND MODIFICATIONS TO EXISTING CREDIT
AGREEMENT. Amend or otherwise modify the Existing Credit Agreement unless, to
the extent relevant hereto, this Agreement is concurrently amended or modified
with substantially the same terms and provisions.

                                  ARTICLE VIII.

                                EVENTS OF DEFAULT

                  Upon the occurrence and during the continuance of any of the
following specified events (each an "Event of Default"):

                  SECTION 8.01. PAYMENTS. Borrower shall fail to make promptly
when due (including, without limitation, by mandatory prepayment) any principal
payment with respect to the Loans, or Borrower shall fail to make within five
(5) Business Days after the due date thereof any payment of interest, fee or
other amount payable hereunder or any of the Obligations;

                  SECTION 8.02. COVENANTS WITHOUT NOTICE. Borrower shall fail to
observe or perform any covenant or agreement (i) contained in Section 7.08 and,
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remedied, such failure shall remain unremedied for fifteen (15) days after the
earlier of (A) an Executive Officer's obtaining knowledge thereof, (ii)
contained in Section 7.05 and, if capable of being remedied, such failure shall
remain unremedied for ten (10) days after the earlier of (A) an Executive
Officer's obtaining knowledge thereof, or (B) written notice thereof shall have
been given to Borrower by any Agent or any Lender, or (iii) contained in
Sections 2.01(b), 6.01, 6.05, 6.07(e), 6.08, or 7.03.

                  SECTION 8.03. OTHER COVENANTS. Borrower shall fail to observe
or perform any covenant or agreement contained in this Agreement, other than
those referred to in Sections 8.01 and 8.02, and, if capable of being remedied,
such failure shall remain unremedied for thirty (30) days after the earlier of
(i) an Executive Officer of Borrower's obtaining knowledge thereof, or (ii)
written notice thereof shall have been given to Borrower by any Agent or any
Lender;

                  SECTION 8.04. REPRESENTATIONS. Any representation or warranty
made or deemed to be made by Borrower or any other Credit Party or by any of its
officers under this Agreement or any other Credit Document (including the
Schedules attached thereto), or any certificate or other document submitted to
the Agents or the Lenders by any such Person pursuant to the terms of this
Agreement or any other Credit Document, shall be incorrect in any material
respect when made or deemed to be made or submitted;

                  SECTION 8.05. NON-PAYMENTS OF OTHER INDEBTEDNESS. Any
Consolidated Company shall fail to make when due (whether at stated maturity, by
acceleration, on demand or otherwise, and after giving effect to any applicable
grace period) any payment of principal of or interest on any Indebtedness (other
than the Obligations) exceeding $5,000,000 in the aggregate;

                  SECTION 8.06. DEFAULTS UNDER OTHER AGREEMENTS.

                  (a)      Any Consolidated Company shall fail to observe or
perform within any applicable grace period any covenants or agreements contained
in any agreements or instruments relating to any of its Indebtedness exceeding
$5,000,000 in the aggregate, or any other event shall occur if the effect of
such failure or other event is to accelerate, or to permit the holder of such
Indebtedness or any other Person to accelerate, the maturity of such
Indebtedness; or any such Indebtedness shall be required to be prepaid (other
than by a regularly scheduled required prepayment) in whole or in part prior to
its stated maturity;

                  (b)      Any Event of Default (as defined therein) under the
Existing Credit Agreement has occurred and is continuing;

                  SECTION 8.07. BANKRUPTCY. Borrower or any other Consolidated
Company shall commence a voluntary case concerning itself under the Bankruptcy
Code or applicable foreign bankruptcy laws; or an involuntary case for
bankruptcy is commenced against any Consolidated Company and the petition is not
controverted within 10 days, or is not dismissed within 60 days, after
commencement of the case; or a custodian (as defined in the Bankruptcy

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Code) or similar official under applicable foreign bankruptcy laws is appointed
for, or takes charge of, all or any substantial part of the property of any
Consolidated Company; or any Consolidated Company commences proceedings of its
own bankruptcy or to be granted a suspension of payments or any other proceeding
under any reorganization, arrangement, adjustment of debt, relief of debtors,
dissolution, insolvency or liquidation or similar law of any jurisdiction,
whether now or hereafter in effect, relating to any Consolidated Company or
there is commenced against any Consolidated Company any such proceeding which
remains undismissed for a period of 60 days; or any Consolidated Company is
adjudicated insolvent or bankrupt; or any order of relief or other order
approving any such case or proceeding is entered; or any Consolidated Company
suffers any appointment of any custodian or the like for it or any substantial
part of its property to continue undischarged or unstayed for a period of 60
days; or any Consolidated Company makes a general assignment for the benefit of
creditors; or any Consolidated Company shall fail to pay, or shall state that it
is unable to pay, or shall be unable to pay, its debts generally as they become
due; or any Consolidated Company shall call a meeting of its creditors with a
view to arranging a composition or adjustment of its debts; or any Consolidated
Company shall by any act or failure to act indicate its consent to, approval of
or acquiescence in any of the foregoing; or any corporate action is taken by any
Consolidated Company for the purpose of effecting any of the foregoing;

