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                                                                    EXHIBIT 10.1

                              EMPLOYMENT AGREEMENT

      AGREEMENT by and between Annuity and Life Re (Holdings), Ltd. (the
"Company") and John F. Burke (the "Executive") dated as of the 3rd day of April,
2003.

      WHEREAS, the Board of Directors of the Company (the "Board") has
determined that it is in the best interests of the Company and its shareholders
to employ the Executive as the Company's President and Chief Executive Officer
and to have the Executive become a member of the Board;

      WHEREAS, the Company desires to employ the Executive and to enter into an
agreement embodying the terms of such employment; and

      WHEREAS, the Executive desires to enter into this Agreement and to accept
such employment, subject to the terms and provisions of this Agreement;

      NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the premises and mutual covenants
contained herein and for other good and valuable consideration, the receipt of
which is mutually acknowledged, the Company and the Executive (individually a
"Party" and together the "Parties") agree as follows:

      1. Effective Date. The "Effective Date" shall mean February 28, 2003.

      2. Employment Period. The Company hereby agrees to employ the Executive,
and the Executive hereby agrees to be employed by the Company subject to the
terms and conditions of this Agreement, for the period commencing on the
Effective Date and ending on the third anniversary thereof (the "Initial Term"),
provided that, commencing on February 28, 2006, the employment period shall be
extended one year on each successive anniversary until, at any time on or after
such date, the Company or the Executive delivers a written notice (a "Notice of
Non-Renewal"), no later than ninety-days prior to the end of the then-current
term to the other Party that the employment period shall expire at the end of
the then-current term (the Initial Term as so extended, the "Employment
Period").

      3. Terms of Employment.

            (a) Position and Duties. (i) During the Employment Period, (A) the
Executive shall serve as the President and Chief Executive Officer of the
Company and shall be responsible for the general management of the Company, with
such authority, duties and responsibilities as are commensurate with such
positions and as may be consistent with such positions (taking into account the
duties and responsibilities of the non-executive Chairman of the Board, if any),
reporting directly to the Board, and (B) the Executive's principal location of
employment shall be at the principal headquarters of the Company; provided, that
the Executive may be required under reasonable business circumstances to travel
outside of such location in connection with

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performing his duties under this Agreement. In addition, the Company shall cause
the Executive to be appointed as a member of the Board as of the Effective Date,
and following such date, the Executive shall remain on the Board, subject to
Section 4(f), and shall perform his duties as a director of the Company
conscientiously and faithfully.

                  (ii) The Executive agrees that during the Employment Period,
he shall devote substantially all of his business time, energies and talents to
serving as the Company's President and Chief Executive Officer, perform his
duties conscientiously and faithfully subject to the reasonable and lawful
directions of the Board, and in accordance with each of the Company's corporate
governance and ethics guidelines, conflict of interests policies and code of
conduct (collectively, the "Company Policies") applicable to all Company
employees or senior executives generally and copies of which have been or will
be provided to the Executive within a reasonable period of time following the
adoption of the particular Company Policy. During the Employment Period, it
shall not be a violation of this Agreement for the Executive, subject to the
requirements of Section 8, to (A) serve on corporate, civic or charitable boards
or committees, (B) deliver lectures or fulfill speaking engagements and (C)
manage personal investments, so long as such activities do not materially
inhibit or interfere with the performance of the Executive's responsibilities as
the President and Chief Executive Officer or as a director of the Company in
accordance with this Agreement.

            (b) Compensation.

                  (i) Base Salary; Cost of Living Allowance. During the
Employment Period, the Executive shall receive an annualized base salary
("Annual Base Salary") of not less than $500,000, payable pursuant to the
Company's normal payroll practices. During the Employment Period, the current
Annual Base Salary shall be reviewed for increase only (and once increased shall
never be decreased) at such time as the salaries of senior officers of the
Company are reviewed generally, provided that, the Executive's first such review
shall occur no earlier than calendar year 2004. The Company will also pay the
Executive a cost of living allowance for residing in Bermuda of $10,000 per
month.

                  (ii) Annual Bonus. For each fiscal year completed during the
Employment Period, the Executive shall be eligible to receive an annual cash
bonus ("Annual Bonus") based upon performance targets that are established as
soon as practicable by mutual agreement between the Executive and the
compensation committee of the Board, provided that, the Executive's target
Annual Bonus shall be at least 50% of his Annual Base Salary (the "Target
Bonus") and his maximum Annual Bonus shall be at least 150% of his Annual Base
Salary.

                  (iii) Retirement Benefits.

                        (A) General. The Executive shall become a participant in
any qualified or nonqualified retirement plans maintained by the Company.

                        (B) Certain Terminations During Initial Term. In the
event that, prior to the end of the Initial Term, the Executive (i) resigns
without Good Reason (as defined in Section 4(c)) or (ii) is terminated for Cause
(as defined in Section 4(b)), the Executive

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shall not be entitled to receive any retirement benefits, and the Company shall
not be obligated to pay such benefits to the Executive.

                  (iv) Restricted Share Award; Signing Bonus. Provided that
Executive makes a timely election under Internal Revenue Code section 83(b) with
respect to the award under this paragraph, he shall be paid a signing bonus of
$100,000 upon filing such election. The Executive shall be granted on the date
hereof 200,000 shares of restricted stock in the Company. The restriction for
this grant will cover a three-year period from the date of the grant and the
restriction will lapse with one-third of the restricted shares becoming
unrestricted after each of the three years. Except as specifically set forth
herein, the grant shall have the same terms and conditions as similar grants
that have been made by the Company to senior executivies generally, as such
terms are set forth in the grant agreement attached as Exhibit A.

                  (v) Stock Option Awards. On the date hereof, the Executive
shall be granted options to purchase 250,000 shares of Common Stock under the
Company's Initial Stock Option Plan (the "Plan") at $1.00 per share (the
"Option"). Except as specifically set forth herein, the Options shall have the
same terms and conditions as similar grants that have been made by the Company
to senior executives generally, as such terms are set forth in the award
agreement attached as Exhibit B.

                  (vi) Other Benefits. During the Employment Period, the
Executive shall be entitled to participate in all welfare, perquisites, fringe
benefit, and other benefit plans, practices, policies and programs, as may be in
effect from time to time, for senior executives of the Company generally.

                  (vii) Expenses. During the Employment Period, the Executive
shall be entitled to receive prompt reimbursement for business expenses
reasonably incurred by the Executive in accordance with the Company's policies,
as may be in effect from time to time, for its senior executives generally.

                  (viii) Vacation. During the Employment Period, the Executive
shall be entitled to paid vacation in accordance with the Company's policies, as
may be in effect from time to time, for its senior executives generally.

            (c) Other Entities. The Executive agrees to serve, without
additional compensation, as an officer and director for each of the Company's
subsidiaries, partnerships, joint ventures, limited liability companies and
other affiliates, including entities in which the Company has a significant
investment (collectively, the Company and such entities, the "Affiliated
Group"), as determined by the Company, provided, that such service does not
materially interfere with the Executive's performance of his duties and
responsibilities as the President and Chief Executive Officer of the Company. As
used in this Agreement, the term "affiliates" shall include any entity
controlled by, controlling, or under common control with the Company.

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      4. Termination of Employment.

            (a) Death or Disability. The Executive's employment shall terminate
automatically upon the Executive's death during the Employment Period. If the
Company determines in good faith that the Disability of the Executive has
occurred during the Employment Period (pursuant to the definition of Disability
set forth below), it may provide the Executive with written notice in accordance
with Section 11(b) of this Agreement of its intention to terminate the
Executive's employment. In such event, the Executive's employment with the
Company shall terminate effective on the 30th day after receipt of such notice
by the Executive (the "Disability Effective Date"), provided that, within the
30-day period after such receipt, the Executive shall not have returned to
full-time performance of the Executive's duties. For purposes of this Agreement,
"Disability" shall mean the inability of the Executive to perform his duties
with the Company on a full-time basis for six consecutive months as a result of
incapacity due to mental or physical illness which is determined to be total and
permanent by a licensed physician mutually selected by (i) the Company or its
insurers and (ii) the Executive or the Executive's legal representative. If the
Parties cannot agree on a licensed physician, each Party shall select a licensed
physician and the two physicians shall select a third who shall be the approved
licensed physician for this purpose.

            (b) Cause. The Company may terminate the Executive's employment
during the Employment Period with or without Cause. For purposes of this
Agreement, "Cause" shall mean:

                  (i) the Executive's willful and continued failure to
substantially perform his duties under this Agreement, other than any such
failure resulting from incapacity due to physical or mental illness, which
failure has continued after a written demand for substantial performance, signed
by a duly authorized member of the Board, is delivered to the Executive,
specifying the manner in which the Executive has failed to substantially
perform; or

                  (ii) the Executive's willful engagement in any malfeasance,
fraud, dishonesty or gross misconduct, each of which must (x) be in connection
with his position as the President and Chief Executive Officer of the Company
(or as a director of the Company or an officer or director of any member of the
Affiliated Group) and (y) materially damage the Company economically or
otherwise; or

                  (iii) the Executive's conviction of, or plea of guilty or nolo
contendere to, a felony; or

                  (iv) the Executive's breach of Section 12(c) of this Agreement
that materially damages or could reasonably be expected to materially damage the
Company economically or otherwise; or

                  (v) the Executive's material breach of Section 8 or Section
12(b) of this Agreement.

For purposes of this provision, no act or failure to act on the part of the
Executive shall be

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considered "willful" unless it is done, or omitted to be done, by the Executive
in bad faith and without reasonable belief that the Executive's act or omission
was in the best interests of the Company. A termination of employment of the
Executive shall not be deemed to be for Cause unless and until there shall have
been delivered to the Executive a copy of a resolution duly adopted by the
affirmative vote of not less than two-thirds of the entire membership of the
Board (not including the Executive) at a meeting of the Board called and held
for such purpose (after at least ten days' written notice is provided to the
Executive and the Executive is given an opportunity, together with counsel, to
be heard before the Board), finding that, in the good faith opinion of the
Board, the Executive is guilty of the conduct described in subparagraph (i),
(ii), (iii), (iv) or (v) above, and specifying the particulars thereof in
detail.

            (c) Good Reason. The Executive's employment may be terminated by the
Executive for Good Reason. If (x) an event or circumstance set forth in clauses
(i) through (viii) below shall have occurred and the Executive provides the
Company with written notice thereof within a reasonable period of time after the
Executive has knowledge of the occurrence or existence of such event or
circumstance, which notice shall specifically identify the event or circumstance
that the Executive believes constitutes Good Reason, (y) the Company fails to
correct the circumstance or event so identified within 15 days after the receipt
of such notice, and (z) the Executive resigns within 90 days after the date of
delivery of the notice referred to in clause (x) above, the Executive shall be
considered to have resigned for Good Reason. For purposes of this Agreement,
"Good Reason" shall mean, in the absence of the Executive's express written
consent (and except in consequence of a prior termination of the Executive's
employment), the occurrence of any of the following:

                  (i) a reduction by the Company in the Executive's highest
Annual Base Salary or a reduction in the Executive's Target Bonus as a
percentage of the Executive's Annual Base Salary; or

                  (ii) the failure of the Executive to be appointed to any of
the positions described in Section 3(a)(i) or his removal from any such position
(other than pursuant to Section 4(g) or pursuant to a termination of the
Executive's employment for death, Disability or Cause); or

                  (iii) a material diminution in the Executive's duties or
responsibilities (other than as a result of the Executive's physical or mental
incapacity) or the assignment to the Executive of duties or responsibilities
materially inconsistent with the Executive's position and status as the
President and Chief Executive Officer of the Company; provided, however, that
the Executive acknowledges that he will continue to serve as the Company's Chief
Financial Officer until such time as the Board elects to retain another
individual for such position and such individual has in fact been retained; or

                  (iv) a material change in the Executive's reporting
relationship so that the Executive no longer reports solely to the Board in his
positions as President and Chief Executive Officer; or

                  (v) a breach by the Company of any of its material obligations
to the

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Executive under this Agreement; or

                  (vi) the Company requiring the Executive's principal location
of employment to be at any office or location other than Bermuda (except to the
extent agreed to or requested by the Executive); or

                  (vii) a breach by the Company of Section 10 or Section 12(a)
of this Agreement; or

                  (viii) any failure by the Company to comply with and satisfy
Section 9(b) of this Agreement.

            (d) Notice of Termination. Any termination by the Company for Cause,
or by the Executive for Good Reason, shall be communicated by Notice of
Termination to the other Party hereto given in accordance with Section 11(b) of
this Agreement. For purposes of this Agreement, a "Notice of Termination" means
a written notice which (i) indicates the specific termination provision in this
Agreement relied upon, (ii) to the extent applicable, sets forth in reasonable
detail the facts and circumstances claimed to provide a basis for termination of
the Executive's employment under the provision so indicated and (iii) if the
Date of Termination (as defined below) is other than the date of receipt of such
notice, specifies the termination date (which date shall be not more than thirty
days after the giving of such notice). The failure by the Executive or the
Company to set forth in the Notice of Termination any fact or circumstance which
contributes to a showing of Good Reason or Cause shall not waive any right of
the Executive or the Company, respectively, hereunder or preclude the Executive
or the Company, respectively, from asserting such fact or circumstance in
enforcing the Executive's or the Company's rights hereunder.

            (e) Date of Termination. "Date of Termination" means (i) if the
Executive's employment is terminated by the Company for Cause, or by the
Executive for Good Reason, the date of receipt of the Notice of Termination or
any later date specified therein within 30 days of such notice, as the case may
be, (ii) if the Executive's employment is terminated by the Company other than
for Cause or Disability, or if the Executive voluntarily resigns without Good
Reason, the date on which the terminating Party notifies the other Party of such
termination, (iii) if the Executive's employment is terminated by reason of
death, the date of death of the Executive, (iv) if the Executive's employment is
terminated by the Company due to Disability, the Disability Effective Date, or
(v) if the Executive's employment is terminated by the Executive or the Company
as a result of a Notice of Non-Renewal, the second anniversary of such notice.

            (f) Resignation from All Positions. Notwithstanding any other
provision of this Agreement, upon the termination of the Executive's employment
for any reason, unless otherwise requested by the Board, the Executive shall
immediately resign from all positions that he holds or has ever held with the
Company and any other member of the Affiliated Group (and with any other
entities with respect to which the Company has requested the Executive to
perform services), including, without limitation, the Board and all boards of
directors of any member of the Affiliated Group. The Executive hereby agrees to
execute any and all

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documentation to effectuate such resignations upon request by the Company, but
he shall be treated for all purposes as having so resigned upon termination of
his employment, regardless of when or whether he executes any such
documentation.

            (g) Except in matters where Executive is individually a defendant or
the subject of an investigation, following termination of his employment for any
reason, in the event that Executive is requested by the Company to cooperate in
any litigation or investigation regarding the Company, or is compelled to do so
by any legal process, the Company shall pay Executive the sum of $2,500 for each
day or portion of a day Executive performs any such services, to the extent
permitted by applicable law.

      5. Obligations of the Company upon Termination.

            (a) Good Reason; Other Than for Cause. If, during the Employment
Period, (1) the Company shall terminate the Executive's employment other than
for Cause, death or Disability, (2) the Executive shall terminate employment for
Good Reason:

                  (i) the Company shall pay to the Executive in a lump sum in
cash within 30 days (except as specifically provided in Sections 5(a)(i)(A)(3))
after the Date of Termination the aggregate of the following amounts:

                  A. the sum of (1) the Executive's accrued but unpaid Annual
Base Salary and any accrued vacation pay through the Date of Termination, (2)
the Executive's business expenses that are reimbursable pursuant to Section
3(b)(vii) but have not been reimbursed by the Company as of the Date of
Termination, (3) the Executive's Annual Bonus for the fiscal year immediately
preceding the fiscal year in which the Date of Termination occurs if such bonus
has been determined but not paid as of the Date of Termination (at the time such
Annual Bonus would otherwise have been paid); and

                  B. one year's Base Salary and full relocation back to any city
in the United States;

                  (ii) any stock options, restricted stock, performance shares
and any other stock-based long-term incentive compensation award held by the
Executive (whether granted under this Agreement or otherwise) shall vest
immediately (with option exercisability continuing until the first to occur of
the fifth anniversary of the Date of Termination or the end of the scheduled
option term)

The Parties agree that any amounts due under this Section 5(a) are in the nature
of severance payments considered to be reasonable by the Company and are not in
the nature of a penalty.

            (b) Cause; Other than for Good Reason. If the Executive's employment
shall be terminated for Cause or the Executive terminates his employment without
Good Reason during the Employment Period (including by providing to the Company
a Notice of Non-Renewal), this Agreement shall terminate without further
obligations to the Executive other than the obligation to pay to the Executive
an amount equal to the amount set forth in clauses (1) and

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(2) of Section 5(a)(i)(A) above and the timely payment or provision of the Other
Benefits, including any applicable life insurance benefits.

            (c) Death. If the Executive's employment is terminated by reason of
the Executive's death during the Employment Period, this Agreement shall
terminate without further obligations to the Executive's legal representatives
under this Agreement, other than the obligation to pay to the Executive's
beneficiaries an amount equal to the amount set forth in clauses (1), (2) and
(3) of Section 5(a)(i)(A) above and the timely payment or provision of the Other
Benefits, including any applicable life insurance benefits.

            (d) Disability. If the Executive's employment is terminated by
reason of the Executive's Disability during the Employment Period, this
Agreement shall terminate without further obligations to the Executive, other
than the obligation to pay or provide to the Executive the Executive's Retiree
Health Benefits, an amount equal to the amount set forth in clauses (1), (2) and
(3) of Section 5(a)(i)(A) above, and the timely payment or provision of Other
Benefits, including any applicable disability benefits.

      6. Non-Exclusivity of Rights. Except as specifically provided otherwise,
nothing in this Agreement shall prevent or limit the Executive's continuing or
future participation in any plan, program, policy or practice provided by the
Company, or any of its subsidiaries for which the Executive is otherwise
eligible, nor, subject to Section 11(f), shall anything herein limit or
otherwise affect such rights as the Executive may have under any contract or
agreement with the Company or its subsidiaries. Amounts which are vested
benefits or which the Executive is otherwise entitled to receive under any plan,
policy, practice or program of or any contract or agreement with the Company or
its subsidiaries at or subsequent to the Date of Termination shall be payable in
accordance with such plan, policy, practice or program or contract or agreement
except as explicitly modified by this Agreement.

      7. Full Settlement. The Company's obligation to make the payments provided
for in this Agreement and otherwise to perform its obligations hereunder shall
not be affected by any set-off, counterclaim, recoupment, defense, or other
claim, right or action that the Company may have against the Executive or
others. In no event shall the Executive be obligated to seek other employment or
take any other action by way of mitigation of the amounts payable to the
Executive under any of the provisions of this Agreement and such amounts shall
not be reduced as a result of a mitigation duty whether or not the Executive
obtains other employment. In the event of any dispute between the Company and
the Executive under this Agreement during or after termination of the
Executive's employment, the Company agrees to pay, to the full extent permitted
by law, all professional fees, costs and expenses which the Executive may
reasonably incur as a result of any such contest.

      8. Covenants.

            (a) Confidential Information. The Executive shall hold in a
fiduciary capacity for benefit of the Affiliated Group, all secret or
confidential information, knowledge or data relating to the Affiliated Group and
its businesses (including, without limitation, any proprietary and not publicly
available information concerning any processes, methods, trade secrets, research

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or secret data, costs, names of users or purchasers of their respective products
or services, business methods, operating procedures or programs or methods of
promotion and sale) that the Executive has obtained or obtains during the
Executive's employment by the Affiliated Group that is not public knowledge
(other than as a result of the Executive's violation of this Section 8(a))
("Confidential Information"). For the purposes of this Section 8(a), information
shall not be deemed to be publicly available merely because it is embraced by
general disclosures or because individual features or combinations thereof are
publicly available. The Executive shall not communicate, divulge or disseminate
Confidential Information at any time during or after the Executive's employment
with the Affiliated Group, except with prior written consent of the Company, or
as otherwise required by law or legal process or as such disclosure or use may
be required in the course of the Executive performing his duties and
responsibilities as the President and Chief Executive Officer of the Company.
Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions, if the Executive is required to
disclose any such confidential or proprietary information pursuant to applicable
law or a subpoena or court order, the Executive shall promptly notify the
Company in writing of any such requirement so that the Company or the
appropriate member of the Affiliated Group may seek an appropriate protective
order or other appropriate remedy or waive compliance with the provisions
hereof. The Executive shall reasonably cooperate with the Affiliated Group to
obtain such a protective order or other remedy. If such order or other remedy is
not obtained prior to the time the Executive is required to make the disclosure,
or the Company waives compliance with the provisions hereof, the Executive shall
disclose only that portion of the confidential or proprietary information which
he is advised by counsel that he is legally required to so disclose. All
records, files, memoranda, reports, customer lists, drawings, plans, documents
and the like that the Executive uses, prepares or comes into contact with during
the course of the Executive's employment shall remain the sole property of the
Company and/or the Affiliated Group, as applicable, and shall be turned over to
the Company upon termination of the Executive's employment.

            (b) Non-Recruitment of Affiliated Group Employees. The Executive
shall not, at any time during the Restricted Period (as defined in this Section
8(b)), without the prior written consent of the Company, directly or indirectly,
contact, solicit, recruit, or employ (whether as an employee, officer, director,
agent, consultant or independent contractor) any person who is or was at any
time during the previous twelve months an employee, representative, officer or
director of any member of the Affiliated Group. Further, during the Restricted
Period, the Executive shall not take any action that could reasonably be
expected to have the effect of encouraging or inducing any employee,
representative, officer or director of any member of the Affiliated Group to
cease their relationship with any member of the Affiliated Group for any reason,
except for terminations of employment in the ordinary course of business. This
Section 8(b) shall not apply to recruitment of employees for the Affiliated
Group and shall not apply to the Executive's personal administrative staff who
perform secretarial-type functions. The "Restricted Period" shall mean the
period of Executive's employment with the Company and its subsidiaries and the
additional period ending on the second anniversary of the Date of Termination.

            (c) Remedies. The Executive acknowledges and agrees that the terms
of Section 8: (i) are reasonable in light of all of the circumstances, (ii) are
sufficiently limited to

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protect the legitimate interests of the Company and its subsidiaries, (iii)
impose no undue hardship on the Executive and (iv) are not injurious to the
public. The Executive further acknowledges and agrees that (x) the Executive's
breach of the provisions of Section 8 will cause the Company irreparable harm,
which cannot be adequately compensated by money damages, and (y) if the Company
elects to prevent the Executive from breaching such provisions by obtaining an
injunction against the Executive, there is a reasonable probability of the
Company's eventual success on the merits. The Executive consents and agrees that
if the Executive commits any such breach or threatens to commit any breach, the
Company shall be entitled to temporary and permanent injunctive relief from a
court of competent jurisdiction, without posting any bond or other security and
without the necessity of proof of actual damage, in addition to, and not in lieu
of, such other remedies as may be available to the Company for such breach,
including the recovery of money damages. If any of the provisions of Section 8
are determined to be wholly or partially unenforceable, the Executive hereby
agrees that this Agreement or any provision hereof may be reformed so that it is
enforceable to the maximum extent permitted by law. If any of the provisions of
this Section 8 are determined to be wholly or partially unenforceable in any
jurisdiction, such determination shall not be a bar to or in any way diminish
the Company's right to enforce any such covenant in any other jurisdiction.

      9. Successors. (a) This Agreement is personal to the Executive and without
the prior written consent of the Company shall not be assignable by the
Executive other than by will or the laws of descent and distribution. This
Agreement shall inure to the benefit of and be enforceable by the Executive's
legal representatives. This Agreement shall inure to the benefit of and be
binding upon the Company and its successors and assigns.

            (b) No rights or obligations of the Company under this Agreement may
be assigned or transferred by the Company except that such rights or obligations
may be assigned or transferred pursuant to a merger or consolidation in which
the Company is not the continuing entity, or the sale or liquidation of all or
substantially all or a substantial portion of the assets of the Company;
provided, however, that the assignee or transferee is the successor to all or
substantially all or a substantial portion of the assets of the Company and such
assignee or transferee assumes the liabilities, obligations and duties of the
Company, as contained in this Agreement, either contractually or as a matter of
law. The Company shall cause any successor (whether direct or indirect, by
purchase, merger, consolidation or otherwise) to all or substantially all or a
substantial portion of its business and/or assets to assume expressly and agree
to perform this Agreement within 15 days after such succession in the same
manner and to the same extent that the Company would be required to perform it
if no such succession had taken place. A breach of this Section 9(b) shall be
deemed to be Good Reason under Section 4(c)(viii). As used in this Agreement,
"Company" shall mean the Company as hereinbefore defined and any successor to
its business and/or assets as aforesaid which assumes and agrees to perform this
Agreement by operation of law, or otherwise.

      10. Indemnification. The Company shall indemnify the Executive as an
officer, director and employee of the Company and any member of the Affiliated
Group and in the same amounts to the maximum extent permitted under the
Company's by-laws and applicable law. The Company shall maintain directors' and
officers' liability insurance coverage during the Executive's employment and
thereafter for the duration of any period of limitations during which

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any action, if any, may be brought against the Executive for his service as an
officer, director or employee of the Company and any member of the Affiliated
Group and in the same amounts, and on the same terms and conditions as
applicable to other former senior executives and directors of the Company.

      11. Miscellaneous. (a) This Agreement shall be governed by and construed
in accordance with the laws of the State of New York, without reference to
principles of conflict of laws. The Parties hereto irrevocably agree to submit
to the jurisdiction and venue of the courts of the State of New York, in any
action or proceeding brought with respect to or in connection with this
Agreement. The captions of this Agreement are not part of the provisions hereof
and shall have no force or effect. This Agreement may not be amended or modified
otherwise than by a written agreement executed by the Parties hereto or their
respective successors and legal representatives.

            (b) All notices and other communications hereunder shall be in
writing and shall be given by hand delivery to the other Party or by registered
or certified mail, return receipt requested, postage prepaid, addressed as
follows:

      If to the Executive:

      John F. Burke

      At the most recent address on file for the Executive at the Company.

      If to the Company:

      Annuity and Life Re (Holdings), Ltd.
      Cumberland House
      1 Victoria Street
      Hamilton, HM 11
      Bermuda

or to such other address as either Party shall have furnished to the other in
writing in accordance herewith. Notice and communications shall be effective
when actually received by the addressee.

            (c) The invalidity or unenforceability of any provision of this
Agreement shall not affect the validity or enforceability of any other provision
of this Agreement.

            (d) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement, the
Company may withhold from any amounts payable or benefits provided under this
Agreement any Federal, state, and local taxes as shall be required to be
withheld pursuant to any applicable law or regulation.

            (e) The Executive's or the Company's failure to insist upon strict
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with any provision of this Agreement or the failure to assert any right the
Executive or the Company may have hereunder, shall not be deemed to be a waiver
of such provision or right or any other provision or right of this Agreement.

            (f) From and after the Effective Date, this Agreement shall
supersede any other employment, severance, retention or change-in-control
agreement between the Parties with respect to the subject matter hereof
excepting only any stock option or restricted stock agreements or awards
whereunder the Executive is the optionee or shareholder.

      12. Representations. (a) The Company hereby represents and warrants to the
Executive that it is fully authorized and empowered to enter into this Agreement
and to perform its obligations hereunder and that the performance of its
obligations under this Agreement will not violate any agreement between it and
any other person, firm or organization.

            (b) The Executive hereby represents and warrants to the Company that
the Executive is not party to any contract, understanding, agreement or policy,
whether or not written that would be breached by the Executive's entering into,
or performing services under, this Agreement by the Executive.

      (c) The Executive further represents that he has disclosed to the Company
in writing all material (i) threatened claims that (x) are unresolved and still
outstanding as of the Effective Date and (y) have been received by the Executive
in writing during the 24 months prior to the Effective Date, (ii) existing
claims, and (iii) pending claims, in each case, against him of which he is
aware, if any, as a result of his employment with any previous employer or his
membership on any boards of directors which could be reasonably expected to be
materially damaging to the Executive monetarily, reputationally or otherwise.

      IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Executive has hereunto set the Executive's hand
and, pursuant to the authorization from its Board of Directors, the Company has
caused these presents to be executed in its name and on its behalf, all as of
the day and year first above written.

                                                     /s/ John F. Burke
                                                     ---------------------------
                                                     John F. Burke

                                                     By: /s/ Robert M. Lichten
                                                        ------------------------
                                                     Name:    Robert M. Lichten
                                                     Title:   Director

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                                    EXHIBIT A

                           RESTRICTED STOCK AGREEMENT

            This RESTRICTED STOCK AGREEMENT, dated as of the 3rd day of April,
2003 (the "Award Date"), is between Annuity and Life Re (Holdings), Ltd., a
Bermuda corporation (the "Company"), and John F. Burke (the "Grantee"), an
employee of the Company.

            The Company desires to award the Grantee shares of restricted stock
as provided in this Agreement, in accordance with the provisions of the Annuity
and Life Re (Holdings), Ltd. Restricted Stock Plan (the "Plan"), a copy of which
has been provided to the Grantee;

            NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the mutual covenants hereinafter
set forth and for other good and valuable consideration, the legal sufficiency
of which is hereby acknowledged, the parties hereto, intending to be legally
bound hereby, agree as follows:

            1. Grant of Award. The Company hereby awards to the Grantee a
restricted stock award (the "Award") under the Plan for an aggregate of Two
Hundred Thousand (200,000) common shares of the Company ("Common Shares"),
subject to adjustment as provided by Section 8 of the Plan. The Award is in all
respects limited and conditioned as provided in this Agreement and by the Plan.
The Plan and Grantee's rights under the Plan may be amended from time to time.
The terms of the Plan shall control in the event of any conflict with any other
terms of this Restricted Stock Agreement.

            2. Vesting. Unless earlier terminated or vested in accordance with
the provisions of the Plan, the Common Shares covered by the Award shall vest in
Grantee in three equal annual installments commencing on the first anniversary
of the Award Date.

            3. Stock Certificates. Certificates for Common Shares subject to the
Award shall be registered in the Grantee's name (or, if the Grantee so requests,
in the name of the Grantee and the Grantee's spouse, jointly with a right of
survivorship) and shall be delivered to the Grantee as soon as practicable. With
respect to shares in which the Grantee is not vested on the Award Date, the
Grantee shall, immediately upon receipt thereof, deposit all certificates for
such unvested Common Shares, together with a stock power executed in favor of
the Company, with the Company. Certificates for such unvested Common Shares
shall be held by the Company until the Grantee becomes vested in such Common
Shares. The certificate may include a legend setting forth restrictions on
transfer.

            4. Dividends; Rights as Shareholder in Unvested Common Shares. The
Grantee shall be entitled to receive dividends on unvested Common Shares subject
to the Award (if any), shall have the right to vote such unvested Common Shares,
and shall have all other shareholder's rights in such unvested Common Shares,
with the exception that (i) the Grantee shall not be entitled to delivery of the
stock certificates until he or she becomes vested in the Common Shares and (ii)
the Company shall retain custody of the certificates representing the unvested
Common Shares until the Grantee becomes vested in such Common Shares, at which
time such certificates shall be delivered to the Grantee. The Grantee's rights
to such unvested Common Shares in the event the Grantee's employment with the
Company (or any related company) is terminated shall be governed by the Plan,
except as otherwise set forth in that certain Employment Agreement dated as of
the date hereof by and between the Grantee and the Company.

            5. Transferability. The Grantee may not assign or transfer, in whole
or in part, Common Shares subject to this Award in which the Grantee is not
vested, other than by will or by the laws of descent and distribution.

            6. Withholding of Taxes. The obligation of the Company to deliver
Common Shares upon vesting shall be subject to applicable tax withholding
requirements. If the vesting of the Award is subject to the withholding
requirements of applicable tax laws, the Grantee, subject to the provisions of
the Plan and such additional withholding rules ("Withholding Rules") as shall be
adopted by the Committee, may satisfy the withholding tax, in whole or in part,
by electing to have the Company withhold Common Shares to the extent such
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shares are vested. Such Common Shares shall be valued, for this purpose, at
their Fair Market Value (as defined in the Plan) on the date the Award is
includible in income by the Grantee under applicable tax laws (the
"Determination Date"). Such election must be made in compliance with and subject
to the Withholding Rules, and the Company may limit the number of Common Shares
withheld to the extent necessary to avoid adverse accounting consequences.

            7. Governing Law. This Restricted Stock Agreement shall be construed
in accordance with, and its interpretation shall be governed by, applicable
United States laws, and otherwise by Bermuda law (without reference to
principles of conflict of laws).

            IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Company has caused this Restricted Stock
Agreement to be duly executed by its duly authorized officer, and the Grantee
has hereunto set his hand, all on the day and year first above written.

                                        ANNUITY AND LIFE RE (HOLDINGS), LTD.

                                        By: /s/ Robert M. Lichten
                                           -------------------------------
                                        Name:    Robert M. Lichten
                                        Title:   Director

                                        GRANTEE:

                                        /s/ John F. Burke
                                        ----------------------------------
                                        John F. Burke
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                                    EXHIBIT B

                                  April 3, 2003

Mr. John F. Burke
c/o Annuity and Life Re (Holdings), Ltd.
Cumberland House, 1 Victoria Street
Hamilton HM 11
Bermuda

Dear Jay:

I am pleased to inform you that on April 3, 2003, pursuant to the terms of the
Annuity and Life Re (Holdings), Ltd. Initial Stock Option Plan (the "Plan"), you
were granted options to purchase Two Hundred Fifty Thousand (250,000) common
shares of Annuity and Life Re (Holdings), Ltd. (the "Company") at an exercise
price of $1.00 per share. The exercise price for the options shall be payable in
cash or its equivalent.

      The options herein granted will become exercisable as follows:

<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                    Date First Exercisable        Number of Shares
                    ----------------------        ----------------
<S>                                               <C>
                       April 3, 2004                    83,333
                       April 3, 2005                    83,333
                       April 3, 2006                    83,334
</TABLE>

      Once the options become exercisable, they will remain exercisable until
they are exercised or until they terminate. Unless earlier terminated pursuant
to the terms of the Plan, all options herein granted shall terminate on April 3,
2013. Under certain conditions more specifically set forth in the Plan or in
that certain Employment Agreement dated as of the date hereof by and between you
and the Company, the time at which the options become exercisable may be
accelerated.

      To the extent exercisable under the provisions of this letter agreement
and the Plan, the options may be exercised from time to time by written notice
to the Company of your election to exercise the options. Any such notice of
exercise shall specify the number of common shares to be purchased by the
exercise of the options and shall be accompanied by the purchase price for such
common shares.

      Further terms governing the options granted to you herein are set forth in
the Plan, which is incorporated by reference herein. In the event of any
conflict between this letter agreement and the Plan, the Plan shall control.

      The options granted to you herein are intended to be non-qualified stock
options. You are advised to consult with your tax advisor for the tax
consequences of the grant of the options, exercise of the options and the sale
of common shares purchased by exercise of the options.

      If you wish to accept the grant of the options as provided above and in
the Plan, please so indicate by signing this letter in the space provided below.
Upon signing the letter, you and the Company shall be legally bound hereby under
Bermuda law.
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                                      Very truly yours,

                                      ANNUITY AND LIFE RE (HOLDINGS), LTD.

                                      By: /s/ Robert M. Lichten
                                         -------------------------------------
                                      Name:    Robert M. Lichten, Director

Accepted and Agreed:

/s/ John F. Burke
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John F. BurkeLOAN AND SECURITY AGREEMENT

                                  by and among

                           HUDSON HIGHLAND GROUP, INC.

                                       and

              EACH OF ITS SUBSIDIARIES THAT ARE SIGNATORIES HERETO

                                  as Borrowers,

                     THE LENDERS THAT ARE SIGNATORIES HERETO

                                 as the Lenders,

                                       and

                          FOOTHILL CAPITAL CORPORATION

                    as the Arranger and Administrative Agent

                           Dated as of March 31, 2003

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                           LOAN AND SECURITY AGREEMENT

     THIS LOAN AND SECURITY AGREEMENT (this "Agreement"), is entered into as of
March 31, 2003, between and among, on the one hand, the lenders identified on
the signature pages hereof (such lenders, together with their respective
successors and assigns, are referred to hereinafter each individually as a
"Lender" and collectively as the "Lenders"), FOOTHILL CAPITAL CORPORATION, a
California corporation, as the arranger and administrative agent for the Lenders
("Agent"), and, on the other hand, HUDSON HIGHLAND GROUP, INC., a Delaware
corporation ("Parent"), and each of Parent's Subsidiaries identified on the
signature pages hereof (such Subsidiaries, together with Parent, are referred to
hereinafter each individually as a "Borrower", and individually and
collectively, jointly and severally, as "Borrowers").

     The parties agree as follows:

1.   DEFINITIONS AND CONSTRUCTION.

     1.1  Definitions. As used in this Agreement, the following terms shall
have the following definitions:

          "Account Report Base" means, as of any date of determination, the sum
of the unused Borrowing Base plus cash on hand in the aggregate for all
Borrowers.

