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Exhibit 4.2  

OfficeMax, Inc. Executive Savings Deferral Plan II

Effective January 1, 2004  

 
 

TABLE OF CONTENTS    
    

	FOREWORD	 	1
	
ARTICLE I—DEFINITIONS	
 	

2
	
ARTICLE II—ELIGIBILITY AND PARTICIPATION	
 	

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2.1	
 	

REQUIREMENTS	
 	

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	2.2	 	CHANGE OF EMPLOYMENT CATEGORY	 	4
	
ARTICLE III—PARTICIPANT SUPPLEMENTAL SALARY DEFERRAL CONTRIBUTIONS	
 	

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3.1	
 	

IRREVOCABLE ELECTION	
 	

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	3.2	 	CHOICE OF CONTRIBUTION RATES	 	4
	
ARTICLE IV—SUPPLEMENTAL COMPANY MATCHING CONTRIBUTIONS	
 	

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4.1	
 	

AMOUNT	
 	

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ARTICLE V—VESTING	
 	

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5.1	
 	

VESTING OF ACCOUNTS	
 	

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ARTICLE VI—ACCOUNTS	
 	

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6.1	
 	

ACCOUNTS	
 	

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	6.2	 	ADJUSTMENTS	 	6
	6.3	 	ACCOUNTING FOR DISTRIBUTIONS	 	6
	
ARTICLE VII—ENTITLEMENT TO BENEFITS	
 	

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7.1	
 	

VALUATION OF ACCOUNT	
 	

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	7.2	 	[RESERVED]	 	6
	7.3	 	SOURCE OF PAYMENTS	 	6
	
ARTICLE VIII—PAYMENT OF BENEFITS	
 	

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8.1	
 	

CASH PAYMENTS	
 	

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	8.2	 	PAYMENT OPTIONS	 	6
	8.3	 	PAYMENT UPON DEATH	 	7
	8.4	 	SMALL BALANCES	 	7
	8.5	 	PREMATURE DISTRIBUTIONS WITH PENALTY	 	7
	 	 	 	 	 

	
ARTICLE IX—BENEFICIARIES; PARTICIPANT DATA	
 	

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9.1	
 	

DESIGNATION OF BENEFICIARIES	
 	

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	9.2	 	INFORMATION TO BE FURNISHED BY PARTICIPANTS AND BENEFICIARIES; INABILITY TO LOCATE PARTICIPANTS OR BENEFICIARIES	 	8
	
ARTICLE X—THE TRUST	
 	

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10.1	
 	

ESTABLISHMENT OF TRUST	
 	

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	10.2	 	BENEFIT PAYMENTS IN ABSENCE OF TRUST	 	8
	
ARTICLE XI—ADMINISTRATION	
 	

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11.1	
 	

COMMITTEE	
 	

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	11.2	 	CLAIMS PROCEDURE	 	9
	11.3	 	FORM OF COMMUNICATION	 	10
	
ARTICLE XII—MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS	
 	

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12.1	
 	

LIMITATION OF RIGHTS	
 	

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	12.2	 	NONALIENATION OF BENEFITS	 	10
	12.3	 	AMENDMENT OR TERMINATION OF PLAN	 	10
	12.4	 	CONSTRUCTION OF PLAN	 	10
	12.5	 	GENDER AND NUMBER	 	11
	12.6	 	LAW GOVERNING	 	11
	12.7	 	CHANGES IN DEEMED INVESTMENTS/CONVERSION	 	11

FOREWORD  

        Effective as of January 1, 2004, OfficeMax, Inc. ("OfficeMax") has adopted this OfficeMax, Inc. Executive Savings Deferral Plan II (the
"Plan") for the benefit of certain of its key executives. 

        This
Plan is intended to provide key executives of OfficeMax and its affiliates the opportunity to defer a portion of their cash compensation and to accumulate deferred compensation that
cannot be accumulated under the OfficeMax, Inc. 401(k) Savings Plan (the "Basic Plan") because of certain legal, administrative, and Basic Plan document restrictions that are imposed upon the
permissible amounts of contributions that may be made to the Basic Plan. 

        This
Plan is an unfunded deferred compensation plan for "a select group of management or highly compensated employees," within the meaning of Sections 201(2), 301(a)(3) and 401(a)(1) of
the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended. 

 
ARTICLE I

DEFINITIONS  

        Except to the extent otherwise inappropriate in the context, the following terms shall have the following meanings when used in this document. 

	1.1
	ACCOUNT
means the balance credited to a Participant's or Beneficiary's Plan bookkeeping account, including contribution credits and deemed income, gains and losses credited thereto. A
Participant's or Beneficiary's Account shall consist of a Supplemental Salary Deferral Contributions Subaccount(s) and a Supplemental Company Matching Contributions Subaccount(s).

	1.2
	BASIC
COMPENSATION means, for a given Plan Year, Compensation not in excess of the applicable limit prescribed by Code Section 401(a)(17) for such Year.

	1.3
	BASIC
PLAN means The OfficeMax, Inc. 401(k) Savings Plan, as in effect from time to time.

	1.4
	BENEFICIARY
means any person or persons so designated in accordance with the provisions of Article IX.

	1.5
	BOARD
means the Board of Directors or the Sole Director, as the case may be, of OfficeMax, Inc. or such person(s) to whom the Board may delegate its rights and responsibilities
under this Plan.

	1.6
	CHANGE
IN CONTROL means, with respect to any Company, the acquisition by any "person" (as defined in Section 3(a)(9) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and as modified and
used in Sections 13(d) and 14(d) of that Act) of beneficial ownership, directly or indirectly, of securities of the Company representing 25% or more of the outstanding securities of the Company having
the right under ordinary circumstances to vote at an election of the Company's board of directors.

	1.7
	CLOSING
DATE means the Closing Date of the Agreement and Plan of Merger Dated as of July 13, 2003, among Boise Cascade Corporation, Challis Corporation and
OfficeMax, Inc.

	1.8
	CODE
means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended.

	1.9
	COMMITTEE
means the person(s) designated by the Board to administer this Plan, which person(s) shall serve at the pleasure of the Board.

	1.10
	COMPANY
means OfficeMax, Inc. and any of its affiliates which may be a participating employer under the Basic Plan, together with their successors and assigns, or any other
entity which, with the foregoing's consent, assumes the Company's obligations under this Plan.

	1.11
	COMPANY
MATCHING CONTRIBUTIONS means the contributions made or deemed made by the Company pursuant to Article IV.

	1.12
	COMPANY
MATCHING CONTRIBUTIONS SUBACCOUNT means the account(s) on the books of the Company to which a Participant's Supplemental Company Matching Contributions under
Article IV, plus earnings and losses thereon, are credited.

	1.13
	COMPENSATION
means, for a given Plan Year, a Participant's W-2 earnings from the Company for federal income tax purposes, including any amounts that would be treated as
W-2 earnings except for the fact that payment of such amounts is being deferred or otherwise withheld pursuant to an election by the Participant. Compensation shall not include any taxable
income realized by, or payments made to, a Participant as a result of the grant or exercise of an option to acquire stock of the Company or Boise Cascade Corporation, or compensation resulting from
the acquisition, exercise, or vesting of any stock appreciation right, stock bonus, restricted stock, phantom stock, performance stock, or similar stock-based award under any incentive plan of the
Company or Boise Cascade Corporation except to the extent the award is payable in cash or the Committee determines that the award shall be included in Compensation for purposes of this Plan. 

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	1.14
	EFFECTIVE
DATE means January 1, 2004.

	1.15
	ELIGIBLE
EMPLOYEE means a person employed by the Company who either (i) has a salary midpoint above $110,000 or
(ii) meets all of the following requirements: (A) is a participant in the Basic Plan, (B) is a "Restricted Highly Compensated Employee" as defined in the Basic Plan, (C) is
classified by the Company as an exempt associate, (D) is among the top 2% of the highest paid associates and (E) receives compensation that exceeds three times the compensation of the
average associate (as determined by the Company in its sole and absolute discretion).

	1.16
	ENROLLMENT
AND ELECTION FORM means the form on which a Participant elects to defer compensation and makes other required designations.

	1.17
	ENTRY
DATE with respect to an Eligible Employee means the first date that the Eligible Employee is entitled to commence participation in the Basic Plan.

	1.18
	PARTICIPANT
means any person designated in accordance with the provisions of Article II, including, where appropriate according to the context of the Plan, any former Eligible
Employee who is or may become (or whose Beneficiary may become) eligible to receive a benefit under the Plan.

	1.19
	PLAN
means the OfficeMax, Inc. Executive Savings Deferral Plan II as set forth herein and as in effect from time to time.

	1.20
	PLAN
YEAR means the calendar year beginning January 1, 2004, and each calendar year thereafter during which the Plan is in effect.

	1.21
	PRIOR
PLAN means the OfficeMax, Inc. Executive Savings Deferral Plan which was in effect for the period from January 1, 2000 until the Closing Date.

	1.22
	SALARY
DEFERRAL CONTRIBUTIONS means the contributions made or deemed made by a Participant pursuant to Article III.

	1.23
	SALARY
DEFERRAL CONTRIBUTIONS SUBACCOUNT means the account(s) on the books of the Company to which a Participant's Supplemental Salary Deferral Contributions under
Article III, plus earnings and losses thereon, are credited.

	1.24
	TRUST
means the trust fund, if any, established pursuant to the Plan.

	1.25
	TRUSTEE
means the trustee named in the agreement establishing the Trust, if any, and such successor and/or additional trustees as may be named pursuant to the terms of the agreement
establishing the Trust.

	1.26
	VALUATION
DATE means December 31 of each Plan Year and such other date or dates that the Committee, in its sole discretion, designates as a Valuation Date. Valuations shall
occur at least quarterly within a given Plan Year and may occur more frequently at the sole discretion of the Committee. 

ARTICLE II

ELIGIBILITY AND PARTICIPATION  

	2.1
	REQUIREMENTS.

	(a)
	Every
Eligible Employee on the Effective Date shall be eligible to become a Participant in this Plan on the Effective Date. Each person who becomes an Eligible Employee after the
Effective Date shall be eligible to become a Participant on the first Entry Date occurring on or after the date on which he or she becomes an Eligible Employee. No individual shall become a
Participant, however, if he or she is not an Eligible Employee on the date his or her participation is to begin. 

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	(b)
	In
order to participate as of the Effective Date or the Entry Date, as applicable, an Eligible Employee must execute and return to the Committee, within the time period specified by
the Committee, an Enrollment and Election Form on which the Eligible Employee shall:

	(i)
	Elect
to become a Participant;

	(ii)
	Elect
a rate of Salary Deferral Contributions for the initial Plan Year as provided in Section 3.1;

	(iii)
	Designate
a Beneficiary as provided in Section 9.1;

	(iv)
	Specify
a distribution commencement date for Plan benefits and a form of distribution of Plan benefits (from among the options indicated on the form);

	(v)
	Specify
a deemed investment fund or funds (in accordance with Section 6.2); and

	(vi)
	Agree
to the terms of the Plan.

	(c)
	For
each subsequent Plan Year, within such time period as the Committee shall specify before the beginning of the Plan Year, an Eligible Employee who desires to continue to
participate must execute and return to the Committee an Enrollment and Election Form on which he/she shall elect a rate of Salary Deferral Contributions as provided in Section 3.1 with respect
to that Plan Year. An Eligible Employee may also designate a new distribution commencement date for Plan benefits and/or a new form of distribution of Plan benefits (from among the options indicated
on the form), but only with respect to benefits attributable to deferrals for that and subsequent Plan Years.

	(d)
	As
provided in Sections 2.1(b)(iv) and 2.1(c), an Eligible Employee may elect a different distribution commencement date for Plan benefits and/or a different form of
distribution of Plan benefits with respect to deferrals for each separate Plan Year. However, the election made for each Plan Year is irrevocable after that Plan Year has begun, and may not be
subsequently modified, except as otherwise provided in Article VIII.

	2.2
	CHANGE
OF EMPLOYMENT CATEGORY. During any period in which a Participant remains in the employ of the Company, but ceases to be an Eligible Employee, he/she shall cease to be eligible
to make Salary Deferral Contributions or have Company Matching Contributions made on his/her behalf as of the date he/she is no longer an Eligible Employee. However, his/her Account shall continue to
be revalued in accordance with Article VI. 

ARTICLE III

SALARY DEFERRAL CONTRIBUTIONS  

	3.1
	IRREVOCABLE
ELECTION. A Participant may elect by filing with the Committee a salary reduction agreement in the form of an Enrollment and Election Form (pursuant to Section 2.1)
to reduce the amount of Compensation that he/she would otherwise receive as taxable pay for the Plan Year with respect to which the form relates and to have the Company credit an equivalent amount to
his/her Salary Deferral Contributions Subaccount. A Salary Deferral Contribution election shall apply only with respect to Compensation for the particular Plan Year specified on the election form.
Once the Plan Year has begun, the Salary Deferral Contribution election with respect to that Plan Year shall become irrevocable.

	3.2
	CHOICE
OF CONTRIBUTION RATES.

	(a)
	A
Participant may elect to make Salary Deferral Contributions of his/her Compensation for a specified Plan Year in whole percentages up to 90% for the 2004 Plan Year and 50% for each
Plan Year thereafter. A Participant may also specify a different rate, up to 90%, for his/her cash bonus payments. 

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	(b)
	Salary
Deferral Contributions shall be deducted from the Participant's pay by the Company and an equivalent amount shall be credited to the Participant's Salary Deferral Contributions
Subaccount. 

ARTICLE IV

COMPANY MATCHING CONTRIBUTIONS  

	4.1
	AMOUNT.
In addition to the Salary Deferral Contributions made pursuant to Article III above, the Company shall credit to each Participant's Company Matching Contributions
Subaccount an amount equal to 50% of the Salary Deferral Contributions that the Participant has elected in accordance with Section 3.2, disregarding for this purpose any Salary Deferral
Contributions relating to a Participant's cash bonus and Salary Deferral Contributions in excess of six percent (6%) of Basic Compensation, reduced by the amount of "Employer Contributions" (as
defined in the Basic Plan) made by the Company on behalf of that Participant with respect to such period under the Basic Plan. Company Matching Contributions shall be credited to a Participant's
Company Matching Contributions Subaccount. 

ARTICLE V

VESTING  

	5.1
	VESTING.
An Eligible Employee shall always be one hundred percent (100%) vested in all amounts credited to his/her Salary Deferral Contributions Subaccount. He/she shall vest in
amounts credited to his/her Company Matching Contributions Subaccount in accordance with the following schedules, based on his/her "Years of Service" as defined in the Basic Plan. 

For
Participants with an "Employment Date" (as defined in the Basic Plan) on or before December 31, 2003: 

	Years of Service
	 	Vested Percentage
	 
	Less than 2 years of service	 	0	%
	2 years of service	 	50	%
	3 or more years of service	 	100	%

For
Participants with an "Employment Date" on or after January 1, 2004: 

	Years of Service
	 	Vested Percentage
	 
	Less than 3 years of service	 	0	%
	3 or more years of service	 	100	%

A
Participant's Company Matching Contributions Subaccount also will become 100% vested if, while still employed by the Company, he/she attains age 65 or dies. 

ARTICLE VI

ACCOUNTS  

	6.1
	ACCOUNTS.
The Company will maintain on its books a Salary Deferral Contributions Subaccount(s) and a Company Matching Contributions Subaccount(s) for each Participant to which shall
be credited, as appropriate, Salary Deferral Contributions under Article III, Company Matching Contributions under Article IV, and deemed investment earnings and/or losses as provided in
Section 6.2. Appropriate records will be maintained for each Participant, as necessary, to account separately for Plan benefits that are attributable to deferrals for different Plan Years to
the extent deferrals are subject to different payment option elections under Section 8.2(a). All Accounts shall be bookkeeping accounts only, and all such amounts referred to therein shall,
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to
being distributed, in all events remain subject to the claims of the general creditors of the Company who is or was the employer of the respective Participant. 

	6.2
	ADJUSTMENTS.

	(a)
	In
accordance with rules established by the Committee, a Participant may elect to "invest" amounts credited to his Account in and among hypothetical investment funds which shall
mirror the investment funds offered under the Basic Plan from time to time. Any election may be changed in accordance with rules established by the Committee. If a Participant fails to make such an
election, his/her Account will be deemed to be invested in a default investment fund chosen by the Committee.

	(b)
	As
of each Valuation Date, each Account will be adjusted, with either an increase or a decrease, to reflect the deemed investment experience of the Account since the preceding
Valuation Date. For this purpose, the Account will be adjusted to reflect the investment return under the Eligible Employee's deemed investment elections.

	6.3
	ACCOUNTING
FOR DISTRIBUTIONS. As of the date of any distribution, the distribution to a Participant or his/her Beneficiary shall be charged to such Participant's Account. 

ARTICLE VII

ENTITLEMENT TO BENEFITS  

	7.1
	VALUATION
OF ACCOUNT. If a Participant terminates employment with the Company for any reason, the Participant's Account shall be valued as of the Valuation Date coincident with or
next following the date of termination (or the distribution commencement date as elected in the Participant's Enrollment and Election Form, if later) and the vested portion of the Account shall be
payable according to the provisions of Article VIII.

	7.2
	[RESERVED.]

	7.3
	SOURCE
OF PAYMENTS. Benefits under this Plan shall be payable from general assets of the Company who is or was the employer of the respective Participant; provided, however, that if
the Company has established a Trust to fund benefit payments hereunder, such payments by the Trust shall be made only to the extent there are assets in the Trust and any payment due under the Plan
that is not paid by the Trust will be paid by the Company who is or was the employer of the respective Participant from its general assets. 

ARTICLE VIII

PAYMENT OF BENEFITS  

	8.1
	CASH
PAYMENTS. All payments under the Plan shall be made in cash.

	8.2
	PAYMENT
OPTIONS.

	(a)
	As
provided in Section 2.1(d), an Eligible Employee may elect a different payment option for Plan benefits attributable to deferrals for each Plan Year. Each payment option
must be selected by the Eligible Employee prior to the deferral, pursuant to Sections 2.1(b)(iv) and 2.1(c). Each payment option shall provide for payment to the Participant of the vested value
of the Participant's Account attributable to such deferral as set forth below:

	(i)
	Time of Distribution. As soon as administratively feasible pursuant to Article XI after the Participant's employment terminates
with the Company and all affiliates other than by reason of death, or at a later or earlier fixed date, as specified by the Participant in his/her Enrollment and Election Form at the time of the
deferral election under the Plan. 

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	(ii)
	Form of Distribution. In a single lump sum, or in approximately equal installments over a period not exceeding fifteen
(15) years, as elected by the Participant in his/her Enrollment and Election Form at the time of the deferral election under the Plan.

	(b)
	Notwithstanding
the foregoing, if a Participant fails to designate properly the manner of payment of the Participant's benefit under the Plan, payment will be made in a lump sum as
soon as practicable after the date of the Participant's termination of employment.

	8.3
	PAYMENT
UPON DEATH. If a Participant dies (whether before or after payments to the Participant have begun), the value of the Participant's Account shall be paid to the Participant's
Beneficiary in a lump sum as soon as practicable thereafter.

	8.4
	SMALL
BALANCES. Notwithstanding any provision of this Plan to the contrary, if at the time of a Participant's termination of employment with the Company and all affiliates, the value
of his/her vested Account is not in excess of $7,500, an amount equal to the value of the vested Account shall be distributed in a lump sum as soon as practicable after the date of the Participant's
termination, regardless of any elections made by the Participant to the contrary.

	8.5
	PREMATURE
DISTRIBUTION WITH PENALTY. Notwithstanding any provision of this Plan to the contrary, a Participant may at any time request in writing a single lump sum payment of the
value of his/her Account. The amount of the payment shall be equal to the Account value as of the most recent Valuation Date plus any Compensation deferred after that Valuation Date, reduced by 10%.
The payment shall be subject to withholding of federal, state and other taxes as applicable and shall be made within 30 days of the date on which the Committee receives the request for the
distribution. If a Participant makes a request for a distribution under this Section 8.5, he/she shall not be eligible to participate in any nonqualified deferred compensation plan maintained
by the Company for a period of 12 months after the distribution and any Salary Deferral Contribution election shall not be effective with respect to Compensation payable to the Participant
during that 12-month suspension period. 

ARTICLE IX

BENEFICIARIES; PARTICIPANT DATA  

	9.1
	DESIGNATION
OF BENEFICIARIES.

	(a)
	Each
Participant from time to time may designate any person or persons (who may be named contingently or successively) to receive any benefits payable under the Plan upon or after the
Participant's death, and the Participant may change this designation from time to time by filing a new designation. If the Participant is legally married at the time of death, any designation of a
Beneficiary other than the Participant's legal spouse shall be void, and the Participant's legal spouse will be the sole Beneficiary, unless the legal spouse has consented to the designation of
another person as Beneficiary in a signed and notarized statement. Each designation will revoke all prior designations by the same Participant, shall be in a form prescribed by the Committee, and will
be effective only when filed in writing with the Committee during the Participant's lifetime.

	(b)
	In
the absence of a valid Beneficiary designation, or if, at the time any benefit payment is due to a Beneficiary, there is no living Beneficiary, the Committee shall cause the
benefit payment to be paid to the Participant's spouse, if then living, but otherwise to the person or persons designated as Beneficiary under the Basic Plan, or, if such person(s) is not then living,
to the Participant's then living descendants, if any, per stirpes, but, if none, to the Participant's estate. In determining the existence or identity
of anyone entitled to a benefit payment, the Committee may rely conclusively upon information supplied by the Participant's personal representative, executor, or administrator. If a question arises as
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anyone
entitled to receive a benefit payment, or if a dispute arises with respect to any benefit payment, then, notwithstanding the foregoing, the Committee, in its sole discretion, may cause the
payment to be distributed to the Participant's estate without liability for any tax or other consequences that might flow therefrom or may take such other action as the Committee deems appropriate. 

	9.2
	INFORMATION
TO BE FURNISHED BY PARTICIPANTS AND BENEFICIARIES; INABILITY TO LOCATE PARTICIPANTS OR BENEFICIARIES. Any communication, statement, or notice addressed to a Participant or
to a Beneficiary at his/her last post office address as shown on the Company's records shall be binding on the Participant or Beneficiary for all purposes of the Plan. The Committee shall not be
obliged to search for any Participant or Beneficiary beyond the sending of a registered letter to the last known address. If the Committee notifies any Participant or Beneficiary that he/she is
entitled to an amount under the Plan and the Participant or Beneficiary fails to claim such amount or make his/her location known to the Committee within three (3) years thereafter, then,
except as otherwise required by law, if the location of one or more of the next of kin of the Participant is known to the Committee, the Committee may direct distribution of such amount to any one or
more or all of such next of kin, and in such proportions as the Committee determines. If the location of none of the foregoing persons can be determined, the Committee shall have the right to direct
that the amount payable shall be deemed to be a forfeiture, except that the dollar amount of the forfeiture, unadjusted for deemed gains or losses in the interim, shall be paid by the Company if a
claim for the benefit subsequently is made by the Participant or the Beneficiary to whom it was payable. If a benefit payable to an unlocated Participant or Beneficiary is subject to escheat pursuant
to applicable state law, the Company shall not be liable to any person for any payment made in accordance with such law. 

ARTICLE X

THE TRUST  

	10.1
	ESTABLISHMENT
OF TRUST. The Company may, but is not required to, establish a Trust to fund all or part of any benefits hereunder. Any such Trust shall be established with the Trustee
pursuant to such terms and conditions as are set forth in a trust agreement to be entered into between the Company and the Trustee. Any such Trust is intended to be treated as a grantor trust under
the Code, and the establishment of the Trust is not intended to cause Participants to realize current income on amounts contributed thereto, and the Trust shall be so interpreted.

	10.2
	BENEFIT
PAYMENTS IN ABSENCE OF TRUST. To the extent the Company does not establish a Trust, benefit payments shall be made from the general assets of the Company who was or is the
employer of the respective Participant. 

ARTICLE XI

ADMINISTRATION  

	11.1
	COMMITTEE.
The Committee shall administer, construe, and interpret this Plan and shall determine, subject to the provisions of this Plan and in a manner consistent with the
administration of the Basic Plan to the extent necessary or advisable, the Eligible Employees who shall participate in the Plan from time to time and the amount, if any, due a Participant (or
Beneficiary) under this Plan. No member of the Committee shall be liable for any act done or determination made in good faith. No member of the Committee who is a Participant in this Plan may vote on
matters affecting his/her personal benefit under this Plan, but any such member shall otherwise be fully entitled to act in matters arising out of or affecting this Plan notwithstanding his/her
participation herein. In carrying out its duties herein, the Committee shall have sole discretionary authority to exercise all powers and to make all determinations, consistent with the 

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terms
of the Plan, in all matters entrusted to it, and its determinations shall be given deference and shall be final and binding on all interested parties. 