                  SECTION 8.08. MONEY JUDGMENT. A judgment or order for the
payment of money in excess of $5,000,000 not covered by insurance or otherwise
having a Materially Adverse Effect shall be rendered against Borrower or any
other Consolidated Company and such judgment or order shall continue unsatisfied
and in effect for a period of 60 days during which execution shall not be
effectively stayed or deferred (whether by action of a court, by agreement or
otherwise);

                  SECTION 8.09. CHANGE IN CONTROL OF BORROWER. (i) Any "person"
or "group" (within the meaning of Sections 13(d) and 14(d)(2) of the Exchange
Act) other than employees of the Borrower (either directly or through a
retirement or employee benefit plan), shall become the "beneficial owner(s)" (as
defined in said Rule 13d-3) of more than twenty-five percent (25%) of the shares
of the outstanding common stock of Borrower entitled to vote for members of
Borrower's board of directors, or (ii) any event or condition shall occur or
exist which, pursuant to the terms of any Change in Control Provision, requires
or permits the holder(s) of Indebtedness of any Consolidated Company to require
that such Indebtedness be redeemed, repurchased, defeased, prepaid or repaid, in
whole or in part, or the maturity of such Indebtedness to be accelerated in any
respect.

                  SECTION 8.10. DEFAULT UNDER OTHER CREDIT DOCUMENTS. There
shall exist or occur any "Event of Default" as provided under the terms of any
other Credit Document, or any Credit Document ceases to be in full force and
effect or the validity or enforceability thereof is disaffirmed by or on behalf
of Borrower or any other Credit Party, or at any time it is or becomes unlawful
for Borrower or any other Credit Party to perform or comply with its obligations
under any Credit Document, or the obligations of Borrower or any other Credit
Party under any Credit

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Document are not or cease to be legal, valid and binding on Borrower or any such
Credit Party; or

                  SECTION 8.11. ATTACHMENTS. An attachment or similar action
shall be made on or taken against any of the assets of any Consolidated Company
with an aggregate value (based upon the greater of the book value of such assets
as established in accordance with GAAP or the fair market value of such assets
as determined in good faith by such Consolidated Company) exceeding $5,000,000
in aggregate and is not removed, suspended or enjoined within 60 days of the
same being made or any suspension or injunction being lifted;

then, and in any such event, and at any time thereafter if any Event of Default
shall then be continuing, the Administrative Agent may, with the consent of the
Required Lenders, and upon the written (including telecopied) or telex request
of the Required Lenders, shall, by written notice to Borrower, take any or all
of the following actions, without prejudice to the rights of any Agent, any
Lender or the holder of any Note to enforce its claims against Borrower or any
other Credit Party: (i) declare all Commitments terminated, whereupon the pro
rata Commitments of each Lender shall terminate immediately and any commitment
fee shall forthwith become due and payable without any other notice of any kind;
and (ii) declare the principal of and any accrued interest on the Loans, and all
other Obligations owing hereunder, to be, whereupon the same shall become,
forthwith due and payable without presentment, demand, protest or other notice
of any kind, all of which are hereby waived by Borrower; provided, that, if an
Event of Default specified in Section 8.07 shall occur, the result which would
occur upon the giving of written notice by the Administrative Agent to any
Credit Party, as specified in clauses (i) and (ii) above, shall occur
automatically without the giving of any such notice; and (iii) exercise any
rights or remedies under the Credit Documents.

                                   ARTICLE IX.

    THE ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT, THE DOCUMENTATION AGENT AND THE MANAGING AGENT

                  SECTION 9.01. APPOINTMENT OF ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT. Each Lender
hereby designates Wachovia as Administrative Agent to administer all matters
concerning the Loans and to act as herein specified. Each Lender hereby
irrevocably authorizes, and each holder of any Note by the acceptance of a Note
shall be deemed irrevocably to authorize, the Administrative Agent to take such
actions on its behalf under the provisions of this Agreement, the other Credit
Documents, and all other instruments and agreements referred to herein or
therein, and to exercise such powers and to perform such duties hereunder and
thereunder as are specifically delegated to or required of the Administrative
Agent by the terms hereof and thereof and such other powers as are reasonably
incidental thereto. The Administrative Agent may perform any of its duties
hereunder by or through its agents or employees.

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                  SECTION 9.02. APPOINTMENT OF DOCUMENTATION AGENT. Each Lender
hereby designates SunTrust Bank, Atlanta as Documentation Agent and acknowledges
that it shall have no duties under this Agreement or any other Credit Document
whatsoever except as explicitly set forth herein. Each Lender hereby irrevocably
authorizes, and each holder of any Note by the acceptance of a Note shall be
deemed irrevocably to authorize, the Documentation Agent to take such actions on
its behalf under the provisions of this Agreement, the other Credit Documents,
and all other instruments and agreements referred to herein or therein, and to
exercise such powers and to perform such duties hereunder and thereunder as are
specifically delegated to or required of the Documentation Agent by the terms
hereof and thereof and such other powers as are reasonably incidental thereto.
The Documentation Agent may perform any of its duties hereunder by or through
its agents or employees.