          "Account Debtor" means any Person who is or who may become obligated
under, with respect to, or on account of, an Account, chattel paper, or a
General Intangible.

         "Accounts" means all of Borrowers' now owned or hereafter acquired
right, title, and interest with respect to "accounts" (as that term is defined
in the Code), and any and all supporting obligations in respect thereof.

          "Activation Date" means the date on which the conditions set forth in
Section 3.2 have been fulfilled to the satisfaction of Agent, in its Permitted
Discretion, or waived by Agent and Lenders.

          "Additional Borrower" has the meaning set forth in Section 2.16.

          "Additional Documents" has the meaning set forth in Section 4.4.

          "Administrative Borrower" has the meaning set forth in Section 17.9.

          "Advances" has the meaning set forth in Section 2.1.

          "Affiliate" means, as applied to any Person, any other Person who,
directly or indirectly, controls, is controlled by, or is under common control
with, such Person. For purposes of this

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definition, "control" means the possession, directly or indirectly, of the power
to direct the management and policies of a Person, whether through the ownership
of Stock, by contract, or otherwise; provided, however, that, in any event: (a)
any Person which owns directly or indirectly 10% or more of the securities
having ordinary voting power for the election of directors or other members of
the governing body of a Person or 10% or more of the partnership or other
ownership interests of a Person (other than as a limited partner of such Person)
shall be deemed to control such Person; (b) each director (or comparable
manager) of a Person shall be deemed to be an Affiliate of such Person; and (c)
each partnership or joint venture in which a Person is a partner or joint
venturer shall be deemed to be an Affiliate of such Person.

          "Agent" means Foothill, solely in its capacity as agent for the
Lenders hereunder, and any successor thereto.

          "Agent's Account" means an account at a bank designated by Agent from
time to time as the account into which Borrowers shall make all payments to
Agent for the benefit of the Lender Group and into which the Lender Group shall
make all payments to Agent under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents;
unless and until Agent notifies Administrative Borrower and the Lender Group to
the contrary, Agent's Account shall be that certain deposit account bearing
account number 323-266193 and maintained by Agent with The Chase Manhattan Bank,
4 New York Plaza, 15th Floor, New York, New York 10004, ABA #021000021.

          "Agent Advances" has the meaning set forth in Section 2.3(e)(i).

          "Agent's Liens" means the Liens granted by Borrowers to Agent for the
benefit of the Lender Group under this Agreement or the other Loan Documents.

          "Agent-Related Persons" means Agent together with its Affiliates,
officers, directors, employees, and agents.

          "Agreement" has the meaning set forth in the preamble hereto.

          "Applicable Prepayment Premium" means, as of any date of
determination, an amount equal to 1% times the Maximum Revolver Amount, on the
date immediately prior to the date of determination for each full or partial
period of twelve months concluding on an anniversary of the Closing Date
remaining until the Maturity Date; provided, however, that if the outstanding
principal balance of Advances is prepaid and the Commitments are terminated with
(i) the proceeds and as a result of a private placement of subordinated debt, or
an equity offering, or a sale of all or substantially all of the assets or stock
of any Borrower, then the Applicable Prepayment Premium shall be an amount equal
to .25% times the Maximum Revolver Amount on the date immediately prior to the
date of determination for each full or partial period of twelve months
concluding on an anniversary of the Closing Date remaining until the Maturity
Date; or (ii) the proceeds of a refinancing made available to Borrowers by a
commercial banking unit of Wells Fargo, then the Applicable Prepayment Premium
shall be an amount equal to 0% times the Maximum Revolver Amount on the date
immediately prior to the date of determination for each full or partial period
of twelve months concluding on an anniversary of the Closing Date

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remaining until the Maturity Date. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary set
forth herein, HH Australia may refinance its Obligations to Lender Group at any
time upon 30 days prior written notice to Agent without incurring the Applicable
Prepayment Premium, provided that the terms of such refinancing of HH
Australia's Obligations shall be on terms and conditions satisfactory to Agent
in its Permitted Discretion.

          "Assignee" has the meaning set forth in Section 14.1.

          "Assignment and Acceptance" means an Assignment and Acceptance in the
form of Exhibit A-1.

          "Authorized Person" means any officer or other employee of
Administrative Borrower.

          "Availability" means, as of any date of determination, if such date is
a Business Day, and determined at the close of business on the immediately
preceding Business Day, if such date of determination is not a Business Day, the
amount that Borrowers are entitled to borrow as Advances under Section 2.1
(after giving effect to all then outstanding Obligations and all sublimits and
reserves applicable hereunder).

          "Bankruptcy Code" means the United States Bankruptcy Code, as in
effect from time to time.

          "Base LIBOR Rate" means the rate per annum, determined by Agent in
accordance with its customary procedures, and utilizing such electronic or other
quotation sources as it considers appropriate (rounded upwards, if necessary, to
the next 1/16%), on the basis of the rates at which Dollar deposits are offered
to major banks in the London interbank market on or about 11:00 a.m. (California
time) 2 Business Days prior to the commencement of the applicable Interest
Period, for a term and in amounts comparable to the Interest Period and amount
of the LIBOR Rate Loan requested by Administrative Borrower in accordance with
this Agreement, which determination shall be conclusive in the absence of
manifest error.

          "Base Rate" means, the rate of interest announced within Wells Fargo
at its principal office in San Francisco as its "prime rate", with the
understanding that the "prime rate" is one of Wells Fargo's base rates (not
necessarily the lowest of such rates) and serves as the basis upon which
effective rates of interest are calculated for those loans making reference
thereto and is evidenced by the recording thereof after its announcement in such
internal publication or publications as Wells Fargo may designate.

          "Base Rate Loan" means each portion of an Advance that bears interest
at a rate determined by reference to the Base Rate.

          "Base Rate Margin" means 0.25 percentage points.

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          "Benefit Plan" means a "defined benefit plan" (as defined in Section
3(35) of ERISA) for which any Borrower or any Subsidiary or ERISA Affiliate of
any Borrower has been an "employer" (as defined in Section3(5) of ERISA) within
the past six years.

          "Board of Directors" means the board of directors (or comparable
managers) of Parent or any committee thereof duly authorized to act on behalf
thereof.

          "Books" means all of each Borrower's now owned or hereafter acquired
books and records (including all of its Records indicating, summarizing, or
evidencing its assets (including the Collateral) or liabilities, all of its
Records relating to its business operations or financial condition, and all of
its goods or General Intangibles related to such information).

          "Borrower" and "Borrowers" have the respective meanings set forth in
the preamble to this Agreement and will also include any Subsidiary of Parent
that becomes a Borrower after the Closing Date pursuant to Section 2.16.

          "Borrowing" means a borrowing hereunder consisting of Advances made on
the same day by the Lenders (or Agent on behalf thereof), or by Swing Lender in
the case of a Swing Loan, or by Agent in the case of an Agent Advance.

          "Borrowing Base" has the meaning set forth in Section 2.1(a).

          "Borrowing Base Certificate" means a certificate in the form of
Exhibit B-1.

          "Business Day" means any day that is not a Saturday, Sunday, or other
day on which national banks are authorized or required to close, except that, if
a determination of a Business Day shall relate to a LIBOR Rate Loan, the term
"Business Day" also shall exclude any day on which banks are closed for dealings
in Dollar deposits in the London interbank market.

          "Capital Lease" means a lease that is required to be capitalized for
financial reporting purposes in accordance with GAAP.

          "Capitalized Lease Obligation" means any Indebtedness represented by
obligations under Capital Lease.

          "Cash Equivalents" means (a) marketable direct obligations issued or
unconditionally guaranteed by the United States or issued by any agency thereof
and backed by the full faith and credit of the United States, in each case
maturing within 1 year from the date of acquisition thereof, (b) marketable
direct obligations issued by any state of the United States or any political
subdivision of any such state or any public instrumentality thereof maturing
within 1 year from the date of acquisition thereof and, at the time of
acquisition, having the highest rating obtainable from either S&P or Moody's,
(c) commercial paper maturing no more than 1 year from the date of acquisition
thereof and, at the time of acquisition, having a rating of A-1 or P-1, or
better, from S&P or Moody's, and (d) certificates of deposit or bankers'
acceptances maturing within 1 year from the date of acquisition thereof either
(i) issued by any bank organized under the laws

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of the United States or any state thereof which bank has a rating of A or A2, or
better, from S&P or Moody's or by a creditworthy banking institution located
outside the United States, or (ii) certificates of deposit less than or equal to
$100,000 in the aggregate issued by any other bank insured by the Federal
Deposit Insurance Corporation.

          "Cash Management Account" has the meaning set forth in Section 2.7(a).

          "Cash Management Agreements" means those certain cash management
service agreements, in form and substance satisfactory to Agent, each of which
is among a Borrower, Agent, and one of the Cash Management Banks.

          "Cash Management Bank" has the meaning set forth in Section 2.7(a).

          "Change of Control" means (a) any "person" or "group" (within the
meaning of Sections 13(d) and 14(d) of the Exchange Act), becomes the beneficial
owner (as defined in Rule 13d-3 under the Exchange Act), directly or indirectly,
of 25%, or more, of the Stock of Parent having the right to vote for the
election of members of the Board of Directors, or (b) a majority of the members
of the Board of Directors do not constitute Continuing Directors, or (c) any
Borrower ceases to directly own and control 100% of the outstanding capital
Stock of each of its Subsidiaries extant as of the Closing Date.

          "Closing Date" means the date of execution of this Agreement.

          "Closing Date Business Plan" means the set of Projections of Borrowers
for the 3 year period following the Closing Date (on a year by year basis, and
for the 1 year period following the Closing Date, on a month by month basis), in
form and substance (including as to scope and underlying assumptions)
satisfactory to Agent.

          "Code" means the New York Uniform Commercial Code, as in effect from
time to time.

          "Collateral" means all of each Borrower's now owned or hereafter
acquired right, title, and interest in and to each of the following:

          (a) Accounts,

          (b) Books,

          (c) Equipment,

          (d) General Intangibles,

          (e) Inventory,

          (f) Investment Property,

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          (g) Negotiable Collateral,

          (h) Real Property Collateral,

          (i) money or other assets of each such Borrower that now or hereafter
come into the possession, custody, or control of any member of the Lender Group,
and

          (j) the proceeds and products, whether tangible or intangible, of any
of the foregoing, including proceeds of insurance covering any or all of the
foregoing, and any and all Accounts, Books, Equipment, General Intangibles,
Inventory, Investment Property, Negotiable Collateral, Real Property, Records,
money, deposit accounts, or other tangible or intangible property resulting from
the sale, exchange, collection, or other disposition of any of the foregoing, or
any portion thereof or interest therein, and the proceeds thereof.

          "Collateral Access Agreement" means a landlord waiver, bailee letter,
or acknowledgment agreement of any lessor, warehouseman, processor, consignee,
or other Person in possession of, having a Lien upon, or having rights or
interests in the Equipment or Inventory, in each case, in form and substance
satisfactory to Agent.

          "Collections" means all cash, checks, notes, instruments, and other
items of payment (including insurance proceeds, proceeds of cash sales, rental
proceeds, and tax refunds) of Borrowers.

          "Commitment" means, with respect to each Lender, its Commitment, and,
with respect to all Lenders, their Commitments, in each case as such Dollar
amounts are set forth beside such Lender's name under the applicable heading on
Schedule C-1 or on the signature page of the Assignment and Acceptance pursuant
to which such Lender became a Lender hereunder in accordance with the provisions
of Section 14.1

          "Compliance Certificate" means a certificate substantially in the form
of Exhibit C-1 delivered by the chief financial officer of Parent to Agent.

          "Continuing Director" means (a) any member of the Board of Directors
who was a director (or comparable manager) of Parent on the Closing Date, and
(b) any individual who becomes a member of the Board of Directors after the
Closing Date if such individual was appointed or nominated for election to the
Board of Directors by a majority of the Continuing Directors, but excluding any
such individual originally proposed for election in opposition to the Board of
Directors in office at the Closing Date in an actual or threatened election
contest relating to the election of the directors (or comparable managers) of
Parent (as such terms are used in Rule 14a-11 under the Exchange Act) and whose
initial assumption of office resulted from such contest or the settlement
thereof.

          "Control Agreement" means a control agreement, in form and substance
satisfactory to Agent, executed and delivered by the applicable Borrower, Agent,
and the

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applicable securities intermediary with respect to a Securities Account or a
bank with respect to a deposit account.

          "Daily Balance" means, with respect to each day during the term of
this Agreement, the amount of an Obligation owed at the end of such day.

          "DDA" means any checking or other demand deposit account maintained by
any Borrower.

          "Default" means an event, condition, or default that, with the giving
of notice, the passage of time, or both, would be an Event of Default.

          "Defaulting Lender" means any Lender that fails to make any Advance
(or other extension of credit) that it is required to make hereunder on the date
that it is required to do so hereunder.

          "Defaulting Lender Rate" means (a) the Base Rate for the first 3 days
from and after the date the relevant payment is due, and (b) thereafter, at the
interest rate then applicable to Advances that are Base Rate Loans (inclusive of
the Base Rate Margin applicable thereto).

          "Designated Account" means an account of Administrative Borrower
maintained with the Designated Account Bank, or such other deposit account of
Administrative Borrower (located within the United States) that has been
designated as such, in writing, by Administrative Borrower to Agent on or before
the Activation Date.

          "Designated Account Bank" means a bank satisfactory to Agent
identified by Administrative Borrower on or before the Activation Date.

          "Dilution" means, as of any date of determination, a percentage, based
upon the experience of the immediately prior six months, that is the result of
dividing the Dollar amount of (a) bad debt write-downs, discounts, advertising
allowances, credits, or other dilutive items with respect to the Accounts during
such period, by (b) Borrowers' billings with respect to Accounts during such
period.

          "Dilution Reserve" means, as of any date of determination, an amount
sufficient to reduce the advance rate against Eligible Accounts by one
percentage point for each percentage point by which Dilution is in excess of 5%.

          "Dollars" or "$" means United States dollars.

          "Domestic Borrower" means a Borrower organized under the laws of the
United States, any of the United States, or the District of Columbia.

          "Domestic Guarantor" means a Guarantor organized under the laws of the
United States, any of the United States, or the District of Columbia.

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          "Due Diligence Letter" means the due diligence letter sent by Agent's
counsel to counsel to Administrative Borrower, together with Administrative
Borrower's completed responses to the inquiries set forth therein, the form and
substance of such responses to be satisfactory to Agent.

          "EBITDA" means, with respect to any fiscal period, Parent's and its
Subsidiaries consolidated net earnings (or loss), minus extraordinary gains,
plus interest expense, income taxes, and depreciation and amortization for such
period, as determined in accordance with GAAP.

          "Eligible Accounts" means those Accounts created by one of Borrowers
in the ordinary course of its business, that arise out of its sale of goods or
rendition of services, that comply with each of the representations and
warranties respecting Eligible Accounts made by Borrowers under the Loan
Documents, and that are not excluded as ineligible by virtue of one or more of
the criteria set forth below; provided, however, that such criteria may be fixed
and revised or varied according to country of origin from time to time by Agent
in Agent's Permitted Discretion to address the results of any audit performed by
Agent from time to time after the Closing Date. In determining the amount to be
included, Eligible Accounts shall be calculated net of customer deposits and
unapplied cash remitted to Borrowers. Eligible Accounts shall not include the
following:

          (a) Accounts that the Account Debtor has failed to pay within 90 days
of original invoice date or Accounts with selling terms of more than 60 days,

          (b) Accounts owed by an Account Debtor (or its Affiliates) where 50%
or more of all Accounts owed by that Account Debtor (or its Affiliates) are
deemed ineligible under clause (a) above,

          (c) Accounts with respect to which the Account Debtor is an employee,
Affiliate, or agent of any Borrower,

          (d) Accounts arising in a transaction wherein goods are placed on
consignment or are sold pursuant to a guaranteed sale, a sale or return, a sale
on approval, a bill and hold, or any other terms by reason of which the payment
by the Account Debtor may be conditional,

          (e) Accounts that are not payable in Dollars except as provided under
Section 2.18 with respect to Foreign Borrowers,

          (f) Accounts with respect to which the Account Debtor either (i) does
not maintain its chief executive office in the United States or, with respect to
Accounts owing to a Foreign Borrower, the country of origin of such Borrower, or
(ii) is not organized under the laws of the United States or any state thereof
or, with respect to Accounts owing to a Foreign Borrower, the country of origin
of such Borrower, or (iii) is the government of any foreign country or sovereign
state, or of any state, province, municipality, or other political subdivision
thereof, or of any department, agency, public corporation, or other
instrumentality thereof, unless

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(y) the Account is supported by an irrevocable letter of credit satisfactory to
Agent (as to form, substance, and issuer or domestic confirming bank) that has
been delivered to Agent and is directly drawable by Agent, or (z) the Account is
covered by credit insurance in form, substance, and amount, and by an insurer,
satisfactory to Agent,

          (g) Accounts with respect to which the Account Debtor is either (i)
the United States or any department, agency, or instrumentality of the United
States (exclusive, however, of Accounts with respect to which the applicable
Borrower has complied, to the reasonable satisfaction of Agent, with the
Assignment of Claims Act, 31 USC ss. 3727), or (ii) any state of the United
States (exclusive, however, of (y) Accounts owed by any state that does not have
a statutory counterpart to the Assignment of Claims Act or (z) Accounts owed by
any state that does have a statutory counterpart to the Assignment of Claims Act
as to which the applicable Borrower has complied to Agent's satisfaction),

          (h) Accounts with respect to which the Account Debtor is a creditor of
any Borrower, has or has asserted a right of setoff, has disputed its liability,
or has made any claim with respect to its obligation to pay the Account, to the
extent of such claim, right of setoff, or dispute,

          (i) Accounts with respect to an Account Debtor whose total obligations
owing to Borrowers exceed 10% of all Eligible Accounts, to the extent of the
obligations owing by such Account Debtor in excess of such percentage,

          (j) Accounts with respect to which the Account Debtor is subject to an
Insolvency Proceeding, is not Solvent, has gone out of business, or as to which
a Borrower has received notice of an imminent Insolvency Proceeding or a
material impairment of the financial condition of such Account Debtor,

          (k) Accounts with respect to which the Account Debtor is located in
the states of New Jersey, Minnesota, or West Virginia (or any other state that
requires a creditor to file a business activity report or similar document in
order to bring suit or otherwise enforce its remedies against such Account
Debtor in the courts or through any judicial process of such state), unless the
applicable Borrower has qualified to do business in New Jersey, Minnesota, West
Virginia, or such other states, or has filed a business activities report with
the applicable division of taxation, the department of revenue, or with such
other state offices, as appropriate, for the then-current year, or is exempt
from such filing requirement,

          (l) Accounts, the collection of which, Agent, in its Permitted
Discretion, believes to be doubtful by reason of the Account Debtor's financial
condition,

          (m) Accounts that are not subject to a valid and perfected first
priority Agent's Lien,

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          (n) Accounts with respect to which (i) the goods giving rise to such
Account have not been shipped and billed to the Account Debtor, or (ii) the
services giving rise to such Account have not been performed and billed to the
Account Debtor, or

          (o) Accounts that represent the right to receive progress payments or
other advance billings that are due prior to the completion of performance by
the applicable Borrower of the subject contract for goods or services.

          "Eligible Transferee" means (a) a commercial bank organized under the
laws of the United States, or any state thereof, and having total assets in
excess of $250,000,000, (b) a commercial bank organized under the laws of any
other country which is a member of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and
Development or a political subdivision of any such country and which has total
assets in excess of $250,000,000, provided that such bank is acting through a
branch or agency located in the United States, (c) a finance company, insurance
company, or other financial institution or fund that is engaged in making,
purchasing, or otherwise investing in commercial loans in the ordinary course of
its business and having (together with its Affiliates) total assets in excess of
$250,000,000, (d) any Affiliate (other than individuals) of a Lender that was
party hereto as of the Closing Date, (e) so long as no Event of Default has
occurred and is continuing, any other Person approved by Agent and
Administrative Borrower, and (f) during the continuation of an Event of Default,
any other Person approved by Agent.

          "Environmental Actions" means any complaint, summons, citation,
notice, directive, order, claim, litigation, investigation, judicial or
administrative proceeding, judgment, letter, or other communication from any
Governmental Authority, or any third party involving violations of Environmental
Laws or releases of Hazardous Materials from (a) any assets, properties, or
businesses of any Borrower or any predecessor in interest, (b) from adjoining
properties or businesses, or (c) from or onto any facilities which received
Hazardous Materials generated by any Borrower or any predecessor in interest.

          "Environmental Law" means any applicable federal, state, provincial,
foreign or local statute, law, rule, regulation, ordinance, code, binding and
enforceable guideline, binding and enforceable written policy or rule of common
law now or hereafter in effect and in each case as amended, or any judicial or
administrative interpretation thereof, including any judicial or administrative
order, consent decree or judgment, to the extent binding on Borrowers, relating
to the environment, employee health and safety, or Hazardous Materials,
including CERCLA; RCRA; the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, 33 USCss.1251
et seq.; the Toxic Substances Control Act, 15 USC,ss.2601 et seq.; the Clean Air
Act, 42 USCss.7401 et seq.; the Safe Drinking Water Act, 42 USC.ss.3803 et seq.;
the Oil Pollution Act of 1990, 33 USC.ss.2701 et seq.; the Emergency Planning
and the Community Right-to-Know Act of 1986, 42 USC.ss.11001 et seq.; the
Hazardous Material Transportation Act, 49 USCss.1801 et seq.; and the
Occupational Safety and Health Act, 29 USC.ss.651 et seq. (to the extent it
regulates occupational exposure to Hazardous Materials); any state and local or
foreign counterparts or equivalents, in each case as amended from time to time.

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          "Environmental Liabilities and Costs" means all liabilities, monetary
obligations, Remedial Actions, losses, damages, punitive damages, consequential
damages, treble damages, costs and expenses (including all reasonable fees,
disbursements and expenses of counsel, experts, or consultants, and costs of
investigation and feasibility studies), fines, penalties, sanctions, and
interest incurred as a result of any claim or demand by any Governmental
Authority or any third party, and which relate to any Environmental Action.

          "Environmental Lien" means any Lien in favor of any Governmental
Authority for Environmental Liabilities and Costs.

          "Equipment" means all of Borrowers' now owned or hereafter acquired
right, title, and interest with respect to equipment, machinery, machine tools,
motors, furniture, furnishings, fixtures, vehicles (including motor vehicles),
tools, parts, goods (other than consumer goods, farm products, or Inventory),
wherever located, including all attachments, accessories, accessions,
replacements, substitutions, additions, and improvements to any of the
foregoing.

          "ERISA" means the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as
amended, and any successor statute thereto.

          "ERISA Affiliate" means (a) any Person subject to ERISA whose
employees are treated as employed by the same employer as the employees of a
Borrower under IRC Section 414(b), (b) any trade or business subject to ERISA
whose employees are treated as employed by the same employer as the employees of
a Borrower under IRC Section 414(c), (c) solely for purposes of Section 302 of
ERISA and Section 412 of the IRC, any organization subject to ERISA that is a
member of an affiliated service group of which a Borrower is a member under IRC
Section 414(m), or (d) solely for purposes of Section 302 of ERISA and Section
412 of the IRC, any Person subject to ERISA that is a party to an arrangement
with a Borrower and whose employees are aggregated with the employees of a
Borrower under IRC Section 414(o).

          "Event of Default" has the meaning set forth in Section 8.

          "Excess Availability" means the amount, as of the date any
determination thereof is to be made, equal to Availability minus the aggregate
amount, if any, of all trade payables of Borrowers aged in excess of their
historical levels with respect thereto and all book overdrafts in excess of
their historical practices with respect thereto, in each case as determined by
Agent in its Permitted Discretion.

          "Exchange Act" means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as in effect
from time to time.

          "Fee Letter" means that certain fee letter, dated as of even date
herewith, between Borrowers and Agent, in form and substance satisfactory to
Agent.

          "FEIN" means Federal Employer Identification Number.

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          "Foothill" means Foothill Capital Corporation, a California
corporation.

          "Foreign Borrower" means a Borrower organized under the laws of a
jurisdiction other than any of the United States or the District of Columbia.

          "Foreign Guarantor" means a Guarantor organized under the laws of a
jurisdiction other than any of the United States or the District of Columbia.

          "Funding Date" means the date on which a Borrowing occurs.

          "Funding Losses" has the meaning set forth in Section 2.13(b)(ii).

          "GAAP" means generally accepted accounting principles as in effect
from time to time in the United States, consistently applied.

          "General Intangibles" means all of Borrowers' now owned or hereafter
acquired right, title, and interest with respect to general intangibles
(including payment intangibles, contract rights, rights to payment, rights
arising under common law, statutes, or regulations, choses or things in action,
goodwill, patents, trade names, trademarks, servicemarks, copyrights,
blueprints, drawings, purchase orders, customer lists, monies due or recoverable
from pension funds, route lists, rights to payment and other rights under any
royalty or licensing agreements, infringement claims, computer programs,
information contained on computer disks or tapes, software, Internet domain
names, Internet domain name registrations, literature, reports, catalogs, money,
deposit accounts, insurance premium rebates, tax refunds, and tax refund
claims), and any and all supporting obligations in respect thereof, and any
other personal property other than goods, Accounts, Investment Property, and
Negotiable Collateral.

          "Governing Documents" means, with respect to any Person, the
certificate or articles of incorporation, by-laws, or other organizational
documents of such Person.

          "Governmental Authority" means any federal, state, local, or other
governmental or administrative body, instrumentality, department, or agency or
any court, tribunal, administrative hearing body, arbitration panel, commission,
or other similar dispute-resolving panel or body.

          "Guarantee and Debenture" means a guarantee and debenture executed or
to be executed by HH UK in favor of Agent, in form and substance satisfactory to
Agent.

          "Guarantor" and "Guarantors" means, individually and collectively,
each of the Subsidiaries of any Borrower set forth on Schedule G-1 attached
hereto and any other Subsidiary of any Borrower which is not itself a Borrower.

          "Guaranty" means a general continuing guaranty executed and delivered
by a Guarantor or any Guarantors in favor of Agent, for the benefit of the
Lender Group, in form and substance satisfactory to Agent.

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          "Hazardous Materials" means (a) substances that are defined or listed
in, or otherwise classified pursuant to, any applicable laws or regulations as
"hazardous substances," "hazardous materials," "hazardous wastes," "toxic
substances," or any other formulation intended to define, list, or classify
substances by reason of deleterious properties such as ignitability,
corrosivity, reactivity, carcinogenicity, reproductive toxicity, or "EP
toxicity", (b) oil, petroleum, or petroleum derived substances, natural gas,
natural gas liquids, synthetic gas, drilling fluids, produced waters, and other
wastes associated with the exploration, development, or production of crude oil,
natural gas, or geothermal resources, (c) any flammable substances or explosives
or any radioactive materials, and (d) asbestos in any form or electrical
equipment that contains any oil or dielectric fluid containing levels of
polychlorinated biphenyls in excess of 50 parts per million.

          "HH Australia" means, collectively, TMP Worldwide eResourcing Pty
Ltd., TMP Worldwide eResourcing (Industrial Services) Pty Ltd., TMP Worldwide
eResourcing (Industrial Solutions) Pty Ltd., TMP Worldwide eResourcing
(Newcastle) Pty Ltd., and TMP Worldwide Executive Search Pty Ltd.

          "HH Canada" means, collectively, Hudson Highland Group Search, Inc.
and James Botrie and Associates, Inc.

          "HH UK" means, collectively, Highland Partners Limited (incorporated
in England and Wales with company number 02800884) and Hudson Global Resources
Limited (incorporated in England and Wales with company number 03203655).

          "HH US" means, collectively, Hudson Highland Group, Inc., Hudson
Highland Group Global Resources America, Inc., Hudson Highland Group Global
Resources Holdings, Inc., and Hudson Highland Group Global Resources Management,
Inc.

          "Indebtedness" means (a) all obligations of a Borrower for borrowed
money, (b) all obligations of a Borrower evidenced by bonds, debentures, notes,
or other similar instruments and all reimbursement or other obligations of a
Borrower in respect of letters of credit, bankers acceptances, interest rate
swaps, or other financial products, (c) all obligations of a Borrower under
Capital Leases, (d) all obligations or liabilities of others secured by a Lien
on any asset of a Borrower, irrespective of whether such obligation or liability
is assumed, (e) all obligations of a Borrower for the deferred purchase price of
assets (other than trade debt incurred in the ordinary course of a Borrower's
business and repayable in accordance with customary trade practices), and (f)
any obligation of a Borrower guaranteeing or intended to guarantee (whether
directly or indirectly guaranteed, endorsed, co-made, discounted, or sold with
recourse to a Borrower) any obligation of any other Person.

          "Indemnified Liabilities" has the meaning set forth in Section 11.3.

          "Indemnified Person" has the meaning set forth in Section 11.3.

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          "Insolvency Proceeding" means any proceeding commenced by or against
any Person under any provision of the Bankruptcy Code or under any other state
or federal bankruptcy or insolvency law, assignments for the benefit of
creditors, formal or informal moratoria, compositions, extensions generally with
creditors, or proceedings seeking reorganization, arrangement, or other similar
relief.

          "Intangible Assets" means, with respect to any Person, that portion of
the book value of all of such Person's assets that would be treated as
intangibles under GAAP.

          "Intercompany Subordination Agreement" means a subordination agreement
executed and delivered by Borrowers and Agent, the form and substance of which
is satisfactory to Agent.

          "Interest Period" means, with respect to each LIBOR Rate Loan, a
period commencing on the date of the making of such LIBOR Rate Loan and ending
1, 2, or 3 months thereafter; provided, however, that (a) if any Interest Period
would end on a day that is not a Business Day, such Interest Period shall be
extended (subject to clauses (c)-(e) below) to the next succeeding Business Day,
(b) interest shall accrue at the applicable rate based upon the LIBOR Rate from
and including the first day of each Interest Period to, but excluding, the day
on which any Interest Period expires, (c) any Interest Period that would end on
a day that is not a Business Day shall be extended to the next succeeding
Business Day unless such Business Day falls in another calendar month, in which
case such Interest Period shall end on the next preceding Business Day, (d) with
respect to an Interest Period that begins on the last Business Day of a calendar
month (or on a day for which there is no numerically corresponding day in the
calendar month at the end of such Interest Period), the Interest Period shall
end on the last Business Day of the calendar month that is 1, 2, or 3 months
after the date on which the Interest Period began, as applicable, and (e)
Borrowers (or Administrative Borrower on behalf thereof) may not elect an
Interest Period which will end after the Maturity Date.

          "Inventory" means all Borrowers' now owned or hereafter acquired
right, title, and interest with respect to inventory, including goods held for
sale or lease or to be furnished under a contract of service, goods that are
leased by a Borrower as lessor, goods that are furnished by a Borrower under a
contract of service, and raw materials, work in process, or materials used or
consumed in a Borrower's business.

          "Investment" means, with respect to any Person, any investment by such
Person in any other Person (including Affiliates) in the form of loans,
guarantees, advances, or capital contributions (excluding (a) commission,
travel, and similar advances to officers and employees of such Person made in
the ordinary course of business, and (b) bona fide Accounts arising from the
sale of goods or rendition of services in the ordinary course of business
consistent with past practice), purchases or other acquisitions for
consideration of Indebtedness or Stock, and any other items that are or would be
classified as investments on a balance sheet prepared in accordance with GAAP.

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          "Investment Property" means all of Borrowers' now owned or hereafter
acquired right, title, and interest with respect to "investment property" as
that term is defined in the Code, and any and all supporting obligations in
respect thereof.

          "IRC" means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as in effect from time
to time.

          "Issuing Lender" means Foothill or any other Lender that, at the
request of Administrative Borrower and with the consent of Agent agrees, in such
Lender's sole discretion, to become an Issuing Lender for the purpose of issuing
L/Cs or L/C Undertakings pursuant to Section 2.12.

          "L/C" has the meaning set forth in Section 2.12(a).

          "L/C Disbursement" means a payment made by the Issuing Lender pursuant
to a Letter of Credit.

          "L/C Undertaking" has the meaning set forth in Section 2.12(a).

          "Lender" and "Lenders" have the respective meanings set forth in the
preamble to this Agreement, and shall include any other Person made a party to
this Agreement in accordance with the provisions of Section 14.1.

          "Lender Group" means, individually and collectively, each of the
Lenders (including the Issuing Lender) and Agent.

          "Lender Group Expenses" means all (a) costs or expenses (including
taxes, and insurance premiums) required to be paid by a Borrower under any of
the Loan Documents that are paid or incurred by the Lender Group, (b) fees or
charges paid or incurred by Agent in connection with the Lender Group's
transactions with Borrowers, including, fees or charges for photocopying,
notarization, couriers and messengers, telecommunication, public record searches
(including tax lien, litigation, and UCC searches and including searches with
the patent and trademark office, the copyright office, or the department of
motor vehicles), filing, recording, publication, appraisal (including periodic
Collateral appraisals or business valuations to the extent of the fees and
charges (and up to the amount of any limitation) contained in this Agreement,
real estate surveys, real estate title policies and endorsements, and
environmental audits, (c) costs and expenses incurred by Agent in the
disbursement of funds to or for the account of Borrowers (by wire transfer or
otherwise), (d) charges paid or incurred by Agent resulting from the dishonor of
checks, (e) reasonable costs and expenses paid or incurred by the Lender Group
to correct any default or enforce any provision of the Loan Documents, or in
gaining possession of, maintaining, handling, preserving, storing, shipping,
selling, preparing for sale, or advertising to sell the Collateral, or any
portion thereof, irrespective of whether a sale is consummated, (f) audit fees
and expenses of Agent related to audit examinations of the Books to the extent
of the fees and charges (and up to the amount of any limitation) contained in
this Agreement, (g) reasonable costs and expenses of third party claims or any
other suit paid or incurred by the Lender Group in enforcing or defending the
Loan Documents or in connection

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with the transactions contemplated by the Loan Documents or the Lender Group's
relationship with any Borrower or any guarantor of the Obligations, (h) Agent's
and each Lender's reasonable fees and expenses (including attorneys fees)
incurred in advising, structuring, drafting, reviewing, administering, or
amending the Loan Documents, and (i) Agent's and each Lender's reasonable fees
and expenses (including attorneys fees) incurred in terminating, enforcing
(including attorneys fees and expenses incurred in connection with a "workout,"
a "restructuring," or an Insolvency Proceeding concerning any Borrower or in
exercising rights or remedies under the Loan Documents), or defending the Loan
Documents, irrespective of whether suit is brought, or in taking any Remedial
Action concerning the Collateral.

          "Lender-Related Person" means, with respect to any Lender, such
Lender, together with such Lender's Affiliates, and the officers, directors,
employees, and agents of such Lender.

          "Letter of Credit" means an L/C or an L/C Undertaking, as the context
requires.

          "Letter of Credit Usage" means, as of any date of determination, the
aggregate undrawn amount of all outstanding Letters of Credit plus 100% of the
amount of outstanding time drafts accepted by an Underlying Issuer as a result
of drawings under Underlying Letters of Credit.

          "LIBOR Deadline" has the meaning set forth in Section 2.13(b)(i).

          "LIBOR Notice" means a written notice in the form of Exhibit L-1.

          "LIBOR Rate" means, for each Interest Period for each LIBOR Rate Loan,
the rate per annum determined by Agent (rounded upwards, if necessary, to the
next 1/16%) by dividing (a) the Base LIBOR Rate for such Interest Period, by (b)
100% minus the Reserve Percentage. The LIBOR Rate shall be adjusted on and as of
the effective day of any change in the Reserve Percentage.

          "LIBOR Rate Loan" means each portion of an Advance that bears interest
at a rate determined by reference to the LIBOR Rate.

          "LIBOR Rate Margin" means 2.00 percentage points.

          "Lien" means any interest in an asset securing an obligation owed to,
or a claim by, any Person other than the owner of the asset, whether such
interest shall be based on the common law, statute, or contract, whether such
interest shall be recorded or perfected, and whether such interest shall be
contingent upon the occurrence of some future event or events or the existence
of some future circumstance or circumstances, including the lien or security
interest arising from a mortgage, deed of trust, encumbrance, pledge,
hypothecation, assignment, deposit arrangement, security agreement, conditional
sale or trust receipt, or from a lease, consignment, or bailment for security
purposes and also including reservations, exceptions, encroachments, easements,
rights-of-way, covenants, conditions, restrictions, leases, and other title
exceptions and encumbrances affecting Real Property.

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          "Loan Account" has the meaning set forth in Section 2.10.

          "Loan Documents" means this Agreement, the Cash Management Agreements,
the Control Agreements, the Copyright Security Agreement, the Disbursement
Letter, the Due Diligence Letter, the Fee Letter, the Guaranties, the Letters of
Credit, the Officers' Certificate, the Stock Pledge Agreement, the Trademark
Security Agreement, the Intercompany Subordination Agreement, the UK Security
Documents, the Subsidiary Documents, any note or notes executed by a Borrower in
connection with this Agreement and payable to a member of the Lender Group, and
any other agreement entered into, now or in the future, by any Borrower and the
Lender Group in connection with this Agreement.