	11.2
	CLAIMS
PROCEDURE.

	(a)
	Notice of Claim. Any Participant or Beneficiary, or the duly authorized representative of a Participant or Beneficiary, may
file a claim for a Plan benefit. The Committee has delegated responsibility for responding to initial claims to the Company's Vice President, Compensation, Benefits and HRIS. Any claim must be
in writing and delivered to the Vice President. Written notice of the disposition of the claim shall be furnished to the Participant or Beneficiary within ninety (90) days after the receipt of
a claim, unless special circumstances require an extension of time for processing the claim. The 90-day period may be extended for up to an additional 90 days if special
circumstances require. If an extension is necessary, the claimant will be given a written notice to this effect prior to the expiration of the initial ninety (90) day period. The Vice President
or his or her designee shall have full discretion to interpret and apply the Plan, evaluate the facts and circumstances, and make a determination on the claim in accordance with the terms of the Plan.
If notice of the denial of a claim is not furnished in accordance with this Section, the claim shall be deemed denied and the claimant shall be permitted to exercise his/her right to review pursuant
to Sections 11.2(c) and 11.2(d) of the Plan, as applicable.

	(b)
	Action on Claim. If the claim is denied, the Vice President (or his or her designee) shall provide a written notice of denial, setting
forth, in a manner calculated to be understood by the claimant:

	(i)
	The
specific reason or reasons for the denial;

	(ii)
	The
pertinent Plan provisions on which the denial is based;

	(iii)
	A
description of any additional material or information necessary for the claimant to perfect the claim and an explanation of why such material or information is necessary; and

	(iv)
	An
explanation of the Plan's claim review procedure.

	(c)
	Review of Denial. Within sixty (60) days after receipt of the written notification of denial provided for in
Section 11.2(b), the claimant or the claimant's duly authorized representative, upon written request to the Committee, may review pertinent documents, may request review of the claim, and may
submit to the Committee, in writing, issues and comments concerning the claim.

	(d)
	Decision on Review. Upon the Committee's receipt of a request for review as provided in Section 11.2(c), the Committee shall
make a prompt decision on the review and shall communicate the decision in writing to the claimant. The Committee's decision shall be written in a manner calculated to be understood by the claimant
and shall include the following:

	(i)
	The
specific reason or reasons for the denial;

	(ii)
	The
pertinent Plan provisions on which the denial is based;

	(iii)
	A
statement that the Participant/Beneficiary is entitled to receive at no charge upon written request reasonable access to and copies of all documents, records, and other
information relevant to his/her claim; and

	(iv)
	A
statement that the claimant has the right to bring an action under section 502(a) of ERISA. 

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The
decision shall be made no later than sixty (60) days after the Committee's receipt of a request for a review, unless special circumstances require an extension of time for processing, in
which case a decision shall be made not later than one hundred twenty (120) days after receipt of the request for review. If an extension is necessary, the claimant shall be given written
notice of the extension by the Committee prior to the expiration of the initial sixty (60) day period. If notice of the decision on review is not furnished in accordance with this Section, the
claim shall be deemed denied on review. 

	(e)
	No
lawsuit claiming entitlement to benefits under this Plan may be filed prior to exhausting the claim and claim review procedures described in this Section 11.2. Any such
lawsuit must be initiated no later than (a) one year after the event(s) giving rise to the claim occurred, or (b) 60 days after a final written decision is provided to the
claimant under Section 11.2(d), whichever is later.

	11.3
	FORM
OF COMMUNICATION. Any election, application, notice, claim, or other communication required or permitted to be made by a Participant or Beneficiary to the Company shall be made
in writing and in such form as the Company may prescribe. Such communication shall be effective upon receipt by the Company's Vice President, Compensation, Benefits and HRIS. 

ARTICLE XII

MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS  

	12.1
	LIMITATION
OF RIGHTS. Nothing contained in this Plan shall be construed to:

	(a)
	Limit
in any way the right of the Company to terminate an Eligible Employee's employment at any time; or

	(b)
	Be
evidence of any agreement or understanding, express or implied, that the Company will employ an Eligible Employee in any particular position or at any particular rate of
remuneration.

	12.2
	NONALIENATION
OF BENEFITS. No amounts payable hereunder may be assigned, pledged, mortgaged, or hypothecated, and, to the extent permitted by law, no such amounts shall be subject to
legal process or attachment for the payment of any claims against any person entitled to receive the same.

	12.3
	AMENDMENT
OR TERMINATION OF PLAN. Although it is expected that this Plan shall continue indefinitely, the Board may amend this Plan from time to time in any respect, and may at any
time terminate the Plan in its entirety; provided, however, that any amendment or termination may not reduce the amount of a Participant's Account as of the date of the amendment or termination nor
may any amendment or termination adversely affect a Participant's entitlement to his/her Account as of that date. Notwithstanding the foregoing, for a period of two calendar years following the year
in which a Change in Control occurs, unless required by law, this Plan may not be terminated or amended in any way which adversely affects a Participant's right to participate in this Plan, the amount
the Participant can defer under this Plan, the amount of the Company Matching Contribution, a Participant's Account under this Plan, or a Participant's entitlement to his/her Account, without the
written consent of the affected Participant; provided that the hypothetical investment funds provided according to Section 6.2(a) may be changed as necessary to reflect changes to the
investment funds offered under the Basic Plan.

	12.4
	UNFUNDED
PLAN. The Plan is "unfunded and is maintained primarily for the purpose of providing deferred compensation for a select group of management or highly compensated employees,"
within the meaning of Sections 201(2), 301(a)(3) and 401(a)(1) of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended (ERISA). It is the intention of the Company that the Plan be unfunded
for tax and ERISA purposes and that it be construed and interpreted 

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accordingly.
Participants have the status of general, unsecured creditors of the Company, and the Plan constitutes a mere promise by the Company to pay benefits in the future. 

	12.5
	GENDER
AND NUMBER. Wherever used in this Plan, the masculine shall be deemed to include the feminine, and the singular shall be deemed to include the plural, unless the context
clearly indicates otherwise.

	12.6
	GOVERNING
LAW. This Plan shall be construed in accordance with, and shall be governed by, the laws of the State of Ohio to the extent such laws are not preempted by federal law.

	12.7
	CHANGES
IN DEEMED INVESTMENTS/CONVERSIONS. Notwithstanding any provision of the Plan to the contrary:

	(a)
	In
the event of any conversion, change in recordkeepers, change in investment funds under the Basic Plan and/or a Plan merger or spin-off, the Company, in its sole and
absolute discretion (subject to the requirements of applicable law), may temporarily suspend, in whole or in part, certain Plan transactions, including without limitation, the right to change
contributions, the right to change deemed investment elections and/or the right to receive a distribution.

	(b)
	In
the event of a change in investment funds under the Basic Plan and/or a Plan merger or spin-off, the Company, in its sole and absolute discretion, may decide to map
deemed investments under this Plan in a manner similar to the mapping of under the investments in the Basic Plan. If deemed investments are mapped in this manner, the Participant shall be permitted to
reallocate his/her Account balance among the deemed investment funds (in accordance with the provisions of Section 6.2) after any suspension period as described in subsection (a) is
lifted. 

	 	 	OfficeMax, Inc.
	

 	
 	

By:	

/s/ J.W. Holleran
	 	 	 	                                        
                        

    As Sole Director
	

 	
 	

Date:	

December 9, 2003
	 	 	 	                                        
                        

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                       SUBORDINATED BRIDGE LOAN AGREEMENT

                          Dated as of January 23, 2004

                                      among

                             ALDERWOODS GROUP, INC.,

                                as the Borrower,

                           BANC OF AMERICA BRIDGE LLC,
                as Administrative Agent and Initial Bridge Lender

                                       and

                      The Other Bridge Lenders Party Hereto

                         BANC OF AMERICA SECURITIES LLC,

                                       as

                    Sole Lead Arranger and Sole Book Manager

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Section                                                                                                        Page

                                    ARTICLE I
             DEFINITIONS, ACCOUNTING AND OTHER TERMS AND REFERENCES

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1.01     DEFINED TERMS...........................................................................................1
1.02     OTHER INTERPRETIVE PROVISIONS..........................................................................19
1.03     ACCOUNTING TERMS.......................................................................................20
1.04     REFERENCES TO AGREEMENTS AND LAWS; INCORPORATION BY REFERENCE..........................................20
1.05     TIMES OF DAY...........................................................................................21
1.06     ROUNDING...............................................................................................21

                                   ARTICLE II
                  THE BRIDGE COMMITMENTS AND CREDIT EXTENSIONS

2.01     THE BRIDGE LOANS.......................................................................................22
2.02     BORROWINGS, CONVERSIONS AND CONTINUATIONS OF BRIDGE LOANS..............................................22
2.03     PREPAYMENTS............................................................................................23
2.04     TERMINATION OR REDUCTION OF BRIDGE COMMITMENTS.........................................................24
2.05     REPAYMENT OF BRIDGE LOANS..............................................................................25
2.06     INTEREST...............................................................................................25
2.07     FEES...................................................................................................25
2.08     COMPUTATION OF INTEREST AND FEES.......................................................................25
2.09     EVIDENCE OF INDEBTEDNESS...............................................................................26
2.10     PAYMENTS GENERALLY.....................................................................................26
2.11     SHARING OF PAYMENTS....................................................................................28

                                   ARTICLE III
                     TAXES, YIELD PROTECTION AND ILLEGALITY

3.01     TAXES,  YIELD PROTECTION AND ILLEGALITY  PROVISIONS IN THE SENIOR CREDIT AGREEMENT  INCORPORATED BY
         REFERENCE..............................................................................................29

                                   Article IV
                CONDITIONS PRECEDENT TO INITIAL CREDIT EXTENSION

4.01     CONDITIONS OF INITIAL CREDIT EXTENSION.................................................................29

                                    ARTICLE V
                         REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES

5.01     EXISTENCE, QUALIFICATION AND POWER; COMPLIANCE WITH LAWS...............................................32
5.02     AUTHORIZATION; NO CONTRAVENTION........................................................................32
5.03     GOVERNMENTAL AUTHORIZATION; OTHER CONSENTS.............................................................32
5.04     BINDING EFFECT.........................................................................................33
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5.05     FINANCIAL STATEMENTS; NO MATERIAL ADVERSE EFFECT.......................................................33
5.06     NO DEFAULT.............................................................................................34
5.07     SOLVENCY...............................................................................................34
5.08     SENIOR CREDIT AGREEMENT................................................................................34
5.09     REDEMPTION OF SUBORDINATED NOTES.......................................................................34

                                   ARTICLE VI
                                    COVENANTS

6.01     COVENANTS IN THE SENIOR CREDIT AGREEMENT INCORPORATED BY REFERENCE.....................................34
6.02     USE OF PROCEEDS........................................................................................36
6.03     COVENANT TO GUARANTEE OBLIGATIONS; NEW SUBSIDIARIES....................................................36
6.04     FURTHER ASSURANCES.....................................................................................37
6.05     ANTI-LAYERING..........................................................................................37
6.06     SENIOR CREDIT AGREEMENT................................................................................37

                                   ARTICLE VII
                         EVENTS OF DEFAULT AND REMEDIES

7.01     EVENTS OF DEFAULT......................................................................................37
7.02     REMEDIES UPON EVENT OF DEFAULT.........................................................................40
7.03     APPLICATION OF FUNDS...................................................................................40

                                  ARTICLE VIII
                                     AGENTS

8.01     AGENCY PROVISIONS IN THE SENIOR CREDIT AGREEMENT INCORPORATED BY REFERENCE.............................41

                                   ARTICLE IX
                                  SUBORDINATION

9.01     AGREEMENT TO SUBORDINATE SUBORDINATED INDEBTEDNESS TO SENIOR INDEBTEDNESS..............................41
9.02     PAYMENT OF PROCEEDS UPON INSOLVENCY, ETC...............................................................41
9.03     NO PAYMENT WHEN SENIOR INDEBTEDNESS IN DEFAULT.........................................................42
9.04     SUBROGATION TO RIGHTS OF HOLDERS OF SENIOR INDEBTEDNESS................................................43
9.05     PROVISIONS SOLELY TO DEFINE RELATIVE RIGHTS............................................................44
9.06     ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT TO EFFECTUATE SUBORDINATION.......................................................44
9.07     NO WAIVER OF SUBORDINATION PROVISIONS..................................................................44
9.08     NOTICE TO ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT.........................................................................45
9.09     RELIANCE ON JUDICIAL ORDER OR CERTIFICATE OF LIQUIDATING AGENT.........................................46
9.10     ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT NOT FIDUCIARY FOR BRIDGE LENDERS..................................................46
9.11     RIGHTS OF ADMINISTRATIVE  AGENT AS HOLDER OF SENIOR  INDEBTEDNEESS;  INDEBTEDNESS;  PRESERVATION OF
         ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT'S RIGHTS..........................................................................46
9.12     AUTHORIZATION TO FILE CLAIMS;  REINSTATEMENT OF SUBORDINATION..........................................47
9.13     NO SUSPENSION OF REMEDIES..............................................................................47
9.14     MISCELLANEOUS..........................................................................................47
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                                    ARTICLE X
                                    GUARANTY
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10.01    THE GUARANTY...........................................................................................49
10.02    GUARANTY ABSOLUTE......................................................................................50
10.03    WAIVERS AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS............................................................................51
10.04    SUBROGATION............................................................................................52
10.05    PAYMENTS FREE AND CLEAR OF TAXES, ETC..................................................................52
10.06    REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES OF THE GUARANTORS.......................................................53
10.07    GUARANTY SUPPLEMENTS...................................................................................53
10.08    SUBORDINATION OF GUARANTY..............................................................................53
10.09    CONTINUING GUARANTY; ASSIGNMENTS.......................................................................53
10.10    LIMITATION ON LIABILITY................................................................................54

                                   ARTICLE XI
                                  MISCELLANEOUS

11.01    AMENDMENTS, ETC........................................................................................54
11.02    NO WAIVER; CUMULATIVE REMEDIES.........................................................................55
11.03    ATTORNEY COSTS, EXPENSES AND TAXES.....................................................................55
11.04    INDEMNIFICATION BY THE BORROWER........................................................................56
11.05    PAYMENTS SET ASIDE.....................................................................................57
11.06    SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS.................................................................................57
11.07    MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS OF THE SENIOR CREDIT AGREEMENT INCORPORATED BY REFERENCE......................61
11.08    GOVERNING LAW..........................................................................................61
11.09    BINDING EFFECT.........................................................................................61
11.10    WAIVER OF RIGHT TO TRIAL BY JURY.......................................................................61
11.11    USA PATRIOT ACT NOTICE.................................................................................62

SIGNATURES.....................................................................................................S-1
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ANNEXES

   A              Group A Guarantors
   B              Group B Guarantors

SCHEDULES

   2.01           Bridge Commitments and Pro Rata Shares
   10.02          Administrative Agent's Office, Certain Addresses for Notices

EXHIBITS

   FORM OF

   A         Committed Loan Notice
   B         Bridge Note
   C         Assignment and Assumption
   D         Compliance Certificate
   E         Opinion Matters -- Counsel to Loan Parties
   F         Senior Credit Agreement
   G         Guaranty Supplement

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                       SUBORDINATED BRIDGE LOAN AGREEMENT

                  This SUBORDINATED BRIDGE LOAN AGREEMENT ("AGREEMENT") is
entered into as of January 23, 2004, among ALDERWOODS GROUP, INC., a Delaware
corporation (the "BORROWER"), each lender from time to time party hereto
(collectively, the "BRIDGE LENDERS" and individually, a "BRIDGE LENDER"), BANC
OF AMERICA BRIDGE LLC, as administrative agent (in such capacity, the
"ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT") and Initial Bridge Lender and Banc of America Securities
LLC, as sole lead arranger and sole book manager (the "ARRANGER").

                             PRELIMINARY STATEMENTS

                  (1) The Borrower has requested that the Bridge Lenders lend up
to $25,000,000 to the Borrower to enable the Borrower to repay all of the
Indebtedness (as hereinafter defined) outstanding in respect of 12 1/4%
convertible unsecured subordinated notes of the Borrower due 2012 (the
"SUBORDINATED NOtes") (the repayment of the Subordinated Notes with the proceeds
of Bridge Borrowings under this Agreement being referred to herein as the
"REFINANCING").

                  (2) The Bridge Lenders have indicated their willingness to so
lend on the terms and subject to the conditions set forth herein.

                  In consideration of the mutual covenants and agreements herein
contained, the parties hereto covenant and agree as follows:

                                   ARTICLE I
             DEFINITIONS, ACCOUNTING AND OTHER TERMS AND REFERENCES

                  1.01 DEFINED TERMS. As used in this Agreement, the following
terms shall have the meanings set forth below:

                  "ADDITIONAL GUARANTOR" has the meaning specified in SECTION
10.07.

                  "ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT" means Banc of America Bridge LLC in its
capacity as administrative agent under any of the Bridge Loan Documents or any
of its Affiliates designated to act as administrative agent thereunder, or any
successor administrative agent to any of the foregoing.

                  "ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT'S OFFICE" means the Administrative
Agent's address and, as appropriate, account as set forth on SCHEDULE 10.02, or
such other address or account as the Administrative Agent may from time to time
notify the Borrower and the Bridge Lenders.

                  "ADMINISTRATIVE QUESTIONNAIRE" means an Administrative
Questionnaire in a form supplied by the Administrative Agent.

                  "AFFILIATE" means, with respect to any Person, another Person
that directly, or indirectly through one or more intermediaries, Controls or is
Controlled by or is under common Control with the Person specified. "CONTROL"
means the possession, directly or indirectly, of the

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power to direct or cause the direction of the management or policies of a
Person, whether through the ability to exercise voting power, by contract or
otherwise. "CONTROLLING" and "CONTROLLED" have meanings correlative thereto.
Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, a Person shall be deemed to be
Controlled by another Person if such other Person possesses, directly or
indirectly, power to vote 5% or more of the securities having ordinary voting
power for the election of directors, managing general partners or the
equivalent.

                  "AGENT-RELATED PERSONS" means the Administrative Agent and the
Arranger, together with their respective Affiliates and the officers, directors,
employees, agents and attorneys-in-fact of such Persons and Affiliates.

                  "AGENTS" means, collectively, the Administrative Agent and the
Arranger.

                  "AGGREGATE BRIDGE COMMITMENTS" means the Bridge Commitments of
all the Bridge Lenders.

                  "AGGREGATE CREDIT EXPOSURES" means, at any time, the sum of
(i) the unused portion of each Bridge Commitment then in effect and (ii) the
Total Outstandings at such time.

                  "AGREEMENT" means this Subordinated Bridge Loan Agreement.

                  "AMENDMENT NO. 1" means Amendment No. 1 to the Senior Credit
Agreement dated January 23, 2004 among the Borrower, the Senior Lenders and Bank
of America, as administrative agent, swing line lender and L/C issuer.

                  "AMENDMENT NO. 1 EFFECTIVE DATE" means the date on which the
conditions precedent to the effectiveness of Amendment No. 1 as set forth in
Section 2(a) thereof have been satisfied or waived by the Senior Lenders.

                  "APPLICABLE RATE" means a percentage per annum equal to (i)
for Eurodollar Rate Loans, the Eurodollar Rate then in effect for such Bridge
Loans PLUS 4.50% and (ii) for Base Rate Loans, the Base Rate then in effect for
such Bridge Loans PLUS 3.50%.

                  "APPROVED FUND" has the meaning specified in SECTION 11.06(g).

                  "ARRANGER" means Banc of America Securities LLC, in its
capacity as sole lead arranger and sole book manager.

                  "ASSIGNMENT AND ASSUMPTION" means an Assignment and Assumption
substantially in the form of EXHIBIT C.

                  "ATTORNEY COSTS" means and includes all reasonable fees,
expenses and disbursements of any law firm or other external counsel and,
without duplication, the allocated cost of internal legal services and all
expenses and disbursements of internal counsel.

                  "ATTRIBUTABLE INDEBTEDNESS" means, on any date, (a) in respect
of any capital lease of any Person, the capitalized amount thereof that would
appear on a balance sheet of such Person prepared as of such date in accordance
with GAAP, and (b) in respect of any Synthetic

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Lease Obligation, the capitalized amount of the remaining lease payments under
the relevant lease that would appear on a balance sheet of such Person prepared
as of such date in accordance with GAAP if such lease were accounted for as a
capital lease.

                  "AUDITED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS" means the audited consolidated
balance sheet of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries for the fiscal year ended
December 28, 2002, and the related consolidated statements of income or
operations, shareholders' equity and cash flows for such fiscal year of the
Borrower and its Subsidiaries, including the notes thereto.

                  "BANK OF AMERICA" means Bank of America, N.A. and its
successors.

                  "BANC OF AMERICA BRIDGE" means Banc of America Bridge LLC and
its successors.

                  "BAS" means Banc of America Securities LLC and its successors.

                  "BASE RATE" means for any day a fluctuating rate per annum
equal to the higher of (a) the Federal Funds Rate plus 1/2 of 1% and (b) the
rate of interest in effect for such day as publicly announced from time to time
by Bank of America as its "prime rate." The "prime rate" is a rate set by Bank
of America based upon various factors including Bank of America's costs and
desired return, general economic conditions and other factors, and is used as a
reference point for pricing some loans, which may be priced at, above, or below
such announced rate. Any change in such rate announced by Bank of America shall
take effect at the opening of business on the day specified in the public
announcement of such change.

                  "BASE RATE LOAN" means a Bridge Loan that bears interest based
on the Base Rate.

                  "BORROWER" has the meaning specified in the introductory
paragraph hereto.

                  "BRIDGE BORROWING" means a borrowing under the Bridge
Facility.

                  "BRIDGE COMMITMENT" means, with respect to any Bridge Lender,
the amount set forth opposite such Bridge Lender's name on Schedule 2.01 to this
Agreement.

                  "BRIDGE FACILITY" means, at any time, the aggregate Bridge
Loans of all Bridge Lenders at such time.

                  "BRIDGE LENDER" has the meaning specified in the introductory
paragraph hereto.

                  "BRIDGE LOAN" means an advance made by any Bridge Lender under
the Bridge Facility.

                  "BRIDGE LOAN DOCUMENTS" means collectively, this Agreement,
the Bridge Notes, the Fee Letter and any amendment, supplement or other
modification hereof or thereof.

                  "BRIDGE NOTE" means a promissory note of the Borrower in the
form of Exhibit B attached hereto evidencing the Bridge Loan of any Bridge
Lender.

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                  "BORROWER" has the meaning specified in the introductory
paragraph hereto.

                  "BUSINESS DAY" means any day other than a Saturday, Sunday or
other day on which commercial banks are authorized to close under the Laws of,
or are in fact closed in, the state where the Administrative Agent's Office is
located and, if such day relates to any Eurodollar Rate Loan, means any such day
on which dealings in Dollar deposits are conducted by and between banks in the
London interbank eurodollar market.

                  "CAPITAL EXPENDITURE CARRYOVER AMOUNT" has the meaning
specified in SECTION 6.01(m).

                  "CAPITAL EXPENDITURES" means, with respect to any Person for
any period, any expenditure in respect of the purchase or other acquisition of
any fixed or capital asset (excluding normal replacements and maintenance which
are properly charged to current operations) that would be deemed a capital
expenditure under GAAP consistently applied by the Borrower.

                  "CASH EQUIVALENTS" means any of the following types of
Investments, to the extent owned by the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries free
and clear of all Liens :

                  (a) readily marketable obligations issued or directly and
         fully guaranteed or insured by the United States of America or any
         agency or instrumentality thereof having maturities of not more than
         360 days from the date of acquisition thereof; PROVIDED that the full
         faith and credit of the United States of America is pledged in support
         thereof;

                  (b) time deposits with, or insured certificates of deposit or
         bankers' acceptances of, any commercial bank that (i) (A) is a Bridge
         Lender or (B) is organized under the laws of the United States of
         America, any state thereof or the District of Columbia or is the
         principal banking subsidiary of a bank holding company organized under
         the laws of the United States of America, any state thereof or the
         District of Columbia, and is a member of the Federal Reserve System,
         (ii) issues (or the parent of which issues) commercial paper rated as
         described in clause (c) of this definition and (iii) has combined
         capital and surplus of at least $500,000,000, in each case with
         maturities of not more than 270 days from the date of acquisition
         thereof;

                  (c) commercial paper issued by any Person organized under the
         laws of any state of the United States of America and rated at least
         "Prime-1" (or the then equivalent grade) by Moody's or at least "A-1"
         (or the then equivalent grade) by S&P, in each case with maturities of
         not more than 270 days from the date of acquisition thereof; and

                  (d) Investments, classified in accordance with GAAP as Current
         Assets of the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries, in money market
         investment programs registered under the Investment Company Act of
         1940, which are administered by financial institutions that have the
         highest rating obtainable from either Moody's or S&P, and the
         portfolios of which are limited solely to Investments of the character,
         quality and maturity described in clauses (a), (b) and (c) of this
         definition.