                  SECTION 9.03. APPOINTMENT OF MANAGING AGENT. Each Lender
hereby designates First Union National Bank as Managing Agent and acknowledges
that it shall have no duties under this Agreement or any other Credit Document
whatsoever except as explicitly set forth herein. Each Lender hereby irrevocably
authorizes, and each holder of any Note by the acceptance of a Note shall be
deemed irrevocably to authorize, the Managing Agent to take such actions on its
behalf under the provisions of this Agreement, the other Credit Documents, and
all other instruments and agreements referred to herein or therein, and to
exercise such powers and to perform such duties hereunder and thereunder as are
specifically delegated to or required of the Managing Agent by the terms hereof
and thereof and such other powers as are reasonably incidental thereto. The
Managing Agent may perform any of its duties hereunder by or through its agents
or employees.

                  SECTION 9.04. NATURE OF DUTIES OF AGENTS. The Agents shall
have no duties or responsibilities except those expressly set forth in this
Agreement and the other Credit Documents. Neither the Agents nor any of their
respective officers, directors, employees or agents shall be liable for any
action taken or omitted by it as such hereunder or in connection herewith,
unless caused by its or their gross negligence or willful misconduct. The duties
of the Agents shall be ministerial and administrative in nature; the Agents
shall not have by reason of this Agreement a fiduciary relationship in respect
of any Lender; and nothing in this Agreement, express or implied, is intended to
or shall be so construed as to impose upon any Agent any obligations in respect
of this Agreement or the other Credit Documents except as expressly set forth
herein.

                  SECTION 9.05. LACK OF RELIANCE ON THE AGENTS.

                  (a)      Independently and without reliance upon any Agent,
each Lender, to the extent it deems appropriate, has made and shall continue to
make (i) its own independent investigation of the financial condition and
affairs of the Credit Parties in connection with the taking or not taking of any
action in connection herewith, and (ii) its own appraisal of the
creditworthiness of the Credit Parties, and, except as expressly provided in
this Agreement, no Agent shall have any duty or responsibility, either initially
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any Lender with any credit or other information with respect thereto, whether
coming into its possession before the making of the Loans or at any time or
times thereafter.

                  (b)      No Agent shall be responsible to any Lender for any
recitals, statements, information, representations or warranties herein or in
any document, certificate or other writing delivered in connection herewith or
for the execution, effectiveness, genuineness, validity, enforceability,
collectibility, priority or sufficiency of this Agreement, the Notes, the
Guaranty Agreements or any other documents contemplated hereby or thereby, or
the financial condition of the Credit Parties, or be required to make any
inquiry concerning either the performance or observance of any of the terms,
provisions or conditions of this Agreement, the Notes, the Guaranty Agreements
or the other documents contemplated hereby or thereby, or the financial
condition of the Credit Parties, or the existence or possible existence of any
Default or Event of Default.

                  SECTION 9.06. CERTAIN RIGHTS OF THE AGENTS. If any Agent shall
request instructions from the Required Lenders with respect to any action or
actions (including the failure to act) in connection with this Agreement, such
Agent shall be entitled to refrain from such act or taking such act, unless and
until such Agent shall have received instructions from the Required Lenders; and
such Agent shall not incur liability in any Person by reason of so refraining.
Without limiting the foregoing, no Lender shall have any right of action
whatsoever against any Agent as a result of such Agent's acting or refraining
from acting hereunder in accordance with the instructions of the Required
Lenders.

                  SECTION 9.07. RELIANCE BY THE AGENTS. The Agents shall be
entitled to rely, and shall be fully protected in relying, upon any note,
writing, resolution, notice, statement, certificate, telex, teletype or
telecopier message, cable gram, radiogram, order or other documentary,
teletransmission or telephone message believed by it to be genuine and correct
and to have been signed, sent or made by the proper Person. The Agents may
consult with legal counsel (including counsel for any Credit Party), independent
public accountants and other experts selected by it and shall not be liable for
any action taken or omitted to be taken by it in good faith in accordance with
the advice of such counsel, accountants or experts.

                  SECTION 9.08. INDEMNIFICATION OF THE AGENTS. To the extent any
Agent is not reimbursed and indemnified by the Credit Parties, each Lender will
reimburse and indemnify such Agent, ratably according to the respective amounts
of the Loans outstanding under the Facilities (or if no amounts are outstanding,
ratably in accordance with the aggregate Commitments), in either case, for and
against any and all liabilities, taxes, obligations, losses, damages, penalties,
actions, judgments, suits, costs, expenses (including counsel fees and
disbursements) or disbursements of any kind or nature whatsoever which may be
imposed on, incurred by or asserted against such Agent in performing its duties
hereunder, in any way relating to or arising out of this Agreement or the other
Credit Documents; provided that no Lender shall be liable to any Agent for any
portion of such liabilities, obligations, losses,

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damages, penalties, actions, judgments, suits, costs, expenses or disbursements
resulting from such Agent's gross negligence or willful misconduct.

                  SECTION 9.09. THE AGENTS IN THEIR INDIVIDUAL CAPACITIES. With
respect to its obligation to lend under this Agreement, the Loans made by it and
the Notes issued to it, each Agent shall have the same rights and powers
hereunder as any other Lender or holder of a Note and may exercise the same as
though it were not performing the duties specified herein; and the terms
"Lenders", "Required Lenders", "holders of Notes", or any similar terms shall,
unless the context clearly otherwise indicates, include each Agent in its
individual capacity. Each Agent may accept deposits from, lend money to, and
generally engage in any kind of banking, trust, financial advisory or other
business with the Consolidated Companies or any Affiliate of the Consolidated
Companies as if it were not performing the duties specified herein, and may
accept fees and other consideration from the Consolidated Companies for services
in connection with this Agreement and otherwise without having to account for
the same to the Lenders.