          "Material Adverse Change" means (a) a material adverse change in the
business, operations, results of operations, assets, liabilities or condition
(financial or otherwise) of Borrowers taken as a whole, (b) a material
impairment of a Borrower's ability to perform its obligations under the Loan
Documents to which it is a party or of the Lender Group's ability to enforce the
Obligations or realize upon the Collateral, or (c) a material impairment of the
enforceability or priority of the Agent's Liens with respect to the Collateral
as a result of an action or failure to act on the part of a Borrower.

          "Maturity Date" has the meaning set forth in Section 3.4.

          "Maximum Australia Amount" means, upon execution of an amendment to
this Agreement by HH Australia, in form and content satisfactory to Agent in its
Permitted Discretion, pursuant to which HH Australia shall become a Borrower
hereunder, an amount equal to $15,000,000.

          "Maximum Canada Amount" means, upon execution of an amendment to this
Agreement by HH Canada, in form and content satisfactory to Agent in its
Permitted Discretion, pursuant to which HH Australia shall become a Borrower
hereunder, an amount equal to $5,000,000.

          "Maximum Revolver Amount" means $50,000,000.

          "Maximum UK Amount" means $25,000,000.

          "Minimum Availability" has the meaning set forth in Section 7.21.

          "Negotiable Collateral" means all of Borrowers' now owned and
hereafter acquired right, title, and interest with respect to letters of credit,
letter of credit rights, instruments, promissory notes, drafts, documents, and
chattel paper (including electronic chattel paper and tangible chattel paper),
and any and all supporting obligations in respect thereof.

          "Obligations" means all loans, Advances, debts, principal, interest
(including any interest that, but for the provisions of the Bankruptcy Code,
would have accrued), contingent reimbursement obligations with respect to
outstanding Letters of Credit, premiums, liabilities

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(including all amounts charged to Borrowers' Loan Account pursuant hereto),
obligations, fees (including the fees provided for in the Fee Letter), charges,
costs, Lender Group Expenses (including any fees or expenses that, but for the
provisions of the Bankruptcy Code, would have accrued), lease payments,
guaranties, covenants, and duties of any kind and description owing by Borrowers
to the Lender Group pursuant to or evidenced by the Loan Documents and
irrespective of whether for the payment of money, whether direct or indirect,
absolute or contingent, due or to become due, now existing or hereafter arising,
and including all interest not paid when due and all Lender Group Expenses that
Borrowers are required to pay or reimburse by the Loan Documents, by law, or
otherwise. Any reference in this Agreement or in the Loan Documents to the
Obligations shall include all amendments, changes, extensions, modifications,
renewals replacements, substitutions, and supplements, thereto and thereof, as
applicable, both prior and subsequent to any Insolvency Proceeding.

          "Officers' Certificate" means the representations and warranties of
officers form submitted by Agent to Administrative Borrower, together with
Borrowers' and Guarantors' completed responses to the inquiries set forth
therein, the form and substance of such responses to be satisfactory to Agent.

          "Originating Lender" has the meaning set forth in Section 14.1(e).

          "Overadvance" has the meaning set forth in Section 2.5.

          "Parent" has the meaning set forth in the preamble to this Agreement.

          "Participant" has the meaning set forth in Section 14.1(e).

          "Permitted Discretion" means a determination made in good faith and in
the exercise of reasonable (from the perspective of a secured asset-based
lender) business judgment.

          "Permitted Dispositions" means (a) sales or other dispositions by
Borrowers of Equipment that is substantially worn, damaged, or obsolete in the
ordinary course of the applicable Borrower's business, (b) sales by Borrowers of
Inventory to buyers in the ordinary course of business, (c) the use or transfer
of money or Cash Equivalents by Borrowers in a manner that is not prohibited by
the terms of this Agreement or the other Loan Documents, (d) transfers of assets
from a Guarantor to a Guarantor, or a Guarantor to a Borrower, or a Borrower to
a Borrower organized in the same country as the Borrower transferring such
assets, provided Agent has received thirty days prior notice (five days at all
times prior to the Activation Date) and (e) the licensing by Borrowers, on a
non-exclusive basis, of patents, trademarks, copyrights, and other intellectual
property rights in the ordinary course of the applicable Borrower's business.

          "Permitted Investments" means (a) investments in Cash Equivalents, (b)
investments in negotiable instruments for collection, (c) advances made in
connection with purchases of goods or services in the ordinary course of
business, (d) investments by any Borrower in any other Borrower provided that if
any such investment is in the form of

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Indebtedness, such Indebtedness investment shall be subject to the terms and
conditions of the Intercompany Subordination Agreement, and (e) advances, loans
and other investments by Borrowers in Guarantors in an aggregate amount not
exceeding at any one time outstanding an amount to be determined by Agent upon
Borrowers' request prior to the Activation Date.

          "Permitted Liens" means (a) Liens held by Agent for the benefit of
Agent and the Lenders, (b) Liens for unpaid taxes that either (i) are not yet
delinquent, or (ii) do not constitute an Event of Default hereunder and are the
subject of Permitted Protests, (c) Liens set forth on Schedule P-1, (d) the
interests of lessors under operating leases, (e) purchase money Liens or the
interests of lessors under Capital Leases to the extent that such Liens or
interests secure Permitted Purchase Money Indebtedness and so long as such Lien
attaches only to the asset purchased or acquired and the proceeds thereof, (f)
Liens arising by operation of law in favor of warehousemen, landlords, carriers,
mechanics, materialmen, laborers, or suppliers, incurred in the ordinary course
of Borrowers' business and not in connection with the borrowing of money, and
which Liens either (i) are for sums not yet delinquent, or (ii) are the subject
of Permitted Protests, (g) Liens arising from deposits made in connection with
obtaining worker's compensation or other unemployment insurance, (h) Liens or
deposits to secure performance of bids, tenders, or leases incurred in the
ordinary course of Borrowers' business and not in connection with the borrowing
of money, (i) Liens granted as security for surety or appeal bonds in connection
with obtaining such bonds in the ordinary course of Borrowers' business, (j)
Liens resulting from any judgment or award that is not an Event of Default
hereunder, (k) Liens with respect to the Real Property Collateral that are
exceptions to the commitments for title insurance issued in connection with the
Mortgages, as accepted by Agent, and (l) with respect to any Real Property that
is not part of the Real Property Collateral, easements, rights of way, and
zoning restrictions that do not materially interfere with or impair the use or
operation thereof by Borrowers.

          "Permitted Protest" means the right of the applicable Borrower to
protest any Lien (other than any such Lien that secures the Obligations), taxes
(other than payroll taxes or taxes that are the subject of a United States
federal tax lien), or rental payment, provided that (a) a reserve with respect
to such obligation is established on the Books in such amount as is required
under GAAP, (b) any such protest is instituted promptly and prosecuted
diligently by the applicable Borrower in good faith, and (c) Agent is satisfied
that, while any such protest is pending, there will be no impairment of the
enforceability, validity, or priority of any of the Agent's Liens.

          "Permitted Purchase Money Indebtedness" means, as of any date of
determination, Purchase Money Indebtedness incurred after the Closing Date in an
aggregate amount outstanding at any one time not in excess of $20,000,000.

          "Person" means natural persons, corporations, limited liability
companies, limited partnerships, general partnerships, limited liability
partnerships, joint ventures, trusts, land trusts, business trusts, or other
organizations, irrespective of whether they are legal entities, and governments
and agencies and political subdivisions thereof.

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          "Personal Property Collateral" means all Collateral other than Real
Property.

          "Projections" means Parent's forecasted (a) balance sheets, (b) profit
and loss statements, and (c) cash flow statements, all prepared on a consistent
basis with Parent's historical financial statements, together with appropriate
supporting details and a statement of underlying assumptions.

          "Pro Rata Share" means, with respect to all matters (including the
indemnification obligations arising under Section 16.7), the percentage obtained
by dividing (i) such Lender's Commitment by (ii) the aggregate amount of
Commitments of all Lenders; provided, however, that, in each case, in the event
all Commitments have been terminated, Pro Rata Share shall be determined
according to the Commitments in effect immediately prior to such termination.

          "Purchase Money Indebtedness" means Indebtedness (other than the
Obligations, but including Capitalized Lease Obligations), incurred at the time
of, or within 20 days after, the acquisition of any fixed assets for the purpose
of financing all or any part of the acquisition cost thereof.

          "Real Property" means any estates or interests in real property (other
than leased real property) now owned or hereafter acquired by any Borrower and
the improvements thereto.

          "Record" means information that is inscribed on a tangible medium or
which is stored in an electronic or other medium and is retrievable in
perceivable form.

          "Remedial Action" means all actions taken to (a) clean up, remove,
remediate, contain, treat, monitor, assess, evaluate, or in any way address
Hazardous Materials in the indoor or outdoor environment, (b) prevent or
minimize a release or threatened release of Hazardous Materials so they do not
migrate or endanger or threaten to endanger public health or welfare or the
indoor or outdoor environment, (c) perform any pre-remedial studies,
investigations, or post-remedial operation and maintenance activities, or (d)
conduct any other actions authorized by 42 USC ss. 9601.

          "Report" has the meaning set forth in Section 16.17.

          "Required Availability" means Excess Availability and cash and Cash
Equivalents subject to Cash Management Agreements in an amount of not less than
$45,000,000 after payment of all fees, expenses and other charges then due under
this Agreement and the other Loan Documents.

          "Required Lenders" means, at any time, Lenders whose Pro Rata Shares
aggregate 66 2/3% of the Commitments, or if the Total Commitments have been
terminated irrevocably, 66 2/3 % of the Obligations then outstanding.

          "Reserve Percentage" means, on any day, for any Lender, the maximum
percentage prescribed by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
(or any successor

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Governmental Authority) for determining the reserve requirements (including any
basic, supplemental, marginal, or emergency reserves) that are in effect on such
date with respect to eurocurrency funding (currently referred to as
"eurocurrency liabilities") of that Lender, but so long as such Lender is not
required or directed under applicable regulations to maintain such reserves, the
Reserve Percentage shall be zero.

          "Revolver Usage" means, as of any date of determination, the sum of
(a) the then extant amount of outstanding Advances, plus (b) the then extant
amount of the Letter of Credit Usage.

          "Risk Participation Liability" means, as to each Letter of Credit, all
reimbursement obligations of Borrowers to the Issuing Lender with respect to an
L/C Undertaking, consisting of (a) the amount available to be drawn or which may
become available to be drawn, (b) all amounts that have been paid by the Issuing
Lender to the Underlying Issuer to the extent not reimbursed by Borrowers,
whether by the making of an Advance or otherwise, and (c) all accrued and unpaid
interest, fees, and expenses payable with respect thereto.

          "SEC" means the United States Securities and Exchange Commission and
any successor thereto.

          "Securities Account" means a "securities account" as that term is
defined in the Code.

          "Settlement" has the meaning set forth in Section 2.3(f)(i).

          "Settlement Date" has the meaning set forth in Section 2.3(f)(i).

          "Share Mortgage" means a share mortgage executed or to be executed in
favor of Agent by each Subsidiary of Parent which owns any shares in any other
Subsidiary of Parent incorporated in England and Wales in respect of such
shares.

          "Solvent" means, with respect to any Person on a particular date, that
such Person is not insolvent (as such term is defined in the Uniform Fraudulent
Conveyance Act).

          "Spin-Off" means the transaction pursuant to which TMP shall
distribute one hundred percent (100%) of the shares of common stock of Parent to
its shareholders in a tax-free spin-off in accordance with that certain
Information Statement filed by TMP with the SEC on March 14, 2003.

          "Stock" means all shares, options, warrants, interests,
participations, or other equivalents (regardless of how designated) of or in a
Person, whether voting or nonvoting, including common stock, preferred stock, or
any other "equity security" (as such term is defined in Rule 3a11-1 of the
General Rules and Regulations promulgated by the SEC under the Exchange Act).

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          "Stock Pledge Agreement" means a stock pledge agreement, in form and
substance satisfactory to Agent, executed and delivered by each Borrower that
owns Stock of a Subsidiary of Parent.

          "Subsidiary" of a Person means a corporation, partnership, limited
liability company, or other entity in which that Person directly or indirectly
owns or controls the shares of Stock having ordinary voting power to elect a
majority of the board of directors (or appoint other comparable managers) of
such corporation, partnership, limited liability company, or other entity.

          "Subsidiary Documents" means the Guaranty, Trademark Security
Agreement and General Security Agreement executed by each Guarantor with or in
favor of Agent and any other agreement entered into, now or in the future, by
any Guarantor and the Lender Group in connection with this Agreement.

          "Swing Lender" means Foothill or any other Lender that, at the request
of Administrative Borrower and with the consent of Agent agrees, in such
Lender's sole discretion, to become the Swing Lender hereunder.

          "Swing Loan" has the meaning set forth in Section 2.3(d)(i).

          "Syndication Modifications" has the meaning set forth in Section
14.1(h).

          "Tangible Net Worth" means, as of any date of determination, the
result of (a) the total stockholder's equity of Parent and its Subsidiaries,
minus (b) the sum of (i) all Intangible Assets of Parent and its Subsidiaries,
(ii) all of Parent's prepaid expenses, and (iii) all amounts due to Parent and
its Subsidiaries from Affiliates.

          "Taxes" has the meaning set forth in Section 16.11(e).

          "TMP" means TMP Worldwide, Inc., a Delaware corporation.

          "TMP Documents" means, collectively, the TMP Loan Agreement, the
Distribution Agreement, the Transition Services Agreement, the Tax Separation
Agreement, and the Security Agreement (if any), all dated on or about March 31,
2003, between Parent and TMP, and any other agreement, instrument, or document
executed by Parent and TMP in connection with the Spin-Off or evidencing,
governing, or affecting the allocation of assets or business operations of
Parent and its Subsidiaries after the Spin-Off.

          "TMP Loan Agreement" means that certain Loan Agreement between Parent
as borrower and TMP as lender dated on or about March 31, 2003.

          "Trademark Security Agreement" means a trademark security agreement
executed and delivered by each Borrower to Agent and by each Guarantor, as Agent
shall determine, to Agent, the form and substance of which is satisfactory to
Agent.

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          "UK Security Documents" means the Guarantee and Debenture, the Share
Mortgages and such other agreements, instruments and documents as may be
required by Agent to create and perfect the security interest of Agent on behalf
of Lenders in any Collateral located in the United Kingdom.

          "Underlying Issuer" means a third Person which is the beneficiary of
an L/C Undertaking and which has issued a letter of credit at the request of the
Issuing Lender for the benefit of Borrowers.

          "Underlying Letter of Credit" means a letter of credit that has been
issued by an Underlying Issuer.

          "Voidable Transfer" has the meaning set forth in Section 17.7.

          "Wells Fargo" means Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, a national
banking association.

     1.2 Accounting Terms. All accounting terms not specifically defined herein
shall be construed in accordance with GAAP. When used herein, the term
"financial statements" shall include the notes and schedules thereto. Whenever
the term "Borrowers" or the term "Parent" is used in respect of a financial
covenant or a related definition, it shall be understood to mean Parent and its
Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis unless the context clearly requires
otherwise.

     1.3 Code. Any terms used in this Agreement that are defined in the Code
shall be construed and defined as set forth in the Code unless otherwise defined
herein.

     1.4 Construction. Unless the context of this Agreement or any other Loan
Document clearly requires otherwise, references to the plural include the
singular, references to the singular include the plural, the term "including" is
not limiting, and the term "or" has, except where otherwise indicated, the
inclusive meaning represented by the phrase "and/or." The words "hereof,"
"herein," "hereby," "hereunder," and similar terms in this Agreement or any
other Loan Document refer to this Agreement or such other Loan Document, as the
case may be, as a whole and not to any particular provision of this Agreement or
such other Loan Document, as the case may be. Section, subsection, clause,
schedule, and exhibit references herein are to this Agreement unless otherwise
specified. Any reference in this Agreement or in the other Loan Documents to any
agreement, instrument, or document shall include all alterations, amendments,
changes, extensions, modifications, renewals, replacements, substitutions,
joinders, and supplements, thereto and thereof, as applicable (subject to any
restrictions on such alterations, amendments, changes, extensions,
modifications, renewals, replacements, substitutions, joinders, and supplements
set forth herein). Any reference herein to any Person shall be construed to
include such Person's successors and assigns. Any requirement of a writing
contained herein or in the other Loan Documents shall be satisfied by the
transmission of a Record and any Record transmitted shall constitute a
representation and warranty as to the accuracy and completeness of the
information contained therein.

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     1.5 Schedules and Exhibits. All of the schedules and exhibits attached to
this Agreement shall be deemed incorporated herein by reference.

2.   LOAN AND TERMS OF PAYMENT.

     2.1 Revolver Advances.

          (a) Subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement, and during
the term of this Agreement, each Lender agrees (severally, not jointly or
jointly and severally) to make advances ("Advances") to Borrowers in an amount
at any one time outstanding not to exceed such Lender's Pro Rata Share of an
amount equal to the lesser of (i) the Maximum Revolver Amount less the Letter of
Credit Usage, or (ii) the Borrowing Base less the Letter of Credit Usage. For
purposes of this Agreement, "Borrowing Base," as of any date of determination,
shall mean the result of:

               (y)  85% of the amount of Eligible Accounts, less the amount,
                    if any, of the Dilution Reserve, minus

               (z)  the aggregate amount of reserves, if any, established by
                    Agent under Section 2.1(b).

          (b) Anything to the contrary in this Section 2.1 notwithstanding,
Agent shall have the right to establish reserves in such amounts, and with
respect to such matters, as Agent in its Permitted Discretion shall deem
necessary or appropriate, against the Borrowing Base, including reserves with
respect to (i) sums that Borrowers are required to pay (such as taxes,
assessments, insurance premiums, or, in the case of leased assets, rents or
other amounts payable under such leases) and has failed to pay under any Section
of this Agreement or any other Loan Document, (ii) an amount, as determined by
Agent in its Permitted Discretion, equal to the aggregate amount of all of
Borrowers' then accrued or incurred and unpaid payroll and payroll taxes, which
reserve amount, in addition to all of Agent's other rights hereunder, may be
increased by Agent from time to time, including for any deviation from any
Borrowers' past practices with respect to such payroll and payroll taxes, and
(iii) amounts owing by Borrowers to any Person to the extent secured by a Lien
on, or trust over, any of the Collateral (other than any existing Permitted Lien
set forth on Schedule P-1 which is specifically identified thereon as entitled
to have priority over the Agent's Liens), which Lien or trust, in the Permitted
Discretion of Agent likely would have a priority superior to the Agent's Liens
(such as Liens or trusts in favor of landlords, warehousemen, carriers,
mechanics, materialmen, laborers, or suppliers, or Liens or trusts for ad
valorem, excise, sales, or other taxes where given priority under applicable
law) in and to such item of the Collateral.

          (c) The Lenders shall have no obligation to make additional Advances
hereunder to the extent such additional Advances would cause the Revolver Usage
to exceed (i) the lesser of (x) the Maximum Revolver Amount or (y) the Borrowing
Base, or (ii) an amount equal to the aggregate amount of proceeds of Borrowers'
Accounts collected, in good and

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available funds, during the sixty-five consecutive day period immediately prior
to Administrative Borrower's request for such Advance.

          (d) Amounts borrowed pursuant to this Section may be repaid and,
subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement, reborrowed at any time
during the term of this Agreement.

     2.2 Country Limits. Notwithstanding anything in Section 2.1 or elsewhere in
this Agreement to the contrary, and subject to Section 2.16 and Section 2.17 of
this Agreement, Revolver Usage by or for the direct benefit or use of (a) HH UK
may not exceed the Maximum UK Amount, (b) HH Canada may not exceed the Maximum
Canada Amount, and (c) HH Australia may not exceed the Maximum Australia Amount.

     2.3 Borrowing Procedures and Settlements.

          (a) Procedure for Borrowing. Each Borrowing shall be made by an
irrevocable written request by an Authorized Person delivered to Agent (which
notice must be received by Agent no later than 10:00 a.m. (California time) on
the Business Day prior to the date that is the requested Funding Date in the
case of a request for an Advance specifying (i) the amount of such Borrowing,
and (ii) the requested Funding Date, which shall be a Business Day; provided,
however, that in the case of a request for Swing Loan in an amount of
$5,000,000, or less, such notice will be timely received if it is received by
Agent no later than 10:00 a.m. (California time) on the Business Day that is the
requested Funding Date) specifying (i) the amount of such Borrowing, and (ii)
the requested Funding Date, which shall be a Business Day. At Agent's election,
in lieu of delivering the above-described written request, any Authorized Person
may give Agent telephonic notice of such request by the required time, with such
telephonic notice to be confirmed in writing within 24 hours of the giving of
such notice.

          (b) Agent's Election. Promptly after receipt of a request for a
Borrowing pursuant to Section 2.3(a), Agent shall elect, in its discretion, to
have the terms of Section 2.3(c) apply to such requested Borrowing, or if the
Borrowing is for an Advance, to request Swing Lender to make a Swing Loan
pursuant to the terms of Section 2.3(d) in the amount of the requested
Borrowing; provided, however, that if Swing Lender declines in its sole
discretion to make a Swing Loan pursuant to Section 2.3(d), Agent shall elect to
have the terms of Section 2.3(c) apply to such requested Borrowing.

          (c) Making of Advances.

               (i) Promptly after receipt of a request for a Borrowing pursuant
     to Section 2.3(a), Agent shall notify the Lenders, not later than 1:00 p.m.
     (California time) on the Business Day immediately preceding the Funding
     Date applicable thereto, by telecopy, telephone, or other similar form of
     transmission, of the requested Borrowing. Each Lender shall make the amount
     of such Lender's Pro Rata Share of the requested Borrowing available to
     Agent in immediately available funds, to Agent's Account, not later than
     10:00 a.m. (California time) on the Funding Date applicable thereto. After

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     Agent's receipt of the proceeds of such Advances, upon satisfaction of the
     applicable conditions precedent set forth in Section 3 hereof, Agent shall
     make the proceeds thereof available to Administrative Borrower on the
     applicable Funding Date by transferring immediately available funds equal
     to such proceeds received by Agent to Administrative Borrower's Designated
     Account; provided, however, that, subject to the provisions of Section
     2.3(i), Agent shall not request any Lender to make, and no Lender shall
     have the obligation to make, any Advance if Agent shall have actual
     knowledge that (1) one or more of the applicable conditions precedent set
     forth in Section 3 will not be satisfied on the requested Funding Date for
     the applicable Borrowing unless such condition has been waived, or (2) the
     requested Borrowing would exceed the Availability on such Funding Date.

               (ii) Unless Agent receives notice from a Lender on or prior to
     the Closing Date or, with respect to any Borrowing after the Closing Date,
     at least one (1) Business Day prior to the date of such Borrowing, that
     such Lender will not make available as and when required hereunder to Agent
     for the account of Borrowers the amount of that Lender's Pro Rata Share of
     the Borrowing, Agent may assume that each Lender has made or will make such
     amount available to Agent in immediately available funds on the Funding
     Date and Agent may (but shall not be so required), in reliance upon such
     assumption, make available to Borrowers on such date a corresponding
     amount. If and to the extent any Lender shall not have made its full amount
     available to Agent in immediately available funds and Agent in such
     circumstances has made available to Borrowers such amount, that Lender
     shall on the Business Day following such Funding Date make such amount
     available to Agent, together with interest at the Defaulting Lender Rate
     for each day during such period. A notice submitted by Agent to any Lender
     with respect to amounts owing under this subsection shall be conclusive,
     absent manifest error. If such amount is so made available, such payment to
     Agent shall constitute such Lender's Advance on the date of Borrowing for
     all purposes of this Agreement. If such amount is not made available to
     Agent on the Business Day following the Funding Date, Agent will notify
     Administrative Borrower of such failure to fund and, upon demand by Agent,
     Borrowers shall pay such amount to Agent for Agent's account, together with
     interest thereon for each day elapsed since the date of such Borrowing, at
     a rate per annum equal to the interest rate applicable at the time to the
     Advances composing such Borrowing. The failure of any Lender to make any
     Advance on any Funding Date shall not relieve any other Lender of any
     obligation hereunder to make an Advance on such Funding Date, but no Lender
     shall be responsible for the failure of any other Lender to make the
     Advance to be made by such other Lender on any Funding Date.

               (ii) Agent shall not be obligated to transfer to a Defaulting
     Lender any payments made by Borrowers to Agent for the Defaulting Lender's
     benefit, and, in the absence of such transfer to the Defaulting Lender,
     Agent shall transfer any such payments to each other non-Defaulting Lender
     member of the Lender Group ratably in accordance with their Commitments
     (but only to the extent that such Defaulting Lender's Advance was funded by
     the other members of the Lender Group) or, if so directed by Administrative
     Borrower and if no Default or Event of Default had occurred and is

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     continuing (and to the extent such Defaulting Lender's Advance was not
     funded by the Lender Group), retain same to be re-advanced to Borrowers as
     if such Defaulting Lender had made Advances to Borrowers. Subject to the
     foregoing, Agent may hold and, in its Permitted Discretion, re-lend to
     Borrowers for the account of such Defaulting Lender the amount of all such
     payments received and retained by it for the account of such Defaulting
     Lender. Solely for the purposes of voting or consenting to matters with
     respect to the Loan Documents, such Defaulting Lender shall be deemed not
     to be a "Lender" and such Lender's Commitment shall be deemed to be zero.
     This Section shall remain effective with respect to such Lender until (x)
     the Obligations under this Agreement shall have been declared or shall have
     become immediately due and payable, (y) the non-Defaulting Lenders, Agent,
     and Administrative Borrower shall have waived such Defaulting Lender's
     default in writing, or (z) the Defaulting Lender makes its Pro Rata Share
     of the applicable Advance and pays to Agent all amounts owing by Defaulting
     Lender in respect thereof. The operation of this Section shall not be
     construed to increase or otherwise affect the Commitment of any Lender, to
     relieve or excuse the performance by such Defaulting Lender or any other
     Lender of its duties and obligations hereunder, or to relieve or excuse the
     performance by Borrowers of their duties and obligations hereunder to Agent
     or to the Lenders other than such Defaulting Lender. Any such failure to
     fund by any Defaulting Lender shall constitute a material breach by such
     Defaulting Lender of this Agreement and shall entitle Administrative
     Borrower at its option, upon written notice to Agent, to arrange for a
     substitute Lender to assume the Commitment of such Defaulting Lender, such
     substitute Lender to be acceptable to Agent. In connection with the
     arrangement of such a substitute Lender, the Defaulting Lender shall have
     no right to refuse to be replaced hereunder, and agrees to execute and
     deliver a completed form of Assignment and Acceptance Agreement in favor of
     the substitute Lender (and agrees that it shall be deemed to have executed
     and delivered such document if it fails to do so) subject only to being
     repaid its share of the outstanding Obligations (including an assumption of
     its Pro Rata Share of the Risk Participation Liability) without any premium
     or penalty of any kind whatsoever; provided further, however, that any such
     assumption of the Commitment of such Defaulting Lender shall not be deemed
     to constitute a waiver of any of the Lender Groups' or Borrowers' rights or
     remedies against any such Defaulting Lender arising out of or in relation
     to such failure to fund.

          (d) Making of Swing Loans.

               (i) In the event Agent shall elect, with the consent of Swing
     Lender, as a Lender, to have the terms of this Section 2.3(d) apply to a
     requested Borrowing as described in Section 2.3(b), Swing Lender as a
     Lender shall make such Advance in the amount of such Borrowing (any such
     Advance made solely by Swing Lender as a Lender pursuant to this Section
     2.3(d) being referred to as a "Swing Loan" and such Advances being referred
     to collectively as "Swing Loans") available to Borrowers on the Funding
     Date applicable thereto by transferring immediately available funds to
     Administrative Borrower's Designated Account. Each Swing Loan is an Advance
     hereunder and shall be subject to all the terms and conditions applicable
     to other Advances, except that no such

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     Swing Loan shall be eligible for the LIBOR Option and all payments on any
     Swing Loan shall be payable to Swing Lender as a Lender solely for its own
     account (and for the account of the holder of any participation interest
     with respect to such Swing Loan). Subject to the provisions of Section
     2.3(i), Agent shall not request Swing Lender as a Lender to make, and Swing
     Lender as a Lender shall not make, any Swing Loan if Agent has actual
     knowledge that (i) one or more of the applicable conditions precedent set
     forth in Section 3 will not be satisfied on the requested Funding Date for
     the applicable Borrowing unless such condition has been waived, or (ii) the
     requested Borrowing would exceed the Availability on such Funding Date.
     Swing Lender as a Lender shall not otherwise be required to determine
     whether the applicable conditions precedent set forth in Section 3 have
     been satisfied on the Funding Date applicable thereto prior to making, in
     its sole discretion, any Swing Loan.

               (ii) The Swing Loans shall be secured by the Agent's Liens, shall
     constitute Advances and Obligations hereunder, and shall bear interest at
     the rate applicable from time to time to Advances that are Base Rate Loans.

          (e) Agent Advances.

               (i) Agent hereby is authorized by Borrowers and the Lenders, from
     time to time in Agent's sole discretion, (1) after the occurrence and
     during the continuance of a Default or an Event of Default, or (2) at any
     time that any of the other applicable conditions precedent set forth in
     Section 3 have not been satisfied, to make Advances to Borrowers on behalf
     of the Lenders that Agent, in its Permitted Discretion deems necessary or
     desirable (A) to preserve or protect the Collateral, or any portion
     thereof, (B) to enhance the likelihood of repayment of the Obligations, or
     (C) to pay any other amount chargeable to Borrowers pursuant to the terms
     of this Agreement, including Lender Group Expenses and the costs, fees, and
     expenses described in Section 10 (any of the Advances described in this
     Section 2.3(e) shall be referred to as "Agent Advances"). Each Agent
     Advance is an Advance hereunder and shall be subject to all the terms and
     conditions applicable to other Advances, except that no such Agent Advance
     shall be eligible for the LIBOR Option and all payments thereon shall be
     payable to Agent solely for its own account (and for the account of the
     holder of any participation interest with respect to such Agent Advance).

               (ii) The Agent Advances shall be repayable on demand and secured
     by the Agent's Liens granted to Agent under the Loan Documents, shall
     constitute Advances and Obligations hereunder, and shall bear interest at
     the rate applicable from time to time to Advances that are Base Rate Loans.

          (f) Settlement. It is agreed that each Lender's funded portion of the
Advances is intended by the Lenders to equal, at all times, such Lender's Pro
Rata Share of the outstanding Advances. Such agreement notwithstanding, Agent,
Swing Lender, and the other Lenders agree (which agreement shall not be for the
benefit of or enforceable by Borrowers) that in order to facilitate the
administration of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents,

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settlement among them as to the Advances, the Swing Loans, and the Agent
Advances shall take place on a periodic basis in accordance with the following
provisions:

               (i) Agent shall request settlement ("Settlement") with the
     Lenders on a weekly basis, or on a more frequent basis if so determined by
     Agent, (1) on behalf of Swing Lender, with respect to each outstanding
     Swing Loan, (2) for itself, with respect to each Agent Advance, and (3)
     with respect to Collections received, as to each by notifying the Lenders
     by telecopy, telephone, or other similar form of transmission, of such
     requested Settlement, no later than 2:00 p.m. (California time) on the
     Business Day immediately prior to the date of such requested Settlement
     (the date of such requested Settlement being the "Settlement Date"). Such
     notice of a Settlement Date shall include a summary statement of the amount
     of outstanding Advances, Swing Loans, and Agent Advances for the period
     since the prior Settlement Date. Subject to the terms and conditions
     contained herein (including Section 2.3(c)(iii)): (y) if a Lender's balance
     of the Advances, Swing Loans, and Agent Advances exceeds such Lender's Pro
     Rata Share of the Advances, Swing Loans, and Agent Advances as of a
     Settlement Date, then Agent shall, by no later than 12:00 p.m. (California
     time) on the Settlement Date, transfer in immediately available funds to
     the account of such Lender as such Lender may designate, an amount such
     that each such Lender shall, upon receipt of such amount, have as of the
     Settlement Date, its Pro Rata Share of the Advances, Swing Loans and Agent
     Advances, and (z) if a Lender's balance of the Advances, Swing Loans, and
     Agent Advances is less than such Lender's Pro Rata Share of the Advances,
     Swing Loans, and Agent Advances as of a Settlement Date, such Lender shall
     no later than noon (California time) on the Settlement Date transfer in
     immediately available funds to the Agent's Account, an amount such that
     each such Lender shall, upon transfer of such amount, have as of the
     Settlement Date, its Pro Rata Share of the Advances, Swing Loans, and Agent
     Advances. Such amounts made available to Agent under clause (z) of the
     immediately preceding sentence shall be applied against the amounts of the
     applicable Swing Loan or Agent Advance and, together with the portion of
     such Swing Loan or Agent Advance representing Swing Lender's Pro Rata Share
     thereof, shall constitute Advances of such Lenders. If any such amount is
     not made available to Agent by any Lender on the Settlement Date applicable
     thereto to the extent required by the terms hereof, Agent shall be entitled
     to recover for its account such amount on demand from such Lender together
     with interest thereon at the Defaulting Lender Rate.

               (ii) In determining whether a Lender's balance of the Advances,
     Swing Loans, and Agent Advances is less than, equal to, or greater than
     such Lender's Pro Rata Share of the Advances, Swing Loans, and Agent
     Advances as of a Settlement Date, Agent shall, as part of the relevant
     Settlement, apply to such balance the portion of payments actually received
     in good funds by Agent with respect to principal, interest, fees payable by
     Borrowers and allocable to the Lenders hereunder, and proceeds of
     Collateral. To the extent that a net amount is owed to any such Lender
     after such application, such net amount shall be distributed by Agent to
     that Lender as part of such next Settlement.

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               (iii) Between Settlement Dates, Agent, to the extent no Agent
     Advances or Swing Loans are outstanding, may pay over to Swing Lender any
     payments received by Agent, that in accordance with the terms of this
     Agreement would be applied to the reduction of the Advances, for
     application to Swing Lender's Pro Rata Share of the Advances. If, as of any
     Settlement Date, Collections received since the then immediately preceding
     Settlement Date have been applied to Swing Lender's Pro Rata Share of the
     Advances other than to Swing Loans, as provided for in the previous
     sentence, Swing Lender shall pay to Agent for the accounts of the Lenders,
     and Agent shall pay to the Lenders, to be applied to the outstanding
     Advances of such Lenders, an amount such that each Lender shall, upon
     receipt of such amount, have, as of such Settlement Date, its Pro Rata
     Share of the Advances. During the period between Settlement Dates, Swing
     Lender with respect to Swing Loans, Agent with respect to Agent Advances,
     and each Lender (subject to the effect of letter agreements between Agent
     and individual Lenders) with respect to the Advances other than Swing Loans
     and Agent Advances, shall be entitled to interest at the applicable rate or
     rates payable under this Agreement on the daily amount of funds employed by
     Swing Lender, Agent, or the Lenders, as applicable.

          (g) Notation. Agent shall record on its books the principal amount of
the Advances owing to each Lender, including the Swing Loans owing to Swing
Lender, and Agent Advances owing to Agent, and the interests therein of each
Lender, from time to time. In addition, each Lender is authorized, at such
Lender's option, to note the date and amount of each payment or prepayment of
principal of such Lender's Advances in its books and records, including computer
records, such books and records constituting conclusive evidence, absent
manifest error, of the accuracy of the information contained therein.

          (h) Lenders' Failure to Perform. All Advances (other than Swing Loans
and Agent Advances) shall be made by the Lenders contemporaneously and in
accordance with their Pro Rata Shares. It is understood that (i) no Lender shall
be responsible for any failure by any other Lender to perform its obligation to
make any Advance (or other extension of credit) hereunder, nor shall any
Commitment of any Lender be increased or decreased as a result of any failure by
any other Lender to perform its obligations hereunder, and (ii) no failure by
any Lender to perform its obligations hereunder shall excuse any other Lender
from its obligations hereunder.

          (i) Optional Overadvances. Any contrary provision of this Agreement
notwithstanding, the Lenders hereby authorize Agent or Swing Lender, as
applicable, and Agent or Swing Lender, as applicable, may, but is not obligated
to, knowingly and intentionally, continue to make Advances (including Swing
Loans) to Borrowers notwithstanding that an Overadvance exists or thereby would
be created, so long as (i) after giving effect to such Advances (including a
Swing Loan), the Revolver Usage does not exceed the Borrowing Base by more than
$3,000,000, (ii) after giving effect to such Advances (including a Swing Loan)
the outstanding Revolver Usage (except for and excluding amounts charged to the
Loan Account for interest, fees, or Lender Group Expenses) does not exceed the
Maximum Revolver Amount, and (iii) at the time of the making of any such Advance
(including a Swing Loan), Agent does not believe, in good faith, that the
Overadvance created by such Advance will be outstanding for

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more than 90 days. The foregoing provisions are for the exclusive benefit of
Agent, Swing Lender, and the Lenders and are not intended to benefit Borrowers
in any way. The Advances and Swing Loans, as applicable, that are made pursuant
to this Section 2.3(i) shall be subject to the same terms and conditions as any
other Advance or Swing Loan, as applicable, except that they shall not be
eligible for the LIBOR Option and the rate of interest applicable thereto shall
be the rate applicable to Advances that are Base Rate Loans under Section 2.6(c)
hereof without regard to the presence or absence of a Default or Event of
Default.