                  "CHANGE OF CONTROL" means, an event or series of events by
which:

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                  (a) any "person" or "group" (as such terms are used in
         Sections 13(d) and 14(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, but
         excluding any employee benefit plan of such person or its subsidiaries,
         and any person or entity acting in its capacity as trustee, agent or
         other fiduciary or administrator of any such plan) becomes the
         "beneficial owner" (as defined in Rules 13d-3 and 13d-5 under the
         Securities Exchange Act of 1934, except that a person or group shall be
         deemed to have "beneficial ownership" of all securities that such
         person or group has the right to acquire (such right, an "OPTION
         RIGHT"), whether such right is exercisable immediately or only after
         the passage of time), directly or indirectly, of 35% or more of the
         equity securities of the Borrower entitled to vote for members of the
         board of directors or equivalent governing body of such Person on a
         fully diluted basis (and taking into account all such securities that
         such person or group has the right to acquire pursuant to any option
         right); or

                  (b) during any period of 24 consecutive months, a majority of
         the members of the board of directors or other equivalent governing
         body of the Borrower cease to be composed of individuals (i) who were
         members of that board or equivalent governing body on the first day of
         such period, (ii) whose election or nomination to that board or
         equivalent governing body was approved by individuals referred to in
         clause (i) above constituting at the time of such election or
         nomination at least a majority of that board or equivalent governing
         body or (iii) whose election or nomination to that board or other
         equivalent governing body was approved by individuals referred to in
         clauses (i) and (ii) above constituting at the time of such election or
         nomination at least a majority of that board or equivalent governing
         body (excluding, in the case of both clause (ii) and clause (iii), any
         individual whose initial nomination for, or assumption of office as, a
         member of that board or equivalent governing body occurs as a result of
         an actual or threatened solicitation of proxies or consents for the
         election or removal of one or more directors by any person or group
         other than a solicitation for the election of one or more directors by
         or on behalf of the board of directors); or

                  (c) any Person or two or more Persons acting in concert shall
         have acquired by contract or otherwise, or shall have entered into a
         contract or arrangement that, upon consummation thereof, will result in
         its or their acquisition of the power to exercise, directly or
         indirectly, a controlling influence over the management or policies of
         the Borrower, or control over the equity securities of such Person
         entitled to vote for members of the board of directors or equivalent
         governing body of such Person on a fully diluted basis (and taking into
         account all such securities that such person or group has the right to
         acquire pursuant to any option right) representing 35% or more of the
         combined voting power of such securities.

                  "CODE" means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended
from time to time, and the regulations promulgated and rulings issued
thereunder.

                  "COMMITTED LOAN NOTICE" means a notice of (a) a Bridge
Borrowing, (b) a conversion of Bridge Loans from one Type to the other, or (c) a
continuation of Eurodollar Rate Loans, pursuant to SECTION 2.02(a), which, if in
writing, shall be substantially in the form of EXHIBIT A.

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                  "COMPENSATION PERIOD" has the meaning specified in SECTION
2.10(c)(ii).

                  "COMPLIANCE CERTIFICATE" means a certificate substantially in
the form of EXHIBIT D.

                  "CONTINUING NON-PAYMENT DEFAULT" has the meaning specified in
SECTION 9.03(b).

                  "CONTRACTUAL OBLIGATION" means, as to any Person, any
provision of any security issued by such Person or of any agreement, instrument
or other undertaking to which such Person is a party or by which it or any of
its property is bound.

                  "CONTROL" has the meaning specified in the definition of
"Affiliate."

                  "CREDIT EXTENSION" means a Bridge Borrowing.

                  "CURRENT ASSETS" means, with respect to any Person, all assets
of such Person that, in accordance with GAAP, would be classified as current
assets on the balance sheet of a company conducting a business the same as or
similar to that of such Person, after deducting appropriate and adequate
reserves therefrom in each case in which a reserve is proper in accordance with
GAAP.

                  "DEBTOR RELIEF LAWS" means the Bankruptcy Code of the United
States, and all other liquidation, conservatorship, bankruptcy, assignment for
the benefit of creditors, moratorium, rearrangement, receivership, insolvency,
reorganization, or similar debtor relief Laws of the United States or other
applicable jurisdictions from time to time in effect and affecting the rights of
creditors generally.

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

                  "DEFAULT RATE" means an interest rate equal to (a) the Base
Rate PLUS (b) the Applicable Rate, if any, applicable to Base Rate Loans PLUS
(c) 2.0% per annum; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that with respect to a Eurodollar Rate
Loan, the Default Rate shall be an interest rate equal to the interest rate
(including any Applicable Rate) otherwise applicable to such Eurodollar Rate
Loan plus 2.0% per annum, in each case to the fullest extent permitted by
applicable Laws.

                  "DEFAULTING BRIDGE LENDER" means any Bridge Lender that (a)
has failed to fund any portion of the Bridge Loans required to be funded by it
hereunder within one Business Day of the date required to be funded by it
hereunder, (b) has otherwise failed to pay over to the Administrative Agent or
any other Bridge Lender any other amount required to be paid by it hereunder
within one Business Day of the date when due, unless the subject of a good faith
dispute, or (c) has been deemed insolvent or become the subject of a bankruptcy
or insolvency proceeding.

                  "DESIGNATED SENIOR INDEBTEDNESS" means all Indebtedness and
Obligations of the Borrower and any Guarantor, now or hereinafter arising under
or in connection with any of the Senior Credit Agreement, the Seven Year Notes
and the Seven Year Notes Indenture, and any

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Refinancing Indebtedness incurred in respect of any thereof, as any thereof may
be amended, restated, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time.

                  "DOLLAR" and "$" mean lawful money of the United States.

                  "EFFECTIVE DATE" means the first date all the conditions
precedent in SECTION 4.01 are satisfied or waived in accordance with SECTION
4.01 (or, in the case of SECTION 4.01(b), waived by the Person entitled to
receive the applicable payment), but in no event later than thirty days
following the execution of this Agreement by all parties hereto.

                  "ELIGIBLE ASSIGNEE" has the meaning specified in SECTION
11.06(g).

                  "ENVIRONMENTAL LAWS" means any and all Federal, state, local,
and foreign statutes, laws, regulations, ordinances, rules, judgments, orders,
decrees, permits, licenses, agreements or governmental restrictions relating to
pollution and the protection of the environment or the release of any materials
into the environment, including those related to hazardous substances or wastes,
air emissions and discharges to waste or public systems.

                  "ENVIRONMENTAL LIABILITY" means any liability, contingent or
otherwise (including any liability for damages, costs of environmental
remediation, fines, penalties or indemnities), of the Borrower, any other Loan
Party or any of their respective Subsidiaries directly or indirectly resulting
from or based upon (a) violation of any Environmental Law, (b) the generation,
use, handling, transportation, storage, treatment or disposal of any Hazardous
Materials, (c) exposure to any Hazardous Materials, (d) the release or
threatened release of any Hazardous Materials into the environment or (e) any
contract, agreement or other consensual arrangement pursuant to which liability
is assumed or imposed with respect to any of the foregoing.

                  "EQUITY INTERESTS" means, with respect to any Person, all of
the shares of capital stock of (or other ownership or profit interests in) such
Person, all of the warrants, options or other rights for the purchase or
acquisition from such Person of shares of capital stock of (or other ownership
or profit interests in) such Person, all of the securities convertible into or
exchangeable for shares of capital stock of (or other ownership or profit
interests in) such Person or warrants, rights or options for the purchase or
acquisition from such Person of such shares (or such other interests), and all
of the other ownership or profit interests in such Person (including, without
limitation, partnership, member or trust interests therein), whether voting or
nonvoting, and whether or not such shares, warrants, options, rights or other
interests are outstanding on any date of determination.

                  "ERISA" means the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of
1974, as amended from time to time, and the regulations promulgated and rulings
issued thereunder.

                  "ERISA AFFILIATE" means any trade or business (whether or not
incorporated) under common control with any Loan Party within the meaning of
SECTION 414(B) OR (C) of the Code (and SECTIONS 414(m) AND (o) of the Code for
purposes of provisions relating to SECTION 412 of the Code).

                  "ERISA EVENT" means (a) a Reportable Event with respect to a
Pension Plan; (b) a withdrawal by any Loan Party or any ERISA Affiliate from a
Pension Plan subject to SECTION

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4063 of ERISA during a plan year in which it was a substantial employer (as
defined in SECTION 4001(a)(2) of ERISA) or a cessation of operations that is
treated as such a withdrawal under SECTION 4062(e) of ERISA; (c) a complete or
partial withdrawal (as defined in SECTION 4203 OR 4205, respectively, of ERISA)
by any Loan Party or any ERISA Affiliate from a Multiemployer Plan or the
receipt by a Loan Party or any ERISA Affiliate of a notification pursuant to
SECTION 4242 of ERISA, that a Multiemployer Plan is in reorganization; (d) the
filing of a notice of intent to terminate, the treatment of a Plan amendment as
a termination under SECTIONS 4041 OR 4041A of ERISA, or the commencement of
proceedings by the PBGC to terminate a Pension Plan or Multiemployer Plan; (e)
an event or condition which constitutes grounds under SECTION 4042 of ERISA for
the termination of, or the appointment of a trustee to administer, any Pension
Plan or Multiemployer Plan; or (f) the imposition of any liability under TITLE
IV of ERISA, other than for PBGC premiums due but not delinquent under SECTION
4007 of ERISA, upon any Loan Party or any ERISA Affiliate.

                  "EURODOLLAR RATE" means for any Interest Period with respect
to any Eurodollar Rate Loan, a rate per annum determined by the Administrative
Agent pursuant to the following formula:

                                               Eurodollar Base Rate
                  Eurodollar Rate  =    ------------------------------------
                                        1.00 - Eurodollar Reserve Percentage

                  Where,

                  "EURODOLLAR BASE RATE" means, for such Interest Period:

                  (a) the rate per annum equal to the rate determined by the
         Administrative Agent to be the offered rate that appears on the page of
         the Telerate screen (or any successor thereto) that displays an average
         British Bankers Association Interest Settlement Rate for deposits in
         Dollars (for delivery on the first day of such Interest Period) with a
         term equivalent to such Interest Period, determined as of approximately
         11:00 a.m. (London time) two Business Days prior to the first day of
         such Interest Period, or

                  (b) if the rate referenced in the preceding clause (a) does
         not appear on such page or service or such page or service shall not be
         available, the rate per annum equal to the rate determined by the
         Administrative Agent to be the offered rate on such other page or other
         service that displays an average British Bankers Association Interest
         Settlement Rate for deposits in Dollars (for delivery on the first day
         of such Interest Period) with a term equivalent to such Interest
         Period, determined as of approximately 11:00 a.m. (London time) two
         Business Days prior to the first day of such Interest Period, or

                  (c) if the rates referenced in the preceding clauses (a) and
         (b) are not available, the rate per annum determined by the
         Administrative Agent as the rate of interest at which deposits in
         Dollars for delivery on the first day of such Interest Period in same
         day funds in the approximate amount of the Eurodollar Rate Loan being
         made or continued or converted by Bank of America and with a term
         equivalent to such Interest Period would be offered by Bank of
         America's London Branch to major banks in the

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         London interbank eurodollar market at their request at approximately
         4:00 p.m. (London time) two Business Days prior to the first day of
         such Interest Period.

                  "EURODOLLAR RATE LOAN" means a Bridge Loan that bears interest
at a rate based on the Eurodollar Rate.

                  "EURODOLLAR RESERVE PERCENTAGE" means, for any day during any
Interest Period, the reserve percentage (expressed as a decimal, carried out to
five decimal places) in effect on such day, whether or not applicable to any
Bridge Lender, under regulations issued from time to time by the FRB for
determining the maximum reserve requirement (including any emergency,
supplemental or other marginal reserve requirement) with respect to Eurocurrency
funding (currently referred to as "Eurocurrency liabilities"). The Eurodollar
Rate for each outstanding Eurodollar Rate Loan shall be adjusted automatically
as of the effective date of any change in the Eurodollar Reserve Percentage.

                  "EVENT OF DEFAULT" has the meaning specified in SECTION 7.01.

                  "FEDERAL" means the Federal government of the United States of
 America.

                  "FEDERAL FUNDS RATE" means, for any day, the rate per annum
equal to the weighted average of the rates on overnight Federal funds
transactions with members of the Federal Reserve System arranged by Federal
funds brokers on such day, as published by the Federal Reserve Bank on the
Business Day next succeeding such day; PROVIDED that (a) if such day is not a
Business Day, the Federal Funds Rate for such day shall be such rate on such
transactions on the next preceding Business Day as so published on the next
succeeding Business Day, and (b) if no such rate is so published on such next
succeeding Business Day, the Federal Funds Rate for such day shall be the
average rate (rounded upward, if necessary, to a whole multiple of 1/100 of 1%)
charged to Bank of America on such day on such transactions as determined by the
Administrative Agent.

                  "FEE LETTER" means the fee letter, dated January 5, 2004,
among the Borrower, the Administrative Agent and the Arranger.

                  "FOREIGN SUBSIDIARY" means a Subsidiary organized under the
laws of a jurisdiction other than the United States or any State thereof or the
District of Columbia.

                  "FRB" means the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve
System of the United States.

                  "FUND" has the meaning specified in SECTION 11.06(g).

                  "GAAP" means generally accepted accounting principles in the
United States set forth in the opinions and pronouncements of the Accounting
Principles Board and the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and
statements and pronouncements of the Financial Accounting Standards Board that
are applicable to the circumstances as of the date of determination,
consistently applied.

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                  "GOVERNMENTAL AUTHORITY" means any nation or government, any
state or other political subdivision thereof, any agency, authority,
instrumentality, regulatory body, court, administrative tribunal, central bank
or other entity exercising executive, legislative, judicial, taxing, regulatory
or administrative powers or functions of or pertaining to government.

                  "GRANTING BRIDGE LENDER" has the meaning specified in SECTION
11.06(h).

                  "GUARANTEE" means, as to any Person, (a) any obligation,
contingent or otherwise, of such Person guaranteeing or having the economic
effect of guaranteeing any Indebtedness or other obligation payable or
performable by another Person (the "PRIMARY OBLIGOR") in any manner, whether
directly or indirectly, and including any obligation of such Person, direct or
indirect, (i) to purchase or pay (or advance or supply funds for the purchase or
payment of) such Indebtedness or other obligation, (ii) to purchase or lease
property, securities or services for the purpose of assuring the obligee in
respect of such Indebtedness or other obligation of the payment or performance
of such Indebtedness or other obligation, (iii) to maintain working capital,
equity capital or any other financial statement condition or liquidity or level
of income or cash flow of the primary obligor so as to enable the primary
obligor to pay such Indebtedness or other obligation, or (iv) entered into for
the purpose of assuring in any other manner the obligee in respect of such
Indebtedness or other obligation of the payment or performance thereof or to
protect such obligee against loss in respect thereof (in whole or in part), or
(b) any Lien on any assets of such Person securing any Indebtedness or other
obligation of any other Person, whether or not such Indebtedness or other
obligation is assumed by such Person (or any right, contingent or otherwise, of
any holder of such Indebtedness to obtain any such Lien). The amount of any
Guarantee shall be deemed to be an amount equal to the stated or determinable
amount of the related primary obligation, or portion thereof, in respect of
which such Guarantee is made or, if not stated or determinable, the maximum
reasonably anticipated liability in respect thereof as determined by the
guaranteeing Person in good faith. The term "GUARANTEE" as a verb has a
corresponding meaning.

                  "GUARANTEED OBLIGATIONS" has the meaning specified in SECTION
10.01.

                  "GUARANTORS" means, collectively, the Subsidiaries of the
Borrower listed on the signature pages hereof and each other Subsidiary of the
Borrower that shall be required to execute and deliver a guaranty or Guaranty
Supplement pursuant to SECTION 6.03.

                  "GUARANTY" means the Guaranty by each of the Guarantors
pursuant to ARTICLE X hereof.

                  "GUARANTY SUPPLEMENT" means a Guaranty Supplement
substantially in the form of EXHIBIT G.

                  "HAZARDOUS MATERIALS" means all explosive or radioactive
substances or wastes and all hazardous or toxic substances, wastes or other
pollutants, including petroleum or petroleum distillates, asbestos or
asbestos-containing materials, polychlorinated biphenyls, radon gas, infectious
or medical wastes and all other substances or wastes of any nature regulated
pursuant to any Environmental Law.

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                  "INDEBTEDNESS" means, as to any Person at a particular time,
without duplication, all of the following, whether or not included as
indebtedness or liabilities in accordance with GAAP:

                  (a) all obligations of such Person for borrowed money and all
         obligations of such Person evidenced by bonds, debentures, notes, loan
         agreements or other similar instruments;

                  (b) all direct or contingent obligations of such Person
         arising under letters of credit (including standby and commercial),
         bankers' acceptances, bank guaranties, surety bonds and similar
         instruments;

                  (c) net obligations of such Person under any Swap Contract;

                  (d) all obligations of such Person to pay the deferred
         purchase price of property or services (other than trade accounts
         payable in the ordinary course of business and not more than 45 days
         past due);

                  (e) indebtedness (excluding prepaid interest thereon) secured
         by a Lien on property owned or being purchased by such Person
         (including indebtedness arising under conditional sales or other title
         retention agreements), whether or not such indebtedness shall have been
         assumed by such Person or is limited in recourse;

                  (f) capital leases and Synthetic Lease Obligations;

                  (g) all obligations of such Person to purchase, redeem,
         retire, defease or otherwise make any payment in respect of any Equity
         Interests in such Person or any other Person or any warrants, rights or
         options to acquire such Equity Interests, valued, in the case of
         redeemable preferred interests, at the greater of its voluntary or
         involuntary liquidation preference PLUS accrued and unpaid dividends;
         and

                  (h) all Guarantees of such Person in respect of any of the
         foregoing.

                  For all purposes hereof, the Indebtedness of any Person shall
include the Indebtedness of any partnership or joint venture (other than a joint
venture that is itself a corporation or limited liability company) in which such
Person is a general partner or a joint venturer, unless such Indebtedness is
expressly made non-recourse to such Person. The amount of any net obligation
under any Swap Contract on any date shall be deemed to be the Swap Termination
Value thereof as of such date. The amount of any capital lease or Synthetic
Lease Obligation as of any date shall be deemed to be the amount of Attributable
Indebtedness in respect thereof as of such date.

                  "INDEMNIFIED LIABILITIES" has the meaning set forth in SECTION
 11.04.

                  "INDEMNITEES" has the meaning set forth in SECTION 11.04.

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                  "INDENTURE TRUSTEE" means the trustee under the Seven Year
Notes Indenture, or any trustee or equivalent thereof with respect to any
Refinancing Indebtedness with respect to the Seven Year Notes Indenture.

                  "INITIAL BRIDGE LENDER" means Banc of America Bridge LLC
in its capacity as initial bridge lender.

                  "INTEREST PAYMENT DATE" means, (a) as to any Bridge Loan other
than a Base Rate Loan, the last day of each Interest Period applicable to such
Bridge Loan and the Maturity Date and (b) as to any Base Rate Loan, the last
Business Day of each March, June, September and December and the Maturity Date.

                  "INTEREST PERIOD" means, as to each Eurodollar Rate Loan, the
period commencing on the date such Eurodollar Rate Loan is disbursed or
converted to or continued as a Eurodollar Rate Loan and ending on the date one
or three months thereafter, as selected by the Borrower in its Committed Loan
Notice; PROVIDED that:

                  (i) any Interest Period that would otherwise end on a day that
         is not a Business Day shall be extended to the next succeeding Business
         Day unless such Business Day falls in another calendar month, in which
         case such Interest Period shall end on the next preceding Business Day;

                  (ii) any Interest Period that begins on the last Business Day
         of a calendar month (or on a day for which there is no numerically
         corresponding day in the calendar month at the end of such Interest
         Period) shall end on the last Business Day of the calendar month at the
         end of such Interest Period; and

                  (iii) no Interest Period shall extend beyond the Maturity
         Date.

                  "INVESTMENT" means, as to any Person, any direct or indirect
acquisition or investment by such Person, whether by means of (a) the purchase
or other acquisition of capital stock or other securities of another Person, (b)
a loan, advance or capital contribution to, Guarantee or assumption of debt of,
or purchase or other acquisition of any other debt or equity participation or
interest in, another Person, including any partnership or joint venture interest
in such other Person and any arrangement pursuant to which the investor incurs
debt of the type referred to in clause (h) of the definition of "Indebtedness"
set forth in this SECTION 1.01 in respect of such Person, or (c) the purchase or
other acquisition (in one transaction or a series of transactions) of assets of
another Person that constitute a business unit or division or all or a
substantial part of the business of, such Person. For purposes of covenant
compliance, the amount of any Investment shall be the amount actually invested,
without adjustment for subsequent increases or decreases in the value of such
Investment.

                  "IRS" means the United States Internal Revenue Service.

                  "LAWS" means, collectively, all international, foreign,
Federal, state and local statutes, treaties, rules, regulations, ordinances,
codes and administrative or judicial precedents or authorities, including the
interpretation or administration thereof by any Governmental Authority charged
with the enforcement, interpretation or administration thereof, and all
applicable

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administrative orders, licenses, authorizations and permits of, and
agreements with, any Governmental Authority, in each case whether or not having
the force of law.

                  "LENDING OFFICE" means, as to any Bridge Lender, the office or
offices of such Bridge Lender described as such in such Bridge Lender's
Administrative Questionnaire, or such other office or offices as a Bridge Lender
may from time to time notify the Borrower and the Administrative Agent.

                  "LIEN" means any mortgage, pledge, hypothecation, assignment,
deposit arrangement, encumbrance, lien (statutory or other), charge, or
preference, priority or other security interest or preferential arrangement of
any kind or nature whatsoever (including any conditional sale or other title
retention agreement, any easement, right of way or other encumbrance on title to
real property, and any financing lease having substantially the same economic
effect as any of the foregoing).

                  "LOAN PARTIES" means, collectively, the Borrower and each
Guarantor.

                  "MATERIAL ADVERSE EFFECT" means (a) a material adverse change
in, or a material adverse effect upon, the operations, business, properties,
liabilities (actual or contingent), condition (financial or otherwise) or
prospects of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries taken as a whole; (b) a material
impairment of the rights and remedies of any Agent or the Bridge Lenders under
any Bridge Loan Document, or of the ability of any Loan Party to perform its
obligations under any Bride Loan Document to which it is a party; or (c) a
material adverse effect upon the legality, validity, binding effect or
enforceability against any Loan Party of any Bridge Loan Document to which it is
a party.

                  "MATURITY DATE" means the earlier of (i) March 31, 2005 and
(ii) the date of termination in whole of the Bridge Commitments pursuant to
SECTION 2.04 or 7.02.

                  "MOODY'S" means Moody's Investors Service, Inc. and any
successor thereto.

                  "MULTIEMPLOYER PLAN" means any employee benefit plan of the
type described in Section 4001(a)(3) of ERISA that is subject to TITLE IV of
ERISA and to which any Loan Party or any ERISA Affiliate makes or is obligated
to make contributions, or during the preceding five plan years, has made or been
obligated to make contributions.

