Document:

EXHIBIT 4.1

                         ADOPTION AGREEMENT - ARTICLE 1
                      NON-STANDARDIZED PROFIT SHARING PLAN

1.01  Plan Information:

     (a)      Name of Plan: This is the Pulse Engineering, Inc. 401(k) Plan
                            (the "Plan").

     (b)      Type of Plan:

              (1)   [X]    401(k) and Profit Sharing

              (2)   [ ]    Profit Sharing Only

              (3)   [ ]    401(k) Only

     (c)      Name of Plan Administrator, if not the Employer:

              Name:

              Address:

              Phone Number:

              The Plan Administrator is the agent for service of legal process
              for the Plan.

     (d)      Limitation Year (check one):

              (1)   [ ]    Calendar Year

              (2)   [X]    Plan Year

              (3)   [ ]    Other:

     (e)      Three-Digit Plan Number:      001

     (f)      Plan Year End (month/day):    December 31

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     (g)      Plan Status (check one):

              (1)   [ ]    Effective Date of new Plan:

              (2)   [X]    Amendment Effective Date: February 1, 1999   This is
                          (check one):

                    (A)    [X] an amendment of The CORPORATE plan for
                           Retirement [ ] Adoption Agreement previously
                           executed by the Employer; or

                    (B)    [ ] a conversion from another plan document
                           into The CORPORATE plan for Retirement [ ].

              The original Effective Date of the Plan: July 1, 1986

              The substantive provisions of the Plan shall apply prior to the
              Effective Date to the extent required by the Tax Reform Act of
              1986 or other applicable laws.

1.02  Employer:

     (a)      The Employer is:  Pulse Engineering, Inc.

              Address:          12220 World Trade Drive

                                San Diego, CA  92128

              Contact's Name:   Mr. Patrick McCready

              Telephone Number: (619) 674-8100

              (1)   Employer's Tax Identification Number: 23-2808999

              (2) Business form of Employer (check one):

                    (A) [X]   Corporation
                    (B) [ ]   Sole Proprietor or Partnership
                    (C) [ ]   Subchapter S Corporation
                    (D) [ ]   Governmental
                    (E) [ ]   Tax-exempt Organization
                    (F) [ ]   Rural Electric Cooperative

              (3)   Employer's fiscal year end:      December 31

              (4)   Date business commenced:         1955

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     (b)      The term "Employer" includes the following Related Employer(s) (as
              defined in Section 2.01(a)(26)):

              __________________________________________________________________

              __________________________________________________________________

              __________________________________________________________________

              __________________________________________________________________

              __________________________________________________________________

1.03  Coverage:

     (a)      All Employees who meet the conditions specified below will be
              eligible to participate in the Plan:

              (1)     Service requirement (check one):

                      (A)    [X]    no service requirement for Employees who are
                                    employed on a full-time basis (i.e., 35 or
                                    more hours per week)

                      (B)    [ ]    three consecutive months of service
                                    (no minimum number Hours of Service can be
                                    required).

                      (C)    [ ]    six consecutive months of service
                                    (no minimum number Hours of Service can be
                                    required).

                      (D)    [X]    one Year of Service.
                                    (1,000 Hours of Service is required during
                                    the Eligibility Computation Period.) for
                                    Employees who are not employed on a
                                    full-time basis (i.e., less than 35 hours
                                    per week)

              (2)     Age requirement:  (check one)

                      (A)    [X]    no age requirement.

                      (B)    [ ]    must have attained age (not to exceed 21).

              (3)     The class of Employees eligible to participate in the Plan
                      (check one):

                      (A)    [ ]    includes all Employees of the Employer.

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                      (B)    [X]    includes all Employees of the Employer
                                    except for (check the appropriate box(es)):

                           (i)   [ ]  Employees covered by a collective
                                      bargaining agreement.

                           (ii)  [ ]  Highly Compensated Employees as defined in
                                      the Code Section 414(q).

                           (iii) [ ]  Leased Employees as defined in Section
                                      2.01(a)(18).

                           (iv)  [X]  Nonresident aliens who do not receive any
                                      earned income from the Employer which
                                      constitutes United States source income.

                           (v)   [X]  Other: Union employees who have retirement
                                      benefits pursuant to a collective
                                      bargaining agreement.

              Note: No exclusion in this section may create a discriminatory
              class of Employees. An Employer's Plan must still pass the
              Internal Revenue Code coverage and participation requirements if
              one or more of the above groups of Employees have been excluded
              from the Plan.

     (b)      The Entry Date(s) shall be (check one):

              (1)  [ ]  the first day of each Plan Year (do not select if
                        Section 1.03(a)(1)(D) is elected or if there is an
                        age requirement of greater than 20 1/2 in Section
                        1.03(a)(2)(B)).

              (2)  [ ]  the first day of each Plan Year and the date six months
                        later.

              (3)  [X]  the first day of each Plan Year and the first day of the
                        fourth, seventh, and tenth months.

              (4)  [ ]  the first day of each month.

     (c)      Date of Initial Participation - An Employee will become a
              Participant unless excluded by Section 1.03(a)(3) above on the
              Entry Date immediately following the date the Employee completes
              the service and age requirement(s) in Section 1.03(a), if any,
              except (check one):

              (1)  [ ]  No exceptions.

              (2)  [ ]  Employees employed on the Effective Date on
                        Section 1.01(g) will become Participants on that date.

              (3)  [X]  Employees who meet the age and service requirement(s) of
                        Section 1.03(a) on the Effective Date in Section 1.01(g)
                        will become Participants on that date.

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1.04  Compensation:

     (a)      For purposes of determining contributions under the Plan,
              Compensation shall be as defined in Section 2.01(a)(7), but
              excluding (check the appropriate box(es)):

              (1)  [ ]  Overtime Pay.

              (2)  [ ]  Bonuses.

              (3)  [ ]  Commissions.

              (4)  [ ]  The value of a qualified or a non-qualified stock
                        option granted to an Employee by the Employer to the
                        extent such value is includable in the Employee's
                        taxable income.

              Note: These exclusions shall not apply for purposes of the
              "Top-Heavy" requirements in Section 9.03 or for allocating
              Discretionary Employer Contributions if an Integrated Formula is
              elected in Section 1.05(a)(2).

              (5)  [X]  No exclusions.

     (b)      Compensation for the First Year of Participation

              Contributions for the Plan Year in which an Employee first becomes
              a Participant shall be determined based on the Employee's
              Compensation (check one):

              (1)  [X]  For the entire Plan Year.

              (2)  [ ]  For the portion of the Plan Year in which the Employee
                        is eligible to participate in the Plan.

1.05    Contributions:

     (a)      [ ]  Employer Contributions:

              (1) [ ] Fixed Formula - Nonintegrated Formula (check (A) or (B)
                      and fill in the blank):

                  (A)   [ ]  Fixed Percentage Employer Contribution:

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                             For each Plan Year, the Employer will contribute
                             for each eligible Participant an amount equal
                             to _____% (not to exceed 15%) of such
                             Participant's Compensation.

                  (B)   [ ]  Fixed Flat Dollar Employer Contribution:

                             For each Plan Year, the Employer will contribute
                             for each eligible Participant an amount equal
                             to $______.

              (2) [ ] Discretionary Formula

              The Employer may decide each Plan Year whether to make a
              discretionary Employer contribution on behalf of eligible
              Participants in accordance with Section 4.06. Such contributions
              shall be allocated to eligible Participants based upon the
              following (check (A) or (B)):

                  (A)   [ ]  Nonintegrated Allocation Formula:

                             In the ratio that each eligible Participant's
                             Compensation bears to the total Compensation paid
                             to all eligible Participants for the Plan Year.

                  (B)   [ ]  Integrated Allocation Formula:

                             In accordance with Section 4.06.

              Note:  An Employer who maintains any other plan that provides for
              Social Security Integration (permitted disparity) may not elect
              (2)(B).

              (3)  Eligibility Requirement(s)

              A Participant shall be entitled to Employer contributions for a
              Plan Year under this Subsection (a) if the Participant satisfies
              the following requirement(s) (Check the appropriate box(ex) -
              Options (B) and (C) may not be elected together):

                  (A)   [ ]  is employed by the Employer on the last day of the
                             Plan Year.

                  (B)   [ ]  earns at least 500 Hours of Service during the Plan
                             Year.

                  (C)   [ ]  earns at least 1,000 Hours of Service during the
                              Plan Year.

                  (D)   [ ]  no requirements.

              Note: If option (A), (B), or (C) above is selected, then Employer
              contributions can only be funded by the Employer after Plan Year
              end. Employer contributions funded during the Plan Year shall not
              be subject to the eligibility requirements of this section
              1.05(a)(3).

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     (b)      |X|  Deferral Contributions

              (1)  Regular Contributions

              The Employer shall make a Deferral Contribution in accordance with
              Section 4.01 on behalf of each Participant who has an executed
              salary reduction agreement in effect with the Employer for the
              payroll period in question, not to exceed 15  % (no more than 15%)
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              of Compensation for that period.

                  (A) A Participant may increase or decrease, on a prospective
                  basis, his salary reduction agreement percentage (check one):

                        (i)   [ ]  As of the beginning of each payroll period.

                        (ii)  [ ]  As of the first day of each month.

                        (iii) [ ]  As of the next Entry Date.

                        (iv)  [X]  (Specify, but must be at least once per Plan
                                   Year.)

                                   January 1
                                   --------------------------------------------
                                   July 1
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                  (B) A Participant may revoke, on a prospective basis, a salary
                  reduction agreement at any time upon proper notice to the
                  Administrator but in such case may not file a new salary
                  reduction agreement until (check one):

                        (i)   [ ]  The first day of the next Plan Year.

                        (ii)  [X]  Any subsequent Plan Entry Date.

                        (iii) [ ]  (Specify, but must be at least once per Plan
                                   Year.)

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              (2)  [ ]  Catch-Up Contributions

              The Employer may allow Participants upon proper notice and
              approval to enter into a special salary reduction agreement to
              make additional Deferral Contributions in an amount up to 100% of
              their Compensation for the payroll period(s) in the final month of
              the Plan Year.

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              (3)  [ ]  Bonus Contributions

              The Employer may allow Participants upon proper notice and
              approval to enter into a special salary reduction agreement to
              make Deferral Contributions in an amount up to 100% of any
              Employer-paid cash bonuses made for such Participants during the
              Plan Year. The Compensation definition elected by the Employer in
              Section 1.04(a) must include bonuses if bonus contributions are
              permitted.

              Note: A Participant's contributions under (2) and/or (3) may not
              cause the Participant to exceed the percentage limit specified by
              the Employer in (1) after the Plan Year. The Employer has the
              right to restrict a Participant's right to make Deferral
              Contributions if they will adversely affect the Plan's ability to
              pass the actual deferral percentage test and/or the actual
              contribution percentage test.

              (4)  [X]  Qualified Discretionary Contributions

              The Employer may contribute an amount which it designates as a
              Qualified Discretionary Contribution to be included in the actual
              deferral percentage or actual contribution percentage test.
              Qualified Discretionary Contributions shall be allocated to
              Non-highly Compensated Employees (check one):

                  (A)   [X]  in the ratio which each such Participant's
                             Compensation for the Plan Year bears to the total
                             of all such Participants' Compensation for the
                             Plan Year.

                  (B)   [ ]  as a flat dollar amount for each such Participant
                             for the Plan Year.

*    (c)      [X]    Matching Contributions (only if Section 1.05(b) is checked)

              (1) The Employer shall make a Matching Contribution on behalf of
              each Participant in an amount equal to the following percentage of
              a Participant's Deferral Contributions during the Plan Year (check
              one):

                  (A)   [ ]  50%

                  (B)   [X]  100%

                  (C)   [ ]  _____________ %

                  (D)   [ ]  (Tiered Match) ______________ % of the first
                             _____________ % of the

*  Amendment to Section 1.05(c)(3)(A) is effective September 1, 1999

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                             Participant's Compensation contributed to the
Plan.

                             _____________% of the next _________________% of
                             the Participant's Compensation contributed to
                             the Plan.

                             _____________% of the next _________________% of
                             the Participant's Compensation contributed to
                             the Plan.

              Note:  The percentages specified above for Matching Contributions
              may not increase as the percentage of Compensation contributed
              increases.

                  (E)   [ ]  The percentage declared for the year, if any,
                             by a Board of Directors' Resolution or by a
                             Letter of Intent for a Sole Proprietor or
                             Partnership.

              (2) [ ] The Employer may at Plan Year end make an additional
              Matching Contribution equal to a percentage declared by the
              Employer through a Board of Directors' Resolution or by a Letter
              of Intent for a Sole Proprietor or Partnership of the Deferral
              Contributions made by each Participant during the Plan Year (only
              if an option is checked under Section 105(c)(1)).

         *    (3) [X]  Matching Contribution Limits (check the appropriate box):

                  (A)   [X]  Deferral Contributions in excess of 6 % of
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                             the Participant's Compensation for the period in
                             question shall not be considered for Matching
                             Contributions.

              Note: If the Employer elects a percentage limit in (A) above and
              requests the Trustee to account separately for matched and
              unmatched Deferral Contributions, the Matching Contributions
              allocated to each Participant must be computed, and the percentage
              limit applied, based upon each payroll period.

                  (B)   [ ]  Matching Contributions for each Participant for
                             each Plan Year shall be limited to $_____________.

              (4)  Eligibility Requirement(s)

              A Participant who makes Deferral Contributions during the Plan
              Year under Section 1.05(b) shall be entitled to Matching
              Contributions for that Plan Year if the Participant

*  Amendment to Section 1.05(c)(3)(A) is effective September 1, 1999

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              satisfies the following requirement(s) (Check the appropriate
              box(es).  Options (B) and (C) may not be elected together):

                  (A)   [ ]  Is employed by the Employer on the last day of the
                             Plan Year.

                  (B)   [ ]  Earns at least 500 Hours of Service during the Plan
                             Year.

                  (C)   [ ]  Earns at least 1,000 Hours of Service during the
                             Plan Year.

                  (D)   [ ]  Is not a Highly Compensated Employee for the Plan
                             Year.

                  (E)   [ ]  Is not a Partner of the Employer, if the Employer
                             is a Partnership.

                  (F)   [X]  No requirements.

              Note: If option (A), (B), or (C) above is selected, then Matching
              Contributions can only be funded by the Employer after the Plan
              Year ends. Any Matching Contribution funded before Plan Year end
              shall not be subject to the eligibility requirements of this
              Section 1.05(c)(4). If option (A), (B), or (C) is adopted during a
              Plan Year, such option shall not become effective until the first
              day of the next Plan Year.

     (d)      [ ]     Employee After-Tax Contributions (check one):

              (1)  [ ]   Future Contributions

              Participants may make voluntary non-deductible Employee
              contributions pursuant to Section 4.09 of the Plan. This option
              may only be elected if the Employer has elected to permit Deferral
              Contributions under Section 1.05(b). Matching Contributions by the
              Employer are not allowed on any voluntary non-deductible Employee
              contributions. Withdrawals are limited to one per year unless
              Employee contributions were allowed under a previous plan document
              which authorized more frequent withdrawals.

              (2)  [X]   Frozen Contributions

              Participants may not make voluntary non-deductible Employee
              contributions, but the Employer does maintain frozen Participant
              voluntary non-deductible Employee Contribution Accounts.

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1.06    Retirement Age(s):

     (a)      [X]     The Normal Retirement Age under the Plan is (check one):

              (1)  [X]   age 65.

              (2)  [ ]   age           (specify between 55 and 64).
                             ---------

              (3)  [ ]   later of the age ____________ (cannot exceed 65) or the
                         fifth anniversary of the Participant's Employment
                         Commencement Date.

     (b)      [ ]     The Early Retirement Age is the first day of the month
                      after the Participant attains age (specify 55 or greater)
                      and completes Years of Service for Vesting.

     (c)      [X]     A Participant is eligible for Disability Retirement if
                      he/she (check the appropriate box(es)):

              (1)  [X]   satisfies the requirements for benefits under the
                         Employer's Long-Term Disability Plan.

              (2)  [ ]   satisfies the requirements for Social Security
                         disability benefits.

              (3)  [ ]   is determined to be disabled by a physician approved by
                         the Employer.

1.07    Vesting Schedule:  See Addendum 1A

     (a)      The Participant's vested percentage in Employer contributions
              (Fixed or Discretionary) elected in Section 1.05(a) and/or
              Matching Contributions elected in Section 1.05(c) shall be based
              upon the schedule(s) selected below, except with respect to any
              Plan Year during which the Plan is Top-Heavy. The schedule elected
              in Section 1.12(d) shall automatically apply for a Top-Heavy Plan
              Year and all Plan Years thereafter unless the Employer has already
              elected a more favorable Vesting Schedule below.

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<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
(1)  Employer Contributions                         (2)  Matching Contributions

(check one):                                        (check one):
<S>   <C>  <C>                                      <C>   <C>  <C>
(A)   [ ]  N/A - No Employer Contributions          (A)   [ ]   N/A - No Matching Contributions

(B)   [X]  100% Vesting immediately                 (B)   [X]   100% Vesting immediately

(C)   [ ]  3-year cliff (see C below)               (C)   [ ]   3-year cliff (see C below)

(D)   [ ]  5-year cliff (see D below)               (D)   [ ]   5-year cliff (see D below)

(E)   [ ]  6-year graduated (see E below)           (E)   [ ]   6-year graduated (see E below)

(F)   [ ]  7-year graduated (see F below)           (F)   [ ]   7-year graduated (see F below)

(G)   [ ]  Other vesting (complete G1 below)        (G)   [ ]   Other vesting (complete G2 below)
</TABLE>

                                    VESTING SCHEDULE
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  Years of
Service for      C         D          E        F        G1       G2
  Vesting
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     0          0%         0%        0%        0%      ___       ___
     1          0%         0%        0%        0%      ___       ___
     2          0%         0%        20%       0%      ___       ___
     3         100%        0%        40%      20%      ___       ___
     4         100%        0%        60%      40%      ___       ___
     5         100%       100%       80%      60%      ___       ___
     6         100%       100%      100%      80%      ___       ___
     7         100%       100%      100%      100%     100%     100%
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Note:  A schedule elected under G1 or G2 above must be at least as favorable as
one of schedules in C, D, E, or F above.

     (b) [ ] Years of Service for Vesting shall exclude (check one):

              (1) [ ] for new plans service prior to the Effective Date as
                      defined in Section 1.01(g)(1).

              (2) [ ] for existing plans converting from another plan
                      document service prior to the original Effective Date
                      as defined in Section 1.01(g)(2).

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                       Pulse Engineering, Inc. 401(k) Plan
                             Addendum No. 1A to the
                       Fidelity Profit Sharing/401(k) Plan
                     Non-Standardized Adoption Agreement 002
                                Basic Plan No. 07

                  Employer contributions and matching contributions to the Cash
                  or Deferred Profit Sharing Plan for Employees of GTI
                  Corporation and its Affiliates, which has been merged into the
                  Plan as of February 1, 1999, shall be subject to the following
                  vesting schedule:

                  Years of
                  Service for
                    Vesting                Vesting Schedule
                    -------                ----------------

                      0                             0%
                      1                            20%
                      2                            40%
                      3                            60%
                      4                            80%
                      5 or more                   100%

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1.08  Predecessor Employer Service:

     Service for purposes of eligibility in Section 1.03(a)(1) and vesting in
     Section 1.07(a) of this Plan shall include service with the following
     employer(s):

     (a)   Xircom, Inc. (see Addendum No. 2)

     (b)   Technitrol, Inc.

     (c)   GTI Corporation and Valor Electronics, Inc., including all service
           credited under the Cash or Deferred Profit Sharing Plan for Employees
           of GTI Corporation and its Affiliates.

     (d)

1.09  Participant Loans:

     Participant loans (check (a) or (b)):

     (a)      [X]   will be allowed in accordance with Section 7.09, subject to
                    a $1,000 minimum amount, and will be granted (check (1)
                    or (2)):

              (1)   [ ]    for any purpose.

              (2)   [ ]    for hardship withdrawal (as defined in Section 7.10)
                           purposes only:

              (3)   [X]    for the following purposes:  education, home
                           improvement or purchase, medical or hardship or any
                           other purpose approved by the Pulse Engineering, Inc.
                           401(k) Administrative Committee

     (b)      [ ]   will not be allowed.

1.10  Hardship Withdrawals:

     Participant withdrawals for hardship prior to termination of employment
(check one):

     (a)      [X]   will be allowed in accordance with Section 7.10, subject to
                    a $1,000 minimum amount.

     (b)      [ ]   will not be allowed.

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                       Pulse Engineering, Inc. 401(k) Plan
                              Addendum No. 2 to the
                       Fidelity Profit Sharing/401(k) Plan
                     Non-Standardized Adoption Agreement 002
                                Basic Plan No. 07

     Section 1.08 - Predecessor Employer Service
     -------------------------------------------

              A Participant's service with Technitrol, Inc., Xircom, Inc., GTI
     Corporation and Valor Electronics (including service credited under the
     Cash or Deferred Profit Sharing Plan of GTI Corporation and its Affiliates)
     shall be included for purposes of sharing in Matching Contributions
     described in Section 1.05(c)(1).

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1.11  Distributions:

     (a)      Subject to Articles 7 and 8 and (b) below, distributions under the
              Plan will be paid (check the appropriate box(es)):

              (1)   [X]    as a lump sum

              (2)   [ ]    under a systematic withdrawal plan (installments).

     (b)      [ ] Check if a Participant will be entitled to receive a
              distribution of all or any portion of the following Accounts
              without terminating employment upon attainment of age 59 1/2
              (check one):

              (1)   [ ]    Deferral Contribution Account.

              (2)   [X]    All Accounts.

     (c)      [X] Check if the Plan was converted (by Plan amendment) from
              another defined contribution plan, and the benefits were payable
              as (check the appropriate box(es)):

              (1)   [X]    a form of single or joint and survivor life annuity.

              (2)   [ ]    an in-service withdrawal of vested Employer
                           contributions maintained in a Participant's Account
                           (check (A) and/or (B)):

                    (A)    [ ]   for at least ________ (24 or more) months.

                    (B)    [ ]   after the Participant has at least 60 months of
                                 participation.

              (3) [X] another distribution option that is a "protected benefit"
              under Section 411(d)(6) of the Internal Revenue Code. Please
              attach a separate page identifying the distribution option(s).
              These additional forms of benefit may be provided for such plans
              under Articles 7 or 8.

              Note: Under Federal Law, distributions to Participants must
              generally begin no later than April 1, following the year in which
              the Participant attains age 70 1/2.

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                       Pulse Engineering, Inc. 401(k) Plan
                              Addendum No. 3 to the
                       Fidelity Profit Sharing/401(k) Plan
                     Non-Standardized Adoption Agreement 002
                                Basic Plan No. 07

     Section 1.11(c)(3) - Protected Benefit Options
     ----------------------------------------------

              The following distribution options shall be made available under
the Plan with respect to the accounts of Participants that were transferred to
the Plan, effective as of February 1, 1999, from the Cash or Deferred Profit
Sharing Plan for Employees of GTI Corporation and its Affiliates:

                 1.  single life annuity;

                 2.  period certain and life annuity (5, 10 or 15 years);

                 3.  joint and survivor annuity (with 50% or 100% continuation);

                 4.  full cash refund annuity;

                 5.  annual installments over a period of five years;

                 6.  after-tax contributions and earnings thereon can be
                     withdrawn at any time, but in no event less than
                     $500. If the Participant's total after-tax
                     contribution account is less than $500, he may
                     withdraw the total.

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1.12  Top-Heavy Status:

     (a) The Plan shall be subject to the Top-Heavy Plan requirements of Article
9 (check one):

              (1)   [ ]    for each Plan Year.

              (2)   [X]    for each Plan Year, if any, for which the Plan is
                           Top-Heavy as defined in Section 9.02.

              (3)   [ ]    Not applicable. (This option is available for
                           plans covering only employees subject to a collective
                           bargaining agreement and there are no Employer or
                           Matching Contributions elected in Section 1.05.)

     (b)      In determining Top-Heavy status, if necessary, for an Employer
              with at least one defined benefit plan, the following assumptions
              shall apply:

              (1)   [X]    Interest rate: 7 1/2% per annum.

              (2)   [ ]    Mortality table: 1983 GAM Table

              (3)   [ ]    Not applicable.

     (c)      In the event that the Plan is treated as Top-Heavy for a Plan
              Year, each Non-Key Employee shall receive an Employer contribution
              of at least 3 (3, 4, 5 or 7 1/2)% of Compensation for the Plan
              Year in accordance with Section 9.03 (check one):

              (1)   [ ]    under this Plan in any event.

              (2)   [X]    under this Plan only if the Participant is not
                           entitled to such contribution under another qualified
                           plan of the Employer.

              (3)   [ ]    Not applicable. (This option is available for
                           plans covering only Employees subject to a collective
                           bargaining agreement and there are no Employer or
                           Matching Contributions elected in Section 1.05.)

              Note:  Such minimum Employer contribution may be less than the
              percentage indicated in (c) above to the extent provided in
              Section 9.03(a).

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     (d)      In the event that the Plan is treated as Top-Heavy for a Plan
              Year, the following Vesting Schedule shall apply instead of the
              schedule(s) elected in Section 1.07(a) for such Plan Year and each
              Plan Year thereafter (check one):

              (1)   [X]    100% vested after 0 (not in excess of 3) Years of
                           Service for Vesting.

              (2)   [ ]    Years of Service    Vesting Percentage     Must be at
                                                                         Least

                                    0                                      0%
                                                  -----------

                                    1                                      0%
                                                  -----------

                                    2                                      20%
                                                  -----------

                                    3                                      40%
                                                  -----------

                                    4                                      60%
                                                  -----------

                                    5                                      80%
                                                  -----------

                                    6                                      100%
                                                  -----------

              Note: If the schedule(s) elected in Section 1.07(a) is(are) more
              favorable in all cases than the schedule elected in (d) above,
              then the schedule(s) in Section 1.07(a) will continue to apply
              even in Plan Years in which the Plan is Top-Heavy.

1.13    Two or More Plans

-    Code Section 415 limitation on annual additions:

              If the Employer maintains or ever maintained another qualified
              plan in which any Participant in this Plan is (or was) a
              participant or could become a participant, the Employer must
              complete this section. The Employer must also complete this
              section if it maintains a welfare benefit fund, as defined in
              Section 419(c) of the Code, or an individual medical account, as
              defined in Section 415(1)(2) of the Code, under which amounts are
              treated as Annual Additions with respect to any Participant in
              this Plan.

     (a)      If the Employer maintains, or maintained, any other defined
              contribution plan which is not a Master or Prototype Plan, Annual
              Additions for any Limitation Year to this Plan will be limited
              (check one):

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              (1)   [X]    in accordance with Section 5.03 of this Plan.

              (2)   [ ]    in accordance with another method set forth on an
                           attached separate sheet.

              (3)   [ ]    Not applicable.

     (b)      If the Employer maintains, or maintained, any defined benefit
              plan(s), the sum of the Defined Contribution Fraction and Defined
              Benefit Fraction for a Limitation year may not exceed the
              limitation specified in Code Section 415(c), modified by section
              416(h)(1) of the Code. This combined plan limit will be met as
              follows (check one):

              (1)   [X]    Annual Additions to this Plan are limited so that the
                           sum of the Defined Contribution Fraction and the
                           Defined Benefit Fraction does not exceed 1.0.

              (2)   [ ]    another method of limited Annual Additions or
                           reducing projected annual benefits is set forth on an
                           attached scheduled.

              (3)   [ ]    Not applicable.

1.14    Establishment of Trust and Investment Decisions:

     (a)      Investment Directions

              Participant Accounts will be invested (check one):

              (1)   [ ]    in accordance with investment directions provided
                           to the Trustee by the Employer for allocating all
                           Participant Accounts among the options listed in (b)
                           below.

              (2)   [X]    in accordance with investment directions provided
                           to the Trustee by each Participant for allocating his
                           entire Account among the options listed in (b) below.

              (3)   [ ]    in accordance with investment directions provided
                           to the Trustee by each Participant for all
                           contribution sources in a Participant's Account
                           except the following sources shall be invested as
                           directed by the Employer (check (a) and/or (B)):

                  (A)      [ ]    Fixed or Discretionary Employer contributions;

                  (B)      [ ]    Employer Matching Contributions

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                  The Employer must direct the applicable sources among the same
                  investment options made available for Participant-directed
                  sources listed in (b) below.

     (b)      Plan Investment Options

              The Employer hereby establishes a Trust under the Plan in
              accordance with the provisions of Article 14 and the Trustee
              signified acceptance of its duties under Article 14 by its
              signature below. Participant Accounts under the Trust will be
              invested among the Fidelity Funds listed below pursuant to
              Participant and/or Employer directions.

      Fund Name                                                   Fund Number

      (1)   Fidelity Retirement Money Market                          0630

      (2)   Fidelity Intermediate Bond Fund                           0032

      (3)   Fidelity Growth & Income Portfolio                        0027

      (4)   Fidelity Growth Company Fund                              0025

      (5)   Fidelity Overseas Fund                                    0094

      (6)   Fidelity Puritan Fund (January 1, 1996)                   0004

      (7)   Fidelity Magellan Fund (January 1, 1996)                  0021

      (8)   Fidelity Export & Multinational Fund (July 1, 1997)       0332

      (9)   Fidelity Low-Priced Stock Fund (July 1, 1997)             0316

      (10)  Fidelity Emerging Markets Fund (July 1, 1997)             0322

              To the extent that the Employer selects as an investment option
              the Managed Income Portfolio of the Fidelity Group Trust for
              Employee Benefit Plans (the "Group Trust"), the Employer hereby
              (A) agrees to the terms of the Group Trust and adopts said terms
              as a part of this Agreement and (B) acknowledges that it has
              received from the Trustee a copy of the Group Trust, the
              Declaration of Separate Fund for the Managed Income Portfolio of
              the Group Trust, and the Circular for the Managed Income
              Portfolios.

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              Note: The method and frequency for change of investments will be
              determined under the rules applicable to the selected funds or, if
              applicable, the rules of the Employer adopted in accordance with
              Section 6.03. Information will be provided regarding expenses, if
              any, for changes in investment options.

1.15    Reliance on Opinion Letter:

              An adopting Employer may not rely on the opinion letter issued by
              the National office of the Internal Revenue Service as evidence
              that this Plan is qualified under Section 401 of the Code. If the
              Employer wishes to obtain reliance that his/her Plan(s) are
              qualified, application for a determination letter should be made
              to the appropriate Key District Director of the Internal Revenue
              Service. Failure to fill out the Adoption Agreement properly may
              result in disqualification of the Plan.

              This Adoption Agreement may be used only in conjunction with
              Fidelity Prototype Plan Basic Plan Document No. 07. The Prototype
              Sponsor shall inform the adopting Employer of any amendments made
              to the Plan or of the discontinuance or abandonment of the
              prototype plan document.

1.16    Prototype Information:

        Name of Prototype Sponsor:        Fidelity Management & Research Co.

        Address of Prototype Sponsor:     82 Devonshire Street

                                          Boston, MA  02109

        Questions regarding this prototype

        document may be directed to

        the following telephone number:

        1 800 343-9184.

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                                 EXECUTION PAGE

                                (EMPLOYER'S COPY)

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Employer has caused this Adoption Agreement to be
executed

this     3rd               day of   August           , 1999                    .
     ---------------------        -------------------    ----------------------

Employer          PULSE ENGINEERING, INC.

By                 /s/ Joel A. Miller
                  --------------------------------------------------------------
Title              Vice President, Human Resources
                  --------------------------------------------------------------

Employer          ______________________________________________________________

By                ______________________________________________________________

Title             ______________________________________________________________

Accepted by Fidelity Management Trust Company, as Trustee

By                 /s/ Eric L. Wichmann                     Date 9/20/99
                  ----------------------------------------       ---------------
Title              Authorized Signatory
                  --------------------------------------------------------------

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                                 EXECUTION PAGE

                                (FIDELITY'S COPY)

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Employer has caused this Adoption Agreement to be
executed

this                       day of                    , 19                      .
     ---------------------        -------------------    ----------------------

Employer          PULSE ENGINEERING, INC.