                  SECTION 9.10. HOLDERS OF NOTES. The Agents may deem and treat
the payee of any Note as the owner thereof for all purposes hereof unless and
until a written notice of the assignment or transfer thereof shall have been
filed with the Administrative Agent. Any request, authority or consent of any
Person who, at the time of making such request or giving such authority or
consent, is the holder of any Note shall be conclusive and binding on any
subsequent holder, transferee or assignee of such Note or of any Note or Notes
issued in exchange therefor.

                  SECTION 9.11. SUCCESSOR AGENTS.

                  (a)      Each Agent may resign at any time by giving written
notice thereof to the Lenders and Borrower and may be removed at any time with
or without cause by the Required Lenders; provided, however, no Agent may resign
or be removed until a successor Administrative Agent, Documentation Agent or
Managing Agent, as the case may be, has been appointed and shall have accepted
such appointment. Upon any such resignation or removal, the Required Lenders
shall have the right to appoint a successor Administrative Agent, Documentation
Agent or Managing Agent, as the case may be, with the consent of the Borrower so
long as no Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, which
consent shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed. If no successor
Administrative Agent, Documentation Agent, or Managing Agent, as the case may
be, shall have been so appointed by the Required Lenders with the consent of the
Borrower, and shall have accepted such appointment, within 30 days after the
retiring Agent's giving of notice of resignation or the Required Lenders'
removal of the retiring Agent, then the retiring Agent may, on behalf of the
Lenders, appoint a successor Administrative Agent, Documentation Agent, or
Managing Agent, as the case may be, which shall be a bank which maintains an
office in the United States, or a commercial bank organized under the laws of
the United States of America or any State thereof, or any Affiliate of such
bank, having a combined capital and surplus of at least $100,000,000.

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                  (b)      Upon the acceptance of any appointment as the
Administrative Agent, the Documentation Agent, or the Managing Agent, as the
case may be, hereunder by a successor Agent, such successor Agent shall
thereupon succeed to and become vested with all the rights, powers, privileges
and duties of the retiring Agent, and the retiring Agent shall be discharged
from its duties and obligations under this Agreement. After any retiring Agent's
resignation or removal hereunder as Administrative Agent, Documentation Agent,
or Managing Agent, as the case may be, the provisions of this Article IX shall
inure to its benefit as to any actions taken or omitted to be taken by it while
it was an Agent under this Agreement.

                                   ARTICLE X.

                                  MISCELLANEOUS

                  SECTION 10.01. NOTICES. All notices, requests and other
communications to any party hereunder shall be in writing (including bank wire,
telex, telecopy or similar teletransmission or writing) and shall be given to
such party at its address or applicable teletransmission number set forth on the
signature pages hereof, or such other address or applicable teletransmission
number as such party may hereafter specify by notice to the Agents and Borrower.
Each such notice, request or other communication shall be effective (i) if given
by telex, when such telex is transmitted to the telex number specified in this
Section and the appropriate answerback is received, (ii) if given by mail, 72
hours after such communication is deposited in the mails with first class
postage prepaid, addressed as aforesaid, (iii) if given by telecopy, when such
telecopy is transmitted to the telecopy number specified in this Section and the
appropriate confirmation is received, or (iv) if given by any other means
(including, without limitation, by air courier), when delivered or received at
the address specified in this Section; provided that notices to the Agents shall
not be effective until received.

                  SECTION 10.02. AMENDMENTS, ETC. No amendment or waiver of any
provision of this Agreement or the other Credit Documents, nor consent to any
departure by any Credit Party therefrom, shall in any event be effective unless
the same shall be in writing and signed by Borrower and the Required Lenders,
and then such waiver or consent shall be effective only in the specific instance
and for the specific purpose for which given; provided that no amendment, waiver
or consent shall, unless in writing and signed by Borrower and all the Lenders
do any of the following: (i) waive any of the conditions specified in Section
4.01 or 4.02, (ii) increase the Commitments or other contractual obligations to
Borrower under this Agreement, (iii) reduce the principal of, or interest on,
the Notes or any fees hereunder, (iv) postpone any date fixed for the payment in
respect of principal of, or interest on, the Notes or any fees hereunder, (v)
change the percentage of the Syndicated Loan Commitments or of the aggregate
unpaid principal amount of the Notes, or the number or identity of Lenders which
shall be required for the Lenders or any of them to take any action hereunder,
(vi) agree to release any Guarantor from its obligations under any Guaranty
Agreement, (vii) modify the definition of "Required Lenders," or (viii) modify
this Section 10.02. Notwithstanding the foregoing, no amendment, waiver or
consent shall, unless in

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writing and signed by Borrower and the Agents in addition to the Lenders
required hereinabove to take such action, affect the rights or duties of the
Agents under this Agreement or under any other Credit Document.