                  "NET CASH PROCEEDS" means:

                  (a) with respect to the sale of any asset by any Loan Party or
         any of its Subsidiaries, the excess, if any, of (i) the sum of cash and
         Cash Equivalents received in connection with such sale (including any
         cash or Cash Equivalents received by way of deferred payment pursuant
         to, or by monetization of, a note receivable or otherwise, but only as
         and when so received) over (ii) the sum of (A) the principal amount of
         any Indebtedness that is secured by such asset and that is required to
         be repaid in connection with the sale thereof (other than Indebtedness
         under the Bridge Loan Documents), (B) the out-of-pocket expenses
         incurred by such Loan Party or such Subsidiary in connection with such
         sale, (C) income taxes reasonably estimated to be actually payable
         within two years of the date of the relevant asset sale as a result of
         any gain recognized in connection

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         therewith, and (D) amounts provided as a reserve against any
         liabilities under any indemnification obligations associated with such
         sale; PROVIDED that so long as such Loan Party or such Subsidiary is
         not otherwise indemnified therefor, such amounts are reserved for in
         accordance with GAAP at the time of receipt of such cash, based upon
         such Loan Party's or such Subsidiary's reasonable estimate of such
         indemnification obligations (as determined reasonably and in good faith
         by the treasurer or chief financial officer of such Loan Party or such
         Subsidiary, as the case may be); PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that if, at the
         time such indemnification obligations are actually paid or otherwise
         satisfied, the amount of the reserve therefor exceeds the amount paid
         or otherwise satisfied, then the Borrower shall reduce the Bridge
         Commitments in accordance with the terms of SECTION 2.04, and shall
         prepay the outstanding Bridge Loans in accordance with the terms of
         SECTION 2.03(b), in an amount equal to the amount of such excess
         reserve;

                  (b) with respect to the sale of any capital stock or other
         Equity Interest by the Borrower, the excess of (i) the sum of the cash
         and Cash Equivalents received in connection with such sale over (ii)
         the sum of (A) the underwriting discounts and commissions, and other
         out-of-pocket expenses, incurred by the Borrower in connection with
         such sale and (B) income taxes reasonably estimated to be actually
         payable within two years of the date of the relevant sale as a result
         of any gain recognized in connection therewith; and

                  (c) with respect to the incurrence or issuance of any
         Indebtedness by any Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries, the excess,
         if any, of (i) the sum of cash and Cash Equivalents received in
         connection with such incurrence or issuance over (ii) the sum of
         investment banking fees, underwriting discounts and commissions, and
         other out-of-pocket expenses, incurred by any Loan Party of any of its
         Subsidiaries in connection with such incurrence or issuance.

                  "NON-PAYMENT DEFAULT" means (a) any "Default" or "Event of
Default" (as such terms are defined in the Senior Credit Agreement and the Seven
Year Notes Indenture, or any Refinancing Indebtedness with respect to either
thereof), other than a Payment Default and (b) any other event of default with
respect to the Senior Indebtedness, other than a Payment Default.

                  "OBLIGATIONS" means all advances to, and debts, liabilities,
obligations, covenants and duties of, any Loan Party arising under any Bridge
Loan Document or otherwise with respect to any Bridge Loan, whether direct or
indirect (including those acquired by assumption), absolute or contingent, due
or to become due, now existing or hereafter arising and including interest and
fees that accrue after the commencement by or against any Loan Party of any
proceeding under any Debtor Relief Laws naming such Person as the debtor in such
proceeding, regardless of whether such interest and fees are allowed claims in
such proceeding. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the
Obligations of the Loan Parties under the Bridge Loan Documents include (a) the
obligation to pay principal, interest, charges, expenses, fees, attorneys' fees
and disbursements, indemnities and other amounts payable by any Loan Party under
any Bridge Loan Document and (b) the obligation of any Loan Party to reimburse
any amount in respect of any of the foregoing that any Bridge Lender, in its
sole discretion, may elect to pay or advance on behalf of such Loan Party.

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                  "ORGANIZATION DOCUMENTS" means, (a) with respect to any
corporation, the certificate or articles of incorporation and the bylaws (or
equivalent or comparable constitutive documents with respect to any non-U.S.
jurisdiction); (b) with respect to any limited liability company, the
certificate or articles of formation or organization and operating agreement;
and (c) with respect to any partnership, joint venture, trust or other form of
business entity, the partnership, joint venture or other applicable agreement of
formation or organization and any agreement, instrument, filing or notice with
respect thereto filed in connection with its formation or organization with the
applicable Governmental Authority in the jurisdiction of its formation or
organization and, if applicable, any certificate or articles of formation or
organization of such entity.

                  "OUTSTANDING AMOUNT" means on any date, the aggregate
outstanding principal amount of Bridge Loans after giving effect to any Bridge
Borrowings and prepayments or repayments of Bridge Loans, occurring on such
date.

                  "PARTICIPANT" has the meaning specified in SECTION 11.06(d).

                  "PAYMENT BLOCKAGE NOTICE" has the meaning specified in SECTION
9.03(b).

                  "PAYMENT BLOCKAGE PERIOD" has the meaning specified in SECTION
9.03(b).

                  "PAYMENT DEFAULT" means any default in the payment of any
Senior Indebtedness when due.

                  "PAYMENT IN FULL" means, for purposes of Article IX, payment
in full in cash or other payment satisfactory to the holders of Senior
Indebtedness being paid. As used in Article IX, "Paid In Full" and "Payment In
Full" have correlative meanings.

                  "PENSION PLAN" means any "employee pension benefit plan" (as
such term is defined in SECTION 3(2) of ERISA), other than a Multiemployer Plan,
that is subject to Title IV of ERISA and (i) is sponsored or maintained by any
Loan Party or any ERISA Affiliate, (ii) to which any Loan Party or any ERISA
Affiliate contributes or has an obligation to contribute, or (iii) in the case
of a multiple employer or other plan described in SECTION 4064(a) of ERISA, to
which any Loan Party or any ERISA Affiliate has made contributions at any time
during the immediately preceding five plan years.

                  "PERSON" means any natural person, corporation, limited
liability company, trust, joint venture, association, company, partnership,
Governmental Authority or other entity.

                  "PLAN" means any "employee benefit plan" (as such term is
defined in SECTION 3(3) of ERISA) that is subject to ERISA and is established by
any Loan Party or, with respect to any such plan that is subject to SECTION 412
of the Code or TITLE IV of ERISA, any ERISA Affiliate.

                  "PRO RATA SHARE" means, with respect to each Bridge Lender at
any time, a fraction (expressed as a percentage, carried out to the ninth
decimal place), the numerator of which is the amount of the Bridge Commitment(s)
of such Bridge Lender under the Bridge Facility at such time and the denominator
of which is the amount of the Aggregate Bridge

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Commitments under the Bridge Facility at such time. The initial Pro Rata Share
of each Bridge Lender is set forth opposite the name of such Bridge Lender on
SCHEDULE 2.01 or in the Assignment and Assumption pursuant to which such Bridge
Lender becomes a party hereto, as applicable.

                  "REFINANCING" has the meaning specified in the preliminary
statements.

                  "REFINANCING INDEBTEDNESS" means, with respect to any Senior
Indebtedness, any Indebtedness issued or incurred to finance, extend, renew,
refund, repay, prepay, redeem, defease or retire or in exchange or replacement
for, such Senior Indebtedness, in whole or in part (including by way of a
securitization transaction).

                  "REGISTER" has the meaning set forth in SECTION 11.06(c).

                  "RELATED DOCUMENTS" means the Seven Year Notes Indenture and
the Senior Credit Agreement.

                  "REPORTABLE EVENT" means any of the events set forth in
Section 4043(c) of ERISA, other than events for which the 30-day notice period
has been waived.

                  "REQUEST FOR CREDIT EXTENSION" means (a) with respect to a
Bridge Borrowing, or a conversion or continuation of Bridge Loans, a Committed
Loan Notice.

                  "REQUIRED BRIDGE LENDERS" means, as of any date of
determination, Bridge Lenders having more than 50% of the sum of the (a) Total
Outstandings and (b) aggregate unused Bridge Commitments; PROVIDED that the
unused Bridge Commitment and the portion of the Total Outstandings held or
deemed held by, any Defaulting Bridge Lender shall be excluded for purposes of
making a determination of Required Bridge Lenders.

                  "RESPONSIBLE OFFICER" means the chief executive officer,
president, chief financial officer, treasurer, assistant treasurer, any vice
president of a Loan Party that has been properly authorized to execute documents
and otherwise act on behalf of such Loan Party or, in the case of the
appropriate documents delivered pursuant to SECTION 4.01(a)(iii), the secretary
of a Loan Party. Any document delivered hereunder that is signed by a
Responsible Officer of a Loan Party shall be conclusively presumed to have been
authorized by all necessary corporate, partnership and/or other action on the
part of such Loan Party and such Responsible Officer shall be conclusively
presumed to have acted on behalf of such Loan Party.

                  "S&P" means Standard & Poor's Ratings Services, a division of
The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., and any successor thereto.

                  "SEC" means the Securities and Exchange Commission, or any
Governmental Authority succeeding to any of its principal functions.

                  "SENIOR AGENT" means the administrative agent under the Senior
Credit Agreement or any Refinancing Indebtedness with respect thereto, and any
successor to the administrative agent in such capacity.

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                  "SENIOR CREDIT AGREEMENT" means the Credit Agreement dated as
of September 17, 2003, among Borrower, each lender from time to time party
thereto and Bank of America, as administrative agent, swing line lender and L/C
issuer, as amended by Amendment No. 1.

                  "SENIOR INDEBTEDNESS" means (a) all Designated Senior
Indebtedness and (b) any other Indebtedness (and related Obligations) incurred
by the Borrower or any Guarantor, unless the instrument under which such
Indebtedness is incurred expressly provides that it is not senior in right of
payment to, or is on a parity with or subordinated in right of payment to the
Bridge Loans. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the foregoing
sentence, Senior Indebtedness described in clause (b) above will not include (i)
any liability for federal, state, local or other taxes owed or owing by the
Borrower or any Guarantor; (ii) any obligation of the Borrower or any Guarantor
to the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries (except to the extent that such
obligations have been assigned to, or for the benefit of, the holders of any of
the Designated Senior Indebtedness to secure any of the Designated Senior
Indebtedness); (iii) any accounts payable or trade liabilities arising in the
ordinary course of business (including instruments evidencing such liabilities);
(iv) Indebtedness that, when incurred and without respect to any election under
Section 1111(b) of Title 11, United States Code, is without recourse to the
Borrower; (v) Indebtedness evidenced by the Bridge Notes or under the Bridge
Loan Documents; and (vi) capital stock of the Borrower or any Guarantor.

                  "SENIOR LENDERS" means the lenders under the Senior Credit
Agreement.

                  "SENIOR LOAN DOCUMENTS" means the Senior Credit Agreement, the
Senior Notes and the other "Loan Documents" as such term is defined in the
Senior Credit Agreement.

                  "SENIOR NOTES" means the promissory notes of the Borrower
evidencing the term loans and revolving credit loans of the Senior Lenders made
pursuant to the Senior Credit Agreement.

                  "SEVEN YEAR NOTES" means the 12 1/4% senior unsecured notes of
the Borrower due 2009 in an aggregate original principal amount of $330,000,000.

                  "SEVEN YEAR NOTES INDENTURE" means the Indenture dated as of
January 2, 2002 between the Borrower, as Issuer and Wells Fargo Bank Minnesota,
National Association, as Trustee, providing for the issuance of the Seven Year
Notes, as supplemented by the First Supplemental Indenture thereto.

                  "SOLVENT" and "SOLVENCY" mean, with respect to any Person on
any date of determination, that on such date (a) the fair value of the property
of such Person is greater than the total amount of liabilities, including,
without limitation, contingent liabilities, of such Person, (b) the present fair
salable value of the assets of such Person is not less than the amount that will
be required to pay the probable liability of such Person on its debts as they
become absolute and matured, (c) such Person does not intend to, and does not
believe that it will, incur debts or liabilities beyond such Person's ability to
pay such debts and liabilities as they mature and (d) such Person is not engaged
in business or a transaction, and is not about to engage in business or a
transaction, for which such Person's property would constitute an unreasonably
small capital. The amount of contingent liabilities at any time shall be
computed as the amount that, in

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the light of all the facts and circumstances existing at such time, represents
the amount that can reasonably be expected to become an actual or matured
liability.

                  "SPC" has the meaning specified in SECTION 11.06(h).

                  "SUBORDINATED INDEBTEDNESS" means all Indebtedness heretofore,
now or hereinafter existing under the Bridge Notes and this Agreement (whether
created directly or acquired by assignment or otherwise), and all interest and
premiums, if any, thereon, fees, expenses and indemnities and all other amounts
and obligations of any kind payable in respect thereof (including, without
limitation, sinking fund payments (if any), defeasance payments (if any), and
any and all amounts payable to acquire any Bridge Notes or on account of any
redemption, repurchase, retirement of other purchase of Bridge Notes, including
Indebtedness of the Guarantors with respect to the foregoing.

                  "SUBORDINATED NOTES" has the meaning specified in the
preliminary statements.

                  "SUBORDINATED NOTES INDENTURE" means the Indenture dated as of
January 2, 2002 between the Borrower, as Issuer and Wells Fargo Bank Minnesota,
National Association, as Trustee, providing for the issuance of the Subordinated
Notes.

                  "SUBSIDIARY" of a Person means a corporation, partnership,
joint venture, limited liability company or other business entity of which a
majority of the shares of securities or other interests having ordinary voting
power for the election of directors or other governing body (other than
securities or interests having such power only by reason of the happening of a
contingency) are at the time beneficially owned, or the management of which is
otherwise controlled, directly, or indirectly through one or more
intermediaries, or both, by such Person. Unless otherwise specified, all
references herein to a "SUBSIDIARY" or to "SUBSIDIARIES" shall refer to a
Subsidiary or Subsidiaries of the Borrower.

                  "SWAP CONTRACT" means (a) any and all rate swap transactions,
basis swaps, credit derivative transactions, forward rate transactions,
commodity swaps, commodity options, forward commodity contracts, equity or
equity index swaps or options, bond or bond price or bond index swaps or options
or forward bond or forward bond price or forward bond index transactions,
interest rate options, forward foreign exchange transactions, cap transactions,
floor transactions, collar transactions, currency swap transactions,
cross-currency rate swap transactions, currency options, spot contracts, or any
other similar transactions or any combination of any of the foregoing (including
any options to enter into any of the foregoing), whether or not any such
transaction is governed by or subject to any master agreement, and (b) any and
all transactions of any kind, and the related confirmations, which are subject
to the terms and conditions of, or governed by, any form of master agreement
published by the International Swaps and Derivatives Association, Inc., any
International Foreign Exchange Master Agreement, or any other similar master
agreement (any such master agreement, together with any related schedules, a
"MASTER AGREEMENT"), including any such obligations or liabilities under any
Master Agreement.

                  "SWAP TERMINATION VALUE" means, in respect of any one or more
Swap Contracts, after taking into account the effect of any legally enforceable
netting agreement

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relating to such Swap Contracts, (a) for any date on or after the date such Swap
Contracts have been closed out and termination value(s) determined in accordance
therewith, such termination value(s), and (b) for any date prior to the date
referenced in clause (a), the amount(s) determined as the mark-to-market
value(s) for such Swap Contracts, as determined based upon one or more
mid-market or other readily available quotations provided by any recognized
dealer in such Swap Contracts (which may include a Bridge Lender or any
Affiliate of a Bridge Lender).

                  "SYNTHETIC LEASE OBLIGATION" means the monetary obligation of
a Person under (a) a so-called synthetic, off-balance sheet or tax retention
lease, or (b) an agreement for the use or possession of property creating
obligations that do not appear on the balance sheet of such Person but which,
upon the insolvency or bankruptcy of such Person, would be characterized as the
indebtedness of such Person (without regard to accounting treatment).

                  "THRESHOLD AMOUNT" means $12,500,000.

                  "TOTAL CAPITAL EXPENDITURES" has the meaning specified in
SECTION 6.01(m).

                  "TOTAL OUTSTANDINGS" means the aggregate Outstanding Amount of
all Bridge Loans.

                  "TREASURY REGULATIONS" means the Federal treasury regulations
promulgated under the Code.

                  "TYPE" means, with respect to a Bridge Loan, its character as
a Base Rate Loan or a Eurodollar Rate Loan.

                  "UFCA" means the Uniform Fraudulent Conveyance Act of 1981, as
amended from time to time, and the regulations promulgated and rulings issued
thereunder.

                  "UFTA" means the Uniform Fraudulent Transfer Act of 1984, as
amended from time to time, and the regulations promulgated and rulings issued
thereunder.

                  "UNITED STATES" and "U.S." mean the United States of America.

                  1.02 OTHER INTERPRETIVE PROVISIONS. With reference to this
Agreement and each other Bridge Loan Document, unless otherwise specified herein
or in such other Bridge Loan Document:

                  (a) The meanings of defined terms are equally applicable to
         the singular and plural forms of the defined terms.

                  (b) (i) The words "HEREIN," "HERETO," "HEREOF" and "HEREUNDER"
         and words of similar import when used in any Bridge Loan Document shall
         refer to such Bridge Loan Document as a whole and not to any particular
         provision thereof.

                  (ii) Article, Section, Exhibit and Schedule references are to
         the Bridge Loan Document in which such reference appears.

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                  (iii) The term "INCLUDING" is by way of example and not
         limitation.

                  (iv) The term "DOCUMENTS" includes any and all instruments,
         documents, agreements, certificates, notices, reports, financial
         statements and other writings, however evidenced, whether in physical
         or electronic form.

                  (c) In the computation of periods of time from a specified
         date to a later specified date, the word "FROM" means "FROM AND
         INCLUDING;" the words "TO" and "UNTIL" each mean "TO BUT EXCLUDING;"
         and the word "THROUGH" means "TO AND INCLUDING."

                  (d) Section headings herein and in the other Bridge Loan
         Documents are included for convenience of reference only and shall not
         affect the interpretation of this Agreement or any other Bridge Loan
         Document.

                  1.03 ACCOUNTING TERMS. (a) All accounting terms not
specifically or completely defined herein shall be construed in conformity with,
and all financial data (including financial ratios and other financial
calculations) required to be submitted pursuant to this Agreement shall be
prepared in conformity with, GAAP applied on a consistent basis, as in effect
from time to time, applied in a manner consistent with that used in preparing
the Audited Financial Statements, except as otherwise specifically prescribed
herein.

                  (b) If at any time any change in GAAP would affect the
computation of any financial ratio or requirement set forth in any Bridge Loan
Document, and either the Borrower or the Required Bridge Lenders shall so
request, the Administrative Agent, the Bridge Lenders and the Borrower shall
negotiate in good faith to amend such ratio or requirement to preserve the
original intent thereof in light of such change in GAAP (subject to the approval
of the Required Bridge Lenders); PROVIDED that, until so amended, (i) such ratio
or requirement shall continue to be computed in accordance with GAAP prior to
such change therein and (ii) the Borrower shall provide to the Administrative
Agent and the Bridge Lenders financial statements and other documents required
under this Agreement or as reasonably requested hereunder setting forth a
reconciliation between calculations of such ratio or requirement made before and
after giving effect to such change in GAAP.

                  1.04 REFERENCES TO AGREEMENTS AND LAWS; INCORPORATION BY
REFERENCE. (a) Unless otherwise expressly provided herein, (i) references to
Organization Documents, agreements (including the Bridge Loan Documents) and
other contractual instruments shall be deemed to include all subsequent
amendments, restatements, extensions, supplements and other modifications
thereto, but only to the extent that such amendments, restatements, extensions,
supplements and other modifications are not prohibited by any Bridge Loan
Document; and (ii) references to any Law shall include all statutory and
regulatory provisions consolidating, amending, replacing, supplementing or
interpreting such Law.

                  (b) Except as otherwise provided herein, all references in
provisions and definitions incorporated pursuant to SECTIONS 3.01, 6.01, 8.01
and 11.07 hereof to the "Agent", "Administrative Agent", a "Lender" or the
"Lenders" or words of similar import or to "this Agreement", "hereof", "hereto"
or "hereunder" or words of similar import shall, without further reference, mean
and refer to the Agents and the Administrative Agent, a Bridge Lender or the

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Bridge Lenders under this Agreement and to this Agreement, respectively; all
references in such incorporated provisions and definitions to the "Borrower"
shall, without further reference, mean and refer to the Borrower hereunder; all
references in such incorporated provisions and definitions to a "Loan" or the
"Loans" (or to a Type of "Loans" under the Senior Credit Agreement) or a
"Borrowing or the "Borrowings" or words of similar import shall, without further
reference, mean and refer to the Bridge Loans, the Bridge Borrowing or Bridge
Borrowings, as appropriate, hereunder; all references in such incorporated
provisions and definitions to a "Facility" shall, without further reference,
mean and refer to the Bridge Facility hereunder; all references in such
incorporated provisions and definitions to any "Commitment" shall, without
further reference, mean and refer to the Bridge Commitments hereunder; all
references in such incorporated provisions and definitions to the "Loan
Documents" shall, without further reference, mean and refer to the Bridge Loan
Documents as defined hereunder; all references in such incorporated provisions
and definitions to the "Notes" shall, without further reference, mean and refer
to the Bridge Notes as defined hereunder; all references in such incorporated
provisions and definitions to "Required Lenders" shall, without further
reference mean and refer to the Required Bridge Lenders as defined hereunder;
all references in such incorporated provisions and definitions to "Effective
Date" shall, without further reference mean and refer to the Effective Date as
defined hereunder all references in such incorporated provisions and definitions
to "Sections" or "Articles" of the Senior Credit Agreement shall, without
further reference, mean and refer to the corresponding sections and articles of
this Agreement except to the extent that any such referenced section or article
is a section or article that has been incorporated herein by reference, in which
case such section or article reference shall mean and refer to the applicable
section or article of the Senior Credit Agreement, as incorporated herein by
reference (or, if there is no such corresponding section or article and the
referenced section or article is not being incorporated by reference, then the
referenced section or article shall mean and be a reference to the applicable
section or article under the Senior Credit Agreement); and all references in
such incorporated provisions and definitions to "Swing Line Loans", "Letters of
Credit" and "Revolving Credit Loans", and any and all related items, as well as
any provisions relating to "Collateral" shall have no application hereunder
(other than the reference to "Collateral" in Section 7.01(i) of the Senior
Credit Agreement, as incorporated herein by reference). Similarly, to the extent
any word or phrase is defined in this Agreement, any such word or phrase
appearing in provisions so incorporated by reference from the Senior Credit
Agreement shall have the meaning given to it in this Agreement. The
incorporation by reference pursuant to this SECTION 1.04(b) and SECTIONS 3.01,
6.01, 8.01 AND 11.07 hereof of the terms and conditions of the Senior Credit
Agreement is for convenience only, and this Agreement and the Senior Credit
Agreement shall at all times be, and be deemed to be and treated as, separate
and distinct loan obligations. The incorporation by reference pursuant to this
SECTION 1.04(b) and SECTIONS 3.01, 6.01, 8.01 AND 11.07 hereof of the terms and
conditions of the Senior Credit Agreement shall not be affected or impaired by
any subsequent expiration or termination of the Senior Credit Agreement.

                  1.05 TIMES OF DAY. Unless otherwise specified, all references
herein to times of day shall be references to Eastern time (daylight or
standard, as applicable).

                  1.06 ROUNDING. Any financial ratios required to be maintained
by the Borrower pursuant to this Agreement shall be calculated by dividing the
appropriate component by the other component, carrying the result to one place
more than the number of places by which such

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ratio is expressed herein and rounding the result up or down to the nearest
number (with a rounding-up if there is more than one nearest number).

                                   ARTICLE II
                  THE BRIDGE COMMITMENTS AND CREDIT EXTENSIONS

                  2.01 THE BRIDGE LOANS. Subject to the terms and conditions set
forth herein, each Bridge Lender severally agrees to make a single loan in an
amount equal to its Pro Rata Share of the Bridge Facility to the Borrower on the
Effective Date. The Bridge Borrowing shall consist of Bridge Loans made
simultaneously by the Bridge Lenders in accordance with their respective Pro
Rata Share of the Bridge Facility. Amounts borrowed under this SECTION 2.01 and
repaid or prepaid may not be reborrowed. Bridge Loans may be Base Rate Loans or
Eurodollar Rate Loans, as further provided herein.