               (i) In the event Agent obtains actual knowledge that the Revolver
     Usage exceeds the amounts permitted by the preceding paragraph, regardless
     of the amount of, or reason for, such excess, Agent shall notify Lenders as
     soon as practicable (and prior to making any (or any additional)
     intentional Overadvances (except for and excluding amounts charged to the
     Loan Account for interest, fees, or Lender Group Expenses) unless Agent
     determines that prior notice would result in imminent harm to the
     Collateral or its value), and the Lenders thereupon shall, together with
     Agent, jointly determine the terms of arrangements that shall be
     implemented with Borrowers and intended to reduce, within a reasonable
     time, the outstanding principal amount of the Advances to Borrowers to an
     amount permitted by the preceding paragraph. In the event Agent or any
     Lender disagrees over the terms of reduction or repayment of any
     Overadvance, the terms of reduction or repayment thereof shall be
     implemented according to the determination of the Required Lenders.

               (ii) Each Lender shall be obligated to settle with Agent as
     provided in Section 2.3(f) for the amount of such Lender's Pro Rata Share
     of any unintentional Overadvances by Agent reported to such Lender, any
     intentional Overadvances made as permitted under this Section 2.3(i), and
     any Overadvances resulting from the charging to the Loan Account of
     interest, fees, or Lender Group Expenses.

     2.4 Payments.

          (a) Payments by Borrowers.

               (i) Except as otherwise expressly provided herein, all payments
     by Borrowers shall be made to Agent's Account for the account of the Lender
     Group and shall be made in immediately available funds, no later than 11:00
     a.m. (California time) on the date specified herein. Any payment received
     by Agent later than 11:00 a.m. (California time), shall be deemed to have
     been received on the following Business Day and any applicable interest or
     fee shall continue to accrue until such following Business Day.

               (ii) Unless Agent receives notice from Administrative Borrower
     prior to the date on which any payment is due to the Lenders that Borrowers
     will not make such payment in full as and when required, Agent may assume
     that Borrowers have made (or will make) such payment in full to Agent on
     such date in immediately available funds and Agent may (but shall not be so
     required), in reliance upon such assumption, distribute to each Lender on
     such due date an amount equal to the amount then due such Lender. If

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     and to the extent Borrowers do not make such payment in full to Agent on
     the date when due, each Lender severally shall repay to Agent on demand
     such amount distributed to such Lender, together with interest thereon at
     the Defaulting Lender Rate for each day from the date such amount is
     distributed to such Lender until the date repaid.

          (b) Apportionment and Application of Payments.

               (i) Except as otherwise provided with respect to Defaulting
     Lenders and except as otherwise provided in the Loan Documents (including
     letter agreements between Agent and individual Lenders), aggregate
     principal and interest payments shall be apportioned ratably among the
     Lenders (according to the unpaid principal balance of the Obligations to
     which such payments relate held by each Lender) and payments of fees and
     expenses (other than fees or expenses that are for Agent's separate
     account, after giving effect to any letter agreements between Agent and
     individual Lenders) shall be apportioned ratably among the Lenders having a
     Pro Rata Share of the type of Commitment or Obligation to which a
     particular fee relates. All payments shall be remitted to Agent and all
     such payments (other than payments received while no Default or Event of
     Default has occurred and is continuing and which relate to the payment of
     principal or interest of specific Obligations or which relate to the
     payment of specific fees), and all proceeds of Accounts or other Collateral
     received by Agent, shall be applied as follows:

                    (A) first, to pay any Lender Group Expenses then due to
               Agent under the Loan Documents, until paid in full,

                    (B) second, to pay any Lender Group Expenses then due to the
               Lenders under the Loan Documents, on a ratable basis, until paid
               in full,

                    (C) third, to pay any fees then due to Agent (for its
               separate accounts, after giving effect to any letter agreements
               between Agent and the individual Lenders) under the Loan
               Documents until paid in full,

                    (D) fourth, to pay any fees then due to any or all of the
               Lenders (after giving effect to any letter agreements between
               Agent and individual Lenders) under the Loan Documents, on a
               ratable basis, until paid in full,

                    (E) fifth, to pay interest due in respect of all Agent
               Advances, until paid in full,

                    (F) sixth, ratably to pay interest due in respect of the
               Advances (other than Agent Advances) and the Swing Loans until
               paid in full,

                    (G) seventh, to pay the principal of all Agent Advances
               until paid in full,

                    (H) eighth, to pay the principal of all Swing Loans until
               paid in full,

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                    (I) ninth, to pay the principal of all Advances until paid
               in full,

                    (J) tenth, if an Event of Default has occurred and is
               continuing, to Agent, to be held by Agent, for the ratable
               benefit of Issuing Lender and Lenders as cash collateral in an
               amount up to 105% of the then extant Letter of Credit Usage until
               paid in full,

                    (K) eleventh, to pay any other Obligations until paid in
               full, and

                    (L) twelfth, to Borrowers (to be wired to the Designated
               Account) or such other Person entitled thereto under applicable
               law.

               (ii) Agent promptly shall distribute to each Lender, pursuant to
     the applicable wire instructions received from each Lender in writing, such
     funds as it may be entitled to receive, subject to a Settlement delay as
     provided in Section 2.3(h).

               (iii) In each instance, so long as no Default or Event of Default
     has occurred and is continuing, Section 2.4(b) shall not be deemed to apply
     to any payment by Borrowers specified by Borrowers to be for the payment of
     specific Obligations then due and payable (or prepayable) under any
     provision of this Agreement.

               (iv) For purposes of the foregoing, "paid in full" means payment
     of all amounts owing under the Loan Documents according to the terms
     thereof, including loan fees, service fees, professional fees, interest
     (and specifically including interest accrued after the commencement of any
     Insolvency Proceeding), default interest, interest on interest, and expense
     reimbursements, whether or not the same would be or is allowed or
     disallowed in whole or in part in any Insolvency Proceeding.

               (v) In the event of a direct conflict between the priority
     provisions of this Section 2.4 and other provisions contained in any other
     Loan Document, it is the intention of the parties hereto that such priority
     provisions in such documents shall be read together and construed, to the
     fullest extent possible, to be in concert with each other. In the event of
     any actual, irreconcilable conflict that cannot be resolved as aforesaid,
     the terms and provisions of this Section 2.4 shall control and govern.

     2.5 Overadvances. If, at any time or for any reason, the amount of
Obligations owed by Borrowers to the Lender Group pursuant to Sections 2.1 and
2.12 is greater than either the Dollar or percentage limitations set forth in
Sections 2.1, 2.2, or 2.12, (an "Overadvance"), Borrowers immediately shall pay
to Agent, in cash, the amount of such excess, which amount shall be used by
Agent to reduce the Obligations in accordance with the priorities set forth in
Section 2.4(b). In addition, Borrowers hereby promise to pay the Obligations
(including principal, interest, fees, costs, and expenses) in Dollars in full to
the Lender Group as and when due and payable under the terms of this Agreement
and the other Loan Documents.

     2.6 Interest Rates and Letter of Credit Fee: Rates, Payments, and
Calculations.

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          (a) Interest Rates. Except as provided in clause (c) below, all
Obligations (except for undrawn Letters of Credit) that have been charged to the
Loan Account pursuant to the terms hereof shall bear interest on the Daily
Balance thereof as follows (i) if the relevant Obligation is an Advance that is
a LIBOR Rate Loan, at a per annum rate equal to the LIBOR Rate plus the LIBOR
Rate Margin, and (ii) otherwise, at a per annum rate equal to the Base Rate plus
the Base Rate Margin.

          The foregoing notwithstanding, at no time shall any portion of the
Obligations bear interest on the Daily Balance thereof at a per annum rate less
than 4.25%. To the extent that interest accrued hereunder at the rate set forth
herein would be less than the foregoing minimum daily rate, the interest rate
chargeable hereunder for such day automatically shall be deemed increased to the
minimum rate.

          (b) Letter of Credit Fee. Borrowers shall pay Agent (for the ratable
benefit of the Lenders with a Commitment, subject to any letter agreement
between Agent and individual Lenders), a Letter of Credit fee (in addition to
the charges, commissions, fees, and costs set forth in Section 2.12(e)) which
shall accrue at a rate equal to 2.5% per annum times the Daily Balance of the
undrawn amount of all outstanding Letters of Credit.

          (c) Default Rate. Upon the occurrence and during the continuation of
an Event of Default (and at the election of Agent or the Required Lenders),

               (i) all Obligations (except for undrawn Letters of Credit) that
     have been charged to the Loan Account pursuant to the terms hereof shall
     bear interest on the Daily Balance thereof at a per annum rate equal to 4
     percentage points above the per annum rate otherwise applicable hereunder,
     and

               (ii) the Letter of Credit fee provided for above shall be
     increased to 4 percentage points above the per annum rate otherwise
     applicable hereunder.

          (d) Payment. Interest, Letter of Credit fees, and all other fees
payable hereunder shall be due and payable, in arrears, on the first day of each
month at any time that Obligations or Commitments are outstanding. Borrowers
hereby authorize Agent, from time to time, without prior notice to Borrowers, to
charge such interest and fees, all Lender Group Expenses (as and when incurred),
the charges, commissions, fees, and costs provided for in Section 2.12(e) (as
and when accrued or incurred), the fees and costs provided for in Section 2.11
(as and when accrued or incurred), and all other payments as and when due and
payable under any Loan Document to Borrowers' Loan Account, which amounts
thereafter constitute Advances hereunder and shall accrue interest at the rate
then applicable to Advances hereunder. Any interest not paid when due shall be
compounded by being charged to Borrowers' Loan Account and shall thereafter
constitute Advances hereunder and shall accrue interest at the rate then
applicable to Advances that are Base Rate Loans hereunder.

          (e) Computation. All interest and fees chargeable under the Loan
Documents shall be computed on the basis of a 360 day year for the actual number
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elapsed. In the event the Base Rate is changed from time to time hereafter, the
rates of interest hereunder based upon the Base Rate automatically and
immediately shall be increased or decreased by an amount equal to such change in
the Base Rate.

          (f) Intent to Limit Charges to Maximum Lawful Rate. In no event shall
the interest rate or rates payable under this Agreement, plus any other amounts
paid in connection herewith, exceed the highest rate permissible under any law
that a court of competent jurisdiction shall, in a final determination, deem
applicable. Borrowers and the Lender Group, in executing and delivering this
Agreement, intend legally to agree upon the rate or rates of interest and manner
of payment stated within it; provided, however, that, anything contained herein
to the contrary notwithstanding, if said rate or rates of interest or manner of
payment exceeds the maximum allowable under applicable law, then, ipso facto, as
of the date of this Agreement, Borrowers are and shall be liable only for the
payment of such maximum as allowed by law, and payment received from Borrowers
in excess of such legal maximum, whenever received, shall be applied to reduce
the principal balance of the Obligations to the extent of such excess.

     2.7 Cash Management.

          (a) Borrowers shall establish and maintain cash management services of
a type and on terms satisfactory to Agent at one or more of the banks set forth
on Schedule 2.7(a) (each a "Cash Management Bank"), and shall request in writing
and otherwise take such reasonable steps to ensure that all of its Account
Debtors forward payment of the amounts owed by them directly to such Cash
Management Bank, and (ii) deposit or cause to be deposited promptly, and in any
event no later than the first Business Day after the date of receipt thereof,
all Collections (including those sent directly by Account Debtors to a Cash
Management Bank) into bank accounts subject to Cash Management Agreements (each
a "Cash Management Account") at one of the Cash Management Banks.

          (b) Each Cash Management Bank shall establish and maintain Cash
Management Agreements with Agent and Borrowers, in form and substance acceptable
to Agent. Each such Cash Management Agreement shall provide, among other things,
that (i) all items of payment deposited in such Cash Management Account and
proceeds thereof are held by such Cash Management Bank agent or
bailee-in-possession for Agent, (ii) the Cash Management Bank has no rights of
setoff or recoupment or any other claim against the applicable Cash Management
Account, other than for payment of its service fees and other charges directly
related to the administration of such Cash Management Account and for returned
checks or other items of payment, and (iii) upon receipt of written notice from
Agent, such Cash Management Bank immediately will forward by daily sweep all
amounts in the applicable Cash Management Account to the Agent's Account. Agent
will not exercise its control over (1) Cash Management Accounts located in the
United States until such time as Revolver Usage exceeds $15,000,000, and (2) all
other Cash Management Accounts, together with Cash Management Accounts located
inside the United States, until such time as Revolver Usage exceeds $20,000,000.

          (c) So long as no Default or Event of Default has occurred and is
continuing, Administrative Borrower may amend Schedule 2.7(a) or (b) to add or
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Management Account Bank or Cash Management Account; provided, however, that such
prospective Cash Management Bank shall be satisfactory to Agent and Agent shall
have consented in writing in advance to the opening of such Cash Management
Account with the prospective Cash Management Bank, and prior to the time of the
opening of such Cash Management Account, Borrowers and such prospective Cash
Management Bank shall have executed and delivered to Agent a Cash Management
Agreement. Borrowers shall close any of their Cash Management Accounts (and
establish replacement cash management accounts in accordance with the foregoing
sentence) promptly and in any event within 30 days of notice from Agent that the
creditworthiness of any Cash Management Bank is no longer acceptable in Agent's
reasonable judgment, or as promptly as practicable and in any event within 60
days of notice from Agent that the operating performance, funds transfer, or
availability procedures or performance of the Cash Management Bank with respect
to Cash Management Accounts or Agent's liability under any Cash Management
Agreement with such Cash Management Bank is no longer acceptable in Agent's
reasonable judgment.

          (d) The Cash Management Accounts shall be cash collateral accounts,
with all cash, checks and similar items of payment in such accounts securing
payment of the Obligations, and in which Borrowers are hereby deemed to have
granted a Lien to Agent.

     2.8 Crediting Payments; Float Charge. The receipt of any payment item by
Agent (whether from transfers to Agent by the Cash Management Banks pursuant to
the Cash Management Agreements or otherwise) shall not be considered a payment
on account unless such payment item is a wire transfer of immediately available
federal funds made to the Agent's Account or unless and until such payment item
is honored when presented for payment. Should any payment item not be honored
when presented for payment, then Borrowers shall be deemed not to have made such
payment and interest shall be calculated accordingly. Anything to the contrary
contained herein notwithstanding, any payment item shall be deemed received by
Agent only if it is received into the Agent's Account on a Business Day on or
before 11:00 a.m. (California time). If any payment item is received into the
Agent's Account on a non-Business Day or after 11:00 a.m. (California time) on a
Business Day, it shall be deemed to have been received by Agent as of the
opening of business on the immediately following Business Day. From and after
the Closing Date, Agent shall be entitled to charge Borrowers for one (1)
Business Day of "clearance" or "float" at the rate applicable to Base Rate Loans
under Section 2.6 on all Collections that are received by Borrowers and
Guarantors (regardless of whether forwarded by the Cash Management Banks to
Agent). This across-the-board one (1) Business Day clearance or float charge on
all Collections is acknowledged by the parties to constitute an integral aspect
of the pricing of the financing of Borrowers and shall apply irrespective of
whether or not there are any outstanding monetary Obligations; the effect of
such clearance or float charge being the equivalent of charging one (1) Business
Day of interest on such Collections. The parties acknowledge and agree that the
economic benefit of the foregoing provisions of this Section 2.8 shall be for
the exclusive benefit of Agent.

     2.9 Designated Account. Agent is authorized to make the Advances and
Issuing Lender is authorized to issue the Letters of Credit, under this
Agreement based upon telephonic or other instructions received from anyone
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instructions if pursuant to Section 2.6(d). Administrative Borrower agrees to
establish and maintain the Designated Account with the Designated Account Bank
for the purpose of receiving the proceeds of the Advances requested by Borrowers
and made by Agent or the Lenders hereunder. Unless otherwise agreed by Agent and
Administrative Borrower, any Advance, Agent Advance, or Swing Loan requested by
Borrowers and made by Agent or the Lenders hereunder shall be made to the
Designated Account.

     2.10 Maintenance of Loan Account; Statements of Obligations. Agent shall
maintain an account on its books in the name of Borrowers (the "Loan Account")
on which Borrowers will be charged with all Advances (including Agent Advances
and Swing Loans) made by Agent, Swing Lender, or the Lenders to Borrowers or for
Borrowers' account, the Letters of Credit issued by Issuing Lender for
Borrowers' account, and with all other payment Obligations hereunder or under
the other Loan Documents, including, accrued interest, fees and expenses, and
Lender Group Expenses. In accordance with Section 2.8, the Loan Account will be
credited with all payments received by Agent from Borrowers or for Borrowers'
account, including all amounts received in the Agent's Account from any Cash
Management Bank. Agent shall render statements regarding the Loan Account to
Administrative Borrower, including principal, interest, fees, and including an
itemization of all charges and expenses constituting Lender Group Expenses
owing, and such statements shall be presumed to be correct and accurate and
constitute an account stated between Borrowers and the Lender Group absent
manifest error unless, within 30 days after receipt thereof by Administrative
Borrower, Administrative Borrower shall deliver to Agent written objection
thereto describing the error or errors contained in any such statements.

     2.11 Fees. Borrowers shall pay to Agent the following fees and charges,
which fees and charges shall be non-refundable when paid (irrespective of
whether this Agreement is terminated thereafter) and shall be apportioned among
the Lenders in accordance with the terms of letter agreements between Agent and
individual Lenders:

          (a) Unused Line Fee. On the first day of each month during the term of
this Agreement, an unused line fee in the amount equal to .50% per annum times
the result of (a) the Maximum Revolver Amount, less (b) the sum of (i) the
average Daily Balance of Advances that were outstanding during the immediately
preceding month, plus (ii) the average Daily Balance of the Letter of Credit
Usage during the immediately preceding month,

          (b) Fee Letter Fees. As and when due and payable under the terms of
the Fee Letter, Borrowers shall pay to Agent the fees set forth in the Fee
Letter, and

          (c) Audit, Appraisal, and Valuation Charges. For the separate account
of Agent, audit, appraisal, and valuation fees and charges as follows, a fee of
$850 pay day, per auditor, plus out-of-pocket expenses for each financial audit
of a Borrower performed by personnel employed by Agent, and the actual charges
paid or incurred by Agent if it elects to employ the services of one or more
third Persons to perform financial audits of Borrowers, to establish electronic
collateral reporting systems for Borrowers, or to assess a Borrower's business
valuation. Prior to the occurrence of a Default or an Event of Default, audits
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Collateral shall be performed by Agent or its designees on a calendar quarterly
basis, or more frequently as determined by Agent in its Permitted Discretion.

     2.12 Letters of Credit.

          (a) Subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement, the Issuing
Lender agrees to issue letters of credit for the account of Borrowers (each, an
"L/C") or to purchase participations or execute indemnities or reimbursement
obligations (each such undertaking, an "L/C Undertaking") with respect to
letters of credit issued by an Underlying Issuer (as of the Closing Date, the
prospective Underlying Issuer is to be Wells Fargo) for the account of
Borrowers. To request the issuance of an L/C or an L/C Undertaking (or the
amendment, renewal, or extension of an outstanding L/C or L/C Undertaking),
Administrative Borrower shall hand deliver or telecopy (or transmit by
electronic communication, if arrangements for doing so have been approved by the
Issuing Lender) to the Issuing Lender and Agent (reasonably in advance of the
requested date of issuance, amendment, renewal, or extension) a notice
requesting the issuance of an L/C or L/C Undertaking, or identifying the L/C or
L/C Undertaking to be amended, renewed, or extended, the date of issuance,
amendment, renewal, or extension, the date on which such L/C or L/C Undertaking
is to expire, the amount of such L/C or L/C Undertaking, the name and address of
the beneficiary thereof (or of the Underlying Letter of Credit, as applicable),
and such other information as shall be necessary to prepare, amend, renew, or
extend such L/C or L/C Undertaking. If requested by the Issuing Lender,
Borrowers also shall be an applicant under the application with respect to any
Underlying Letter of Credit that is to be the subject of an L/C Undertaking. The
Issuing Lender shall have no obligation to issue a Letter of Credit if any of
the following would result after giving effect to the requested Letter of
Credit:

               (i) the Letter of Credit Usage would exceed the Borrowing Base
     less the then extant amount of outstanding Advances, or

               (ii) the Letter of Credit Usage would exceed $20,000,000, or

               (iii) the Letter of Credit Usage would exceed the Maximum
     Revolver Amount less the then extant amount of outstanding Advances.

          Borrowers and the Lender Group acknowledge and agree that certain
Underlying Letters of Credit may be issued to support letters of credit that
already are outstanding as of the Activation Date. Each Letter of Credit (and
corresponding Underlying Letter of Credit) shall have an expiry date no later
than 30 days prior to the Maturity Date and all such Letters of Credit (and
corresponding Underlying Letter of Credit) shall be in form and substance
acceptable to the Issuing Lender (in the exercise of its Permitted Discretion),
including the requirement that the amounts payable thereunder must be payable in
Dollars. If Issuing Lender is obligated to advance funds under a Letter of
Credit, Borrowers immediately shall reimburse such L/C Disbursement to Issuing
Lender by paying to Agent an amount equal to such L/C Disbursement not later
than 11:00 a.m.,

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California time, on the date that such L/C Disbursement is made, if
Administrative Borrower shall have received written or telephonic notice of such
L/C Disbursement prior to 10:00 a.m., California time, on such date, or, if such
notice has not been received by Administrative Borrower prior to such time on
such date, then not later than 11:00 a.m., California time, on (i) the Business
Day that Administrative Borrower receives such notice, if such notice is
received prior to 10:00 a.m., California time, on the date of receipt, and, in
the absence of such reimbursement, the L/C Disbursement immediately and
automatically shall be deemed to be an Advance hereunder and, thereafter, shall
bear interest at the rate then applicable to Advances that are Base Rate Loans
under Section 2.6. To the extent an L/C Disbursement is deemed to be an Advance
hereunder, Borrowers' obligation to reimburse such L/C Disbursement shall be
discharged and replaced by the resulting Advance. Promptly following receipt by
Agent of any payment from Borrowers pursuant to this paragraph, Agent shall
distribute such payment to the Issuing Lender or, to the extent that Lenders
have made payments pursuant to Section 2.12(c) to reimburse the Issuing Lender,
then to such Lenders and the Issuing Lender as their interest may appear.

          (b) Promptly following receipt of a notice of L/C Disbursement
pursuant to Section 2.12(a), each Lender agrees to fund its Pro Rata Share of
any Advance deemed made pursuant to the foregoing subsection on the same terms
and conditions as if Borrowers had requested such Advance and Agent shall
promptly pay to Issuing Lender the amounts so received by it from the Lenders.
By the issuance of a Letter of Credit (or an amendment to a Letter of Credit
increasing the amount thereof) and without any further action on the part of the
Issuing Lender or the Lenders, the Issuing Lender shall be deemed to have
granted to each Lender, and each Lender shall be deemed to have purchased, a
participation in each Letter of Credit, in an amount equal to its Pro Rata Share
of the Risk Participation Liability of such Letter of Credit, and each Lender
agrees to pay to Agent, for the account of the Issuing Lender, such Lender's Pro
Rata Share of any payments made by the Issuing Lender under such Letter of
Credit. In consideration and in furtherance of the foregoing, each Lender hereby
absolutely and unconditionally agrees to pay to Agent, for the account of the
Issuing Lender, such Lender's Pro Rata Share of each L/C Disbursement made by
the Issuing Lender and not reimbursed by Borrowers on the date due as provided
in clause (a) of this Section, or of any reimbursement payment required to be
refunded to Borrowers for any reason. Each Lender acknowledges and agrees that
its obligation to deliver to Agent, for the account of the Issuing Lender, an
amount equal to its respective Pro Rata Share pursuant to this Section 2.12(b)
shall be absolute and unconditional and such remittance shall be made
notwithstanding the occurrence or continuation of an Event of Default or Default
or the failure to satisfy any condition set forth in Section 3 hereof. If any
Lender fails to make available to Agent the amount of such Lender's Pro Rata
Share of any payments made by the Issuing Lender in respect of such Letter of
Credit as provided in this Section, Agent (for the account of the Issuing
Lender) shall be entitled to recover such amount on demand from such Lender
together with interest thereon at the Defaulting Lender Rate until paid in full.

          (c) Each Borrower hereby agrees to indemnify, save, defend, and hold
the Lender Group harmless from any loss, cost, expense, or liability, and
reasonable attorneys fees incurred by the Lender Group arising out of or in
connection with any Letter of Credit; provided, however, that no Borrower shall
be obligated hereunder to indemnify for any loss, cost, expense, or liability
that is caused by the gross negligence or willful misconduct of the Issuing
Lender or any other member of the Lender Group. Each Borrower agrees to be bound
by the Underlying Issuer's regulations and interpretations of any Underlying
Letter of Credit or by Issuing Lender's interpretations of any L/C issued by
Issuing Lender to or for such Borrower's account, even

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though this interpretation may be different from such Borrower's own, and each
Borrower understands and agrees that the Lender Group shall not be liable for
any error, negligence, or mistake, whether of omission or commission, in
following Borrowers' instructions or those contained in the Letter of Credit or
any modifications, amendments, or supplements thereto. Each Borrower understands
that the L/C Undertakings may require Issuing Lender to indemnify the Underlying
Issuer for certain costs or liabilities arising out of claims by Borrowers
against such Underlying Issuer. Each Borrower hereby agrees to indemnify, save,
defend, and hold the Lender Group harmless with respect to any loss, cost,
expense (including reasonable attorneys fees), or liability incurred by the
Lender Group under any L/C Undertaking as a result of the Lender Group's
indemnification of any Underlying Issuer; provided, however, that no Borrower
shall be obligated hereunder to indemnify for any loss, cost, expense, or
liability that is caused by the gross negligence or willful misconduct of the
Issuing Lender or any other member of the Lender Group.

          (d) Each Borrower hereby authorizes and directs any Underlying Issuer
to deliver to the Issuing Lender all instruments, documents, and other writings
and property received by such Underlying Issuer pursuant to such Underlying
Letter of Credit and to accept and rely upon the Issuing Lender's instructions
with respect to all matters arising in connection with such Underlying Letter of
Credit and the related application.

          (e) Any and all charges, commissions, fees, and costs incurred by the
Issuing Lender relating to Underlying Letters of Credit shall be Lender Group
Expenses for purposes of this Agreement and immediately shall be reimbursable by
Borrowers to Agent for the account of the Issuing Lender.

          (f) If by reason of (i) any change in any applicable law, treaty,
rule, or regulation or any change in the interpretation or application thereof
by any Governmental Authority, or (ii) compliance by the Underlying Issuer or
the Lender Group with any direction, request, or requirement (irrespective of
whether having the force of law) of any Governmental Authority or monetary
authority including, Regulation D of the Federal Reserve Board as from time to
time in effect (and any successor thereto):

               (i) any reserve, deposit, or similar requirement is or shall be
     imposed or modified in respect of any Letter of Credit issued hereunder, or

               (ii) there shall be imposed on the Underlying Issuer or the
     Lender Group any other condition regarding any Underlying Letter of Credit
     or any Letter of Credit issued pursuant hereto;

and the result of the foregoing is to increase, directly or indirectly, the cost
to the Lender Group of issuing, making, guaranteeing, or maintaining any Letter
of Credit or to reduce the amount receivable in respect thereof by the Lender
Group, then, and in any such case, Agent may, at any time within a reasonable
period after the additional cost is incurred or the amount received is reduced,
notify Administrative Borrower, and Borrowers shall pay on demand such amounts
as Agent may specify to be necessary to compensate the Lender Group for such
additional cost or reduced receipt, together with interest on such amount from
the date of such demand until

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payment in full thereof at the rate then applicable to Base Rate Loans
hereunder. The determination by Agent of any amount due pursuant to this
Section, as set forth in a certificate setting forth the calculation thereof in
reasonable detail, shall, in the absence of manifest or demonstrable error, be
final and conclusive and binding on all of the parties hereto.

     2.13 LIBOR Option.

          (a) Interest and Interest Payment Dates. In lieu of having interest
charged at the rate based upon the Base Rate, Borrowers shall have the option
(the "LIBOR Option") to have interest on all or a portion of the Advances
charged at the LIBOR Rate. Interest on LIBOR Rate Loans shall be payable on the
earliest of (i) the last day of the Interest Period applicable thereto, (ii) the
occurrence of an Event of Default in consequence of which the Required Lenders
or Agent on behalf thereof elect to accelerate the maturity of the Obligations,
(iii) termination of this Agreement pursuant to the terms hereof, or (iv) the
first day of each month that such LIBOR Rate Loan is outstanding. On the last
day of each applicable Interest Period, unless Administrative Borrower properly
has exercised the LIBOR Option with respect thereto, the interest rate
applicable to such LIBOR Rate Loan automatically shall convert to the rate of
interest then applicable to Base Rate Loans of the same type hereunder. At any
time that an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, Borrowers no
longer shall have the option to request that Advances bear interest at the LIBOR
Rate and Agent shall have the right to convert the interest rate on all
outstanding LIBOR Rate Loans to the rate then applicable to Base Rate Loans
hereunder.

          (b) LIBOR Election.

               (i) Administrative Borrower may, at any time and from time to
     time, so long as no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, elect
     to exercise the LIBOR Option by notifying Agent prior to 11:00 a.m.
     (California time) at least 3 Business Days prior to the commencement of the
     proposed Interest Period (the "LIBOR Deadline"). Notice of Administrative
     Borrower's election of the LIBOR Option for a permitted portion of the
     Advances and an Interest Period pursuant to this Section shall be made by
     delivery to Agent of a LIBOR Notice received by Agent before the LIBOR
     Deadline, or by telephonic notice received by Agent before the LIBOR
     Deadline (to be confirmed by delivery to Agent of a LIBOR Notice received
     by Agent prior to 5:00 p.m. (California time) on the same day. Promptly
     upon its receipt of each such LIBOR Notice, Agent shall provide a copy
     thereof to each of the Lenders.

               (ii) Each LIBOR Notice shall be irrevocable and binding on
     Borrowers. In connection with each LIBOR Rate Loan, each Borrower shall
     indemnify, defend, and hold Agent and the Lenders harmless against any
     loss, cost, or expense incurred by Agent or any Lender as a result of (a)
     the payment of any principal of any LIBOR Rate Loan other than on the last
     day of an Interest Period applicable thereto (including as a result of an
     Event of Default), (b) the conversion of any LIBOR Rate Loan other than on
     the last day of the Interest Period applicable thereto, or (c) the failure
     to borrow, convert, continue or prepay any LIBOR Rate Loan on the date
     specified in any LIBOR Notice delivered pursuant hereto (such losses,
     costs, and expenses, collectively, "Funding

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     Losses"). Funding Losses shall, with respect to Agent or any Lender, be
     deemed to equal the amount determined by Agent or such Lender to be the
     excess, if any, of (i) the amount of interest that would have accrued on
     the principal amount of such LIBOR Rate Loan had such event not occurred,
     at the LIBOR Rate that would have been applicable thereto, for the period
     from the date of such event to the last day of the then current Interest
     Period therefor (or, in the case of a failure to borrow, convert or
     continue, for the period that would have been the Interest Period
     therefor), minus (ii) the amount of interest that would accrue on such
     principal amount for such period at the interest rate which Agent or such
     Lender would be offered were it to be offered, at the commencement of such
     period, Dollar deposits of a comparable amount and period in the London
     interbank market. A certificate of Agent or a Lender delivered to
     Administrative Borrower setting forth any amount or amounts that Agent or
     such Lender is entitled to receive pursuant to this Section shall be
     conclusive absent manifest error.

               (iii) Borrowers shall have not more than 5 LIBOR Rate Loans in
     effect at any given time. Borrowers only may exercise the LIBOR Option for
     LIBOR Rate Loans of at least $1,000,000 and integral multiples of $500,000
     in excess thereof.

          (c) Prepayments. Borrowers may prepay LIBOR Rate Loans at any time;
provided, however, that in the event that LIBOR Rate Loans are prepaid on any
date that is not the last day of the Interest Period applicable thereto,
including as a result of any automatic prepayment through the required
application by Agent of proceeds of Collections in accordance with Section
2.4(b) or for any other reason, including early termination of the term of this
Agreement or acceleration of the Obligations pursuant to the terms hereof, each
Borrower shall indemnify, defend, and hold Agent and the Lenders and their
Participants harmless against any and all Funding Losses in accordance with
clause (b) above.

          (d) Special Provisions Applicable to LIBOR Rate.

               (i) The LIBOR Rate may be adjusted by Agent with respect to any
     Lender on a prospective basis to take into account any additional or
     increased costs to such Lender of maintaining or obtaining any eurodollar
     deposits or increased costs due to changes in applicable law occurring
     subsequent to the commencement of the then applicable Interest Period,
     including changes in tax laws (except changes of general applicability in
     corporate income tax laws) and changes in the reserve requirements imposed
     by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (or any successor),
     excluding the Reserve Percentage, which additional or increased costs would
     increase the cost of funding loans bearing interest at the LIBOR Rate. In
     any such event, the affected Lender shall give Administrative Borrower and
     Agent notice of such a determination and adjustment and Agent promptly
     shall transmit the notice to each other Lender and, upon its receipt of the
     notice from the affected Lender, Administrative Borrower may, by notice to
     such affected Lender (y) require such Lender to furnish to Administrative
     Borrower a statement setting forth the basis for adjusting such LIBOR Rate
     and the method for determining the amount of such adjustment, or (z) repay
     the LIBOR Rate Loans with respect to which such adjustment is made
     (together with any amounts due under clause (b)(ii) above).

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               (ii) In the event that any change in market conditions or any
     law, regulation, treaty, or directive, or any change therein or in the
     interpretation of application thereof, shall at any time after the date
     hereof, in the reasonable opinion of any Lender, make it unlawful or
     impractical for such Lender to fund or maintain LIBOR Advances or to
     continue such funding or maintaining, or to determine or charge interest
     rates at the LIBOR Rate, such Lender shall give notice of such changed
     circumstances to Agent and Administrative Borrower and Agent promptly shall
     transmit the notice to each other Lender and (y) in the case of any LIBOR
     Rate Loans of such Lender that are outstanding, the date specified in such
     Lender's notice shall be deemed to be the last day of the Interest Period
     of such LIBOR Rate Loans, and interest upon the LIBOR Rate Loans of such
     Lender thereafter shall accrue interest at the rate then applicable to Base
     Rate Loans, and (z) Borrowers shall not be entitled to elect the LIBOR
     Option until such Lender determines that it would no longer be unlawful or
     impractical to do so.

          (e) No Requirement of Matched Funding. Anything to the contrary
contained herein notwithstanding, neither Agent, nor any Lender, nor any of
their Participants, is required actually to acquire eurodollar deposits to fund
or otherwise match fund any Obligation as to which interest accrues at the LIBOR
Rate. The provisions of this Section shall apply as if each Lender or its
Participants had match funded any Obligation as to which interest is accruing at
the LIBOR Rate by acquiring eurodollar deposits for each Interest Period in the
amount of the LIBOR Rate Loans.

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     2.14 Capital Requirements. If, after the date hereof, any Lender
determines that (i) the adoption of or change in any law, rule, regulation or
guideline regarding capital requirements for banks or bank holding companies, or
any change in the interpretation or application thereof by any Governmental
Authority charged with the administration thereof, or (ii) compliance by such
Lender or its parent bank holding company with any guideline, request or
directive of any such entity regarding capital adequacy (whether or not having
the force of law), the effect of reducing the return on such Lender's or such
holding company's capital as a consequence of such Lender's Commitments
hereunder to a level below that which such Lender or such holding company could
have achieved but for such adoption, change, or compliance (taking into
consideration such Lender's or such holding company's then existing policies
with respect to capital adequacy and assuming the full utilization of such
entity's capital) by any amount deemed by such Lender to be material, then such
Lender may notify Administrative Borrower and Agent thereof. Following receipt
of such notice, Borrowers agree to pay such Lender on demand the amount of such
reduction of return of capital as and when such reduction is determined, payable
within 90 days after presentation by such Lender of a statement in the amount
and setting forth in reasonable detail such Lender's calculation thereof and the
assumptions upon which such calculation was based (which statement shall be
deemed true and correct absent manifest error). In determining such amount, such
Lender may use any reasonable averaging and attribution methods.

     2.15 Joint and Several Liability of Borrowers.

          (a) Each of Borrowers is accepting joint and several liability
hereunder and under the other Loan Documents in consideration of the financial
accommodations to be provided by the Agent and the Lenders under this Agreement,
for the mutual benefit, directly and indirectly, of each of Borrowers and in
consideration of the undertakings of the other Borrowers to accept joint and
several liability for the Obligations.

          (b) Each of Borrowers, jointly and severally, hereby irrevocably and
unconditionally accepts, not merely as a surety but also as a co-debtor, joint
and several liability with the other Borrowers, with respect to the payment and
performance of all of the Obligations (including, without limitation, any
Obligations arising under this Section 2.15), it being the intention of the
parties hereto that all the Obligations shall be the joint and several
obligations of each Person composing Borrowers without preferences or
distinction among them.