By                ______________________________________________________________

Title             ______________________________________________________________

Employer          ______________________________________________________________

By                ______________________________________________________________

Title             ______________________________________________________________

Accepted by Fidelity Management Trust Company, as Trustee

By                ________________________________________   Date ______________

Title             ______________________________________________________________

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                        The CORPORATEplan for Retirement

                         THE PROFIT SHARING/401(K) PLAN

                       FIDELITY BASIC PLAN DOCUMENT NO. 07

                               EXHIBIT 4.1 page i
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                        THE CORPORATE PLAN FOR RETIREMENT
                           PROFIT SHARING/401(K) PLAN

ARTICLE 1
    ADOPTION AGREEMENT

ARTICLE 2
    DEFINITIONS

    2.01 - Definitions

ARTICLE 3
    PARTICIPATION

    3.01 - Date of Participation
    3.02 - Resumption of Participation Following Reemployment
    3.03 - Cessation or Resumption of Participation Following a Change in Status
    3.04 - Participation by Owner-Employee; Controlled Businesses
    3.05 - Omission of Eligible Employee

ARTICLE 4
    CONTRIBUTIONS

    4.01 - Deferral Contributions
    4.02 - Additional Limit on Deferral Contributions
    4.03 - Matching Contributions
    4.04 - Limit on Matching Contributions and Employee Contributions
    4.05 - Special Rules
    4.06 - Fixed/Discretionary Employer Contributions
    4.07 - Time of Making Employer Contributions
    4.08 - Return of Employer Contributions
    4.09 - Employee Contributions
    4.10 - Rollover Contributions
    4.11 - Deductible Voluntary Employee Contributions
    4.12 - Additional Rules for Paired Plans

ARTICLE 5
    PARTICIPANTS' ACCOUNTS

    5.01 - Individual Accounts
    5.02 - Valuation of Accounts
    5.03 - Code Section 415 Limitations

ARTICLE 6
    INVESTMENT OF CONTRIBUTIONS

    6.01 - Manner of Investment
    6.02 - Investment Decisions
    6.03 - Participant Directions to Trustee

ARTICLE 7
    RIGHT TO BENEFITS

    7.01 - Normal or Early Retirement
    7.02 - Late Retirement
    7.03 - Disability Retirement
    7.04 - Death
    7.05 - Other Termination of Employment
    7.06 - Separate Account
    7.07 - Forfeitures
    7.08 - Adjustment for Investment Experience
    7.09 - Participant Loans
    7.10 - In-Service Withdrawals
    7.11 - Prior Plan In-Service Distribution Rules

                               EXHIBIT 4.1 page ii
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ARTICLE 8
    DISTRIBUTION OF BENEFITS PAYABLE AFTER TERMINATION OF SERVICE

    8.01 - Distribution of Benefits to Participants and Beneficiaries
    8.02 - Annuity Distributions
    8.03 - Joint and Survivor Annuities/Preretirement Survivor Annuities
    8.04 - Installment Distributions
    8.05 - Immediate Distributions
    8.06 - Determination of Method of Distribution
    8.07 - Notice to Trustee
    8.08 - Time of Distribution
    8.09 - Whereabouts of Participants and Beneficiaries

ARTICLE 9
    TOP-HEAVY PROVISIONS

    9.01 - Application
    9.02 - Definitions
    9.03 - Minimum Contribution
    9.04 - Adjustment to the Limitation on Contributions and Benefits
    9.05 - Minimum Vesting

ARTICLE 10
    AMENDMENT AND TERMINATION

    10.01 - Amendment by Employer
    10.02 - Amendment by Prototype Sponsor
    10.03 - Amendments Affecting Vested and/or Accrued Benefits
    10.04 - Retroactive Amendments
    10.05 - Termination
    10.06 - Distribution Upon Termination of the Plan
    10.07 - Merger or Consolidation of Plan; Transfer of Plan Assets

ARTICLE 11
    AMENDMENT AND CONTINUATION OF PREDECESSOR PLAN; TRANSFER OF FUNDS
      TO OR FROM OTHER QUALIFIED PLANS

    11.01 - Amendment and Continuation of Predecessor Plan
    11.02 - Transfer of Funds from an Existing Plan
    11.03 - Acceptance of Assets by Trustee
    11.04 - Transfer of Assets from Trust

ARTICLE 12
    MISCELLANEOUS

    12.01 - Communication to Participants
    12.02 - Limitation of Rights
    12.03 - Nonalienability of Benefits and Qualified Domestic Relations Orders
    12.04 - Facility of Payment
    12.05 - Information Between Employer and Trustee
    12.06 - Effect of Failure to Qualify Under Code
    12.07 - Notices
    12.08 - Governing Law

ARTICLE 13
    PLAN ADMINISTRATION

    13.01 - Powers and Responsibilities of the Administrator
    13.02 - Nondiscriminatory Exercise of Authority
    13.03 - Claims and Review Procedures
    13.04 - Named Fiduciary
    13.05 - Costs of Administration

                              EXHIBIT 4.1 page iii
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ARTICLE 14
    TRUST AGREEMENT

    14.01 - Acceptance of Trust Responsibilities
    14.02 - Establishment of Trust Fund
    14.03 - Exclusive Benefit
    14.04 - Powers of Trustee
    14.05 - Accounts
    14.06 - Approving of Accounts
    14.07 - Distribution from Trust Fund
    14.08 - Transfer of Amounts from Qualified Plan
    14.09 - Transfer of Assets from Trust
    14.10 - Separate Trust or Fund for Existing Plan Assets
    14.11 - Voting; Delivery of Information
    14.12 - Compensation and Expenses of Trustee
    14.13 - Reliance by Trustee on other Persons
    14.14 - Indemnification by Employer
    14.15 - Consultation by Trustee with Counsel
    14.16 - Persons Dealing with the Trustee
    14.17 - Resignation or Removal of Trustee
    14.18 - Fiscal Year of the Trust
    14.19 - Discharge of Duties by Fiduciaries
    14.20 - Amendment
    14.21 - Plan Termination
    14.22 - Permitted Reversion of Funds to Employer
    14.23 - Governing Law

                               EXHIBIT 4.1 page iv
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Article 1.  Adoption Agreement.
            -------------------

Article 2.  Definitions.
            ------------

2.01.  Definitions.
       ------------

        (a) Wherever used herein, the following terms have the meanings set
        forth below, unless a different meaning is clearly required by the
        context:

           (1) "Account" means an account established on the books of the Trust
           for the purpose of recording contributions made on behalf of a
           Participant and any income, expenses, gains or losses incurred
           thereon.

           (2) "Administrator" means the Employer adopting this Plan, or other
           person designated by the Employer in Section 1.01(c).

           (3) "Adoption Agreement" means Article 1, under which the Employer
           establishes and adopts, or amends, the Plan and Trust and designates
           the optional provisions selected by the Employer, and the Trustee
           accepts its responsibilities under Article 14. The provisions of the
           Adoption Agreement shall be an integral part of the Plan.

           (4) "Annuity Starting Date" means the first day of the first period
           for which an amount is payable as an annuity or in any other form.

           (5) "Beneficiary" means the person or persons entitled under Section
           7.04 to receive benefits under the Plan upon the death of a
           Participant, provided that for purposes of Section 7.04 such term
           shall be applied in accordance with Section 401(a)(9) of the Code and
           the regulations thereunder.

           (6) "Code" means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended from
           time to time.

           (7)  "Compensation" shall mean

                 (A) for purposes of Article 4 (Contributions), compensation as
                 defined in Section 5.03(e)(2) excluding any items elected by
                 the Employer in Section 1.04(a), reimbursements or other
                 expense allowances, fringe benefits (cash and non-cash), moving
                 expenses, deferred compensation and welfare benefits, but
                 including amounts that are not includable in the gross income
                 of the Participant under a salary reduction agreement by reason
                 of the application of Sections 125, 402(a)(8), 402(h), or
                 403(b) of the Code; and

                 (B) for purposes of Section 2.01(a)(16) (Highly Compensated
                 Employees), Section 5.03 (Code Section 415 Limitations), and
                 Section 9.03 (Top-Heavy Plan Minimum Contribution),
                 compensation as defined in Section 5.03(e)(2).

                Compensation shall generally be based on the amount actually
           paid to the Participant during the Plan Year or, for purposes of
           Article 4 if so elected by the Employer in Section 1.04(b), during
           that portion of the Plan Year during which the Employee is eligible
           to participate. Notwithstanding the preceding sentence, compensation
           for purposes of Section 5.03 (Code Section 415 Limitations) shall be
           based on the amount actually paid or made available to the
           Participant during the Limitation Year. Compensation for the initial
           Plan Year for a new plan shall be based upon eligible Participant

                               EXHIBIT 4.1 page 1

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           Compensation, subject to Section 1.04(b), from the Effective Date
           listed in Section 1.01(g)(1) through the end of the first Plan Year.

                In the case of any Self-Employed Individual, Compensation shall
           mean the Individual's Earned Income.

                For years beginning after December 31, 1988, the annual
           Compensation of each Participant taken into account for determining
           all benefits provided under the plan for any determination period
           shall not exceed $200,000. This limitation shall be adjusted by the
           Secretary at the same time and in the same manner as under Section
           415(d) of the Code, except that the dollar increase in effect on
           January 1 of any calendar year is effective for years beginning in
           such calendar year and the first adjustment to the $200,000
           limitation is effected on January 1, 1990. If a plan determines
           Compensation on a period of time that contains fewer than 12 calendar
           months, then the annual Compensation limit is the amount equal to the
           annual Compensation limit for the calendar year in which the
           Compensation period begins multiplied by the ratio obtained by
           dividing the number of full months in the period by 12.

                If Compensation for any prior determination period is taken into
           account in determining an Employee's allocations or benefits for the
           current determination period, the Compensation for such prior year is
           subject to the applicable annual compensation limit in effect for
           that prior year. For this purpose, for years beginning before January
           1, 1990, the applicable annual compensation limit is $200,000.

                In determining the Compensation of a Participant for purposes of
           this limitation, the rules of Section 414(q)(6) of the Code shall
           apply, except that in applying such rules, the term "family" shall
           include only the spouse of the Participant and any lineal descendants
           of the Participant who have not attained age 19 before the close of
           the year. If the $200,000 limitation is exceeded as a result of the
           application of these rules, then the limitation shall be prorated
           among the affected individuals in proportion to each such
           individual's Compensation as determined under this Section prior to
           the application of this limitation.

           (8) "Earned Income" means the net earnings of a Self-Employed
           Individual derived from the trade or business with respect to which
           the Plan is established and for which the personal services of such
           individual are a material income-providing factor, excluding any
           items not included in gross income and the deductions allocated to
           such items, except that for taxable years beginning after December
           31, 1989 net earnings shall be determined with regard to the
           deduction allowed under Section 164(f) of the Code, to the extent
           applicable to the Employer. Net earnings shall be reduced by
           contributions of the Employer to any qualified plan, to the extent a
           deduction is allowed to the Employer for such contributions under
           Section 404 of the Code.

           (9) "Eligibility Computation Period" means each 12-consecutive month
           period beginning with the Employment Commencement Date and each
           anniversary thereof or, in the case of an Employee who, before
           completing the eligibility requirements set forth in Section
           1.03(a)(1), incurs a break in service for participation purposes and
           thereafter returns to the employ of the Employer or Related Employer,
           each 12-consecutive month period beginning with the first day of
           reemployment and each anniversary thereof.

                               EXHIBIT 4.1 page 2
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           A "break in service for participation purposes" shall mean an
           Eligibility Computation Period during which the participant does not
           complete more than 500 Hours of Service with the Employer.

           (10) "Employee" means any employee of the Employer, any Self-Employed
           Individual or Owner-Employee. The Employer must specify in Section
           1.03(a)(3) any Employee or class of Employees not eligible to
           participate in the Plan. If the Employer elects to exclude collective
           bargaining employees, the exclusion applies to any employee of the
           Employer included in a unit of employees covered by an agreement
           which the Secretary of Labor finds to be a collective bargaining
           agreement between employee representatives and one or more employers
           unless the collective bargaining agreement requires the employee to
           be included within the Plan. The term "employee representatives" does
           not include any organization more than half the members of which are
           owners, officers, or executives of the Employer.

                  For purposes of the Plan, an individual shall be considered to
           become an Employee on the date on which he first completes an Hour of
           Service and he shall be considered to have ceased to be an Employee
           on the date on which he last completes an Hour of Service. The term
           also includes a Leased Employee, such that contributions or benefits
           provided by the leasing organization which are attributable to
           services performed for the Employer shall be treated as provided by
           the Employer. Notwithstanding the above, a Leased Employee shall not
           be considered an Employee if Leased Employees do not constitute more
           than 20 percent of the Employer's non-highly compensated work-force
           (taking into account all Related Employers) and the Leased Employee
           is covered by a money purchase pension plan maintained by the leasing
           organization and providing (A) a nonintegrated employer contribution
           rate of at least 10 percent of compensation, as defined for purposes
           of Section 415(c)(3) of the Code, but including amounts contributed
           pursuant to a salary reduction agreement which are excludable from
           gross income under Section 125, Section 402(a)(8), Section 402(h) or
           Section 403(b) of the Code, (B) full and immediate vesting, and (C)
           immediate participation by each employee of the leasing organization.

           (11) "Employer" means the employer named in Section 1.02(a) and any
           Related Employers required by this Section 2.01(a)(11). If Article 1
           of the Employer's Plan is the Standardized Adoption Agreement, the
           term "Employer" includes all Related Employers. If Article 1 of the
           Employer's Plan is the Non-standardized Adoption Agreement, the term
           "Employer" includes those Related Employers designated in Section
           1.02(b).

           (12) "Employment Commencement Date" means the date on which the
           Employee first performs an Hour of Service.

           (13) "ERISA" means the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of
           1974, as from time to time amended.

           (14) "Fidelity Fund" means any Registered Investment Company or
           Managed Income Portfolio of the Fidelity Group Trust for Employee
           Benefit Plans which is made available to plans utilizing the
           CORPORATEplan for Retirement.

           (15) "Fund Share" means the share, unit, or other evidence of
           ownership in a Fidelity Fund.

           (16) "Highly Compensated Employee" means both highly compensated
           active Employees and highly compensated former Employees.

                               EXHIBIT 4.1 page 3
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                A highly compensated active Employee includes any Employee who
           performs service for the Employer during the determination year and
           who, during the "look-back year," (A) received compensation from the
           Employer in excess of $75,000 (as adjusted pursuant to Section 415(d)
           of the Code), (B) received compensation from the Employer in excess
           of $50,000 (as adjusted pursuant to Section 415(d) of the Code) and
           was a member of the top-paid group for such year, or (C) was an
           officer of the Employer and received compensation during such year
           that is greater than 50 percent of the dollar limitation in effect
           under Section 415(b)(1)(A) of the Code. The term "Highly Compensated
           Employee" also includes (i) Employees who are both described in the
           preceding sentence if the term "determination year" is substituted
           for the term "look-back year" and the Employee is one of the 100
           Employees who received the most compensation from the Employer during
           the determination year, and (ii) Employees who are 5-percent owners
           at any time during the look-back year or determination year.

                If no officer has satisfied the compensation requirement of (C)
           above during either a determination year or look-back year, the
           highest paid officer for such year shall be treated as a highly
           compensated Employee.

                For this purpose, the determination year shall be the Plan Year.
           The look-back year shall be the twelve-month period immediately
           preceding the determination year. The Employer may elect to make the
           look-back year calculation for a determination on the basis of the
           calendar year ending with or within the applicable determination
           year, as prescribed by Section 414(q) of the Code and the regulations
           issued thereunder.

                A highly compensated former Employee includes any Employee who
           separated from service (or was deemed to have separated) prior to the
           determination year, performs no service for the Employer during the
           determination year, and was a highly compensated active Employee for
           either the separation year or any determination year ending on or
           after the Employee's 55th birthday.

                If an Employee is, during a determination year or look-back
           year, a family member of either a 5-percent owner who is an active or
           former Employee or a highly compensated Employee who is one of the 10
           most highly compensated Employees ranked on the basis of compensation
           paid by the Employer during such year, then the family member and the
           5-percent owner or top-ten highly compensated Employee shall be
           aggregated. In such case, the family member and 5-percent owner or
           top-ten highly compensated Employee shall be treated as a single
           Employee receiving compensation and plan contributions or benefits
           equal to the sum of such compensation and contributions or benefits
           of the family member and 5-percent owner or top-ten highly
           compensated Employee. For purposes of this Section, family member
           includes the spouse, lineal ascendants and descendants of the
           Employee or former Employee and the spouses of such lineal ascendants
           and descendants.

                The determination of who is a highly compensated Employee,
           including the determinations of the number and identity of Employees
           in the top-paid group, the top 100 Employees, the number of Employees
           treated as officers, and the compensation that is considered, will be
           made in accordance with Section 414(q) of the Code and the
           regulations thereunder.

                               EXHIBIT 4.1 page 4
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           (17) "Hour of Service" means, with respect to any Employee,

                 (A) Each hour for which the Employee is directly or indirectly
                 paid, or entitled to payment, for the performance of duties for
                 the Employer or a Related Employer, each such hour to be
                 credited to the Employee for the Eligibility Computation Period
                 in which the duties were performed;

                 (B) Each hour for which the Employee is directly or indirectly
                 paid, or entitled to payment, by the Employer or Related
                 Employer (including payments made or due from a trust fund or
                 insurer to which the Employer contributes or pays premiums) on
                 account of a period of time during which no duties are
                 performed (irrespective of whether the employment relationship
                 has terminated) due to vacation, holiday, illness, incapacity,
                 disability, layoff, jury duty, military duty, or leave of
                 absence, each such hour to be credited to the Employee for the
                 Eligibility Computation Period in which such period of time
                 occurs, subject to the following rules:

                      (i) No more than 501 Hours of Service shall be credited
                      under this paragraph (B) on account of any single
                      contin-uous period during which the Employee performs no
                      duties;

                      (ii) Hours of Service shall not be credited under this
                      paragraph (B) for a payment which solely reimburses the
                      Employee for medically-related expenses, or which is made
                      or due under a plan maintained solely for the purpose of
                      complying with applicable workmen's compensation,
                      unemployment compensation or disability insurance laws;
                      and
                      (iii) If the period during which the Employee performs
                      no duties falls within two or more Eligibility Computation
                      Periods and if the payment made on account of such period
                      is not calculated on the basis of units of time, the Hours
                      of Service credited with respect to such period shall be
                      allocated between not more than the first two such
                      Eligibility Computation Periods on any reasonable basis
                      consistently applied with respect to similarly situated
                      Employees; and

                 (C) Each hour not counted under paragraph (A) or (B) for which
                 back pay, irrespective of mitigation of damages, has been
                 either awarded or agreed to be paid by the Employer or a
                 Related Employer, shall be credited to the Employee for the
                 Eligibility Computation Period to which the award or agreement
                 pertains rather than the Eligibility Computation Period in
                 which the award agreement or payment is made.

                     For purposes of determining Hours of Service, Employees of
                 the Employer and of all Related Employers will be treated as
                 employed by a single employer. For purposes of paragraphs (B)
                 and (C) above, Hours of Service will be calculated in
                 accordance with the provisions of Section 2530.200b-2(b) of the
                 Department of Labor regulations, which are incorporated herein
                 by reference.

                     Solely for purposes of determining whether a break in
                 service for participation purposes has occurred in a
                 computation period, an individual who is absent from work for
                 maternity or paternity reasons shall receive credit for the
                 hours of service which would otherwise have been credited to
                 such individual but for such absence, or in any case in which
                 such hours cannot be determined, 8 hours of service per day of

                               EXHIBIT 4.1 page 5
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                 such absence. For purposes of this paragraph, an absence from
                 work for maternity or paternity reasons means an absence (i) by
                 reason of the pregnancy of the individual, (ii) by reason of a
                 birth of a child of the individual, (iii) by reason of the
                 placement of a child with the individual in connection with the
                 adoption of such child by such individual, or (iv) for purposes
                 of caring for such child for a period beginning immediately
                 following such birth or placement. The hours of service
                 credited under this paragraph shall be credited (a) in the
                 computation period in which the absence begins if the crediting
                 is necessary to prevent a break in service in that period, or
                 (b) in all other cases, in the following computation period.

       (18) "Leased Employee" means any individual who provides services to the
       Employer or a Related Employer (the "recipient") but is not otherwise an
       employee of the recipient if (A) such services are provided pursuant to
       an agreement between the recipient and any other person (the "leasing
       organization"), (B) such individual has performed services for the
       recipient (or for the recipient and any related persons within the
       meaning of Section 414(n)(6) of the Code) on a substantially full-time
       basis for at least one year, and (C) such services are of a type
       historically performed by employees in the business field of the
       recipient.

       (19) "Normal Retirement Age" means the normal retirement age specified in
       Section 1.06(a) of the Adoption Agreement. If the Employer enforces a
       mandatory retirement age, the Normal Retirement Age is the lesser of that
       mandatory age or the age specified in Section 1.06(a).

       (20) "Owner-Employee" means, if the Employer is a sole proprietorship,
       the individual who is the sole proprietor, or if the Employer is a
       partnership, a partner who owns more than 10 percent of either the
       capital interest or the profits interest of the partnership.

       (21)  "Participant" means any Employee who participates in the Plan in
       accordance with Article 3 hereof.

       (22) "Plan" means the plan established by the Employer in the form of the
       prototype plan, as set forth herein as a new plan or as an amendment to
       an existing plan, by executing the Adoption Agreement, together with any
       and all amendments hereto.

       (23) "Plan Year" means the 12-consecutive-month period ending on the date
       designated by the Employer in Section 1.01(f).

       (24) "Prototype Sponsor" means Fidelity Management and Research Company
       or its successor.

       (25) "Registered Investment Company" means any one or more corporations,
       partnerships or trusts registered under the Investment Company Act of
       1940 for which Fidelity Management and Research Company serves as
       investment advisor.

       (26) "Related Employer" means any employer other than the Employer named
       in Section 1.02(a) if the Employer and such other employer are members of
       a controlled group of corporations (as defined in Section 414(b) of the
       Code) or an affiliated service group (as defined in Section 414(m)), or
       are trades or businesses (whether or not incorporated) which are under
       common control (as defined in Section 414(c)), or such other employer is
       required to be aggregated with the Employer pursuant to regulations
       issued under Section 414(o).

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       (27) "Self-Employed Individual" means an individual who has Earned Income
       for the taxable year from the Employer or who would have had Earned
       Income but for the fact that the trade or business had no net profits for
       the taxable year.

       (28) "Trust" means the trust created by the Employer in accordance with
       the provisions of Section 14.01.

       (29) "Trust Agreement" means the agreement between the Employer and the
       Trustee, as set forth in Article 14, under which the assets of the Plan
       are held, administered, and managed.

       (30)  "Trust Fund" means the property held in Trust by the Trustee for
       the Accounts of the Participants and their Beneficiaries.

       (31) "Trustee" means the Fidelity Management Trust Company, or its
       successor.

       (32) "Year of Service for Participation" means, with respect to any
       Employee, an Eligibility Computation Period during which the Employee has
       been credited with at least 1,000 Hours of Service. If the Plan
       maintained by the Employer is the plan of a predecessor employer, an
       Employee's Years of Service for Participation shall include years of
       service with such predecessor employer. In any case in which the Plan
       maintained by the Employer is not the plan maintained by a predecessor
       employer, service for such predecessor shall be treated as service for
       the Employer, to the extent provided in Section 1.08.

       (33) "Years of Service for Vesting" means, with respect to any Employee,
       the number of whole years of his periods of service with the Employer or
       a Related Employer (the elapsed time method to compute vesting service),
       subject to any exclusions elected by the Employer in Section 1.07(b). An
       Employee will receive credit for the aggregate of all time period(s)
       commencing with the Employee's Employment Commencement Date and ending on
       the date a break in service begins, unless any such years are excluded by
       Section 1.07(b). An Employee will also receive credit for any period of
       severance of less than 12 consecutive months. Fractional periods of a
       year will be expressed in terms of days.

             In the case of a Participant who has 5 consecutive 1-year breaks in
       service, all years of service after such breaks in service will be
       disregarded for the purpose of vesting the Employer-derived account
       balance that accrued before such breaks, but both pre-break and
       post-break service will count for the purposes of vesting the
       Employer-derived account balance that accrues after such breaks. Both
       accounts will share in the earnings and losses of the fund.

             In the case of a Participant who does not have 5 consecutive 1-year
       breaks in service, both the pre-break and post-break service will count
       in vesting both the pre-break and post-break employer-derived account
       balance.

             A break in service is a period of severance of at least 12
       consecutive months. Period of severance is a continuous period of time
       during which the Employee is not employed by the Employer. Such period
       begins on the date the Employee retires, quits or is discharged, or if
       earlier, the 12-month anniversary of the date on which the Employee was
       otherwise first absent from service.

             In the case of an individual who is absent from work for maternity
       or paternity reasons, the 12-consecutive month period beginning on the

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       first anniversary of the first date of such absence shall not constitute
       a break in service. For purposes of this paragraph, an absence from work
       for maternity or paternity reasons means an absence (A) by reason of the
       pregnancy of the individual, (B) by reason of the birth of a child of the
       individual, (C) by reason of the placement of a child with the individual
       in connection with the adoption of such child by such individual, or (D)
       for purposes of caring for such child for a period beginning immediately
       following such birth or placement.

             If the Plan maintained by the Employer is the plan of a predecessor
       employer, an Employee's Years of Service for Vesting shall include years
       of service with such predecessor employer. In any case in which the Plan
       maintained by the Employer is not the plan maintained by a predecessor
       employer, service for such predecessor shall be treated as service for
       the Employer to the extent provided in Section 1.08.

(b) Pronouns used in the Plan are in the masculine gender but include the
feminine gender unless the context clearly indicates otherwise.

Article 3.  Participation.
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3.01. Date of Participation. All Employees in the eligible class (as defined in
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Section 1.03(a)(3)) who are in the service of the Employer on the Effective Date
will become Participants on the date elected by the Employer in Section 1.03(c).
Any other Employee will become a Participant in the Plan as of the first Entry
Date on which he first satisfies the eligibility requirements set forth in
Section 1.03(a). In the event that an Employee who is not a member of an
eligible class (as defined in Section 1.03(a)(3)) becomes a member of an
eligible class, the individual shall participate immediately if such individual
had already satisfied the eligibility requirements and would have otherwise
previously become a Participant.

If an eligibility requirement other than one Year of Service is elected in
1.03(a)(1), an Employee may not be required to complete a minimum number of
Hours of Service before becoming a Participant. An otherwise eligible Employee
subject to a minimum months of service requirement shall become a Participant on
the first Entry Date following his completion of the required number of
consecutive months of employment measured from his Employment Commencement Date
to the coinciding date in the applicable following month. For purposes of
determining consecutive months of service, the Related Employer and predecessor
employer rules contained in Sections 2.01(a)(17) and 2.01(a)(32) shall apply.

3.02. Resumption of Participation Following Reemployment. If a Participant
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ceases to be an Employee and thereafter returns to the employ of the Employer he
will be treated as follows:

       (a) he will again become a Participant on the first date on which he
       completes an Hour of Service for the Employer following his reemployment
       and is in the eligible class of Employees as defined in Section
       1.03(a)(3), and

       (b) any distribution which he is receiving under the Plan will cease
except as otherwise required under Section 8.08.

3.03. Cessation or Resumption of Participation Following a Change in Status. If
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any Participant continues in the employ of the Employer or Related Employer but
ceases to be a member of an eligible class as defined in Section 1.03(a)(3), the
individual shall continue to be a Participant for most purposes until the entire
amount of his benefit is distributed; however, the individual shall not be
entitled to receive an allocation of contributions or forfeitures during the

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period that he is not a member of the eligible class. Such Participant shall
continue to receive credit for service completed during the period for purposes
of determining his vested interest in his Accounts. In the event that the
individual subsequently again becomes a member of an eligible class of
Employees, the individual shall resume full participation immediately upon the
date of such change in status.

3.04.  Participation by Owner-Employee; Controlled Businesses.
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If the Plan provides contributions or benefits for one or more Owner-Employees
who control both the trade or business with respect to which the Plan is
established and one or more other trades or businesses, the Plan and any plan
established with respect to such other trades or businesses must, when looked at
as a single plan, satisfy Sections 401(a) and 401(d) of the Code with respect to
the employees of this and all such other trades or businesses. If the Plan
provides contributions or benefits for one or more Owner-Employees who control
one or more other trades or businesses, the Employees of each such other trade
or business must be included in a plan which satisfies Sections 401(a) and
401(d) of the Code and which provides contributions and benefits not less
favorable than provided for Owner-Employees under the Plan.

        If an individual is covered as an Owner-Employee under the plans of two
or more trades or businesses which are not controlled and the individual
controls a trade or business, then the contributions or benefits of the
Employees under the plan of the trades or businesses which are controlled must
be as favorable as those provided for him under the most favorable plan of the
trade or business which is not controlled.

       For purposes of this Section, an Owner-Employee, or two or more
Owner-Employees, shall be considered to control a trade or business if such
Owner-Employee, or such Owner-Employees together, (a) own the entire interest in
an unincorporated trade or business or (b) in the case of a partnership, own
more than 50 percent of either the capital interest or the profits interest in
such partnership. For this purpose, an Owner-Employee, or two or more
Owner-Employees, shall be treated as owning any interest in a partnership which
is owned, directly or indirectly, by a partnership controlled by such
Owner-Employee or such Owner-Employees.

3.05. Omission of Eligible Employee. If any Employee who should be included as a
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Participant in the Plan is erroneously omitted and discovery of such omission is
not made until after a contribution by his Employer for the year has been made,
the Employer shall make a subsequent contribution, if necessary, so that the
omitted Employee receives the total amount which the said Employee would have
received had he not been omitted. For purposes of this Section 3.05, the term
"contribution" shall not include Deferral Contributions and Matching
Contributions made pursuant to Sections 4.01 and 4.03, respectively.

Article 4.  Contributions.
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4.01.  Deferral Contributions.
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       (a) 4.01. If so provided by the Employer in Section 1.05(b), each
       Participant may elect to execute a salary reduction agreement with the
       Employer to reduce his Compensation by a specified percentage not
       exceeding 15% per payroll period, subject to any exceptions elected by
       the Employer in Section 1.05(b)(2) and 1.05(b)(3) and equal to a whole
       number multiple of one (1) percent. Such agreement shall become effective
       on the first day of the first payroll period for which the Employer can
       reasonably process the request. The Employer shall make a Deferral

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       Contribution on behalf of the Participant corresponding to the amount of
       said reduction, subject to the restrictions set forth below. Under no
       circumstances may a salary reduction agreement be adopted retroactively.

       (b) A Participant may elect to change or discontinue the percentage by
       which his Compensation is reduced by notice to the Employer as provided
       in Section 1.05(b)(1).

       (c) No Participant shall be permitted to have Deferral Contributions made
       under the Plan, or any other qualified plan maintained by the Employer,
       during the taxable year, in excess of the dollar limitation contained in
       Section 402(g) of the Code in effect at the beginning of such taxable
       year.

           A Participant may assign to the Plan any Excess Deferrals made during
       the taxable year of the Participant by notifying the Plan Administrator
       on or before March 15 following the taxable year of the amount of the
       Excess Deferrals to be assigned to the Plan. A Participant is deemed to
       notify the Administrator of any Excess Deferrals that arise by taking
       into account only those Deferral Contributions made to the Plan and any
       other plan of the Employer. Notwithstanding any other provision of the
       Plan, Excess Deferrals, plus any income and minus any loss allocable
       thereto, shall be distributed no later than April 15 to any Participant
       to whose Account Excess Deferrals were so assigned for the preceding year
       and who claims Excess Deferrals for such taxable year.

           "Excess Deferrals" shall mean those Deferral Contributions that are
       includable in a Participant's gross income under Section 402(g) of the
       Code to the extent such Participant's Deferral Contributions for a
       taxable year exceed the dollar limitation under such Code section. For
       purposes of determining Excess Deferrals, the term "Deferral
       Contributions" shall include the sum of all Employer Contributions made
       on behalf of such Participant pursuant to an election to defer under any
       qualified CODA as described in Section 401(k) of the Code, any simplified
       employee pension cash or deferred arrangement as described in Section
       402(h)(1)(B) of the Code, any eligible deferred compensation plan under
       Section 457 of the Code, any plan as described under Section 501(c)(18)
       of the Code, and any Employer Contributions made on the behalf of a
       Participant for the purchase of an annuity contract under Section 403(b)
       of the Code pursuant to a salary reduction agreement. Deferral
       Contributions shall not include any deferrals properly distributed as
       excess annual additions. Excess Deferrals shall be treated as annual
       additions under the Plan, unless such amounts are distributed no later
       than the first April 15 following the close of the Participant's taxable
       year.

           Excess Deferrals shall be adjusted for any income or loss up to the
       date of distribution. The income or loss allocable to Excess Deferrals is
       (1) income or loss allocable to the Participant's Deferral Contributions
       Account for the taxable year multiplied by a fraction, the numerator of
       which is such Participant's Excess Deferrals for the year and the
       denominator is the Participant's Account balance attributable to Deferral
       Contributions without regard to any income or loss occurring during such
       taxable year, or (2) such other amount determined under any reasonable
       method, provided that such method is used consistently for all
       Participants in calculating the distributions required under this Section
       4.01(c) and Sections 4.02(d) and 4.04(d) for the Plan Year, and is used
       by the Plan in allocating income or loss to Participants' Accounts.
       Income or loss allocable to the period between the end of the Plan Year
       and the date of distribution shall be disregarded in determining income
       or loss.

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       (d) In order for the Plan to comply with the requirements of Sections
       401(k), 402(g) and 415 of the Code and the regulations promulgated
       thereunder, at any time in a Plan Year the Administrator may reduce the
       rate of Deferral Contributions to be made on behalf of any Participant,
       or class of Participants, for the remainder of that Plan Year, or the
       Administrator may require that all Deferral Contributions to be made on
       behalf of a Participant be discontinued for the remainder of that Plan
       Year. Upon the close of the Plan Year or such earlier date as the
       Administrator may determine, any reduction or discontinuance in Deferral
       Contributions shall automatically cease until the Administrator again
       determines that such a reduction or discontinuance of Deferral
       Contributions is required.

4.02.  Additional Limit on Deferral Contributions.
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       (a) The Actual Deferral Percentage (hereinafter "ADP") for Participants
       who are Highly Compensated Employees for each Plan Year and the ADP for
       participants who are Non-highly Compensated Employees for the same Plan
       Year must satisfy one of the following tests:

           (1) The ADP for Participants who are Highly Compensated Employees for
           the Plan Year shall not exceed the ADP for Participants who are
           Non-highly Compensated Employees for the same Plan Year multiplied by
           1.25; or

           (2) The ADP for Participants who are Highly Compensated Employees for
           the Plan Year shall not exceed the ADP for Participants who are
           Non-highly Compensated Employees for the same Plan Year multiplied by
           2.0, provided that the ADP for Participants who are Highly
           Compensated Employees does not exceed the ADP for Participants who
           are Non-highly Compensated Employees by more than two (2) percentage
           points.

       (b) The following special rules apply for the purposes of this Section:

           (1) The ADP for any Participant who is a Highly Compensated Employee
           for the Plan Year and who is eligible to have Deferral Contributions
           (and Qualified Discretionary Contributions if treated as Deferral
           Contributions for purposes of the ADP test) allocated to his or her
           accounts under two or more arrangements described in Section 401(k)
           of the Code that are maintained by the Employer, shall be determined
           as if such Deferral Contributions (and, if applicable, such Qualified
           Discretionary Contributions) were made under a single arrangement. If
           a Highly Compensated Employee participates in two or more cash or
           deferred arrangements that have different Plan Years, all cash or
           deferred arrangements ending with or within the same calendar year
           shall be treated as a single arrangement. Notwithstanding the
           foregoing, certain plans shall be treated as separate if mandatorily
           disaggregated under regulations under Section 401(k) of the Code.

           (2) In the event that this Plan satisfies the requirements of
           Sections 401(k), 401(a)(4), or 410(b) of the Code only if aggregated
           with one or more other plans, or if one or more other plans satisfy
           the requirements of such Sections of the Code only if aggregated with
           this plan, then this Section shall be applied by determining the ADP
           of Employees as if all such plans were a single plan. For Plan Years
           beginning after December 31, 1989, plans may be aggregated in order
           to satisfy section 401(k) of the Code only if they have the same Plan
           Year.