                  2.02 BORROWINGS, CONVERSIONS AND CONTINUATIONS OF BRIDGE
LOANS. (a) Each Bridge Borrowing, each conversion of Bridge Loans from one Type
to the other, and each continuation of Eurodollar Rate Loans shall be made upon
the Borrower's irrevocable notice to the Administrative Agent, which may be
given by telephone. Each such notice must be received by the Administrative
Agent not later than 12:00 p.m. (i) three Business Days prior to the requested
date of any Bridge Borrowing of, conversion to or continuation of Eurodollar
Rate Loans, and (ii) two Business Days prior to the requested date of any Bridge
Borrowing of Base Rate Loans or of any conversion of Eurodollar Rate Loans to
Base Rate Loans. Each telephonic notice by the Borrower pursuant to this SECTION
2.02(a) must be confirmed promptly by delivery to the Administrative Agent of a
written Committed Loan Notice, appropriately completed and signed by a
Responsible Officer of the Borrower. Except in the case of the initial credit
extension or a conversion to or continuation of the entire principal amount of
the Bridge Loans outstanding hereunder, the Bridge Borrowing of, conversion to
or continuation of Eurodollar Rate Loans shall be in a principal amount of
$5,000,000 or a whole multiple of $1,000,000 in excess thereof. Except in the
case of the initial credit extension or a conversion to or continuation of the
entire principal amount of the Bridge Loans outstanding hereunder, the Bridge
Borrowing of or conversion to Base Rate Loans shall be in a principal amount of
$500,000 or a whole multiple of $100,000 in excess thereof. Each Committed Loan
Notice (whether telephonic or written) shall specify (i) whether the Borrower is
requesting a Bridge Borrowing, a conversion of Bridge Loans from one Type to the
other, or a continuation of Eurodollar Rate Loans, (ii) the requested date of
the Bridge Borrowing, conversion or continuation, as the case may be (which
shall be a Business Day), (iii) the principal amount of Bridge Loans to be
borrowed, converted or continued, (iv) the Type of Bridge Loans to be borrowed
or to which existing Bridge Loans are to be converted and (v) if applicable, the
duration of the Interest Period with respect thereto. If the Borrower fails to
specify a Type of Bridge Loan in a Committed Loan Notice or if the Borrower
fails to give a timely notice requesting a conversion or continuation, then the
Bridge Loans shall be made as, or converted to, Base Rate Loans. Any such
automatic conversion to Base Rate Loans shall be effective as of the last day of
the Interest Period then in effect with respect to the applicable Eurodollar
Rate Loans. If the Borrower requests a Bridge Borrowing of, conversion to, or
continuation of Eurodollar Rate Loans in any such Committed Loan Notice, but
fails to specify an Interest Period, it will be deemed to have specified an
Interest Period of one month.

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                  (b) Following receipt of a Committed Loan Notice, the
Administrative Agent shall promptly notify each Bridge Lender of the amount of
its Pro Rata Share of the Bridge Loans and if no timely notice of a conversion
or continuation is provided by the Borrower, the Administrative Agent shall
notify each Bridge Lender of the details of any automatic conversion to Base
Rate Loans described in SECTION 2.02(a). Each Bridge Lender shall make the
amount of its Bridge Loan available to the Administrative Agent in immediately
available funds at the Administrative Agent's Office not later than 2:00 p.m. on
the Business Day specified in the applicable Committed Loan Notice. The
Administrative Agent shall make all funds so received available to the Borrower
in like funds as received by the Administrative Agent either by (i) crediting
the account of the Borrower on the books of the Administrative Agent with the
amount of such funds or (ii) wire transfer of such funds, in each case in
accordance with instructions provided to (and reasonably acceptable to) the
Administrative Agent by the Borrower.

                  (c) Except as otherwise provided herein, a Eurodollar Rate
Loan may be continued or converted only on the last day of an Interest Period
for such Eurodollar Rate Loan. During the existence of a Default, no Bridge
Loans may be requested as, converted to or continued as Eurodollar Rate Loans
without the consent of the Required Bridge Lenders.

                  (d) The Administrative Agent shall promptly notify the
Borrower and the Bridge Lenders of the interest rate applicable to any Interest
Period for Eurodollar Rate Loans upon determination of such interest rate. Such
determination of the Eurodollar Rate by the Administrative Agent shall be
conclusive in the absence of manifest error. At any time that Base Rate Loans
are outstanding, the Administrative Agent shall notify the Borrower and the
Bridge Lenders of any change in Bank of America's prime rate used in determining
the Base Rate promptly following the public announcement of such change.

                  (e) After giving effect to all Bridge Borrowings, all
conversions of Bridge Loans from one Type to the other and all continuations of
Bridge Loans, there shall not be more than five Interest Periods in effect.

                  (f) The failure of any Bridge Lender to make the Bridge Loan
to be made by it as part of any Bridge Borrowing shall not relieve any other
Bridge Lender of its obligation, if any, hereunder to make its Bridge Loan on
the date of such Bridge Borrowing, but no Bridge Lender shall be responsible for
the failure of any other Bridge Lender to make the Bridge Loan to be made by
such other Bridge Lender on the date of any Bridge Borrowing.

                  2.03 PREPAYMENTS. (a) OPTIONAL. The Borrower may, upon notice
to the Administrative Agent, at any time or from time to time voluntarily prepay
Bridge Loans in whole or in part without premium or penalty; PROVIDED that (i)
such notice must be received by the Administrative Agent not later than 11:00
a.m. (A) three Business Days prior to any date of prepayment of Eurodollar Rate
Loans and (B) on the date of prepayment of Base Rate Loans; and (ii) any
prepayment of Eurodollar Rate Loans shall be in a principal amount of $5,000,000
or a whole multiple of $1,000,000 in excess thereof; and (iii) any prepayment of
Base Rate Loans shall be in a principal amount of $500,000 or a whole multiple
of $100,000 in excess thereof or, in each case, if less, the entire principal
amount thereof then outstanding. Each such notice shall specify the date and
amount of such prepayment and the Type(s) of Bridge Loans to be prepaid. The
Administrative Agent will promptly notify each Bridge Lender of its receipt of
each such

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notice, and of the amount of such Bridge Lender's Pro Rata Share of such
prepayment. If such notice is given by the Borrower, the Borrower shall make
such prepayment and the payment amount specified in such notice shall be due and
payable on the date specified therein. Any prepayment of a Eurodollar Rate Loan
shall be accompanied by all accrued interest thereon, together with any
additional amounts required pursuant to SECTION 3.05 of the Senior Credit
Agreement as incorporated herein by reference pursuant to SECTION 3.01.

                  (b) MANDATORY. (i) Upon the sale by any Loan Party or any of
its Subsidiaries of any of its capital stock or other Equity Interests, other
than (A) the sale of capital stock or other Equity Interests of a Subsidiary of
a Loan Party to any Loan Party or (B) the sale of capital stock or other Equity
Interests of a non-Guarantor to a Subsidiary of a Loan Party that is a
non-Guarantor (in each case, to the extent not prohibited by SECTIONS 7.03, 7.05
and 7.06 of the Senior Credit Agreement as incorporated herein by reference
pursuant to SECTION 6.01), the Borrower shall prepay an aggregate principal
amount of Bridge Loans equal to 100% of all Net Cash Proceeds received therefrom
immediately upon receipt thereof by any Loan Party or such Subsidiary to the
extent (A) such Net Cash Proceeds are not required to be applied to any
Designated Senior Indebtedness and (B) any such prepayment is not prohibited by
the terms of any Designated Senior Indebtedness.

                  (c) (ii) Upon the incurrence or issuance by any Loan Party or
any of its Subsidiaries of any Indebtedness (other than Indebtedness expressly
permitted to be incurred or issued pursuant to SECTION 7.02(a), (b) OR (c) of
the Senior Credit Agreement as incorporated herein by reference pursuant to
SECTION 6.01), the Borrower shall prepay an aggregate principal amount of Bridge
Loans equal to 100% of all Net Cash Proceeds received therefrom immediately upon
receipt thereof by any Loan Party or such Subsidiary to the extent (A) such Net
Cash Proceeds are not required to be applied to any Designated Senior
Indebtedness and (B) any such prepayment is not prohibited by the terms of any
Designated Senior Indebtedness.

                  2.04 TERMINATION OR REDUCTION OF BRIDGE COMMITMENTS. (a)
OPTIONAL. The Borrower may, upon notice to the Administrative Agent, terminate
the unused portions of the Bridge Commitments or from time to time permanently
reduce the unused portions of the Bridge Commitments; PROVIDED that (i) any such
notice shall be received by the Administrative Agent not later than 12:00 p.m.
three Business Days prior to the date of termination or reduction, (ii) any such
partial reduction shall be in an aggregate amount of $10,000,000 or any whole
multiple of $1,000,000 in excess thereof and (iii) the Borrower shall not
terminate or reduce the unused portions of the Bridge Commitments if, after
giving effect thereto and to any concurrent prepayments hereunder, the Total
Outstandings would exceed the Aggregate Bridge Commitments.

                  (b) MANDATORY. The Bridge Facility shall be automatically and
permanently reduced on the date of the Bridge Borrowing (after giving effect to
the Bridge Borrowing), and from time to time thereafter upon each repayment or
prepayment of the outstanding Bridge Loans, by an amount equal to the amount by
which (A) the Bridge Facility immediately prior to such reduction exceeds (B)
the aggregate principal amount of all Bridge Loans outstanding at such time.

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                  2.05 REPAYMENT OF BRIDGE LOANS. The Borrower shall repay to
the Administrative Agent for the ratable account of the Bridge Lenders the
aggregate principal amount of all Bridge Loans outstanding on the Maturity Date.

                  2.06 INTEREST. (a) Subject to the provisions of SECTION
2.06(b), (i) each Eurodollar Rate Loan shall bear interest on the outstanding
principal amount thereof for each Interest Period at a rate per annum equal to
the Eurodollar Rate for such Interest Period plus the Applicable Rate; and (ii)
each Base Rate Loan shall bear interest on the outstanding principal amount
thereof from the applicable borrowing date at a rate per annum equal to the Base
Rate plus the Applicable Rate.

                  (b) If any amount payable by the Borrower under any Bridge
Loan Document is not paid when due (without regard to any applicable grace
periods), whether at stated maturity, by acceleration or otherwise, such amount
shall thereafter bear interest at a fluctuating interest rate per annum at all
times equal to the Default Rate to the fullest extent permitted by applicable
Laws. Furthermore, upon the request of the Required Bridge Lenders, while any
Event of Default exists, the Borrower shall pay interest on the principal amount
of all outstanding Obligations hereunder at a fluctuating interest rate per
annum at all times equal to the Default Rate to the fullest extent permitted by
applicable Laws. Accrued and unpaid interest on past due amounts (including
interest on past due interest) shall be due and payable upon demand.

                  (c) Interest on each Bridge Loan shall be due and payable in
arrears on each Interest Payment Date applicable thereto and at such other times
as may be specified herein. Interest hereunder shall be due and payable in
accordance with the terms hereof before and after judgment, and before and after
the commencement of any proceeding under any Debtor Relief Law.

                  2.07 FEES.

                  (a) The Borrower shall pay to the Arranger and the
         Administrative Agent for their own respective accounts fees in the
         amounts and at the times specified in the Fee Letter. Such fees shall
         be fully earned when paid and shall not be refundable for any reason
         whatsoever.

                  (b) The Borrower shall pay to the Agents such fees as shall
         have been separately agreed upon in writing in the amounts and at the
         times so specified. Such fees shall be fully earned when paid and shall
         not be refundable for any reason whatsoever.

                  2.08 COMPUTATION OF INTEREST AND FEES. All computations of
interest for Base Rate Loans when the Base Rate is determined by Bank of
America's "prime rate" shall be made on the basis of a year of 365 or 366 days,
as the case may be, and actual days elapsed. All computations of fees and
interest shall be made on the basis of a 360-day year and actual days elapsed
(which results in more fees or interest, as applicable, being paid than if
computed on the basis of a 365-day year). Interest shall accrue on each Bridge
Loan for the day on which the Bridge Loan is made, and shall not accrue on a
Bridge Loan, or any portion thereof, for the day on which the Bridge Loan or
such portion is paid, PROVIDED that any Bridge Loan that is repaid on the same
day on which it is made shall, subject to SECTION 2.10(a), bear interest for one
day.

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Each determination by the Administrative Agent of an interest rate or fee
hereunder shall be conclusive and binding for all purposes, absent manifest
error.

                  2.09 EVIDENCE OF INDEBTEDNESS. (a) The Credit Extensions made
by each Bridge Lender shall be evidenced by one or more accounts or records
maintained by such Bridge Lender and by the Administrative Agent in the ordinary
course of business. The accounts or records maintained by the Administrative
Agent and each Bridge Lender shall be conclusive absent manifest error of the
amount and date of the Credit Extensions made by the Bridge Lenders to the
Borrower and the interest and payments thereon. Any failure to so record or any
error in doing so shall not, however, limit or otherwise affect the obligation
of the Borrower hereunder to pay any amount owing with respect to the
Obligations. In the event of any conflict between the accounts and records
maintained by any Bridge Lender and the accounts and records of the
Administrative Agent in respect of such matters, the accounts and records of the
Administrative Agent shall control in the absence of manifest error. Upon the
request of any Bridge Lender made through the Administrative Agent, the Borrower
shall execute and deliver to such Bridge Lender (through the Administrative
Agent) a Bridge Note, which shall evidence such Bridge Lender's Bridge Loans in
addition to such accounts or records. Each Bridge Lender may attach schedules to
its Bridge Note and endorse thereon the date, Type (if applicable), amount and
maturity of its Bridge Loans and payments with respect thereto.

                  (b) Entries made in good faith by the Administrative Agent in
the Register pursuant to SECTION 11.06(c), and by each Bridge Lender and the
Administrative Agent in its account or accounts pursuant to SECTIONS 2.09(a),
shall be PRIMA FACIE evidence of the amount of principal and interest due and
payable or to become due and payable from the Borrower to, in the case of the
Register, each Bridge Lender and, in the case of such account or accounts, such
Bridge Lender, under this Agreement and the other Bridge Loan Documents, absent
manifest error; PROVIDED that the failure of the Administrative Agent or such
Bridge Lender to make an entry, or any finding that an entry is incorrect, in
the Register or such account or accounts shall not limit or otherwise affect the
obligations of the Borrower under this Agreement and the other Bridge Loan
Documents.

                  2.10 PAYMENTS GENERALLY. (a) Notwithstanding anything to the
contrary in this Agreement or the other Bridge Loan Documents, all payments to
be made by the Borrower shall be made without condition or deduction for any
counterclaim, defense, recoupment or setoff. Except as otherwise expressly
provided herein, all payments by the Borrower hereunder shall be made to the
Administrative Agent, for the account of the respective Bridge Lenders to which
such payment is owed, at the Administrative Agent's Office in Dollars and in
immediately available funds not later than 3:00 p.m. on the date specified
herein. The Administrative Agent will promptly distribute to each Bridge Lender
its Pro Rata Share (or other applicable share as provided herein) of such
payment in like funds as received by wire transfer to such Bridge Lender's
Lending Office. All payments received by the Administrative Agent after 3:00
p.m. shall be deemed received on the next succeeding Business Day and any
applicable interest or fee shall continue to accrue.

                  (b) If any payment to be made by the Borrower shall come due
on a day other than a Business Day, payment shall be made on the next following
Business Day, and such extension of time shall be reflected in computing
interest or fees, as the case may be; PROVIDED,

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HOWEVER, that, if such extension would cause payment of interest on or principal
of Eurodollar Rate Loans to be made in the next succeeding calendar month, such
payment shall be made on the immediately preceding Business Day.

                  (c) Unless the Borrower or any Bridge Lender has notified the
Administrative Agent, prior to the date any payment is required to be made by it
to the Administrative Agent hereunder, that the Borrower or such Bridge Lender,
as the case may be, will not make such payment, the Administrative Agent may
assume that the Borrower or such Bridge Lender, as the case may be, has timely
made such payment and may (but shall not be so required to), in reliance
thereon, make available a corresponding amount to the Person entitled thereto.
If and to the extent that such payment was not in fact made to the
Administrative Agent in immediately available funds, then:

                  (i) if the Borrower failed to make such payment, each Bridge
         Lender shall forthwith on demand repay to the Administrative Agent the
         portion of such assumed payment that was made available to such Bridge
         Lender in immediately available funds, together with interest thereon
         in respect of each day from and including the date such amount was made
         available by the Administrative Agent to such Bridge Lender to the date
         such amount is repaid to the Administrative Agent in immediately
         available funds at the Federal Funds Rate from time to time in effect;
         and

                  (ii) if any Bridge Lender failed to make such payment, such
         Bridge Lender shall forthwith on demand pay to the Administrative Agent
         the amount thereof in immediately available funds, together with
         interest thereon for the period from the date such amount was made
         available by the Administrative Agent to the Borrower to the date such
         amount is recovered by the Administrative Agent (the "COMPENSATION
         PERIOD") at a rate per annum equal to the Federal Funds Rate from time
         to time in effect. If such Bridge Lender pays such amount to the
         Administrative Agent, then such amount shall constitute such Bridge
         Lender's Bridge Loan included in the applicable Bridge Borrowing. If
         such Bridge Lender does not pay such amount forthwith upon the
         Administrative Agent's demand therefor, the Administrative Agent may
         make a demand therefor upon the Borrower, and the Borrower shall pay
         such amount to the Administrative Agent, together with interest thereon
         for the Compensation Period at a rate per annum equal to the rate of
         interest applicable to the applicable Bridge Borrowing. Nothing herein
         shall be deemed to relieve any Bridge Lender from its obligation to
         fulfill its Bridge Commitment or to prejudice any rights which the
         Administrative Agent or the Borrower may have against any Bridge Lender
         as a result of any default by such Bridge Lender hereunder.

A notice of the Administrative Agent to any Bridge Lender or the Borrower with
respect to any amount owing under this SECTION 2.10(c) shall be conclusive,
absent manifest error.

                  (d) If any Bridge Lender makes available to the Administrative
Agent funds for any Bridge Loan to be made by such Bridge Lender as provided in
the foregoing provisions of this ARTICLE II, and such funds are not made
available to the Borrower by the Administrative Agent because the conditions to
the applicable Credit Extension set forth in ARTICLE IV are not satisfied or
waived in accordance with the terms hereof, the Administrative Agent shall
return

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such funds (in like funds as received from such Bridge Lender) to such Bridge
Lender, without interest.

                  (e) The obligations of the Bridge Lenders hereunder to make
Bridge Loans are several and not joint. The failure of any Bridge Lender to make
any Bridge Loan or to fund any such participation on any date required hereunder
shall not relieve any other Bridge Lender of its corresponding obligation to do
so on such date, and no Bridge Lender shall be responsible for the failure of
any other Bridge Lender to so make its Bridge Loan or purchase its
participation.

                  (f) Nothing herein shall be deemed to obligate any Bridge
Lender to obtain the funds for any Bridge Loan in any particular place or manner
or to constitute a representation by any Bridge Lender that it has obtained or
will obtain the funds for any Bridge Loan in any particular place or manner.

                  (g) Upon the occurrence and during the continuance of an Event
of Default, the Borrower hereby authorizes each Bridge Lender, if and to the
extent payment owed to such Bridge Lender is not made when due hereunder or, in
the case of a Bridge Lender, under the Bridge Note held by such Bridge Lender,
to charge from time to time against any or all of the Borrower's accounts with
such Bridge Lender any amount so due.

                  (h) Whenever any payment received by the Administrative Agent
under this Agreement or any of the other Bridge Loan Documents is insufficient
to pay in full all amounts due and payable to the Agents and the Bridge Lenders
under or in respect of this Agreement and the other Bridge Loan Documents on any
date, such payment shall be distributed by the Administrative Agent and applied
by the Agents and the Bridge Lenders in the order of priority set forth in
SECTION 7.03. If the Administrative Agent receives funds for application to the
Obligations of the Loan Parties under or in respect of the Bridge Loan Documents
under circumstances for which the Bridge Loan Documents do not specify the
manner in which such funds are to be applied, the Administrative Agent may, but
shall not be obligated to, elect to distribute such funds to each of the Bridge
Lenders in accordance with such Bridge Lender's Pro Rata Share of the sum of the
Outstanding Amount of all Bridge Loans outstanding at such time, in repayment or
prepayment of such of the outstanding Bridge Loans or other Obligations then
owing to such Bridge Lender.

                  2.11 SHARING OF PAYMENTS. If, other than as expressly provided
elsewhere herein, any Bridge Lender shall obtain on account of the Bridge Loans
made by it, any payment (whether voluntary, involuntary, through the exercise of
any right of setoff, or otherwise) in excess of its ratable share (or other
share contemplated hereunder) thereof, such Bridge Lender shall immediately (a)
notify the Administrative Agent of such fact, and (b) purchase from the other
Bridge Lenders such participations in the Bridge Loans made by them as shall be
necessary to cause such purchasing Bridge Lender to share the excess payment in
respect of such Bridge Loans or such participations, as the case may be, pro
rata with each of them; provided, however, that if all or any portion of such
excess payment is thereafter recovered from the purchasing Bridge Lender under
any of the circumstances described in SECTION 11.05 (including pursuant to any
settlement entered into by the purchasing Bridge Lender in its discretion), such
purchase shall to that extent be rescinded and each other Bridge Lender shall
repay to the purchasing

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Bridge Lender the purchase price paid therefor, together with an amount equal to
such paying Bridge Lender's ratable share (according to the proportion of (i)
the amount of such paying Bridge Lender's required repayment to (ii) the total
amount so recovered from the purchasing Bridge Lender) of any interest or other
amount paid or payable by the purchasing Bridge Lender in respect of the total
amount so recovered, without further interest thereon. The Borrower agrees that
any Bridge Lender so purchasing a participation from another Bridge Lender may,
to the fullest extent permitted by law, exercise all its rights of payment
(including the right of setoff, but subject to SECTION 10.09 of the Senior
Credit Agreement as incorporated herein by reference pursuant to SECTION 11.07)
with respect to such participation as fully as if such Bridge Lender were the
direct creditor of the Borrower in the amount of such participation; provided,
further, that, so long as the Obligations under the Bridge Loan Documents shall
not have been accelerated, any excess payment received by any Bridge Lender
shall be shared on a pro rata basis only with other Bridge Lenders. The
Administrative Agent will keep records (which shall be conclusive and binding in
the absence of manifest error) of participations purchased under this Section
and will in each case notify the Bridge Lenders following any such purchases or
repayments. Each Bridge Lender that purchases a participation pursuant to this
Section shall from and after such purchase have the right to give all notices,
requests, demands, directions and other communications under this Agreement with
respect to the portion of the Obligations purchased to the same extent as though
the purchasing Bridge Lender were the original owner of the Obligations
purchased.

                                  ARTICLE III
                     TAXES, YIELD PROTECTION AND ILLEGALITY

                  3.01 TAXES, YIELD PROTECTION AND ILLEGALITY PROVISIONS IN THE
SENIOR CREDIT AGREEMENT INCORPORATED BY REFERENCE. The terms and provisions of
ARTICLE III of the Senior Credit Agreement, and all defined terms used therein
(including without limitation, all ancillary defined terms used in the
definition of such defined terms), and each Schedule referenced therein that are
not otherwise fully and expressly set forth in this Agreement are specifically
incorporated herein by reference for the benefit of the Borrower, the Agents and
the Bridge Lenders in accordance with the guidelines specified in SECTION
1.04(b) with the same force and effect as if the same were set forth in this
Agreement or delivered pursuant to this Agreement (without giving effect to any
waivers thereof or amendments thereto subsequent to the date hereof without
prior written consent of the Required Bridge Lenders).

                                   ARTICLE IV
                CONDITIONS PRECEDENT TO INITIAL CREDIT EXTENSION

                  4.01 CONDITIONS OF INITIAL CREDIT EXTENSION. The obligation of
each Bridge Lender to make its initial Credit Extension hereunder is subject to
satisfaction of the following conditions precedent:

                  (a) The Administrative Agent's receipt of the following, each
of which shall be originals or facsimiles (followed promptly by originals)
unless otherwise specified, each properly executed by a Responsible Officer of
the signing Loan Party, each dated the Effective

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Date (or, in the case of certificates of governmental officials, a recent date
before the Effective Date) and each in form and substance satisfactory to the
Administrative Agent and its legal counsel:

                  (i) executed counterparts of this Agreement sufficient in
         number for distribution to each Agent, each Bridge Lender and the
         Borrower;

                  (ii) a Bridge Note executed by the Borrower in favor of each
         Bridge Lender requesting a Bridge Note prior to the date hereof;

                  (iii) such certificates of resolutions or other action,
         incumbency certificates and/or other certificates of Responsible
         Officers of each Loan Party as the Administrative Agent may require
         evidencing the identity, authority and capacity of each Responsible
         Officer thereof authorized to act as a Responsible Officer in
         connection with this Agreement and the other Bridge Loan Documents to
         which such Loan Party is a party or is to be a party;

                  (iv) such documents and certifications as the Administrative
         Agent may reasonably require to evidence that each Loan Party is duly
         organized or formed, and that each Loan Party is validly existing, in
         good standing and qualified to engage in business in its jurisdiction
         of formation;

                  (v) a favorable opinion of Jones Day, counsel to the Loan
         Parties, addressed to each Agent and each Bridge Lender, as to the
         matters set forth in EXHIBIT E;

                  (vi) a certificate of a Responsible Officer of each Loan Party
         either (A) attaching copies of all consents, licenses and approvals
         required in connection with the execution, delivery and performance by
         such Loan Party and the validity against such Loan Party of the Bridge
         Loan Documents to which it is a party, and such consents, licenses and
         approvals shall be in full force and effect, or (B) stating that no
         such consents, licenses or approvals are so required;

                  (vii) a certificate signed by a Responsible Officer of the
         Borrower certifying (A) that (i) the representations and warranties of
         the Borrower and each other Loan Party contained in ARTICLE V, or which
         are contained in any document furnished under or in connection herewith
         are true and correct on and as of the date of the initial Credit
         Extension and (ii) no Default exists, or will result from the initial
         Credit Extension or from the application of the proceeds therefrom and
         (B) that there has been no event or circumstance since the date of the
         Audited Financial Statements that has had or could be reasonably
         expected to have, either individually or in the aggregate, a Material
         Adverse Effect;

                  (viii) certificates and letters attesting to the Solvency of
         each Loan Party before and after giving effect to the Refinancing, from
         the Borrower's Chief Financial Officer;

                  (ix) certified copies of each of the Related Documents, duly
         executed by the parties thereto;

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                  (x) a Request for Credit Extension, relating to the initial
         Credit Extension;

                  (xi) such other assurances, certificates, documents, consents
         or opinions as any Agent, or any Bridge Lender reasonably may require.

