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                                                                Exhibit (10)(j)

                            THE LUBRIZOL CORPORATION
                             OFFICERS' SUPPLEMENTAL
                                RETIREMENT PLAN

                              (As Amended 10/1/00)

         The Lubrizol Corporation hereby establishes, effective as of January
1, 1993, The Lubrizol Corporation Officers' Supplemental Retirement Plan (the
"Plan") for the purpose of providing deferred compensation benefits to a select
group of management or highly compensated employees.

         Section 1. Definitions. For the purposes hereof, the following words
and phrases shall have the meanings indicated, unless a different meaning is
plainly required by the context:

                  (a) Beneficiary. The term "Beneficiary" shall mean a person
         who is designated by a Participant to receive benefits payable upon
         his death pursuant to the provisions of Section 6.

                  (b) Code. The term "Code" shall mean the Internal Revenue
         Code as amended from time to time. Reference to a section of the Code
         shall include such section and any comparable section or sections of
         any future legislation that amends, supplements, or supersedes such
         section.

                  (c) Company. The term "Company" shall mean The Lubrizol
         Corporation, an Ohio corporation, its corporate successors and the
         surviving corporation resulting from any merger of The Lubrizol
         Corporation with any other corporation or corporations.

                  (d) Credited Service. The term "Credited Service" shall mean
         a Participant's years of service with the Company equal to the number
         of full and fractional years of service (to the nearest twelfth of a
         year) beginning on the date the Participant first performed an hour of
         service for the Company and ending on the date he is no longer
         employed by the Company.

                  (e) Final Average Pay. Effective, January 1, 1997, the term
         "Final Average Pay" shall mean the aggregated amount of Basic
         Compensation (as that term is defined in the Lubrizol Pension Plan
         modified to add cash (but not shares), if any, which the Participant
         has elected to defer under The Lubrizol Corporation Deferred
         Compensation Plan for Officers (which was adopted effective July 25,
         1994) or under The Lubrizol Corporation Executive Council Deferred
         Compensation Plan (which was adopted effective January 1, 1997),
         received by the Participant during the three consecutive calendar
         years during which such Participant received the greatest aggregate
         amount of Basic Compensation, as defined above, within the most recent
         ten years of employment, divided by 36.
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                  (f) Lubrizol Pension Plan. The term "Lubrizol Pension Plan"
         shall mean The Lubrizol Corporation Pension Plan as the same shall be
         in effect on the date of a Participant's retirement, death, or other
         termination of employment.

                  (g) Normal Retirement Date. The term "Normal Retirement Date"
         shall mean the first day of the month following the date on which a
         Participant attains age sixty-five (65).

                  (h) Participant. The term "Participant" shall mean the Chief
         Executive Officer, the Chief Operating Officer and any other officer
         of the Company who is designated by the Board of Directors of the
         Company and the Chief Executive Officer to participate in the Plan,
         and who has not waived participation in the Plan.

                  (i) Plan. The term "Plan" shall mean a deferred compensation
         plan set forth herein, together with all amendments hereto, which Plan
         shall be called "The Lubrizol Corporation Officers' Supplemental
         Retirement Plan."

         Section 2. VESTING. The Participant shall be 100 percent vested in his
accrued supplemental retirement benefit hereunder.

         Section 3. Normal Retirement Benefit. Each Participant who retires
from employment with the Company on or after his Normal Retirement Date shall
receive, subject to the provisions of Sections 6 and 7, a monthly supplemental
retirement benefit which shall be equal to two percent (2%) of his Final
Average Pay multiplied by his Credited Service (up to 30 years) offset by the
following amounts:

                  (a) Benefits payable to the Participant under the Lubrizol
         Pension Plan;

                  (b) Benefits payable to the Participant under The Lubrizol
         Corporation Employees' Stock Purchase and Savings Plan, including
         benefits attributable to Matching Contributions, but excluding
         benefits attributable to CODA Contributions, Supplemental
         Contributions, Rollover Contributions or Transferred Contributions, as
         defined thereunder;

                  (c) Benefits payable to the Participant under The Lubrizol
         Corporation Employees' Profit-Sharing Plan;

                  (d) Benefits payable to the Participant under The Lubrizol
         Corporation Excess Defined Contribution Plan;

                  (e) Benefits payable to the Participant under The Lubrizol
         Corporation Excess Defined Benefit Plan;

                  (f)      The Participant's Social Security benefits;

                  (g) Any other employer-provided benefits not specifically
         excluded herein which are payable to the Participant pursuant to any
         qualified or nonqualified retirement plan maintained by the Company.

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         Such offsets shall be determined using the actuarial factors provided
in the Lubrizol Pension Plan.

         Section 4. Early Retirement Eligibility and Determination of Benefit.
Each Participant who retires from employment with the Company at or after age
55, but prior to his Normal Retirement Date, shall receive a percentage of his
supplemental retirement benefit determined under Section 3, in accordance with
the early retirement schedule provided in the Lubrizol Pension Plan.