          (c) If and to the extent that any of Borrowers shall fail to make any
payment with respect to any of the Obligations as and when due or to perform any
of the Obligations in accordance with the terms thereof, then in each such event
the other Persons composing Borrowers will make such payment with respect to, or
perform, such Obligation.

          (d) The Obligations of each Person composing Borrowers under the
provisions of this Section 2.15 constitute the absolute and unconditional, full
recourse Obligations of each Person composing Borrowers enforceable against each
such Borrower to the full extent of its properties and assets, irrespective of
the validity, regularity or enforceability of this Agreement or any other
circumstances whatsoever.

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          (e) Except as otherwise expressly provided in this Agreement, each
Person composing Borrowers hereby waives notice of acceptance of its joint and
several liability, notice of any Advances or Letters of Credit issued under or
pursuant to this Agreement, notice of the occurrence of any Default, Event of
Default, or of any demand for any payment under this Agreement, notice of any
action at any time taken or omitted by Agent or Lenders under or in respect of
any of the Obligations, any requirement of diligence or to mitigate damages and,
generally, to the extent permitted by applicable law, all demands, notices and
other formalities of every kind in connection with this Agreement (except as
otherwise provided in this Agreement). Each Person composing Borrowers hereby
assents to, and waives notice of, any extension or postponement of the time for
the payment of any of the Obligations, the acceptance of any payment of any of
the Obligations, the acceptance of any partial payment thereon, any waiver,
consent or other action or acquiescence by Agent or Lenders at any time or times
in respect of any default by any Person composing Borrowers in the performance
or satisfaction of any term, covenant, condition or provision of this Agreement,
any and all other indulgences whatsoever by Agent or Lenders in respect of any
of the Obligations, and the taking, addition, substitution or release, in whole
or in part, at any time or times, of any security for any of the Obligations or
the addition, substitution or release, in whole or in part, of any Person
composing Borrowers. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, each of
Borrowers assents to any other action or delay in acting or failure to act on
the part of any Agent or Lender with respect to the failure by any Person
composing Borrowers to comply with any of its respective Obligations, including,
without limitation, any failure strictly or diligently to assert any right or to
pursue any remedy or to comply fully with applicable laws or regulations
thereunder, which might, but for the provisions of this Section 2.15 afford
grounds for terminating, discharging or relieving any Person composing
Borrowers, in whole or in part, from any of its Obligations under this Section
2.15, it being the intention of each Person composing Borrowers that, so long as
any of the Obligations hereunder remain unsatisfied, the Obligations of such
Person composing Borrowers under this Section 2.15 shall not be discharged
except by performance and then only to the extent of such performance. The
Obligations of each Person composing Borrowers under this Section 2.15 shall not
be diminished or rendered unenforceable by any winding up, reorganization,
arrangement, liquidation, reconstruction or similar proceeding with respect to
any Person composing Borrowers or any Agent or Lender. The joint and several
liability of the Persons composing Borrowers hereunder shall continue in full
force and effect notwithstanding any absorption, merger, amalgamation or any
other change whatsoever in the name, constitution or place of formation of any
of the Persons composing Borrowers or any Agent or Lender.

          (f) Each Person composing Borrowers represents and warrants to Agent
and Lenders that such Borrower is currently informed of the financial condition
of Borrowers and of all other circumstances which a diligent inquiry would
reveal and which bear upon the risk of nonpayment of the Obligations. Each
Person composing Borrowers further represents and warrants to Agent and Lenders
that such Borrower has read and understands the terms and conditions of the Loan
Documents. Each Person composing Borrowers hereby covenants that such Borrower
will continue to keep informed of Borrowers' financial condition, the financial
condition of other guarantors, if any, and of all other circumstances which bear
upon the risk of nonpayment or nonperformance of the Obligations.

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          (g) The provisions of this Section 2.15 are made for the benefit of
the Agent, the Lenders and their respective successors and assigns, and may be
enforced by it or them from time to time against any or all of the Persons
composing Borrowers as often as occasion therefor may arise and without
requirement on the part of any such Agent, Lender, successor or assign first to
marshal any of its or their claims or to exercise any of its or their rights
against any of the other Persons composing Borrowers or to exhaust any remedies
available to it or them against any of the other Persons composing Borrowers or
to resort to any other source or means of obtaining payment of any of the
Obligations hereunder or to elect any other remedy. The provisions of this
Section 2.15 shall remain in effect until all of the Obligations shall have been
paid in full or otherwise fully satisfied. If at any time, any payment, or any
part thereof, made in respect of any of the Obligations, is rescinded or must
otherwise be restored or returned by any Agent or Lender upon the insolvency,
bankruptcy or reorganization of any of the Persons composing Borrowers, or
otherwise, the provisions of this Section 2.15 will forthwith be reinstated in
effect, as though such payment had not been made.

          (h) Each of the Persons composing Borrowers hereby agrees that it will
not enforce any of its rights of contribution or subrogation against the other
Persons composing Borrowers with respect to any liability incurred by it
hereunder or under any of the other Loan Documents, any payments made by it to
the Agent or the Lenders with respect to any of the Obligations or any
collateral security therefor until such time as all of the Obligations have been
paid in full in cash. Any claim which any Borrower may have against any other
Borrower with respect to any payments to any Agent or Lender hereunder or under
any other Loan Documents are hereby expressly made subordinate and junior in
right of payment, without limitation as to any increases in the Obligations
arising hereunder or thereunder, to the prior payment in full in cash of the
Obligations and, in the event of any insolvency, bankruptcy, receivership,
liquidation, reorganization or other similar proceeding under the laws of any
jurisdiction relating to any Borrower, its debts or its assets, whether
voluntary or involuntary, all such Obligations shall be paid in full in cash
before any payment or distribution of any character, whether in cash, securities
or other property, shall be made to any other Borrower therefor.

          (i) Each of the Persons composing Borrowers hereby agrees that, after
the occurrence and during the continuance of any Default or Event of Default,
the payment of any amounts due with respect to the indebtedness owing by any
Borrower to any other Borrower is hereby subordinated to the prior payment in
full in cash of the Obligations. Each Borrower hereby agrees that after the
occurrence and during the continuance of any Default or Event of Default, such
Borrower will not demand, sue for or otherwise attempt to collect any
indebtedness of any other Borrower owing to such Borrower until the Obligations
shall have been paid in full in cash. If, notwithstanding the foregoing
sentence, such Borrower shall collect, enforce or receive any amounts in respect
of such indebtedness, such amounts shall be collected, enforced and received by
such Borrower as trustee for the Lender Group, and such Borrower shall deliver
any such amounts to Agent for application to the Obligations in accordance with
Section 2.4(b).

     2.16 Additional Borrowers. HH Australia and HH Canada may, with the
consent of Agent and Lenders, join this Agreement as a Borrower (an "Additional
Borrower") for all purposes hereunder (expressly including, without limitation,
all purposes set forth in and subject to all terms and conditions of Section
2.15), upon delivery to the Agent of (i) an appropriate

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amendment or instrument of joinder and (ii) such items described in Section 3.1
and Section 3.2 as are applicable to such Additional Borrower. Agent and Lenders
may, in their sole and absolute discretion, establish maximum amounts for
Revolver Usage by Additional Borrowers that are Foreign Borrowers as provided in
Section 2.2. Nothing herein shall be deemed to commit Agent or Lenders to
consent to the addition or joinder of any particular or individual Additional
Borrower.

     2.17 Foreign Currencies. All Advances shall be made and all Letters of
Credit denominated in Dollars. Agent and Lenders shall permit the conversion by
Borrower of any Advance made by or for or Letter of Credit issued for the direct
benefit or use of a Foreign Borrower to a currency other than Dollars by means
of a foreign exchange facility provided by an Affiliate of Agent, provided that
(a) such currency is freely available for purchase or exchange in international
currency markets, (b) the making of such Advance or issuance of such Letter of
Credit does not otherwise violate any term or condition of this Agreement or the
other Loan Documents, and (c) for purposes of determining Revolver Usage, all
amounts of Advances and Letters of Credit to or for the direct benefit or use of
Foreign Borrowers shall be calculated in Dollar equivalents as of the date such
Advance is made.

     2.18 Foreign Accounts. Agent may, in its discretion, discount the amount
of any Accounts that are not payable in Dollars by an amount deemed appropriate
in Agent's sole and absolute discretion to account for currency exchange risks
and such other factors affecting perfection, enforceability, collection, credit
risk, or political risk or other risks as Agent may determine, or create or
apply such reserves in respect of Accounts not payable in Dollars as Agent deems
appropriate in its Permitted Discretion.

3.       CONDITIONS; TERM OF AGREEMENT.

     3.1 Conditions Precedent to Agreement. The obligation of the Lender Group
(or any member thereof) to enter into this Agreement and to provide the
Commitments hereunder is subject to the fulfillment, to the satisfaction of
Agent as determined in its Permitted Discretion, of each of the conditions
precedent set forth below:

          (a) the Closing Date shall occur on or before March 31, 2003,

          (b) Agent shall have received all financing statements required by
Agent, in form and content satisfactory to Agent, with respect to the Collateral
and authorized to be filed by the Borrowers,

          (c) Agent shall have received each of the following documents, in form
and substance satisfactory to Agent, duly executed, and each such document shall
be in full force and effect:

               (i) the Due Diligence Letter responses with respect to the
     Borrowers,

               (ii) the Fee Letter,

               (iii) the Guarantee and Debenture duly executed by HH UK, and

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               (iv) the Officers' Certificate for each Borrower.

          (d) Agent shall have received a certificate from the Secretary of each
Borrower attesting to the resolutions of such Borrower's Board of Directors
authorizing its execution, delivery, and performance of this Agreement and the
other Loan Documents to which such Borrower is a party and authorizing specific
officers or agents of such Borrower to execute the same;

          (e) Agent shall have received copies of each Borrower's Governing
Documents, as amended, modified, or supplemented to the Closing Date, certified
by the Secretary of such Borrower;

          (f) Agent shall have received a certificate of status with respect to
each Borrower, dated within 10 days of the Closing Date, such certificate to be
issued by the appropriate officer of the jurisdiction of organization of such
Borrower, which certificate shall indicate that such Borrower is in good
standing in such jurisdiction;

          (g) Agent shall have received certificates of status with respect to
each Borrower, each dated within 30 days of the Closing Date, such certificates
to be issued by the appropriate officer of the jurisdictions (other than the
jurisdiction of organization of such Borrower) in which its failure to be duly
qualified or licensed would constitute a Material Adverse Change, which
certificates shall indicate that such Borrower is in good standing in such
jurisdictions;

          (h) Agent shall have received copies of the executed TMP Documents in
form and substance satisfactory to Agent, certified as true and correct and in
full force and effect by an authorized officer of Parent;

          (i) TMP and Parent shall have received all necessary consents to the
Spin-Off and the Spin-Off shall have become effective;

          (j) Agent shall have received opinions of counsel to Borrowers in form
and substance satisfactory to Agent;

          (k) Agent shall have received satisfactory evidence (including a
certificate of the chief financial officer of Parent) that all tax returns
required to be filed by Borrowers have been timely filed and all taxes upon
Borrowers or their properties, assets, income, and franchises (including Real
Property taxes and payroll taxes) have been paid prior to delinquency, except
such taxes that are the subject of a Permitted Protest;

          (l) Agent shall have completed its business, legal, and collateral due
diligence, including a collateral audit and review of Borrowers' books and
records and verification of Borrowers' representations and warranties to the
Lender Group, the results of which shall be satisfactory to Agent;

          (m) TMP shall have agreed to provide or continue all letters of credit
required by Borrower as of the Closing Date;

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          (n) Parent shall have in place a capital and legal structure
satisfactory to Agent in all respects;

          (o) Agent shall have received Borrowers' Closing Date Business Plan
and projections together with a certificate of the chief financial officer of
Parent stating that the Closing Date Business Plan has been prepared on a
reasonable basis and in good faith and is based on assumptions believed by
Parent to be reasonable at the time made and from the best information then
available to Parent;

          (p) Borrowers shall have received all licenses, approvals or evidence
of other actions required by any Governmental Authority in connection with the
execution and delivery by Borrowers of this Agreement or any other Loan Document
or with the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby;

          (q) that certain Third Amended and Restated Accounts Receivable
Management and Security Agreement by and among GMAC Commercial Finance LLC as
successor in interest to BNY Financial Corporation and TMP dated November 5,
1998, as modified, amended, or supplemented, shall have terminated;

          (r) No Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be
continuing on the Closing Date, nor shall either result from the effectiveness
of this Agreement;

          (s) no Material Adverse Change shall have occurred; and

          (t) Borrowers shall pay all costs, fees and expenses owing to Agent
and Lenders on and as of the Closing Date.

     3.2 Conditions Precedent to the Initial Extension of Credit. The
obligation of the Lender Group (or any member thereof) to make the initial
Advance (or otherwise to extend any credit provided for hereunder), is subject
to the fulfillment, to the satisfaction of Agent in its Permitted Discretion, of
each of the conditions precedent set forth below; provided that, if all of the
conditions set forth in this Section 3.2 are not satisfied as determined by
Agent in its Permitted Discretion, on or before the date that is 90 days after
the Closing Date, then this Agreement and the other Loan Documents shall be
automatically terminated and the Lender Group shall have no further obligations
of any kind hereunder or thereunder:

          (a) the Activation Date shall occur on or before the date occurring
ninety (90) days after the Closing Date;

          (b) Each of the conditions set forth in Section 3.1 shall have been
and continue at all times to be satisfied and Agent shall have received a
certificate of the chief executive officer of Parent dated as of the Activation
Date stating the same;

          (c) Agent shall have completed a takeover audit of Borrowers by the
Activation Date, the results of which shall be satisfactory to Agent in its
Permitted Discretion.

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          (d) Agent shall have received all financing statements required by
Agent, duly authorized for filing by the Domestic Guarantors, and Agent shall
have received searches reflecting the filing of all such financing statements;

          (e) Agent shall have received each of the following documents, in form
and substance satisfactory to Agent, duly executed or authorized to be filed, as
appropriate, and each such document shall be in full force and effect:

               (i) the Stock Pledge Agreements, together with all certificates
     representing the shares of Stock pledged thereunder for each direct and
     indirect Subsidiary of any Borrower, as well as Stock powers with respect
     thereto endorsed in blank,

               (ii) the Trademark Security Agreements,

               (iii) the Share Mortgage together with all share certificates and
     executed transfers in blank in respect of all shares charged by it and the
     Guarantee and Debenture,

               (iv) the Control Agreements,

               (v) the Cash Management Agreements together with verifications of
     the balances of the Cash Management Accounts subject thereto as of the
     Activation Date, it being acknowledged and agreed by Borrowers that, as an
     additional condition to the Activation Date, as of the Activation Date not
     less that $25,000,000 of Borrowers' cash shall be subject to Cash
     Management Agreements,

               (vi) UCC termination statements and other documentation
     evidencing the termination by any prior secured parties of their respective
     Liens in and to the properties and assets of Borrowers and each Guarantor,

               (vii) the Guaranties and the Subsidiary Documents,

               (viii) Collateral Access Agreements from all lessors of Real
     Property where any Borrower maintains its Chief Executive Office and
     Equipment maintaining Books and Records or keeps its Books and Records for
     its business or operations, and

               (ix) Collateral Access Agreements in favor of Agent from all of
     Borrowers' information technology lessors;

          (f) Agent shall have received completed reference checks with respect
to Borrowers' senior management, the results of which are satisfactory to Agent
in its sole discretion;

          (g) Agent shall have received a certificate of insurance, together
with the endorsements thereto, as are required by Section 6.8, the form and
substance of which shall be satisfactory to Agent;

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          (h) Agent shall have received a certificate from the Secretary of each
Guarantor attesting to the resolutions of such Guarantor's Board of Directors
authorizing its execution, delivery, and performance of the Loan Documents to
which such Guarantor is a party and authorizing specific officers of such
Guarantor to execute the same;

          (i) Agent shall have received copies of each Guarantor's Governing
Documents, as amended, modified, or supplemented to the Closing Date, certified
by the Secretary of such Guarantor;

          (j) Agent shall have received a certificate of status with respect to
each Guarantor, dated within 10 days of the Activation Date, such certificate to
be issued by the appropriate officer of the jurisdiction of organization of such
Guarantor, which certificate shall indicate that such Guarantor is in good
standing in such jurisdiction;

          (k) Agent shall have received certificates of status with respect to
each Guarantor, each dated within 30 days of the Activation Date, such
certificates to be issued by the appropriate officer of the jurisdictions (other
than the jurisdiction of organization of such Guarantor) in which its failure to
be duly qualified or licensed would constitute a Material Adverse Change, which
certificates shall indicate that such Guarantor is in good standing in such
jurisdictions;

          (l) Agent shall have received additional opinions of counsel to
Borrowers (including, without limitation, HH Australia and HH Canada) and
Guarantors pertaining to such matters as Agent may determine as of the
Activation Date, in form and substance satisfactory to Agent;

          (m) Borrowers shall have the Required Availability as of the
Activation Date after giving effect to the payment of all costs, fees and
expenses then due to Agent and/or any Lender hereunder or under the other Loan
Documents and the contemplated initial Advances hereunder;

          (n) Borrower shall deliver to Agent, in form and content satisfactory
to Agent, an opening balance sheet as of the effective date of the Spin-Off,
reviewed by an independent certified public accountant and in form and content
satisfactory to Agent in its Permitted Discretion, together with evidence
satisfactory to Agent in its Permitted Discretion that Borrowers and their
Subsidiaries have had available cash and Cash Equivalents in an aggregate amount
not less than $40,000,000 at some time prior to the Activation Date;

          (o) Agent shall have received UCC, tax lien, and judgment searches for
all domestic jurisdictions (and the non-domestic equivalents of such searches)
in which Borrower and each Guarantor and Collateral may be located, the results
of which searches show the recording of Agent's security interests and otherwise
shall be satisfactory to Agent in its Permitted Discretion;

          (p) The TMP Loan Agreement and, if any, Security Agreement between
Company and TMP entered into in contemplation of the Spin-Off shall have been
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obligations to TMP thereunder shall have been indefeasibly paid and satisfied in
full and all liens granted thereunder shall have been terminated;

          (q) The Borrowers shall have executed and delivered all documents
required by Agent and shall have satisfied all other conditions established by
Agent in its Permitted Discretion to cause HH Australia and HH Canada to become
Borrowers hereunder;

          (r) Agent shall have received and reviewed all of Borrowers' material
contracts including without limitation all seller notes payable by a Borrower or
any of its Subsidiaries and the results of such review shall be satisfactory to
Agent in its Permitted Discretion;

          (s) Agent shall have received identifications of the Designated
Account and the Designated Account Bank from Administrative Borrower prior to
the Activation Date;

          (t) Agent and Borrowers shall have agreed to a mutually acceptable
maximum amount for Permitted Investments by Borrowers in Guarantors and to the
basis for the financial statements described in the ending language to Section
6.3 prior to the Activation Date;

          (u) Borrowers shall have delivered to Agent an organizational chart
for Borrowers and their Subsidiaries that is true and correct as of the
Activation Date,

          (v) No material adverse change shall have occurred in Borrowers
financial condition or prospects or in the value of the Collateral,

          (w) No default or event which, with the giving of notice or passage of
time, or both, would be a default shall have occurred and be continuing under
any agreement governing indebtedness of any Borrower or any other material
agreement of any Borrower; and

          (x) all other documents and legal matters in connection with the
transactions contemplated by this Agreement shall have been delivered, executed,
or recorded and shall be in form and substance satisfactory to Agent.

     3.3 Conditions Precedent to all Extensions of Credit. The obligation of
the Lender Group (or any member thereof) to make all Advances (or to extend any
other credit hereunder) shall be subject to the following conditions precedent:

          (a) the aggregate cash on hand of Borrowers and their Subsidiaries is
less than $15,000,000;

          (b) the representations and warranties contained in this Agreement and
the other Loan Documents shall be true and correct in all material respects on
and as of the date of such extension of credit, as though made on and as of such
date (except to the extent that such representations and warranties relate
solely to an earlier date);

          (c) no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be
continuing on the date of such extension of credit, nor shall either result from
the making thereof;

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          (d) no injunction, writ, restraining order, or other order of any
nature prohibiting, directly or indirectly, the extending of such credit shall
have been issued and remain in force by any Governmental Authority against any
Borrower, Agent, any Lender, or any of their Affiliates; and

          (e) no Material Adverse Change shall have occurred.

     3.4 Term. This Agreement shall become effective upon the execution and
delivery hereof by Borrowers, Agent, and the Lenders and shall continue in full
force and effect for a term ending on March 31, 2006 (the "Maturity Date"). The
foregoing notwithstanding, the Lender Group, upon the election of the Required
Lenders, shall have the right to terminate its obligations under this Agreement
immediately and without notice upon the occurrence and during the continuation
of an Event of Default.

     3.5 Effect of Termination. On the date of termination of this Agreement,
all Obligations (including contingent reimbursement obligations of Borrowers
with respect to any outstanding Letters of Credit) immediately shall become due
and payable without notice or demand. No termination of this Agreement, however,
shall relieve or discharge Borrowers of their duties, Obligations, or covenants
hereunder and the Agent's Liens in the Collateral shall remain in effect until
all Obligations have been fully and finally discharged and the Lender Group's
obligations to provide additional credit hereunder have been terminated. When
this Agreement has been terminated and all of the Obligations have been fully
and finally discharged and the Lender Group's obligations to provide additional
credit under the Loan Documents have been terminated irrevocably, Agent will, at
Borrowers' sole expense, execute and deliver any UCC termination statements,
lien releases, mortgage releases, re-assignments of trademarks, discharges of
security interests, and other similar discharge or release documents (and, if
applicable, in recordable form) as are reasonably necessary to release, as of
record, the Agent's Liens and all notices of security interests and liens
previously filed by Agent with respect to the Obligations.

     3.6 Early Termination by Borrowers. Borrowers have the option, at any time
upon 90 days prior written notice by Administrative Borrower to Agent, to
terminate this Agreement by paying to Agent, for the benefit of the Lender
Group, in cash, the Obligations (including either (i) providing cash collateral
to be held by Agent in an amount equal to 105% of the then extant Letter of
Credit Usage, or (ii) causing the original Letters of Credit to be returned to
the Issuing Lender), in full, together with the Applicable Prepayment Premium
(to be allocated based upon letter agreements between Agent and individual
Lenders). If Administrative Borrower has sent a notice of termination pursuant
to the provisions of this Section, then the Commitments shall terminate and
Borrowers shall be obligated to repay the Obligations (including either (i)
providing cash collateral to be held by Agent in an amount equal to 105% of the
then extant Letter of Credit Usage, or (ii) causing the original Letters of
Credit to be returned to the Issuing Lender), in full, together with the
Applicable Prepayment Premium, on the date set forth as the date of termination
of this Agreement in such notice. In the event of the termination of this
Agreement and repayment of the Obligations at any time prior to the Maturity
Date, for any other reason, including (a) termination upon the election of the
Required Lenders to terminate after the occurrence of an Event of Default, (b)
foreclosure and sale of Collateral, (c)

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sale of the Collateral in any Insolvency Proceeding, or (iv) restructure,
reorganization or compromise of the Obligations by the confirmation of a plan of
reorganization, or any other plan of compromise, restructure, or arrangement in
any Insolvency Proceeding, then, in view of the impracticability and extreme
difficulty of ascertaining the actual amount of damages to the Lender Group or
profits lost by the Lender Group as a result of such early termination, and by
mutual agreement of the parties as to a reasonable estimation and calculation of
the lost profits or damages of the Lender Group, Borrowers shall pay the
Applicable Prepayment Premium to Agent (to be allocated based upon letter
agreements between Agent and individual Lenders), measured as of the date of
such termination.

4.   CREATION OF SECURITY INTEREST.

     4.1 Grant of Security Interest. Each Borrower hereby grants to Agent, for
the benefit of the Lender Group, a continuing security interest in all of its
right, title, and interest in all currently existing and hereafter acquired or
arising Personal Property Collateral in order to secure prompt repayment of any
and all of the Obligations in accordance with the terms and conditions of the
Loan Documents and in order to secure prompt performance by Borrowers of each of
their covenants and duties under the Loan Documents. The Agent's Liens in and to
the Personal Property Collateral shall attach to all Personal Property
Collateral without further act on the part of Agent or Borrowers. Anything
contained in this Agreement or any other Loan Document to the contrary
notwithstanding, except for Permitted Dispositions, Borrowers have no authority,
express or implied, to dispose of any item or portion of the Collateral.

     4.2 Negotiable Collateral. In the event that any Collateral, including
proceeds, is evidenced by or consists of Negotiable Collateral, and if and to
the extent that perfection or priority of Agent's security interest is dependent
on or enhanced by possession, the applicable Borrower, immediately upon the
request of Agent, shall endorse and deliver physical possession of such
Negotiable Collateral to Agent.

     4.3 Collection of Accounts, General Intangibles, and Negotiable Collateral
.. At any time after the occurrence and during the continuation of an Event of
Default, Agent or Agent's designee may (a) notify Account Debtors of Borrowers
that the Accounts, chattel paper, or General Intangibles have been assigned to
Agent or that Agent has a security interest therein, or (b) collect the
Accounts, chattel paper, or General Intangibles directly and charge the
collection costs and expenses to the Loan Account. Each Borrower agrees that it
will hold in trust for the Lender Group, as the Lender Group's trustee, any
Collections that it receives and immediately will deliver said Collections to
Agent or a Cash Management Bank in their original form as received by the
applicable Borrower.

     4.4 Delivery of Additional Documentation Required. At any time upon the
request of Agent, Borrowers shall execute and deliver to Agent, any and all
financing statements, original financing statements in lieu of continuation
statements, fixture filings, security agreements, pledges, assignments,
endorsements of certificates of title, and all other documents (the "Additional
Documents") that Agent may request in its Permitted Discretion, in form and
substance satisfactory to Agent, to perfect and continue perfected or better
perfect the Agent's Liens in the Collateral (whether now owned or hereafter
arising or acquired), to create and

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perfect Liens in favor of Agent in any Real Property acquired after the Closing
Date, and in order to fully consummate all of the transactions contemplated
hereby and under the other Loan Documents. To the maximum extent permitted by
applicable law, each Borrower authorizes Agent to execute any such Additional
Documents in the applicable Borrower's name and authorize Agent to file such
executed Additional Documents in any appropriate filing office. In addition, on
such periodic basis as Agent shall require, Borrowers shall (a) provide Agent
with a report of all new patentable, copyrightable, or trademarkable materials
acquired or generated by Borrowers during the prior period, (b) cause all
patents, copyrights, and trademarks acquired or generated by Borrowers that are
not already the subject of a registration with the appropriate filing office (or
an application therefor diligently prosecuted) to be registered with such
appropriate filing office in a manner sufficient to impart constructive notice
of Borrowers' ownership thereof, and (c) cause to be prepared, executed, and
delivered to Agent supplemental schedules to the applicable Loan Documents to
identify such patents, copyrights, and trademarks as being subject to the
security interests created thereunder.

     4.5 Power of Attorney. Each Borrower hereby irrevocably makes,
constitutes, and appoints Agent (and any of Agent's officers, employees, or
agents designated by Agent) as such Borrower's true and lawful attorney, with
power to (a) if such Borrower refuses to, or fails timely to execute and deliver
any of the documents described in Section 4.4, sign the name of such Borrower on
any of the documents described in Section 4.4, (b) at any time that an Event of
Default has occurred and is continuing, sign such Borrower's name on any invoice
or bill of lading relating to the Collateral, drafts against Account Debtors, or
notices to Account Debtors, (c) send requests for verification of Accounts, (d)
endorse such Borrower's name on any Collection item that may come into the
Lender Group's possession, (e) at any time that an Event of Default has occurred
and is continuing, make, settle, and adjust all claims under such Borrower's
policies of insurance and make all determinations and decisions with respect to
such policies of insurance, and (f) at any time that an Event of Default has
occurred and is continuing, settle and adjust disputes and claims respecting the
Accounts, chattel paper, or General Intangibles directly with Account Debtors,
for amounts and upon terms that Agent determines to be reasonable, and Agent may
cause to be executed and delivered any documents and releases that Agent
determines to be necessary. The appointment of Agent as each Borrower's
attorney, and each and every one of its rights and powers, being coupled with an
interest, is irrevocable until all of the Obligations have been fully and
finally repaid and performed and the Lender Group's obligations to extend credit
hereunder are terminated.

     4.6 Right to Inspect. Agent and each Lender (through any of their
respective officers, employees, or agents) shall have the right, from time to
time hereafter to inspect the Books and to check, test, and appraise the
Collateral in order to verify Borrowers' financial condition or the amount,
quality, value, condition of, or any other matter relating to, the Collateral.

     4.7 Control Agreements. Each Borrower agrees that it will not transfer
assets out of any Securities Accounts other than as permitted under Section 7.19
and, if to another securities intermediary, unless each of the applicable
Borrower, Agent, and the substitute securities intermediary have entered into a
Control Agreement. No arrangement contemplated hereby or by any Control
Agreement in respect of any Securities Accounts or other Investment Property

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shall be modified by Borrowers without the prior written consent of Agent. Upon
the occurrence and during the continuance of a Default or Event of Default,
Agent may notify any securities intermediary to liquidate the applicable
Securities Account or any related Investment Property maintained or held thereby
and remit the proceeds thereof to the Agent's Account.

5    REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES.

     In order to induce the Lender Group to enter into this Agreement, each
Borrower makes the following representations and warranties to the Lender Group
which shall be true, correct, and complete, in all material respects, as of the
date hereof, and shall be true, correct, and complete, in all material respects,
as of the Closing Date, and at and as of the date of the making of each Advance
(or other extension of credit) made thereafter, as though made on and as of the
date of such Advance (or other extension of credit) (except to the extent that
such representations and warranties relate solely to an earlier date) and such
representations and warranties shall survive the execution and delivery of this
Agreement:

     5.1 No Encumbrances. Each Borrower has good and indefeasible title to its
Collateral and the Real Property, and as of the Activation Date, all Collateral
shall be free and clear of Liens except for Permitted Liens.

     5.2 Eligible Accounts. The Eligible Accounts are bona fide existing payment
obligations of Account Debtors created by the sale and delivery of Inventory or
the rendition of services to such Account Debtors in the ordinary course of
Borrowers' business, owed to Borrowers without defenses, disputes, offsets,
counterclaims, or rights of return or cancellation. As to each Eligible Account,
such Account is not:

          (a) owed by an employee, Affiliate, or agent of a Borrower,

          (b) on account of a transaction wherein goods were placed on
consignment or were sold pursuant to a guaranteed sale, a sale or return, a sale
on approval, a bill and hold, or on any other terms by reason of which the
payment by the Account Debtor may be conditional,

          (c) payable in a currency other than Dollars (except as provided under
Section 2.18),

          (d) owed by an Account Debtor that has or has asserted a right of
setoff, has disputed its liability, or has made any claim with respect to its
obligation to pay the Account,

          (e) owed by an Account Debtor that is subject to any Insolvency
Proceeding or is not Solvent or as to which a Borrower has received notice of an
imminent Insolvency Proceeding or a material impairment of the financial
condition of such Account Debtor,

          (f) on account of a transaction as to which the goods giving rise to
such Account have not been shipped and billed to the Account Debtor or the
services giving rise to such Account have not been performed and accepted by the
Account Debtor,

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          (g) a right to receive progress payments or other advance billings
that are due prior to the completion of performance by the applicable Borrower
of the subject contract for goods or services, and

          (h) an Account that has not been billed to the customer.

     5.3 Locations; Leases. Borrowers conduct their respective businesses and
maintain or store their respective Books and Records at the locations set forth
on Schedule 5.3. Each such location is leased by Parent or a Borrower and each
Borrower's chief executive office and locations of Books and Records are or will
be by the Activation Date subject to Collateral Access Agreements executed by
the applicable lessor in favor of Agent granting Agent such access and other
rights as it deems necessary and appropriate in its sole discretion in order to
protect the interests of Agent and the Lenders in the Collateral. Each such
lease is set forth on Schedule 5.3.

     5.4 Equipment. All of the Equipment is used or held for use in Borrowers'
business and is fit for such purposes.

     5.5 Location of Inventory and Equipment. The Equipment is not stored with
a bailee, warehouseman, or similar party and is located only at the locations
identified on Schedule 5.5.

     5.6 Inventory Records. Each Borrower keeps correct and accurate records
itemizing and describing the type, quality, and quantity of its Inventory and
the book value thereof.

     5.7 Location of Chief Executive Office; FEIN. The chief executive office
of each Borrower is located at the address indicated in Schedule 5.7 and each
Borrower's FEIN (or, with respect to each Foreign Borrower, any comparable
national identification number) is identified in Schedule 5.7.

     5.8 Due Organization and Qualification; Subsidiaries.

          (a) Each Borrower is duly organized and existing and in good standing
under the laws of the jurisdiction of its organization and qualified to do
business in any state where the failure to be so qualified reasonably could be
expected to have a Material Adverse Change.

          (b) Set forth on Schedule 5.8(b), is a complete and accurate
description of the authorized capital Stock of each Borrower, by class, and, as
of the Closing Date, a description of the number of shares of each such class
that are issued and outstanding. Other than as described on Schedule 5.8(b),
there are no subscriptions, options, warrants, or calls relating to any shares
of each Borrower's capital Stock, including any right of conversion or exchange
under any outstanding security or other instrument. No Borrower is subject to
any obligation (contingent or otherwise) to repurchase or otherwise acquire or
retire any shares of its capital Stock or any security convertible into or
exchangeable for any of its capital Stock.

          (c) Set forth on Schedule 5.8(c), is a complete and accurate list of
each Borrower's direct and indirect Subsidiaries, showing: (i) the jurisdiction
of their organization;

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(ii) the number of shares of each class of common and preferred Stock authorized
for each of such Subsidiaries; and (iii) the number and the percentage of the
outstanding shares of each such class owned directly or indirectly by the
applicable Borrower. All of the outstanding capital Stock of each such
Subsidiary has been validly issued and is fully paid and non-assessable.

          (d) Except as set forth on Schedule 5.8(c), there are no
subscriptions, options, warrants, or calls relating to any shares of any
Borrower's Subsidiaries' capital Stock, including any right of conversion or
exchange under any outstanding security or other instrument. No Borrower or any
of its respective Subsidiaries is subject to any obligation (contingent or
otherwise) to repurchase or otherwise acquire or retire any shares of any
Borrower's Subsidiaries' capital Stock or any security convertible into or
exchangeable for any such capital Stock.

     5.9 Due Authorization; No Conflict.

          (a) As to each Borrower, the execution, delivery, and performance by
such Borrower of this Agreement and the Loan Documents to which it is a party
have been duly authorized by all necessary action on the part of such Borrower.

          (b) As to each Borrower, the execution, delivery, and performance by
such Borrower of this Agreement and the Loan Documents to which it is a party do
not and will not (i) violate any provision of federal, national, state, or local
law or regulation applicable to any Borrower, the Governing Documents of any
Borrower, or any order, judgment, or decree of any court or other Governmental
Authority binding on any Borrower, (ii) conflict with, result in a breach of, or
constitute (with due notice or lapse of time or both) a default under any
material contractual obligation of any Borrower, (iii) result in or require the
creation or imposition of any Lien of any nature whatsoever upon any properties
or assets of Borrower, other than Permitted Liens, or (iv)require any approval
of any Borrower's interestholders or any approval or consent of any Person under
any material contractual obligation of any Borrower.

          (c) Other than the filing of financing statements, fixture filings,
and NASDAQ disclosure statements, the execution, delivery, and performance by
each Borrower of this Agreement and the Loan Documents to which such Borrower is
a party do not and will not require any registration with, consent, or approval
of, or notice to, or other action with or by, any Governmental Authority or
other Person.

          (d) As to each Borrower, this Agreement and the other Loan Documents
to which such Borrower is a party, and all other documents contemplated hereby
and thereby, when executed and delivered by such Borrower will be the legally
valid and binding obligations of such Borrower, enforceable against such
Borrower in accordance with their respective terms, except as enforcement may be
limited by equitable principles or by bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization,
moratorium, or similar laws relating to or limiting creditors' rights generally.

          (e) The Agent's Liens are validly created, perfected, and first
priority Liens, subject only to Permitted Liens.

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          (f) The execution, delivery, and performance by each Guarantor of the
Loan Documents to which it is a party have been duly authorized by all necessary
action on the part of such Guarantor.

          (g) The execution, delivery, and performance by each Guarantor of the
Loan Documents to which it is a party do not and will not (i) violate any
provision of federal, national, state, or local law or regulation applicable to
such Guarantor, the Governing Documents of such Guarantor, or any order,
judgment, or decree of any court or other Governmental Authority binding on such
Guarantor, (ii) conflict with, result in a breach of, or constitute (with due
notice or lapse of time or both) a default under any material contractual
obligation of such Guarantor, (iii) result in or require the creation or
imposition of any Lien of any nature whatsoever upon any properties or assets of
such Guarantor, other than Permitted Liens, or (iv) require any approval of such
Guarantor's interestholders or any approval or consent of any Person under any
material contractual obligation of such Guarantor.