                  (b) The Amendment No. 1 Effective Date shall have occurred.

                  (c) Evidence satisfactory to the Administrative Agent that (i)
simultaneous with the Initial Credit Extension hereunder, the Borrower shall
have taken all steps required under SECTION 8.01 of the Subordinated Notes
Indenture to irrevocably terminate its obligations under the Subordinated Notes
Indenture (except to the extent ARTICLE 8 of the Subordinated Notes Indenture
expressly provides such obligations survive or may be reinstated), including,
without limitation, the entry by the Borrower into irrevocable escrow
arrangements satisfactory to the Administrative Agent for the payment of all
sums payable to the holders of the Subordinated Notes, and (ii) the Borrower
shall have requested a written acknowledgment from the trustee under the
Subordinated Notes Indenture acknowledging the discharge of the Borrower's
obligations thereunder (other than any obligations expressly stated to survive
in Section 8.01 of the Subordinated Notes Indenture), a copy of which
acknowledgment shall be sent to the Administrative Agent promptly upon its
receipt by the Borrower.

                  (d) All fees required to be paid on or before the Effective
Date shall have been paid.

                  (e) There shall exist no action, suit, investigation,
litigation or proceeding affecting any Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries
pending or, to any Loan Party's knowledge, threatened before any Governmental
Authority or arbitrator that (i) could be reasonably likely to have a Material
Adverse Effect, (ii) purports to adversely affect the Refinancing or any portion
thereof or the ability of the Borrower or any other Loan Party to perform their
respective obligations under the Bridge Loan Documents, or (iii) purports to
adversely affect the legality, validity or enforceability of any Bridge Loan
Document or the consummation of the Refinancing.

                  (f) All governmental authorizations and all third party
consents and approvals necessary in connection with the Refinancing shall have
been obtained (without the imposition of any conditions that are not acceptable
to the Bridge Lenders) and shall remain in effect; all applicable waiting
periods in connection with the Refinancing shall have expired without any action
being taken by any Governmental Authority; and no Law shall be applicable in the
judgment of the Bridge Lenders, in each case that restrains, prevents or imposes
materially adverse conditions upon the Refinancing or the rights of the Loan
Parties freely to transfer or otherwise dispose of, or to create any Lien on,
any properties now owned or hereafter acquired by any of them.

                  (g) The Senior Credit Facility shall be rated at least BB-
(stable) by S&P and at least B1 (stable) by Moody's.

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                                   ARTICLE V
                         REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES

                  The Borrower represents and warrants to the Agents and the
Bridge Lenders that:

                  5.01 EXISTENCE, QUALIFICATION AND POWER; COMPLIANCE WITH LAWS.
Each Loan Party and each of its Subsidiaries (a)(i) is a corporation,
partnership or limited liability company duly organized or formed, validly
existing and (ii) in the case of the Loan Parties, in good standing under the
Laws of the jurisdiction of its incorporation or organization and in each
jurisdiction where its ownership, lease or operation of properties or the
conduct of its business requires such qualification, except, in each case, to
the extent that failure to do so could not reasonably be expected to have a
Material Adverse Effect, (b) has all requisite power and authority and all
requisite governmental licenses, authorizations, consents and approvals to (i)
own or lease its assets and carry on its business and (ii) execute, deliver and
perform its obligations under the Bridge Loan Documents to which it is a party,
(c) is duly qualified and is licensed and in good standing under the Laws of
each jurisdiction where its ownership, lease or operation of properties or the
conduct of its business requires such qualification or license, and (d) is in
compliance with all Laws; except in each case referred to in clause (b)(i), (c)
or (d), to the extent that failure to do so could not reasonably be expected to
have a Material Adverse Effect.

                  5.02 AUTHORIZATION; NO CONTRAVENTION. The execution, delivery
and performance by each Loan Party of each Bridge Loan Document to which such
Person is or is to be a party, and the consummation of the Refinancing, are
within such Loan Party's corporate or other powers, have been duly authorized by
all necessary corporate or other organizational action, and do not and will not
(a) contravene the terms of any of such Person's Organization Documents; (b)
conflict with or result in any breach or contravention of, or the creation of
any Lien under, or require any payment to be made under (i) any material
Contractual Obligation (other than the Contractual Obligations contemplated to
be repaid pursuant to the Refinancing) to which such Person is a party or
affecting such Person or the properties of such Person or any of its
Subsidiaries or (ii) any order, injunction, writ or decree of any Governmental
Authority or any arbitral award to which such Person or its property is subject;
or (c) violate any Law. No Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries is in violation
of any Law or in breach of any such Contractual Obligation, the violation or
breach of which could be reasonably likely to have a Material Adverse Effect.

                  5.03 GOVERNMENTAL AUTHORIZATION; OTHER CONSENTS. No approval,
consent, exemption, authorization, or other action by, or notice to, or filing
with, any Governmental Authority or any other Person is necessary or required in
connection with (i) the execution, delivery or performance by, or enforcement
against, any Loan Party of this Agreement or any other Bridge Loan Document
except for notices required in connection with prepayments of the Subordinated
Notes or (ii) the exercise by any Agent or any Bridge Lender of its rights under
the Bridge Loan Documents. All applicable waiting periods in connection with the
Refinancing (except for waiting periods in connection with prepayments of the
Subordinated Notes) have expired without any action having been taken by any
competent Governmental Authority restraining, preventing or imposing materially
adverse conditions upon the Refinancing or the

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rights of the Loan Parties or their Subsidiaries freely to transfer or otherwise
dispose of, or to create any Lien on, any properties now owned or hereafter
acquired by any of them.

                  5.04 BINDING EFFECT. This Agreement has been, and each other
Bridge Loan Document, when delivered hereunder, will have been, duly executed
and delivered by each Loan Party that is party thereto. This Agreement
constitutes, and each other Bridge Loan Document when so delivered will
constitute, a legal, valid and binding obligation of such Loan Party,
enforceable against each Loan Party that is party thereto in accordance with its
terms.

                  5.05 FINANCIAL STATEMENTS; NO MATERIAL ADVERSE EFFECT. (a) The
Audited Financial Statements (i) were prepared in accordance with GAAP
consistently applied throughout the period covered thereby, except as otherwise
expressly noted therein; (ii) fairly present the financial condition of the
Borrower and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, as of the date thereof and
their results of operations for the period covered thereby in accordance with
GAAP consistently applied throughout the period covered thereby, except as
otherwise expressly noted therein; and (iii) show all material indebtedness and
other liabilities, direct or contingent, of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries,
taken as a whole, as of the date thereof, including liabilities for taxes,
material commitments and Indebtedness.

                  (b) The unaudited consolidated financial statements of the
Borrower, taken as a whole, and its Subsidiaries dated October 4, 2003, and the
related consolidated statements of income or operations, shareholders' equity
and cash flows for the fiscal quarter ended on that date (i) were prepared in
accordance with GAAP consistently applied throughout the period covered thereby,
except as otherwise expressly noted therein, and (ii) fairly present the
financial condition of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, as
of the date thereof and their results of operations for the period covered
thereby, subject, in the case of clauses (i) and (ii), to the absence of
footnotes and to normal year-end audit adjustments.

                  (c) Since the date of the Audited Financial Statements, there
has been no event or circumstance, either individually or in the aggregate, that
has had or could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

                  (d) The consolidated pro forma balance sheet of the Borrower
and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, as at October 4, 2003, and the related
consolidated pro forma statements of income and cash flows of the Borrower and
its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, for the nine months then ended, certified by
the Chief Financial Officer of the Borrower, copies of which have been furnished
to each Bridge Lender, fairly present the consolidated pro forma financial
condition of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, as at such
date and the consolidated pro forma results of operations of the Borrower and
its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, for the period ended on such date, in each
case giving effect to the Refinancing, all in accordance with GAAP.

                  (e) The consolidated forecasted balance sheets, statements of
income and statements of cash flows of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries
delivered to the Bridge Lenders pursuant to SECTION 4.01 or 5.05 were prepared
in good faith on the basis of the assumptions stated therein, which assumptions
were fair in light of the conditions existing at the time of

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delivery of such forecasts, and represented, at the time of delivery, the
Borrower's best estimate of its future financial performance.

                  5.06 NO DEFAULT. Neither the Borrower nor any Subsidiary is in
default under or with respect to, or a party to, any Contractual Obligation that
could, either individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a
Material Adverse Effect. No Default has occurred and is continuing or would
result from the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement
or any other Bridge Loan Document.

                  5.07 SOLVENCY. Each Loan Party is, individually and together
with its Subsidiaries, Solvent.

                  5.08 SENIOR CREDIT AGREEMENT. Attached hereto as Exhibit F is
a true, correct and complete copy of the Senior Credit Agreement, as amended by
Amendment No. 1 together with (a) all Schedules related thereto delivered on the
effective date thereof and (b) copies of any Compliance Certificate delivered
pursuant to the Senior Credit Agreement updating such schedules prior to the
date hereof.

                  5.09 REDEMPTION OF SUBORDINATED NOTES. As of the Effective
Date, all obligations under the Subordinated Notes and the Subordinated Notes
Indenture have been irrevocably terminated in accordance with Section 8.01 of
the Subordinated Notes Indenture (other than (a) the obligations expressly
stated in such section to survive and (b) to the extent such obligations may be
reinstated pursuant to SECTION 8.05 thereof) and no further action by the
Borrower is necessary to terminate, redeem, defease and satisfy in full the
Subordinated Notes.

                                   ARTICLE VI
                                    COVENANTS

                  So long as any Bridge Lender shall have any Bridge Commitment
hereunder or any Bridge Loan or other Obligation hereunder which is accrued and
payable shall remain unpaid or unsatisfied the Borrower shall, and shall cause
each Subsidiary to:

                  6.01 COVENANTS IN THE SENIOR CREDIT AGREEMENT INCORPORATED BY
REFERENCE. Comply with the covenants of the Borrower and each Loan Party
contained in SECTIONS 6.01, 6.02 (EXCEPT 6.02(i)(ii) AND (j)), 6.03 (EXCEPT
6.03(e)(A) AND (D)) THROUGH 6.10 (EXCEPT FOR THE SECOND SENTENCE OF SECTION
6.07), 6.13, 6.14, 6.16, 6.20, 7.01 (EXCEPT FOR THE PROVISO IN SECTION 7.01(b))
THROUGH 7.10 AND 7.12 THROUGH 7.20 of the Senior Credit Agreement, which
covenants and all defined terms used therein (including, without limitation, all
ancillary defined terms used in the definitions of such defined terms) and each
Schedule referenced therein (in each case as updated through the date hereof)
that are not otherwise fully and expressly set forth in this Agreement are
specifically incorporated herein by reference for the benefit of the Agents and
the Bridge Lenders in accordance with the guidelines specified in SECTION
1.04(b) and with the same force and effect as if the same were set forth in this
Agreement or delivered pursuant to this Agreement (without giving effect to any
waivers thereof or amendments thereto subsequent to the date hereof without the
prior written consent of the Required Bridge Lenders); PROVIDED that the
following sections of the Senior Credit Agreement shall be modified as follows:

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                  (a) the reference in SECTION 7.01(a) to "any Loan Document"
shall mean and be a reference to "any Senior Loan Document";

                  (b) the references in Section 7.02(a)(A) and (b) to the
"Administrative Agent" shall mean and be a reference to the "Administrative
Agent under the Senior Credit Agreement";

                  (c) the reference in SECTION 7.02(c)(A) to "Indebtedness under
the Loan Documents" shall mean and be a reference to "Indebtedness under the
Senior Loan Documents and the Bridge Loan Documents";

                  (d) the basket amount referenced in Section 7.02(c)(E) shall
be $12,500,000;

                  (e) the basket amount referenced in Section 7.02(c)(F) shall
be $25,000,000;

                  (f) Section 7.03(h)(D) shall read in full as follows:

                                    "(D) the total consideration (including,
                  without limitation, the fair market value of all Equity
                  Interests issued or transferred to the sellers thereof,
                  earnouts and other contingent payment obligations to, and the
                  aggregate amounts paid or to be paid under noncompete,
                  consulting and other affiliated agreements with, the sellers
                  thereof, all write-downs of property and assets and reserves
                  for liabilities with respect thereto and all assumptions of
                  debt, liabilities and other obligations in connection
                  therewith) paid by or on behalf of the Borrower and its
                  Subsidiaries for any such purchase or other acquisition, when
                  aggregated with the total consideration paid by or on behalf
                  of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries for all other purchases
                  and other acquisitions made by the Borrower and its
                  Subsidiaries pursuant to this SECTION 7.03(h), shall consist
                  of (i) not more than $12,500,000 in cash and (ii) capital
                  stock of the Borrower with a fair market value of not more
                  than $12,500,000; PROVIDED that, if the Consolidated Leverage
                  Ratio (as defined in the Senior Credit Agreement) of the
                  Borrower and its Subsidiaries after giving pro forma effect to
                  any such Investment is less than 4:00:1:00, such amount shall
                  be increased by an additional $25,000,000 consisting of (i) up
                  to $12,500,000 in cash and (ii) capital stock of the Borrower
                  with a fair market value of up to $12,500,000;"

                  (g) the basket amount referenced in Section 7.03(j) shall be
$12,500,000;

                  (h) the basket amount referenced in Section 7.03(l) shall be
$1,250,000;

                  (i) the basket amount referenced in Section 7.05(g) shall be
$43,750,000;

                  (j) the basket amount referenced in Section 7.05(h) shall be
$56,250,000;

                  (k) the basket amount referenced in Section 7.05(j) shall be
$62,500;

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                  (l) the reference in SECTION 7.09 to "Loan Documents" shall
mean and be a reference to the "Senior Loan Documents and the Bridge Loan
Documents".

                  (m) Section 7.12 shall read in full as follows:

                            "7.12 CAPITAL EXPENDITURES. Make or become legally
                      obligated to make any Capital Expenditure, except for
                      Capital Expenditures in the ordinary course of business
                      not exceeding, in the aggregate for the Borrower and it
                      Subsidiaries during each fiscal year set forth below, the
                      amount set forth opposite such fiscal year:
<TABLE>
<CAPTION>

                      Fiscal Year                  Amount
                      ------------                 ---------------
                      <S>                           <C>
                      2004                           $43,750,000
                      2005                           $43,750,000
</TABLE>

                      PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that, if the Consolidated Leverage
                      Ratio of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries after giving
                      pro forma effect to any such Capital Expenditure is less
                      than 4:00:1:00, the amount set forth above for fiscal year
                      2005 shall be increased by an additional $6,250,000 in
                      each such year; PROVIDED, FURTHER, any amount up to
                      $12,500,000 in each fiscal year of the Borrower and
                      $43,750,000 in the aggregate for all such fiscal years of
                      the Borrower not required to be prepaid pursuant to
                      SECTION 2.03(b) may be used for Capital Expenditures in
                      addition to the amounts set forth above (collectively, the
                      "TOTAL CAPITAL EXPENDITURES"); PROVIDED, FURTHER, that so
                      long as no Default has occurred and is continuing or would
                      result from such expenditure, 50% of Total Capital
                      Expenditures, if not expended in the fiscal year for which
                      it is permitted above, may be carried over for expenditure
                      in the next following fiscal year (but not to succeeding
                      years) (such amount, the "CAPITAL EXPENDITURE CARRYOVER
                      AMOUNT").";

                  (n) the basket amount referenced in Section 7.13 shall be
$12,500,000; and

                  (o) the reference in Section 7.16 to "Secured Parties" shall
mean and be a reference to the "Bridge Lenders".

                  6.02 USE OF PROCEEDS. Use the proceeds of the Bridge Loans
solely to effect the Refinancing and pay related transaction fees and expenses.

                  6.03 COVENANT TO GUARANTEE OBLIGATIONS; NEW SUBSIDIARIES. (a)
Upon the formation or acquisition of any new direct or indirect Subsidiaries
(other than Foreign Subsidiaries or Subsidiaries subject to regulatory
restrictions that prohibit the granting of liens or guarantees pursuant to the
Bridge Loan Documents) by any Loan Party, in each case at the Borrower's
expense, cause each such Subsidiary, to duly execute and deliver to the
Administrative Agent a guaranty or Guaranty Supplement, in form and substance
satisfactory to the Administrative Agent, guaranteeing the other Loan Parties'
obligations under the Bridge Loan Documents within 30 days after such formation
or acquisition;

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                  (b) In connection with the formation or acquisition of a
Subsidiary, deliver to the Administrative Agent with the next quarterly
Compliance Certificate to be delivered by the Borrower pursuant to SECTION
6.02(b) of the Senior Credit Agreement as incorporated herein by reference
pursuant to SECTION 6.01 following such formation or acquisition, an updated
SCHEDULE 5.13 to the Senior Credit Agreement reflecting such formation or
acquisition; and

                  (c) Within 60 days after such request, formation or
acquisition, deliver to the Administrative Agent, upon the request of the
Administrative Agent in its sole discretion, a signed copy of a favorable
opinion, addressed to the Administrative Agent and the other Bridge Lenders, of
counsel for the Loan Parties reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent
as to the guaranties and Guaranty Supplements referred to in this SECTION 6.03
being legal, valid and binding obligations of each Loan Party party thereto
enforceable in accordance with their terms and as to such other matters as the
Administrative Agent may reasonably request.

                  6.04 FURTHER ASSURANCES. Promptly upon request by any Agent,
or any Bridge Lender through the Administrative Agent, (a) correct any material
defect or error that may be discovered in any Bridge Loan Document or in the
execution, acknowledgment, filing or recordation thereof, and (b) do, execute,
acknowledge, deliver, record, re-record, file, re-file, register and re-register
any and all such further acts, deeds, certificates, assurances and other
instruments as any Agent, or any Bridge Lender through the Administrative Agent,
may reasonably require from time to time in order to carry out more effectively
the purposes of the Bridge Loan Documents.

                  6.05 ANTI-LAYERING. Notwithstanding any other provision
hereof, not incur, create, issue, assume, guarantee or otherwise become directly
or indirectly liable for any Indebtedness that is expressly subordinate or
junior in right of payment to the Designated Senior Indebtedness and senior in
any respect in right of payment to the Bridge Loans.

                  6.06 SENIOR CREDIT AGREEMENT. Promptly deliver to the
Administrative Agent (a) all notices of or requests for any waivers, amendments
or other modifications to the Senior Credit Agreement, along with copies of any
such waivers, amendments or other modifications, as applicable and (b) any
updates to Schedules under the Senior Credit Agreement that have been
incorporated herein.

                                  ARTICLE VII
                         EVENTS OF DEFAULT AND REMEDIES

                  7.01 EVENTS OF DEFAULT. Any of the following shall constitute
an Event of Default:

                  (a) NON-PAYMENT. The Borrower or any other Loan Party fails to
         pay, whether or not prohibited by the subordination provisions of
         ARTICLES IX hereof, (i) when and as required to be paid herein, any
         amount of principal of any Bridge Loan, or (ii) within three Business
         Days after the same becomes due, any interest on any Bridge Loan, or
         any commitment or other fee due hereunder, or (iii) within five
         Business Days after the same becomes due, any other amount payable
         hereunder or under any other Bridge Loan Document; or

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                  (b) SPECIFIC COVENANTS. (i) The Borrower or any other Loan
         Party fails to perform or observe any term, covenant or agreement
         contained in SECTIONS 6.01, 6.02 (EXCEPT 6.02(i)(ii) AND (j)), 6.03
         (EXCEPT 6.03(e)(A) AND (D)), 6.05, 6.09 or SECTIONS 7.01 (EXCEPT FOR
         THE PROVISO IN SECTION 7.01(b)) THROUGH 7.10 AND 7.12 THROUGH 7.20 of
         the Senior Credit Agreement as incorporated herein by reference
         pursuant to SECTION 6.01 and (ii) any of the Guarantors fails to
         perform or observe any term, covenant or agreement contained in ARTICLE
         X; or

                  (c) OTHER DEFAULTS. Any Loan Party fails to perform or observe
         any other covenant or agreement (not specified in SECTION 7.01(a) or
         (b) above) contained in any Bridge Loan Document (including, without
         limitation, any covenant specified in SECTION 6.01 hereof incorporated
         by reference herein that is not specified in SECTION 7.01(b) above) on
         its part to be performed or observed and such failure continues for 30
         days; or

                  (d) REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES. Any representation,
         warranty, certification or statement of fact made or deemed made by or
         on behalf of the Borrower or any other Loan Party herein, in any other
         Bridge Loan Document, or in any document delivered in connection
         herewith or therewith shall be incorrect or misleading in any material
         respect when made or deemed made; or

                  (e) CROSS-DEFAULT. (i) Any Loan Party or any Subsidiary (A)
         fails to make any payment when due (whether by scheduled maturity,
         required prepayment, acceleration, demand, or otherwise) in respect of
         any Indebtedness or Guarantee (other than Indebtedness hereunder and
         Indebtedness under Swap Contracts) having an aggregate principal amount
         (including amounts owing to all creditors under any combined or
         syndicated credit arrangement) of more than the Threshold Amount, or
         (B) fails to observe or perform any other agreement or condition
         relating to any such Indebtedness or Guarantee or contained in any
         instrument or agreement evidencing, securing or relating thereto, or
         any other event occurs, the effect of which default or other event is
         to cause, or to permit the holder or holders of such Indebtedness or
         the beneficiary or beneficiaries of such Guarantee (or a trustee or
         agent on behalf of such holder or holders or beneficiary or
         beneficiaries) to cause, with the giving of notice if required, such
         Indebtedness to be demanded or to become due or to be repurchased,
         prepaid, defeased or redeemed (automatically or otherwise), or an offer
         to repurchase, prepay, defease or redeem such Indebtedness to be made,
         prior to its stated maturity, or such Guarantee to become payable or
         cash collateral in respect thereof to be demanded; or (ii) there occurs
         under any Swap Contract an Early Termination Date (as defined in such
         Swap Contract) resulting from (A) any event of default under such Swap
         Contract as to which the Borrower or any Subsidiary is the Defaulting
         Party (as defined in such Swap Contract) or (B) any Termination Event
         (as so defined) under such Swap Contract as to which the Borrower or
         any Subsidiary is an Affected Party (as defined in such Swap Contract)
         and, in either event, the Swap Termination Value owed by the Loan Party
         or such Subsidiary as a result thereof is greater than the Threshold
         Amount; PROVIDED that this clause (e) shall not apply to Indebtedness
         (excluding the Seven Year Notes) that becomes due (or for which an
         offer to repurchase, prepay, defease or redeem such Indebtedness is
         required to be made) as a result of a "due on sale" provision in such
         Indebtedness that is limited to the specific property being sold so
         long as such Indebtedness is paid when due; or

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                  (f) INSOLVENCY PROCEEDINGS, ETC. Any Loan Party or any of its
         Subsidiaries institutes or consents to the institution of any
         proceeding under any Debtor Relief Law, or makes an assignment for the
         benefit of creditors; or applies for or consents to the appointment of
         any receiver, trustee, custodian, conservator, liquidator,
         rehabilitator or similar officer for it or for all or any material part
         of its property; or any receiver, trustee, custodian, conservator,
         liquidator, rehabilitator or similar officer is appointed without the
         application or consent of such Person and the appointment continues
         undischarged or unstayed for 60 calendar days; or any proceeding under
         any Debtor Relief Law relating to any such Person or to all or any
         material part of its property is instituted without the consent of such
         Person and continues undismissed or unstayed for 60 calendar days, or
         an order for relief is entered in any such proceeding; or

                  (g) INABILITY TO PAY DEBTS; ATTACHMENT. (i) Any Loan Party or
         any Subsidiary becomes unable or admits in writing its inability or
         fails generally to pay its debts as they become due, or (ii) any writ
         or warrant of attachment or execution or similar process is issued or
         levied against all or any material part of the property of any such
         Person and is not released, vacated or fully bonded within 30 days
         after its issue or levy; or

                  (h) JUDGMENTS. There is entered against any Loan Party or any
         Subsidiary (i) a final judgment or order for the payment of money in an
         aggregate amount exceeding the Threshold Amount (to the extent not
         covered by independent third-party insurance as to which the insurer is
         rated at least "A" by A.M. Best Company and does not dispute coverage),
         or (ii) any one or more non-monetary final judgments that have, or
         could reasonably be expected to have, individually or in the aggregate,
         a Material Adverse Effect and, in either case, (A) enforcement
         proceedings are commenced by any creditor upon such judgment or order,
         or (B) there is a period of 30 consecutive days during which a stay of
         enforcement of such judgment, by reason of a pending appeal or
         otherwise, is not in effect; or

                  (i) ERISA. (i) An ERISA Event occurs with respect to a Pension
         Plan or Multiemployer Plan which has resulted or could reasonably be
         expected to result in liability of any Loan Party under Title IV of
         ERISA to the Pension Plan, Multiemployer Plan or the PBGC in an
         aggregate amount in excess of the Threshold Amount, or (ii) any Loan
         Party or any ERISA Affiliate fails to pay when due, after the
         expiration of any applicable grace period, any installment payment with
         respect to its withdrawal liability under SECTION 4201 of ERISA under a
         Multiemployer Plan in an aggregate amount in excess of the Threshold
         Amount; or

                  (j) INVALIDITY OF BRIDGE LOAN DOCUMENTS. Any provision of any
         Bridge Loan Document, at any time after its execution and delivery and
         for any reason other than as expressly permitted hereunder or
         thereunder or satisfaction in full of all the Obligations, ceases to be
         in full force and effect; or any Loan Party or any other Person
         contests in any manner the validity or enforceability of any provision
         of any Bridge Loan Document; or any Loan Party denies that it has any
         or further liability or obligation under any Bridge Loan Document, or
         purports to revoke, terminate or rescind any Bridge Loan Document
         (unless released pursuant to the terms hereof or thereof); or

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                  (k) REINSTATEMENT OF SUBORDINATED NOTES. The Subordinated
         Notes are revived or reinstated pursuant to SECTION 8.05 of the
         Subordinated Notes Indenture; or

                  (l) CHANGE OF CONTROL. There occurs any Change of Control.