         Section 5. Termination of Employment. If a Participant terminates
employment prior to age 55, he shall receive the actuarial equivalent of his
supplemental retirement benefit determined under Section 3 in a single lump-sum
payment; such actuarial equivalent of which shall be calculated using the same
actuarial factors and interest rates used in the Lubrizol Pension Plan as in
effect on the date the Participant terminates employment in accordance with
this Section 5.

         Section 6.   Payment to Participant. (Effective November 27, 1995)

                  (a) Each Participant who retires in accordance with Sections
         3 or 4 shall receive payment of his supplemental pension benefit under
         the Plan determined as of his date of retirement in the standard form
         of benefit of a monthly retirement benefit commencing within 30 days
         following retirement and payable to such Participant for his lifetime
         following such retirement, with the continuance to his Beneficiary of
         such amount after his death for the remainder, if any, of the
         120-month term that commenced with the date as of which the first
         payment of such monthly benefit is made, and with any such monthly
         benefits remaining unpaid upon the death of the survivor of the
         Participant and his Beneficiary to be made to the estate of such
         survivor.

                  (b) Participants may instead elect within a 60 day period
         commencing 90 days prior to retirement to receive the actuarial
         equivalent of the standard form of benefit determined under paragraph
         a, on the date of retirement, in accordance with any one of the
         following options:

                           (i) a single lump-sum payment payable within 30 days
                  following retirement;

                           (ii) effective October 1, 2000, a single lump-sum
                  payment payable within 30 days following the end of the
                  calendar year in which the Participant retires. Interest on
                  the lump-sum deferral shall accrue and be paid with the
                  lump-sum; such interest to be computed at the applicable
                  interest rate, as defined in Section 417(e)(3)(A)(ii)(II) of
                  the Code, in effect on the date of retirement;

                           (iii) a reduced monthly retirement benefit
                  commencing within 30 days following retirement and payable to
                  such Participant for his lifetime following his retirement,
                  with the continuance of a monthly benefit equal to fifty
                  percent (50%) of such reduced amount after his death to his
                  Beneficiary during the lifetime of the Beneficiary, provided
                  that such

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                  Beneficiary is living at the time of such Participant's
                  retirement and survives him;

                           (iv) a reduced monthly retirement benefit commencing
                  within 30 days following retirement and payable to such
                  Participant for his lifetime following his retirement, with
                  the continuance of a monthly benefit equal to one hundred
                  percent (100%) of such reduced amount after his death to his
                  Beneficiary during the lifetime of the Beneficiary, provided
                  such Beneficiary is living at the time of such Participant's
                  retirement and survives him.

                           (v) annual installments of up to ten payments, the
                  first of which shall be paid within 30 days following
                  retirement, and subsequent installments of which shall be
                  paid on the anniversary date of the payment of the first
                  installment. Such installments shall be determined by
                  dividing the commuted lump-sum equivalent of the supplemental
                  retirement benefit (determined in the same manner as under
                  the Lubrizol Pension Plan) by the number of installments to
                  be paid and adjusting for interest based on the interest rate
                  used to determine the commuted lump-sum payment. Installments
                  after the first installment shall include such interest which
                  accrues during the 12-month period occurring since the date
                  the prior installment was paid.

         Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of the Plan to the contrary,
if the present actuarial value of any retirement benefit or survivor benefit
under the Plan to any person, determined as described above, is less than
$25,000, such benefit shall be paid in a single lump-sum payment to such person
within 30 days following retirement.

         Section 7. Payment in the Event of Death Prior to Commencement of
Distribution. If a Participant dies prior to commencement of benefits under the
Plan, his surviving spouse, if any, shall be eligible for a survivor benefit
which is equal to one-half of the reduced monthly benefit the Participant would
have received under the Plan if the Participant had terminated employment on
the day before his death and had elected to receive his benefit hereunder in
the form of a 50 percent joint and survivor annuity. In making the
determinations and reductions required in this Section 7, the Company shall
apply the assumptions then in use under the Lubrizol Pension Plan. For purposes
hereof, a surviving spouse shall only be eligible for a benefit under this
Section 7, if such spouse had been married to the deceased Participant for at
least one year as of the date of the Participant's death.

         Section 8. Actuarial Factors. All actuarial assumptions and factors
used in this Plan shall be the same as those used in the Lubrizol Pension Plan.

         Section 9. Funding. The obligation of the Company to pay benefits
provided hereunder shall be unfunded and unsecured and such benefits shall be
paid by the Company out of its general funds. In order to provide a source of
payment for its obligations under the Plan, the Company may cause a trust fund
to be maintained and/or arrange for insurance contracts. Subject to the
provisions of the trust agreement governing any such trust fund or the
insurance contract, the obligation of the Company under the Plan to provide a
Participant with a benefit shall nonetheless constitute the

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unsecured promise of the Company to make payments as provided herein, and no
person shall have any interest in, or a lien or prior claim upon, any property
of the Company.