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           (3) For purposes of determining the ADP of a Participant who is a
           5-percent owner or one of the ten most highly-paid Highly Compensated
           Employees, the Deferral Contributions (and Qualified Discretionary
           Contributions if treated as Deferral Contributions for purposes of
           the ADP test) and Compensation of such Participant shall include the
           Deferral Contributions (and, if applicable, Qualified Discretionary
           Contributions) and Compensation for the Plan Year of Family Members
           (as defined in Section 414(q)(6) of the Code). Family Members, with
           respect to between the end of the Plan Year and the date of
           distribution shall be disregarded in determining income or loss.

           Excess Contributions shall be distributed from the Participant's
       Qualified Discretionary Contribution account only to the extent that such
       Excess Contributions exceed the balance in the Participant's Deferral
       Contributions account.

           (4) For purposes of determining the ADP test, Deferral Contributions
           and Qualified Discretionary Contributions must be made before the
           last day of the twelve-month period immediately following the Plan
           Year to which contributions relate.

           (5) The Employer shall maintain records sufficient to demonstrate
           satisfaction of the ADP test and the amount of Qualified
           Discretionary Contributions used in such test.

           (6) The determination and treatment of the ADP amounts of any
           Participant shall satisfy such other requirements as may be
           prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury.

       (c) The following definitions shall apply for purposes of this Section:

           (1) "Actual Deferral Percentage" shall mean, for a specified group of
           Participants for a Plan Year, the average of the ratios (calculated
           separately for each Participant in such group) of (A) the amount of
           Employer contributions actually paid over to the Trust on behalf of
           such Participant for the Plan Year to (B) the Participant's
           Compensation for such Plan Year. Employer contributions on behalf of
           any Participant shall include (i) any Deferral Contributions made
           pursuant to the Participant's deferral election, including Excess
           Deferrals of Highly Compensated Employees, but excluding (a) Excess
           Deferrals of Non-highly Compensated Employees that arise solely from
           Deferral Contributions made under the Plan or plans of the Employer
           and (b) Deferral Contributions that are taken into account in the
           Contribution Percentage test (provided the ADP test is satisfied both
           with and without exclusion of these Deferral Contributions) and (ii)
           at the election of the Employer, Qualified Discretionary
           Contributions. Matching Contributions, whether or not non-forfeitable
           when made, shall not be considered as Employer Contributions for
           purposes of this paragraph. For purposes of computing Actual Deferral
           Percentages, an Employee who would be a Participant but for the
           failure to make Deferral Contributions shall be treated as a
           Participant on whose behalf no Deferral Contributions are made.

           (2) "Excess Contributions" shall mean, with respect to any Plan Year,
           the excess of

                (a) The aggregate amount of Employer contributions actually
                taken into account in computing the ADP of Highly Compensated
                Employees for such Plan Year, over

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                (b) The maximum amount of such contributions permitted by the
                ADP test (determined by reducing contributions made on behalf of
                Highly Compensated Employees in order of the ADPs, beginning
                with the highest of such percentages).

           (3) "Qualified Discretionary Contributions" shall mean contributions
           made by the Employer as elected in Section 1.05(b)(4) and allocated
           to Participant Accounts of Non-highly Compensated Employees that such
           Participants may not elect to receive in cash until distributed from
           the Plan, that are nonforfeitable when made, and that are
           distributable only in accordance with the distribution provisions
           that are applicable to Deferral Contributions. Participants shall not
           be required to satisfy any hours of service or employment requirement
           in order to receive an allocation of such contributions.

       (d) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Plan, Excess
       Contributions, plus any income and minus any loss allocable thereto,
       shall be distributed no later than the last day of each Plan Year to
       Participants to whose Accounts such Excess Contributions were allocated
       for the preceding Plan Year. If such excess amounts are distributed more
       than 2 1/2 months after the last day of the Plan Year in which such
       excess amounts arose, a ten- (10-) percent excise tax will be imposed on
       the Employer maintaining the Plan with respect to such amounts. Such
       distributions shall be made to Highly Compensated Employees on the basis
       of the respective portions of the Excess Contributions attributable to
       each of such employees. Excess Contributions of Participants who are
       subject to the family member aggregation rules of Section 414(q)(6) of
       the Code shall be allocated among the family members in proportion to the
       Deferral Contributions (and amounts treated as Deferral Contributions) of
       each family member that is combined to determine the combined ADP.

       Excess Contributions shall be treated as annual additions under the Plan.

       Excess Contributions shall be adjusted for any income or loss up to the
       date of distribution. The income or loss allocable to Excess
       Contributions is (1) income or loss allocable to the Participant's
       Deferral Contribution Account (and if applicable, the Qualified
       Discretionary Contribution Account) for the Plan Year multiplied by a
       fraction, the numerator of which is such Participant's Excess
       Contributions for the year and the denominator is the Participant's
       Account balance attributable to Deferral Contributions without regard to
       any income or loss occurring during such Plan Year, or (2) an amount
       determined under any reasonable method, provided that such method is used
       consistently for all Participants in calculating any distributions
       required under Section 4.02(d) and Sections 4.01(c) and 4.04(d) for the
       Plan Year, and is used by the Plan in allocating income or loss to the
       Participants' Accounts. Income or loss allocable to the period between
       the end of the Plan Year and the date of distibution shall be disregarded
       in determining income or loss.

       Excess Contributions shall be distributed from the Participant's
       Qualified Discretionary Contribution Account only to the extent that such
       Excess Contributions exceed the balance in the Participant's Deferral
       Contributions Account.

4.03 Matching Contributions: If so provided by the Employer in Section 1.05(c),
     ----------------------
the Employer shall make a Matching Contribution on behalf of each Participant
who had Deferral Contributions made on his behalf during the year and who meets
the requirement, if any, of Section 1.05(c)(4). The amount of the Matching

                               EXHIBIT 4.1 page 13
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Contribution shall be determined in accordance with Section 1.05(c), subject to
the limitations set forth in Section 4.04 and Section 404 of the Code. Matching
Contributions will not be allowed to be made by the Employer on any voluntary
non-deductible Employee Contributions.

4.04  Limit on Matching Contributions and Employee Contributions:

       (a) The Average Contribution Percentage (hereinafter "ACP") for
       Participants who are Highly Compensated Employees for each Plan Year and
       the ACP for Participants who are Non-highly Compensated Employees for the
       same Plan Year must satisfy one of the following tests:

           (1) The ACP for Participants who are Highly Compensated Employees for
           the Plan Year shall not exceed the ACP for Participants who are
           Non-highly Compensated Employees for the same Plan Year multiplied by
           1.25; or

           (2) The ACP for Participants who are Highly Compensated Employees for
           the Plan Year shall not exceed the ACP for Participants who are
           Non-highly Compensated Employees for the same Plan Year multiplied by
           two (2), provided that the ACP for Participants who are Highly
           Compensated Employees does not exceed the ACP for Participants who
           are Non-highly Compensated Employees by more than two (2) percentage
           points.

       (b) The following special rules apply for purposes of this section:

           (1) If one or more Highly Compensated Employees participate in both a
           qualified cash or deferred arrangement described in Section 401(k) of
           the Code (hereafter "CODA") and a plan subject to the ACP test
           maintained by the Employer and the sum of the ADP and ACP of those
           Highly Compensated Employees subject to either or both tests exceeds
           the Aggregate Limit, then the ACP of those Highly Compensated
           Employees who also participate in a CODA will be reduced (beginning
           with such Highly Compensated Employee whose ACP is the highest) so
           that the limit is not exceeded. The amount by which each Highly
           Compensated Employee's Contribution Percentage Amounts is reduced
           shall be treated as an Excess Aggregate Contribution. The ADP and ACP
           of the Highly Compensated Employees are determined after any
           corrections required to meet the ADP and ACP tests. Multiple use does
           not occur if either the ADP or ACP of the Highly Compensated
           Employees does not exceed 1.25 multiplied by the ADP and ACP of the
           Non-highly Compensated Employees.

           (2) For purposes of this section, the Contribution Percentage for any
           Participant who is a Highly Compensated Employee and who is eligible
           to have Contribution Percentage Amounts allocated to his or her
           account under two or more plans described in section 401(a) of the
           Code, or arrangements described in section 401(k) of the Code that
           are maintained by the Employer, shall be determined as if the total
           of such Contribution Percentage Amounts was made under each plan. If
           a Highly Compensated Employee participates in two or more cash or
           deferred arrangements that have different plan years, all cash or
           deferred arrangements ending with or within the same calendar year
           shall be treated as a single arrangement. Notwithstanding the
           foregoing, certain plans shall be treated as separate if mandatorily
           disaggregated under regulations under Section 401(m) of the Code.

                               EXHIBIT 4.1 page 14
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           (3) In the event that this Plan satisfies the requirements of
           Sections 401(m), 401(a)(4) or 410(b) of the Code only if aggregated
           with one or more other plans, or if one or more other plans satisfy
           the requirements of such sections of the Code only if aggregated with
           this Plan, then this section shall be applied by determining the
           Contribution Percentage of Employees as if all such plans were a
           single plan. For plan years beginning after December 31, 1989, plans
           may be aggregated in order to satisfy Section 401(m) of the Code only
           if they have the same Plan Year.

           (4) For purposes of determining the Contribution percentage of a
           Participant who is a five-percent owner or one of the ten most
           highly-paid Highly Compensated Employees, the Contribution Percentage
           Amounts and Compensation of such Participant shall include the
           Contribution Percentage Amounts and Compensation for the Plan Year of
           family members (as defined in Section 414(q)(6) of the Code). Family
           members, with respect to Highly Compensated Employees, shall be
           disregarded as separate Employees in determining the Contribution
           Percentage both for Participants who are Non-highly Compensated
           Employees and for Participants who are Highly Compensated Employees.

           (5) For purposes of determining the Contribution Percentage test,
           Employee Contributions made pursuant to Section 1.05(d)(1) are
           considered to have been made in the Plan Year in which contributed to
           the Trust. Matching Contributions and Qualified Discretionary
           Contributions will be considered made for a Plan Year if made no
           later than the end of the twelve-month period beginning on the day
           after the close of the Plan Year.

           (6) The Employer shall maintain records sufficient to demonstrate
           satisfaction of the ACP test and the amount of Qualified
           Discretionary Contributions used in such test.

           (7) The determination and treatment of the Contribution Percentage of
           any Participant shall satisfy such other requirements as may be
           prescribed by the Secretary of Treasury.

       (c) The following definitions shall apply for purposes of this Section:

           (1) "Aggregate Limit" shall mean the greater of (A) or (B) where (A)
           is the sum of (i) 125 percent of the greater of the ADP of the
           Non-highly Compensated Employees for the Plan Year or the ACP of
           Non-highly Compensated Employees under the Plan subject to Section
           401(m) of the Code for the Plan Year beginning with or within the
           Plan Year of the CODA and (ii) the lesser of 200% or two plus the
           lesser of such ADP or ACP and where (B) is the sum of (i) 125 percent
           of the lesser of the ADP of the Non-highly Compensated Employees for
           the Plan Year or the ACP of Non-highly Compensated Employees under
           the Plan subject to Section 401(m) of the Code for the Plan Year
           beginning with or within the Plan Year of the CODA and (ii) the
           lesser of 200% or two plus the greater of such ADP or ACP.

           (2) "Average Contribution Percentage" or "ACP" shall mean the average
           of the Contribution Percentages of the Eligible Participants in a
           group.

           (3) "Contribution Percentage" shall mean the ratio (expressed as a
           percentage) of the Participant's Contribution Percentage Amounts to
           the Participant's Compensation for the Plan Year.

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           (4) "Contribution Percentage Amounts" shall mean the sum of the
           Employee Contributions and Matching Contributions made under the plan
           on behalf of the Participant for the Plan Year. Such Contribution
           Percentage Amounts shall not include Matching Contributions that are
           forfeited either to correct Excess Aggregate Contributions or because
           the contributions to which they relate are Excess Deferrals, Excess
           Contributions or Excess Aggregate Contributions. If so elected by the
           Employer in Section 1.05(b)(4), the Employer may include Qualified
           Discretionary Contributions in the Contribution Percentage Amounts.
           The Employer also may elect to use Deferral Contributions in the
           Contribution Percentage Amounts so long as the ADP test is met before
           the Deferral Contributions are used in the ACP test and continues to
           be met following the exclusion of those Deferral Contributions that
           are used to meet the ACP test.

           (5) "Deferral Contribution" shall mean any contribution made at the
           election of the Participant pursuant to a salary reduction agreement
           in accordance with Section 4.01(a).

           (6) "Eligible Participant" shall mean any Employee who is eligible to
           make an Employee Contribution, or a Deferral Contribution (if the
           Employer takes such contributions into account in the calculation of
           the Contribution Percentage), or to receive a Matching Contribution.

           (7) "Employee Contribution" shall mean any voluntary non-deductible
           contribution made to the plan by or on behalf of a Participant that
           is included in the Participant's gross income in the year in which
           made and that is maintained in a separate Account to which earnings
           and losses are allocated.

           (8) "Matching Contribution" shall mean an Employer contribution made
           to this or any other defined contribution plan on behalf of a
           Participant on account of a Participant's Deferral Contribution.

           (9) "Excess Aggregate Contributions" shall mean, with respect to any
           Plan Year, the excess of

                (A) The aggregate Contribution Percentage Amounts taken into
                account in computing the numerator of the Contribution
                Percentage actually made on behalf of Highly Compensated
                Employees for such Plan Year, over

                (B) The maximum Contribution Percentage Amounts permitted by the
                ACP test (determined by reducing contributions made on behalf of
                Highly Compensated Employees in the order of their Contribution
                Percentages beginning with the highest of such percentages).

                    Such determination shall be made after first determining
                Excess Deferrals pursuant to Section 4.01 and then determining
                Excess Contributions pursuant to Section 4.02.

       (d) Notwithstanding any other provision of the Plan, Excess Aggregate
       Contributions, plus any income and minus any loss allocable thereto,
       shall be forfeited, if forfeitable, or if not forfeitable, distributed no
       later than the last day of each Plan Year to Participants to whose
       Accounts such Excess Aggregate Contributions were allocated for the
       preceding Plan Year. Excess Aggregate Contributions of Participants who
       are subject to the family member aggregation rules of Section 414(q)(6)
       of the Code shall be allocated among the family members in proportion to

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       the Employee and Matching Contributions of each family member that is
       combined to determine the combined ACP. If such Excess Aggregate
       Contributions are distributed more than 2 1/2 months after the last day
       of the Plan Year in which such excess amounts arose, a ten (10) percent
       excise tax will be imposed on the employer maintaining the Plan with
       respect to those amounts. Excess Aggregate Contributions shall be treated
       as annual additions under the Plan.

           Excess Aggregate Contributions shall be adjusted for any income or
       loss up to the date of distribution. The income or loss allocable to
       Excess Aggregate Contributions is (1) income or loss allocable to the
       Participant's Employee Contribution Account, Matching Contribution
       Account (if any, and if all amounts therein are not used in the ADP test)
       and if applicable, Qualified Non-elective Contribution Account for the
       Plan Year multiplied by a fraction, the numerator of which is such
       Participant's Excess Aggregate Contributions for the year and the
       denominator is the Participant's Account balance(s) attributable to
       Contribution Percentage Amounts without regard to income or loss
       occurring during such Plan Year, or (2) such other amount determined
       under any reasonable method, provided that such method is used
       consistently for all Participants in calculating any distributions
       required under Section 4.04(d) and Sections 4.01(c) and 4.02(d) for the
       Plan Year, and is used by the Plan in allocating income or loss to the
       Participants' Accounts. Income or loss allocable to the period between
       the end of the Plan Year and the date of distribution shall be
       disregarded in determining income or loss.

           Forfeitures of Excess Aggregate Contributions shall be applied to
       reduce Employer contributions; the forfeitures shall be held in the money
       market fund, if any, listed in Section 1.14(b) pending such application.

           Excess Aggregate Contributions shall be forfeited, if forfeitable, or
       distributed on a prorata basis from the Participant's Employee
       Contribution Account, Matching Contribution Account and if applicable,
       the Participant's Deferral Contributions Account or Qualified
       Discretionary Contribution Account or both.

4.05. Special Rules. Deferral Contributions and Qualified Discretionary
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Contributions and income allocable to each are not distributable to a
Participant or his or her Beneficiary or Beneficiaries, in accordance with such
Participant's or beneficiary's or beneficiaries' election, earlier than upon
separation from service, death, or disability, except as otherwise provided in
Section 7.10, 7.11 or 10.06. Such amounts may also be distributed, but after
March 31, 1988, in the form of a lump sum only, upon

                (a) Termination of the Plan without establishment of another
       defined contribution plan, other than an employee stock ownership plan
       (as defined in Section 4975(e) or Section 409 of the Code) or a
       simplified employee pension plan as defined in Section 408(k) of the
       Code.

                (b) The disposition by a corporation to an unrelated corporation
       of substantially all of the assets (within the meaning of Section
       409(d)(2) of the Code) used in a trade or business of such corporation if
       such corporation continues to maintain this Plan after the disposition,
       but only with respect to Employees who continue employment with the
       corporation acquiring such assets.

                (c) The disposition by a corporation to an unrelated entity of
       such corporation's interest in a subsidiary (within the meaning of
       Section 409(d)(2) of the Code) if such corporation continues to maintain
       this Plan, but only with respect to Employees who continue employment
       with such subsidiary.

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        The Participant's accrued benefit derived from Deferral Contributions,
Qualified Discretionary Contributions and Employee Contributions (as defined in
Section 4.09) is nonforfeitable. Separate Accounts for Deferral Contributions,
Qualified Discretionary Contributions, Employee Contributions and Matching
Contributions will be maintained for each Participant. Each Account will be
credited with the applicable contributions and earnings thereon.

4.06. Fixed/Discretionary Employer Contributions. If so provided by the Employer
      ------------------------------------------
in Sections 1.05(a)(1) or 1.05(a)(2), for the Plan Year in which the Plan is
adopted and for each Plan Year thereafter, the Employer will make Fixed or
Discretionary Employer contributions to the Trust in accordance with Section
1.05 to be allocated as follows:

                (a) Fixed Employer contributions shall be allocated among
       eligible Participants (as determined in accordance with Section
       1.05(a)(3)) in the manner specified in Section 1.05(a).

                (b) Discretionary Employer contributions shall be allocated
       among eligible Participants, as determined in accordance with Section
       1.05(a)(3), as follows:

                          (1) If the Non-Integrated Formula is elected in
                          Section 1.05(a)(2)(A), such contributions shall be
                          allocated to eligible Participants in the ratio that
                          each Participant's Compensation bears to the total
                          Compensation paid to all eligible Participants for the
                          Plan Year; or

                          (2) If the Integrated Formula is elected in Section
                          1.05(a)(2)(B), such contributions shall be allocated
                          in the following steps:

                              (A) First, to each eligible Participant in the
                              same ratio that the sum of the Participant's
                              Compensation and Excess Compensation for the Plan
                              Year bears to the sum of the Compensation and
                              Excess Compensation of all Participants for the
                              Plan Year. This allocation as a percentage of the
                              sum of each Participant's Compensation and Excess
                              Compensation shall not exceed 5.7%.

                              (B) Any remaining Discretionary Employer
                              Contribution shall be allocated to each eligible
                              Participant in the same ratio that each
                              Participant's Compensation for the Plan Year bears
                              to the total Compensation of all Participants for
                              the Plan Year.

                         For purposes of this Section, "Excess Compensation"
                         means Compensation in excess of the taxable wage base,
                         as determined under Section 230 of the Social Security
                         Act, in effect on the first day of the Plan Year.
                         Further, this Section 4.06(b)(2) shall be modified as
                         provided in Section 9.03 for years in which the Plan is
                         top heavy under Article 9.

4.07. Time of Making Employer Contributions. The Employer will pay its
      -------------------------------------
contribution for each Plan Year not later than the time prescribed by law for
filing the Employer's federal income tax return for the fiscal (or taxable) year
with or within which such Plan Year ends (including extensions thereof). The

                               EXHIBIT 4.1 page 18
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Trustee will have no authority to inquire into the correctness of the amounts
contributed and paid over to the Trustee, to determine whether any contribution
is payable under this Article 4, or to enforce, by suit or otherwise, the
Employer's obligation, if any, to make a contribution to the Trustee.

4.08. Return of Employer Contributions. The Trustee shall, upon request by the
      --------------------------------
Employer, return to the Employer the amount (if any) determined under Section
14.22. Such amount shall be reduced by amounts attributable thereto which have
been credited to the Accounts of Participants who have since received
distributions from the Trust, except to the extent such amounts continue to be
credited to such Participants' Accounts at the time the amount is returned to
the Employer. Such amount shall also be reduced by the losses of the Trust
attributable thereto, if and to the extent such losses exceed the gains and
income attributable thereto, but will not be increased by the gains and income
of the Trust attributable thereto, if and to the extent such gains and income
exceed the losses attributable thereto. In no event will the return of a
contribution hereunder cause the balance of the individual Account of any
Participant to be reduced to less than the balance which would have been
credited to the Account had the mistaken amount not been contributed.

4.09. Employee Contributions. If the Employer elected to permit Deferral
      ----------------------
Contributions in Section 1.05(b) and if so provided by the Employer in Section
1.05(d), each Participant may elect to make Employee Contributions to the Plan
in accordance with the rules and procedures established by the Employer and in
an amount not less than one percent (1%) and not greater than ten percent (10%)
of such Participant's Compensation for the Plan Year. Such contributions and all
Employee Contributions for Plan Years beginning after December 31, 1986, shall
be subject to the nondiscrimination requirements of Section 401(m) of the Code
as set forth in Section 4.04.

        For purposes of this Plan, "Employee Contributions" shall mean any
voluntary non-deductible contribution made to a plan by or on behalf of a
Participant that is or was included in the Participant's gross income in the
year in which made and that is maintained under a separate account to which
applicable earnings and losses are allocated. Excess Contributions may not be
recharacterized as Employee Contributions.

        Employee Contributions shall be paid over to the Trustee not later than
thirty (30) days following the end of the month in which the Participant makes
the contribution. A Participant shall have a fully vested 100% nonforfeitable
right to his Employee Contributions and the earnings or losses allocated
thereon. Distributions of Employee Contributions shall be made in accordance
with Section 7.10.

4.10.  Rollover Contributions.
       ----------------------

        (a) Rollover of Eligible Rollover Distributions
            -------------------------------------------

           (1) An Employee who is or was a distributee of an "eligible rollover
           distribution"(as defined in Section 402(c)(4) of the Code and the
           regulations issued thereunder) from a qualified plan may directly
           transfer all or any portion of such distribution to the Trust or
           transfer all or any portion of such distribution to the Trust within
           sixty (60) days of payment. The transfer shall be made in the form of
           cash or allowable Fund Shares only.

           (2) The Employer may refuse to accept rollover contributions or
           instruct the Trustee not to accept rollover contributions under the
           Plan.

                               EXHIBIT 4.1 page 19
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       (b) Treatment of Rollover Amount.
           ----------------------------

           (1) An account will be established for the transferring Employee
           under Article 5, the rollover amount will be credited to the account
           and such amount will be subject to the terms of the Plan, including
           Section 8.01, except as otherwise provided in this Section 4.10.

           (2) The rollover account will at all times be fully vested in and
           nonforfeitable by the Employee.

       (c) Entry into Plan by Transferring Employee. Although an amount may be
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       transferred to the Trust Fund under this Section 4.10 by an Employee who
       has not yet become a Participant in accordance with Article 3, and such
       amount is subject to the terms of the Plan as described in paragraph (b)
       above, the Employee will not become a Participant entitled to share in
       Employer contributions until he has satisfied such requirements.

       (d) Monitoring of Rollovers.
           -----------------------

           (1) The Administrator shall develop such procedures and require such
           information from transferring Employees as it deems necessary to
           insure that amounts transferred under this Section 4.10 meet the
           requirements for tax-free rollovers established by such Section and
           by Section 402(c) of the Code. No such amount may be transferred
           until approved by the Administrator.

           (2) If a transfer made under this Section 4.10 is later determined by
           the Administrator not to have met the requirements of this Section or
           of the Code or Treasury regulations, the Trustee shall, within a
           reasonable time after such determination is made, and on instructions
           from the Administrator, distribute to the Employee the amounts then
           held in the Trust attributable to the transferred amount.

4.11. Deductible Voluntary Employee Contributions. The Administrator will not
      -------------------------------------------
accept deductible Employee Contributions which are made for a taxable year
beginning after December 31, 1986. Contributions made prior to that date will be
maintained in a separate Account which will be nonforfeitable at all times and
which will share in the gains and losses of the trust in the same manner as
described in Section 5.02. No part of the deductible voluntary contribution
Account will be used to purchase life insurance. Subject to Article 8, the
Participant may withdraw any part of the deductible voluntary contribution
Account upon request.

4.12. Additional Rules for Paired Plans. If the Employer has adopted a qualified
      ---------------------------------
plan under Fidelity Basic Plan Document No. 09 which is to be considered as a
paired plan with this Plan, the elections in Section 1.03 must be identical to
the Employer's corresponding elections for the other plan. When the paired plans
are top-heavy or are deemed to be top-heavy as provided in Section 9.01, the
plan paired with this Plan will provide a minimum contribution to each non-key
Employee which is equal to 3 percent (or such other percent elected by the
Employer in Section 1.12(c)) of such Employee's Compensation. Notwithstanding
the preceding sentence, the minimum contribution shall be provided by this Plan
if contributions under the other plan paired with this Plan are frozen.

Article 5.  Participants' Accounts.
            ----------------------

5.01. Individual Accounts. The Administrator will establish and maintain an
      -------------------
Account for each Participant which will reflect Employer and Employee

                               EXHIBIT 4.1 page 20
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Contributions made on behalf of the Participant and earnings, expenses, gains
and losses attributable thereto, and investments made with amounts in the
Participant's Account. The Administrator will establish and maintain such other
accounts and records as it decides in its discretion to be reasonably required
or appropriate in order to discharge its duties under the Plan.

5.02. Valuation of Accounts. Participant Accounts will be valued at their fair
      ---------------------
market value at least annually as of a date specified by the Administrator in
accordance with a method consistently followed and uniformly applied, and on
such date earnings, expenses, gains and losses on investments made with amounts
in each Participant's Account will be allocated to such Account. Participants
will be furnished statements of their Account values at least once each Plan
Year.

5.03.  Code Section 415 Limitations.  Notwithstanding any other provisions of
       ----------------------------
the Plan:

        Subsections (a)(1) through (a)(4)--(These subsections apply to Employers
who do not maintain any qualified plan, including a Welfare Benefit Fund, an
Individual Medical Account, or a simplified employee pension in addition to this
Plan.)

        (a)(1) If the Participant does not participate in, and has never
        participated in any other qualified plan, Welfare Benefit Fund,
        Individual Medical Account, or a simplified employee pension, as defined
        in section 408(k) of the Code, maintained by the Employer, which
        provides an annual addition as defined in Section 5.03(e)(1), the amount
        of Annual Additions to a Participant's Account for a Limitation Year
        shall not exceed the lesser of the Maximum Permissible Amount or any
        other limitation contained in this Plan. If the Employer contribution
        that would otherwise be contributed or allocated to the Participant's
        Account would cause the Annual Additions for the Limitation Year to
        exceed the Maximum Permissible Amount, the amount contributed or
        allocated will be reduced so that the Annual Additions for the
        Limitation Year will equal the Maximum Permissible Amount.

        (a)(2) Prior to the determination of the Participant's actual
        Compensation for a Limitation Year, the Maximum Permissible Amount may
        be determined on the basis of a reasonable estimation of the
        Participant's compensation for such Limitation Year, uniformly
        determined for all Participants similarly situated. Any Employer
        contributions based on estimated annual compensation shall be reduced by
        any Excess Amounts carried over from prior years.

        (a)(3) As soon as is administratively feasible after the end of the
        Limitation Year, the Maximum Permissible Amount for such Limitation Year
        shall be determined on the basis of the Participant's actual
        Compensation for such Limitation Year.

        (a)(4) If, pursuant to subsection (a)(3) or as a result of the
        allocation of forfeitures or a reasonable error in determining the total
        Elective Deferrals there is an Excess Amount with respect to a
        Participant for a Limitation Year, such Excess Amount shall be disposed
        of as follows:

              (A) Any nondeductible voluntary employee contributions ("employee
        contributions") or Elective Deferrals, to the extent they would reduce
        the Excess Amount, will be returned to the Participant. Any gains
        attributable to returned employee contributions will also be returned or
        will be treated as additional employee contributions for the Limitation
        Year in which the employee contributions were made.

                               EXHIBIT 4.1 page 21
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              (B) If after the application of paragraph (A) an Excess amount
        still exists and the Participant is in the service of the Employer which
        is covered by the Plan at the end of the Limitation Year, then such
        Excess Amount shall be reapplied to reduce future Employer contributions
        under this Plan for the next Limitation Year (and for each succeeding
        year, as necessary) for such Participant, so that in each such Year the
        sum of actual Employer contributions plus the reapplied amount shall
        equal the amount of Employer contributions which would otherwise be made
        to such Participant's Account.

              (C) If after the application of paragraph (A) an Excess Amount
        still exists and the Participant is not in the service of the Employer
        which is covered by the Plan at the end of a Limitation Year, then such
        Excess Amount will be held unallocated in a suspense account. The
        suspense account will be applied to reduce future Employer contributions
        for all remaining Participants in the next Limitation Year and each
        succeeding Limitation Year if necessary.

              (D) If a suspense account is in existence at any time during the
        Limitation Year pursuant to this subsection, it will not participate in
        the allocation of the Trust Fund's investment gains and losses. All
        amounts in the suspense account must be allocated to the Accounts of
        Participants before any Employer contribution may be made for the
        Limitation Year. Except as provided in paragraph (A), Excess Amounts may
        not be distributed to Participants or former Participants.

        Subsections (b)(1) through (b)(6)--(These subsections apply to Employers
who, in addition to this Plan, maintain one or more plans, all of which are
qualified Master or Prototype defined contribution Plans, any Welfare Benefit
Fund, any Individual Medical Account, or any simplified employee pension.)

        (b)(1) If, in addition to this Plan, the Participant is covered under
        any other qualified defined contribution plans (all of which are
        qualified Master or Prototype Plans), Welfare Benefit Funds, Individual
        Medical Accounts, or simplified employee pension Plans, maintained by
        the Employer, that provide an annual addition as defined in Section
        5.03(e)(1), the amount of Annual Additions to a Participant's Account
        for a Limitation Year shall not exceed the lesser of

              (A) the Maximum Permissible Amount, reduced by the sum of any
        Annual Additions to the Participant's accounts for the same Limitation
        Year under such other qualified Master or Prototype defined contribution
        plans, and Welfare Benefit Funds, Individual Medical Accounts, and
        simplified employee pensions, or

              (B) any other limitation contained in this Plan.

        If the annual additions with respect to the Participant under other
        qualified Master or Prototype defined contribution Plans, Welfare
        Benefit Funds, Individual Medical Accounts, and simplified employee
        pensions maintained by the Employer are less than the maximum
        permissible amount and the Employer contribution that would otherwise be
        contributed or allocated to the Participant's account under this plan
        would cause the annual additions for the limitation year to exceed this
        limitation, the amount contributed or allocated will be reduced so that
        the annual additions under all such plans and funds for the limitation
        year will equal the maximum permissible amount. If the annual additions
        with respect to the Participant under such other qualified Master or
        Prototype defined contribution Plans, Welfare Benefit Funds, Individual
        Medical Accounts, and simplified employee pensions in the aggregate are

                               EXHIBIT 4.1 page 22
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        equal to or greater than the maximum permissible amount, no amount will
        be contributed or allocated to the Participant's account under this plan
        for the limitation year.

        (b)(2) Prior to the determination of the Participant's actual
        Compensation for the Limitation Year, the amounts referred to in
        (b)(1)(A) above may be determined on the basis of a reasonable
        estimation of the Participant's compensation for such Limitation Year,
        uniformly determined for all Participants similarly situated. Any
        Employer contribution based on estimated annual compensation shall be
        reduced by any Excess Amounts carried over from prior years.

        (b)(3) As soon as is administratively feasible after the end of the
        Limitation Year, the amounts referred to in (b)(1)(A) shall be
        determined on the basis of the Participant's actual Compensation for
        such Limitation Year.

        (b)(4) If a Participant's Annual Additions under this Plan and all such
        other plans result in an Excess Amount, such Excess Amount shall be
        deemed to consist of the Annual Additions last allocated, except that
        Annual Additions attributable to a simplified employee pension will be
        deemed to have been allocated first, followed by Annual Additions to a
        Welfare Benefit Fund or Individual Medical Account regardless of the
        actual allocation date.

        (b)(5) If an Excess Amount was allocated to a Participant on an
        allocation date of this Plan which coincides with an allocation date of
        another plan, the Excess Amount attributed to this Plan will be the
        product of

              (A) the total Excess Amount allocated as of such date (including
              any amount which would have been allocated but for the limitations
              of Section 415 of the Code), and

              (B) the ratio of (i) the Annual Additions allocated to the
              Participant as of such date under this Plan, and (ii) the Annual
              Additions allocated as of such date under all qualified defined
              contribution plans (determined without regard to the limitations
              of Section 415 of the Code).

        (b)(6) Any Excess Amounts attributed to this Plan shall be disposed of
        as provided in subsection (a)(4).

        Subsection (c)--(This subsection applies only to Employers who, in
addition to this Plan, maintain one or more qualified plans which are qualified
defined contribution plans other than Master or Prototype Plans.)

       (c) If the Employer also maintains another plan which is a qualified
       defined contribution plan other than a Master or Prototype Plan, Annual
       Additions allocated under this Plan on behalf of any Participant shall be
       limited in accordance with the provisions of (b)(1) through (b)(6), as
       though the other plan were a Master or Prototype Plan, unless the
       Employer provides other limitations in the Adoption Agreement.

        Subsection (d)--(This subsection applies only to Employers who, in
addition to this Plan, maintain or at any time maintained a qualified defined
benefit plan.)