                  SECTION 10.03. NO WAIVER; REMEDIES CUMULATIVE. No failure or
delay on the part of the Agents, any Lender or any holder of a Note in
exercising any right or remedy hereunder or under any other Credit Document, and
no course of dealing between any Credit Party and the Agents, any Lender or the
holder of any Note shall operate as a waiver thereof, nor shall any single or
partial exercise of any right or remedy hereunder or under any other Credit
Document preclude any other or further exercise thereof or the exercise of any
other right or remedy hereunder or thereunder. The rights and remedies herein
expressly provided are cumulative and not exclusive of any rights or remedies
which the Agents, any Lender or the holder of any Note would otherwise have. No
notice to or demand on any Credit Party not required hereunder or under any
other Credit Document in any case shall entitle any Credit Party to any other or
further notice or demand in similar or other circumstances or constitute a
waiver of the rights of the Agents, the Lenders or the holder of any Note to any
other or further action in any circumstances without notice or demand.

                  SECTION 10.04. PAYMENT OF EXPENSES, ETC. Borrower shall:

                           (i) whether or not the transactions hereby
         contemplated are consummated, pay all reasonable, out-of-pocket costs
         and expenses of all Agents in the administration (both before and after
         the execution hereof and including reasonable expenses actually
         incurred relating to advice of counsel as to the rights and duties of
         the Agents and the Lenders with respect thereto) of, and in connection
         with the preparation, execution and delivery of, preservation of rights
         under, enforcement of, and, after a Default or Event of Default,
         refinancing, renegotiation or restructuring of, this Agreement and the
         other Credit Documents and the documents and instruments referred to
         therein, and any amendment, waiver or consent relating thereto
         (including, without limitation, the reasonable fees actually incurred
         and disbursements of counsel for the Agents), and in the case of
         enforcement of this Agreement or any Credit Document after an Event of
         Default, all such reasonable, out-of-pocket costs and expenses
         (including, without limitation, the reasonable fees actually incurred
         and disbursements of counsel), for both Agents and the Lenders;

                           (ii) subject, in the case of certain Taxes, to the
         applicable provisions of Section 3.06(b), pay and hold each of the
         Agents and the Lenders harmless from and against any and all present
         and future stamp, documentary, and other similar Taxes with respect to
         this Agreement, the Notes and any other Credit Documents, any
         collateral described therein, or any payments due thereunder, and save
         each of the Lenders harmless from and against any and all liabilities
         with respect to or resulting from any delay or omission to pay such
         Taxes; and

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                           (iii) indemnify the Agents and each Lender, and their
         respective officers, directors, employees, representatives and agents
         from, and hold each of them harmless against, any and all costs,
         losses, liabilities, claims, damages or expenses incurred by any of
         them (whether or not any of them is designated a party thereto) (an
         "Indemnitee") arising out of or by reason of any investigation,
         litigation or other proceeding related to any actual or proposed use of
         the proceeds of any of the Loans or any Credit Party's entering into
         and performing of the Agreement, the Notes, or the other Credit
         Documents, including, without limitation, the reasonable fees actually
         incurred and disbursements of counsel (including foreign counsel)
         incurred in connection with any such investigation, litigation or other
         proceeding; provided, however, Borrower shall not be obligated to
         indemnify any Indemnitee for any of the foregoing arising out of such
         Indemnitee's gross negligence or willful misconduct;

                           (iv) without limiting the indemnities set forth
         above, indemnify each Indemnitee for any and all expenses and costs
         (including without limitation, remedial, removal, response, abatement,
         cleanup, investigative, closure and monitoring costs), losses, claims
         (including claims for contribution or indemnity and including the cost
         of investigating or defending any claim and whether or not such claim
         is ultimately defeated, and whether such claim arose before, during or
         after any Credit Party's ownership, operation, possession or control of
         its business, property or facilities or before, on or after the date
         hereof, and including also any amounts paid incidental to any
         compromise or settlement by the Indemnitee or Indemnitees to the
         holders of any such claim), lawsuits, liabilities, obligations,
         actions, judgments, suits, disbursements, encumbrances, liens, damages
         (including without limitation damages for contamination or destruction
         of natural resources), penalties and fines of any kind or nature
         whatsoever (including without limitation in all cases the reasonable
         fees actually incurred, other charges and disbursements of counsel in
         connection therewith) incurred, suffered or sustained by that
         Indemnitee based upon, arising under or relating to Environmental Laws
         based on, arising out of or relating to in whole or in part, the
         existence or exercise of any rights or remedies by any Indemnitee under
         this Agreement, any other Credit Document or any related documents.

If and to the extent that the obligations of Borrower under this Section 10.04
are unenforceable for any reason, Borrower hereby agrees to make the maximum
contribution to the payment and satisfaction of such obligations which is
permissible under applicable law.

                  SECTION 10.05. RIGHT OF SETOFF. In addition to and not in
limitation of all rights of offset that any Lender or other holder of a Note may
have under applicable law, each Lender or other holder of a Note shall, upon the
occurrence of any Event of Default and whether or not such Lender or such holder
has made any demand or any Credit Party's obligations are matured, have the
right to appropriate and apply to the payment of any Credit Party's obligations
hereunder and under the other Credit Documents, all deposits of any Credit Party
(general or special, time or demand, provisional or final) then or thereafter
held by and other indebtedness or

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property then or thereafter owing by such Lender or other holder to any Credit
Party, whether or not related to this Agreement or any transaction hereunder.

                  SECTION 10.06. BENEFIT OF AGREEMENT.

                  (a)      This Agreement shall be binding upon and inure to the
benefit of and be enforceable by the respective successors and assigns of the
parties hereto, provided that Borrower may not assign or transfer any of its
interest hereunder without the prior written consent of all Lenders.