          (h) The execution, delivery, and performance by each Guarantor of the
Loan Documents to which such Guarantor is a party do not and will not require
any registration with, consent, or approval of, or notice to, or other action
with or by, any Governmental Authority or other Person.

          (i) The Loan Documents to which each Guarantor is a party, and all
other documents contemplated hereby and thereby, when executed and delivered by
such Guarantor will be legally valid and binding obligations of such Guarantor,
enforceable against such Guarantor in accordance with their respective terms,
except as enforcement may be limited by equitable principles or by bankruptcy,
insolvency, reorganization, moratorium, or similar laws relating to or limiting
creditors' rights generally.

     5.10 Litigation. Other than those matters disclosed on Schedule 5.10,
there are no actions, suits, or proceedings pending or, to the best knowledge of
Borrowers, threatened against Borrowers, or any of their Subsidiaries, as
applicable, except for (a) matters that are fully covered by insurance (subject
to customary deductibles), and (b) matters arising after the Closing Date that,
if decided adversely to Borrowers, or any of their Subsidiaries, as applicable,
reasonably could not be expected to result in a Material Adverse Change.

     5.11 No Material Adverse Change. All financial statements relating to
Borrowers or Guarantors that have been delivered by Borrowers or Guarantors to
the Lender Group have been prepared in accordance with GAAP (except, in the case
of unaudited financial statements, for the lack of footnotes and being subject
to year-end audit adjustments) and present fairly in all material respects,
Borrowers' (or Guarantors', as applicable) financial condition as of the date
thereof and results of operations for the period then ended. There has not been
a Material Adverse Change with respect to Borrowers (or Guarantors, as
applicable) since the date of the latest financial statements submitted to the
Lender Group on or before the Closing Date.

     5.12 Fraudulent Transfer.

          (a) each Borrower is Solvent.

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          (b) No transfer of property is being made by any Borrower and no
obligation is being incurred by any Borrower in connection with the transactions
contemplated by this Agreement or the other Loan Documents with the intent to
hinder, delay, or defraud either present or future creditors of Borrowers.

     5.13 Employee Benefits. Except as set forth on Schedule 5.13, none of
Borrowers, any of their Subsidiaries, or any of their ERISA Affiliates maintains
or contributes to any Benefit Plan.

     5.14 Environmental Condition. Except as set forth on Schedule 5.14, (a) to
Borrowers' knowledge, none of Borrowers' properties or assets has ever been used
by Borrowers or by previous owners or operators in the disposal of, or to
produce, store, handle, treat, release, or transport, any Hazardous Materials,
where such production, storage, handling, treatment, release or transport was in
violation, in any material respect, of applicable Environmental Law, (b) to
Borrowers' knowledge, none of Borrowers' properties or assets has ever been
designated or identified in any manner pursuant to any environmental protection
statute as a Hazardous Materials disposal site, (c) none of Borrowers have
received notice that a Lien arising under any Environmental Law has attached to
any revenues or to any Real Property owned or operated by Borrowers, and (d)
none of Borrowers have received a summons, citation, notice, or directive from
the Environmental Protection Agency or any other federal or state governmental
agency concerning any action or omission by any Borrower resulting in the
releasing or disposing of Hazardous Materials into the environment.

     5.15 Brokerage Fees. Except as set forth on Schedule 5.15, Borrowers have
not utilized the services of any broker or finder in connection with Borrowers'
obtaining financing from the Lender Group under this Agreement and no brokerage
commission or finders fee is payable by Borrowers in connection herewith.

     5.16 Intellectual Property. Each Borrower owns, or holds licenses in, all
trademarks, trade names, copyrights, patents, patent rights, and licenses that
are necessary to the conduct of its business as currently conducted. Attached
hereto as Schedule 5.16 is a true, correct, and complete listing of all material
patents, patent applications, trademarks, trademark applications, copyrights,
and copyright registrations as to which each Borrower is the owner or is an
exclusive licensee.

     5.17 Leases. Borrowers enjoy peaceful and undisturbed possession under all
leases material to the business of Borrowers and to which Borrowers are a party
or under which Borrowers are operating. All of such leases are valid and
subsisting and no material default by Borrowers exists under any of them.

     5.18 DDAs. Set forth on Schedule 5.18 are all of the DDAs of each
Borrower, including, with respect to each depository (i) the name and address of
that depository, and (ii) the account numbers of the accounts maintained with
such depository. Borrower shall from time to time update Schedule 5.18 on not
less than thirty (30) days advance written notice to Agent.

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     5.19 Complete Disclosure. All factual information (taken as a whole)
furnished by or on behalf of Borrowers in writing to Agent or any Lender
(including all information contained in the Schedules hereto or in the other
Loan Documents) for purposes of or in connection with this Agreement, the other
Loan Documents or any transaction contemplated herein or therein is, and all
other such factual information (taken as a whole) hereafter furnished by or on
behalf of Borrowers in writing to the Agent or any Lender will be, true and
accurate in all material respects on the date as of which such information is
dated or certified and not incomplete by omitting to state any fact necessary to
make such information (taken as a whole) not misleading in any material respect
at such time in light of the circumstances under which such information was
provided. On the Closing Date, the Closing Date Projections represent, and as of
the date on which any other Projections are delivered to Agent, such additional
Projections represent Borrowers' good faith best estimate of its future
performance for the periods covered thereby.

     5.20 Indebtedness. Set forth on Schedule 5.20 is a true and complete list
of all Indebtedness of each Borrower outstanding immediately prior to the
Closing Date that is to remain outstanding after the Closing Date and such
Schedule accurately reflects the aggregate principal amount of such Indebtedness
and the principal terms thereof. On the Activation Date, Borrowers shall provide
Agent with an updated Schedule 5.20, in form and content satisfactory to Agent
in its Permitted Discretion, accurately reflecting the aggregate principal
amount of such Indebtedness that is to remain outstanding after the Activation
Date and the principal terms thereof.

6.   AFFIRMATIVE COVENANTS.

     Each Borrower covenants and agrees that, so long as any credit hereunder
shall be available and until full and final payment of the Obligations,
Borrowers shall and shall cause each of their respective Subsidiaries to do all
of the following:

     6.1 Accounting System. Maintain a system of accounting that enables
Borrowers to produce financial statements in accordance with GAAP and maintain
records pertaining to the Collateral that contain information as from time to
time reasonably may be requested by Agent.

     6.2 Collateral Reporting. Provide Agent (and if so requested by Agent,
with copies for each Lender) with the following documents at the following times
in form satisfactory to Agent:

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Daily                        (a) notice of all disputes or claims in excess of
                             $1,000,000.
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Monthly (not later than      (a) a detailed calculation of the Borrowing Base
the 10th day of each         (including detail regarding those Accounts that are
month)                       not Eligible Accounts),

                             (b) a detailed aging, by total, of the Accounts,
                             together with a reconciliation to the detailed
                             calculation of the Borrowing Base previously
                             provided to Agent,

                             (c) a calculation of Dilution for the prior month,

                             (d) a statement of Collections for the prior month,
                             and

                             (e) a summary from HH UK of its preferential
                             creditors, and

                             (f) a summary of Borrowers' accounts payable
                             (segregated between payroll and other) and any book
                             overdraft.
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Quarterly                    a report regarding each Borrower's due and payable
                             value added taxes,
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Upon request by Agent        (a) copies of invoices in connection with the
                             Accounts, credit memos, remittance advices, deposit
                             slips, shipping and delivery documents in
                             connection with the Accounts and, for Equipment
                             acquired by Borrowers, purchase orders and
                             invoices,

                             (b) such other reports as to the Collateral, or the
                             financial condition of Borrowers as Agent may
                             request, and

                             (c) a detailed listing of each Borrower's
                             customers, which customer information is
                             specifically identified and requested by Agent from
                             time to time.
================================================================================

and, with respect to Accounts, a sales journal for each Borrower, collection
journal for each Borrower and each Subsidiary, and credit register for each
Borrower since the most recent such report and a calculation of the Borrowing
Base as of such date, in accordance with the following schedule:

<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
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<S>                                                    <C>
At all times from the Closing Date through the         Monthly for all Borrowers
date occurring 90 days after the Activation Date
--------------------------------------------------     ---------------------------------------
Thereafter:
--------------------------------------------------     ---------------------------------------
At all times the Account Report Base is greater        Monthly for all Borrowers
than $35,000,000
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</TABLE>

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<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
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<S>                                                    <C>
At all times the Account Report Base is equal to       Biweekly for HH US and HH UK
or less than $35,000,000 but greater than              Monthly for HH Australia and HH Canada
$25,000,000
--------------------------------------------------     ---------------------------------------
At all times the Account Report Base is equal to       Weekly for HH US and HH UK
or less than $25,000,000 but greater than              Biweekly for HH Australia and HH Canada
$20,000,000
--------------------------------------------------     ---------------------------------------
At all times the Account Report Base is equal to       Daily for HH US and HH UK
or less than $20,000,000                               Weekly for HH Australia and HH Canada
--------------------------------------------------     ---------------------------------------
</TABLE>

                  In addition, each Borrower agrees, at each such Borrower's
expense, to cooperate fully with Agent to facilitate and implement a system of
electronic collateral reporting in order to provide electronic reporting of each
of the items set forth above. All costs, fees and expenses incurred by Agent in
connection with the facilitation and implementation of such electronic
collateral reporting system shall be reimbursed to Agent by Borrowers on Agent's
demand, shall constitute part of the Obligations and shall be secured by the
Collateral.

     6.3 Financial Statements, Reports, Certificates. Deliver to Agent, with
copies to each Lender:

          (a) as soon as available, but in any event within 30 days (45 days in
the case of a month that is the end of one of the first 3 fiscal quarters in a
fiscal year) after the end of each month during each of Parent's fiscal years,

               (i) a company prepared consolidated balance sheet, income
     statement, and statement of cash flow covering Parent's and its
     Subsidiaries' operations during such period,

               (ii) a certificate signed by the chief financial officer of
     Parent to the effect that:

                    (A) the financial statements delivered hereunder have been
               prepared in accordance with GAAP (except for the lack of
               footnotes and being subject to year-end audit adjustments) and
               fairly present in all material respects the financial condition
               of Parent and its Subsidiaries,

                    (B) the representations and warranties of Borrowers
               contained in this Agreement and the other Loan Documents are true
               and correct in all material respects on and as of the date of
               such certificate, as though made on and as of such date (except
               to the extent that such representations and warranties relate
               solely to an earlier date), and

                    (C) there does not exist any condition or event that
               constitutes a Default or Event of Default (or, to the extent of
               any non-compliance, describing such non-compliance as to which he
               or she may have knowledge and what action Borrowers have taken,
               are taking, or propose to take with respect thereto), and

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                    (D) there are no unpaid payroll or payroll taxes that have
               become due from any Borrower or Guarantor and stating the accrued
               amount of unpaid payroll and payroll taxes that have not yet
               become due, and

               (iii) for each month that is the date on which a financial
     covenant in Section 7.20 is to be tested, a Compliance Certificate
     demonstrating, in reasonable detail, compliance at the end of such period
     with the applicable financial covenants contained in Section 7.20, and

          (b) as soon as available, but in any event within 90 days after the
end of each of Parent's fiscal years,

               (i) financial statements of Parent and its Subsidiaries for each
     such fiscal year, audited by independent certified public accountants
     reasonably acceptable to Agent and certified, without any qualifications,
     by such accountants to have been prepared in accordance with GAAP (such
     audited financial statements to include a balance sheet, income statement,
     and statement of cash flow and, if prepared, such accountants' letter to
     management),

               (ii) a certificate of such accountants addressed to Agent and the
     Lenders stating that such accountants do not have knowledge of the
     existence of any Default or Event of Default under Section 7.20,

          (c) as soon as available, but in any event within 30 days prior to the
start of each of Parent's fiscal years,

               (i) copies of Borrowers' Projections, in form and substance
     (including as to scope and underlying assumptions) satisfactory to Agent,
     in its sole discretion, for the forthcoming 3 years, year by year, and for
     the forthcoming fiscal year, month by month, certified by the chief
     financial officer of Parent as being such officer's good faith best
     estimate of the financial performance of Parent and its Subsidiaries during
     the period covered thereby,

          (d) if and when filed by any Borrower,

               (i) 10-Q quarterly reports, Form 10-K annual reports, and Form
     8-K current reports,

               (ii) any other filings made by any Borrower with the SEC or any
     comparable Governmental Authority having regulatory jurisdiction over any
     Foreign Borrower,

               (iii) copies of Borrowers' federal income tax returns, and any
     amendments thereto, filed with the Internal Revenue Service or, with
     respect to any Foreign Borrower, any comparable Governmental Authority
     responsible for internal revenue, and

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               (iv) any other information that is provided by Parent to its
     shareholders generally,

          (e) if and when filed by any Borrower and as requested by Agent,
satisfactory evidence of payment of applicable excise taxes in each jurisdiction
in which (i) any Borrower conducts business or is required to pay any such
excise tax, (ii) where any Borrower's failure to pay any such applicable excise
tax would result in a Lien on the properties or assets of any Borrower, or (iii)
where any Borrower's failure to pay any such applicable excise tax reasonably
could be expected to result in a Material Adverse Change,

          (f) as soon as a Borrower has knowledge of any event or condition that
constitutes a Default or an Event of Default, notice thereof and a statement of
the curative action that Borrowers propose to take with respect thereto.

          (g) upon the request of Agent, any other report reasonably requested
relating to the financial condition of Borrowers.

          (h) In addition to the financial statements referred to above,
Borrowers agree to deliver financial statements prepared on a basis to be
determined prior to the Activation Date and that no Borrower, or any Subsidiary
of a Borrower, will have a fiscal year different from that of Parent. Borrowers
agree that their independent certified public accountants are authorized to
communicate with Agent and to release to Agent whatever financial information
concerning Borrowers that Agent reasonably may request. Each Borrower waives the
right to assert a confidential relationship, if any, it may have with any
accounting firm or service bureau in connection with any information requested
by Agent pursuant to or in accordance with this Agreement, and agree that Agent
may contact directly any such accounting firm or service bureau in order to
obtain such information.

     6.4 Guarantor Reports. Cause Guarantor to deliver its annual financial
statements at the time when Parent provides its audited financial statements to
Agent and copies of all federal income tax returns (or comparable national
returns for Foreign Guarantors) as soon as the same are available and in any
event no later than 30 days after the same are required to be filed by law.

     6.5 Allowance. Cause allowances as between Borrowers and their Account
Debtors, to be on the same basis and in accordance with the usual customary
practices of the applicable Borrower, as they exist at the time of the execution
and delivery of this Agreement.

     6.6 Maintenance of Properties. Maintain and preserve all of its properties
which are necessary or useful in the proper conduct to its business in good
working order and condition, ordinary wear and tear excepted, and comply at all
times with the provisions of all leases to which it is a party as lessee, so as
to prevent any loss or forfeiture thereof or thereunder.

     6.7 Taxes. Cause all assessments and taxes, whether real, personal, or
otherwise, due or payable by, or imposed, levied, or assessed against Borrowers
or any of their assets to be paid in full, before delinquency or before the
expiration of any extension period, except to the extent that the validity of
such assessment or tax shall be the subject of a Permitted Protest.

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Borrowers will make timely payment or deposit of all tax payments and
withholding taxes required of it by applicable laws, including those laws
concerning F.I.C.A., F.U.T.A., state disability, and local, state, and federal
income taxes, or other taxes as may be applicable to any Foreign Borrower, and
will, upon request, furnish Agent with proof satisfactory to Agent indicating
that the applicable Borrower has made such payments or deposits. Borrowers shall
deliver satisfactory evidence of payment of applicable excise taxes in each
jurisdictions in which any Borrower is required to pay any such excise tax.

     6.8 Insurance.

          (a) At Borrowers' expense, maintain insurance respecting its property
and assets wherever located, covering loss or damage by fire, theft, explosion,
and all other hazards and risks as ordinarily are insured against by other
Persons engaged in the same or similar businesses. Borrowers also shall maintain
business interruption, public liability, and product liability insurance, as
well as insurance against larceny, embezzlement, and criminal misappropriation.
All such policies of insurance shall be in such amounts and with such insurance
companies as are reasonably satisfactory to Agent. Borrowers shall deliver
copies of all such policies to Agent with a satisfactory lender's loss payable
endorsement naming Agent as sole loss payee or additional insured, as
appropriate. Each policy of insurance or endorsement shall contain a clause
requiring the insurer to give not less than 30 days prior written notice to
Agent in the event of cancellation of the policy for any reason whatsoever.

          (b) Administrative Borrower shall give Agent prompt notice of any loss
covered by such insurance. After the occurrence and during the continuation of
an Event of Default, Agent shall have the exclusive right to adjust any losses
payable under any such insurance policies in excess of $50,000, without any
liability to Borrowers whatsoever in respect of such adjustments. Any monies
received as payment for any loss under any insurance policy mentioned above
(other than liability insurance policies) or as payment of any award or
compensation for condemnation or taking by eminent domain, shall be paid over to
Agent to be applied at the option of the Required Lenders either to the
prepayment of the Obligations or shall be disbursed to Administrative Borrower
under staged payment terms reasonably satisfactory to the Required Lenders for
application to the cost of repairs, replacements, or restorations. Any such
repairs, replacements, or restorations shall be effected with reasonable
promptness and shall be of a value at least equal to the value of the items or
property destroyed prior to such damage or destruction.

          (c) Borrowers shall not take out separate insurance concurrent in form
or contributing in the event of loss with that required to be maintained under
this Section 6.8, unless Agent is included thereon as named insured with the
loss payable to Agent under a lender's loss payable endorsement or its
equivalent. Administrative Borrower immediately shall notify Agent whenever such
separate insurance is taken out, specifying the insurer thereunder and full
particulars as to the policies evidencing the same, and copies of such policies
promptly shall be provided to Agent.

     6.9 Location of Equipment. Keep the Equipment used in the maintenance or
storage of Borrowers' Books and Records only at the locations identified on
Schedule 5.5;

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provided, however, that Administrative Borrower may amend Schedule 5.5 so long
as such amendment occurs by written notice to Agent not less than 30 days prior
to the date on which such Equipment is moved to such new location, so long as
such new location is within the continental United States with respect to HH US
and within the applicable home countries of Borrowers organized and operating
outside the United States, and so long as, at the time of such written
notification, the applicable Borrower provides any financing statements, fixture
filings or other instruments or documents necessary to perfect and continue
perfected the Agent's Liens on such assets and also provides to Agent a
Collateral Access Agreement.

     6.10 Compliance with Laws. Comply with the requirements of all applicable
laws, rules, regulations, and orders of any Governmental Authority, including
the Fair Labor Standards Act and the Americans With Disabilities Act, other than
laws, rules, regulations, and orders the non-compliance with which, individually
or in the aggregate, would not result in and reasonably could not be expected to
result in a Material Adverse Change.

     6.11 Leases. Pay when due all rents and other amounts payable under any
leases to which any Borrower is a party or by which any Borrower's properties
and assets are bound, unless such payments are the subject of a Permitted
Protest.

     6.12 Brokerage Commissions. Pay any and all brokerage commission or
finders fees incurred in connection with or as a result of Borrowers' obtaining
financing from the Lender Group under this Agreement. Borrowers agree and
acknowledge that payment of all such brokerage commissions or finders fees shall
be the sole responsibility of Borrowers, and each Borrower agrees to indemnify,
defend, and hold Agent and the Lender Group harmless from and against any claim
of any broker or finder arising out of Borrowers' obtaining financing from the
Lender Group under this Agreement.

     6.13 Existence. At all times preserve and keep in full force and effect
each Borrower's valid existence and good standing and any rights and franchises
material to Borrowers' businesses.

     6.14 Environmental.

          (a) Keep any property either owned or operated by any Borrower free of
any Environmental Liens or post bonds or other financial assurances sufficient
to satisfy the obligations or liability evidenced by such Environmental Liens,
(b) comply, in all material respects, with Environmental Laws and provide to
Agent documentation of such compliance which Agent reasonably requests, (c)
promptly notify Agent of any release of a Hazardous Material of any reportable
quantity from or onto property owned or operated by any Borrower and take any
Remedial Actions required to abate said release or otherwise to come into
compliance with applicable Environmental Law, and (d) promptly provide Agent
with written notice within 10 days of the receipt of any of the following: (i)
notice that an Environmental Lien has been filed against any of the real or
personal property of any Borrower, (ii) commencement of any Environmental Action
or notice that an Environmental Action will be filed against any Borrower, and
(iii) notice of a violation, citation, or other administrative order which
reasonably could be expected to result in a Material Adverse Change.

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     6.15 Disclosure Updates. Promptly and in no event later than 5 Business
Days after obtaining knowledge thereof, (a) notify Agent if any written
information, exhibit, or report furnished to the Lender Group contained any
untrue statement of a material fact or omitted to state any material fact
necessary to make the statements contained therein not misleading in light of
the circumstances in which made, and (b) correct any defect or error that may be
discovered therein or in any Loan Document or in the execution, acknowledgment,
filing, or recordation thereof.

     6.16 Pro Forma Statements. Deliver to Agent, in form and content
satisfactory to Agent, a pro forma balance sheet for Borrowers, which pro forma
balance sheet shall be in form and content satisfactory to Agent in its
Permitted Discretion, and which pro forma balance sheet shall reflect that,
after giving effect to the initial Advances hereunder, Borrowers are Solvent.
Contemporaneously therewith, Borrowers shall deliver a writing to Agent, in form
and substance satisfactory to Agent, confirming that Borrowers are paying their
debts as they become due, acknowledging and confirming the enforceability of the
Loan Documents as against Borrowers and that Borrowers are jointly and severally
bound hereunder, without offset, defense or counterclaim, and ratifying Agent's
first priority, perfected security interests in and liens upon the Collateral.

7    NEGATIVE COVENANTS.

     Each Borrower covenants and agrees that, so long as any credit hereunder
shall be available and until full and final payment of the Obligations,
Borrowers will not and will not permit any of their respective Subsidiaries to
do any of the following:

     7.1 Indebtedness. Create, incur, assume, permit, guarantee, or otherwise
become or remain, directly or indirectly, liable with respect to any
Indebtedness, except:

          (a) Indebtedness evidenced by this Agreement and the other Loan
Documents, together with Indebtedness owed to Underlying Issuers with respect to
Underlying Letters of Credit;

          (b) Indebtedness set forth on Schedule 5.20;

          (c) Permitted Purchase Money Indebtedness;

          (d) refinancings of Indebtedness incurred under this Agreement and the
other Loan Documents by HH Australia; and

          (e) refinancings, renewals, or extensions of Indebtedness permitted
under clauses (b) and (c) of this Section 7.1 (and continuance or renewal of any
Permitted Liens associated therewith) so long as: (i) the terms and conditions
of such refinancings, renewals, or extensions do not, in Agent's judgment,
materially impair the prospects of repayment of the Obligations by Borrowers or
materially impair Borrowers' creditworthiness, (ii) such refinancings, renewals,
or extensions do not result in an increase in the principal amount of, or
interest rate with respect to, the Indebtedness so refinanced, renewed, or
extended, (iii) such refinancings, renewals, or extensions do not result in a
shortening of the average weighted

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maturity of the Indebtedness so refinanced, renewed, or extended, nor are they
on terms or conditions, that, taken as a whole, are materially more burdensome
or restrictive to the applicable Borrower, and (iv) if the Indebtedness that is
refinanced, renewed, or extended was subordinated in right of payment to the
Obligations, then the terms and conditions of the refinancing, renewal, or
extension Indebtedness must be include subordination terms and conditions that
are at least as favorable to the Lender Group as those that were applicable to
the refinanced, renewed, or extended Indebtedness.

          (f) Indebtedness composing Permitted Investments.

          (g) guaranties of obligations of Subsidiaries in an aggregate amount
not exceeding $10,000,000 outstanding at any one time.

     7.2 Liens. Create, incur, assume, or permit to exist, directly or
indirectly, any Lien on or with respect to any of its assets, of any kind,
whether now owned or hereafter acquired, or any income or profits therefrom,
except for Permitted Liens (including Liens that are replacements of Permitted
Liens to the extent that the original Indebtedness is refinanced, renewed, or
extended under Section 7.1(d) and so long as the replacement Liens only encumber
those assets that secured the refinanced, renewed, or extended Indebtedness).

     7.3 Restrictions on Fundamental Changes.

          (a) Enter into any merger, consolidation, reorganization, or
recapitalization, or reclassify its Stock.

          (b) Liquidate, windup, or dissolve itself (or suffer any liquidation
or dissolution), except, so long as (i) no Default or Event of Default has
occurred and is continuing or would directly result, (ii) Agent has received not
less than thirty (30) days advance written notice (but five (5) days advance
written notice at all times prior to the Activation Date), and (iii) no Material
Adverse Change would result, a Borrower or Guarantor may (x) merge or
consolidate with a Borrower provided an existing Borrower is the surviving
company, (y) merge or consolidate with a Guarantor, provided any existing
Borrower involved in such merger or consolidation is the surviving company, or
(z) liquidate, windup, or dissolve within a reasonable period of time after the
conveyance of all of its assets to either another Borrower or a Guarantor,
provided that a Borrower may not convey all or substantially all of its assets
to a Guarantor.

          (c) Convey, sell, lease, license, assign, transfer, or otherwise
dispose of, in one transaction or a series of transactions, all or any
substantial part of its assets except as expressly permitted under this
Agreement.

          (d) Cause or suffer any Guarantor to enter into any merger or
consolidation other than with a Borrower or another Guarantor.

          (e) Cause or suffer any Guarantor to convey, sell, lease, license,
assign, transfer, or otherwise dispose of, in one transaction or a series of
transactions, all or any substantial part of its assets other than to a Borrower
or another Guarantor or as otherwise expressly permitted under this Agreement.

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     7.4 Disposal of Assets. Other than Permitted Dispositions, convey, sell,
lease, license, assign, transfer, or otherwise dispose of any of the assets of
any Borrower.

     7.5 Change Name. Change any Borrower's or Guarantor's name, FEIN (or
comparable identification number with respect to any Foreign Borrower or Foreign
Guarantor), corporate structure or identity, or add any new fictitious name;
provided, however, that a Borrower or Guarantor may change its name upon at
least 30 days (but at all times prior to the Activation Date 5 days) prior
written notice by Administrative Borrower to Agent of such change and so long
as, at the time of such written notification, such Borrower provides any
financing statements or fixture filings necessary to perfect and continue
perfected Agent's Liens.

     7.6 Guarantee. Guarantee or otherwise become in any way liable with
respect to the obligations of any third Person except by endorsement of
instruments or items of payment for deposit to the account of Borrowers or which
are transmitted or turned over to Agent or guarantees of Subsidiary obligations
permitted under Section 7.1(g).

     7.7 Nature of Business. Make any change in the principal nature of
Borrowers' business.

     7.8 Prepayments and Amendments.

          (a) Except in connection with a refinancing permitted by Section
7.1(d), prepay, redeem, defease, purchase, or otherwise acquire any Indebtedness
of any Borrower, other than the Obligations in accordance with this Agreement,
and

          (b) Except in connection with a refinancing permitted by Section
7.1(d), directly or indirectly, amend, modify, alter, increase, or change any of
the terms or conditions of any agreement, instrument, document, indenture, or
other writing evidencing or concerning Indebtedness permitted under Sections
7.1(b) or (c).

     7.9 Change of Control. Cause, permit, or suffer, directly or indirectly,
any Change of Control.

     7.10 Subsidiaries. Organize or create any Subsidiary.

     7.11 Distributions. Other than distributions or declaration and payment of
dividends by a Borrower to another Borrower or by a Subsidiary to a Borrower or
a Guarantor, make any distribution or declare or pay any dividends (in cash or
other property, other than common Stock) on, or purchase, acquire, redeem, or
retire any of any Borrower's Stock, of any class, whether now or hereafter
outstanding.

     7.12 Accounting Methods. Modify or change its method of accounting (other
than as may be required to conform to GAAP) or enter into, modify, or terminate
any agreement currently existing, or at any time hereafter entered into with any
third party accounting firm or service bureau for the preparation or storage of
Borrowers' or Guarantors' accounting records without said accounting firm or
service bureau agreeing to provide Agent information regarding the Collateral or
Borrowers' or Guarantors' financial condition.

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     7.13 Investments. Except for Permitted Investments, directly or
indirectly, make or acquire any Investment, or incur any liabilities (including
contingent obligations) for or in connection with any Investment; provided,
however, that Borrowers shall not have Permitted Investments (other than
accounts subject to Control Agreements) in excess of $500,000 outstanding at any
one time unless the applicable Borrower and the applicable securities
intermediary or bank have entered into Control Agreements or similar
arrangements governing such Permitted Investments, as Agent shall determine in
its Permitted Discretion, to perfect (and further establish) the Agent's Liens
in such Permitted Investments.

     7.14 Transactions with Affiliates or TMP. Directly or indirectly enter
into or permit to exist any transaction with any Affiliate of any Borrower or
TMP or any Affiliate of TMP except for transactions that are in the ordinary
course of Borrowers' business, upon fair and reasonable terms, that are fully
disclosed to Agent, and that are no less favorable to Borrowers than would be
obtained in an arm's length transaction with a non-Affiliate. It is expressly
acknowledged and agreed that the Transaction Services Agreement between TMP and
Parent dated on or about March 31, 2003 is not violative of this Section 7.14.

     7.15 Suspension. Suspend or go out of a substantial portion of its
business.

     7.16 [INTENTIONALLY OMITTED].

     7.17 Use of Proceeds. Use the proceeds of the Advances for any purpose
other than (a) on the Closing Date, (i) to support the Spin-Off and (ii) to pay
transactional fees, costs, and expenses incurred in connection with this
Agreement, the other Loan Documents, and the transactions contemplated hereby
and thereby, and (b) thereafter, consistent with the terms and conditions
hereof, for its lawful and permitted purposes.

     7.18 Change in Location of Chief Executive Office; Equipment with Bailees.
Relocate its chief executive office to a new location without Administrative
Borrower providing 30 days prior written notification thereof to Agent and so
long as, at the time of such written notification, the applicable Borrower
provides any financing statements or fixture filings necessary to perfect and
continue perfected the Agent's Liens and also provides to Agent a Collateral
Access Agreement with respect to such new location. The Equipment shall not at
any time now or hereafter be stored with a bailee, warehouseman, or similar
party without Agent's prior written consent.

     7.19 Securities Accounts. Establish or maintain any Securities Account
unless Agent shall have received a Control Agreement in respect of such
Securities Account. Borrowers agree to not transfer assets out of any Securities
Account; provided, however, that, so long as no Event of Default has occurred
and is continuing or would result therefrom, Borrowers may use such assets (and
the proceeds thereof) to the extent not prohibited by this Agreement.

     7.20 Financial Covenants.

          (a) Fail to maintain:

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               (i) Minimum EBITDA. EBITDA, measured on a month-end or
     quarter-end basis as set forth below, of not less than the required amount
     set forth in the following table for the applicable month set forth
     opposite thereto;

     -----------------    -----------------    -----------------    ----------
     Applicable Amount    Applicable Amount    Applicable Amount    Applicable
            2003                 2004                 2005             Month
     -----------------    -----------------    -----------------    ----------
                NA            ($25,895)             $14,000           January
     -----------------    -----------------    -----------------    ----------
                NA            ($27,363)             $15,000          February
     -----------------    -----------------    -----------------    ----------
                NA            ($20,600)             $17,100            March
     -----------------    -----------------    -----------------    ----------
          ($7,425)            ($15,359)             $18,000            April
     -----------------    -----------------    -----------------    ----------
         ($11,547)            ($10,534)             $19,000             May
     -----------------    -----------------    -----------------    ----------
         ($11,000)             ($5,000)             $20,400            June
     -----------------    -----------------    -----------------    ----------
         ($15,869)             ($1,109)             $21,000            July
     -----------------    -----------------    -----------------    ----------
         ($20,313)               $1,734             $22,000           August
     -----------------    -----------------    -----------------    ----------
         ($16,750)               $4,800             $24,950          September
     -----------------    -----------------    -----------------    ----------
         ($17,329)               $7,508             $26,000           October
     -----------------    -----------------    -----------------    ----------
         ($17,035)              $10,250             $27,000          November
     -----------------    -----------------    -----------------    ----------
         ($18,750)              $13,000             $30,000          December
     -----------------    -----------------    -----------------    ----------

                  Prior to the first month-end occurring on or after the
Activation Date, EBITDA shall be measured (x) on a month-end basis at all times
that the Account Report Base is less than $20,000,000 and (y) on a quarter-end
basis at all other times. From and after the first month-end occurring on or
after the Activation Date, EBITDA shall be measured (x) on a month-end basis at
all times that the Account Report Base is less than $30,000,000 and (y) on a
quarter-end basis at all other times.

          (a) Make:

               (i) Capital Expenditures. Capital expenditures in any fiscal year
     in excess of (x) $8,800,000 for Borrowers' fiscal 2003, (y) $8,800,000 for
     Borrowers' fiscal 2004, and (z) $8,800,000 for Borrowers' fiscal 2005. So
     long as, as of the end of any fiscal year of Borrowers, no Event of Default
     then exists or has occurred and is continuing, the amount of capital
     expenditures permitted in such fiscal year which remains unused may be
     added to the permitted amount of capital expenditures in the immediately
     following fiscal year.

     7.21 Minimum Availability. Immediately prior to and at all times after
giving effect to the making of any Advance or the issuance of any L/C or L/C
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Agreement, fail to maintain an unused Borrowing Base, after giving effect to any
Requested Revolver Usage, of not less than $15,000,000 ("Minimum Availability");
provided, that if Borrowers fail to achieve $10,000,000 of Availability from
Eligible Accounts generated solely by HH Canada and HH Australia on or before
the Activation Date, in addition to Agent's other rights and remedies hereunder,
Agent may increase the Minimum Availability set forth in this Section in its
Permitted Discretion.

8.   EVENTS OF DEFAULT.

     Any one or more of the following events shall constitute an event of
default (each, an "Event of Default") under this Agreement:

         8.1 If Borrowers or any Guarantors fail to pay when due and payable or
when declared due and payable, all or any portion of the Obligations (whether of
principal, interest (including any interest which, but for the provisions of the
Bankruptcy Code, would have accrued on such amounts), fees and charges due the
Lender Group, reimbursement of Lender Group Expenses, or other amounts
constituting Obligations); it being acknowledged that, prior to the earliest to
occur of a Default, an Event of Default or the Activation Date, notwithstanding
anything to the contrary set forth herein on in any of the other Loan Documents,
it shall not be an Event of Default hereunder if all fees and charges payable to
the Lender Group, the reimbursement of the Lender Group Expenses and other
amounts constituting Obligations are paid by Borrowers to Agent in good and
available funds five (5) Business Day after the date on which Agent provides
Borrowers with notice from time to time of the amounts of such Obligations due;

     8.2 If Borrowers or any Guarantors fail to perform, keep, or observe any
term, provision, condition, covenant, or agreement contained in this Agreement
or in any of the other Loan Documents;

     8.3 If any material portion of any Borrower's or any of its Subsidiaries'
assets is attached, seized, subjected to a writ or distress warrant, levied
upon, or comes into the possession of any third Person;

     8.4 If an Insolvency Proceeding is commenced by any Borrower or any of its
Subsidiaries;

     8.5 If an Insolvency Proceeding is commenced against any Borrower, or any
of its Subsidiaries, and any of the following events occur: (a) the applicable
Borrower or the Subsidiary consents to the institution of the Insolvency
Proceeding against it, (b) the petition commencing the Insolvency Proceeding is
not timely controverted, (c) the petition commencing the Insolvency Proceeding
is not dismissed within 45 calendar days of the date of the filing thereof;
provided, however, that, during the pendency of such period, Agent (including
any successor agent) and each other member of the Lender Group shall be relieved
of their obligation to extend credit hereunder, (d) an interim trustee is
appointed to take possession of all or any substantial portion of the properties
or assets of, or to operate all or any substantial portion of the

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business of, any Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries, or (e) an order for relief
shall have been entered therein;

     8.6 If any Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries is enjoined, restrained, or
in any way prevented by court order from continuing to conduct all or any
material part of its business affairs;

     8.7 If a notice of Lien, levy, or assessment is filed of record with
respect to any Borrower's or any of its Subsidiaries' assets by the United
States, or any department, agency, or instrumentality thereof, or by any state,
county, municipal, or governmental agency, or by and foreign government or
governmental agency, or if any taxes or debts owing at any time hereafter to any
one or more of such entities becomes a Lien, whether choate or otherwise, upon
any Borrower's or any of its Subsidiaries' assets and the same is not paid on
the payment date thereof;

     8.8 If a judgment or other claim in excess of $250,000 becomes a Lien or
encumbrance upon any material portion of any Borrower's or any of its
Subsidiaries' properties or assets;

     8.9 If there is a default in any material agreement to which any Borrower
or any of its Subsidiaries is a party (including, without limitation, the TMP
Documents) and such default (a) occurs at the final maturity of the obligations
thereunder, or (b) results in a right by the other party thereto, irrespective
of whether exercised, to accelerate the maturity of the applicable Borrower's or
its Subsidiaries' obligations thereunder, to terminate such agreement, or to
refuse to renew such agreement pursuant to an automatic renewal right therein;

     8.10 If any Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries makes any payment on
account of Indebtedness that has been contractually subordinated in right of
payment to the payment of the Obligations, except to the extent such payment is
permitted by the terms of the subordination provisions applicable to such
Indebtedness;

     8.11 If any misstatement or misrepresentation exists now or hereafter in
any warranty, representation, statement, or Record made to the Lender Group by
any Borrower, its Subsidiaries, or any officer, employee, agent, or director of
any Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries;

     8.12 If the obligation of any Guarantor under its Guaranty is limited or
terminated by operation of law or by such Guarantor thereunder;

     8.13 If this Agreement or any other Loan Document that purports to create a
Lien, shall, for any reason, fail or cease to create a valid and perfected and,
except to the extent permitted by the terms hereof or thereof, first priority
Lien on or security interest in the Collateral covered hereby or thereby; or

     8.14 Any provision of any Loan Document shall at any time for any reason be
declared to be null and void, or the validity or enforceability thereof shall be
contested by any Borrower, or a proceeding shall be commenced by any Borrower,
or by any Governmental Authority

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having jurisdiction over any Borrower, seeking to establish the invalidity or
unenforceability thereof, or any Borrower shall deny that any Borrower has any
liability or obligation purported to be created under any Loan Document.