       (d) If the Employer maintains, or at any time maintained, a qualified
       defined benefit plan, the sum of any Participant's Defined Benefit
       Fraction and Defined Contribution Fraction shall not exceed the combined

                               EXHIBIT 4.1 page 23
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       plan limitation of 1.0 in any Limitation Year. The combined plan
       limitation will be met as provided by the Employer in the Adoption
       Agreement.

        Subsections (e)(1) through (e)(11)--(Definitions.)
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        (e)(1) "Annual Additions" means the sum of the following amounts
        credited to a Participant for a Limitation Year:

              (A)  all Employer contributions,

              (B)  all Employee Contributions,

              (C)  all forfeitures,

              (D) amounts allocated, after March 31, 1984, to an Individual
              Medical Account which is part of a pension or annuity plan
              maintained by the Employer are treated as Annual Additions to a
              defined contribution plan. Also, amounts derived from
              contributions paid or accrued after December 31, 1985, in taxable
              years ending after such date, which are attributable to
              post-retirement medical benefits allocated to the separate account
              of a key employee, as defined in Section 419A(d)(3) of the Code,
              under a Welfare Benefit Fund maintained by the Employer are
              treated as Annual Additions to a defined contribution plan, and

              (E) allocations under a simplified employee pension.

              For purposes of this Section 5.03, amounts reapplied to reduce
        Employer contributions under subsection (a)(4) shall also be included as
        Annual Additions.

        (e)(2) "Compensation" means wages as defined in Section 3401(a) of the
        Code and all other payments of compensation to an employee by the
        employer (in the course of the employer's trade or business) for which
        the employer is required to furnish the employee a written statement
        under Sections 6041(d) and 6051(a)(3) of the Code. Compensation must be
        determined without regard to any rules under Section 3401(a) of the Code
        that limit the remuneration included in wages based on the nature or
        location of the employment or the services performed (such as the
        exception for agricultural labor in Section 3401(a)(2) of the Code.)

        For any Self-Employed Individual compensation will mean Earned Income.

        For limitation years beginning after December 31, 1991, for purposes of
        applying the limitations of this article, compensation for a limitation
        year is the compensation actually paid or made available during such
        limitation year.

        (e)(3) "Defined Benefit Fraction" means a fraction, the numerator of
        which is the sum of the Participant's annual benefits (adjusted to an
        actuarially equivalent straight life annuity if such benefit is
        expressed in a form other than a straight life annuity or qualified
        joint and survivor annuity) under all the defined benefit plans (whether
        or not terminated) maintained by the Employer, each such annual benefit
        computed on the assumptions that the Participant will remain in
        employment until the normal retirement age under each such plan (or the
        Participant's current age, if later) and that all other factors used to
        determine benefits under such plan will remain constant for all future
        Limitation Years, and the denominator of which is the lesser of 125
        percent of the dollar limitation determined for the Limitation Year

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        under Sections 415(b)(1)(A) and 415(d) of the Code or 140 percent of the
        Participant's highest average Compensation for 3 consecutive calendar
        years of service during which the Participant was active in each such
        plan, including any adjustments under Section 415(b) of the Code.
        However, if the Participant was a participant as of the first day of the
        first Limitation Year beginning after December 31, 1986, in one or more
        defined benefit plans maintained by the Employer which were in existence
        on May 6, 1986 then the denominator of the Defined Benefit Fraction
        shall not be less than 125 percent of the Participant's total accrued
        benefit as of the close of the last Limitation Year beginning before
        January 1, 1987, disregarding any changes in the terms and conditions of
        the plan after May 5, 1986, under all such defined benefit plans that
        met, individually and in the aggregate, the requirements of Section 415
        of the Code for all Limitation Years beginning before January 1, 1987.

        (e)(4) "Defined Contribution Fraction" means a fraction, the numerator
        of which is the sum for the current and all prior Limitation Years of
        (A) all Annual Additions (if any) to the Participant's accounts under
        each defined contribution plan (whether or not terminated) maintained by
        the Employer and (B) all Annual Additions attributable to the
        Participant's nondeductible Employee Contributions to all defined
        benefit plans (whether or not terminated) maintained by the Employer,
        and the Participant's Annual Additions attributable to all Welfare
        Benefit Funds, Individual Medical Accounts, and simplified employee
        pensions, maintained by the Employer, and the denominator of which is
        the sum of the maximum aggregate amounts for the current and all prior
        Limitation Years during which the Participant was an Employee
        (regardless of whether the Employer maintained a defined contribution
        plan in any such year).

              The maximum aggregate amount in any Limitation Year is the lesser
        of 125 percent of the dollar limitation in effect under Section
        415(c)(1)(A) of the Code for each such year or 35 percent of the
        Participant's Compensation for each such year.

              If the Participant was a participant as of the first day of the
       first Limitation Year beginning after December 31, 1986, in one or more
       defined contribution plans maintained by the Employer which were in
       existence on May 6, 1986, then the numerator of the Defined Contribution
       Fraction shall be adjusted if the sum of this fraction and the Defined
       Benefit Fraction would otherwise exceed 1.0 under the terms of this Plan.
       Under the adjustment an amount equal to the product of (i) the excess of
       the sum of the fractions over 1.0 and (ii) the denominator of this
       fraction will be permanently subtracted from the numerator of this
       fraction. The adjustment is calculated using the fractions as they would
       be computed as of the end of the last Limitation Year beginning before
       January 1, 1987, and disregarding any changes in the terms and conditions
       of the plan made after May 6, 1986, but using the Section 415 limitation
       applicable to the first Limitation Year beginning on or after January 1,
       1987.

              The annual addition for any limitation year beginning before
       January 1, 1987 shall not be recomputed to treat all employee
       contributions as annual additions.

        (e)(5) "Employer" means the Employer and any Related Employer that
        adopts this Plan. In the case of a group of employers which constitutes
        a controlled group of corporations (as defined in Section 414(b) of the
        Code as modified by Section 415(h)) or which constitutes trades or
        businesses (whether or not incorporated) which are under common control

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        (as defined in Section 414(c) of the Code as modified by Section 415(h)
        of the Code) or which constitutes an affiliated service group (as
        defined in Section 414(m)of the Code) and any other entity required to
        be aggregated with the Employer pursuant to regulations issued under
        Section 414(o) of the Code, all such employers shall be considered a
        single employer for purposes of applying the limitations of this Section
        5.03.

        (e)(6) "Excess Amount" means the excess of the Participant's Annual
        Additions for the Limitation Year over the Maximum Permissible Amount.

        (e)(7) "Individual Medical Account" means an individual medical account
        as defined in Section 415(l)(2) of the Code.

        (e)(8) "Limitation Year" means the Plan Year. All qualified plans of the
        Employer must use the same Limitation Year. If the Limitation Year is
        amended to a different 12-consecutive month period, the new Limitation
        Year must begin on a date within the Limitation Year in which the
        amendment is made.

        (e)(9) "Master or Prototype Plan" means a plan the form of which is the
        subject of a favorable opinion letter from the Internal Revenue Service.

        (e)(10) "Maximum Permissible Amount" means for a Limitation Year with
        respect to any Participant the lesser of (A) $30,000 or, if greater, 25
        percent of the dollar limitation set forth in Section 415(b)(1) of the
        Code, as in effect for the Limitation Year, or (B) 25 percent of the
        Participant's Compensation for the Limitation Year. If a short
        Limitation Year is created because of an amendment changing the
        Limitation Year to a different 12-consecutive-month period, the Maximum
        Permissible Amount will not exceed the limitation in (e)(10)(A)
        multiplied by a fraction whose numerator is the number of months in the
        short Limitation Year and whose denominator is 12.

              The compensation limitation referred to in subsection (e)(10)(B)
       shall not apply to any contribution for medical benefits within the
       meaning of Section 401(h) or Section 419A(f)(2) of the Code after
       separation from service which is otherwise treated as an Annual Addition
       under Section 419A(d)(2) or Section 415(l)(1) of the Code.

        (e)(11) "Welfare Benefit Fund" means a welfare benefit fund as defined
        in Section 419(e) of the Code.

Article 6.  Investment of Contributions.
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6.01. Manner of Investment. All contributions made to the Accounts of
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Participants shall be held for investment by the Trustee. The Accounts of
Participants shall be invested and reinvested only in eligible investments
selected by the Employer in Section 1.14(b), subject to Section 14.10.

6.02. Investment Decisions. Investments shall be directed by the Employer or by
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each Participant or both, in accordance with the Employer's election in Section
1.14(a). Pursuant to Section 14.04, the Trustee shall have no discretion or
authority with respect to the investment of the Trust Fund.

       (a) With respect to those Participant Accounts for which Employer
       investment direction is elected, the Employer has the right to direct the

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       Trustee in writing with respect to the investment and reinvestment of
       assets comprising the Trust Fund in the Fidelity Fund(s) designated in
       Section 1.14(b) and as allowed by the Trustee.

       (b) If Participant investment direction is elected, each Participant
       shall direct the investment of his Account among the Fidelity Funds
       listed in Section 1.14(b). The Participant shall file initial investment
       instructions with the Administrator, on such form as the Administrator
       may provide, selecting the Funds in which amounts credited to his Account
       will be invested.

           (1) Except as provided in this Section 6.02, only authorized Plan
           contacts and the Participant shall have access to a Participant's
           Account. While any balance remains in the Account of a Participant
           after his death, the Beneficiary of the Participant shall make
           decisions as to the investment of the Account as though the
           Beneficiary were the Participant. To the extent required by a
           qualified domestic relations order as defined in Section 414(p) of
           the Code, an alternate payee shall make investment decisions with
           respect to a Participant's Account as though such alternate payee
           were the Participant.

           (2) If the Trustee receives any contribution under the Plan as to
           which investment instructions have not been provided, the Trustee
           shall promptly notify the Administrator and the Administrator shall
           take steps to elicit instructions from the Participant. The Trustee
           shall credit any such contribution to the Participant's Account and
           such amount shall be invested in the Fidelity Fund selected by the
           Employer for such purposes or, absent Employer selection, in the most
           conservative Fidelity Fund listed in Section 1.14(b), until
           investment instructions have been received by the Trustee.

       (c) All dividends, interest, gains and distributions of any nature
       received in respect of Fund Shares shall be reinvested in additional
       shares of that Fidelity Fund.

       (d) Expenses attributable to the acquisition of investments shall be
       charged to the Account of the Participant for which such investment is
       made.

6.03. Participant Directions to Trustee. All Participant initial investment
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instructions filed with the Administrator pursuant to the provisions of Section
6.02 shall be promptly transmitted by the Administrator to the Trustee. A
Participant shall transmit subsequent investment instructions directly to the
Trustee by means of the telephone exchange system maintained by the Trustee for
such purposes. The method and frequency for change of investments will be
determined under the (a) rules applicable to the investments selected by the
Employer in Section 1.14(b) and (b) the additional rules of the Employer, if
any, limiting the frequency of investment changes, which are included in a
separate written administrative procedure adopted by the Employer and accepted
by the Trustee. The Trustee shall have no duty to inquire into the investment
decisions of a Participant or to advise him regarding the purchase, retention or
sale of assets credited to his Account.

Article 7.  Right to Benefits.
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7.01. Normal or Early Retirement. Each Participant who attains his Normal
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Retirement Age or, if so provided by the Employer in Section 1.06(b), Early

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Retirement Age, will have a 100-percent nonforfeitable interest in his Account
regardless of any vesting schedule elected in Section 1.07. If a Participant
retires upon the attainment of Normal or Early Retirement Age, such retirement
is referred to as a normal retirement. Upon his normal retirement the balance of
the Participant's Account, plus any amounts thereafter credited to his Account,
subject to the provisions of Section 7.08, will be distributed to him in
accordance with Article 8.

       If a Participant separates from service before satisfying the age
requirements for early retirement, but has satisfied the service requirement,
the Participant will be entitled to elect an early retirement distribution upon
satisfaction of such age requirement.

7.02. Late Retirement. If a Participant continues in the service of the Employer
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after attainment of Normal Retirement Age, he will continue to have a
100-percent nonforfeitable interest in his Account and will continue to
participate in the Plan until the date he establishes with the Employer for his
late retirement. Until he retires, he has a continuing election to receive all
or any portion of his Account. Upon the earlier of his late retirement or the
distribution date required under Section 8.08, the balance of his Account, plus
any amounts thereafter credited to his Account, subject to the provisions of
Section 7.08, will be distributed to him in accordance with Article 8 below.

7.03. Disability Retirement. If so provided by the Employer in Section 1.06(c),
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a Participant who becomes disabled will have a 100-percent nonforfeitable
interest in his Account, the balance of which Account, plus any amounts
thereafter credited to his Account, subject to the provisions of Section 7.08,
will be distributed to him in accordance with Article 8 below. A Participant is
considered disabled if he cannot engage in any substantial, gainful activity
because of a medically determinable physical or mental impairment likely to
result in death or to be of a continuous period of not less than 12 months, and
terminates his employment with the Employer. Such termination of employment is
referred to as a disability retirement. Determinations with respect to
disability shall be made by the Administrator who may rely on the criteria set
forth in Section 1.06(c) as evidence that the Participant is disabled.

7.04. Death. Subject, if applicable, to Section 8.04, if a Participant dies
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before the distribution of his Account has commenced, or before such
distribution has been completed, his Account shall become 100 percent vested and
his designated Beneficiary or Beneficiaries will be entitled to receive the
balance or remaining balance of his Account, plus any amounts thereafter
credited to his Account, subject to the provisions of Section 7.08. Distribution
to the Beneficiary or Beneficiaries will be made in accordance with Article 8.

        A Participant may designate a Beneficiary or Beneficiaries, or change
any prior designation of Beneficiary or Beneficiaries by giving notice to the
Administrator on a form designated by the Administrator. If more than one person
is designated as the Beneficiary, their respective interests shall be as
indicated on the designation form. In the case of a married Participant, the
Participant's spouse shall be deemed to be the designated Beneficiary unless the
Participant's spouse has consented to another designation in the manner
described in Section 8.03(d).

        A copy of the death notice or other sufficient documentation must be
filed with and approved by the Administrator. If upon the death of the
Participant there is, in the opinion of the Administrator, no designated
Beneficiary for part or all of the Participant's Account, such amount will be
paid to his surviving spouse or, if none, to his estate (such spouse or estate
shall be deemed to be the Beneficiary for purposes of the Plan). If a

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Beneficiary dies after benefits to such Beneficiary have commenced, but before
they have been completed, and, in the opinion of the Administrator, no person
has been designated to receive such remaining benefits, then such benefits shall
be paid in a lump sum to the deceased Beneficiary's estate.

7.05. Other Termination of Employment. If a Participant terminates his
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employment for any reason other than death or normal, late, or disability
retirement, he will be entitled to a termination benefit equal to the sum of (a)
the vested percentage(s) of the value of the Matching and/or Fixed/Discretionary
Contributions to his Account, as adjusted for income, expense, gain, or loss,
such percentage(s) determined in accordance with the vesting schedule(s)
selected by the Employer in Section 1.07, and (b) the value of the Deferral,
Employee, Qualified Discretionary and Rollover Contributions to his Account as
adjusted for income, expense, gain or loss. The amount payable under this
Section 7.05 will be subject to the provisions of Section 7.08 and will be
distributed in accordance with Article 8 below.

7.06. Separate Account. If a distribution from a Participant's Account has been
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made to him at a time when he has a nonforfeitable right to less than 100
percent of his Account, the vesting schedule in Section 1.07 will thereafter
apply only to amounts in his Account attributable to Employer contributions
allocated after such distribution. The balance of his Account immediately after
such distribution will be transferred to a separate account which will be
maintained for the purpose of determining his interest therein according to the
following provisions.

       At any relevant time prior to a forfeiture of any portion thereof under
Section 7.07, a Participant's nonforfeitable interest in his Account held in a
separate account described in the preceding paragraph will be equal to P(AB +
(RxD))-(RxD), where P is the nonforfeitable percentage at the relevant time
determined under Section 7.05; AB is the account balance of the separate account
at the relevant time; D is the amount of the distribution; and R is the ratio of
the account balance at the relevant time to the account balance after
distribution. Following a forfeiture of any portion of such separate account
under Section 7.07 below, any balance in the Participant's separate account will
remain fully vested and nonforfeitable.

7.07. Forfeitures. If a Participant terminates his employment, any portion of
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his Account (including any amounts credited after his termination of employment)
not payable to him under Section 7.05 will be forfeited by him upon the complete
distribution to him of the vested portion of his Account, if any, subject to the
possibility of reinstatement as described in the following paragraph. For
purposes of this paragraph, if the value of an Employee's vested Account balance
is zero, the Employee shall be deemed to have received a distribution of his
vested interest immediately following termination of employment. Such
forfeitures will be applied to reduce the contributions of the Employer next
payable under the Plan (or administrative expenses of the Plan); the forfeitures
shall be held in a money market fund pending such application.

        If a Participant forfeits any portion of his Account under the preceding
paragraph but again becomes an Employee after such date, then the amount so
forfeited, without any adjustment for the earnings, expenses, or losses or gains
of the assets credited to his Account since the date forfeited, will be
recredited to his Account (or to a separate account as described in Section
7.06, if applicable) but only if he repays to the Plan before the earlier of
five years after the date of his reemployment or the date he incurs 5
consecutive 1-year breaks in service following the date of the distribution the
amount previously distributed to him, without interest, under Section 7.05. If

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an Employee is deemed to receive a distribution pursuant to this Section 7.07,
and the Employee resumes employment before 5 consecutive 1-year breaks in
service, the Employee shall be deemed to have repaid such distribution on the
date of his reemployment. Upon such an actual or deemed repayment, the
provisions of the Plan (including Section 7.06) will thereafter apply as if no
forfeiture had occurred. The amount to be recredited pursuant to this paragraph
will be derived first from the forfeitures, if any, which as of the date of
recrediting have yet to be applied as provided in the preceding paragraph and,
to the extent such forfeitures are insufficient, from a special Employer
contribution to be made by the Employer.

        If a Participant elects not to receive the nonforfeitable portion of his
Account following his termination of employment, the non-vested portion of his
Account shall be forfeited after the Participant has incurred five consecutive
1-year breaks in service as defined in Section 2.01(a)(33).

       No forfeitures will occur solely as a result of a Participant's
withdrawal of Employee contributions.

7.08. Adjustment for Investment Experience. If any distribution under this
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Article 7 is not made in a single payment, the amount retained by the Trustee
after the distribution will be subject to adjustment until distributed to
reflect the income and gain or loss on the investments in which such amount is
invested and any expenses properly charged under the Plan and Trust to such
amounts.

7.09. Participant Loans. If permitted under Section 1.09, the Administrator
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shall allow Participants to apply for a loan from the Plan, subject to the
following:

       (a) Loan Application. All Plan loans shall be administered by the
       Administrator. Applications for loans shall be made to the Administrator
       on forms available from the Administrator. Loans shall be made available
       to all Participants on a reasonably equivalent basis. For this purpose,
       the term "Participant" means any Participant or Beneficiary, including an
       alternate payee under a qualified domestic relations order, as defined in
       Section 414(p) of the Code, who is a party-in-interest (as determined
       under ERISA Section 3(14)) with respect to the Plan except no loans will
       be made to (1) an Employee who makes a rollover contribution in
       accordance with Section 4.10 who has not satisfied the requirements of
       Section 3.01 or (2) a shareholder-employee or Owner-Employee. For
       purposes of this requirement, a shareholder-employee means an employee or
       officer of an electing small business (Subchapter S) corporation who owns
       (or is considered as owning within the meaning of Section 318(a)(1) of
       the Code), on any day during the taxable year of such corporation, more
       than 5% of the outstanding stock of the corporation.

                A Participant with an existing loan may not apply for another
       loan until the existing loan is paid in full and may not refinance an
       existing loan or attain a second loan for the purpose of paying off the
       existing loan. A Participant may not apply for more than one loan during
       each Plan Year.

       (b) Limitation of Loan Amount/Purpose of Loan. Loans shall not be made
       available to Highly Compensated Employees in an amount greater than the
       amount made available to other Employees. No loan to any Participant or
       Beneficiary can be made to the extent that such loan when added to the
       outstanding balance of all other loans to the Participant or Beneficiary
       would exceed the lesser of (1) $50,000 reduced by the excess (if any) of
       the highest outstanding balance of loans during the one-year period
       ending on the day before the loan is made over the outstanding balance of

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       loans from the plan on the date the loan is made, or (2) one-half the
       present value of the nonforfeitable Account of the Participant. For the
       purpose of the above limitation, all loans from all plans of the Employer
       and Related Employers are aggregated. A Participant may not request a
       loan for less than $1,000. The Employer may provide that loans only be
       made from certain contribution sources within Participant Account(s) by
       notifying the Trustee in writing of the restricted source.

                Loans may be made for any purpose or if elected by the Employer
       in Section 1.09(a), on account of hardship only. A loan will be
       considered to be made on account of hardship only if made on account of
       an immediate and heavy financial need described in Section 7.10(b)(1).

       (c) Terms of Loan. All loans shall bear a reasonable rate of interest as
       determined by the Administrator based on the prevailing interest rates
       charged by persons in the business of lending money for loans which would
       be made under similar circumstances. The determination of a reasonable
       rate of interest must be based on appropriate regional factors unless the
       Plan is administered on a national basis in which case the Administrator
       may establish a uniform reasonable rate of interest applicable to all
       regions.

                All loans shall by their terms require that repayment (principal
       and interest) be amortized in level payments, not less than quarterly,
       over a period not extending beyond five years from the date of the loan
       unless such loan is for the purchase of a Participant's primary
       residence, in which case the repayment period may not extend beyond ten
       years from the date of the loan. A Participant may prepay the outstanding
       loan balance prior to maturity without penalty.

       (d) Security. Loans must be secured by the Participant's Accounts not to
       exceed 50 percent of the Participant's vested Account. A Participant must
       obtain the consent of his or her spouse, if any, to use a Participant
       Account as security for the loan, if the provisions of Section 8.03 apply
       to the Participant. Spousal consent shall be obtained no earlier than the
       beginning of the 90-day period that ends on the date on which the loan is
       to be so secured. The consent must be in writing, must acknowledge the
       effect of the loan, and must be witnessed by a Plan representative or
       notary public. Such consent shall thereafter be binding with respect to
       the consenting spouse or any subsequent spouse with respect to that loan.

       (e) Default. The Administrator shall treat a loan in default if

                (1)  any scheduled repayment remains unpaid more than 90 days or

                (2)  there is an outstanding principal balance existing on a
                loan after the last scheduled repayment date.

                Upon default or termination of employment, the entire
       outstanding principal and accrued interest shall be immediately due and
       payable. If a distributable event (as defined by the Code) has occurred,
       the Administrator shall direct the Trustee to foreclose on the promissory
       note and offset the Participant's vested Account by the outstanding
       balance of the loan. If a distributable event has not occurred, the
       Administrator shall direct the Trustee to foreclose on the promissory
       note and offset the Participant's vested Account as soon as a
       distributable event occurs.

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       (f) Pre-existing loans. The provision in paragraph (a) of this Section
       7.09 limiting a Participant to one outstanding loan shall not apply to
       loans made before the Employer adopted this prototype plan document. A
       Participant may not apply for a new loan until all outstanding loans made
       before the Employer adopted this prototype plan have been paid in full.
       The Trustee may accept any loans made before the Employer adopted this
       prototype plan document except such loans which require the Trustee to
       hold as security for the loan property other than the Participant's
       vested Account.

           As of the effective date of amendment of this Plan in Section
       1.01(g)(2), the Trustee shall have the right to reamortize the
       outstanding principal balance of any Participant loan that is delinquent.
       Such reamortization shall be based upon the remaining life of the loan
       and the original maturity date may not be extended.

           Notwithstanding any other provision of this Plan, the portion of the
       Participant's vested Account used as a security interest held by the plan
       by reason of a loan outstanding to the Participant shall be taken into
       account for purposes of determining the amount of the Account payable at
       the time of death or distribution, but only if the reduction is used as
       repayment of the loan. If less than 100% of the Participant's vested
       Account (determined without regard to the preceding sentence) is payable
       to the surviving spouse, then the Account shall be adjusted by first
       reducing the vested Account by the amount of the security used as
       repayment of the loan, and then determining the benefit payable to the
       surviving spouse.

           No loan to any Participant or Beneficiary can be made to the extent
       that such loan when added to the outstanding balance of all other loans
       to the Participant or Beneficiary would exceed the lesser of (1) $50,000
       reduced by the excess (if any) of the highest outstanding balance of
       loans during the one-year period ending on the day before the loan is
       made over the outstanding balance of loans from the plan on the date the
       loan is made or (2) one-half the present value of the nonforfeitable
       Account of the Participant. For the purpose of the above limitation, all
       loans from all plans of the Employer and Related Employers are
       aggregated.

7.10. In-Service/Hardship Withdrawals. Subject to the provisions of Article 8, a
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Participant shall not be permitted to withdraw any Employer or Employee
Contributions (and earnings thereon) prior to retirement or termination of
employment, except as follows:

       (a) Age 59 1/2. If permitted under Section 1.11(b), a Participant who has
attained the age of 59 1/2 is permitted to withdraw upon request all or any
portion of the Accounts specified by the Employer in 1.11(b).

       (b) Hardship. If permitted under Section 1.10, a Participant may apply to
the Administrator to withdraw some or all of his Deferral Contributions (and
earnings thereon accrued as of December 31, 1988) and, if applicable, Rollover
Contributions and such other amounts allowed by a predecessor plan, if such
withdrawal is made on account of a hardship. For purposes of this Section, a
distribution is made on account of hardship if made on account of an immediate
and heavy financial need of the Employee where such Employee lacks other
available resources. Determinations with respect to hardship shall be made by
the Administrator and shall be conclusive for purposes of the Plan, and shall be
based on the following special rules:

          (1) The following are the only financial needs considered immediate
          and heavy: expenses incurred or necessary for medical care (within the

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          meaning of Section 213(d) of the Code) of the Employee, the Employee's
          spouse, children, or dependents; the purchase (excluding mortgage
          payments) of a principal residence for the Employee; payment of
          tuition and related educational fees for the next twelve (12) months
          of post-secondary education for the Employee, the Employee's spouse,
          children or dependents; or the need to prevent the eviction of the
          Employee from, or a foreclosure on the mortgage of, the Employee's
          principal residence.

          (2) A distribution will be considered as necessary to satisfy an
          immediate and heavy financial need of the Employee only if:

                (i) The Employee has obtained all distributions, other than the
                hardship distributions, and all nontaxable (at the time of the
                loan) loans currently available under all plans maintained by
                the Employer;

                (ii) The Employee suspends Deferral Contributions and Employee
                Contributions to the Plan for the 12-month period following the
                date of his hardship distribution. The suspension must also
                apply to all elective contributions and Employee Contributions
                to all other qualified plans and non-qualified plans maintained
                by the Employer, other than any mandatory employer contribution
                portion of a defined benefit plan, including stock option, stock
                purchase and other similar plans, but not including health and
                welfare benefit plans (other than the cash or deferred
                arrangement portion of a cafeteria plan);

                (iii)    The distribution is not in excess of the amount of an
                immediate and heavy financial need (including amounts necessary
                to pay any Federal, state or local income taxes or penalties
                reasonably anticipated to result from the distribution); and

                (iv) The Employee agrees to limit Deferral Contributions
                (elective contributions)to the Plan and any other qualified plan
                maintained by the Employer for the Employee's taxable year
                immediately following the taxable year of the hardship
                distribution to the applicable limit under Section 402(g) of the
                Code for such taxable year less the amount of such Employee's
                Deferral Contributions for the taxable year of the hardship
                distribution.

           (3) A Participant must obtain the consent of his or her spouse, if
           any, to obtain a hardship withdrawal, if the provisions of Section
           8.03 apply to the Participant.

        (c) Employee Contributions. A Participant may elect to withdraw, in
        cash, up to one hundred percent of the amount then credited to his
        Employee Contribution Account. Such withdrawals shall be limited to one
        (1) per Plan Year unless this prototype plan document is an amendment of
        a prior plan document, in which case the rules and restrictions
        governing Employee Contribution withdrawals, if any, are incorporated
        herein by reference.

7.11. Prior Plan In-Service Distribution Rules. If designated by the Employer in
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Section 1.11(b), a Participant shall be entitled to withdraw at anytime prior to
his termination of employment, subject to the provisions of Article 8 and the
prior plan, any vested Employer Contributions maintained in a Participant's
Account for the specified period of time.

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Article 8.  Distribution of Benefits Payable After Termination of Service.
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8.01. Distribution of Benefits to Participants and Beneficiaries.
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       (a) Distributions from the Trust to a Participant or to the Beneficiary
       of the Participant shall be made in a lump sum in cash or, if elected by
       the Employer in Section 1.11, under a systematic withdrawal plan
       (installment(s)) upon retirement, death, disability, or other termination
       of employment, unless another form of distribution is required or
       permitted in accordance with paragraph (d) of this Section 8.01 or
       Sections 1.11(c), 8.02, 8.03, 8.04 or 11.02. A distribution may be made
       in Fund Shares, at the election of the Participant, pursuant to the
       qualifying rollover of such distribution to a Fidelity Investments
       individual retirement account.

       (b) Distributions under a systematic withdrawal plan must be made in
       substantially equal annual, or more frequent, installments, in cash, over
       a period certain which does not extend beyond the life expectancy of the
       Participant or the joint life expectancies of the Participant and his
       Beneficiary, or, if the Participant dies prior to the commencement of his
       benefits the life expectancy of the Participant's Beneficiary, as further
       described in Section 8.04.

       (c) Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 8.01(b) above, if a
       Participant's Account is, and at the time of any prior distribution(s)
       was, $3,500 or less, the balance of such Account shall be distributed in
       a lump sum as soon as practicable following retirement, disability, death
       or other termination of employment.

       (d) This paragraph (d) applies to distributions made on or after January
       1, 1993. Notwithstanding any provision of the Plan to the contrary that
       would otherwise limit a distributee's election under this Article 8, a
       distributee may elect, at the time and in the manner prescribed by the
       Administrator, to have any portion of an eligible rollover distribution
       paid directly to an eligible retirement plan specified by the distributee
       in a direct rollover. The following definitions shall apply for purposes
       of this paragraph (d):

           (1) Eligible rollover distribution: An eligible rollover distribution
           is any distribution of all or any portion of the balance to the
           credit of the distributee, except that an eligible rollover
           distribution does not include: any distribution that is one of a
           series of substantially equal periodic payments (not less frequently
           than annually) made for the life (or life expectancy) of the
           distributee or the joint lives (or joint life expectancies) of the
           distributee and the distributee's designated beneficiary, or for a
           specified period of ten years or more; any distribution to the extent
           such distribution is required under Section 401(a)(9) of the Code;
           and the portion of any distribution that is not includable in gross
           income (determined without regard to the exclusion for net unrealized
           appreciation with respect to employer securities).

           (2) Eligible retirement plan: An eligible retirement plan is an
           individual retirement account described in Section 408(a) of the
           Code, an individual retirement annuity described in Section 408(b) of
           the Code, an annuity plan described in Section 403(a) of the Code, or
           a qualified trust described in Section 401(a) of the Code, that
           accepts the distributee's eligible rollover distribution. However, in

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           the case of an eligible rollover distribution to a surviving spouse,
           an eligible retirement plan is an individual retirement account or
           individual retirement annuity.

           (3) Distributee: A distributee includes an Employee or former
           Employee. In addition, the Employee's or former Employee's surviving
           spouse and the Employee's or former Employee's spouse or former
           spouse who is the alternate payee under a qualified domestic
           relations order, as defined in Section 414(p) of the Code, are
           distributees with regard to the interest of the spouse or former
           spouse.

           (4) Direct rollover: A direct rollover is a payment by the plan to
           the eligible retirement plan specified by the distributee.

8.02. Annuity Distributions. If so provided in Section 1.11(c), a Participant
      ---------------------
may elect distributions made in whole or in part in the form of an annuity
contract subject to the provisions of Section 8.03.

        (a)An annuity contract distributed under the Plan must be purchased from
        an insurance company and must be nontransferable. The terms of an
        annuity contract shall comply with the requirements of the Plan and
        distributions under such contract shall be made in accordance with
        Section 401(a)(9) of the Code and the regulations thereunder.

        (b)The payment period of an annuity contract distributed to the
        Participant pursuant to this Section may be as long as the Participant
        lives. If the annuity is payable to the Participant and his spouse or
        designated Beneficiary, the payment period of an annuity contract may be
        for as long as either the Participant or his spouse or designated
        Beneficiary lives. Such an annuity may provide for an annuity certain
        feature for a period not exceeding the life expectancy of the
        Participant. If the annuity is payable to the Participant and his spouse
        such period may not exceed the joint life and last survivor expectancy
        of the Participant and his spouse, or, if the annuity is payable to the
        Participant and a designated Beneficiary, the joint life and last
        survivor expectancy of the Participant and such Beneficiary. If the
        Participant dies prior to the commencement of his benefits, the payment
        period of an annuity contract distributed to the Beneficiary of the
        Participant may be as long as the Participant's Beneficiary lives, and
        may provide for an annuity certain feature for a period not exceeding
        the life expectancy of the Beneficiary. Any annuity contract distributed
        under the Plan must provide for nonincreasing payments.

8.03.  Joint and Survivor Annuities/Preretirement Survivor Annuities.
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       (a) Application. The provisions of this Section supersede any conflicting
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       provisions of the Plan; however, paragraph (b) of this Section shall not
       apply if the Participant's Account does not exceed or at the time of any
       prior distribution did not exceed $3,500. A Participant is described in
       this Section only if (i) the Participant has elected distribution of his
       Account in the form of an Annuity Contract in accordance with Section
       8.02, or (ii) the Trustee has directly or indirectly received a transfer
       of assets from another plan (including a predecessor plan) to which
       Section 401(a)(11) of the Code applies with respect to such Participant.