         Section 10. Plan Administrator. The Company shall be the plan
administrator of the Plan. The plan administrator shall perform all ministerial
functions with respect to the Plan. Further, the plan administrator shall have
full power and authority to interpret and construe the Plan and shall determine
all questions arising in the administration, interpretation, and application of
the Plan. Any such determination shall be conclusive and binding on all
persons. The plan administrator shall employ such advisors or agents as it may
deem necessary or advisable to assist it in carrying out its duties hereunder.

         Section 11. Not a Contract of Continuing Employment. Nothing herein
contained shall be construed as a commitment or agreement on the part of the
Participant to continue his employment with the Company, and nothing herein
contained shall be construed as a commitment or agreement on the part of the
Company to continue the employment or the annual rate of compensation of the
Participant for any period, and the Participant shall remain subject to
discharge to the same extent as if this Plan had never been put into effect.

         Section 12. Right of Amendment and Termination. Effective October 1,
1994, the Company reserves the right to amend or terminate the Plan in whole or
in part at any time and to suspend operation of the Plan, in whole or in part,
at any time, by resolution or written action of its Board of Directors or by
action of a committee to which such authority has been delegated by the Board
of Directors; provided, however, that no amendment shall result in the
forfeiture or reduction of the interest of any Participant or person claiming
under or through any one or more of them pursuant to the Plan. Any amendment of
the Plan shall be in writing and signed by authorized individuals.

         Section 13. Termination and Distribution of Accrued Benefits. The Plan
may be terminated at any time by the Company, and in that event the amount of
the accrued benefits as of the date of such termination shall remain an
obligation of the Company and shall be payable as if the Plan had not been
terminated.

         Section 14. Construction. Where necessary or appropriate to the
meaning hereof, the singular shall be deemed to include the plural, the plural
to include the singular, the masculine to include the feminine, and the
feminine to include the masculine.

         Section 15. Severability. In the event any provision of the Plan is
deemed invalid, such provision shall be deemed to be severed from the Plan, and
the remainder of the Plan shall continue to be in full force and effect.

         Section 16. Governing Law. Except as otherwise provided, the
provisions of the Plan shall be construed and enforced in accordance with the
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                                                                     EXHIBIT 4.8

                               FIRST AMENDMENT TO
                    NCS HEALTHCARE, INC. AMENDED AND RESTATED
                         EMPLOYEE SAVINGS PLAN AND TRUST

         WHEREAS, NCS HealthCare, Inc. (the "Company") previously adopted the
NCS HealthCare Inc. Employee Savings Plan and Trust effective July 1, 1988; and

         WHEREAS, the Company subsequently amended and restated the NCS
HealthCare, Inc. Employee Savings Plan and Trust in the form of the NCS
HealthCare, Inc. Amended and Restated Employee Savings Plan and Trust (the
"Plan") on two occasions, effective as of January 1, 1996 and January 1, 1999,
respectively; and

         WHEREAS, the Company desires to amend the Plan to eliminate the
requirement that employer matching contributions be automatically invested in
shares of the Company's Class A Common Stock;

         NOW, THEREFORE, the Plan is hereby amended effective as of October 1,
2000 to read as follows:

1.       Section 4.1(b) shall be amended to read as follows:

         (b)      On behalf of each Participant who is eligible to share in
                  matching contributions for the Plan Year, a discretionary
                  matching contribution equal to a uniform percentage of each
                  such Participant's Deferred Compensation or portion thereof,
                  the exact percentage or portion, if any, to be determined each
                  year by the Employer, which contribution, if any, shall be
                  made in cash and shall be deemed an Employer Non-Elective
                  Contribution.

2.       Section 4.12(a) shall be amended to read as follows:

         (a)      Participants may, subject to a procedure established by the
                  Administrator (the Participant Direction Procedures) and
                  applied in a uniform nondiscriminatory manner, direct the
                  Trustee to invest all of their accounts in specific assets,
                  specific funds or other investments permitted under the Plan
                  and the Participant Direction Procedures, with the exception
                  of the portion of their accounts attributable to the matching
                  contribution portion of the Employer Non-Elective Contribution
                  made for the period from January 1, 1999 through September 30,
                  2000. Such portion of a Participant's account shall not be
                  subject to the Participant Direction Procedures. The portion
                  of the interest of any Participant directing investment of his
                  accounts will thereupon be considered a Participant's Directed
                  Account.

         IN WITNESS WHEREOF, NCS HealthCare, Inc. by its duly authorized
officer, has caused this instrument to be executed this 29th day of September,
2000.

                                NCS HEALTHCARE, INC.

                                By: /s/ Kevin B. Shaw
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