9    THE LENDER GROUP'S RIGHTS AND REMEDIES.

     9.1 Rights and Remedies. Upon the occurrence, and during the continuation,
of an Event of Default, the Required Lenders (at their election but without
notice of their election and without demand) may authorize and instruct Agent to
do any one or more of the following on behalf of the Lender Group (and Agent,
acting upon the instructions of the Required Lenders, shall do the same on
behalf of the Lender Group), all of which are authorized by Borrowers:

          (a) Declare all Obligations, whether evidenced by this Agreement, by
any of the other Loan Documents, or otherwise, immediately due and payable;

          (b) Cease advancing money or extending credit to or for the benefit of
Borrowers under this Agreement, under any of the Loan Documents, or under any
other agreement between Borrowers and the Lender Group;

          (c) Terminate this Agreement and any of the other Loan Documents as to
any future liability or obligation of the Lender Group, but without affecting
any of the Agent's Liens in the Collateral and without affecting the
Obligations;

          (d) Settle or adjust disputes and claims directly with Account Debtors
for amounts and upon terms which Agent considers advisable, and in such cases,
Agent will credit the Loan Account with only the net amounts received by Agent
in payment of such disputed Accounts after deducting all Lender Group Expenses
incurred or expended in connection therewith;

          (e) Without notice to or demand upon any Borrower or Guarantor, make
such payments and do such acts as Agent considers necessary or reasonable to
protect its security interests in the Collateral. Each Borrower agrees to
assemble the Personal Property Collateral if Agent so requires, and to make the
Personal Property Collateral available to Agent at a place that Agent may
designate which is reasonably convenient to both parties. Each Borrower
authorizes Agent to enter the premises where the Personal Property Collateral is
located, to take and maintain possession of the Personal Property Collateral, or
any part of it, and to pay, purchase, contest, or compromise any Lien that in
Agent's determination appears to conflict with the Agent's Liens and to pay all
expenses incurred in connection therewith and to charge Borrowers' Loan Account
therefor. With respect to any of Borrowers' owned or leased premises, each
Borrower hereby grants Agent a license to enter into possession of such premises
and to occupy the same, without charge, in order to exercise any of the Lender
Group's rights or remedies provided herein, at law, in equity, or otherwise;

          (f) Without notice to any Borrower (such notice being expressly
waived), and without constituting a retention of any collateral in satisfaction
of an obligation (within the meaning of the Code), set off and apply to the
Obligations any and all (i) balances and deposits of any Borrower held by the
Lender Group (including any amounts received in the Cash

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Management Accounts), or (ii) Indebtedness at any time owing to or for the
credit or the account of any Borrower held by the Lender Group;

          (g) Hold, as cash collateral, any and all balances and deposits of any
Borrower held by the Lender Group, and any amounts received in the Cash
Management Accounts, to secure the full and final repayment of all of the
Obligations;

          (h) Ship, reclaim, recover, store, finish, maintain, repair, prepare
for sale, advertise for sale, and sell (in the manner provided for herein) the
Personal Property Collateral. Each Borrower hereby grants to Agent a license or
other right to use, without charge, such Borrower's labels, patents, copyrights,
trade secrets, trade names, trademarks, service marks, and advertising matter,
or any property of a similar nature, as it pertains to the Personal Property
Collateral, in completing production of, advertising for sale, and selling any
Personal Property Collateral and such Borrower's rights under all licenses and
all franchise agreements shall inure to the Lender Group's benefit;

          (i) Sell the Personal Property Collateral at either a public or
private sale, or both, by way of one or more contracts or transactions, for cash
or on terms, in such manner and at such places (including Borrowers' premises)
as Agent determines is commercially reasonable. It is not necessary that the
Personal Property Collateral be present at any such sale;

          (j) Agent shall give notice of the disposition of the Personal
Property Collateral as follows:

               (i) Agent shall give Administrative Borrower (for the benefit of
     the applicable Borrower) a notice in writing of the time and place of
     public sale, or, if the sale is a private sale or some other disposition
     other than a public sale is to be made of the Personal Property Collateral,
     the time on or after which the private sale or other disposition is to be
     made; and

               (ii) The notice shall be personally delivered or mailed, postage
     prepaid, to Administrative Borrower as provided in Section 12, at least 10
     days before the earliest time of disposition set forth in the notice; no
     notice needs to be given prior to the disposition of any portion of the
     Personal Property Collateral that is perishable or threatens to decline
     speedily in value or that is of a type customarily sold on a recognized
     market;

          (k) Agent, on behalf of the Lender Group may credit bid and purchase
at any public sale;

          (l) Agent may seek the appointment of a receiver or keeper to take
possession of all or any portion of the Collateral or to operate same and, to
the maximum extent permitted by law, may seek the appointment of such a receiver
without the requirement of prior notice or a hearing;

          (m) The Lender Group shall have all other rights and remedies
available to it at law or in equity pursuant to any other Loan Documents; and

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          (n) Any deficiency that exists after disposition of the Personal
Property Collateral as provided above will be paid immediately by Borrowers. Any
excess will be returned, without interest and subject to the rights of third
Persons, by Agent to Administrative Borrower (for the benefit of the applicable
Borrower).

     9.2 Remedies Cumulative. The rights and remedies of the Lender Group under
this Agreement, the other Loan Documents, and all other agreements shall be
cumulative. The Lender Group shall have all other rights and remedies not
inconsistent herewith as provided under the Code, by law, or in equity. No
exercise by the Lender Group of one right or remedy shall be deemed an election,
and no waiver by the Lender Group of any Event of Default shall be deemed a
continuing waiver. No delay by the Lender Group shall constitute a waiver,
election, or acquiescence by it.

10   TAXES AND EXPENSES.

     If any Borrower fails to pay any monies (whether taxes, assessments,
insurance premiums, or, in the case of leased properties or assets, rents or
other amounts payable under such leases) due to third Persons, or fails to make
any deposits or furnish any required proof of payment or deposit, all as
required under the terms of this Agreement, then, Agent, in its sole discretion
and without prior notice to any Borrower, may do any or all of the following:
(a) make payment of the same or any part thereof, (b) set up such reserves in
Borrowers' Loan Account as Agent deems necessary to protect the Lender Group
from the exposure created by such failure, or (c) in the case of the failure to
comply with Section 6.8 hereof, obtain and maintain insurance policies of the
type described in Section 6.8 and take any action with respect to such policies
as Agent deems prudent. Any such amounts paid by Agent shall constitute Lender
Group Expenses and any such payments shall not constitute an agreement by the
Lender Group to make similar payments in the future or a waiver by the Lender
Group of any Event of Default under this Agreement. Agent need not inquire as
to, or contest the validity of, any such expense, tax, or Lien and the receipt
of the usual official notice for the payment thereof shall be conclusive
evidence that the same was validly due and owing.

11   WAIVERS; INDEMNIFICATION.

     11.1 Demand; Protest; etc. Each Borrower waives demand, protest, notice of
protest, notice of default or dishonor, notice of payment and nonpayment,
nonpayment at maturity, release, compromise, settlement, extension, or renewal
of documents, instruments, chattel paper, and guarantees at any time held by the
Lender Group on which each such Borrower may in any way be liable.

     11.2 The Lender Group's Liability for Collateral. Each Borrower hereby
agrees that: (a) so long as the Lender Group complies with its obligations, if
any, under the Code, Agent shall not in any way or manner be liable or
responsible for: (i) the safekeeping of the Collateral, (ii) any loss or damage
thereto occurring or arising in any manner or fashion from any cause, (iii) any
diminution in the value thereof, or (iv) any act or default of any carrier,
warehouseman, bailee, forwarding agency, or other Person, and (b) all risk of
loss, damage, or destruction of the Collateral shall be borne by Borrowers.

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     11.3 Indemnification. Each Borrower shall pay, indemnify, defend, and hold
the Agent-Related Persons, the Lender-Related Persons with respect to each
Lender, each Participant, and each of their respective officers, directors,
employees, agents, and attorneys-in-fact (each, an "Indemnified Person")
harmless (to the fullest extent permitted by law) from and against any and all
claims, demands, suits, actions, investigations, proceedings, and damages, and
all reasonable attorneys fees and disbursements and other costs and expenses
actually incurred in connection therewith (as and when they are incurred and
irrespective of whether suit is brought), at any time asserted against, imposed
upon, or incurred by any of them (a) in connection with or as a result of or
related to the execution, delivery, enforcement, performance, or administration
of this Agreement, any of the other Loan Documents, or the transactions
contemplated hereby or thereby, and (b) with respect to any investigation,
litigation, or proceeding related to this Agreement, any other Loan Document, or
the use of the proceeds of the credit provided hereunder (irrespective of
whether any Indemnified Person is a party thereto), or any act, omission, event,
or circumstance in any manner related thereto (all the foregoing, collectively,
the "Indemnified Liabilities"). The foregoing to the contrary notwithstanding,
Borrowers shall have no obligation to any Indemnified Person under this Section
11.3 with respect to any Indemnified Liability that a court of competent
jurisdiction finally determines to have resulted from the gross negligence or
willful misconduct of such Indemnified Person. This provision shall survive the
termination of this Agreement and the repayment of the Obligations. If any
Indemnified Person makes any payment to any other Indemnified Person with
respect to an Indemnified Liability as to which Borrowers were required to
indemnify the Indemnified Person receiving such payment, the Indemnified Person
making such payment is entitled to be indemnified and reimbursed by Borrowers
with respect thereto. WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE FOREGOING INDEMNITY SHALL APPLY TO
EACH INDEMNIFIED PERSON WITH RESPECT TO INDEMNIFIED LIABILITIES WHICH IN WHOLE
OR IN PART CAUSED BY OR ARISE OUT OF ANY NEGLIGENT ACT OR OMISSION OF SUCH
INDEMNIFIED PERSON OR OF ANY OTHER PERSON.

12   NOTICES.

     Unless otherwise provided in this Agreement, all notices or demands by
Borrowers or Agent to the other relating to this Agreement or any other Loan
Document shall be in writing and (except for financial statements and other
informational documents which may be sent by first-class mail, postage prepaid)
shall be personally delivered or sent by registered or certified mail (postage
prepaid, return receipt requested), overnight courier, electronic mail (at such
email addresses as the Administrative Borrower or Agent, as applicable, may
designate to each other in accordance herewith), or telefacsimile to Borrowers
in care of Administrative Borrower or to Agent, as the case may be, at its
address set forth below:

          If to Administrative
          Borrower:                 HUDSON HIGHLAND GROUP, INC.
                                    622 Third Avenue
                                    New York, New York 10017
                                    Attn:  Richard Pehlke
                                           Executive Vice President and
                                           Chief Executive Officer
                                    Fax No. 917-256-8403

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          with copies to:           FOLEY & LARDNER
                                    777 East Wisconsin Avenue
                                    Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53202-5306
                                    Attn:  Benjamin Garmer III, Esq.
                                    Fax No. 414.297.4900

          If to Agent:              FOOTHILL CAPITAL CORPORATION
                                    One Boston Place, 18th Floor
                                    Boston, Massachusetts 02108
                                    Attn:  Business Finance Division Manager
                                    Fax No. 617.523.1697

          with copies to:           OTTERBOURG, STEINDLER, HOUSTON
                                     & ROSEN, P.C.
                                    230 Park Avenue
                                    New York, New York 10169
                                    Attn:  Andrew M. Kramer, Esq.
                                    Fax No. 212.682.6104

     Agent and Borrowers may change the address at which they are to receive
notices hereunder, by notice in writing in the foregoing manner given to the
other party. All notices or demands sent in accordance with this Section 12,
other than notices by Agent in connection with enforcement rights against the
Collateral under the provisions of the Code, shall be deemed received on the
earlier of the date of actual receipt or 3 Business Days after the deposit
thereof in the mail. Each Borrower acknowledges and agrees that notices sent by
the Lender Group in connection with the exercise of enforcement rights against
Collateral under the provisions of the Code shall be deemed sent when deposited
in the mail or personally delivered, or, where permitted by law, transmitted by
telefacsimile or any other method set forth above.

13.  CHOICE OF LAW AND VENUE; JURY TRIAL WAIVER.

          (a) THE VALIDITY OF THIS AGREEMENT AND THE OTHER LOAN DOCUMENTS
(UNLESS EXPRESSLY PROVIDED TO THE CONTRARY IN ANOTHER LOAN DOCUMENT IN RESPECT
OF SUCH OTHER LOAN DOCUMENT), THE CONSTRUCTION, INTERPRETATION, AND ENFORCEMENT
HEREOF AND THEREOF, AND THE RIGHTS OF THE PARTIES HERETO AND THERETO WITH
RESPECT TO ALL MATTERS ARISING HEREUNDER OR THEREUNDER OR RELATED HERETO OR
THERETO SHALL BE DETERMINED UNDER, GOVERNED BY, AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH
THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK.

          (b) THE PARTIES AGREE THAT ALL ACTIONS OR PROCEEDINGS ARISING IN
CONNECTION WITH THIS AGREEMENT AND THE OTHER LOAN DOCUMENTS SHALL BE TRIED AND
LITIGATED ONLY IN THE

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STATE AND FEDERAL COURTS LOCATED IN THE COUNTY OF NEW YORK, STATE OF NEW YORK,
PROVIDED, HOWEVER, THAT ANY SUIT SEEKING ENFORCEMENT AGAINST ANY COLLATERAL OR
OTHER PROPERTY MAY BE BROUGHT, AT AGENT'S OPTION, IN THE COURTS OF ANY
JURISDICTION WHERE AGENT ELECTS TO BRING SUCH ACTION OR WHERE SUCH COLLATERAL OR
OTHER PROPERTY MAY BE FOUND. BORROWERS AND THE LENDER GROUP WAIVE, TO THE EXTENT
PERMITTED UNDER APPLICABLE LAW, ANY RIGHT EACH MAY HAVE TO ASSERT THE DOCTRINE
OF FORUM NON CONVENIENS OR TO OBJECT TO VENUE TO THE EXTENT ANY PROCEEDING IS
BROUGHT IN ACCORDANCE WITH THIS SECTION 13(b).

          BORROWERS AND THE LENDER GROUP HEREBY WAIVE THEIR RESPECTIVE RIGHTS TO
A JURY TRIAL OF ANY CLAIM OR CAUSE OF ACTION BASED UPON OR ARISING OUT OF ANY OF
THE LOAN DOCUMENTS OR ANY OF THE TRANSACTIONS CONTEMPLATED THEREIN, INCLUDING
CONTRACT CLAIMS, TORT CLAIMS, BREACH OF DUTY CLAIMS, AND ALL OTHER COMMON LAW OR
STATUTORY CLAIMS. BORROWERS AND THE LENDER GROUP REPRESENT THAT EACH HAS
REVIEWED THIS WAIVER AND EACH KNOWINGLY AND VOLUNTARILY WAIVES ITS JURY TRIAL
RIGHTS FOLLOWING CONSULTATION WITH LEGAL COUNSEL. IN THE EVENT OF LITIGATION, A
COPY OF THIS AGREEMENT MAY BE FILED AS A WRITTEN CONSENT TO A TRIAL BY THE
COURT.

14.  ASSIGNMENTS AND PARTICIPATIONS; SUCCESSORS.

     14.1 Assignments and Participations.

          (a) Any Lender may, with the written consent of Agent (provided that
no written consent of Agent shall be required in connection with any assignment
and delegation by a Lender to an Eligible Transferee), assign and delegate to
one or more assignees (each an "Assignee") all, or any ratable part of all, of
the Obligations, the Commitments and the other rights and obligations of such
Lender hereunder and under the other Loan Documents, in a minimum amount of
$5,000,000; provided, however, that Borrowers and Agent may continue to deal
solely and directly with such Lender in connection with the interest so assigned
to an Assignee until (i) written notice of such assignment, together with
payment instructions, addresses, and related information with respect to the
Assignee, have been given to Administrative Borrower and Agent by such Lender
and the Assignee, (ii) such Lender and its Assignee have delivered to
Administrative Borrower and Agent an Assignment and Acceptance in form and
substance satisfactory to Agent, and (iii) the assignor Lender or Assignee has
paid to Agent for Agent's separate account a processing fee in the amount of
$5,000. Anything contained herein to the contrary notwithstanding, the consent
of Agent shall not be required (and payment of any fees shall not be required)
if such assignment is in connection with any merger, consolidation, sale,
transfer, or other disposition of all or any substantial portion of the business
or loan portfolio of such Lender.

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          (b) From and after the date that Agent notifies the assignor Lender
(with a copy to Administrative Borrower) that it has received an executed
Assignment and Acceptance and payment of the above-referenced processing fee,
(i) the Assignee thereunder shall be a party hereto and, to the extent that
rights and obligations hereunder have been assigned to it pursuant to such
Assignment and Acceptance, shall have the rights and obligations of a Lender
under the Loan Documents, and (ii) the assignor Lender shall, to the extent that
rights and obligations hereunder and under the other Loan Documents have been
assigned by it pursuant to such Assignment and Acceptance, relinquish its rights
(except with respect to Section 11.3 hereof) and be released from its
obligations under this Agreement (and in the case of an Assignment and
Acceptance covering all or the remaining portion of an assigning Lender's rights
and obligations under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents, such Lender
shall cease to be a party hereto and thereto), and such assignment shall affect
a novation between Borrowers and the Assignee.

          (c) By executing and delivering an Assignment and Acceptance, the
assigning Lender thereunder and the Assignee thereunder confirm to and agree
with each other and the other parties hereto as follows: (1) other than as
provided in such Assignment and Acceptance, such assigning Lender makes no
representation or warranty and assumes no responsibility with respect to any
statements, warranties or representations made in or in connection with this
Agreement or the execution, legality, validity, enforceability, genuineness,
sufficiency or value of this Agreement or any other Loan Document furnished
pursuant hereto, (2) such assigning Lender makes no representation or warranty
and assumes no responsibility with respect to the financial condition of
Borrowers or the performance or observance by Borrowers of any of their
obligations under this Agreement or any other Loan Document furnished pursuant
hereto, (3) such Assignee confirms that it has received a copy of this
Agreement, together with such other documents and information as it has deemed
appropriate to make its own credit analysis and decision to enter into such
Assignment and Acceptance, (4) such Assignee will, independently and without
reliance upon Agent, such assigning Lender or any other Lender, and based on
such documents and information as it shall deem appropriate at the time,
continue to make its own credit decisions in taking or not taking action under
this Agreement, (5) such Assignee appoints and authorizes Agent to take such
actions and to exercise such powers under this Agreement as are delegated to
Agent, by the terms hereof, together with such powers as are reasonably
incidental thereto, and (6) such Assignee agrees that it will perform all of the
obligations which by the terms of this Agreement are required to be performed by
it as a Lender.

          (d) Immediately upon each Assignee's making its processing fee payment
under the Assignment and Acceptance and receipt and acknowledgment by Agent of
such fully executed Assignment and Acceptance, this Agreement shall be deemed to
be amended to the extent, but only to the extent, necessary to reflect the
addition of the Assignee and the resulting adjustment of the Commitments arising
therefrom. The Commitment allocated to each Assignee shall reduce such
Commitments of the assigning Lender pro tanto.

          (e) Any Lender may at any time, with the written consent of Agent,
sell to one or more commercial banks, financial institutions, or other Persons
not Affiliates of such Lender (a "Participant") participating interests in its
Obligations, the Commitment, and the other rights and interests of that Lender
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Documents (provided that no written consent of Agent shall be required in
connection with any sale of any such participating interests by a Lender to an
Eligible Transferee); provided, however, that (i) the Originating Lender shall
remain a "Lender" for all purposes of this Agreement and the other Loan
Documents and the Participant receiving the participating interest in the
Obligations, the Commitments, and the other rights and interests of the
Originating Lender hereunder shall not constitute a "Lender" hereunder or under
the other Loan Documents and the Originating Lender's obligations under this
Agreement shall remain unchanged, (ii) the Originating Lender shall remain
solely responsible for the performance of such obligations, (iii) Borrowers,
Agent, and the Lenders shall continue to deal solely and directly with the
Originating Lender in connection with the Originating Lender's rights and
obligations under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents, (iv) no Lender
shall transfer or grant any participating interest under which the Participant
has the right to approve any amendment to, or any consent or waiver with respect
to, this Agreement or any other Loan Document, except to the extent such
amendment to, or consent or waiver with respect to this Agreement or of any
other Loan Document would (A) extend the final maturity date of the Obligations
hereunder in which such Participant is participating, (B) reduce the interest
rate applicable to the Obligations hereunder in which such Participant is
participating, (C) release all or a material portion of the Collateral or
guaranties (except to the extent expressly provided herein or in any of the Loan
Documents) supporting the Obligations hereunder in which such Participant is
participating, (D) postpone the payment of, or reduce the amount of, the
interest or fees payable to such Participant through such Lender, or (E) change
the amount or due dates of scheduled principal repayments or prepayments or
premiums; and (v) all amounts payable by Borrowers hereunder shall be determined
as if such Lender had not sold such participation; except that, if amounts
outstanding under this Agreement are due and unpaid, or shall have been declared
or shall have become due and payable upon the occurrence of an Event of Default,
each Participant shall be deemed to have the right of set-off in respect of its
participating interest in amounts owing under this Agreement to the same extent
as if the amount of its participating interest were owing directly to it as a
Lender under this Agreement. The rights of any Participant only shall be
derivative through the Originating Lender with whom such Participant
participates and no Participant shall have any rights under this Agreement or
the other Loan Documents or any direct rights as to the other Lenders, Agent,
Borrowers, the Collections, the Collateral, or otherwise in respect of the
Obligations. No Participant shall have the right to participate directly in the
making of decisions by the Lenders among themselves.

          (f) In connection with any such assignment or participation or
proposed assignment or participation, a Lender may disclose all documents and
information which it now or hereafter may have relating to Borrowers or
Borrowers' business.

          (g) Any other provision in this Agreement notwithstanding, any Lender
may at any time create a security interest in, or pledge, all or any portion of
its rights under and interest in this Agreement in favor of any Federal Reserve
Bank in accordance with Regulation A of the Federal Reserve Bank or U.S.
Treasury Regulation 31 CFR ss.203.14, and such Federal Reserve Bank may enforce
such pledge or security interest in any manner permitted under applicable law.

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          (h) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein,
Borrowers hereby acknowledges that as of the date of this Agreement, Agent is
attempting to syndicate up to $20,000,000 of the Maximum Revolver Amount from
Persons, other than Foothill, to provide financial accommodations as a "Lender"
hereunder and, in connection therewith, certain modifications or amendments to
this Agreement and the other Loan Documents may be required if Agent determines,
in its Permitted Discretion, that the structure, terms, pricing or amount of the
financial accommodations provided for hereunder are necessary for Agent to
successfully syndicate the transactions hereunder ("Syndication Modifications").
Borrowers hereby agree that each Borrower and its Subsidiaries shall enter into
an amendment to this Agreement with Agent and Lenders reflecting such
Syndication Modifications, which amendment shall be in form and substance
satisfactory to Agent and Lenders in all respects. Borrowers acknowledges that
Agent and Lenders are entering into this Agreement on the date hereof in
reliance upon the Borrower's Agreements set forth in this Section 14.1(h).

     14.2 Successors. This Agreement shall bind and inure to the benefit of the
respective successors and assigns of each of the parties; provided, however,
that Borrowers may not assign this Agreement or any rights or duties hereunder
without the Lenders' prior written consent and any prohibited assignment shall
be absolutely void ab initio. No consent to assignment by the Lenders shall
release any Borrower from its Obligations. A Lender may assign this Agreement
and the other Loan Documents and its rights and duties hereunder and thereunder
pursuant to Section 14.1 hereof and, except as expressly required pursuant to
Section 14.1 hereof, no consent or approval by any Borrower is required in
connection with any such assignment.

15   AMENDMENTS; WAIVERS.

     15.1 Amendments and Waivers. No amendment or waiver of any provision of
this Agreement or any other Loan Document, and no consent with respect to any
departure by Borrowers therefrom, shall be effective unless the same shall be in
writing and signed by the Required Lenders (or by Agent at the written request
of the Required Lenders) and Administrative Borrower (on behalf of all
Borrowers) and then any such waiver or consent shall be effective only in the
specific instance and for the specific purpose for which given; provided,
however, that no such waiver, amendment, or consent shall, unless in writing and
signed by all of the Lenders affected thereby and Administrative Borrower (on
behalf of all Borrowers) and acknowledged by Agent, do any of the following:

          (a) increase or extend any Commitment of any Lender,

          (b) postpone or delay any date fixed by this Agreement or any other
Loan Document for any payment of principal, interest, fees, or other amounts due
hereunder or under any other Loan Document,

          (c) reduce the principal of, or the rate of interest on, any loan or
other extension of credit hereunder, or reduce any fees or other amounts payable
hereunder or under any other Loan Document,

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          (d) change the percentage of the Commitments that is required to take
any action hereunder,

          (e) amend this Section or any provision of the Agreement providing for
consent or other action by all Lenders,

          (f) release Collateral other than as permitted by Section 16.12,

          (g) change the definition of "Required Lenders",

          (h) contractually subordinate any of the Agent's Liens,

          (i) release any Borrower or Guarantor from any obligation for the
payment of money, or

          (j) change the definition of Borrowing Base or the definitions of
Eligible Accounts, Maximum US Amount, Maximum UK Amount, Maximum Canada Amount,
Maximum Australia Amount or Maximum Revolver Amount or change Section 2.1(b), or

          (k) amend any of the provisions of Section 16.

and, provided further, however, that no amendment, waiver or consent shall,
unless in writing and signed by Agent, Issuing Lender, or Swing Lender, affect
the rights or duties of Agent, Issuing Lender, or Swing Lender, as applicable,
under this Agreement or any other Loan Document. The foregoing notwithstanding,
any amendment, modification, waiver, consent, termination, or release of, or
with respect to, any provision of this Agreement or any other Loan Document that
relates only to the relationship of the Lender Group among themselves, and that
does not affect the rights or obligations of Borrowers, shall not require
consent by or the agreement of Borrowers.

     15.2 Replacement of Holdout Lender. If any action to be taken by the
Lender Group or Agent hereunder requires the unanimous consent, authorization,
or agreement of all Lenders, and a Lender ("Holdout Lender") fails to give its
consent, authorization, or agreement, then Agent, upon at least 5 Business Days
prior irrevocable notice to the Holdout Lender, may permanently replace the
Holdout Lender with one or more substitute Lenders (each, a "Replacement
Lender"), and the Holdout Lender shall have not right to refuse to be replaced
hereunder. Such notice to replace the Holdout Lender shall specify an effective
date for such replacement, which date shall not be later than 15 Business Days
after the date such notice is given.

     Prior to the effective date of such replacement, the Holdout Lender and
each Replacement Lender shall execute and deliver an Assignment and Acceptance
Agreement, subject only to the Holdout Lender being repaid its share of the
outstanding Obligations (including an assumption of its Pro Rata Share of the
Risk Participation Liability) without any premium or penalty of any kind
whatsoever. If the Holdout Lender shall refuse or fail to execute and deliver
any such Assignment and Acceptance Agreement prior to the effective date of such

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replacement, the Holdout Lender shall be deemed to have executed and delivered
such Assignment and Acceptance Agreement. The replacement of any Holdout Lender
shall be made in accordance with the terms of Section 14.1. Until such time as
the Replacement Lenders shall have acquired all of the Obligations, the
Commitments, and the other rights and obligations of the Holdout Lender
hereunder and under the other Loan Documents, the Holdout Lender shall remain
obligated to make the Holdout Lender's Pro Rata Share of Advances and to
purchase a participation in each Letter of Credit, in an amount equal to its Pro
Rata Share of the Risk Participation Liability of such Letter of Credit.

     15.3 No Waivers; Cumulative Remedies. No failure by Agent or any Lender to
exercise any right, remedy, or option under this Agreement or, any other Loan
Document, or delay by Agent or any Lender in exercising the same, will operate
as a waiver thereof. No waiver by Agent or any Lender will be effective unless
it is in writing, and then only to the extent specifically stated. No waiver by
Agent or any Lender on any occasion shall affect or diminish Agent's and each
Lender's rights thereafter to require strict performance by Borrowers of any
provision of this Agreement. Agent's and each Lender's rights under this
Agreement and the other Loan Documents will be cumulative and not exclusive of
any other right or remedy that Agent or any Lender may have.

16   AGENT; THE LENDER GROUP.

     16.1 Appointment and Authorization of Agent. Each Lender hereby designates
and appoints Foothill as its representative under this Agreement and the other
Loan Documents and each Lender hereby irrevocably authorizes Agent to take such
action on its behalf under the provisions of this Agreement and each other Loan
Document and to exercise such powers and perform such duties as are expressly
delegated to Agent by the terms of this Agreement or any other Loan Document,
together with such powers as are reasonably incidental thereto. Agent agrees to
act as such on the express conditions contained in this Section 16. The
provisions of this Section 16 are solely for the benefit of Agent, and the
Lenders, and Borrowers shall have no rights as a third party beneficiary of any
of the provisions contained herein. Any provision to the contrary contained
elsewhere in this Agreement or in any other Loan Document notwithstanding, Agent
shall not have any duties or responsibilities, except those expressly set forth
herein, nor shall Agent have or be deemed to have any fiduciary relationship
with any Lender, and no implied covenants, functions, responsibilities, duties,
obligations or liabilities shall be read into this Agreement or any other Loan
Document or otherwise exist against Agent; it being expressly understood and
agreed that the use of the word "Agent" is for convenience only, that Foothill
is merely the representative of the Lenders, and only has the contractual duties
set forth herein. Except as expressly otherwise provided in this Agreement,
Agent shall have and may use its sole discretion with respect to exercising or
refraining from exercising any discretionary rights or taking or refraining from
taking any actions that Agent expressly is entitled to take or assert under or
pursuant to this Agreement and the other Loan Documents. Without limiting the
generality of the foregoing, or of any other provision of the Loan Documents
that provides rights or powers to Agent, Lenders agree that Agent shall have the
right to exercise the following powers as long as this Agreement remains in
effect: (a) maintain, in accordance with its customary business practices,
ledgers and records reflecting the status of the Obligations, the Collateral,
the Collections, and related matters, (b) execute or file any and all financing
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statements or notices, amendments, renewals, supplements, documents,
instruments, proofs of claim, notices and other written agreements with respect
to the Loan Documents, (c) make Advances, for itself or on behalf of Lenders as
provided in the Loan Documents, (d) exclusively receive, apply, and distribute
the Collections as provided in the Loan Documents, (e) open and maintain such
bank accounts and cash management accounts as Agent deems necessary and
appropriate in accordance with the Loan Documents for the foregoing purposes
with respect to the Collateral and the Collections, (f) perform, exercise, and
enforce any and all other rights and remedies of the Lender Group with respect
to Borrowers, the Obligations, the Collateral, the Collections, or otherwise
related to any of same as provided in the Loan Documents, and (g) incur and pay
such Lender Group Expenses as Agent may deem necessary or appropriate for the
performance and fulfillment of its functions and powers pursuant to the Loan
Documents.

     16.2 Delegation of Duties. Agent may execute any of its duties under this
Agreement or any other Loan Document by or through agents, employees or
attorneys-in-fact and shall be entitled to advice of counsel concerning all
matters pertaining to such duties. Agent shall not be responsible for the
negligence or misconduct of any agent or attorney-in-fact that it selects as
long as such selection was made without gross negligence or willful misconduct.

     16.3 Liability of Agent. None of the Agent-Related Persons shall (i) be
liable for any action taken or omitted to be taken by any of them under or in
connection with this Agreement or any other Loan Document or the transactions
contemplated hereby (except for its own gross negligence or willful misconduct),
or (ii) be responsible in any manner to any of the Lenders for any recital,
statement, representation or warranty made by any Borrower or any Subsidiary or
Affiliate of any Borrower, or any officer or director thereof, contained in this
Agreement or in any other Loan Document, or in any certificate, report,
statement or other document referred to or provided for in, or received by Agent
under or in connection with, this Agreement or any other Loan Document, or the
validity, effectiveness, genuineness, enforceability or sufficiency of this
Agreement or any other Loan Document, or for any failure of any Borrower or any
other party to any Loan Document to perform its obligations hereunder or
thereunder. No Agent-Related Person shall be under any obligation to any Lender
to ascertain or to inquire as to the observance or performance of any of the
agreements contained in, or conditions of, this Agreement or any other Loan
Document, or to inspect the Books or properties of Borrowers or the books or
records or properties of any of Borrowers' Subsidiaries or Affiliates.

     16.4 Reliance by Agent. Agent shall be entitled to rely, and shall be
fully protected in relying, upon any writing, resolution, notice, consent,
certificate, affidavit, letter, telegram, facsimile, telex or telephone message,
statement or other document or conversation believed by it to be genuine and
correct and to have been signed, sent, or made by the proper Person or Persons,
and upon advice and statements of legal counsel (including counsel to Borrowers
or counsel to any Lender), independent accountants and other experts selected by
Agent. Agent shall be fully justified in failing or refusing to take any action
under this Agreement or any other Loan Document unless Agent shall first receive
such advice or concurrence of the Lenders as it deems appropriate and until such
instructions are received, Agent shall act, or refrain from acting, as it deems
advisable. If Agent so requests, it shall first be indemnified to its reasonable
satisfaction by Lenders against any and all liability and expense that may be
incurred by it by reason of taking or continuing to take any such action. Agent
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in acting, or in refraining from acting, under this Agreement or any other Loan
Document in accordance with a request or consent of the Lenders and such request
and any action taken or failure to act pursuant thereto shall be binding upon
all of the Lenders.

     16.5 Notice of Default or Event of Default. Agent shall not be deemed to
have knowledge or notice of the occurrence of any Default or Event of Default,
except with respect to defaults in the payment of principal, interest, fees, and
expenses required to be paid to Agent for the account of the Lenders, except
with respect to Events of Default of which Agent has actual knowledge, unless
Agent shall have received written notice from a Lender or Administrative
Borrower referring to this Agreement, describing such Default or Event of
Default, and stating that such notice is a "notice of default." Agent promptly
will notify the Lenders of its receipt of any such notice or of any Event of
Default of which Agent has actual knowledge. If any Lender obtains actual
knowledge of any Event of Default, such Lender promptly shall notify the other
Lenders and Agent of such Event of Default. Each Lender shall be solely
responsible for giving any notices to its Participants, if any. Subject to
Section 16.4, Agent shall take such action with respect to such Default or Event
of Default as may be requested by the Required Lenders in accordance with
Section 9; provided, however, that unless and until Agent has received any such
request, Agent may (but shall not be obligated to) take such action, or refrain
from taking such action, with respect to such Default or Event of Default as it
shall deem advisable.

     16.6 Credit Decision. Each Lender acknowledges that none of the
Agent-Related Persons has made any representation or warranty to it, and that no
act by Agent hereinafter taken, including any review of the affairs of Borrowers
and their Subsidiaries or Affiliates, shall be deemed to constitute any
representation or warranty by any Agent-Related Person to any Lender. Each
Lender represents to Agent that it has, independently and without reliance upon
any Agent-Related Person and based on such documents and information as it has
deemed appropriate, made its own appraisal of and investigation into the
business, prospects, operations, property, financial and other condition and
creditworthiness of Borrowers and any other Person (other than the Lender Group)
party to a Loan Document, and all applicable bank regulatory laws relating to
the transactions contemplated hereby, and made its own decision to enter into
this Agreement and to extend credit to Borrowers. Each Lender also represents
that it will, independently and without reliance upon any Agent-Related Person
and based on such documents and information as it shall deem appropriate at the
time, continue to make its own credit analysis, appraisals and decisions in
taking or not taking action under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents,
and to make such investigations as it deems necessary to inform itself as to the
business, prospects, operations, property, financial and other condition and
creditworthiness of Borrowers and any other Person (other than the Lender Group)
party to a Loan Document. Except for notices, reports, and other documents
expressly herein required to be furnished to the Lenders by Agent, Agent shall
not have any duty or responsibility to provide any Lender with any credit or
other information concerning the business, prospects, operations, property,
financial and other condition or creditworthiness of Borrowers and any other
Person party to a Loan Document that may come into the possession of any of the
Agent-Related Persons.