       (b) Retirement Annuity. Unless the Participant elects to waive the
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       application of this subsection in a manner satisfying the requirements of
       subsection (d) below, to the extent applicable to the Participant, within
       the 90-day period preceding his Annuity Starting Date (which election may
       be revoked, and if revoked, remade, at any time in such period), the

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       vested Account due any Participant to whom this subsection (b) applies
       will be paid to him by the purchase and delivery to him of an annuity
       contract described in Section 8.02 providing a life annuity only form of
       benefit or, if the Participant is married as of his Annuity Starting
       Date, providing an immediate annuity for the life of the Participant with
       a survivor annuity for the life of the Participant's spouse (determined
       as of the date of distribution of the contract) which is 50 percent of
       the amount of the annuity which is payable during the joint lives of the
       Participant and such spouse. The Participant may elect to receive
       distribution of his benefits in the form of such annuity as of the
       earliest date on which he could elect to receive retirement benefits
       under the Plan. Within the period beginning 90 days prior to the
       Participant's Annuity Starting Date and ending 30 days prior to such
       Date, the Administrator will provide such Participant with a written
       explanation of (1) the terms and conditions of the annuity contract
       described herein, (2) the Participant's
        to make, and the effect of, an election to waive application of this
       subsection, (3) the rights of the Participant's spouse under subsection
       (d), and (4) the right to revoke and the period of time necessary to
       revoke the election to waive application of this subsection.

       (c) Annuity Death Benefit. Unless the Participant elects to waive the
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       application of this subsection in a manner satisfying the requirements of
       subsection (d) below at any time within the applicable election period
       (which election may be revoked, and if revoked, remade, at any time in
       such period), if a married Participant to whom this Section applies dies
       before his Annuity Starting Date, then notwithstanding any designation of
       a Beneficiary to the contrary, 50 percent of his vested Account will be
       applied to purchase an annuity contract described in Section 8.02
       providing an annuity for the life of the Participant's surviving spouse,
       which contract will then be promptly distributed to such spouse. In lieu
       of the purchase of such an annuity contract, the spouse may elect in
       writing to receive distributions under the Plan as if he or she had been
       designated by the Participant as his Beneficiary with respect to 50
       percent of his Account. For purposes of this subsection, the applicable
       election period will commence on the first day of the Plan Year in which
       the Participant attains age 35 and will end on the date of the
       Participant's death, provided that in the case of a Participant who
       terminates his employment the applicable election period with respect to
       benefits accrued prior to the date of such termination will in no event
       commence later than the date of his termination of employment. A
       Participant may elect to waive the application of this subsection prior
       to the Plan Year in which he attains age 35, provided that any such
       waiver will cease to be effective as of the first day of the Plan Year in
       which the Participant attains age 35.

           The Administrator will provide a Participant to whom this subsection
       applies with a written explanation with respect to the annuity death
       benefit described in this subsection (c) comparable to that required
       under subsection (b) above. Such explanation shall be furnished within
       whichever of the following periods ends last: (1) the period beginning
       with the first day of the Plan Year in which the Participant reaches age
       32 and ending with the end of the Plan Year preceding the Plan Year in
       which he reaches age 35, (2) a reasonable period ending after the
       Employee becomes a Participant, (3) a reasonable period ending after this
       Section 8.04 first becomes applicable to the Participant in accordance
       with Section 8.04(a), (4) in the case of a Participant who separates from
       service before age 35, a reasonable period of time ending after
       separation from service. For purposes of the preceding sentence, the

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       two-year period beginning one year prior to the date of the event
       described in clause (2), (3) or (4), whichever is applicable, and ending
       one year after such date shall be considered reasonable, provided, that
       in the case of a Participant who separates from service under (4) above
       and subsequently recommences employment with the Employer, the applicable
       period for such Participant shall be redetermined in accordance with this
       subsection.

       (d) Requirements of Elections. This subsection will be satisfied with
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       respect to a waiver or designation which is required to satisfy this
       subsection if such waiver or designation is in writing and either

           (1) the Participant's spouse consents thereto in writing, which
           consent must acknowledge the effect of such waiver or designation and
           be witnessed by a notary public or Plan representative, or

           (2) the Participant establishes to the satisfaction of the
           Administrator that the consent of the Participant's spouse cannot be
           obtained because there is no spouse, because the spouse cannot be
           located, or because of such other circumstances as the Secretary of
           Treasury may prescribe.

                Any consent by a spouse, or establishment that the consent of a
           spouse may not be obtained, will be effective only with respect to a
           specific Beneficiary (including any class of Beneficiaries or any
           contingent Beneficiaries) or form of benefits identified in the
           Participant's waiver or designation, unless the consent of the spouse
           expressly permits designations by the Participant without any
           requirement of further consent by the spouse. A consent which permits
           such designations by the Participant shall acknowledge that the
           spouse has the right to limit consent to a specific Beneficiary and
           form of benefits and that the spouse voluntarily elects to relinquish
           both such rights. A consent by a spouse shall be irrevocable once
           made. Any such consent, or establishment that such consent may not be
           obtained, will be effective only with respect to such spouse. For
           purposes of subsections (b) and (c) above, no consent of a spouse
           shall be valid unless the notice required by whichever subsection is
           applicable has been provided to the Participant.

       (e) Former Spouse. For purposes of this Section 8.03, a former spouse of
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       a Participant will be treated as the spouse or surviving spouse of the
       Participant, and a current spouse will not be so treated, to the extent
       required under a qualified domestic relations order, as defined in
       Section 414(p) of the Code.

       (f) Vested Account Balance. For purposes of this Section, vested Account
           ----------------------
       shall include the aggregate value of the Participant's vested Account
       derived from Employer and Employee Contributions (including rollovers),
       whether vested before or upon death. The provisions of this Section shall
       apply to a Participant who is vested in amounts attributable to Employer
       contributions, Employee Contributions, or both, upon death or at the time
       of distribution.

8.04 Installment Distributions. This Section shall be interpreted and applied in
     -------------------------
accordance with the regulations under Section 401(a)(9) of the Code, including
the minimum distribution incidental benefit requirement of Section 1.401(a)(9)-2
of the Proposed Treasury Regulations, or any successor regulations of similar
import.

        (a) In General. If a Participant's benefit may be distributed in
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        accordance with Section 8.01(b), the amount to be distributed for each

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        calendar year for which a minimum distribution is required shall be at
        least an amount equal to the quotient obtained by dividing the
        Participant's interest in his Account by the life expectancy of the
        Participant or Beneficiary or the joint life and last survivor
        expectancy of the Participant and his Beneficiary, whichever is
        applicable. For calendar years beginning before January 1, 1989, if a
        Participant's Beneficiary is not his spouse, the method of distribution
        selected must insure that at least 50 percent of the present value of
        the amount available for distribution is paid within the life expectancy
        of the Participant. For calendar years beginning after December 31,
        1988, the amount to be distributed for each calendar year shall not be
        less than an amount equal to the quotient obtained by dividing the
        Participant's interest in his Account by the lesser of (1) the
        applicable life expectancy under Section 8.01(b), or (2) if a
        Participant's Beneficiary is not his spouse, the applicable divisor
        determined under Section 1.401(a)(9)-2, Q&A 4 of the Proposed Treasury
        Regulations, or any successor regulations of similar import.
        Distributions after the death of the Participant shall be made using the
        applicable life expectancy under (1) above, without regard to Section
        1.401(a)(9)-2 of such regulations.

           The minimum distribution required under this subsection (a) for the
        calendar year immediately preceding the calendar year in which the
        Participant's required beginning date, as determined under Section
        8.08(b), occurs shall be made on or before the Participant's required
        beginning date, as so determined. Minimum distributions for other
        calendar years shall be made on or before the close of such calendar
        year.

        (b) Additional Requirements for Distributions After Death of
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        Participant.
        ------------

           (1) Distribution beginning before Death. If the Participant dies
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           before distribution of his benefits has begun, distributions shall be
           made in accordance with the provisions of this paragraph.
           Distributions under Section 8.01(a) shall be completed by the close
           of the calendar year in which the fifth anniversary of the death of
           the Participant occurs. Distributions under Section 8.01(b) shall
           commence, if the Beneficiary is not the Participant's spouse, not
           later than the close of the calendar year immediately following the
           calendar year in which the death of the Participant occurs.
           Distributions under Section 8.01(b) to a Beneficiary who is the
           Participant's surviving spouse shall commence not later than the
           close of the calendar year in which the Participant would have
           attained age 70 1/2 or, if later, the close of the calendar year
           immediately following the calendar year in which the death of the
           Participant occurs. In the event such spouse dies prior to the date
           distribution to him or her commences, he or she will be treated for
           purposes of this subsection (other than the preceding sentence) as if
           he or she were the Participant. If the Participant has not designated
           a Beneficiary, or the Participant or Beneficiary has not effectively
           selected a method of distribution, distribution of the Participant's
           benefit shall be completed by the close of the calendar year in which
           the fifth anniversary of the death of the Participant occurs.

           Any amount paid to a child of the Participant will be treated as if
           it had been paid to the surviving spouse if the amount becomes
           payable to the surviving spouse when the child reaches the age of
           majority.

           For purposes of this subsection (b)(1), the life expectancy of a
           Beneficiary who is the Participant's surviving spouse shall be

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           recalculated annually unless the Participant's spouse irrevocably
           elects otherwise prior to the time distributions are required to
           begin. Life expectancy shall be computed in accordance with the
           provisions of subsection (a) above.

           (2) Distribution beginning after Death. If the Participant dies after
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           distribution of his benefits has begun, distributions to the
           Participant's Beneficiary will be made at least as rapidly as under
           the method of distribution being used as of the date of the
           Participant's death.

                For purposes of this Section 8.04(b), distribution of a
       Participant's interest in his Account will be considered to begin as of
       the Participant's required beginning date, as determined under Section
       8.08(b). If distribution in the form of an annuity irrevocably commences
       prior to such date, distribution will be considered to begin as of the
       actual date distribution commences.

       (c) Life Expectancy. For purposes of this Section, life expectancy shall
           ---------------
       be recalculated annually in the case of the Participant or a Beneficiary
       who is the Participant's spouse unless the Participant or Beneficiary
       irrevocably elects otherwise prior to the time distributions are required
       to begin. If not recalculated in accordance with the foregoing, life
       expectancy shall be calculated using the attained age of the Participant
       or Beneficiary, whichever is applicable, as of such individual's birth
       date in the first year for which a minimum distribution is required
       reduced by one for each elapsed calendar year since the date life
       expectancy was first calculated. For purposes of this Section, life
       expectancy and joint life and last survivor expectancy shall be computed
       by use of the expected return multiples in Table V and VI of section
       1.72-9 of the income tax Regulations.

           A Participant's interest in his Account for purposes of this Section
       8.04 shall be determined as of the last valuation date in the calendar
       year immediately preceding the calendar year for which a minimum
       distribution is required, increased by the amount of any contributions
       allocated to, and decreased by any distributions from, such Account after
       the valuation date. Any distribution for the first year for which a
       minimum distribution is required made after the close of such year shall
       be treated as if made prior to the close of such year.

8.05. Immediate Distributions. If the Account distributable to a Participant
      -----------------------
exceeds, or at the time of any prior distribution exceeded, $3,500, no
distribution will be made to the Participant before he reaches his Normal
Retirement Age (or age 62, if later), unless the written consent of the
Participant has been obtained. Such consent shall be made in writing within the
90-day period ending on the Participant's Annuity Starting Date. Within the
period beginning 90 days before the Participant's Annuity Starting Date and
ending 30 days before such Date, the Administrator will provide such Participant
with written notice comparable to the notice described in Section 8.03(b)
containing a general description of the material features and an explanation of
the relative values of the optional forms of benefit available under the Plan
and informing the Participant of his right to defer receipt of the distribution
until his Normal Retirement Age (or age 62, if later).

       The consent of the Participant's spouse must also be obtained if the
Participant is subject to the provisions of Section 8.03(a), unless the
distribution will be made in the form of the applicable retirement annuity
contract described in Section 8.03(b). A spouse's consent to early distribution,
if required, must satisfy the requirements of Section 8.03(d).

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       Neither the consent of the Participant nor the Participant's spouse shall
be required to the extent that a distribution is required to satisfy Section
401(a)(9) or Section 415 of the Code. In addition, upon termination of the Plan
if it does not offer an annuity option (purchased from a commercial provider)
and if the Employer or any Related Employer does not maintain another defined
contribution plan (other than an employee stock ownership plan as defined in
Code Section 4975(e)(7)) the Participant's Account will, without the
Participant's consent, be distributed to the Participant. However, if any
Related Employer maintains another defined contribution plan (other than an
employee stock ownership plan as defined in Section 4975(e)(7) of the Code) then
the Participant's Account will be transferred, without the Participant's
consent, to the other plan if the Participant does not consent to an immediate
distribution.

8.06. Determination of Method of Distribution. The Participant will determine
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the method of distribution of benefits to himself and may determine the method
of distribution to his Beneficiary. Such determination will be made prior to the
time benefits become payable under the Plan. If the Participant does not
determine the method of distribution to his Beneficiary or if the Participant
permits his Beneficiary to override his determination, the Beneficiary, in the
event of the Participant's death, will determine the method of distribution of
benefits to himself as if he were the Participant. A determination by the
Beneficiary must be made no later than the close of the calendar year in which
distribution would be required to begin under Section 8.04(b) or, if earlier,
the close of the calendar year in which the fifth anniversary of the death of
the Participant occurs.

8.07. Notice to Trustee. The Administrator will notify the Trustee in writing
      -----------------
whenever any Participant or Beneficiary is entitled to receive benefits under
the Plan. The Administrator's notice shall indicate the form of benefits that
such Participant or Beneficiary shall receive and (in the case of distributions
to a Participant) the name of any designated Beneficiary or Beneficiaries.

8.08. Time of Distribution. In no event will distribution to a Participant be
      --------------------
made latest than the earlier of the dates described in (a) and (b) below:

       (a) Absent the consent of the Participant (and his spouse, if
       appropriate), the 60th day after the close of the Plan Year in which
       occurs the later of the date on which the Participant attains age 65, the
       date on which the Participant ceases to be employed by the Employer, or
       the 10th anniversary of the year in which the Participant commenced
       participation in the Plan; and

       (b) April 1 of the calendar year first following the calendar year in
       which the Participant attains age 70 1/2 or, in the case of a Participant
       who had attained age 70 1/2 before January 1, 1988, the required
       beginning date determined in accordance with (1) or (2) below:

           (1) The required beginning date of a Participant who is not a
           5-percent owner is the first day of April of the calendar year
           following the calendar year in which the later of retirement or
           attainment of age 70 1/2 occurs.

           (2) The required beginning date of a Participant who is a 5-percent
           owner during any year beginning after December 31, 1979, is the first
           day of April following the later of

                   (A) the calendar year in which the Participant attains age
                   70 1/2, or

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                   (B) the earlier of the calendar year with or within which
                   ends the Plan Year in which the Participant becomes a
                   5-percent owner, or the calendar year in which the
                   Participant retires.

       Notwithstanding the foregoing, in the case of a Participant who attained
age 70 1/2 during 1988 and who had not retired prior to January 1, 1989, the
required beginning date described in this paragraph shall be April 1, 1990.

       Notwithstanding (a) above, the failure of a Participant (and spouse) to
consent to a distribution while a benefit is immediately distributable, within
the meaning of Section 8.05, shall be deemed to be an election to defer
commencement of payment of any benefit sufficient to satisfy (a) above.

       Once distributions have begun to a 5-percent owner under (b) above, they
must continue to be distributed, even if the Participant ceases to be a
5-percent owner in a subsequent year.

       For purposes of (b) above, a Participant is treated as a 5-percent owner
if such Participant is a 5-percent owner as defined in Section 416(i) of the
Code (determined in accordance with Section 416 but without regard to whether
the Plan is top-heavy) at any time during the Plan Year ending with or within
the calendar year in which such owner attains age 66 1/2 or any subsequent Plan
Year.

        The Administrator shall notify the Trustee in writing whenever a
distribution is necessary in order to comply with the minimum distribution rules
set forth in this Section.

8.09. Whereabouts of Participants and Beneficiaries. The Administrator will at
      ---------------------------------------------
all times be responsible for determining the whereabouts of each Participant or
Beneficiary who may be entitled to benefits under the Plan and will at all times
be responsible for instructing the Trustee in writing as to the current address
of each such Participant or Beneficiary. The Trustee will be entitled to rely on
the latest written statement received from the Administrator as to such
addresses. The Trustee will be under no duty to make any distributions under the
Plan unless and until it has received written instructions from the
Administrator satisfactory to the Trustee containing the name and address of the
distributee, the time when the distribution is to occur, and the form which the
distribution will take. Notwithstanding the foregoing, if the Trustee attempts
to make a distribution in accordance with the Administrator's instructions but
is unable to make such distribution because the whereabouts of the distributee
is unknown, the Trustee will notify the Administrator of such situation and
thereafter the Trustee will be under no duty to make any further distributions
to such distributee until it receives further written instructions from the
Administrator. If a benefit is forfeited because the Administrator determines
that the Participant or Beneficiary cannot be found, such benefit will be
reinstated by the Sponsor if a claim is filed by the Participant or Beneficiary
with the Administrator and the Administrator confirms the claim to the Sponsor.

Article 9.  Top-Heavy Provisions.
            --------------------

9.01 Application. If the Plan is or becomes a Top-Heavy Plan in any Plan Year or
     -----------
is automatically deemed to be Top-Heavy in accordance with the Employer's
election in Section 1.12(a)(1) of the Adoption Agreement, the provisions of this
Article 9 shall supersede any conflicting provision in the Plan.

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9.02 Definitions. For purposes of this Article 9, the following terms have the
     -----------
meanings set forth below:

       (a) Key Employee. Any Employee or former Employee (and the Beneficiary of
           ------------
       any such Employee) who at any time during the determination period was
       (1) an officer of the Employer whose annual Compensation exceeds 50
       percent of the dollar limitation under Section 415(b)(1)(A) of the Code,
       (2) an owner (or considered an owner under Section 318 of the Code) of
       one of the ten largest interests in the Employer if such individual's
       annual Compensation exceeds the dollar limitation under Section
       415(c)(1)(A) of the Code, (3) a 5-percent owner of the Employer, or (4) a
       1-percent owner of the Employer who has annual Compensation of more than
       $150,000. For purposes of this paragraph, the determination period is the
       Plan Year containing the Determination Date and the four preceding Plan
       Years. The determination of who is a Key Employee shall be made in
       accordance with Section 416(i)(1) of the Code and the regulations
       thereunder. Annual Compensation means compensation as defined in Section
       5.03(e)(2), but including amounts contributed by the Employer pursuant to
       a salary reduction agreement which are excludable from the employee's
       gross income under Section 125, Section 402(a)(8), and Section 403(b) of
       the Code.

       (b) Top-Heavy Plan. The Plan is a Top-Heavy Plan if any of the following
           --------------
       conditions exists:

           (1) the Top-Heavy Ratio for the Plan exceeds 60 percent and the Plan
           is not part of any Required Aggregation Group or Permissive
           Aggregation Group,

           (2) the Plan is a part of a Required Aggregation Group but not part
           of a Permissive Aggregation Group and the Top-Heavy Ratio for the
           Required Aggregation Group exceeds 60 percent, or

           (3) the Plan is a part of a Required Aggregation Group and a
           Permissive Aggregation Group and the Top-Heavy Ratio for both Groups
           exceeds 60 percent.

       (c) Top-Heavy Ratio.
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           (1) With respect to this Plan, or with respect to any Required
           Aggregation Group or Permissive Aggregation Group that consists
           solely of defined contribution plans (including any simplified
           employee pension plans) and the Employer has not maintained any
           defined benefit plan which during the 5-year period ending on the
           determination date(s) has or has had accrued benefits, the Top-Heavy
           Ratio is a fraction, the numerator of which is the sum of the account
           balances of all Key Employees under the plans as of the Determination
           Date (including any part of any account balance distributed in the
           5-year period ending on the Determination Date), and the denominator
           of which is the sum of all account balances (including any part of
           any account balance distributed in the 5-year period ending on the
           Determination Date) of all participants under the plans as of the
           Determination Date. Both the numerator and denominator of the
           Top-Heavy Ratio shall be increased, to the extent required by Section
           416 of the Code, to reflect any contribution which is due but unpaid
           as of the Determination Date.

           (2) With respect to any Required Aggregation Group or Permissive
           Aggregation Group that includes one or more defined benefit plans
           which, during the 5-year period ending on the Determination Date, has
           covered or could cover a Participant in this Plan, the Top-Heavy
           Ratio is a fraction, the numerator of which is the sum of the account

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           balances under the defined contribution plans for all Key Employees
           and the present value of accrued benefits under the defined benefit
           plans for all Key Employees, and the denominator of which is the sum
           of the account balances under the defined contribution plans for all
           participants and the present value of accrued benefits under the
           defined benefit plans for all participants. Both the numerator and
           denominator of the Top-Heavy Ratio shall be increased for any
           distribution of an account balance or an accrued benefit made in the
           5-year period ending on the Determination Date and any contribution
           due but unpaid as of the Determination Date.

           (3) For purposes of (1) and (2) above, the value of Accounts and the
           present value of accrued benefits will be determined as of the most
           recent Valuation Date that falls within or ends with the 12-month
           period ending on the Determination Date, except as provided in
           Section 416 of the Code and the regulations thereunder for the first
           and second plan years of a defined benefit plan. The Account and
           accrued benefits of a Participant (A) who is not a Key Employee but
           who was a Key Employee in a prior year, or (B) who has not been
           credited with at least one Hour of Service with the Employer at any
           time during the 5-year period ending on the Determination Date, will
           be disregarded. The calculation of the Top-Heavy Ratio, and the
           extent to which distributions, rollovers, and transfers are taken
           into account, shall be made in accordance with Section 416 of the
           Code and the regulations thereunder. Deductible employee
           contributions shall not be taken into account for purposes of
           computing the Top-Heavy Ratio. When aggregating plans, the value of
           Accounts and accrued benefits shall be calculated with reference to
           the Determination Dates that fall within the same calendar year.

                For purposes of determining if the Plan, or any other plan
           included in a Required Aggregation Group of which this Plan is a
           part, is a Top-Heavy Plan, the accrued benefit in a defined benefit
           plan of an Employee other than a Key Employee shall be determined
           under (i) the method, if any, that uniformly applies for accrual
           purposes under all plans maintained by the Employer, or (ii) if there
           is no such method, as if such benefit accrued not more rapidly than
           the slowest accrual rate permitted under the fractional accrual rate
           of Section 411(b)(1)(C) of the Code.

       (d) Permissive Aggregation Group. The Required Aggregation Group plus any
           ----------------------------
       other qualified plans of the Employer or a Related Employer which, when
       considered as a group with the Required Aggregation Group, would continue
       to satisfy the requirements of Sections 401(a)(4) and 410 of the Code.

       (e) Required Aggregation Group.
           --------------------------

           (1) Each qualified plan of the Employer or Related Employer in which
           at least one Key Employee participates, or has participated at any
           time during the determination period (regardless of whether the plan
           has terminated), and

           (2) any other qualified plan of the Employer or Related Employer
           which enables a plan described in (1) above to meet the requirements
           of Sections 401(a)(4) or 410 of the Code.

       (f) Determination Date. For any Plan Year of the Plan subsequent to the
           ------------------
       first Plan Year, the last day of the preceding Plan Year. For the first
       Plan Year of the Plan, the last day of that Plan Year.

       (g) Valuation Date.  The Determination Date.
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       (h) Present Value. Present value shall be based only on the interest rate
           -------------
       and mortality table specified in the Adoption Agreement.

9.03.  Minimum Contribution.
       --------------------

       (a) Except as otherwise provided in (b) and (c) below, the
       Fixed/Discretionary Contributions made on behalf of any Participant who
       is not a Key Employee shall not be less than the lesser of 3 percent (or
       such other percent elected by the Employer in Section 1.12(c)) of such
       Participant's Compensation or, in the case where the Employer has no
       defined benefit plan which designates this Plan to satisfy Section 401 of
       the Code, the largest percentage of Employer contributions, as a
       percentage of the first $200,000 of the Key Employee's Compensation, made
       on behalf of any Key Employee for that year. If the Employer selected the
       Integrated Formula in Section 1.05(a)(2), the minimum contribution shall
       be determined under paragraph (e) of this Section 9.03. Further, the
       minimum contribution under this Section 9.03 shall be made even though,
       under other Plan provisions, the Participant would not otherwise be
       entitled to receive a contribution, or would have received a lesser
       contribution for the year, because (1) the Participant failed to complete
       1,000 Hours of Service or any equivalent service requirement provided in
       the Adoption Agreement; or (2) the Participant's Compensation was less
       than a stated amount.

       (b) The provisions of (a) above shall not apply to any Participant who
       was not employed by the Employer on the last day of the Plan Year.

       (c) The Employer contributions for the Plan Year made on behalf of each
       Participant who is not a Key Employee and who is a participant in a
       defined benefit plan maintained by the Employer shall not be less than 5
       percent of such Participant's Compensation, unless the Employer has
       provided in Section 1.12(c) that the minimum contribution requirement
       will be met in the other plan or plans of the Employer.

       (d) The minimum contribution required under (a) above (to the extent
       required to be nonforfeitable under Section 416(b) of the Code) may not
       be forfeited under Section 411(a)(3)(B) or 411(a)(3)(D) of the Code.

       (e) If the Employer elected an Integrated Formula in Section 1.05(a)(2),
       the allocation steps in Section 4.06(b)(2) shall be preceded by the
       following steps:

                (1) The Discretionary Employer Contributions will be allocated
           to each eligible Participant (as determined under this Section 9.03)
           in the ratio that the Participant's Compensation bears to all
           Participants' Compensation, but not in excess of 3%(or such other
           percent elected by the Employer in Section 1.12(c).

                (2) Any Discretionary Employer Contributions remaining after
           (e)(1) above will be allocated to each eligible Participant in the
           ratio that the Participant's Excess Compensation for the Plan Year
           bears to the Excess Compensation of all eligible Participants, but
           not in excess of 3%(or such other percent elected by the Employer in
           Section 1.12(c)).

9.04. Adjustment to the Limitation on Contributions and Benefits. If this Plan
      ----------------------------------------------------------
is in Top-Heavy status, the number 100 shall be substituted for the number 125
in subsections (e)(3) and (e)(4) of Section 5.03. However, this substitution

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shall not take effect with respect to this Plan in any Plan Year in which the
following requirements are satisfied:

        (a)The Employer contributions for such Plan Year made on behalf of each
        Participant who is not a Key Employee and who is a participant in a
        defined benefit plan maintained by the Employer is not less than 7 1/2
        percent of such Participant's Compensation.

        (b)The sum of the present value as of the Determination Date of (1) the
        aggregate accounts of all Key Employees under all defined contribution
        plans of the Employer and (2) the cumulative accrued benefits of all Key
        Employees under all defined benefit plans of the Employer does not
        exceed 90 percent of the same amounts determined for all Participants
        under all plans of the Employer that are Top-Heavy Plans, excluding
        Accounts and accrued benefits for Employees who formerly were but are no
        longer Key Employees.

           The substitutions of the number 100 for 125 shall not take effect in
        any Limitation Year with respect to any Participant for
        whom no benefits are accrued or contributions made for such Year.

9.05. Minimum Vesting. For any Plan Year in which the Plan is a Top-Heavy Plan
      ---------------
and all Plan Years thereafter, the Top-Heavy vesting schedule elected in Section
1.12(d) will automatically apply to the Plan. The Top-Heavy vesting schedule
applies to all benefits within the meaning of Section 411(a)(7) of the Code
except those attributable to Employee Contributions or those already subject to
a vesting schedule which vests at least as rapidly in all cases as the schedule
elected in Section 1.12(d), including benefits accrued before the Plan becomes a
Top-Heavy Plan. Further, no decrease in a Participant's nonforfeitable
percentage may occur in the event the Plan's status as a Top-Heavy Plan changes
for any Plan Year. However, this Section 9.05 does not apply to the Account of
any Employee who does not have an Hour of Service after the Plan has initially
become a Top-Heavy Plan and such Employee's Account attributable to Employer
Contributions will be determined without regard to this Section 9.05.

Article 10.  Amendment and Termination.
             -------------------------

10.01  Amendment by Employer.  The Employer reserves the authority, subject to
       ---------------------
the provisions of Article 1 and Section 10.03, to
amend the Plan:

       (a) Changes to Elections Contained in the Adoption Agreement. By filing
           --------------------------------------------------------
       with the Trustee an amended Adoption Agreement, executed by the Employer
       only, on which said Employer has indicated a change or changes in
       provisions previously elected by it. Such changes are to be effective on
       the effective date of such amended Adoption Agreement except that
       retroactive changes to a previous election or elections pursuant to the
       regulations issued under Section 401(a)(4) of the Code shall be
       permitted. Any such change notwithstanding, no Participant's Account
       shall be reduced by such change below the amount to which the Participant
       would have been entitled if he had voluntarily left the employ of the
       Employer immediately prior to the date of the change. The Employer may
       from time to time make any amendment to the Plan that may be necessary to
       satisfy Sections 415 or 416 of the Code because of the required
       aggregation of multiple plans by completing overriding plan language in
       the Adoption Agreement. The Employer may also add certain model
       amendments published by the Internal Revenue Service which specifically
       provide that their adoption will not cause the Plan to be treated as an
       individually designed plan; or

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       (b) Other Changes. By amending any provision of the Plan for any reason
           -------------
       other than those specified in (a) above. However, upon making such
       amendment, including a waiver of the minimum funding requirement under
       Section 412(d) of the Code, the Employer may no longer participate in
       this prototype plan arrangement and will be deemed to have an
       individually designed plan. Following such amendment, the Trustee may
       transfer the assets of the Trust to the trust forming part of such newly
       adopted plan upon receipt of sufficient evidence (such as a determination
       letter or opinion letter from the Internal Revenue Service or an opinion
       of counsel satisfactory to the Trustee) that such trust will be a
       qualified trust under the Code.

10.02. Amendment by Prototype Sponsor. The Prototype Sponsor may in its
       ------------------------------
discretion amend the Plan or the Adoption Agreement at any time, subject to the
provisions of Article 1 and Section 10.03, and provided that the Prototype
Sponsor mails a copy of such amendment to the Employer at its last known address
as shown on the books of the Prototype Sponsor.

10.03.  Amendments Affecting Vested and/or Accrued Benefits.
        ---------------------------------------------------

        (a)Except as permitted by Section 10.04, no amendment to the Plan shall
        be effective to the extent that it has the effect of decreasing a
        Participant's Account or eliminating an optional form of benefit with
        respect to benefits attributable to service before the amendment.
        Furthermore, if the vesting schedule of the Plan is amended, the
        nonforfeitable interest of a Participant in his Account, determined as
        of the later of the date the amendment is adopted or the date it becomes
        effective, will not be less than the Participant's nonforfeitable
        interest in his Account determined without regard to such amendment.

        (b)If the Plan's vesting schedule is amended, including any amendment
        resulting from a change to or from Top-Heavy Plan status, or the Plan is
        amended in any way that directly or indirectly affects the computation
        of a Participant's nonforfeitable interest in his Account, each
        Participant with at least three (3) Years of Service for Vesting with
        the Employer may elect, within a reasonable period after the adoption of
        the amendment, to have the nonforfeitable percentage of his Account
        computed under the Plan without regard to such amendment. The
        Participant's election may be made within 60 days from the latest of (1)
        the date the amendment is adopted, (2) the date the amendment becomes
        effective, or (3) the date the Participant is issued written notice of
        the amendment by the Employer or the Administrator.

10.04. Retroactive Amendments. An amendment made by the Prototype Sponsor in
       ----------------------
accordance with Section 10.02 may be made effective on a date prior to the first
day of the Plan Year in which it is adopted if such amendment is necessary or
appropriate to enable the Plan and Trust to satisfy the applicable requirements
of the Code or to conform the Plan to any change in federal law, or to any
regulations or ruling thereunder. Any retroactive amendment by the Employer
shall be subject to the provisions of Section 10.01.

10.05. Termination. The Employer has adopted the Plan with the intention and
       -----------
expectation that contributions will be continued indefinitely. However, said
Employer has no obligation or liability whatsoever to maintain the Plan for any
length of time and may discontinue contributions under the Plan or terminate the
Plan at any time by written notice delivered to the Trustee without any
liability hereunder for any such discontinuance or termination.

                               EXHIBIT 4.1 page 46
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10.06. Distribution upon Termination of the Plan. Upon termination or partial
       -----------------------------------------
termination of the Plan or complete discontinuance of contributions thereunder,
each Participant (including a terminated Participant with respect to amounts not
previously forfeited by him) who is affected by such termination or partial
termination or discontinuance will have a fully vested interest in his Account,
and, subject to Section 4.05 and Article 8, the Trustee will distribute to each
Participant or other person entitled to distribution the balance of the
Participant's Account in a single lump sum payment. In the absence of such
instructions, the Trustee will notify the Administrator of such situation and
the Trustee will be under no duty to make any distributions under the Plan until
it receives written instructions from the Administrator. Upon the completion of
such distributions, the Trust will terminate, the Trustee will be relieved from
all liability under the Trust, and no Participant or other person will have any
claims thereunder, except as required by applicable law.

10.07. Merger or Consolidation of Plan; Transfer of Plan Assets. In case of any
       --------------------------------------------------------
merger or consolidation of the Plan with, or transfer of assets and liabilities
of the Plan to, any other plan, provision must be made so that each Participant
would, if the Plan then terminated, receive a benefit immediately after the
merger, consolidation or transfer which is equal to or greater than the benefit
he would have been entitled to receive immediately before the merger,
consolidation or transfer if the Plan had then terminated.