                  7.02 REMEDIES UPON EVENT OF DEFAULT. If any Event of Default
occurs and is continuing, the Administrative Agent shall, at the request of, or
may, with the consent of, the Required Bridge Lenders, take any or all of the
following actions:

                  (a) declare the commitment of each Bridge Lender to make
         Bridge Loans to be terminated, whereupon such commitments and
         obligation shall be terminated;

                  (b) declare the unpaid principal amount of all outstanding
         Bridge Loans, all interest accrued and unpaid thereon, and all other
         amounts owing or payable hereunder or under any other Bridge Loan
         Document to be immediately due and payable, without presentment,
         demand, protest or other notice of any kind, all of which are hereby
         expressly waived by the Borrower; and

                  (c) exercise on behalf of itself, the other Agents and the
         Bridge Lenders all rights and remedies available to it, the other
         Agents and the Bridge Lenders under the Bridge Loan Documents or
         applicable Law;

PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that upon the occurrence of an actual or deemed entry of an
order for relief with respect to the Borrower under the Bankruptcy Code of the
United States, the obligation of each Bridge Lender to make Bridge Loans shall
automatically terminate, the unpaid principal amount of all outstanding Bridge
Loans and all interest and other amounts as aforesaid shall automatically become
due and payable, without further act of any Agent or any Bridge Lender.

                  7.03 APPLICATION OF FUNDS. After the exercise of remedies
provided for in SECTION 7.02 (or after the Bridge Loans have automatically
become immediately due and payable), any amounts received on account of the
Obligations shall be applied by the Administrative Agent in the following order:

                  FIRST, to payment of that portion of the Obligations
         constituting fees, indemnities, expenses and other amounts (other than
         principal and interest) payable to the Agents in their capacities as
         such (including Attorney Costs and amounts payable under ARTICLE III)
         ratably among them in proportion to the amounts described in this
         clause FIRST payable to them;

                  SECOND, to payment of that portion of the Obligations
         constituting fees, indemnities and other amounts (other than principal
         and interest) payable to the Bridge Lenders (including Attorney Costs
         and amounts payable under ARTICLE III), ratably among them in
         proportion to the amounts described in this clause SECOND payable to
         them;

                  THIRD, to payment of that portion of the Obligations
         constituting accrued and unpaid interest on the Bridge Loans, ratably
         among the Bridge Lenders in proportion to the respective amounts
         described in this clause THIRD payable to them;

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                  FOURTH, pro rata to payment of that portion of the Obligations
         constituting unpaid principal of the Bridge Loans, ratably among the
         Bridge Lenders in proportion to the respective amounts described in
         this clause FOURTH held by them;

                  FIFTH, to the payment of all other Obligations of the Loan
         Parties owing under or in respect of the Bridge Loan Documents that are
         due and payable to the Agents based upon the respective aggregate
         amounts of all such Obligations owing to the Agents on such date; and

                  LAST, the balance, if any, after all of the Obligations have
         been indefeasibly paid in full, to the Borrower or as otherwise
         required by Law.

                                  ARTICLE VIII
                                     AGENTS

                  8.01 AGENCY PROVISIONS IN THE SENIOR CREDIT AGREEMENT
INCORPORATED BY REFERENCE. The terms and provisions of ARTICLE IX of the Senior
Credit Agreement, and all defined terms used therein (including, without
limitation, all ancillary defined terms used in the definitions of such defined
terms), and each Schedule referenced therein that are not otherwise fully and
expressly set forth in this Agreement are specifically incorporated herein by
reference for the benefit of the Agents and the Bridge Lenders in accordance
with the guidelines specified in SECTION 1.04(b) and with the same force and
effect as if the same were set forth in this Agreement (without giving effect to
any waivers thereof or amendments thereto subsequent to the date hereof without
prior written consent of the Required Bridge Lenders); PROVIDED that all
references in the incorporated provisions of SECTION 9.08 of the Senior Credit
Agreement to "Bank of America" shall, without further reference, mean and refer
to Banc of America Bridge as defined hereunder.

                                   ARTICLE IX
                                  SUBORDINATION

                  9.01 AGREEMENT TO SUBORDINATE SUBORDINATED INDEBTEDNESS TO
SENIOR INDEBTEDNESS. The Borrower and each Guarantor covenant and agree, and
each Bridge Lender likewise covenants and agrees, that, to the extent and in the
manner hereinafter set forth in this ARTICLE IX, the Subordinated Indebtedness
is hereby expressly made subordinate and subject in right of payment to the
prior Payment In Full of all Senior Indebtedness.

                  9.02 PAYMENT OF PROCEEDS UPON INSOLVENCY, ETC. (a) In the
event of (i) any insolvency or bankruptcy case or proceeding, or any
receivership, liquidation, reorganization or other similar case or proceeding in
connection therewith, relative to the Borrower, any Guarantor or to their
creditors, as such, or to any of their assets, or (ii) any liquidation,
dissolution or winding up of the Borrower or any Guarantor, whether voluntary or
involuntary and whether or not involving insolvency or bankruptcy or (iii) any
assignment for the benefit of creditors or any marshaling of assets and
liabilities of the Borrower or any Guarantor, then and in any such event the
holders of Senior Indebtedness shall be entitled to receive Payment In Full of
all amounts due or to become due on or in respect of all Senior Indebtedness
before the Bridge Lenders are entitled to receive any payment on account of
principal (including, without limitation, sinking

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fund payments, if any) of (or premium, if any) or interest under this Agreement
and before any other payment of Subordinated Indebtedness may be made or
otherwise provided for, and to that end the holders of Senior Indebtedness shall
be entitled to receive, for application to the payment of all Senior
Indebtedness remaining unpaid (to the extent necessary for Payment In Full of
all Senior Indebtedness, after giving effect to any concurrent indefeasible
payment or distribution in cash or other payment satisfactory to the holders of
Senior Indebtedness to or for the holders of Senior Indebtedness), any payment
or distribution of any kind or character, whether in cash, property or
securities, including any such payment or distribution that may be payable or
deliverable by reason of the payment of any other Indebtedness of the Borrower
or any Guarantor being subordinated to the payment of the Obligations under this
Agreement, that may be payable or deliverable in respect of the Obligations
under this Agreement in any such case, proceeding, dissolution, liquidation,
winding up or other event.

                  (b) If, contrary to the foregoing provisions of this SECTION
9.02(b), the Administrative Agent or any Bridge Lender receives any payment or
distribution of assets of the Borrower or any Guarantor of any kind or
character, whether in cash, property or securities, including any such payment
or distribution that may be payable or deliverable by reason of the payment of
any other Indebtedness of the Borrower or any Guarantor being subordinated to
the payment of the Obligations under this Agreement, before all Senior
Indebtedness is Paid In Full, then such payment or distribution shall be held in
trust by the Administrative Agent or such Bridge Lender for the holders of
Senior Indebtedness, and if such facts shall, at or prior to the time of such
payment or distribution, have been made known to the Administrative Agent, shall
be held by the Administrative Agent in a separate account, and shall be paid
over or delivered forthwith to the holders of Senior Indebtedness pro rata (or,
if otherwise required by applicable law, to the trustee in bankruptcy, receiver,
liquidating trustee, custodian, assignee, agent or other person making payment
or distribution of assets of the Borrower or Guarantor, as the case may be, for
application to the payment of all Senior Indebtedness) until Payment In Full of
all Senior Indebtedness, after giving effect to any concurrent indefeasible
payment or distribution in cash or other payment satisfactory to the holders of
Senior Indebtedness to or for the holders of Senior Indebtedness.

                  9.03 NO PAYMENT WHEN SENIOR INDEBTEDNESS IN DEFAULT. (a)
Neither the Borrower nor any Guarantor may pay any Subordinated Indebtedness if
(i) any Payment Default occurs with respect to any Senior Indebtedness (and such
default is not cured or waived in accordance with the express terms (if any) of
the instruments and agreements (as the case may be) evidencing such Senior
Indebtedness) or would occur upon making such payment on Subordinated
Indebtedness or (ii) any Non-Payment Default occurs with respect to any Senior
Indebtedness and the maturity of such Senior Indebtedness is accelerated in
accordance with its terms (and such acceleration is not rescinded in accordance
with the express terms (if any) of the instruments and agreements (as the case
may be) evidencing such Senior Indebtedness) in either case, unless such Senior
Indebtedness is Paid In Full.

                  (b) In addition (and without limiting SECTION 9.03(a)),
following the occurrence of any Non-Payment Default with respect to any
Designated Senior Indebtedness (or if a Non-Payment Default with respect to any
Designated Senior Indebtedness would occur upon making such payment on
Subordinated Indebtedness) which permits the holder or holders of such
Designated Senior Indebtedness to accelerate the maturity thereof, upon the
receipt by the

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Administrative Agent and the Borrower of written notice (a "PAYMENT BLOCKAGE
NOTICE") from the Senior Agent or the Indenture Trustee, neither the
Administrative Agent nor the Borrower may pay any Subordinated Indebtedness
during the period (the "PAYMENT BLOCKAGE PERIOD") commencing on the date of such
receipt by the Administrative Agent and the Borrower of such written notice and
ending on the earliest of (i) the date on which such Non-Payment Default shall
have been cured or waived in accordance with the express terms (if any) of the
instruments and agreements (as the case may be) evidencing such Designated
Senior Indebtedness, (ii) the date on which all such Designated Senior
Indebtedness shall have been discharged and Paid In Full, and (iii) the 180th
day after the date of the receipt by the Administrative Agent and the Borrower
of such written notice. Any number of such Payment Blockage Notices may be
given; PROVIDED that notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement, (i)
only one Payment Blockage Notice may be given within any consecutive 360-day
period, (ii) a Payment Blockage Notice shall be deemed to include notice of all
other Non-Payment Defaults under such indenture or instrument that are actually
known by the Senior Agent or the Indenture Trustee, as applicable, to be
continuing at the time of the event of default specified in such Payment
Blockage Notice (each such specified or other known event of default, a
"CONTINUING NON-PAYMENT DEFAULT"), and (iii) no Continuing Non-Payment Default
that existed or was continuing on the date of delivery of any Payment Blockage
Notice may be the basis for a subsequent Payment Blockage Notice unless such
Continuing Non-Payment Default shall have been cured or waived for a period of
not less than 90 days.

                  (c) If, notwithstanding the foregoing, the Borrower or a
Guarantor makes any payment to the Administrative Agent or the Bridge Lenders of
any Obligation under this Agreement prohibited by the foregoing provisions of
this Section, then and in such event such payment shall be held in trust by the
Administrative Agent or any such Bridge Lender for the appropriate holders of
such Senior Indebtedness, and if such facts shall, at or prior to the time of
such payment, have been made known to the Administrative Agent or any Bridge
Lender, shall be held by the Administrative Agent or any Bridge Lender in a
separate account, and shall be paid over and delivered forthwith to the
appropriate holders of such Senior Indebtedness until the amounts of such Senior
Indebtedness then due are paid in full or provision made therefor.

                  (d) The provisions of this SECTION 9.03 shall not apply to any
payment with respect to which SECTION 9.02 would be applicable.

                  9.04 SUBROGATION TO RIGHTS OF HOLDERS OF SENIOR INDEBTEDNESS.
Subject to the prior Payment In Full of all Senior Indebtedness, the Bridge
Lenders shall be subrogated to the extent of the payments or distributions made
to the holders of such Senior Indebtedness pursuant to the provisions of this
ARTICLE IX to the rights of the holders of such Senior Indebtedness to receive
payments and distributions of cash, property and securities applicable to the
Senior Indebtedness until the Subordinated Indebtedness shall be paid in full.
For purposes of such subrogation, no payments or distributions to the holders of
the Senior Indebtedness of any cash, property or securities to which the Bridge
Lenders or the Administrative Agent would be entitled except for provisions of
this ARTICLE IX, and no payments made pursuant to the provisions of this ARTICLE
IX to the holders of Senior Indebtedness by the Bridge Lenders or the
Administrative Agent, shall, as among the Borrower, the Guarantors, their
creditors other than holders of Senior Indebtedness and the Bridge Lenders, be
deemed to be a payment or distribution by the Borrower or any Guarantor to or on
account of the Senior Indebtedness.

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                  9.05 PROVISIONS SOLELY TO DEFINE RELATIVE RIGHTS. (a) The
provisions of this ARTICLE IX are and are intended solely for the purpose of
defining the relative rights of the Bridge Lenders on the one hand and the
holders of Senior Indebtedness on the other hand. Nothing contained in this
ARTICLE IX or elsewhere in this Agreement or in the Bridge Notes is intended to
or shall, as between the Borrower and the Guarantors and the Bridge Lenders: (i)
impair the obligations of the Borrower and the Guarantors, which are absolute
and unconditional, to pay to the Bridge Lenders the principal of (and premium,
if any) and interest on the Bridge Loans as and when the same shall become due
and payable in accordance with their terms; (ii) affect the relative rights
against the Borrower and the Guarantors of the Bridge Lenders or (iii) prevent
the Administrative Agent or any Bridge Lender from exercising all remedies
otherwise permitted by applicable law upon default under this Agreement, subject
to the rights, if any, under this Article IX of the holders of Senior
Indebtedness to receive cash, property and securities otherwise payable or
deliverable to the Administrative Agent or such Bridge Lender.

                  (b) Except as expressly provided in this ARTICLE IX, nothing
contained in this ARTICLE IX shall affect the obligation of the Borrower and the
Guarantors to make, or prevent the Borrower or any Guarantors from making,
payments of the principal of, premium, if any, and interest on the Bridge Loans
in accordance with the provisions hereof and thereof, or shall prevent the
Administrative Agent from applying any moneys deposited with it hereunder to the
payment of the principal of, premium, if any, and interest on the Bridge Loans.

                  9.06 ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT TO EFFECTUATE SUBORDINATION. (a)
Each Bridge Lender authorizes and directs the Administrative Agent on such
Bridge Lender's behalf to take such action as may be necessary or appropriate to
effectuate, as between the Bridge Lenders and the holders of Senior
Indebtedness, the subordination provided in this ARTICLE IX and appoints the
Administrative Agent as attorney-in-fact for any and all such purposes.

                  (b) The Senior Agent and the Indenture Trustee are hereby
irrevocably authorized to demand specific performance of the provisions of this
ARTICLE IX, whether or not the Borrower shall have complied with any of the
provisions hereof applicable to it, any time when the Bridge Lenders or the
Administrative Agent shall have failed, or threatened to fail, to comply with
any of the provisions of this ARTICLE IX applicable to them. The Bridge Lenders
and the Administrative Agent hereby irrevocably waive any defense based on the
adequacy of a remedy at law that might be asserted as a bar to such remedy of
specific performance. The Bridge Lenders and the Administrative Agent hereby
acknowledge that the provisions of this ARTICLE IX are intended to be
enforceable at all times, whether before or after the commencement of a
proceeding referred to in SECTION 9.02.

                  9.07 NO WAIVER OF SUBORDINATION PROVISIONS. (a) No right of
any present or future holder of any Senior Indebtedness to enforce subordination
as herein provided shall at any time in any way be prejudiced or impaired by any
act or failure to act on the part of the Borrower or any Guarantor or by any act
or failure to act by any such holder, or by any non-compliance by the Borrower
or any Guarantor with the terms, provisions and covenants of this Agreement,
regardless of any knowledge thereof any such holder may have or be otherwise
charged with.

                  (b) Without in any way limiting the generality of the
foregoing paragraph, the holders of Senior Indebtedness may, at any time and
from time to time, without the consent of or

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notice to the Administrative Agent or the Bridge Lenders, without incurring
responsibility to the Administrative Agent or the Bridge Lenders and without
impairing or releasing the subordination provided in this ARTICLE IX or the
obligations hereunder of the Administrative Agent or the Bridge Lenders to the
holders of Senior Indebtedness, do any one or more of the following:

                  (i) supplement, renew, extend, accelerate or otherwise change
         the time for payment of, or other terms relating to, the Senior
         Indebtedness, or any portion thereof, or otherwise modify, amend or
         change the terms of any promissory note or other agreement, document or
         instrument (including, without limitation, documents evidencing
         Designated Senior Indebtedness) relating to any Senior Indebtedness,
         including, without limitation, any increase or decrease of the
         principal amount thereof, the rate of interest thereon or the fees
         payable in connection therewith;

                  (ii) waive or otherwise consent to noncompliance with any
         provision of any agreement, document or instrument (including, without
         limitation, documents evidencing Designated Senior Indebtedness)
         relating to any Senior Indebtedness;

                  (iii) accept partial payments on any Senior Indebtedness;

                  (iv) receive, take and hold security or collateral for the
         payment or performance of any Senior Indebtedness and exchange,
         enforce, waive, substitute, liquidate, terminate, abandon, impair, fail
         to perfect, subordinate, transfer, alter, release or otherwise deal
         with any such security or collateral;

                  (v) apply any and all such security or collateral and direct
         the order or manner of sale thereof;

                  (vi) settle, release, compromise, collect or otherwise
         liquidate any Senior Indebtedness;

                  (vii) add, release or substitute any one or more guarantors,
         makers or endorsers of all or any part of any Senior Indebtedness and
         otherwise deal with the Borrower, or any guarantor, maker or endorser;

                  (viii) apply any and all payments or recoveries from the
         Borrower or from any guarantor, maker or endorser of all or any part of
         the Senior Indebtedness in such order as any holder of Senior
         Indebtedness (or any agent therefor) may determine, whether such Senior
         Indebtedness is secured or unsecured or guaranteed or not guaranteed by
         others; and

                  (ix) exercise or refrain from exercising any rights against
         the Borrower or any other Person.

                  9.08 NOTICE TO ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT. (a) The Borrower shall
give prompt written notice to the Administrative Agent of any fact known to the
Borrower that would prohibit the making of any payment to or by the
Administrative Agent or the Bridge Lenders in respect of the Bridge Loans.
Notwithstanding the provisions of this ARTICLE IX or any other provision of this
Agreement, the Administrative Agent shall not be charged with knowledge of the
existence

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of any facts that would prohibit the making of any payment to or by the
Administrative Agent or the Bridge Lenders in respect of the Bridge Loans,
unless and until the Administrative Agent shall have received written notice
thereof at least one Business Day prior to any such payment date from the
Borrower, any Bridge Lender, the Senior Agent, the Indenture Trustee, a holder
of any class of Senior Indebtedness or any one or more agents acting on behalf
of any one or more holders of any class of Senior Indebtedness who (other than
the Senior Agent or the Indenture Trustee) shall have been certified by the
Borrower or otherwise established to the reasonable satisfaction of the
Administrative Agent to be such holder, or from any trustee therefor; and, prior
to the receipt of any such written notice, the Administrative Agent shall be
entitled in all respects to assume that no such facts exist.

                  (b) The Administrative Agent shall be entitled to rely on the
delivery to it of a written notice by a Person representing himself to be a
holder of Senior Indebtedness (or a trustee or agent therefor) to establish that
such notice has been given by a holder of Senior Indebtedness (or a trustee or
agent therefor). If the Administrative Agent determines in good faith that
further evidence is required with respect to the right of any Person as a holder
of Senior Indebtedness to participate in any payment or distribution pursuant to
this ARTICLE IX, the Administrative Agent may request such Person to furnish
evidence to the reasonable satisfaction of the Administrative Agent, as to the
amount of Senior Indebtedness held by such Person, the extent to which such
Person is entitled to participate in such payment or distribution and any other
acts pertinent to the rights of such Person under this ARTICLE IX, and if such
evidence is not furnished, the Administrative Agent may defer any payment to
such Person pending judicial determination as to the right of such Person to
receive such payment.

                  9.09 RELIANCE ON JUDICIAL ORDER OR CERTIFICATE OF LIQUIDATING
AGENT. Upon any payment or distribution of assets of the Borrower or any
Guarantor referred to in this ARTICLE IX, the Administrative Agent and the
Bridge Lenders shall be entitled to rely upon any order or decree entered by any
court of competent jurisdiction in which such insolvency, bankruptcy,
receivership, liquidation, reorganization, dissolution, winding up or similar
case or other proceeding is pending, or a certificate of the trustee in
bankruptcy, receiver, liquidating trustee, custodian, assignee for the benefit
of creditors, agent or other Person making such payment or distribution,
delivered to the Administrative Agent or the Bridge Lenders, for the purpose of
ascertaining the Persons entitled to participate in such payment or
distribution, the holders of the Senior Indebtedness and other Indebtedness of
the Borrower and the Guarantors, the amount thereof or payable thereon, the
amount or amounts paid or distributed thereon and all other facts pertinent
thereto or to this ARTICLE IX.

                  9.10 ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT NOT FIDUCIARY FOR BRIDGE LENDERS.
The Administrative Agent shall not be deemed to owe any fiduciary duty to the
holders of Senior Indebtedness and shall not be liable to any such holders,
absent gross negligence or willful misconduct, if it shall pay over or
distribute to the Bridge Lenders or to the Borrower or to any other Person cash,
property or securities to which any holders of Senior Indebtedness shall be
entitled by virtue of this ARTICLE IX or otherwise.

                  9.11 RIGHTS OF ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT AS HOLDER OF SENIOR
INDEBTEDNEESS; INDEBTEDNESS; PRESERVATION OF ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT'S RIGHTS. The
Administrative Agent in its individual capacity shall be entitled to all the
rights set forth in this ARTICLE IX with respect to any

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Senior Indebtedness that may at any time be held by it, to the same extent as
any other holder of Senior Indebtedness, and nothing in this Agreement shall
deprive the Administrative Agent of any of its rights as such holder.

                  9.12 AUTHORIZATION TO FILE CLAIMS; REINSTATEMENT OF
SUBORDINATION. (a) Each of the Senior Agent and the Indenture Trustee is hereby
irrevocably authorized and empowered (in its own name or, in the name of the
Bridge Lenders or the Administrative Agent or otherwise), but shall have no
obligation, to file claims and proofs of claim in respect of the Bridge Loans in
proceedings referred to in SECTION 9.02 in the event such claims or proofs of
claim have not been filed prior to 30 days before such filings would be barred.

                  (b) The provisions of this ARTICLE IX shall continue to be
effective or be immediately reinstated, as the case may be, if at any time any
payment of any Designated Senior Indebtedness is rescinded or must otherwise be
returned by the Senior Agent, the Senior Lenders, or any other holder of
Designated Senior Indebtedness in connection with the insolvency, bankruptcy or
reorganization of the Borrower, any Guarantor or otherwise, all as though such
payment had not been made.