                  (b)      Any Lender may make, carry or transfer Loans at, to
or for the account of, any of its branch offices or the office of an Affiliate
of such Lender.

                  (c)      Each Lender may assign all or a portion of its
interests, rights and obligations under this Agreement (including all or a
portion of any of its Commitments and the Loans at the time owing to it and the
Notes held by it) to any other Lender or any financial institution; provided,
however, that (i) the Agents and Borrower must give their prior written consent
to such assignment (which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed)
unless such assignment is to an Affiliate of the assigning Lender or, in the
case of Borrower, unless an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing,
(ii) the amount of the Commitments or Loans of the assigning Lender subject to
each assignment (determined as of the date the assignment and acceptance with
respect to such assignment is delivered to the Administrative Agent) shall not
be less than $10,000,000 and in integrals of $5,000,000, (iii) the parties to
each such assignment shall execute and deliver to the Administrative Agent an
Assignment and Acceptance, together with a Note or Notes subject to such
assignment and, unless such assignment is to an Affiliate of such Lender, a
processing and recordation fee of $3,000, (iv) no Lender may make more than two
(2) assignments to any Person which is not then a Lender or affiliate thereof
(unless a Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing), (v) the
assignee Lender must be an Eligible Assignee, and (vi) if the assignee Lender is
not a United States citizen or resident (or the assignee Lender is filing as a
foreign corporation, partnership, estate or trust), the assignee Lender delivers
the Internal Revenue Service Form 1001 or 4224, as appropriate, or any successor
form prescribed by the Internal Revenue Service, to the Borrower and the
Administrative Agent, as required by Section 3.06(b)(ii) of this Agreement.
Borrower shall not be responsible for such processing and recordation fee or any
costs or expenses incurred by any Lender or the Administrative Agent in
connection with such assignment. From and after the effective date specified in
each Assignment and Acceptance, which effective date shall be at least five (5)
Business Days after the execution thereof, the assignee thereunder shall be a
party hereto and to the extent of the interest assigned by such Assignment and
Acceptance, have the rights and obligations of a Lender under this Agreement.
Within five (5) Business Days after receipt of the notice and the Assignment and
Acceptance, Borrower, at its own expense, shall execute and deliver to the
Administrative Agent, in exchange for the surrendered Note or Notes, a new Note
or Notes to the order of such assignee in a principal amount equal to the
applicable Commitments assumed by it pursuant to such Assignment and Acceptance
and new Note or

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Notes to the assigning Lender in the amount of its retained Commitment or
Commitments. Such new Note or Notes shall be in an aggregate principal amount
equal to the aggregate principal amount of such surrendered Note or Notes, shall
be dated the date of the surrendered Note or Notes which they replace, and shall
otherwise be in substantially the form attached hereto.

                  (d)      Each Lender may, without the consent of Borrower or
the Agents, sell participations to one or more banks or other entities in all or
a portion of its rights and obligations under this Agreement (including all or a
portion of its Commitments and the Loans owing to it and the Notes held by it),
provided, however, that (i) such Lender's obligations under this Agreement shall
remain unchanged, (ii) such Lender shall remain solely responsible to the other
parties hereto for the performance of such obligations, (iii) the participating
bank or other entity shall not be entitled to the benefit (except through its
selling Lender) of the cost protection provisions contained in Article III of
this Agreement, and (iv) Borrower, the Agents and other Lenders shall continue
to deal solely and directly with each Lender in connection with such Lender's
rights and obligations under this Agreement and the other Credit Documents, and
such Lender shall retain the sole right to enforce the obligations of Borrower
relating to the Loans and to approve any amendment, modification or waiver of
any provisions of this Agreement. No Lender shall be entitled to create in favor
of any Participant, in the participation agreement pursuant to which such
Participant's participating interest shall be created or otherwise, any right to
vote on, consent to or approve any matter relating to this Agreement or any
other Credit Document except for those matters specified in clauses (i) through
(viii) of the proviso to Section 10.02.

                  (f)      Any Lender may at any time assign or pledge all or
any portion of its rights in this Agreement and the Notes issued to it to a
Federal Reserve Bank.

                  (g)      If (i) any Taxes referred to in Section 3.06(b) have
been levied or imposed so as to require withholdings or deductions by Borrower
and payment by Borrower of additional amounts to any Lender as a result thereof,
or (ii) any Lender shall make demand for payment of increased costs or reduced
rate of return pursuant to Section 3.09 or any Lender determines that LIBOR is
unascertainable or illegal pursuant to Section 3.07 or Section 3.08, or any
Lender makes a claim for increased costs pursuant to Section 3.08, then and in
such event, upon request from Borrower delivered to such Lender and the
Administrative Agent, such Lender shall assign, in accordance with the
provisions of Section 10.06(c), all of its rights and obligations under this
Agreement and the other Credit Documents to another Lender or another financial
institution selected by Borrower and acceptable to the Agents, which acceptance
will not be unreasonably withheld or delayed, in consideration for the payment
by such assignee to the Lender of the principal of, and interest on, the
outstanding Loans accrued to the date of such assignment, and the assumption of
such Lender's Commitment hereunder, together with any and all other amounts
owing to such Lender under any provisions of this Agreement or the other Credit
Documents accrued to the date of such assignment; provided, however, Lenders
subject to this Section 10.06 shall be treated in a substantially identical
manner.