Article 11.  Amendment and Continuation of Predecessor Plan; Transfer of
             -----------------------------------------------------------
             Funds to or from Other Qualified Plans.
             --------------------------------------

11.01. Amendment and Continuation of Predecessor Plan. In the event the Employer
       ----------------------------------------------
has previously established a plan (the "predecessor plan") which is a defined
contribution plan under the Code and which on the date of adoption of the Plan
meets the applicable requirements of section 401(a) of the Code, the Employer
may, in accordance with the provisions of the predecessor plan, amend and
continue the predecessor plan in the form of the Plan and become the Employer
hereunder, subject to the following:

       (a) Subject to the provisions of the Plan, each individual who was a
       Participant or former Participant in the predecessor plan immediately
       prior to the effective date of such amendment and continuation will
       become a Participant or former Participant in the Plan;

       (b) No election may be made under the vesting provisions of the Adoption
       Agreement if such election would reduce the benefits of a Participant
       under the Plan to less than the benefits to which he would have been
       entitled if he voluntarily separated from the service of the Employer
       immediately prior to such amendment and continuation;

       (c) No amendment to the Plan shall decrease a Participant's accrued
       benefit or eliminate an optional form of benefit and if the amendment of
       the predecessor plan in the form of the Plan results in a change in the
       method of crediting service for vesting purposes between the general
       method set forth in Section 2530.200b-2 of the Department of Labor
       Regulations and the elapsed-time method in Section 2.01(a)(33) of the
       Plan, each Participant with respect to whom the method of crediting
       vesting service is changed shall be treated in the manner set forth by
       the provisions of Section 1.410(a)-7(f)(1) of the Treasury Regulations
       which are incorporated herein by reference;

                               EXHIBIT 4.1 page 47
<PAGE>

       (d) The amounts standing to the credit of a Participant's Account
       immediately prior to such amendment and continuation which represent the
       amounts properly attributable to (1) contributions by the Participant and
       (2) contributions by the Employer and forfeitures will constitute the
       opening balance of his Account or Accounts under the Plan;

       (e) Amounts being paid to a former Participant or to a Beneficiary in
       accordance with the provisions of the predecessor plan will continue to
       be paid in accordance with such provisions;

       (f) Any election and waiver of the qualified pre-retirement annuity in
       effect after August 23, 1984, under the predecessor plan immediately
       before such amendment and continuation will be deemed a valid election
       and waiver of Beneficiary under Section 8.04 if such designation
       satisfies the requirements of Section 8.04(d), unless and until the
       Participant revokes such election and waiver under the Plan; and

       (g) Unless the Employer and the Trustee agree otherwise, all assets of
       the predecessor trust will be deemed to be assets of the Trust as of the
       effective date of such amendment. Such assets will be invested by the
       Trustee as soon as reasonably practicable pursuant to Article 6. The
       Employer agrees to assist the Trustee in any way requested by the Trustee
       in order to facilitate the transfer of assets from the predecessor trust
       to the Trust Fund.

11.02. Transfer of Funds from an Existing Plan. The Employer may from time to
       ---------------------------------------
time direct the Trustee, in accordance with such rules as the Trustee may
establish, to accept cash, allowable Fund Shares or participant loan promissory
notes transferred for the benefit of Participants from a trust forming part of
another qualified plan under the Code, provided such plan is a defined
contribution plan. Such transferred assets will become assets of the Trust as of
the date they are received by the Trustee. Such transferred assets will be
credited to Participants' Accounts in accordance with their respective interests
immediately upon receipt by the Trustee. A Participant's interest under the Plan
in transferred assets which were fully vested and nonforfeitable under the
transferring plan will be fully vested and nonforfeitable at all times. Such
transferred assets will be invested by the Trustee in accordance with the
provisions of paragraph (g) of Section 11.01 as if such assets were transferred
from a predecessor plan. No transfer of assets in accordance with this Section
may cause a loss of an accrued or optional form of benefit protected by Section
411(d)(6) of the Code.

11.03. Acceptance of Assets by Trustee. The Trustee will not accept assets which
       -------------------------------
are not either in a medium proper for investment under the Plan, as set forth in
Section 1.14(b), or in cash. Such assets shall be accompanied by written
instructions showing separately the respective contributions by the prior
employer and by the Employee, and identifying the assets attributable to such
contributions. The Trustee shall establish such accounts as may be necessary or
appropriate to reflect such contributions under the Plan. The Trustee shall hold
such assets for investment in accordance with the provisions of Article 6, and
shall in accordance with the written instructions of the Employer make
appropriate credits to the Accounts of the Participants for whose benefit assets
have been transferred.

11.04. Transfer of Assets from Trust. The Employer may direct the Trustee to
       -----------------------------
transfer all or a specified portion of the Trust assets to any other plan or
plans maintained by the Employer or the employer or employers of a former
Participant or Participants, provided that the Trustee has received evidence
satisfactory to it that such other plan meets all applicable requirements of the
Code. The assets so transferred shall be accompanied by written instructions

                               EXHIBIT 4.1 page 48
<PAGE>

from the Employer naming the persons for whose benefit such assets have been
transferred, showing separately the respective contributions by the Employer and
by each Participant, if any, and identifying the assets attributable to the
various contributions. The Trustee shall have no further liabilities with
respect to assets so transferred.

Article 12.  Miscellaneous.
             -------------

12.01. Communication to Participants. The Plan will be communicated to all
       -----------------------------
Participants by the Employer promptly after the Plan is adopted.

12.02. Limitation of Rights. Neither the establishment of the Plan and the
       --------------------
Trust, nor any amendment thereof, nor the creation of any fund or account, nor
the payment of any benefits, will be construed as giving to any Participant or
other person any legal or equitable right against the Employer, Administrator or
Trustee, except as provided herein; and in no event will the terms of employment
or service of any Participant be modified or in any way affected hereby. It is a
condition of the Plan, and each Participant expressly agrees by his
participation herein, that each Participant will look solely to the assets held
in the Trust for the payment of any benefit to which he is entitled under the
Plan.

12.03. Nonalienability of Benefits and Qualified Domestic Relations Orders. The
       -------------------------------------------------------------------
benefits provided hereunder will not be subject to alienation, assignment,
garnishment, attachment, execution or levy of any kind, either voluntarily or
involuntarily, and any attempt to cause such benefits to be so subjected will
not be recognized, except to such extent as may be required by law. The
preceding sentence shall also apply to the creation, assignment, or recognition
of a right to any benefit payable with respect to a Participant pursuant to a
domestic relations order, unless such order is determined by the Plan
Administrator to be a qualified domestic relations order, as defined in Section
414(p) of the Code, or any domestic relations order entered before January 1,
1985. The Administrator must establish reasonable procedures to determine the
qualified status of a domestic relations order. Upon receiving a domestic
relations order, the Administrator will promptly notify the Participant and any
alternate payee named in the order, in writing, of the receipt of the order and
the Plan's procedures for determining the qualified status of the order. Within
a reasonable period of time after receiving the domestic relations order, the
Administrator must determine the qualified status of the order and must notify
the Participant and each alternate payee, in writing, of its determination. The
Administrator must provide notice under this paragraph by mailing to the
individual's address specified in the domestic relations order, or in a manner
consistent with the Department of Labor regulations.

        If any portion of the Participant's Account is payable during the period
the Administrator is making its determination of the qualified status of the
domestic relations order, the Administrator must make a separate accounting of
the amounts payable. If the Administrator determines the order is a qualified
domestic relations order within 18 months of the date amounts first are payable
following receipt of the order, the Administrator will direct the Trustee to
distribute the payable amounts in accordance with the order. If the
Administrator does not make his determination of the qualified status of the
order within the 18-month determination period, the Administrator will direct
the Trustee to distribute the payable amounts in the manner the Plan would
distribute if the order did not exist and will apply the order prospectively if
the Administrator later determines the order is a qualified domestic relations
order.

                               EXHIBIT 4.1 page 49
<PAGE>

        A domestic relations order will not fail to be deemed a qualified
domestic relations order merely because it requires the distribution or
segregation of all or part of a Participant's Account with respect to an
alternate payee prior to the Participant's earliest retirement age (as defined
in Section 414(p) of the Code) under the Plan. A distribution to an alternate
payee prior to the Participant's attainment of the earliest retirement age is
available only if (a) the order specifies distribution at that time and (b) if
the present value of the alternate payee's benefits under the Plan exceeds
$3,500, and the order requires, and the alternate payee consents to, a
distribution occurring prior to the Participant's attainment of earliest
retirement age.

12.04. Facility of Payment. In the event the Administrator determines, on the
       -------------------
basis of medical reports or other evidence satisfactory to the Administrator,
that the recipient of any benefit payments under the Plan is incapable of
handling his affairs by reason of minority, illness, infirmity or other
incapacity, the Administrator may direct the Trustee to disburse such payments
to a person or institution designated by a court which has jurisdiction over
such recipient or a person or institution otherwise having the legal authority
under state law for the care and control of such recipient. The receipt by such
person or institution of any such payments shall be complete acquittance
therefore, and any such payment to the extent thereof, shall discharge the
liability of the Trust for the payment of benefits hereunder to such recipient.

12.05. Information between Employer and Trustee. The Employer agrees to furnish
       ----------------------------------------
the Trustee, and the Trustee agrees to furnish the Employer, with such
information relating to the Plan and Trust as may be required by the other in
order to carry out their respective duties hereunder, including without
limitation information required under the Code and any regulations issued or
forms adopted by the Treasury Department thereunder or under the provisions of
ERISA and any regulations issued or forms adopted by the Labor Department
thereunder.

12.06. Effect of Failure to Qualify Under Code. Notwithstanding any other
       ---------------------------------------
provision contained herein, if the Employer fails to obtain or retain approval
of the Plan by the Internal Revenue Service as a qualified Plan under the Code,
the Employer may no longer participate in this prototype Plan arrangement and
will be deemed to have an individually designed plan.

12.07. Notices. Any notice or other communication in connection with this Plan
       -------
shall be deemed delivered in writing if addressed as provided below and if
either actually delivered at said address or, in the case of a letter, three
business days shall have elapsed after the same shall have been deposited in the
United States mails, first-class postage prepaid and registered or certified:

       (a) If to the Employer or Administrator, to it at the address set forth
       in the Adoption Agreement, to the attention of the person specified to
       receive notice in the Adoption Agreement;

       (b) If to the Trustee, to it at the address set forth in the Adoption
Agreement;

or, in each case at such other address as the addressee shall have specified by
written notice delivered in accordance with the foregoing to the addressor's
then effective notice address.

12.08. Governing Law. The Plan and the accompanying Adoption Agreement will be
       -------------
construed, administered and enforced according to ERISA, and to the extent not
preempted thereby, the laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

                               EXHIBIT 4.1 page 50
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Article 13.  Plan Administration.
             --------------------

13.01. Powers and Responsibilities of the Administrator. The Administrator has
       ------------------------------------------------
the full power and the full responsibility to administer the Plan in all of its
details, subject, however, to the requirements of ERISA. The Administrator's
powers and responsibilities include, but are not limited to, the following:

       (a) To make and enforce such rules and regulations as it deems necessary
       or proper for the efficient administration of the Plan;

       (b) To interpret the Plan, its interpretation thereof in good faith to be
       final and conclusive on all persons claiming benefits under the Plan;

       (c) To decide all questions concerning the Plan and the eligibility of
       any person to participate in the Plan;

       (d) To administer the claims and review procedures specified in Section
       13.03;

       (e) To compute the amount of benefits which will be payable to any
       Participant, former Participant or Beneficiary in accordance with the
       provisions of the Plan;

       (f) To determine the person or persons to whom such benefits will be
       paid;

       (g) To authorize the payment of benefits and provide for the distribution
       of Code Section 402(f) notices;

       (h) To comply with the reporting and disclosure requirements of Part 1 of
       Subtitle B of Title I of ERISA;

       (i) To appoint such agents, counsel, accountants, and consultants as may
       be required to assist in administering the Plan;

       (j) By written instrument, to allocate and delegate its fiduciary
       responsibilities in accordance with Section 405 of ERISA including the
       formation of an Administrative Committee to administer the Plan;

       (k) To provide bonding coverage as required under Section 412 of ERISA.

13.02. Nondiscriminatory Exercise of Authority. Whenever, in the administration
       ---------------------------------------
of the Plan, any discretionary action by the Administrator is required, the
Administrator shall exercise its authority in a nondiscriminatory manner so that
all persons similarly situated will receive substantially the same treatment.

13.03.  Claims and Review Procedures.
        ----------------------------

       (a) Claims Procedure. If any person believes he is being denied any
           ----------------
       rights or benefits under the Plan, such person may file a claim in
       writing with the Administrator. If any such claim is wholly or partially
       denied, the Administrator will notify such person of its decision in
       writing. Such notification will contain (1) specific reasons for the
       denial, (2) specific reference to pertinent Plan provisions, (3) a
       description of any additional material or information necessary for such
       person to perfect such claim and an explanation of why such material or
       information is necessary, and (4) information as to the steps to be taken
       if the person wishes to submit a request for review. Such notification
       will be given within 90 days after the claim is received by the

                               EXHIBIT 4.1 page 51
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       Administrator (or within 180 days, if special circumstances require an
       extension of time for processing the claim, and if written notice of such
       extension and circumstances is given to such person within the initial
       90-day period). If such notification is not given within such period, the
       claim will be considered denied as of the last day of such period and
       such person may request a review of his claim.

       (b) Review Procedure. Within 60 days after the date on which a person
           ----------------
       receives a written notice of a denied claim (or, if applicable, within 60
       days after the date on which such denial is considered to have occurred),
       such person (or his duly authorized representative) may (1) file a
       written request with the Administrator for a review of his denied claim
       and of pertinent documents and (2) submit written issues and comments to
       the Administrator. The Administrator will notify such person of its
       decision in writing. Such notification will be written in a manner
       calculated to be understood by such person and will contain specific
       reasons for the decision as well as specific references to pertinent Plan
       provisions. The decision on review will be made within 60 days after the
       request for review is received by the Administrator (or within 120 days,
       if special circumstances require an extension of time for processing the
       request, such as an election by the Administrator to hold a hearing, and
       if written notice of such extension and circumstances is given to such
       person within the initial 60-day period). If the decision on review is
       not made within such period, the claim will be considered denied.

13.04. Named Fiduciary. The Administrator is a "named fiduciary" for purposes of
       ---------------
Section 402(a)(1) of ERISA and has the powers and responsibilities with respect
to the management and operation of the Plan described herein.

13.05. Costs of Administration. Unless some or all are paid by the Employer, all
       -----------------------
reasonable costs and expenses (including legal, accounting, and employee
communication fees) incurred by the Administrator and the Trustee in
administering the Plan and Trust will be paid first from the forfeitures (if
any) resulting under Section 7.07, then from the remaining Trust Fund. All such
costs and expenses paid from the Trust Fund will, unless allocable to the
Accounts of particular Participants, be charged against the Accounts of all
Participants on a prorata basis or in such other reasonable manner as may be
directed by the Employer.

Article 14.  Trust Agreement.
             ----------------

14.01. Acceptance of Trust Responsibilities. By executing the Adoption
       ------------------------------------
Agreement, the Employer establishes a trust to hold the assets of the Plan. By
executing the Adoption Agreement, the Trustee agrees to accept the rights,
duties and responsibilities set forth in this Article 14.

14.02. Establishment of Trust Fund. A trust is hereby established under the Plan
       ---------------------------
and the Trustee will open and maintain a trust account for the Plan and, as part
thereof, Participants' Accounts for such individuals as the Employer shall from
time to time give written notice to the Trustee are Participants in the Plan.
The Trustee will accept and hold in the Trust Fund such contributions on behalf
of Participants as it may receive from time to time from the Employer. The Trust
Fund shall be fully invested and reinvested in accordance with the applicable
provisions of the Plan in Fund Shares or as otherwise provided in Section 14.10.

14.03. Exclusive Benefit. The Trustee shall hold the assets of the Trust Fund
       -----------------
for the exclusive purpose of providing benefits to Participants and

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Beneficiaries and defraying the reasonable expenses of administering the Plan.
No assets of the Plan shall revert to the Employer except as specifically
permitted by the terms of the Plan.

14.04. Powers of Trustee. The Trustee shall have no discretion or authority with
       -----------------
respect to the investment of the Trust Fund but shall act solely as a directed
trustee of the funds contributed to it. In addition to and not in limitation of
such powers as the Trustee has by law or under any other provisions of the Plan,
the Trustee will have the following powers, each of which the Trustee exercises
solely as directed Trustee in accordance with the written direction of the
Employer except to the extent a Plan asset is subject to Participant direction
of investment and provided that no such power shall be exercised in any manner
inconsistent with the provisions of ERlSA:

        (a) to deal with all or any part of the Trust Fund and to invest all or
a part of the Trust Fund in investments available under the Plan, without regard
to the law of any state regarding proper investment;

        (b) to retain uninvested such cash as it may deem necessary or
advisable, without liability for interest thereon, for the administration of
the Trust;

        (c) to sell, convert, redeem, exchange, or otherwise dispose of all or
any part of the assets constituting the Trust Fund;

        (d) to enforce by suit or otherwise, or to waive, its rights on behalf
of the Trust, and to defend claims asserted against it or the Trust, provided
that the Trustee is indemnified to its satisfaction against liability and
expenses;

        (e) to employ such agents and counsel as may be reasonably necessary in
collecting, managing, administering, investing, distributing and protecting the
Trust Fund or the assets thereof and to pay them reasonable compensation;

        (f) to compromise, adjust and settle any and all claims against or in
favor of it or the Trust;

        (g) to oppose, or participate in and consent to the reorganization,
merger, consolidation, or readjustment of the finances of any enterprise, to pay
assessments and expenses in connection therewith, and to deposit securities
under deposit agreements;

        (h) to apply for or purchase annuity contracts in accordance with
Section 8.02;

        (i) to hold securities unregistered, or to register them in its own name
or in the name of nominees;

        (j) to appoint custodians to hold investments within the jurisdiction of
the district courts of the United States and to deposit securities with stock
clearing corporations or depositories or similar organizations;

        (k) to make, execute, acknowledge and deliver any and all instruments
that it deems necessary or appropriate to carry out the powers herein granted;
and

        (l) generally to exercise any of the powers of an owner with respect to
all or any part of the Trust Fund.

           The Employer specifically acknowledges and authorizes that affiliates
of the Trustee may act as its agent in the performance of ministerial,
nonfiduciary duties under the Trust. The expenses and compensation of such agent
shall be paid by the Trustee.

                               EXHIBIT 4.1 page 53
<PAGE>

           The Trustee shall provide the Employer with reasonable notice of any
claim filed against the Plan or Trust or with regard to any related matter, or
of any claim filed by the Trustee on behalf of the Plan or Trust or with regard
to any related matter.

14.05. Accounts. The Trustee will keep full accounts of all receipts and
       --------
disbursements and other transactions hereunder. Within 60 days after the close
of each Plan Year, within 60 days after termination of the Trust, and at such
other times as may be appropriate, the Trustee will determine the then net fair
market value of the Trust Fund as of the close of the Plan Year, as of the
termination of the Trust, or as of such other time, whichever is applicable, and
will render to the Employer and Administrator an account of its administration
of the Trust during the period since the last such accounting, including all
allocations made by it during such period.

14.06. Approving of Accounts. To the extent permitted by law, the written
       ---------------------
approval of any account by the Employer or Administrator will be final and
binding, as to all matters and transactions stated or shown therein, upon the
Employer, Administrator, Participants and all persons who then are or thereafter
become interested in the Trust. The failure of the Employer or Administrator to
notify the Trustee within six (6) months after the receipt of any account of its
objection to the account will, to the extent permitted by law, be the equivalent
of written approval. If the Employer or Administrator files any objections
within such six (6) month period with respect to any matters or transactions
stated or shown in the account, and the Employer or Administrator and the
Trustee cannot amicably settle the question raised by such objections, the
Trustee will have the right to have such questions settled by judicial
proceedings. Nothing herein contained will be construed so as to deprive the
Trustee of the right to have judicial settlement of its accounts. In any
proceeding for a judicial settlement of any account or for instructions, the
only necessary parties will be the Trustee, the Employer and the Administrator.

14.07. Distribution from Trust Fund. The Trustee shall make such distribution
       ----------------------------
from the Trust Fund as the Employer or Administrator may in writing direct, as
provided by the terms of the Plan, upon certification by the Employer or
Administrator that the same is for the exclusive benefit of Participants or
their Beneficiaries, or for the payment of expenses of administering the Plan.

14.08. Transfer of Amounts from Qualified Plan. If the Plan provides that
       ---------------------------------------
amounts may be transferred to the Plan from another qualified plan or trust
under Section 401(a) of the Code, such transfer shall be made in accordance with
the provisions of the Plan and with such rules as may be established by the
Trustee. The Trustee will only accept assets which are in a medium proper for
investment under this agreement or in cash. Such amounts shall be accompanied by
written instructions showing separately the respective contributions by the
prior employer and the transferring Employee, and identifying the assets
attributable to such contributions. The Trustee shall hold such assets for
investment in accordance with the provisions of this agreement.

14.09. Transfer of Assets from Trust. Subject to the provisions of the Plan, the
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Employer may direct the Trustee to transfer all or a specified portion of the
Trust assets to any other plan or plans maintained by the Employer or the
employer or employers of a former Participant or Participants, provided that the
Trustee has received evidence satisfactory to it that such other plan meets all
applicable requirements of the Code. The assets so transferred shall be
accompanied by written instructions from the Employer naming the persons for

                               EXHIBIT 4.1 page 54
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whose benefit such assets have been transferred, showing separately the
respective contributions by the Employer and by each Participant, if any, and
identifying the assets attributable to the various contributions. The Trustee
shall have no further liabilities with respect to assets so transferred.

14.10. Separate Trust or Fund for Existing Plan Assets. With the consent of the
       -----------------------------------------------
Trustee, the Employer may maintain a trust or fund (including a group annuity
contract) under this prototype plan document separate from the Trust Fund for
Plan assets purchased prior to the adoption of this prototype plan document
which are not Fidelity Funds listed in Section 1.14(b). The Trustee shall have
no authority and no responsibility for the Plan assets held in such separate
trust or fund. The duties and responsibilities of the trustee of a separate
trust shall be provided by a separate trust agreement, between the Employer and
the trustee.

        Notwithstanding the preceding paragraph, the Trustee or an affiliate of
the Trustee may agree in writing to provide ministerial recordkeeping services
for guaranteed investment contracts held in the separate trust or fund. The
guaranteed investment contract(s) shall be valued as directed by the Employer or
the Trustee of the separate trust.

        The trustee of the separate trust (hereafter referred to as "trustee")
will be the owner of any insurance contract purchased prior to the adoption of
this prototype plan document. The insurance contract(s) must provide that
proceeds will be payable to the trustee; however the trustee shall be required
to pay over all proceeds of the contract(s) to the Participant's designated
Beneficiary in accordance with the distribution provisions of this plan. A
Participant's spouse will be the designated Beneficiary of the proceeds in all
circumstances unless a qualified election has been made in accordance with
Article 8. Under no circumstances shall the trust retain any part of the
proceeds. In the event of any conflict between the terms of this plan and the
terms of any insurance contract purchased hereunder, the plan provisions shall
control.

        Any life insurance contracts held in the Trust Fund or in the separate
trust are subject to the following limits:

        (a) Ordinary life - For purposes of these incidental insurance
       provisions, ordinary life insurance contracts are contracts with both
       nondecreasing death benefits and nonincreasing premiums. If such
       contracts are held, less than 1/2 of the aggregate employer contributions
       allocated to any Participant will be used to pay the premiums
       attributable to them.

       (b) Term and universal life - No more than 1/4 of the aggregate employer
       contributions allocated to any participant will be used to pay the
       premiums on term life insurance contracts, universal life insurance
       contracts, and all other life insurance contracts which are not ordinary
       life.

       (c) Combination - The sum of 1/2 of the ordinary life insurance premiums
       and all other life insurance premiums will not exceed 1/4 of the
       aggregate employer contributions allocated to any Participant.

14.11. Voting; Delivery of Information. The Trustee shall deliver, or cause to
       -------------------------------
be executed and delivered, to the Employer or Plan Administrator all notices,
prospectuses, financial statements, proxies and proxy soliciting materials
received by the Trustee relating to securities held by the Trust or, if
applicable, deliver these materials to the appropriate Participant or the
Beneficiary of a deceased Participant. The Trustee shall not vote any securities

                               EXHIBIT 4.1 page 55
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held by the Trust except in accordance with the written instructions of the
Employer, Participant or the Beneficiary of the Participant, if the Participant
is deceased; however, the Trustee may, in the absence of instructions, vote
"present" for the sole purpose of allowing such shares to be counted for
establishment of a quorum at a shareholders' meeting. The Trustee shall have no
duty to solicit instructions from Participants, Beneficiaries, or the Employer.

14.12. Compensation and Expenses of Trustee. The Trustee's fee for performing
       ------------------------------------
its duties hereunder will be such reasonable amounts as the Trustee may from
time to time specify by written agreement with the Employer. Such fee, any taxes
of any kind which may be levied or assessed upon or with respect to the Trust
Fund, and any and all expenses, including without limitation legal fees and
expenses of administrative and judicial proceedings, reasonably incurred by the
Trustee in connection with its duties and responsibilities hereunder will,
unless some or all have been paid by said Employer, be paid first from
forfeitures resulting under Section 7.07, then from the remaining Trust Fund and
will, unless allocable to the Accounts of particular Participants, be charged
against the respective Accounts of all Participants, in such reasonable manner
as the Trustee may determine.

14.13. Reliance by Trustee on Other Persons. The Trustee may rely upon and act
       ------------------------------------
upon any writing from any person authorized by the Employer or Administrator to
give instructions concerning the Plan and may conclusively rely upon and be
protected in acting upon any written order from the Employer or Administrator or
upon any other notice, request, consent, certificate, or other instructions or
paper reasonably believed by it to have been executed by a duly authorized
person, so long as it acts in good faith in taking or omitting to take any such
action. The Trustee need not inquire as to the basis in fact of any statement in
writing received from the Employer or Administrator.

       The Trustee will be entitled to rely on the latest certificate it has
received from the Employer or Administrator as to any person or persons
authorized to act for the Employer or Administrator hereunder and to sign on
behalf of the Employer or Administrator any directions or instructions, until it
receives from the Employer or Administrator written notice that such authority
has been revoked.

       Notwithstanding any provision contained herein, the Trustee will be under
no duty to take any action with respect to any Participant's Account (other than
as specified herein) unless and until the Employer or Administrator furnishes
the Trustee with written instructions on a form acceptable to the Trustee, and
the Trustee agrees thereto in writing. The Trustee will not be liable for any
action taken pursuant to the Employer's or Administrator's written instructions
(nor for the collection of contributions under the Plan, nor the purpose or
propriety of any distribution made thereunder).

14.14. Indemnification by Employer. The Employer shall indemnify and save
       ---------------------------
harmless the Trustee from and against any and all liability to which the Trustee
may be subjected by reason of any act or conduct (except willful misconduct or
negligence) in its capacity as Trustee, including all expenses reasonably
incurred in its defense.

14.15. Consultation by Trustee with Counsel. The Trustee may consult with legal
       ------------------------------------
counsel (who may be but need not be counsel for the Employer or the
Administrator) concerning any question which may arise with respect to its
rights and duties under the Plan and Trust, and the opinion of such counsel
will, to the extent permitted by law, be full and complete protection in respect
of any action taken or omitted by the Trustee hereunder in good faith and in
accordance with the opinion of such counsel.

                               EXHIBIT 4.1 page 56
<PAGE>

14.16. Persons Dealing with the Trustee. No person dealing with the Trustee will
       --------------------------------
be bound to see to the application of any money or property paid or delivered to
the Trustee or to inquire into the validity or propriety of any transactions.

14.17. Resignation or Removal of Trustee. The Trustee may resign at any time by
       ---------------------------------
written notice to the Employer, which resignation shall be effective 60 days
after delivery to the Employer. The Trustee may be removed by the Employer by
written notice to the Trustee, which removal shall be effective 60 days after
delivery to the Trustee.

       Upon resignation or removal of the Trustee, the Employer may appoint a
successor trustee. Any such successor trustee will, upon written acceptance of
his appointment, become vested with the estate, rights, powers, discretion,
duties and obligations of the Trustee hereunder as if he had been originally
named as Trustee in this Agreement.

       Upon resignation or removal of the Trustee, the Employer will no longer
participate in this prototype plan and will be deemed to have adopted an
individually designed plan. In such event, the Employer shall appoint a
successor trustee within said 60-day period and the Trustee will transfer the
assets of the Trust to the successor trustee upon receipt of sufficient evidence
(such as a determination letter or opinion letter from the Internal Revenue
Service or an opinion of counsel satisfactory to the Trustee) that such trust
will be a qualified trust under the Code.

        The appointment of a successor trustee shall be accomplished by delivery
to the Trustee of written notice that the Employer has appointed such successor
trustee, and written acceptance of such appointment by the successor trustee.
The Trustee may, upon transfer and delivery of the Trust Fund to a successor
trustee, reserve such reasonable amount as it shall deem necessary to provide
for its fees, compensation, costs and expenses, or for the payment of any other
liabilities chargeable against the Trust Fund for which it may be liable. The
Trustee shall not be liable for the acts or omissions of any successor trustee.

14.18. Fiscal Year of the Trust. The fiscal year of the Trust will coincide with
       ------------------------
the Plan Year.

14.19. Discharge of Duties by Fiduciaries. The Trustee and the Employer and any
       ----------------------------------
other fiduciary shall discharge their duties under the Plan and this Trust
Agreement solely in the interests of Participants and their Beneficiaries in
accordance with the requirements of ERISA.

14.20. Amendment. In accordance with provisions of the Plan, and subject to the
       ---------
limitations set forth therein, this Trust Agreement may be amended by an
instrument in writing signed by the Employer and the Trustee. No amendment to
this Trust Agreement shall divert any part of the Trust Fund to any purpose
other than as provided in Section 2 hereof.

14.21. Plan Termination. Upon termination or partial termination of the Plan or
       ----------------
complete discontinuance of contributions thereunder, the Trustee will make
distributions to the Participants or other persons entitled to distributions as
the Employer or Administrator directs in accordance with the provisions of the
Plan. In the absence of such instructions and unless the Plan otherwise
provides, the Trustee will notify the Employer or Administrator of such
situation and the Trustee will be under no duty to make any distributions under
the Plan until it receives written instructions from the Employer or
Administrator. Upon the completion of such distributions, the Trust will

                               EXHIBIT 4.1 page 57
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terminate, the Trustee will be relieved from all liability under the Trust, and
no Participant or other person will have any claims thereunder, except as
required by applicable law.

14.22. Permitted Reversion of Funds to Employer. If it is determined by the
       ----------------------------------------
Internal Revenue Service that the Plan does not initially qualify under Section
401 of the Code, all assets then held under the Plan will be returned by the
Trustee, as directed by the Administrator, to the Employer, but only if the
application for determination is made by the time prescribed by law for filing
the Employer's return for the taxable year in which the Plan was adopted or such
later date as may be prescribed by regulations. Such distribution will be made
within one year after the date the initial qualification is denied. Upon such
distribution the Plan will be considered to be rescinded and to be of no force
or effect.

       Contributions under the Plan are conditioned upon their deductibility
under Section 404 of the Code. In the event the deduction of a contribution made
by the Employer is disallowed under Section 404 of the Code, such contribution
(to the extent disallowed) must be returned to the Employer within one year of
the disallowance of the deduction.

       Any contribution made by the Employer because of a mistake of fact must
be returned to the Employer within one year of the contribution.

14.23. Governing Law. This Trust Agreement will be construed, administered and
       -------------
enforced according to ERISA and, to the extent not preempted thereby, the laws
of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

                               EXHIBIT 4.1 page 58
<PAGE>

                                    ADDENDUM
                                       to
                          CORPORATEplan for Retirement
                         THE PROFIT SHARING/401(K) PLAN
                       FIDELITY BASIC PLAN DOCUMENT No. 07

                         Re: Retroactive Effective Dates

This Addendum is intended to clarify and set forth the effective dates of
certain provisions of the Plan with respect to the adopting Employer. This
Addendum applies only to the extent that the Employer has not amended the Plan
with respect to the applicable provisions of the Tax Reform Act of 1986 ("TRA
'86"). Unless otherwise specifically provided by the terms of the Plan, this
amendment and restatement is effective with respect to each change made to
satisfy the provisions of (i) TRA '86, (ii) any other change in the Code or
ERISA, or (iii) regulations, rulings, or other published guidance issued under
the Code, ERISA, or TRA '86, the first day of the first period (which may or may
not be the first day of a Plan year) with respect to which such change became
required because of such provision (including any day that became such as a
result of an election or waiver by an Employer or a waiver or exemption issued
under the Code, ERISA, or TRA `86), including, but not limited to, the
following:

(a) The following changes as required by TRA '86 are effective for Plan Years
beginning after December 31, 1986, unless a delayed effective date applies
because the Plan is collectively-bargained or because of an applicable exemption
or waiver:

         (1)      Changes in the definition of Employee in Section 2.01(a)(10)
                  to reflect changes in the safe harbor exclusion for Leased
                  Employees;

         (2)      Changes in the definition of Highly Compensated Employee in
                  Section 2.01(a)(16)

         (3)      Addition of the aggregate deferral limit under Section 402(g)
                  of the Code in Section 4.01(c);

         (4)      Changes to the Code Section 401(k) discrimination test in
                  Section 4.02;

         (5)      Addition of the Code Section 401(m) discrimination test and
                  application of the Aggregate Limit in Section 4.04;

         (6)      Compliance with the Code Section 414(s) compensation
                  definition requirements in Sections 5.03 and 9.03;

         (7)      Changes in the Participant Loan provisions in Section 7.09; if
                  applicable, to reflect new dollar limitations, repayment
                  requirements, and restrictions applicable to Highly
                  Compensated Employees under Section 72(p) of the Code;

         (8)      Changes in the definition of Key Employee in Section 9.02(a);
                  and

         (9)      Changes in the definition of Top-Heavy Ratio in Section
                  9.02(c)(3) to provide for ratable accrual.

(b) Changes in the 415 limitations in Section 5.03 as required by TRA '86 are
effective for limitation years beginning after December 31, 1986, unless a
delayed effective date applies because the Plan is collectively-bargained or
because of an applicable waiver or exemption; provided, however, that Annual
Additions shall not be recalculated to take into account all Employee
contributions for limitation years beginning before the effective date.

                          EXHIBIT 4.1 (ADDENDUM) page 1
<PAGE>

(c) The following changes as required by TRA '86 are effective for Plan years
beginning After December 31, 1987, unless a delayed effective date applies
because the Plan is collectively-bargained or because of an applicable waiver or
exemption:

         (1)      Changes required to provide that allocations shall not be
                  decreased or discontinued because of attainment of any age,
                  if any; and

         (2)      Changes in the definition of Normal Retirement Age in Section
                  1.06(a), if any, to reflect the five years of participation
                  rule.