     16.7 Costs and Expenses; Indemnification. Agent may incur and pay Lender
Group Expenses to the extent Agent reasonably deems necessary or appropriate for
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fulfillment of its functions, powers, and obligations pursuant to the Loan
Documents, including court costs, reasonable attorneys fees and expenses, costs
of collection by outside collection agencies and auctioneer fees and costs of
security guards or insurance premiums paid to maintain the Collateral, whether
or not Borrowers are obligated to reimburse Agent or Lenders for such expenses
pursuant to the Loan Agreement or otherwise. Agent is authorized and directed to
deduct and retain sufficient amounts from Collections received by Agent to
reimburse Agent for such out-of-pocket costs and expenses prior to the
distribution of any amounts to Lenders. In the event Agent is not reimbursed for
such costs and expenses from Collections received by Agent, each Lender hereby
agrees that it is and shall be obligated to pay to or reimburse Agent for the
amount of such Lender's Pro Rata Share thereof. Whether or not the transactions
contemplated hereby are consummated, the Lenders shall indemnify upon demand the
Agent-Related Persons (to the extent not reimbursed by or on behalf of Borrowers
and without limiting the obligation of Borrowers to do so), according to their
Pro Rata Shares, from and against any and all Indemnified Liabilities; provided,
however, that no Lender shall be liable for the payment to any Agent-Related
Person of any portion of such Indemnified Liabilities resulting solely from such
Person's gross negligence or willful misconduct nor shall any Lender be liable
for the obligations of any Defaulting Lender in failing to make an Advance or
other extension of credit hereunder. Without limitation of the foregoing, each
Lender shall reimburse Agent upon demand for such Lender's ratable share of any
costs or out-of-pocket expenses (including attorneys fees and expenses) incurred
by Agent in connection with the preparation, execution, delivery,
administration, modification, amendment, or enforcement (whether through
negotiations, legal proceedings or otherwise) of, or legal advice in respect of
rights or responsibilities under, this Agreement, any other Loan Document, or
any document contemplated by or referred to herein, to the extent that Agent is
not reimbursed for such expenses by or on behalf of Borrowers. The undertaking
in this Section shall survive the payment of all Obligations hereunder and the
resignation or replacement of Agent.

     16.8 Agent in Individual Capacity. Foothill and its Affiliates may make
loans to, issue letters of credit for the account of, accept deposits from,
acquire equity interests in, and generally engage in any kind of banking, trust,
financial advisory, underwriting, or other business with Borrowers and their
Subsidiaries and Affiliates and any other Person (other than the Lender Group)
party to any Loan Documents as though Foothill were not Agent hereunder, and, in
each case, without notice to or consent of the other members of the Lender
Group. The other members of the Lender Group acknowledge that, pursuant to such
activities, Foothill or its Affiliates may receive information regarding
Borrowers or their Affiliates and any other Person (other than the Lender Group)
party to any Loan Documents that is subject to confidentiality obligations in
favor of Borrowers or such other Person and that prohibit the disclosure of such
information to the Lenders, and the Lenders acknowledge that, in such
circumstances (and in the absence of a waiver of such confidentiality
obligations, which waiver Agent will use its reasonable best efforts to obtain),
Agent shall not be under any obligation to provide such information to them. The
terms "Lender" and "Lenders" include Foothill in its individual capacity.

     16.9 Successor Agent. Agent may resign as Agent upon 45 days notice to the
Lenders. If Agent resigns under this Agreement, the Required Lenders shall
appoint a successor Agent for the Lenders. If no successor Agent is appointed
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resignation of Agent, Agent may appoint, after consulting with the Lenders, a
successor Agent. If Agent has materially breached or failed to perform any
material provision of this Agreement or of applicable law, the Required Lenders
may agree in writing to remove and replace Agent with a successor Agent from
among the Lenders. In any such event, upon the acceptance of its appointment as
successor Agent hereunder, such successor Agent shall succeed to all the rights,
powers, and duties of the retiring Agent and the term "Agent" shall mean such
successor Agent and the retiring Agent's appointment, powers, and duties as
Agent shall be terminated. After any retiring Agent's resignation hereunder as
Agent, the provisions of this Section 16 shall inure to its benefit as to any
actions taken or omitted to be taken by it while it was Agent under this
Agreement. If no successor Agent has accepted appointment as Agent by the date
which is 45 days following a retiring Agent's notice of resignation, the
retiring Agent's resignation shall nevertheless thereupon become effective and
the Lenders shall perform all of the duties of Agent hereunder until such time,
if any, as the Lenders appoint a successor Agent as provided for above.

     16.10 Lender in Individual Capacity. Any Lender and its respective
Affiliates may make loans to, issue letters of credit for the account of, accept
deposits from, acquire equity interests in and generally engage in any kind of
banking, trust, financial advisory, underwriting or other business with
Borrowers and their Subsidiaries and Affiliates and any other Person (other than
the Lender Group) party to any Loan Documents as though such Lender were not a
Lender hereunder without notice to or consent of the other members of the Lender
Group. The other members of the Lender Group acknowledge that, pursuant to such
activities, such Lender and its respective Affiliates may receive information
regarding Borrowers or their Affiliates and any other Person (other than the
Lender Group) party to any Loan Documents that is subject to confidentiality
obligations in favor of Borrowers or such other Person and that prohibit the
disclosure of such information to the Lenders, and the Lenders acknowledge that,
in such circumstances (and in the absence of a waiver of such confidentiality
obligations, which waiver such Lender will use its reasonable best efforts to
obtain), such Lender not shall be under any obligation to provide such
information to them. With respect to the Swing Loans and Agent Advances, Swing
Lender shall have the same rights and powers under this Agreement as any other
Lender and may exercise the same as though it were not the sub-agent of the
Agent.

     16.11 Withholding Taxes.

          (a) If any Lender is a "foreign corporation, partnership or trust"
within the meaning of the IRC and such Lender claims exemption from, or a
reduction of, U.S. withholding tax under Sections 1441 or 1442 of the IRC, such
Lender agrees with and in favor of Agent and Borrowers, to deliver to Agent and
Administrative Borrower:

               (i) if such Lender claims an exemption from withholding tax
     pursuant to its portfolio interest exception, (a) a statement of the
     Lender, signed under penalty of perjury, that it is not a (I) a "bank" as
     described in Section 881(c)(3)(A) of the IRC, (II) a 10% shareholder
     (within the meaning of Section 881(c)(3)(B) of the IRC), or (III) a
     controlled foreign corporation described in Section 881(c)(3)(C) of the
     IRC, and (B) a properly completed IRS Form W-8BEN, before the first payment
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     this Agreement and at any other time reasonably requested by Agent or
     Administrative Borrower;

               (ii) if such Lender claims an exemption from, or a reduction of,
     withholding tax under a United States tax treaty, properly completed IRS
     Form W-8BEN before the first payment of any interest under this Agreement
     and at any other time reasonably requested by Agent or Administrative
     Borrower;

               (iii) if such Lender claims that interest paid under this
     Agreement is exempt from United States withholding tax because it is
     effectively connected with a United States trade or business of such
     Lender, two properly completed and executed copies of IRS Form W-8ECI
     before the first payment of any interest is due under this Agreement and at
     any other time reasonably requested by Agent or Administrative Borrower;

               (iv) such other form or forms as may be required under the IRC or
     other laws of the United States as a condition to exemption from, or
     reduction of, United States withholding tax.

Such Lender agrees promptly to notify Agent and Administrative Borrower of any
change in circumstances which would modify or render invalid any claimed
exemption or reduction.

          (b) If any Lender claims exemption from, or reduction of, withholding
tax under a United States tax treaty by providing IRS Form W-8BEN and such
Lender sells, assigns, grants a participation in, or otherwise transfers all or
part of the Obligations of Borrowers to such Lender, such Lender agrees to
notify Agent of the percentage amount in which it is no longer the beneficial
owner of Obligations of Borrowers to such Lender. To the extent of such
percentage amount, Agent will treat such Lender's IRS Form W-8BEN as no longer
valid.

          (c) If any Lender is entitled to a reduction in the applicable
withholding tax, Agent may withhold from any interest payment to such Lender an
amount equivalent to the applicable withholding tax after taking into account
such reduction. If the forms or other documentation required by subsection (a)
of this Section are not delivered to Agent, then Agent may withhold from any
interest payment to such Lender not providing such forms or other documentation
an amount equivalent to the applicable withholding tax.

          (d) If the IRS or any other Governmental Authority of the United
States or other jurisdiction asserts a claim that Agent did not properly
withhold tax from amounts paid to or for the account of any Lender (because the
appropriate form was not delivered, was not properly executed, or because such
Lender failed to notify Agent of a change in circumstances which rendered the
exemption from, or reduction of, withholding tax ineffective, or for any other
reason) such Lender shall indemnify and hold Agent harmless for all amounts
paid, directly or indirectly, by Agent as tax or otherwise, including penalties
and interest, and including any taxes imposed by any jurisdiction on the amounts
payable to Agent under this Section, together with all costs and expenses
(including attorneys fees and expenses). The obligation of the Lenders under
this subsection shall survive the payment of all Obligations and the resignation
or replacement of Agent.

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          (e) All payments made by Borrowers hereunder or under any note or
other Loan Document will be made without setoff, counterclaim, or other defense,
except as required by applicable law other than for Taxes (as defined below).
All such payments will be made free and clear of, and without deduction or
withholding for, any present or future taxes, levies, imposts, duties, fees,
assessments or other charges of whatever nature now or hereafter imposed by any
jurisdiction (other than the United States) or by any political subdivision or
taxing authority thereof or therein (other than of the United States) with
respect to such payments (but excluding, any tax imposed by any jurisdiction or
by any political subdivision or taxing authority thereof or therein (i) measured
by or based on the net income or net profits of a Lender, or (ii) to the extent
that such tax results from a change in the circumstances of the Lender,
including a change in the residence, place of organization, or principal place
of business of the Lender, or a change in the branch or lending office of the
Lender participating in the transactions set forth herein) and all interest,
penalties or similar liabilities with respect thereto (all such non-excluded
taxes, levies, imposts, duties, fees, assessments or other charges being
referred to collectively as "Taxes"). If any Taxes are so levied or imposed,
each Borrower agrees to pay the full amount of such Taxes, and such additional
amounts as may be necessary so that every payment of all amounts due under this
Agreement or under any note, including any amount paid pursuant to this Section
16.11(e) after withholding or deduction for or on account of any Taxes, will not
be less than the amount provided for herein; provided, however, that Borrowers
shall not be required to increase any such amounts payable to Agent or any
Lender (i) that is not organized under the laws of the United States, if such
Person fails to comply with the other requirements of this Section 16.11, or
(ii) if the increase in such amount payable results from Agent's or such
Lender's own willful misconduct or gross negligence. Borrowers will furnish to
Agent as promptly as possible after the date the payment of any Taxes is due
pursuant to applicable law certified copies of tax receipts evidencing such
payment by Borrowers.

     16.12 Collateral Matters.

          (a) The Lenders hereby irrevocably authorize Agent, at its option and
in its sole discretion, to release any Lien on any Collateral (i) upon the
termination of the Commitments and payment and satisfaction in full by Borrowers
of all Obligations, (ii) constituting property being sold or disposed of if a
release is required or desirable in connection therewith and if Administrative
Borrower certifies to Agent that the sale or disposition is permitted under
Section 7.4 of this Agreement or the other Loan Documents (and Agent may rely
conclusively on any such certificate, without further inquiry), (iii)
constituting property in which no Borrower owned any interest at the time the
security interest was granted or at any time thereafter, or (iv) constituting
property leased to a Borrower under a lease that has expired or is terminated in
a transaction permitted under this Agreement. Except as provided above, Agent
will not execute and deliver a release of any Lien on any Collateral without the
prior written authorization of (y) if the release is of all or substantially all
of the Collateral, all of the Lenders, or (z) otherwise, the Required Lenders.
Upon request by Agent or Administrative Borrower at any time, the Lenders will
confirm in writing Agent's authority to release any such Liens on particular
types or items of Collateral pursuant to this Section 16.12; provided, however,
that (1) Agent shall not be required to execute any document necessary to
evidence such release on terms that, in Agent's opinion, would expose Agent to
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consequence other than the release of such Lien without recourse,
representation, or warranty, and (2) such release shall not in any manner
discharge, affect, or impair the Obligations or any Liens (other than those
expressly being released) upon (or obligations of Borrowers in respect of) all
interests retained by Borrowers, including, the proceeds of any sale, all of
which shall continue to constitute part of the Collateral.

          (b) Agent shall have no obligation whatsoever to any of the Lenders to
assure that the Collateral exists or is owned by Borrowers or is cared for,
protected, or insured or has been encumbered, or that the Agent's Liens have
been properly or sufficiently or lawfully created, perfected, protected, or
enforced or are entitled to any particular priority, or to exercise at all or in
any particular manner or under any duty of care, disclosure or fidelity, or to
continue exercising, any of the rights, authorities and powers granted or
available to Agent pursuant to any of the Loan Documents, it being understood
and agreed that in respect of the Collateral, or any act, omission, or event
related thereto, subject to the terms and conditions contained herein, Agent may
act in any manner it may deem appropriate, in its sole discretion given Agent's
own interest in the Collateral in its capacity as one of the Lenders and that
Agent shall have no other duty or liability whatsoever to any Lender as to any
of the foregoing, except as otherwise provided herein.

     16.13 Restrictions on Actions by Lenders; Sharing of Payments.

          (a) Each of the Lenders agrees that it shall not, without the express
consent of Agent, and that it shall, to the extent it is lawfully entitled to do
so, upon the request of Agent, set off against the Obligations, any amounts
owing by such Lender to Borrowers or any deposit accounts of Borrowers now or
hereafter maintained with such Lender. Each of the Lenders further agrees that
it shall not, unless specifically requested to do so by Agent, take or cause to
be taken any action, including, the commencement of any legal or equitable
proceedings, to foreclose any Lien on, or otherwise enforce any security
interest in, any of the Collateral the purpose of which is, or could be, to give
such Lender any preference or priority against the other Lenders with respect to
the Collateral.

          (b) If, at any time or times any Lender shall receive (i) by payment,
foreclosure, setoff, or otherwise, any proceeds of Collateral or any payments
with respect to the Obligations arising under, or relating to, this Agreement or
the other Loan Documents, except for any such proceeds or payments received by
such Lender from Agent pursuant to the terms of this Agreement, or (ii)payments
from Agent in excess of such Lender's ratable portion of all such distributions
by Agent, such Lender promptly shall (1) turn the same over to Agent, in kind,
and with such endorsements as may be required to negotiate the same to Agent, or
in immediately available funds, as applicable, for the account of all of the
Lenders and for application to the Obligations in accordance with the applicable
provisions of this Agreement, or (2) purchase, without recourse or warranty, an
undivided interest and participation in the Obligations owed to the other
Lenders so that such excess payment received shall be applied ratably as among
the Lenders in accordance with their Pro Rata Shares; provided, however, that if
all or part of such excess payment received by the purchasing party is
thereafter recovered from it, those purchases of participations shall be
rescinded in whole or in part, as applicable, and the applicable portion of the
purchase price paid therefor shall be returned to such purchasing party, but
without interest

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except to the extent that such purchasing party is required to pay interest in
connection with the recovery of the excess payment.

     16.14 Agency for Perfection. Agent hereby appoints each other Lender as
its agent (and each Lender hereby accepts such appointment) for the purpose of
perfecting the Agent's Liens in assets which, in accordance with Article 9 of
the UCC can be perfected only by possession. Should any Lender obtain possession
of any such Collateral, such Lender shall notify Agent thereof, and, promptly
upon Agent's request therefor shall deliver such Collateral to Agent or in
accordance with Agent's instructions.

     16.15 Payments by Agent to the Lenders. All payments to be made by Agent
to the Lenders shall be made by bank wire transfer or internal transfer of
immediately available funds pursuant to such wire transfer instructions as each
party may designate for itself by written notice to Agent. Concurrently with
each such payment, Agent shall identify whether such payment (or any portion
thereof) represents principal, premium, or interest of the Obligations.

     16.16 Concerning the Collateral and Related Loan Documents. Each member of
the Lender Group authorizes and directs Agent to enter into this Agreement and
the other Loan Documents relating to the Collateral, for the benefit of the
Lender Group. Each member of the Lender Group agrees that any action taken by
Agent in accordance with the terms of this Agreement or the other Loan Documents
relating to the Collateral and the exercise by Agent of its powers set forth
therein or herein, together with such other powers that are reasonably
incidental thereto, shall be binding upon all of the Lenders.

     16.17 Field Audits and Examination Reports; Confidentiality; Disclaimers by
Lenders; Other Reports and Information. By becoming a party to this Agreement,
each Lender:

          (a) is deemed to have requested that Agent furnish such Lender,
promptly after it becomes available, a copy of each field audit or examination
report (each a "Report" and collectively, "Reports") prepared by Agent, and
Agent shall so furnish each Lender with such Reports,

          (b) expressly agrees and acknowledges that Agent does not (i) make any
representation or warranty as to the accuracy of any Report, and (ii) shall not
be liable for any information contained in any Report,

          (c) expressly agrees and acknowledges that the Reports are not
comprehensive audits or examinations, that Agent or other party performing any
audit or examination will inspect only specific information regarding Borrowers
and will rely significantly upon the Books, as well as on representations of
Borrowers' personnel,

          (d) agrees to keep all Reports and other material, non-public
information regarding Borrowers and their Subsidiaries and their operations,
assets, and existing and contemplated business plans in a confidential manner;
it being understood and agreed by Borrowers that in any event such Lender may
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advisors, accountants, and auditors to such Lender, (b) reasonably required by
any bona fide potential or actual Assignee or Participant in connection with any
contemplated or actual assignment or transfer by such Lender of an interest
herein or any participation interest in such Lender's rights hereunder, (c) of
information that has become public by disclosures made by Persons other than
such Lender, its Affiliates, assignees, transferees, or Participants, or (d) as
required or requested by any court, governmental or administrative agency,
pursuant to any subpoena or other legal process, or by any law, statute,
regulation, or court order; provided, however, that, unless prohibited by
applicable law, statute, regulation, or court order, such Lender shall notify
Administrative Borrower of any request by any court, governmental or
administrative agency, or pursuant to any subpoena or other legal process for
disclosure of any such non-public material information concurrent with, or where
practicable, prior to the disclosure thereof, and

          (e) without limiting the generality of any other indemnification
provision contained in this Agreement, agrees: (i) to hold Agent and any such
other Lender preparing a Report harmless from any action the indemnifying Lender
may take or conclusion the indemnifying Lender may reach or draw from any Report
in connection with any loans or other credit accommodations that the
indemnifying Lender has made or may make to Borrowers, or the indemnifying
Lender's participation in, or the indemnifying Lender's purchase of, a loan or
loans of Borrowers; and (ii) to pay and protect, and indemnify, defend and hold
Agent, and any such other Lender preparing a Report harmless from and against,
the claims, actions, proceedings, damages, costs, expenses, and other amounts
(including, attorneys fees and costs) incurred by Agent and any such other
Lender preparing a Report as the direct or indirect result of any third parties
who might obtain all or part of any Report through the indemnifying Lender.

          In addition to the foregoing: (x) any Lender may from time to time
request of Agent in writing that Agent provide to such Lender a copy of any
report or document provided by Borrowers to Agent that has not been
contemporaneously provided by Borrowers to such Lender, and, upon receipt of
such request, Agent shall provide a copy of same to such Lender, (y) to the
extent that Agent is entitled, under any provision of the Loan Documents, to
request additional reports or information from Borrowers, any Lender may, from
time to time, reasonably request Agent to exercise such right as specified in
such Lender's notice to Agent, whereupon Agent promptly shall request of
Administrative Borrower the additional reports or information reasonably
specified by such Lender, and, upon receipt thereof from Administrative
Borrower, Agent promptly shall provide a copy of same to such Lender, and (z)
any time that Agent renders to Administrative Borrower a statement regarding the
Loan Account, Agent shall send a copy of such statement to each Lender.

     16.18 Several Obligations; No Liability. Notwithstanding that certain of
the Loan Documents now or hereafter may have been or will be executed only by or
in favor of Agent in its capacity as such, and not by or in favor of the
Lenders, any and all obligations on the part of Agent (if any) to make any
credit available hereunder shall constitute the several (and not joint)
obligations of the respective Lenders on a ratable basis, according to their
respective Commitments, to make an amount of such credit not to exceed, in
principal amount, at any one time outstanding, the amount of their respective
Commitments. Nothing contained herein shall confer upon any Lender any interest
in, or subject any Lender to any liability for, or in respect of,

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the business, assets, profits, losses, or liabilities of any other Lender. Each
Lender shall be solely responsible for notifying its Participants of any matters
relating to the Loan Documents to the extent any such notice may be required,
and no Lender shall have any obligation, duty, or liability to any Participant
of any other Lender. Except as provided in Section 16.7, no member of the Lender
Group shall have any liability for the acts or any other member of the Lender
Group. No Lender shall be responsible to any Borrower or any other Person for
any failure by any other Lender to fulfill its obligations to make credit
available hereunder, nor to advance for it or on its behalf in connection with
its Commitment, nor to take any other action on its behalf hereunder or in
connection with the financing contemplated herein.

     16.19 Legal Representation of Agent. In connection with the negotiation,
drafting, and execution of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents, or in
connection with future legal representation relating to loan administration,
amendments, modifications, waivers, or enforcement of remedies, Otterbourg,
Steindler, Houston & Rosen, P.C. ("OSH&R") only has represented and only shall
represent Foothill in its capacity as Agent and as a Lender. Each other Lender
hereby acknowledges that OSH&R does not represent it in connection with any such
matters.

17       GENERAL PROVISIONS.

     17.1 Effectiveness. This Agreement shall be binding and deemed effective
when executed by Borrowers, Agent, and each Lender whose signature is provided
for on the signature pages hereof.

     17.2 Section Headings. Headings and numbers have been set forth herein for
convenience only. Unless the contrary is compelled by the context, everything
contained in each Section applies equally to this entire Agreement.

     17.3 Interpretation. Neither this Agreement nor any uncertainty or
ambiguity herein shall be construed or resolved against the Lender Group or
Borrowers, whether under any rule of construction or otherwise. On the contrary,
this Agreement has been reviewed by all parties and shall be construed and
interpreted according to the ordinary meaning of the words used so as to
accomplish fairly the purposes and intentions of all parties hereto.

     17.4 Severability of Provisions. Each provision of this Agreement shall be
severable from every other provision of this Agreement for the purpose of
determining the legal enforceability of any specific provision.

     17.5 Amendments in Writing. This Agreement only can be amended by a
writing in accordance with Section 15.1.

     17.6 Counterparts; Telefacsimile Execution. This Agreement may be executed
in any number of counterparts and by different parties on separate counterparts,
each of which, when executed and delivered, shall be deemed to be an original,
and all of which, when taken together, shall constitute but one and the same
Agreement. Delivery of an executed counterpart of this Agreement by
telefacsimile shall be equally as effective as delivery of an original executed

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counterpart of this Agreement. Any party delivering an executed counterpart of
this Agreement by telefacsimile also shall deliver an original executed
counterpart of this Agreement but the failure to deliver an original executed
counterpart shall not affect the validity, enforceability, and binding effect of
this Agreement. The foregoing shall apply to each other Loan Document mutatis
mutandis.

     17.7 Revival and Reinstatement of Obligations. If the incurrence or
payment of the Obligations by any Borrower or Guarantor or the transfer to the
Lender Group of any property should for any reason subsequently be declared to
be void or voidable under any state or federal law relating to creditors'
rights, including provisions of the Bankruptcy Code relating to fraudulent
conveyances, preferences, or other voidable or recoverable payments of money or
transfers of property (collectively, a "Voidable Transfer"), and if the Lender
Group is required to repay or restore, in whole or in part, any such Voidable
Transfer, or elects to do so upon the reasonable advice of its counsel, then, as
to any such Voidable Transfer, or the amount thereof that the Lender Group is
required or elects to repay or restore, and as to all reasonable costs,
expenses, and attorneys fees of the Lender Group related thereto, the liability
of Borrowers or Guarantors automatically shall be revived, reinstated, and
restored and shall exist as though such Voidable Transfer had never been made.

     17.8 Integration. This Agreement, together with the other Loan Documents,
reflects the entire understanding of the parties with respect to the
transactions contemplated hereby and shall not be contradicted or qualified by
any other agreement, oral or written, before the date hereof.

     17.9 Parent as Agent for Borrowers. Each Borrower hereby irrevocably
appoints Parent as the borrowing agent and attorney-in-fact for all Borrowers
(the "Administrative Borrower") which appointment shall remain in full force and
effect unless and until Agent shall have received prior written notice signed by
each Borrower that such appointment has been revoked and that another Borrower
has been appointed Administrative Borrower. Each Borrower hereby irrevocably
appoints and authorizes the Administrative Borrower (i) to provide Agent with
all notices with respect to Advances and Letters of Credit obtained for the
benefit of any Borrower and all other notices and instructions under this
Agreement and (ii) to take such action as the Administrative Borrower deems
appropriate on its behalf to obtain Advances and Letters of Credit and to
exercise such other powers as are reasonably incidental thereto to carry out the
purposes of this Agreement. It is understood that the handling of the Loan
Account and Collateral of Borrowers in a combined fashion, as more fully set
forth herein, is done solely as an accommodation to Borrowers in order to
utilize the collective borrowing powers of Borrowers in the most efficient and
economical manner and at their request, and that Lender Group shall not incur
liability to any Borrower as a result hereof. Each Borrower expects to derive
benefit, directly or indirectly, from the handling of the Loan Account and the
Collateral in a combined fashion since the successful operation of each Borrower
is dependent on the continued successful performance of the integrated group. To
induce the Lender Group to do so, and in consideration thereof, each Borrower
hereby jointly and severally agrees to indemnify each member of the Lender Group
and hold each member of the Lender Group harmless against any and all liability,
expense, loss or claim of damage or injury, made against the Lender Group by any
Borrower or by any third party whosoever, arising from or incurred by reason of
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Account and Collateral of Borrowers as herein provided, (b) the Lender Group's
relying on any instructions of the Administrative Borrower, or (c) any other
action taken by the Lender Group hereunder or under the other Loan Documents,
except that Borrowers will have no liability to the relevant Agent-Related
Person or Lender-Related Person under this Section 17.9 with respect to any
liability that has been finally determined by a court of competent jurisdiction
to have resulted solely from the gross negligence or willful misconduct of such
Agent-Related Person or Lender-Related Person, as the case may be.

     IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Agreement to be
executed and delivered as of the date first above written.

                        HUDSON HIGHLAND GROUP, INC.,
                        a Delaware corporation, as Parent and a Borrower

                        By:     /s/ Brendan Flood
                                -----------------------------------------------
                                Brendan Flood
                        Title:  Senior Vice President, Finance
                                -----------------------------------------------

                        HUDSON HIGHLAND GROUP GLOBAL RESOURCES AMERICA, INC.,
                        a Florida corporation, as a Borrower

                        By:     /s/ Brendan Flood
                                -----------------------------------------------
                                Brendan Flood
                        Title:  Authorized Signatory
                                -----------------------------------------------

                        HUDSON HIGHLAND GROUP GLOBAL RESOURCES HOLDINGS, INC.,
                        a Delaware corporation, as a Borrower

                        By:     /s/ Brendan Flood
                                -----------------------------------------------
                                Brendan Flood
                        Title:  Authorized Signatory
                                -----------------------------------------------

                        HUDSON HIGHLAND GROUP GLOBAL RESOURCES MANAGEMENT, INC.,
                        a Pennsylvania corporation, as a Borrower

                        By:     /s/ Brendan Flood
                                -----------------------------------------------
                                Brendan Flood
                        Title:  Authorized Signatory
                                -----------------------------------------------

                        HUDSON GLOBAL RESOURCES LIMITED,
                        a company incorporated under the laws of England and
                        Wales, as a Borrower

                        By:     /s/ Brendan Flood
                                -----------------------------------------------
                                Brendan Flood
                        Title:  Authorized Signatory
                                -----------------------------------------------

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                        HIGHLAND PARTNERS LIMITED,
                        a company incorporated under the laws of England and
                        Wales, as a Borrower

                        By:     /s/ Brendan Flood
                                -----------------------------------------------
                                Brendan Flood
                        Title:  Authorized Signatory
                                -----------------------------------------------

                        FOOTHILL CAPITAL CORPORATION,
                        a California corporation, as Agent and as a Lender

                        By:     /s/ Stephen Carll
                                -----------------------------------------------
                                Stephen Carll
                        Title:  Vice President
                                -----------------------------------------------

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                                TABLE OF CONTENTS

1.   DEFINITIONS AND CONSTRUCTION                                             2
     1.1    Definitions                                                       2
     1.2    Accounting Terms                                                 23
     1.3    Code                                                             23
     1.4    Construction                                                     23
     1.5    Schedules and Exhibits                                           23

2.   LOAN AND TERMS OF PAYMENT                                               23
     2.1    Revolver Advances                                                23
     2.2    Country Limits.                                                  24
     2.3    Borrowing Procedures and Settlements                             24
     2.4    Payments                                                         30
     2.5    Overadvances                                                     32
     2.6    Interest Rates and Letter of Credit Fee:  Rates,
            Payments, and Calculations                                       33
     2.7    Cash Management                                                  34
     2.8    Crediting Payments; Float Charge                                 35
     2.9    Designated Account                                               36
     2.10   Maintenance of Loan Account; Statements of Obligations           36
     2.11   Fees                                                             36
     2.12   Letters of Credit                                                37
     2.13   LIBOR Option                                                     40
     2.14   Capital Requirements                                             42
     2.15   Joint and Several Liability of Borrowers                         42
     2.16   Additional Borrowers                                             45
     2.17   Foreign Currencies                                               45
     2.18   Foreign Accounts                                                 45

3.   CONDITIONS; TERM OF AGREEMENT                                           45
     3.2    Conditions Precedent to the Initial Extension of Credit          47
     3.3    Conditions Precedent to all Extensions of Credit                 50
     3.4    Term                                                             51
     3.5    Effect of Termination                                            51
     3.6    Early Termination by Borrowers                                   51

4.   CREATION OF SECURITY INTEREST                                           52
     4.1    Grant of Security Interest                                       52
     4.2    Negotiable Collateral                                            52
     4.3    Collection of Accounts, General Intangibles, and Negotiable
            Collateral                                                       52
     4.4    Delivery of Additional Documentation Required                    52
     4.5    Power of Attorney                                                53
     4.6    Right to Inspect                                                 53
     4.7    Control Agreements                                               53

5.   REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES                                          53
     5.1    No Encumbrances                                                  54
     5.2    Eligible Accounts                                                54
     5.3    Locations; Leases.                                               54
     5.4    Equipment                                                        55
     5.5    Location of Inventory and Equipment                              55
     5.6    Inventory Records                                                55
     5.7    Location of Chief Executive Office; FEIN                         55
     5.8    Due Organization and Qualification; Subsidiaries                 55
     5.9    Due Authorization; No Conflict                                   56
     5.10   Litigation                                                       57
     5.11   No Material Adverse Change                                       57

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     5.12   Fraudulent Transfer                                              57
     5.13   Employee Benefits                                                57
     5.14   Environmental Condition                                          57
     5.15   Brokerage Fees                                                   58
     5.16   Intellectual Property                                            58
     5.17   Leases                                                           58
     5.18   DDAs                                                             58
     5.19   Complete Disclosure                                              58
     5.20   Indebtedness                                                     58

6.   AFFIRMATIVE COVENANTS                                                   59
     6.1    Accounting System                                                59
     6.2    Collateral Reporting                                             59
     6.3    Financial Statements, Reports, Certificates                      60
     6.4    Guarantor Reports                                                62
     6.5    Allowance.                                                       63
     6.6    Maintenance of Properties                                        63
     6.7    Taxes                                                            63
     6.8    Insurance                                                        63
     6.9    Location of Equipment                                            64
     6.10   Compliance with Laws                                             64
     6.11   Leases                                                           64
     6.12   Brokerage Commissions                                            64
     6.13   Existence                                                        64
     6.14   Environmental                                                    64
     6.15   Disclosure Updates                                               65
     6.16   Pro Forma Statements                                             65

7.   NEGATIVE COVENANTS                                                      65
     7.1    Indebtedness                                                     65
     7.2    Liens                                                            66
     7.3    Restrictions on Fundamental Changes                              66
     7.4    Disposal of Assets                                               67
     7.5    Change Name                                                      67
     7.6    Guarantee                                                        67
     7.7    Nature of Business                                               67
     7.8    Prepayments and Amendments                                       67
     7.9    Change of Control                                                67
     7.11   Distributions                                                    67
     7.12   Accounting Methods                                               68
     7.13   Investments                                                      68
     7.14   Transactions with Affiliates or TMP                              68
     7.15   Suspension                                                       68
     7.16   [INTENTIONALLY OMITTED]                                          68
     7.17   Use of Proceeds                                                  68
     7.18   Change in Location of Chief Executive Office; Equipment
            with Bailees                                                     68
     7.19   Securities Accounts                                              68
     7.20   Financial Covenants                                              69
     7.21   Minimum Availability                                             69

8.   EVENTS OF DEFAULT                                                       70

9.   THE LENDER GROUP'S RIGHTS AND REMEDIES                                  71
     9.1    Rights and Remedies                                              71
     9.2    Remedies Cumulative                                              73

10.  TAXES AND EXPENSES                                                      74

11.  WAIVERS; INDEMNIFICATION                                                74
     11.1   Demand; Protest; etc.                                            74
     11.2   The Lender Group's Liability for Collateral                      74
     11.3   Indemnification                                                  74

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12.  NOTICES                                                                 75

13.  CHOICE OF LAW AND VENUE; JURY TRIAL WAIVER                              76

14.  ASSIGNMENTS AND PARTICIPATIONS; SUCCESSORS                              77
     14.1   Assignments and Participations                                   77
     14.2   Successors                                                       79

15.  AMENDMENTS; WAIVERS                                                     80
     15.1   Amendments and Waivers                                           80
     15.2   Replacement of Holdout Lender                                    81
     15.3   No Waivers; Cumulative Remedies                                  81

16.  AGENT; THE LENDER GROUP                                                 81
     16.1   Appointment and Authorization of Agent                           81
     16.2   Delegation of Duties                                             82
     16.3   Liability of Agent                                               82
     16.4   Reliance by Agent                                                83
     16.5   Notice of Default or Event of Default                            83
     16.6   Credit Decision                                                  83
     16.7   Costs and Expenses; Indemnification                              84
     16.8   Agent in Individual Capacity                                     85
     16.9   Successor Agent                                                  85
     16.10  Lender in Individual Capacity                                    85
     16.11  Withholding Taxes                                                86
     16.12  Collateral Matters                                               87
     16.13  Restrictions on Actions by Lenders; Sharing of Payments          88
     16.14  Agency for Perfection                                            89
     16.15  Payments by Agent to the Lenders                                 89
     16.16  Concerning the Collateral and Related Loan Documents             89
     16.17  Field Audits and Examination Reports; Confidentiality;
            Disclaimers by Lenders; Other Reports and Information            89
     16.18  Several Obligations; No Liability                                91
     16.19  Legal Representation of Agent                                    91

17.  GENERAL PROVISIONS                                                      91
     17.1   Effectiveness                                                    91
     17.2   Section Headings                                                 91
     17.3   Interpretation                                                   91
     17.4   Severability of Provisions                                       91
     17.5   Amendments in Writing                                            91
     17.6   Counterparts; Telefacsimile Execution                            92
     17.7   Revival and Reinstatement of Obligations                         92
     17.8   Integration                                                      92
     17.9   Parent as Agent for Borrowers                                    92

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EXHIBITS AND SCHEDULES

Exhibit A-1           Form of Assignment and Acceptance
Exhibit B-1           Form of Borrowing Base Certificate
Exhibit C-1           Form of Compliance Certificate
Exhibit L-1           Form of LIBOR Notice
Schedule C-1          Commitments
Schedule G-1          Guarantors
Schedule P-1          Permitted Liens
Schedule 2.8(a)       Cash Management Banks
Schedule 5.3          Office Locations; Leases
Schedule 5.5          Locations of Equipment
Schedule 5.7          Chief Executive Office; FEIN
Schedule 5.8(b)       Capitalization of Borrowers
Schedule 5.8(c)       Capitalization of Borrowers' Subsidiaries
Schedule 5.10         Litigation
Schedule 5.13         ERISA Plans
Schedule 5.14         Environmental Matters
Schedule 5.15         Brokerage Fees
Schedule 5.16         Intellectual Property
Schedule 5.18         Demand Deposit Accounts
Schedule 5.20         Permitted Indebtedness

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The Exhibits and Schedules to this Agreement have been omitted. The Exhibits and
Schedules to this Agreement will be furnished to the Securities and Exchange
Commission supplementally upon request.

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