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                  SECTION 10.07. GOVERNING LAW; SUBMISSION TO JURISDICTION;
WAIVER OF JURY TRIAL.

                  (a)      THIS AGREEMENT AND THE RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS OF THE
PARTIES HEREUNDER AND UNDER THE NOTES SHALL BE CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH AND
BE GOVERNED BY THE LAW (WITHOUT GIVING EFFECT TO THE CONFLICT OF LAW PRINCIPLES
THEREOF) OF THE STATE OF GEORGIA.

                  (B)      ANY LEGAL ACTION OR PROCEEDING WITH RESPECT TO THIS
AGREEMENT, THE NOTES OR ANY OTHER CREDIT DOCUMENT MAY BE BROUGHT IN THE SUPERIOR
COURT OF FULTON COUNTY, GEORGIA, OR ANY OTHER COURT OF THE STATE OF GEORGIA OR
OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF GEORGIA, AND, BY
EXECUTION AND DELIVERY OF THIS AGREEMENT, BORROWER HEREBY ACCEPTS FOR ITSELF AND
IN RESPECT OF ITS PROPERTY, GENERALLY AND UNCONDITIONALLY, THE JURISDICTION OF
THE AFORESAID COURTS. THE PARTIES HERETO HEREBY IRREVOCABLY WAIVE TRIAL BY JURY,
AND BORROWER HEREBY IRREVOCABLY WAIVES ANY OBJECTION, INCLUDING, WITHOUT
LIMITATION, ANY OBJECTION TO THE LAYING OF VENUE OR BASED ON THE GROUNDS OF
FORUM NON CONVENIENS, WHICH IT MAY NOW OR HEREAFTER HAVE TO THE BRINGING OF ANY
SUCH ACTION OR PROCEEDING IN SUCH RESPECTIVE JURISDICTIONS.

                  (C)      BORROWER HEREBY IRREVOCABLY DESIGNATES ITS GENERAL
COUNSEL (PRESENTLY MICHAEL DE JANES), AS ITS DESIGNEE, APPOINTEE AND LOCAL AGENT
TO RECEIVE, FOR AND ON BEHALF OF BORROWER, SERVICE OF PROCESS IN SUCH RESPECTIVE
JURISDICTIONS IN ANY LEGAL ACTION OR PROCEEDING WITH RESPECT TO THIS AGREEMENT
OR THE NOTES OR ANY DOCUMENT RELATED THERETO. IT IS UNDERSTOOD THAT A COPY OF
SUCH PROCESS SERVED ON SUCH LOCAL AGENT WILL BE PROMPTLY FORWARDED BY SUCH LOCAL
AGENT AND BY THE SERVER OF SUCH PROCESS BY MAIL TO BORROWER AT ITS ADDRESS SET
FORTH OPPOSITE ITS SIGNATURE BELOW, BUT THE FAILURE OF BORROWER TO RECEIVE SUCH
COPY SHALL NOT AFFECT IN ANY WAY THE SERVICE OF SUCH PROCESS. BORROWER FURTHER
IRREVOCABLY CONSENTS TO THE SERVICE OF PROCESS OF ANY OF THE AFOREMENTIONED
COURTS IN ANY SUCH ACTION OR PROCEEDING BY THE MAILING OF COPIES THEREOF BY
REGISTERED OR CERTIFIED MAIL, POSTAGE PREPAID, TO BORROWER AT ITS SAID ADDRESS,
SUCH SERVICE TO BECOME EFFECTIVE 30 DAYS AFTER SUCH MAILING.

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                  (d)      Nothing herein shall affect the right of any Lender,
any holder of a Note or any Credit Party to serve process in any other manner
permitted by law or to commence legal proceedings or otherwise proceed against
Borrower in any other jurisdiction.

                  SECTION 10.08. INDEPENDENT NATURE OF LENDERS' RIGHTS. The
amounts payable at any time hereunder to each Lender shall be a separate and
independent debt, and each Lender shall be entitled to protect and enforce its
rights pursuant to this Agreement and its Notes, and it shall not be necessary
for any other Lender to be joined as an additional party in any proceeding for
such purpose.

                  SECTION 10.09. COUNTERPARTS. This Agreement may be executed in
any number of counterparts and by the different parties hereto on separate
counterparts, each of which when so executed and delivered shall be an original,
but all of which shall together constitute one and the same instrument.

                  SECTION 10.10. EFFECTIVENESS; SURVIVAL.

                  (a)      This Agreement shall become effective on the date
(the "Effective Date") on which all of the parties hereto shall have signed a
copy hereof (whether the same or different copies) and shall have delivered the
same to the Administrative Agent pursuant to Section 10.01 or, in the case of
the Lenders, shall have given to the Administrative Agent written or telex
notice (actually received) that the same has been signed and mailed to them.

                  (b)      The obligations of Borrower under Sections 3.06(b),
3.09, 3.11, 3.12 and 10.04 hereof shall survive the payment in full of the Notes
and all other Obligations after the Commitment Termination Date and, in the
event Borrower elects to exercises its Term Out Option pursuant to Section
2.03(b), after the Maturity Date . All representations and warranties made
herein, in the certificates, reports, notices, and other documents delivered
pursuant to this Agreement shall survive the execution and delivery of this
Agreement, the other Credit Documents, and such other agreements and documents,
the making of the Loans hereunder, and the execution and delivery of the Notes.