(d) The following changes as required by TRA '86 are effective for Plan Years
beginning after December 31, 1988, unless a delayed effective date applies
because the Plan is collectively-bargained or because of an applicable waiver or
exemption:

         (1)      Changes in the vesting schedule specified in Section 1.07, if
                  applicable;

         (2)      Changes in the permitted disparity rules in Section
                  4.06(b0(2), if applicable; and

         (3)      Changes in the requirements for electing a former vesting
                  schedule in Section 10.03, if applicable.

Notwithstanding the foregoing and subject to applicable law, with respect to
Plan years beginning after December 31, 1986, and before the date of this
restatement of the Plan, the Employer may elect to operate the Plan in
accordance with any transitional rule published by the Internal Revenue Service
or a reasonable, good faith interpretation of TRA '86 and related applicable
law, in which event such transitional rule or good faith interpretation shall
prevail over the provisions in this restatement of the Plan with respect to such
Plan Year.

Each other change made under the Plan is effective as of the date specified in
Section 1.01(g) of the Adoption Agreement, unless otherwise specifically
provided by the terms of the Plan.

                          EXHIBIT 4.1 (ADDENDUM) page 2

<PAGE>

                        CORPORATEplan for Retirement[SM]
                           Profit Sharing/401(k) Plan

                       Fidelity Basic Plan Document No. 07
                                  Amendment One

Section 2.01(a)(7) "Compensation" is amended to include:
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         In addition to other applicable limitations set forth in the plan, and
notwithstanding any other provision of the plan to the contrary, for plan years
beginning on or after January 1, 1994, the annual compensation of each Employee
taken into account under the plan shall not exceed the OBRA '93 annual
compensation limit. The OBRA '93 annual compensation limit is $150,000, as
adjusted by the Commissioner for increases in the cost of living in accordance
with section 401(a)(17)(B) of the Internal Revenue Code. The cost-of-living
adjustment in effect for a calendar year applies to any period, not exceeding 12
months, over which compensation is determined (determination period) beginning
in such calendar year. If a determination period consists of fewer than 12
months, the OBRA '93 annual compensation will be multiplied by a fraction, the
numerator of which is the number of months in the determination period, and the
denominator of which is 12.

         For plan years beginning on or after January 1, 1994, any reference in
this plan to the limitation under section 401(a)(17) of the Code shall mean the
OBRA '93 annual compensation limit set forth in this provision. Notwithstanding
2.01(a)(7)(A), for purpose of Section 4.02 (Additional Limit on Deferral
Contributions) and Section 4.04 (Limit on Matching Contributions), the Employer
may use Compensation as defined in Section 5.03(e)(2) excluding reimbursements
or other expense allowances, fringe benefits (cash and non-cash), moving
expenses, deferred compensation and welfare benefits, but including amounts that
are not includable in the gross income of the Participant under a salary
reduction agreement by reason of the application of Section 125, 402(a)(8),
402(h) or 403(b) of the Code.

         If compensation for any prior determination period is taken into
account in determining an Employee's benefits accruing in the current plan year,
the compensation for that prior determination period is subject to the OBRA '93
annual compensation limit in effect for that prior determination period. For
this purpose, for determination periods beginning before the first day of the
first plan year beginning on or after January 1, 1994, the OBRA '93 annual
compensation limit is $150,000.

Section 8.01(d) "Distribution of Benefits to Participants and Beneficiaries" is
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amended to include:

         (5) If a distribution is one to which sections 401(a)(11) and 417 of
the Internal Revenue Code do not apply, such distribution may commence less than
30 days after the notice required under section 1.411(a)-11(c) of the Income Tax
Regulations is given, provided that:

            (1) the administrator clearly informs the Participant that the
                Participant has a right to a period of at least 30 days after
                receiving the notice to consider the decision of whether or not
                to elect a distribution (and, if applicable, a particular
                distribution option), and

         the Participant, after receiving the notice, affirmatively elects a
         distribution.

                          EXHIBIT 4.1 (ADDENDUM) page 3

<PAGE>

                               Model Amendment to
                       The CORPORATEplan FOR RETIREMENT[SM]

                          PROFIT SHARING / 401 (k) PLAN
                                (Document No. 07)

         This amendment is effective for plan years beginning after December 11,
1994.

         Notwithstanding any provision of this plan to the contrary, to the
extent any optional form of benefit under this plan permits a distribution prior
to the employee's retirement, death, disability, or severance from employment,
and prior to plan termination, the optional form of benefit is not available
with respect to benefits attributable to assets (including the post-transfer
earnings thereon) and liabilities that are transferred, within the meaning of
ss. 414 (1) of the Internal Revenue Code, to this plan from a money purchase
pension plan qualified under ss. 401(a) of the Internal Revenue Code (other than
any portion of those assets and liabilities attributable to voluntary employee
contributions).

                          EXHIBIT 4.1 (ADDENDUM) page 4

<PAGE>

                         CORPORATEplan for Retirement[SM]
                           Profit Sharing/401(k) Plan

                       Fidelity Basic Plan Document No. 07
                                  Amendment Two

Effective December 1, 1996, Section 2.01(a)(25) shall be amended to read as
follows:

(25)   "Registered Investment Company" means any one or more corporations,
       partnerships or trusts registered under the Investment Company Act of
       1940.

                          EXHIBIT 4.1 (ADDENDUM) page 5

<PAGE>

                            SAFE HARBOR CONTRIBUTION
                                 PLAN AMENDMENT

          WHEREAS, Pulse Engineering, Inc. (the "Employer") adopted the Pulse
Engineering, Inc. 401(k) Plan (the "Plan") through adoption of the CORPORATEplan
for RETIREMENT[sm] Profit Sharing/401(k) Adoption Agreement and Basic Plan
Document No. 07;

          WHEREAS, the Employer desires to amend the Plan to add a safe harbor
contribution provision;

          NOW THEREFORE, the Employer amends the Plan effective January 1, 2000
to add the following Addendum to the Adoption Agreement:

                              SAFE HARBOR ADDENDUM

Notwithstanding any other provision of the Plan to the contrary, if the Employer
has elected one of the safe harbor contributions in this Addendum and complies
with the notice requirements of Code Section 401(k)(12)(D) for the Plan Year,
the Plan shall be deemed to have satisfied the Actual Deferral Percentage test
("ADP test") described in Section 4.02. In addition, if the Employer has elected
one of the safe harbor contributions in Part II of this Addendum and does not
provide for a match on Deferral Contributions in excess of six percent of a
Participant's Compensation, the Plan shall be deemed to have satisfied the
Average Contribution Percentage test ("ACP test") described in Section 4.04 with
respect to Matching Contributions. If the Plan provides for Employee
Contributions, the ACP test described in Section 4.04 must be applied with
respect to such Employee Contributions. For purposes of applying the ACP test
with respect to Employee Contributions, Matching Contributions and Employer
Contributions that satisfy the vesting and distribution requirements applicable
to safe harbor contributions, but which are not required to comply with the safe
harbor contribution requirements may be taken into account.

                                       1
<PAGE>

PART I  -  If a selection is made under this Part I, Part I shall amend and
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           restate  Sections  1.05(a)(1) and (2) of the Adoption Agreement.

(a)        [ ]      Employer Contributions.

           (1)             [ ] Safe Harbor Employer Contribution - For each
                           Plan Year, the Employer shall contribute for each
                           eligible Participant an amount equal to % (not less
                           than 3% nor more than 15%) of such Participant's
                           Compensation.

                  Note:    If the Employer elects the Safe Harbor Employer
                           Contribution and wants to be deemed to have satisfied
                           the ACP test, the percentage of contributions matched
                           may not increase as the percentage of Compensation
                           contributed increases and the contributions matched
                           may not exceed 6% of a Participant's Compensation.

                  (A)      [ ]      The formula specified at (a)(1) above
                                    is also intended to satisfy the safe harbor
                                    contribution requirement for deemed
                                    satisfaction of the ACP test with respect to
                                    Matching Contributions and therefore,
                                    notwithstanding any other provision of the
                                    Plan to the contrary, contributions matched
                                    shall not exceed 6% of a Participant's
                                    Compensation. (Employee Contributions must
                                    still be tested.)

                  Note:    Notwithstanding any other provision of the Plan to
                           the contrary, contributions made under this
                           Subsection (a)(1) shall be 100% vested when made and
                           are distributable only in accordance with the
                           distribution provisions that are applicable to
                           Deferral Contributions.

                  (2)      [ ]      Discretionary Contribution - The
                                    Employer may decide each Plan Year whether
                                    to make a discretionary Employer
                                    Contribution on behalf of eligible
                                    Participants in accordance with Section
                                    4.06. Such contribution may only be funded
                                    by the Employer after the Plan Year ends and
                                    shall be allocated to eligible Participants
                                    based upon the following (check (A) or (B)):

                  (A)      [ ]      Nonintegrated Allocation Formula - In
                                    the ratio that each eligible Participant's
                                    Compensation bears to the total Compensation
                                    paid to all eligible Participants for the
                                    Plan Year.

                  (B)      [ ]      Integrated Allocation Formula - In
                                     accordance with Section 4.06.

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                           Note:    An Employer who maintains any other plan
                                    that provides for Social Security
                                    Integration (permitted disparity) may not
                                    elect (a)(2)(B). Also, any contribution made
                                    pursuant to (a)(2)(B) shall be made in
                                    addition to the Safe Harbor Employer
                                    Contribution in Subsection (a)(1) and such
                                    Safe Harbor Employer Contributions shall not
                                    be taken into account in determining whether
                                    the allocation made pursuant to (a)(2)(B) as
                                    a percentage of the sum of each
                                    Participant's Compensation and Excess
                                    Compensation exceeds 5.7%.

Part II  -  If a selection is made under this Part II, Part II shall amend
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            and restate Sections  1.05(c)(1),  (2) and (3) of the Adoption
            Agreement.

(c)         [X]         Matching Contributions.

            (1)   [X]   Safe Harbor Matching Contributions

                  (A)      [ ]      100% of the first 3% of the
                                    Participant's Compensation contributed to
                                    the Plan and 50% of the next 2% of the
                                    Participant's Compensation contributed to
                                    the Plan.

                           Note:    This formula also meets the safe harbor
                                    contribution requirements for deemed
                                    satisfaction of the ACP test with respect to
                                    Matching Contributions. (Employee
                                    Contributions must still be tested.)

                  (B)      [X]      Other Tiered Match: 100% of the first
                                    6% of the Participant's Compensation
                                    contributed to the Plan,

                                    100% of the next 6% of the Participant's
                                    Compensation contributed to the Plan,

                                    _________% of the next ____________% of the
                                    Participant's Compensation contributed to
                                    the Plan.

                           Note:    To satisfy the safe harbor contribution
                                    requirement for the ADP test, the
                                    percentages specified above for Matching
                                    Contributions may not increase as the
                                    percentage of Compensation contributed
                                    increases, and the aggregate amount of
                                    Matching Contributions at such rates must at
                                    least equal the aggregate amount of Matching
                                    Contributions which would be made under the
                                    percentages described in Section
                                    1.05(c)(1)(A) of this Addendum.

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                           (i)  [X] The formula specified at (c)(1)(B)
                                    above is also intended to satisfy the safe
                                    harbor contribution requirement for deemed
                                    satisfaction of the ACP test with respect to
                                    Matching Contributions. (Employee
                                    Contributions must still be tested.)

                  Note:    Matching Contributions made under this Section
                           1.05(c)(1) shall be 100% vested when made and are
                           distributable only in accordance with the
                           distribution provisions that are applicable to
                           Deferral Contributions.

           (2)             [ ]  Additional Matching Contributions - The
                           Employer may at Plan Year end make an additional
                           Matching Contribution equal to a percentage declared
                           by the Employer, through a Board of Directors'
                           Resolution (or by a Letter of Intent of a Sole
                           Proprietor or Partnership), of the Deferral
                           Contributions made by each Participant during the
                           Plan Year. The Board of Directors' Resolution (or
                           Letter of Intent, if applicable) may limit the
                           Deferral Contributions matched to a specific dollar
                           amount or percentage of Compensation.

                  Note:    If the Employer elects the Safe Harbor Matching
                           Contribution and the additional Matching Contribution
                           above and wants to be deemed to have satisfied the
                           ADP test, the percentage of contributions matched may
                           not increase as the percentage of Compensation
                           contributed increases. In addition, if the Employer
                           wants to be deemed to have satisfied the ACP test,
                           the contributions matched may not exceed 6% of a
                           Participant's Compensation.

Notwithstanding any other provision of the Plan to the contrary, if Article 1 of
the Employer's Plan is the Non-Standardized Adoption Agreement any compensation
exclusions (i.e., bonuses, commissions, overtime pay, etc.) selected under
Section 1.04(a) of the Adoption Agreement shall not apply for purposes of
determining Safe Harbor Matching Contributions or Safe Harbor Employer
Contributions. However, for purposes of Safe Harbor Matching Contributions, a
Participant's Compensation shall not include reimbursements or other expense
allowances, fringe benefits, moving expenses, deferred compensation, welfare
benefits, sick pay, severance pay, restricted stock awards and amounts
includible in income under a stock option or employee stock purchase plan.

Further notwithstanding any other provision of the Plan to the contrary, any
hours of service and/or last day eligibility requirement(s) specified in Section
1.05(a)(3) shall not apply with respect to Safe Harbor Employer Contributions.
In addition, if Article 1 of the Employer's Plan is the Non-Standardized
Adoption Agreement, any hours of service and/or last day eligibility
requirements or provisions excluding Highly Compensated Employees and/or
Partners under Section 1.05(c)(4) shall not apply with respect to Safe Harbor
Matching Contributions.

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         IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Employer has caused this Amendment to be
executed this 19th day of November , 1999.

                              Employer:         Pulse Engineering, Inc.

                              By:               /s/ Joel A. Miller
                                                --------------------------------
                              Title:            Vice President - Human Resources

Accepted by:

Fidelity Management Trust Company, as Trustee

By:      /s/ Eric L. Wichmann                             Date: 12/2/99
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Title:   Authorized Signatory
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                             AMENDMENT NO. 1 TO THE
                       PULSE ENGINEERING, INC. 401(k) PLAN

          WHEREAS, the Pulse Engineering, Inc. (the "Employer") adopted the
Pulse Engineering, Inc. 401(k) Plan (the "Plan") through adoption of the
Fidelity Investments CORPORATE plan for Retirement[sm] Profit Sharing/401(k)
Basic Plan Document No. 07, effective as of July 1, 1986; and

         WHEREAS, the Sponsor desires to amend the Plan to add employer stock as
an investment option:

          NOW, THEREFORE, the Sponsor amends the Plan as follows effective as of
January 1, 2000;

          1. Section 2.01(a)(34)is added to the Basic Plan Document No. 07 as
follows:

         "Permissible Investment" means the investments specified by the
Employer as available for investment of assets of the Trust and agreed to by the
Trustee.

          2. Section 14.24 is added to the Basic Plan No. 07 as follows:

14.24 Employer Stock Option. If one of the Permissible Investments is equity
securities issued by the Employer or a Related Company which are publicly traded
and which are "qualifying employer securities" within the meaning of Section
407(d)(5) of ERISA ("Employer stock"), investments in "Employer stock" shall be
made via the "Employer stock" investment fund (the "stock fund") which shall
consist of shares of "Employer stock" and short-term liquid investments
consisting of mutual fund shares or commingled money market pool units as agreed
to by the Employer and the Trustee, necessary to satisfy the "stock fund's" cash
needs for transfers and payments. A cash target range shall be maintained in the
"stock fund". Such target range may be changed as agreed to in writing by the
Employer and the Trustee. The Trustee is responsible for ensuring that the
actual cash held in the "stock fund" falls within the agreed upon range over
time.

         Each Participant's interest in the "stock fund" shall be measured
either in actual shares of "Employer stock" that are allocated to the
Participant's Account and a proportionate interest in all other assets of the
"stock fund" or units of participation, as provided in the Service Agreement. If
accounting is by units of participation, such units shall represent a
proportionate interest in all assets of the "stock fund," which includes shares
of "Employer stock", short-term investments and at times, receivables for
dividends and/or "Employer stock" sold and payables for "Employer stock"
purchased. A net asset value per unit shall be determined daily for each cash
unit outstanding of the "stock fund". The return earned by the "stock fund"
shall represent a combination of the dividends paid on the shares of "Employer
stock" held by the "stock fund", gains or losses realized on sales of "Employer
stock", appreciation or depreciation in the market price of those shares owned,
and interest on the short-term investments held by the "stock fund".

         Dividends received by the "stock fund" are reinvested in additional
shares of "Employer Stock". Investments in "Employer Stock" shall be subject to
the following limitations:

         (a) Acquisition Limit. Pursuant to the Plan, the Trust may be invested
in "Employer stock" to the extent necessary to comply with investment directions
under Section 6.02 of the Plan. Notwithstanding the foregoing, effective for
deferral contributions made for Plan Years beginning on or after January 1,
1999, the portion of a Participant's Deferral Contributions that the Employer
may require to be invested in "Employer stock" for a Plan Year cannot exceed
one-percent of such Participant's Compensation for the Plan Year.

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         (b) Fiduciary Duly of "Named Fiduciary". The Administrator or any
person designated by the Administrator as a named fiduciary under Section 13.01
(the "named fiduciary") shall continuously monitor the suitability under the
fiduciary duty rules of ERISA Section 404(a)(1) (as modified by ERISA Section
404(a)(2) of acquiring and holding "Employer stock". The Trustee shall not be
liable for any loss, or by reason of any breach, which arises from the
directions of the "named fiduciary" with respect to the acquisition and holding
of "Employer stock", unless it is clear on their face that the actions to be
taken under those directions would be prohibited by the foregoing fiduciary duty
rules or would be contrary to the terms of the Plan or this Trust Agreement.

         (c) Execution of Purchases and Sales. Purchases and sales of "Employer
stock" (other than for exchanges) shall be made on the open market on the date
on which the Trustee receives from the Employer in good order all information
and documentation necessary to accurately effect such purchases and sales (or,
in the case of purchases, the subsequent date on which the Trustee has received
a wire transfer of the funds necessary to make such purchases). Such general
rules shall not apply in the following circumstances:

               (1) If the Trustee is unable to determine the number of shares
          required to be purchased or sold on such day;

               (2) If the Trustee is unable to purchase or sell the total number
          of shares required to be purchased or sold on such day as a result of
          market conditions; or

               (3) If the Trustee is prohibited by the Securities and Exchange
          Commission, the New York Stock Exchange, or any other regulatory body
          from purchasing or selling any or all of the shares required to be
          purchased or sold on such day.

In the event of the occurrence of the circumstances described in (1), (2), or
(3) above, the Trustee shall purchase or sell such shares as soon as possible
thereafter and shall determine the price of such purchases or sales to be the
average purchase or sales price of all such shares purchased or sold,
respectively. The Trustee may follow directions from the "named fiduciary" to
deviate from the above purchase and sale procedures provided that such direction
is made in writing by the "named fiduciary".

         (a) Purchases and Sales from or to Employer. If directed by the
Employer in writing prior to the trading date, the Trustee may purchase or sell
"Employer stock" from or to the Employer if the purchase or sale is for adequate
consideration (within the meaning of ERISA Section 3(18) and no commission is
charged. If Employer contributions or contributions made by the Employer on
behalf of the Participants under the Plan are to be invested in "Employer
stock", the Employer may transfer "Employer stock" in lieu of cash to the Trust.
In either case, the number of shares to be transferred shall be determined by
dividing the total amount of "Employer stock" to be purchased or sold by the
closing price of the "Employer stock" on any national securities exchange on the
trading date.

Use of "Affiliated Broker" to Purchase "Employer Stock". The Employer hereby
directs the Trustee to use the "affiliated broker" designated below to provide
brokerage services in connection with any purchase or sale of "Employer stock"
in accordance with investment directions from Participants and/or the Employer
if and to the extent that each has authority to direct investments under Section
1.14 of the Adoption Agreement. The provision of brokerage services hereunder by
the "affiliated broker" shall be subject to the provisions discussed in this
Subsection.

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         The Employer hereby directs the Trustee to use Fidelity Brokerage
         Services, Inc. ("affiliated broker") to purchase or sell individual
         securities for Participant Accounts in accordance with investment
         directions provided by such Participants. In accordance with the
         requirements of Department of Labor Prohibited Transaction Class
         Exception ("PTCE") 86-128, the ("affiliated broker") may not be a
         trustee (other than a non-discretionary trustee), the Administrator, or
         an Employer, unless otherwise permitted under Section IV of PTCE
         86-128. The provision of brokerage services by the ("affiliated
         broker") shall be subject to the following:

                  1. In accordance with the procedures set forth in PTCE 86-128,
                  the Trustee shall provide the Employer with the following
                  documents: (i) a description of the "affiliated brokers"
                  brokerage placement practices; (ii) a copy of PTCE 86-128;
                  (iii) an annual report which summarizes all securities
                  transaction-related charges incurred by the Plan; and (iv) a
                  form by which the Employer may terminate this authorization to
                  use a broker affiliated with the Trustee. The Trustee shall
                  provide the Employer with the termination form described above
                  annually.

                  2. Any successor organization of the ("affiliated broker")
                  through reorganization, consolidation, merger, or similar
                  transactions, shall, upon consummation of such transaction,
                  become the successor broker in accordance with the terms of
                  this authorization provision.

                  3. The Trustee and the ("affiliated broker") shall continue to
                  rely on this authorization provision until notified to the
                  contrary. The Employer reserves the right to terminate this
                  authorization upon a sixty (60) days written notice to the
                  ("affiliated broker") (or its successor) and the Trustee, and
                  in accordance with Section 14.24 of this Agreement.

         (f) Securities Law Reports. The "named fiduciary" shall be responsible
for filing all reports required under Federal or state securities laws with
respect to the Trust's ownership of "Employer stock"; including, without
limitation, any reports required under Section 13 or 16 of the Securities
Exchange Act of 1934 and shall immediately notify the Trustee in writing of any
requirement to stop purchases or sales of "Employer stock" pending the filing of
any report. The Trustee shall provide to the "named fiduciary" such information
on the Trust's ownership of "Employer stock" as the "named fiduciary" may
reasonably request in order to comply with Federal or state securities laws.

         (g) Voting and Tender Offers. Notwithstanding any other provision of
the Trust Agreement the provisions of this Subsection shall govern the voting
and tendering of "Employer stock". If the Plan uses share accounting with
respect to the "stock fund", each Participant shall be designated as a named
fiduciary under ERISA with respect to shares of "Employer stock" credited to the
Participant's Account that were not acquired at the direction of the Participant
in accordance with ERISA Section 404(c). If accounting with respect to the
"stock fund" is by units of participation, each Participant shall be designated
a named fiduciary under ERISA with respect to shares of "Employer stock"
attributable to units in the "stock fund" credited to the Participant's Account
not acquired at the direction of the Participant in accordance with ERISA
Section 404(c).

         The Employer, after consultation with the Trustee, shall provide and
pay for all printing, mailing, tabulation and other costs associated with the
voting and tendering of "Employer stock", except as required by law.

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         (1)      Voting.
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                  (A) When the issuer of the "Employer stock" prepares for any
                  annual or special meeting, the Employer shall notify the
                  Trustee thirty (30) days in advance of the intended record
                  date and shall cause a copy of all materials to be sent to the
                  Trustee. Based on these materials the Trustee shall prepare a
                  voting instruction form. At the time of mailing of notice of
                  each annual or special stockholders meeting of the issuer of
                  the "Employer stock", the Employer shall cause a copy of the
                  notice and all proxy solicitation materials to be sent to each
                  Participant with an interest in "Employer stock" held in the
                  Trust, together with the foregoing voting instruction form to
                  be returned to the Trustee or its designee. The form shall
                  show the proportional interest in the number of full and
                  fractional shares of "Employer stock" credited to the
                  Participant's SubAccounts held in the "stock fund". The
                  Employer shall provide the Trustee with a copy of any
                  materials provided to the Participants and shall (if the
                  mailing is not handled by the Trustee) certify that the
                  materials have been mailed or otherwise sent to Participants.

                  (B) Each Participant with an interest in the "stock fund"
                  shall have the right to direct the Trustee as to the manner in
                  which the Trustee is to vote (including not to vote) that
                  number of shares of "Employer stock" that is credited to his
                  Account, if the Plan uses share accounting, or, if accounting
                  is by units of participation, that reflects such Participant's
                  proportional interest in the "stock fund" (both vested and
                  unvested). Directions from a Participant to the Trustee
                  concerning the voting of "Employer stock" shall be
                  communicated in writing, or by mailgram or similar means.
                  These directions shall be held in confidence by the Trustee
                  and shall not be divulged to the Employer, or any officer or
                  employee thereof, or any other person. Upon its receipt of the
                  directions, the Trustee shall vote the shares of "Employer
                  stock" that are credited to a Participant's Account, if the
                  Plan uses share accounting, or, if accounting is by units of
                  participation, that reflect the Participant's proportional
                  interest in the "stock fund" as directed by the Participant.
                  The Trustee shall not vote shares of "Employer stock" that are
                  credited to a Participant's Account, if the Plan uses share
                  accounting, or, if accounting is by units of participation,
                  that reflect a Participant's proportional interest in the
                  "stock fund" for which the Trustee has received no direction
                  from the Participant, except as required by law.

         (2)      Tender Offers.
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                  (A) Upon commencement of a tender offer for any securities
                  held in the Trust that are "Employer stock", the Employer
                  shall notify each Participant with an interest in such
                  "Employer stock" of the tender offer and utilize its best
                  efforts to timely distribute or cause to be distributed to the
                  Participant the same information that is distributed to
                  shareholders of the issuer of "Employer stock" in connection
                  with the tender offer, and, after consulting with the Trustee,
                  shall provide and pay for a means by which the Participant may
                  direct the Trustee whether or not to tender the "Employer
                  stock" that is credited to a Participant's Account, if the
                  Plan uses share accounting, or, if accounting is by units of
                  participation, that reflects such Participant's proportional
                  interest in the "stock fund" (both vested and unvested). The
                  Employer shall provide the Trustee with a copy of any material
                  provided to the Participants and shall (if the mailing is not
                  handled by the Trustee) certify to the Trustee that the
                  materials have been mailed or otherwise sent to Participants.

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                  (B) Each Participant shall have the right to direct the
                  Trustee to tender or not to tender some or all of the shares
                  of "Employer stock" that are credited to his Account, if the
                  Plan uses share accounting, or, if accounting is by units of
                  participation, that reflect such Participant's proportional
                  interest in the "stock fund" (both vested and unvested).
                  Directions from a Participant to the Trustee concerning the
                  tender of "Employer stock" shall be communicated in writing,
                  or by mailgram or such similar means as is agreed upon by the
                  Trustee and the Employer under the preceding paragraph. These
                  directions shall be held in confidence by the Trustee and
                  shall not be divulged to the Employer, or any officer of
                  employee thereof, or any other person, except to the extend
                  that the consequences of such directions are reflected in
                  reports regularly communicated to any such persons in the
                  ordinary course of the performance of the Trustee's services
                  hereunder. The Trustee shall tender or not tender shares of
                  "Employer stock" as directed by the Participant. The Trustee
                  shall not tender shares of "Employer stock" that are credited
                  to a Participant's Account, if the Plan uses share accounting,
                  or, if accounting is by units of participation, that reflect a
                  Participant's proportional interest in the "stock fund" for
                  which the Trustee has received no direction from the
                  Participant.

                  (C) A Participant who has directed the Trustee to tender some
                  or all of the shares of "Employer stock" that are credited to
                  his Account, if the Plan uses share accounting, or, if
                  accounting is by units of participation, that reflect the
                  Participant's proportional interest in the "stock fund" may,
                  at any time prior to the tender offer withdrawal date, direct
                  the Trustee to withdraw some or all of such tendered shares,
                  and the Trustee shall withdraw the directed number of shares
                  from the tender offer prior to the tender offer withdrawal
                  deadline. A Participant shall not be limited as to the number
                  of directions to tender or withdraw that the Participant may
                  give to the Trustee.

                  (D) A direction by a Participant to the Trustee to tender
                  shares of "Employer stock" that are credited to the
                  Participant's Account, if the Plan uses share accounting, or,
                  if accounting is by units of participation, that reflect the
                  Participant's proportional interest in the "stock fund" shall
                  not be considered a written election under the Plan by the
                  Participant to withdraw, or have distributed, any or all of
                  his withdrawable shares. If the Plan uses share accounting,
                  the Trustee shall credit to the Participant's Account the
                  proceeds received by the Trustee in exchange for the shares of
                  "Employer stock" tendered from the Participant's Account. If
                  accounting is by units of participation, the Trustee shall
                  credit to each proportional interest of the Participant from
                  which the tendered shares were taken the proceeds received by
                  the Trustee in exchange for the shares of "Employer stock"
                  tendered from that interest. Pending receipt of direction
                  (through the Administrator) from the Participant or the "named
                  fiduciary", as provided in the plan, as to which of the
                  remaining permissible investments the proceeds should be
                  invested in, the Trustee shall invest the proceeds in the
                  Permissible Investment specified for such purposes in the
                  Service Agreement or, if no such Permissible Investment has
                  been specified, the most conservative Permissible Investment
                  designated by the Employer in the Service Agreement.

         (h) Shares Credited. If accounting with respect to the "stock fund" is
by units of participation, then for all purposes of this Section 14.24, the
number of shares of "Employer stock" deemed "credited" or "reflected" to a
Participant's proportional interest shall be determined as of the last preceding
valuation date. The trade date is the date the transaction is valued.

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         (i) General. With respect to all rights other than the right to vote,
the right to tender, and the right to withdraw shares previously tendered, in
the case of "Employer stock" credited to a Participant's Account or proportional
interest in the "stock fund", the Trustee shall follow the directions of the
Participant and if no such directions are received, the directions of the "named
fiduciary". The Trustee shall have no duty to solicit directions from
Participants.

         (j) Conversion. All provisions in this Section 14.24 shall also apply
to any securities received as a result of a conversion to "Employer stock".

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Employer has signed this instrument this 19th day of
November 1999.

PULSE ENGINEERING, INC.

By:     /s/ Joel A. Miller
        ----------------------------
Title:  V.P. Human Resources
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                                       6<PAGE>

                                                                    EXHIBIT 10.1

               iMediation Software License and Support Agreement
________________________________________________________________________________

This Software Site License and Support Agreement ("Agreement") is made on
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December 30, 1999 (the "Effective Date") by and between iMediation Inc, located
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at 100 Hamilton Avenue, Palo Alto, CA 94301 ("iMediation"), and Virtual
                                              ----------
Communities Inc, located at 589 Eighth Avenue, New York, NY 10018 ("Licensee").
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In consideration of the mutual covenants and promises set forth hereafter, the
parties agree as follows:

1.  Definitions.
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"Confidential Information" of a party means any information disclosed by that
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party to the other party pursuant to this Agreement which is in written,
graphic, machine readable or other tangible form and is marked "Confidential,"
"Proprietary" or in some other manner to indicate its confidential nature.
Confidential Information may also include oral information disclosed by one
party to the other pursuant to this Agreement, provided that such information is
designated as confidential at the time of disclosure and is reduced to writing
by the disclosing party within a reasonable time (not to exceed thirty (30)
days) after its oral disclosure, and such writing is marked in a manner to
indicate its confidential nature and delivered to the receiving party during the
term of this Agreement.

"Documentation" means the user manuals, training materials, and operating
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materials, if any, iMediation provides to Licensee under this Agreement.

"Implementation Fees" means the fees Licensee must pay iMediation, as set forth
 -------------------
under Section 6 and Exhibit C, to receive Implementation Services from
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iMediation.

"Implementation Services" means the implementation services Licensee may elect
 -----------------------
to receive from iMediation, as set forth in Section 5 and Exhibit C.
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"Installation Site" means the business premises owned or leased and operated
 -----------------
solely by Licensee, or Licensee's external hosting site, which locations are
described in the iMediation Order Form.

"Intellectual Property Rights" means any trade secrets, patents, copyrights,
 ----------------------------
trademarks, know-how, moral rights and similar rights of any type under the laws
of any governmental authority, domestic or foreign, including all applications
and registrations relating to any of the foregoing.

"License Fees" means the fees Licensee must pay iMediation, as set forth in
 ------------
Section 6, to license the Software from iMediation.

"Licensee Hardware" means all computers owned or controlled by Licensee and
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located at the Installation Site.

"Licensee Network" means Licensee's internal or externally hosted computer
 ----------------
network, which is: (i) located at the Installation Site; (ii) comprised of
Licensee Hardware; and (iii) accessible only by Licensee employees and
contractors.

"Order Form" means any iMediation Technologies Order Form, with the initial
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order set forth in Exhibit A, and which is subject to the terms and conditions
                   ---------
of this Agreement.

"Software" means the software programs, in object code format only, that
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Licensee purchases from iMediation under this Agreement pursuant to an Order
Form, and all Upgrades thereto provided by iMediation under Section 4.

"Software Support" means the software support, set forth in more detail in
 ----------------
Exhibit B, that Licensee may elect to purchase from iMediation.
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"Software Support Plan" means the then-current software support plan, subject to
 ---------------------
payment of Support Fees, that iMediation makes generally available to its
customers and offers to Licensee hereunder.  A copy of iMediation's Software
Support Plan, current as of the Effective Date, is set forth in Exhibit B.
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"Support Fees" means the fees Licensee must pay iMediation, as set forth under
 ------------
Section 6, to receive Software Support.

"Upgrades" will have the meaning set forth in Exhibit B
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"Virtual Community(ies)" shall mean a web site built and maintained by Licensee
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for which the Software is hosted by Licensee.

"Year 2000 Ready" means, with respect to the Software, when used in accordance
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with the Documentation, such Software is capable of correctly processing,
providing and/or receiving date data within and between the twentieth and
twenty-first centuries, provided that all other hardware, software, firmware and
other products used with such Software properly exchange accurate date data with
it.

All references in this Agreement to the "purchase" or "sale" of Software shall
mean the acquiring or granting, respectively, of a license to such Software.
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2.   License Grant.
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     2.1  License Grant.  iMediation hereby grants to Licensee, and Licensee's
          -------------
wholly owned subsidiaries, for the time period stated on Exhibit A, a
nonexclusive, worldwide, nontransferable license, without rights to sublicense,
to: (i) install the Software on Licensee Hardware; (ii) allow Licensee employees
and contractors to use the documentation and Software on Licensee Hardware or
through the Licensee Network only at the Installation Site; and (iii) reproduce
the Software and Documentation solely as necessary to support the use by
Licensee of the Software.