                  SECTION 10.11. SEVERABILITY. In case any provision in or
obligation under this Agreement or the other Credit Documents shall be invalid,
illegal or unenforceable, in whole or in part, in any jurisdiction, the
validity, legality and enforceability of the remaining provisions or
obligations, or of such provision or obligation in any other jurisdiction, shall
not in any way be affected or impaired thereby.

                  SECTION 10.12. INDEPENDENCE OF COVENANTS. All covenants
hereunder shall be given independent effect so that if a particular action or
condition is not permitted by any of such covenants, the fact that it would be
permitted by an exception to, or be otherwise within the limitation of, another
covenant, shall not avoid the occurrence of a Default or an Event of Default if
such action is taken or condition exists.

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                  SECTION 10.13. HEADINGS DESCRIPTIVE; ENTIRE AGREEMENT. The
headings of the several sections and subsections of this Agreement are inserted
for convenience only and shall not in any way affect the meaning or construction
of any provision of this Agreement. This Agreement, the other Credit Documents,
and the agreements and documents required to be delivered pursuant to the terms
of this Agreement constitute the entire agreement among the parties hereto and
thereto regarding the subject matters hereof and thereof and supersede all prior
agreements, representations and understandings related to such subject matters.

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                    IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this
Agreement to be duly executed and to be delivered in Atlanta, Georgia, by their
duly authorized officers as of the day and year first above written.

Address for Notices:                        CHOICEPOINT INC.

1000 Alderman Drive                         By:
Alpharetta, Georgia 30005                      --------------------------------
                                               Name:
                                               Title:

Attn:  Mr. Richard M. Koze
                                            Attest:
Telephone: (770) 752-6010                          ----------------------------
Telecopy:  (770) 752-6247                          Name:
                                                   Title:

                                                          [CORPORATE SEAL]

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Address for Notices:                        WACHOVIA BANK, N.A.,
                                            AS ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT

191 Peachtree St., N.E.                     By:
Atlanta, GA 30303                              --------------------------------
                                               Name: Aly Schattner
                                               Title: Assistant Vice President
Attn: Ms. Aly Schattner

Telephone No.:  (404) 332-1043
Telecopy No.:   (404) 332-5016

Payment Office:

191 Peachtree St., N.E.
Atlanta, Georgia 30303

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Address for Notices:                        SUNTRUST BANK, ATLANTA,
                                            AS DOCUMENTATION AGENT

303 Peachtree Street, 4th Floor
MC 1909
Atlanta, Georgia 30308                      By:
Attn: Mr. Dan Komitor                          --------------------------------
                                               Name:
                                               Title:

Telephone No.: (404) 724-3889
Telecopy No.: (404) 588-8833

Payment Office:

303 Peachtree Street
Atlanta, Georgia 30308

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Address for Notices:                        FIRST UNION NATIONAL BANK,
                                            AS MANAGING AGENT

999 Peachtree St.
Atlanta, Georgia 30309                      By:
Mr. Frank Tart                                 --------------------------------
                                               Name:
                                               Title:
Telephone No.: (404) 225-4258
Telecopy No.:  (404) 225-4255

Payment Office:

999 Peachtree St.
Atlanta, Georgia 30309

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Address for Notices:                        WACHOVIA BANK, N.A.

191 Peachtree St., N.E.
Atlanta, Georgia 30303                      By:
Attention: Ms. Aly Schattner                   --------------------------------
                                               Name: Aly Schattner
                                               Title: Assistant Vice President
Telephone No.: (404) 332-1043
Telecopy No.   (404) 332-5016

Lending Office and Payment Office:

191 Peachtree St., N.E.
Atlanta, Georgia 30303

SYNDICATED LOAN COMMITMENT:         $33,333,333.34

PRO RATA SHARE OF
  SYNDICATED LOAN COMMITMENTS:      33 1/3%

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Address for Notices:                        SUNTRUST BANK, ATLANTA

303 Peachtree Street, 4th Floor
MC 1909                                     By:
Atlanta, Georgia 30308                         -------------------------------
Attention: Mr. Dan Komitor                     Name:
                                               Title:

Telephone No.: (404) 724-3889
Telecopy No.: (404) 588-8833

Lending Office and Payment Office:

303 Peachtree Street
Atlanta, Georgia 30308

SYNDICATED LOAN COMMITMENT:         $33,333,333.33

PRO RATA SHARE OF
  SYNDICATED LOAN COMMITMENTS:      33 1/3%

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Address for Notices:                        FIRST UNION NATIONAL BANK

999 Peachtree St.
Atlanta, Georgia 30309                      By:
Attention: Mr. Frank Tart                      -------------------------------
                                               Name:
                                               Title:
Telephone No.: (404) 225-4258
Telecopy No.:  (404) 225-4255

Lending Office and Payment Office:

999 Peachtree St.
Atlanta, Georgia 30309

SYNDICATED LOAN COMMITMENT:         $33,333,333.33

PRO RATA SHARE OF
  SYNDICATED LOAN COMMITMENTS:      33 1/3%

                 [SIGNATURE PAGE FOR REVOLVING CREDIT AGREEMENT]

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