     2.2  Restrictions.  Licensee shall not cause or permit reverse engineering,
          ------------
disassembly, de-compilation, or make any attempt to discover the source code of
the Software.  Licensee will not alter or impair any acknowledgment of copyright
or other intellectual property rights of iMediation that may appear in the
Software and Documentation. Subject to Exhibit A, Licensee shall not (i) permit
any  third parties to use the Software, (ii) further distribute, assign or
resell the Software, other than in conjunction with Licensee's provision of the
Software service to Virtual Communities for consideration so  long as the
Software is hosted by Licensee, (iii) rent, lease or loan the Software or (iv)
use the Software for commercial time-sharing or service bureau use for other
than the business purposes outlined in Exhibit A.

3.   Ownership.  Subject to Section 2.1, iMediation retains all right, title,
     ---------
and interest under its Intellectual Property Rights to the Software and the
Documentation. IMediation represents and warrants that it is the owner of the
Intellectual Property rights to the Software.

4.   Support.  Licensee may elect to receive Software Support and Upgrades under
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iMediation's then-current Software Support Plan, upon payment to iMediation of
the Support Fees.  The initial annual Software Support Plan term shall commence
on the Effective Date of this Agreement.

5.   Implementation Services.  iMediation will provide Implementation Services
     -----------------------
to Licensee. subject to the terms of this Agreement and Exhibit A.

6.   Delivery, Payment.  All orders for Software, Software Support, and
     -----------------
Implementation Services shall be placed by Licensee on an Order Form, which is
subject to acceptance by iMediation.  Upon acceptance of such Order Form,
iMediation shall deliver the version of the Software identified on the Order
Form, in object code form only, within three (3) business days.  Delivery shall
be F.O.B. iMediation's facility.  iMediation shall  invoice Licensee in
accordance with Exhibit A for : (i) the balance of the License Fees; (ii) the
balance of the initial Support Fees; and (iii) Implementation Fees due under
such Order Form.  In addition, iMediation will invoice Licensee monthly for all
travel expenses (including transportation, meals, and lodging) which iMediation
reasonably incurs hereunder.  IMediation shall review in advance the expenses
with Licensee's Business Development Director or such other person appointed by
Licensee prior to incurring such expenses.  Licensee shall pay such invoices
pursuant to any payment terms stated on the applicable Order Form, or if payment
terms are not stated on the Order Form, within thirty (30) days of the invoice.
Any amounts due and not received by iMediation within such forty-five (45) day
period shall be subject to interest charges calculated at 1% per month.

7.   Warranty. iMediation warrants to Licensee that the Software as initially
     --------
delivered hereunder and Upgrades thereto, in unaltered form, will perform
substantially in accordance with the related Documentation for a period of  one-
hundred-and-eighty (180) days from delivery thereof to Licensee (the "Warranty
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Period").
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Year 2000.  In addition, iMediation represents and warrants that the Software is
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Year 2000 Ready.

This limited warranty does not cover loss or damage for any: (i) modification or
repair of the Software by Licensee or any third party other than iMediation;
(ii) failure or incompatibility of the Software with computer hardware or other
software not supplied by iMediation; or (iii) accident, neglect, failure of
electric power, storage or use in improper or adverse environmental conditions,
misuse, negligence, catastrophe, operator error, or causes other than ordinary
and intended commercial use.  If Licensee notifies iMediation of the material
nonconformance of the Software with the Documentation during the Warranty Period
and if iMediation confirms such nonconformance, iMediation's entire liability
and Licensee's sole and exclusive remedy shall be, at iMediation's option, to
use best commercial efforts to : (i) correct or provide a bug fix, error
correction, or work around for documented reproducible nonconformance; (ii)
replace the Software; or (iii) terminate this Agreement and refund the fees paid
by Licensee for the Software. EXCEPT AS EXPRESSLY SET FORTH IN SECTION 7,
IMEDIATION DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES, EITHER EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, WITH
RESPECT TO THE SOFTWARE, DOCUMENTATION, SOFTWARE SUPPORT AND ANY IMPLEMENTATION
SERVICES PROVIDED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF
MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
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8.  Indemnification.
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    8.1  Indemnification.  iMediation will defend any action brought against
         ---------------
Licensee by a third party to the extent it is based on a claim that the
Software, Upgrades, or Documentation supplied by iMediation hereunder, when used
by Licensee as authorized under Section 2, infringes any third party copyright,
trade secret or other intellectual property right.  iMediation will pay any
award against Licensee, or settlement entered into on Licensee's behalf, based
on such infringement. In connection therewith, Licensee shall use reasonable
efforts to, only if: (i) notifies iMediation promptly in writing of the claim;
(ii) provides reasonable assistance in connection with the defense and/or
settlement thereof, at iMediation's expense; and (iii) permits iMediation to
control the defense and/or settlement thereof.  In the event of an infringement
action against iMediation with respect to the Software, or in the event
iMediation believes such a claim is likely, iMediation shall be entitled at its
option  to (i) appropriately modify the Software, or substitute other Software
which, in iMediation's opinion, does not infringe any third party Intellectual
Property Rights; (ii) obtain a license with respect to the applicable third
party Intellectual Property Rights; or (iii) if neither (i) nor (ii) is
commercially practicable, terminate this Agreement and refund to Licensee the
License Fees received by iMediation under Section 6.  THE FOREGOING STATES
LICENSEE'S SOLE AND EXCLUSIVE REMEDY WITH RESPECT TO CLAIMS OF INFRINGEMENT OF
THIRD PARTY PROPRIETARY RIGHTS OF ANY KIND.

    8.2  Limitations.  iMediation will have no liability to Licensee under any
         -----------
provisions of this Section 8 to the extent that any infringement or claim
thereof is based upon: (i) modifications to the Software or Documentation made
by Licensee or a third party other than iMediation or (ii) the use of other than
the most current release of the Software, including Upgrades, or Documentation
delivered by iMediation to Licensee if such claim would have been prevented by
the use of the most current release made available to Licensee by iMediation,
and provided that iMediation has provided Licensee with Upgrades on a timely
basis. Notwithstanding anything contained in this Agreement, Section 8 states
iMediation's entire liability for actual or alleged infringement of Intellectual
Property Rights and iMediation shall have no additional liability with respect
to any alleged or proved infringement.

9.  Limitation of Liability.  IN NO EVENT SHALL IMEDIATION OR ITS SUPPLIERS OR
    -----------------------
LICENSORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, INDIRECT, OR INCIDENTAL
DAMAGES WHATSOEVER, WHETHER RELATED TO OR ARISING OUT OF THIS AGREEMENT, THE
SOFTWARE, THE DOCUMENTATION, THE SOFTWARE SUPPORT, THE IMPLEMENTATION SERVICES
OR OTHERWISE, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, DAMAGES FOR LOSS OF PROFITS,
BUSINESS INTERRUPTION, LOSS OF INFORMATION, OR OTHER PECUNIARY LOSS, EVEN IF
IMEDIATION HAS BEEN ADVISED OF OR KNOWS OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.  IN
NO EVENT WILL IMEDIATION'S AGGREGATE LIABILITY FOR ANY AND ALL CLAIMS RELATING
TO THIS AGREEMENT, THE SOFTWARE, THE DOCUMENTATION, OR ANY SOFTWARE SUPPORT OR
IMPLEMENTATION SERVICES, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, TORT OR ANY OTHER THEORY OF
LIABILITY, EXCEED THE FEES PAID BY LICENSEE UNDER THIS AGREEMENT DURING THE
TWELVE (12) MONTH PERIOD PRECEDING THE EVENT GIVING RISE TO SUCH LIABILITY.

10.  Term and Termination.  The term of this Agreement will begin on the
     --------------------
Effective Date and end on the Expiration Date unless earlier terminated pursuant
to this Section 10.  Either party may terminate this Agreement upon thirty (30)
days written notice of a material breach of this Agreement if the breaching
party has not cured such breach within such thirty (30) day period.  Licensee
may Terminate this Agreement after the conclusion of any annual license period
with 60days advance notice.  Notwithstanding the foregoing, iMediation shall
have the right to immediately terminate this Agreement for any use by Licensee
of the Software or Documentation outside the scope of Section 2.  Upon
termination of this Agreement, including Termination for Expiration of License,
Licensee shall immediately return to iMediation, or certify the destruction of,
all copies of the Software and Documentation in Licensee's possession or under
its control.  The rights and obligations contained in Sections 1, 3, 7, 8, 9,
11, and 12, and all payment obligations incurred prior to the termination of
this Agreement, shall survive any termination of this Agreement.

11.  Confidentiality.  Each party shall treat as confidential all Confidential
     ---------------
Information of the other party, shall not use such Confidential Information
except as set forth herein, and shall use reasonable efforts not to disclose
such Confidential Information to any third party.  Without limiting the
foregoing, each of the parties shall use at least the same degree of care which
it uses to prevent the disclosure of its own confidential information of like
importance to prevent the disclosure of Confidential Information disclosed to it
by the other party under this Agreement.  Each party shall promptly notify the
other party of any misuse or unauthorized disclosure of the other party's
Confidential Information.  The foregoing restrictions will not apply to
information that:  (i) is known to the receiving party at the time it receives
Confidential Information from the disclosing party; (ii) has become publicly
known through no wrongful act of the receiving party; (iii) has been rightfully
received by the receiving party from a third party authorized to make such
communication without
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restriction; (iv) is generally furnished to third parties by the owner without a
similar restriction of the receiving party's right; (v) has been approved for
release by written authorization of the disclosing party; or (vi) is required by
law to be disclosed after written notification by the receiving party.

12.  Miscellaneous.
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     12.1  Assignment.  This Agreement shall be binding upon and inure to the
           ----------
benefit of the parties hereto and their respective successors and assigns.
iMediation will have the right to assign this Agreement with prior written
notice to Licensee provided that the assignee assume all of iMediations
obligations under the terms of this Agreement.  The Licensee may not assign any
of its rights or obligations hereunder without the prior written consent of
iMediation, which shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed.

     12.2  Notices. All notices permitted or required under this Agreement shall
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be in writing and shall be delivered in person or mailed by first class,

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registered or certified mail, postage prepaid, to the address of the party
specified in this Agreement or such other address as either party may specify in
writing. Such notice shall be deemed to have been given upon receipt.

     12.3  Non-Waiver.  No term or provisions hereof shall be deemed waived and
           ----------
no breach excused, unless such waiver or consent shall be in writing and signed
by the party claimed to have waived or consented. Any consent by any party to,
or waiver of a breach by the other, whether express or implied, shall not
constitute a consent to, waiver of, or excuse for any other different or
subsequent breach.

     12.4  Independent Contractor.  The parties' relationship shall be solely
           ----------------------
that of independent contractors, and nothing contained in this Agreement shall
be construed to make either party an agent, partner, representative or principal
of the other for any purpose.

     12.5  General.  This Agreement shall be governed by and construed under the
           -------
laws of the State of New York , excluding its conflicts of law principles. The
parties exclude the application of the United Nations Convention on Contracts
for the International Sale of Goods if otherwise applicable. Licensee shall not
export, directly or indirectly, any products Software, Documentation, or
Upgrades to any country for which the U.S. Government or any agency thereof at
the time of export requires an export license or other approval without first
obtaining such license or approval. The Software and Documentation are
considered a "commercial item" as that term is defined at 48 C.F.R 2.101, or
"commercial computer software" and "commercial computer software documentation"
as such terms are used in 48 C.F.R 12.212 of the Federal Acquisition Regulations
and its successors, and 48 C.F.R. 227.7202 of the DoD FAR Supplement and its
successors.

     12.6  Entire Agreement; Amendment.
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This Agreement, including all Exhibits hereto constitutes the final, complete
and entire agreement between the parties with respect to the subject matter
hereof, and supersedes any previous proposals, negotiations, agreements, or
arrangements, whether verbal or written. made between the parties with respect
to such subject matter. This Agreement shall control over any additional or
conflicting terms in any of Licensee's purchase orders or other business forms.
This Agreement may only be amended or modified by mutual agreement of authorized
representatives of the parties in writing.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties have executed this Agreement effective as of the
Effective Date.

iMediation, Inc.                            Virtual Communities, Inc.

Name:  Bob Patterson                        Name:  Avi Moskowitz

Signature: _/s/ Bob Patterson _________     Signature: _/s/ Avi Moskowitz_______

Title:  President, Americas and Asia        Title:  President___________________
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Date:   December 30, 1999                   Date:   December 30, 1999
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                                 EXHIBIT A TO

                          SOFTWARE LICENSE AGREEMENT

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       Installation Information                       Billing Information

Company: ________________________          Company: ____________________________
Contact: ________________________          Address: ____________________________
Address: ________________________                   ____________________________
         ________________________          Contact: ____________________________
  Phone: ________________________            Phone: ____________________________
  eMail: ________________________            eMail: ____________________________

Term of License:  Three years (36 months)
Expiration Date:  December 31, 2002

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Product Description                           License Fee                      Annual Support Fee
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<S>                                  <C>                              <C>
iChannel Software for / year                               $100,000
                                                           --------
Annual Support fee / year                                                                          $ 10,000
                                                                                                   --------

Installation, setup and start-up                           $ 47,600   Consisting of:
services:                                                             Installation         1 day
275/hr at 10 days                                                     Configuration       20 days
200/hr at 15 days                                                     Training             4 days

Total Software License Fees:                               $100,000
Total Support Fees:                                        $ 10,000
Total Implementation Fees:                                 $ 47,600

                                     Total Contract Value
                                     Payment Due With Signing                                      $157,600
                                     Balance Due (see terms)                                       $ 33,000
                                                                                                   --------
                                                                                                   $124,000
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<CAPTION>
                                                                                  Plus any applicable taxes
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Terms:
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<S>                                  <C>                              <C>
Year 1 Software & Annual             30% down                         $ 33,000
Support                              30% April 1, 2000                $ 33,000
                                     40% June 1, 2000                 $ 44,000

Implementation Services
                                     Invoiced monthly as delivered    payable net 30

                                                                      Due and payable on the
Years two and three Software and                                      following dates each year:
Annual Support terms
                                                                      40%    January 1
                                                                      30%    March 1
                                                                      30%    June 1
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Notes

1.  Licensee may use the iChannel    4.  Licensee may elect to        5.  Implementation Fees are an
sSoftware for up to eight (8)        convert this annual license      estimate.  IMediation shall notify
Virtual Communities for the          to a perpetual license for up    Licensee if and when the actual
above license fee.  Each             to 20 Virtual Communities for    Implementation Fees may exceed this
additional Virtual Community         the one-time license fee of      estimate.
site may elect to license the        $500,000, plus annual support
Software for an annual License       fee of $60,000 Should
fee of $20,000 and an Annual         Licensee elect to convert
Support fee of $2,200 per year,      this option, any Annual
billed annually in advance,          Support fees prepaid during
payable net 30.2.  Licensee          the calendar year of the
agrees to take reference             election shall be credited
telephone calls and/or meetings      against this Annual Support
scheduled with reasonable lead       fee on a pro-rata basis for
time and based on the success of     that year.  If iMediation
the iChannel implementation.         establishes a lower price
                                     list per site, Licensee may
                                     renegotiate off the new price
                                     list.

3.  Licensee agrees to add a
"powered by iMediation iChannel"
or other logo of
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 upon size and page position, on
 its Affiliate pages that
 display any Affiliate
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                                   EXHIBIT B

                           ANNUAL SUPPORT AGREEMENT

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In consideration of the foregoing and the mutual promises contained in this
Agreement, the parties agree as follows:

1.   Definitions.
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Unless expressly defined in this Agreement, all capitalized terms used herein
shall have the meaning set forth in the License Agreement.

     "Customer Contact" shall mean the representative(s) of Licensee, identified
      ----------------
during implementation of the Software, who will be the exclusive point(s) of
contact with iMediation with respect to Software Support.  Licensee will have
the right to change the Customer Contact with prior written notice to
iMediation.

     "Error(s)" means any verifiable and reproducible failure of the Software to
      --------
materially conform to the Specifications.  The term "Error" shall not include
any failure of the Software that: (i) results from the misuse or improper use of
the Software; (ii) does not materially affect the operation and use of the
Software; (iii) results from any modification to the Software not made by
iMediation; or (iv) results from the failure to incorporate or use any upgrades,
updates, or bug fixes made available by iMediation.

     "Error Correction(s)" means either (i) a modification or addition to or
      -------------------
deletion from the Software that, when made to such Software, materially conforms
the Software to the Specifications, or (ii) a procedure or routine that, when
observed in the regular operation of the Software, eliminates the material
adverse effect of such Error on Licensee.

     "License Agreement" shall mean the license agreement executed by the
      -----------------
parties on December 30, 1999.

     "Major Error" means any demonstrable Error in the Software that: (i)
      -----------
causes the Software to have a significant loss of intended function as set forth
in the Specifications; (ii) causes or is likely to cause data to be lost or
destroyed; or (iii) prevents the Software from being installed or executed on
the properly configured environment.

     "Minor Error" means any demonstrable Error that: (i) causes a function to
      -----------
not execute as set forth in the Specifications, without a significant loss of
intended functionality; or (ii) disables one or more nonessential functions.

     "Moderate Error" means any demonstrable Error in the Software that: (i)
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causes the Software to operate improperly; or (b) produces results materially
different from those described in the Specifications, but which error does not
rise to the level of a Major Error.

     "Specifications" means iMediation's published specifications for the
      --------------
Software.

     "Updates" means new versions of the Software that contain bug fixes, error
      -------
corrections and minor enhancements, but do not contain major enhancements or
significant new functionality, as determined in iMediation's reasonable
discretion.

     "New Module Functionality" means new versions of the Software that contain
      ------------------------
major enhancements or significant new functionality that is licensed as a new
module for an additional license fee, as determined in iMediation's reasonable
discretion.

     "Workaround" means that iMediation has diagnosed the Error and has
      ----------
implemented, or enabled Licensee to implement, a temporary solution that allows
the Software to regain functionality and provide all major functions in
accordance with the Specifications.

2.   Services.
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     2.1  Licensee Responsibilities.  Licensee agrees to notify iMediation
          -------------------------
promptly following the discovery of any Error. Further, upon discovery of an
Error, Licensee agrees, if requested by iMediation, to
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submit to iMediation a list of output and any other data that iMediation may
reasonably require to reproduce the Error and the operating conditions under
which the Error occurred or was discovered. Such list and data shall be deemed
iMediation's Confidential Information and shall be governed by Section 11 of the
License Agreement.

     2.2  iMediation  Support.  Communications between Licensee and iMediation
          -------------------
will include electronic mail, facsimile, and telephone. Licensee shall use best
efforts to contact iMediation hereunder exclusively through the Customer
Contact. iMediation's technical support telephone will be adequately staffed by
a Licensed technical support representative during the hours of 8:00 AM to 5:00
PM (Eastern Standard Time) and 0800 AM to 1800 PM (Central Europe Time) Monday
through Friday, excluding holidays scheduled by iMediation ("Normal Business
                                                             ---------------
Hours"), subject to modification by iMediation at iMediation's discretion.
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Although iMediation will not warrant iMediation's response time to inquiries
received outside of Normal Business Hours, Licensee will use commercially
reasonable efforts to respond to such inquiries in accordance with the response
times specified in Section 2.3 below. Subject to the terms herein, IMediation
agrees to provide Support for the three years of this Agreement.

     2.3  iMediation Response to Errors.  iMediation will provide Software
          -----------------------------
Support to Licensee to ensure a consistent and high level of operation of the
Software. In the event Licensee notifies iMediation of an Error in the Software,
iMediation will provide support services necessary to correct the Error in
accordance with the terms of this Agreement. iMediation shall use commercially
reasonable efforts to correct Errors in accordance with the below response
times, with as little disruption to Licensee's service as commercially
practicable.

     (a) Major Errors.  iMediation shall, within six (6) hours after the receipt
         ------------
of notice of any Major Error, contact Licensee to verify such Major Error and
begin a resolution process. Upon iMediation's verification of such Major Error,
iMediation will use its commercially reasonable efforts to provide a Workaround
or Error Correction for such Major Error within forty-eight (48) hours.

     (b) Moderate Errors.  iMediation shall, within twelve (12) hours after the
         ---------------
receipt of notice of any Moderate Error, contact Licensee to verify such
Moderate Error. Upon iMediation's verification of such Moderate Error,
iMediation will use its commercially reasonable efforts to provide a Workaround
or Error. Correction for such Moderate Error within five (5) days.

     (c) Minor Errors.  Upon iMediation's receipt of notice of a Minor Error and
         ------------
upon iMediation's verification of such Minor Error, iMediation will initiate
work to provide an Error Correction for such Minor Error in the next regular
release of the Software.

     2.4  Exclusions from Support Services.  Software Support does not include
          --------------------------------
services for any failure or defect in the Software caused by any of the
following: (a) the improper use, alteration, or damage of the Software by
Licensee or persons other than iMediation employees or consultants, unless
caused as a result of instructions by iMediation employees or consultants; (b)
modifications to the Software not made or authorized by iMediation, unless such
modifications were made by a iMediation employee, subcontractor, agent, or other
third party acting on behalf of iMediation; (c) interaction between the Software
and operating systems, database software and other software, when iMediation has
not approved such operating system, database software, and other software for
use with the Software; (d) use of Software on hardware other than the Hardware;
(e) relocation of the Software or network reconfiguration; or (f) failure by
Licensee to provide and maintain a suitable installation environment, including
but not limited to proper electrical power, air conditioning or humidity
control. In addition, iMediation reserves the right to reject for Software
Support any Software, which has not been continuously supported by iMediation
pursuant to iMediation's then-current Software Support Plan. iMediation will
invoice Licensee for any Software Support provided under this Section 2.4 on a
time and materials basis.

     2.5  Updates.  iMediation agrees to support a previous version release of
          -------
the  Software for one (1) year following release of a new version of the
Software.

3.   New Version Release.
     -------------------

     3.1  Updates.  iMediation will provide Updates to Licensee within sixty
          -------
(60) days after the commercial release of such Updates. Licensee will promptly
install such Update on the Licensee Hardware in accordance with the installation
documentation provided to Licensee by iMediation. Installation services may be
purchased by the Licensee from iMediation at iMediation's then-current time and
materials rates.

     3.2  New Module Functionality.  iMediation will make New Module
          ------------------------
Functionality available to Licensee solely pursuant to mutually agreeable terms
and conditions, including but not limited to license terms, royalty and/or
license fees. iMediation will notify Licensee of such New Module Functionality
within ninety (90) days after iMediation makes such New Module commercially
available to other licensees.
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4.   Payments.
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     4.1  Fees.  Licensee shall pay to iMediation an annual support fee
          ----
("Support Fee") to obtain the maintenance and support set forth in this
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Agreement; provided, however, that if Licensee discontinues and then desires to
resume Software Support, Licensee will additionally pay iMediation all Support
Fees applicable to such discontinuation period. The Support Fee may be increased
by iMediation from time to time to reflect any increases in iMediation's costs,
but in no case shall such increased fee exceed 8% of the Support Fee applicable
to the previous twelve (12) month period. The Support Fee will be due and
payable by Licensee no later than thirty (30) days prior to the commencement of
any annual maintenance and support term.

     4.2  Expenses.  iMediation will invoice Licensee monthly for all travel
          --------
expenses (including transportation, meals, and lodging) iMediation reasonably
incurs under this Agreement. IMediation shall review in advance the expenses
with Licensee's Business Development Director or such other person appointed by
Licensee prior to incurring such expenses. Licensee shall pay iMediation within
thirty (30) days after the date of iMediation's invoice to Licensee.

5.   Source Code Escrow.
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     5.1  Escrow.  Upon Licensee's formal written request, iMediation shall
          ------
deposit with an Escrow agent ("Escrow Agent") the Software source code ("Escrow
                               ------------                              ------
Materials") pursuant to the terms of an escrow agreement between iMediation and
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the Escrow Agent. IMediation shall update the Escrow Materials within thirty
(30) days after each major release of the Software but not less than annually.

     5.2  Release of Escrow Materials.  In the event that IMediation files for
          ---------------------------
or becomes a party to any involuntary bankruptcy or receivership, and such
involuntary proceeding is not dismissed within forty-five (45) calendar days
after filing, a "Release Event" shall be deemed to have occurred.
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     5.3  Release Procedure.  Upon the occurrence of a Release Event, Licensee
          -----------------
will notify the Escrow Agent. The Escrow Materials will be released for use by
Licensee, subject to the terms and conditions hereof, only after notice of such
Release Event from the Escrow Agent to IMediation and IMediation's failure to
declare in writing to the Escrow Agent within twenty (20) days that no Release
Event has occurred. If IMediation makes such written declaration, then the issue
of whether a Release Event has occurred and is continuing shall be submitted to
arbitration in Santa Clara County, California, under the Commercial Arbitration
Rules of the American Arbitration Association by one (1) arbitrator appointed in
accordance with said Rules. Judgment on the award rendered by the arbitrator may
be entered in any court having jurisdiction thereof. The costs of the
arbitration, including administrative and arbitrator's fees, shall be shared
equally by the parties. Each party shall bear the costs of its own attorneys'
fees in connection with such arbitration.

     5.4  License.  Subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement,
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IMediation hereby grants Licensee a nonexclusive, non-transferable right and
license to use, modify, and reproduce the Escrow Materials solely in connection
with Licensee's maintenance and support of the Software, which Licensee may
exercise at any time after the occurrence and during the continuation of a
Release Event. Upon the cessation of any Release Event, all licenses granted
pursuant to this Section 5.4 shall terminate, unless and until triggered again
pursuant to this Section 5, and Licensee shall promptly return all copies of the
Escrow Materials, or any portion thereof, to IMediation, at Licensee's sole
expense.

6.   Disclaimer.
     ----------

iMEDIATION PROVIDES NO WARRANTY, EXPRESS OR OTHERWISE, WITH RESPECT TO THE
SOFTWARE SUPPORT, AND IMEDIATION SPECIFICALLY DISCLAIMS ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES
OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT.

7.   Limitation of Liability.
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IN NO EVENT WILL iMEDIATION'S LIABILITY HEREUNDER EXCEED THE PAYMENTS RECEIVED
BY IMEDIATION HEREUNDER.  NEITHER IMEDIATION NOR ITS LICENSORS SHALL BE LIABLE
FOR ANY LOST PROFITS, LOSS OF DATA, OR COSTS OF PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS
OR SERVICES OR FOR ANY CLAIM OR DEMAND AGAINST LICENSEE BY ANY OTHER PARTY.  IN
NO EVENT WILL EITHER iMEDIATION OR IT'S LICENSORS BE LIABLE FOR CONSEQUENTIAL,
INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, INDIRECT, OR EXEMPLARY DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF THIS
AGREEMENT, HOWEVER CAUSED AND UNDER ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY (INCLUDING
NEGLIGENCE), EVEN IF THEY HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.
LICENSEE ACKNOWLEDGES THAT THE AMOUNTS PAYABLE HEREUNDER ARE BASED IN PART ON
THESE LIMITATIONS, AND FURTHER AGREES THAT THESE LIMITATIONS SHALL APPLY
NOTWITHSTANDING ANY FAILURE OF ESSENTIAL PURPOSE OF ANY LIMITED REMEDY.

8.   Term and Termination.
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     8.1  Term of the Agreement.  This Agreement shall commence on the date that
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iMediation receives the Support Fee and shall extend for a period of
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one (1) year thereafter. The term of this Agreement may be extended for
additional one (1) year periods, upon payment by Licensee to iMediation of the
Support Fee.

     8.2  Termination with Cause.  This Agreement may be terminated immediately
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by either party in the event: (i) the other party breaches any material
provision of this Agreement or the License Agreement and does not remedy such
breach within thirty (30) days following notice of such breach from the non-
breaching party; or (ii) the other party enters bankruptcy proceedings, becomes
insolvent, or otherwise becomes generally unable to meet its obligations under
this Agreement or the License Agreement. In the event the breach is by
iMediation, Licensee is entitled to a pro-rata refund of the current year's
prepaid fees.

     8.3  Survival.  The provisions of Sections 1, 7, 8 and 9 of this
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Agreement shall survive any expiration or termination of this Agreement.

9.   Miscellaneous.
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Sections 11 and 12 of the License Agreement are hereby incorporated by reference
into this Agreement. All terms used in those Sections shall have the meaning set
forth in this Agreement if such terms are explicitly defined in this Agreement.
Otherwise, such terms shall have the meaning set forth in the License Agreement.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties have executed this Agreement effective as of the
                                Effective Date.

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iMediation, Inc.                                              Virtual Communities, Inc.
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Name: ____________________________________                    Name: ____________________________________

Signature: _______________________________                    Signature: _______________________________

Title: ___________________________________                    Title: ___________________________________

Date:  ___________________________________                    Date:  ___________________________________
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                                   EXHIBIT C

                         IMPLEMENTATION SERVICES ORDER

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     Terms:

       iMediation and Client agree to the Services in this Service Order and the
       fees set forth in Exhibit A herein.

       Client agrees to pay iMediation fees as scheduled in Exhibit A upon
       execution of this Agreement.

Five Day Kick-Off & iChannel Hands-On Workshop

Day one    Installation
Day Two    Workshop
Day Three  "
Day Four   "
Day Five   Integration, Next Steps

WorkShop Agenda
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COMMON - (30 min)

Overview of Key Roles and Terms (30 min)
     Overview
     What is iChannel?
     Participant Roles
         .  Platform Executive, Merchant, Content Publisher, Affiliate
         .  Relationship between roles and iChannel
     Terminology
         .  Catalog, Channel Profile, Channel, Participant, Payment Verification
            Service, Platform, Templates, User, User Action, Virtual Site
         .  Relationship between these in iChannel

MERCHANT (user interface) - (4 hrs + 2 hrs hands-on = 6 hrs)

General (15 min)
     Merchant's role with iChannel
     iChannel Functions (available from menu)
     Channel, Branding, Administration, Reporting, Financials  -- high-level
     overview.
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Using iChannel (4 min + 2 hrs hands-on training exercises)
     Administration stuff (15 min)
          .  Log in
          .  Modify basic information
     Building the affiliate network - "merchant side" (2 hrs)
          .  Catalog - create, view, modify
          .  Channel Profile - create, view, modify
          .  Templates - create, view, modify, assign to channel profile
               .  using catalogs, merchant branding, affiliate branding, and
                  content
          .  Merchant branding (logos) - create, view, modify
          .  Sales experts - create, view, modify, assign to channel profile
     Signing up affiliates (15 min)
          .  Accept/reject affiliates
          .  Managing specific affiliate channels
     Managing affiliates (15 min)
          .  Viewing affiliate details
          .  Viewing channel information
     Reporting (45 min)
          .  Reports - types of reports, generating, saving to disk
     Tracking visitor activity (Financials) (30 min)
          .  Financial monitoring - Affiliates, merchant, catalog, channel
             profiles
          .  Session tracking
          .  Exporting data
          .  (Catalog tagging is required for this to work, as explained in the
             Technical section)

INSTALLATION / TECH OVERVIEW - (2 hr 30 min)

How iChannel works (technical) (1 hr)
     Overview
     Tracking of user actions
     Architecture

iChannel Technical requirements (20 min)
     .  Hardware/software
     .  Sizing
     .  Processors
     .  Memory

Installing and configuring iChannel (1 hr)
     Installation
          .  Web Server - configuration
          .  Oracle - configuration, tablespaces
          .  iChannel
     Background programs
     Verify that everything is working
     Debugging/Logs
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Using the iChannel Configuration tool (10 min)

PLATFORM EXECUTIVE (all) - (30 min + 30 min hands-on = 1 hr)

Accept or reject new participants on the platform

Modify automatically generated email messages and sign-up screens

Overseeing and managing participants
     .  Viewing information - merchant, affiliate, content providers
     .  Suspend or remove participants

Using the iChannel Configuration tool

MERCHANT (technical) - (5hrs + hands-on?)

Tagging Catalogs (2 hr)
     .  Non-intrusive and intrusive recording
     .  User action tracking/page loading tracking
     .  Marking forms and pages

Tagging as used in Channel Profiles (1 hr)
     .  Setup (same as "Interface" section above)
     .  Focus on technical aspects of Channel Profile setup (i.e. commission
        parameters, customized parameters, etc.)

Templates (1 hr)
     .  Template design and modification - access levels, activity tracking,
        graphic design

Payment Verification (1 hr)
     BIVS - modifying catalogs and payment verification pages
     SSL
     .  Creating private key and certificates (e.g. using SSLeay)
     .  Setup for iChannel SSL decryption

AFFILIATE (user interface) - (3 hrs + 2 hrs hands-on = 5 hrs)

General (30 min)
     Affiliate's role with iChannel
     iChannel Functions (available from menu)
     Channel, Branding, Administration, Reporting, Financials  -- high-level
     overview.

Using iChannel (2 hrs 30 min)
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     Administration stuff (15 min)
          .  Log in
          .  Modify basic information
     Merchant selection (15 min)
          .  View channels
          .  View content publishers
          .  View merchants/channel profiles, and join these channel profiles
     Virtual site management (1 hr)
          .  Affiliate branding (logos) - create, view, modify
          .  Default and customized virtual sites - create new, view, modify
               .  using catalogs, merchant branding, affiliate branding, and
                  content
          .  Adding links to existing affiliate page site.
     Reporting (30 min)
          .  Reports - types of reports, generating, saving to disk
     Tracking visitor activity (Financials) (30 min)
          .  Log detail/Session tracking
          .  Exporting data
          .  (Catalog tagging is required for this to work, as explained in the
             Technical section)

CONTENT PUBLISHER (user interface) - (2 hrs + 1 hr hands on = 3 hrs)
General (15 min)
     Content Publisher's role with iChannel
     iChannel Functions (available from menu)
     Channel, Branding, Administration, Reporting, Financials  -- high-level
     overview.

Using iChannel (1 hr 45 min)
     Administration stuff (15 min)
          .  Log in
          .  Modify basic information
     Document management (30 min)
          .  View, add, modify, delete
     Reporting (30 min)
          .  Reports - types of reports, generating, saving to disk
     Tracking visitor activity (Financials) (30 min)
          .  Log detail and tracking on Documents
          .  Exporting data

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