                  9.13 NO SUSPENSION OF REMEDIES. (a) The failure to make a
payment of Subordinated Indebtedness by reason of any provision of this ARTICLE
IX shall not be construed as preventing the occurrence of an Event of Default
under SECTION 7.01. Nothing contained in this ARTICLE IX shall limit the right
of the Administrative Agent or the Bridge Lenders to take any action to
accelerate the maturity of the Bridge Loans pursuant to ARTICLE VII or to pursue
any rights or remedies hereunder or under applicable law, subject to the rights,
if any, under this ARTICLE IX of the holders, from time to time, of Senior
Indebtedness; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that neither the Administrative Agent nor the
Bridge Lenders may accelerate amounts owing under the Bridge Loans pursuant to
SECTION 7.02 without first providing at least five (5) Business Days prior
written notice to the Senior Agent and the Indenture Trustee.

                  (b) Notwithstanding any provisions to the contrary in this
Agreement, so long as any Payment Blockage Period or Payment Default exists,
neither the Administrative Agent nor any Bridge Lender may for 120 days after
the first date of such Payment Blockage Period or until such Payment Default is
cured (i) ask, demand or sue for any payment, distribution or any other remedy
in respect of the Subordinated Indebtedness or (ii) commence or join with any
other creditor (other than the Senior Lenders, the Senior Agent, the Indenture
Trustee and other holders of Designated Senior Indebtedness) in commencing any
proceeding referred to in SECTION 9.02; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, this clause (b) shall
not restrict the ability of the Administrative Agent or any Bridge Lender to
file a proof of claim in respect of Indebtedness owed under this Agreement or
the Bridge Notes.

                  9.14 MISCELLANEOUS. (a) Each Bridge Lender, the Administrative
Agent, the Borrower and each Guarantor will, at the Borrower's sole expense and
at any time and from time to time, promptly execute and deliver all further
instruments and documents, and take all further action, that may be necessary or
desirable, or that the Senior Agent or the Indenture Trustee may request, in
order to protect any right or interest granted or purported to be granted by the
provisions of this ARTICLE IX or to enable the Senior Agent or the Indenture
Trustee to exercise and enforce rights and remedies hereunder.

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                  (b) All rights and interests under this ARTICLE IX of the
Senior Lenders, the Senior Agent, the Indenture Trustee and any other holder of
Senior Indebtedness, and all agreements and obligations of the Bridge Lenders,
the Administrative Agent, the Borrower and the Guarantors under this ARTICLE IX
shall remain in full force and effect irrespective of:

                  (i) the invalidity or unenforceability of any security or
         collateral for or guaranty of all or any part of the Senior
         Indebtedness or of any promissory note or other agreement, document or
         instrument (including, without limitation, documents evidencing
         Designated Senior Indebtedness) evidencing or in respect of all or any
         Senior Indebtedness, or the lack of perfection or continuing perfection
         or failure of priority of any security or collateral for all or any
         part of the Senior Indebtedness or any guaranty therefor;

                  (ii) the absence of any attempt to collect the Senior
         Indebtedness, or any portion thereof, or other action to enforce the
         same;

                  (iii) any failure to acquire, perfect or maintain any security
         interest in, or to preserve any rights to, any security or collateral
         for all or any part of the Senior Indebtedness or any guaranty
         therefor;

                  (iv) any election in any proceeding instituted under any
         Debtor Relief Law;

                  (v) any borrowing or grant of a security interest or other
         Lien by the Borrower or any Guarantor as debtor-in-possession, or
         extension of credit, under any Debtor Relief Law;

                  (vi) the disallowance, under any Debtor Relief Law, of all or
         any portion of any claim(s) for repayment of the Senior Indebtedness;

                  (vii) any use of cash collateral under any Debtor Relief Law;

                  (viii) any agreement or stipulation as to the provision of
         adequate protection in any bankruptcy proceeding;

                  (ix) the avoidance of any Lien in favor of any holder of
         Senior Indebtedness (or any agent therefor) for any reason;

                  (x) any bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, arrangement,
         readjustment of debt, liquidation or dissolution proceeding, including,
         without limitation, any discharge of, or bar or stay against collecting
         or accelerating, all or any of the Senior Indebtedness in or as a
         result of any such proceeding;

                  (xi) any failure to file or enforce a claim against the
         Borrower, any Guarantor or estate thereof in any bankruptcy or
         insolvency case or proceeding; or

                  (xii) any other circumstance that might otherwise constitute a
         legal or equitable defense to, or discharge of, the Borrower, a
         Guarantor or a subordinated creditor.

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                  (c) The Bridge Lenders, the Administrative Agent, the Borrower
and the Guarantors each hereby waive promptness, diligence, notice of acceptance
and any other notice with respect to any of the Senior Indebtedness and this
ARTICLE IX and any requirement that the Senior Agent, any Senior Lender, the
Indenture Trustee or any other holder of Senior Indebtedness protect, secure,
perfect or insure any security interest or lien or any property subject thereto
or exhaust any right or take any action against the Borrower or any other Person
or any collateral.

                  (d) No failure on the part of the Senior Agent, the Indenture
Trustee, any Senior Lender or any other holder of Senior Indebtedness to
exercise, and no delay in exercising, any right hereunder shall operate as a
waiver thereof, and no single or partial exercise of any right hereunder shall
preclude any other or further exercise thereof or the exercise of any other
right. The remedies herein provided are cumulative and not exclusive of any
remedies provided by law.

                  (e) The provisions of this ARTICLE IX constitute a continuing
agreement and (i) shall remain in full force and effect until the Senior
Indebtedness shall have been Paid In Full, (ii) shall be binding upon the Bridge
Lenders, the Administrative Agent, the Borrower and the Guarantors, and their
successors and assigns, (iii) shall inure to the benefit of and be enforceable
by the Senior Agent, the Senior Lenders, the Indenture Trustee and each other
holder of Senior Indebtedness and their successors, participants, transferees
and assigns and (iv) may not be amended or modified in any way (and neither may
the definitions used therein) that would impair the rights of any holder of
Designated Senior Indebtedness without the written consent of such impaired
holder, and in any event no such amendment or modification shall be effective
against any holder of Designated Senior Indebtedness who has not consented
thereto in writing. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing clause any
Senior Lender may assign or otherwise transfer any promissory note issued under
the Senior Credit Agreement held by it, or grant any participation in any of its
rights or obligations under the Senior Credit Agreement (or Refinancing
Indebtedness incurred with respect thereto), and any holder of Seven Year Notes
(or Refinancing Indebtedness incurred with respect thereto) may assign or
otherwise transfer any such securities, to any other Person, and such other
Person shall thereupon become vested with all the rights in respect thereof
granted to such Senior Lender or holder, as the case may be, herein or
otherwise. The provisions of this ARTICLE IX are intended to be for the benefit
of, and shall be enforceable directly by, the Senior Lenders, any one or more
agents acting on their respective behalves (including, without limitation, the
Senior Agent and the Indenture Trustee).

                                   ARTICLE X
                                    GUARANTY

                  10.01 THE GUARANTY. (a) Each Guarantor hereby absolutely,
unconditionally and irrevocably guarantees the punctual payment when due,
whether at scheduled maturity or on any date of a required prepayment or by
acceleration, demand or otherwise, of all Obligations of each other Loan Party
now or hereafter existing under or in respect of this Agreement, the Bridge
Notes and the other Bridge Loan Documents (including, without limitation, any
extensions, modifications, substitutions, amendments or renewals of any or all
of the foregoing Obligations), whether direct or indirect, absolute or
contingent, and whether for principal, interest, premiums, fees, indemnities,
contract causes of action, costs, expenses or otherwise (such Obligations being

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the "GUARANTEED OBLIGATIONS"), and agrees to pay any and all expenses
(including, without limitation, reasonable fees and expenses of counsel)
incurred by the Administrative Agent or any Bridge Lender in enforcing any
rights under this Guaranty or any other Bridge Loan Document. Without limiting
the generality of the foregoing, each Guarantor's liability shall extend to all
amounts that constitute part of the Guaranteed Obligations and would be owed by
any other Loan Party to the Administrative Agent or any Bridge Lender under or
in respect of the Bridge Loan Documents but for the fact that they are
unenforceable or not allowable due to the existence of a bankruptcy,
reorganization or similar proceeding involving such other Loan Party.

                  (b) Each Guarantor hereby unconditionally and irrevocably
agrees that if any payment shall be required to be made to the Administrative
Agent or any Bridge Lender under this Guaranty or any other guaranty by such
Guarantor, such Guarantor will contribute, to the maximum extent permitted by
law, such amounts to each other Guarantor and each other guarantor so as to
maximize the aggregate amount paid to the Administrative Agent and the Bridge
Lenders under or in respect of the Bridge Loan Documents.

                  10.02 GUARANTY ABSOLUTE. Each Guarantor guarantees that the
Guaranteed Obligations will be paid strictly in accordance with the terms of the
Bridge Loan Documents, regardless of any law, regulation or order now or
hereafter in effect in any jurisdiction affecting any of such terms or the
rights of the Administrative Agent or any Bridge Lender with respect thereto.
The Obligations of each Guarantor under or in respect of this Guaranty are
independent of the Guaranteed Obligations or any other Obligations of any other
Loan Party under or in respect of the Bridge Loan Documents, and a separate
action or actions may be brought and prosecuted against each Guarantor to
enforce this Guaranty, irrespective of whether any action is brought against the
Borrower or any other Loan Party or whether the Borrower or any other Loan Party
is joined in any such action or actions. The liability of each Guarantor under
this Guaranty shall be irrevocable, absolute and unconditional irrespective of,
and each Guarantor hereby irrevocably waives any defenses it may now have or
hereafter acquire in any way relating to, any or all of the following:

                  (a) any lack of validity or enforceability of any Bridge Loan
Document or any agreement or instrument relating thereto;

                  (b) any change in the time, manner or place of payment of, or
in any other term of, all or any of the Guaranteed Obligations or any other
Obligations of any other Loan Party under or in respect of the Bridge Loan
Documents, or any other amendment or waiver of or any consent to departure from
any Bridge Loan Documents, including, without limitation, any increase in the
Guaranteed Obligations resulting from the extension of additional credit to any
Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries or otherwise;

                  (c) any taking, release or amendment or waiver of, or consent
to departure from, any other guaranty, for all or any of the Guaranteed
Obligations;

                  (d) any change, restructuring or termination of the corporate
structure or existence of any Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries;

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                  (e) any failure of the Administrative Agent or any Bridge
Lender to disclose to any Loan Party any information relating to the business,
condition (financial or otherwise), operations, performance, properties or
prospects of any other Loan Party now or hereafter known to the Administrative
Agent or any Bridge Lender (each Guarantor waiving any duty on the part of the
Administrative Agent or any Bridge Lender to disclose such information);

                  (f) the failure of any other Person to execute or deliver this
Guaranty, any Guaranty Supplement or any other guaranty or agreement or the
release or reduction of liability of any Guarantor or other guarantor or surety
with respect to the Guaranteed Obligations; or

                  (g) any other circumstance (including, without limitation, any
statute of limitations) or any existence of or reliance on any representation by
the Administrative Agent or any Bridge Lender that might otherwise constitute a
defense available to, or a discharge of, any Loan Party or any other guarantor
or surety.

This Guaranty shall continue to be effective or be reinstated, as the case may
be, if at any time any payment of any of the Guaranteed Obligations is rescinded
or must otherwise be returned by the Administrative Agent, any Bridge Lender or
any other Person upon the insolvency, bankruptcy or reorganization of the
Borrower or any other Loan Party or otherwise, all as though such payment had
not been made.

                  10.03 WAIVERS AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS. (a) Each Guarantor hereby
unconditionally and irrevocably waives promptness, diligence, notice of
acceptance, presentment, demand for performance, notice of nonperformance,
default, acceleration, protest or dishonor and any other notice with respect to
any of the Guaranteed Obligations and this Guaranty.

                  (b) Each Guarantor hereby unconditionally and irrevocably
waives any right to revoke this Guaranty and acknowledges that this Guaranty is
continuing in nature and applies to all Guaranteed Obligations, whether existing
now or in the future.

                  (c) Each Guarantor hereby unconditionally and irrevocably
waives (i) any defense arising by reason of any claim or defense based upon an
election of remedies by the Administrative Agent or any Bridge Lender that in
any manner impairs, reduces, releases or otherwise adversely affects the
subrogation, reimbursement, exoneration, contribution or indemnification rights
of such Guarantor or other rights of such Guarantor to proceed against any of
the other Loan Parties, any other guarantor or any other Person and (ii) any
defense based on any right of set-off or counterclaim against or in respect of
the Obligations of such Guarantor hereunder.

                  (d) Each Guarantor hereby unconditionally and irrevocably
waives any duty on the part of the Administrative Agent or any Bridge Lender to
disclose to such Guarantor any matter, fact or thing relating to the business,
condition (financial or otherwise), operations, performance, properties or
prospects of any other Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries now or hereafter
known by such Secured Party.

                  (e) Each Guarantor acknowledges that it will receive
substantial direct and indirect benefits from the financing arrangements
contemplated by the Bridge Loan Documents

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and that the waivers set forth in SECTION 10.02 and this SECTION 10.03 are
knowingly made in contemplation of such benefits.

                  10.04 SUBROGATION. Each Guarantor hereby unconditionally and
irrevocably agrees not to exercise any rights that it may now have or hereafter
acquire against the Borrower, any other Loan Party or any Affiliate of such
Guarantor that arise from the existence, payment, performance or enforcement of
such Guarantor's Obligations under or in respect of this Guaranty or any other
Bridge Loan Document, including, without limitation, any right of subrogation,
reimbursement, exoneration, contribution or indemnification and any right to
participate in any claim or remedy of the Administrative Agent or any Bridge
Lender against the Borrower, any other Loan Party or any other insider guarantor
the Administrative Agent or any Bridge Lender , whether or not such claim,
remedy or right arises in equity or under contract, statute or common law,
including, without limitation, the right to take or receive from the Borrower,
any other Loan Party or any other insider guarantor, directly or indirectly, in
cash or other property or by set-off or in any other manner, payment or security
on account of such claim, remedy or right, unless and until all of the
Guaranteed Obligations and all other amounts payable under this Guaranty shall
have been paid in full in cash, and the Bridge Commitments shall have expired or
been terminated. If any amount shall be paid to any Guarantor in violation of
the immediately preceding sentence at any time prior to the latest of (a) the
payment in full in cash of the Guaranteed Obligations and all other amounts
payable under this Guaranty and (b) the Maturity Date, such amount shall be
received and held in trust for the benefit of the Administrative Agent and the
Bridge Lenders , shall be segregated from other property and funds of such
Guarantor and shall forthwith be paid or delivered to the Administrative Agent
in the same form as so received (with any necessary endorsement or assignment)
to be credited and applied to the Guaranteed Obligations and all other amounts
payable under this Guaranty, whether matured or unmatured, in accordance with
the terms of the Bridge Loan Documents. If (i) any Guarantor shall make payment
to the Administrative Agent or any Bridge Lender of all or any part of the
Guaranteed Obligations, (ii) all of the Guaranteed Obligations and all other
amounts payable under this Guaranty shall have been paid in full in cash and
(iii) the Maturity Date shall have occurred, the Administrative Agent will, at
such Guarantor's request and expense, execute and deliver to such Guarantor
appropriate documents, without recourse and without representation or warranty,
necessary to evidence the transfer by subrogation to such Guarantor of an
interest in the Guaranteed Obligations resulting from such payment made by such
Guarantor pursuant to this Guaranty.

                  10.05 PAYMENTS FREE AND CLEAR OF TAXES, ETC. Any and all
payments made by any Guarantor under or in respect of this Guaranty or any other
Bridge Loan Document shall be made, in accordance with SECTION 3.01 of the
Senior Credit Agreement as incorporated herein by reference pursuant to SECTION
3.01, free and clear of and without deduction for any and all present or future
Taxes (as defined in the Senior Credit Agreement). If any Guarantor shall be
required by law to deduct any Taxes from or in respect of any sum payable under
or in respect of this Guaranty or any other Bridge Loan Document to the
Administrative Agent or any Bridge Lender, (i) the sum payable by such Guarantor
shall be increased as may be necessary so that after such Guarantor and the
Administrative Agent have made all required deductions (including deductions
applicable to additional sums payable under this SECTION 10.05), the
Administrative Agent or such Bridge Lender receives an amount equal to the sum
it would have received had no such deductions been made, (ii) such Guarantor
shall make all such deductions and (iii) such

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Guarantor shall pay the full amount deducted to the relevant taxation authority
or other authority in accordance with applicable law.

                  10.06 REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES OF THE GUARANTORS. Each
Guarantor hereby makes each representation and warranty made in ARTICLE V of
this Agreement by the Borrower with respect to such Guarantor and each Guarantor
hereby further represents and warrants as follows:

                  (a) There are no conditions precedent to the effectiveness of
this Guaranty that have not been satisfied or waived.

                  (b) Such Guarantor has, independently and without reliance
upon the Administrative Agent or any Bridge Lender and based on such documents
and information as it has deemed appropriate, made its own credit analysis and
decision to enter into this Guaranty and each other Bridge Loan Document to
which it is or is to be a party, and such Guarantor has established adequate
means of obtaining from each other Loan Party on a continuing basis information
pertaining to, and is now and on a continuing basis will be completely familiar
with, the business, condition (financial or otherwise), operations, performance,
properties and prospects of such other Loan Party.

                  10.07 GUARANTY SUPPLEMENTS. Upon the execution and delivery by
any Person of a Guaranty Supplement pursuant to SECTION 6.03 (i) such Person
shall be referred to as an "ADDITIONAL GUARANTOR" and shall become and be a
Guarantor hereunder, and each reference in this Guaranty to a "Guarantor" shall
also mean and be a reference to such Additional Guarantor, and each reference in
any other Bridge Loan Document to a "Guarantor" shall also mean and be a
reference to such Additional Guarantor, and (ii) each reference herein to "this
Guaranty", "hereunder", "hereof" or words of like import referring to this
Guaranty, and each reference in any other Bridge Loan Document to the
"Guaranty", "thereunder", "thereof" or words of like import referring to this
Guaranty, shall mean and be a reference to this Guaranty as supplemented by such
Guaranty Supplement.

                  10.08 SUBORDINATION OF GUARANTY. The obligations of each
Guarantor under its Guaranty pursuant to this ARTICLE X shall be junior and
subordinated to the Senior Indebtedness on the same basis as the Bridge Loans
are junior and subordinated to Senior Indebtedness of the Borrower.

                  10.09 CONTINUING GUARANTY; ASSIGNMENTS. This Guaranty is a
continuing guaranty and shall (a) remain in full force and effect until the
latest of (i) the payment in full in cash of the Guaranteed Obligations and all
other amounts payable under this Guaranty and (ii) the Maturity Date, (b) be
binding upon the Guarantor, its successors and assigns and (c) inure to the
benefit of and be enforceable by the Administrative Agent and the Bridge Lenders
and their successors, transferees and assigns. Without limiting the generality
of clause (c) of the immediately preceding sentence, each of the Administrative
Agent and any Bridge Lender may assign or otherwise transfer all or any portion
of its rights and obligations under this Agreement (including, without
limitation, all or any portion of its Bridge Commitments, the Bridge Loans owing
to it and the Bridge Note or Bridge Notes held by it) to any other Person, and
such other Person shall thereupon become vested with all the benefits in respect
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Administrative Agent and the Bridge Lenders herein or otherwise, in each case as
and to the extent provided in Section 11.06. No Guarantor shall have the right
to ASSIGN ITS RIGHTS HEREUNDER OR ANY INTEREST HEREIN WITHOUT THE PRIOR WRITTEN
CONSENT OF THE Administrative Agent and Bridge Lenders.

                  10.10 LIMITATION ON LIABILITY. Each Guarantor and, by its
acceptance of any Bridge Note, the Administrative Agent and each Bridge Lender,
hereby confirms that it is the intention of all such Persons that this Guaranty
and the Obligations of each Guarantor hereunder not constitute a fraudulent
transfer or conveyance for purposes of any Debtor Relief Law, the UFCA, the UFTA
or any similar law to the extent applicable to this Guaranty. To effectuate the
foregoing intention, the Administrative Agent and the Bridge Lenders and the
Guarantors hereby irrevocably agree that the Obligations of each Guarantor under
this Guaranty shall be limited to the maximum amount as will result in the
Obligations of each Guarantor under the Guaranty not constituting a fraudulent
transfer or conveyance.

                                   ARTICLE XI
                                  MISCELLANEOUS

                  11.01 AMENDMENTS, ETC. No amendment or waiver of any provision
of this Agreement or any other Bridge Loan Document, and no consent to any
departure by the Borrower or any other Loan Party therefrom, shall be effective
unless in writing signed by the Required Bridge Lenders and the Borrower or the
applicable Loan Party, as the case may be, and acknowledged by the
Administrative Agent, and each such waiver or consent shall be effective only in
the specific instance and for the specific purpose for which given; PROVIDED,
HOWEVER, that no such amendment, waiver or consent shall:

                  (a) waive any condition set forth in SECTION 4.01, without the
         written consent of each Bridge Lender;

                  (b) extend or increase the Bridge Commitment of any Bridge
         Lender (or reinstate any Bridge Commitment terminated pursuant to
         SECTION 7.02) without the written consent of such Bridge Lender;

                  (c) postpone any date scheduled for any payment of principal
         or interest under SECTION 2.05 or 2.06, or any date fixed by the
         Administrative Agent for the payment of fees or other amounts due to
         the Bridge Lenders (or any of them) hereunder or under any other Loan
         Bridge Document without the written consent of each Bridge Lender
         directly affected thereby;

                  (d) reduce the principal of, or the rate of interest specified
         herein on any Bridge Loan or (subject to clause (iii) of the second
         proviso to this SECTION 11.01) any fees or other amounts payable
         hereunder or under any other Bridge Loan Document without the written
         consent of each Bridge Lender directly affected thereby; PROVIDED,
         HOWEVER, that only the consent of the Required Bridge Lenders shall be
         necessary (i) to amend the definition of "Default Rate" or to waive any
         obligation of the Borrower to pay interest at the Default Rate or (ii)
         to amend any financial covenant hereunder (or any

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         defined term used therein) even if the effect of such amendment would
         be to reduce the rate of interest on any Loan or to reduce any fee
         payable hereunder;

                  (e) change the order of application of any reduction in the
         Bridge Commitments or any prepayment of Bridge Loans from the
         application thereof set forth in the applicable provisions of SECTION
         2.03(b) in any manner that materially and adversely affects the Bridge
         Lenders under the Bridge Facility without the written consent of each
         such Bridge Lender directly affected thereby;

                  (f) change any provision of this SECTION 11.01 or the
         definition of "Required Bridge Lenders" or any other provision hereof
         specifying the number or percentage of Bridge Lenders required to
         amend, waive or otherwise modify any rights hereunder or make any
         determination or grant any consent hereunder, without the written
         consent of each Bridge Lender;

                  (g) release any Guarantor, without the written consent of each
         Bridge Lender, except where such release is expressly permitted by the
         Bridge Loan Documents or as otherwise set forth in SECTION 9.11 of the
         Senior Credit Agreement as incorporated herein by reference pursuant to
         SECTION 8.01; or

                  (h) amend, waive or consent to change any provision of SECTION
         2.11 or SECTION 7.03, without the written consent of the Required
         Bridge Lenders;

and PROVIDED, FURTHER, that (i) no amendment, waiver or consent shall, unless in
writing and signed by an Agent in addition to the Bridge Lenders affect the
rights or duties of, or any fees or other amounts payable to, such Agent under
this Agreement or any other Bridge Loan Document; (ii) SECTION 11.06(h) may not
be amended, waived or otherwise modified without the consent of each Granting
Bridge Lender all or any part of whose Bridge Loans are being funded by an SPC
at the time of such amendment, waiver or other modification; and (iii) the Fee
Letter may be amended, or rights or privileges thereunder waived, in a writing
executed only by the parties thereto. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary
herein, no Defaulting Bridge Lender shall have any right to approve or
disapprove any amendment, waiver or consent hereunder, except that the Bridge
Commitment of such Bridge Lender may not be increased or extended without the
consent of such Bridge Lender.

                  11.02 NO WAIVER; CUMULATIVE REMEDIES. No failure by any Bridge
Lender or any Agent to exercise, and no delay by any such Person in exercising,
any right, remedy, power or privilege hereunder or any other Bridge Loan
Document shall operate as a waiver thereof; nor shall any single or partial
exercise of any right, remedy, power or privilege hereunder preclude any other
or further exercise thereof or the exercise of any other right, remedy, power or
privilege. The rights, remedies, powers and privileges herein provided, and
provided under each other Bridge Loan Document, are cumulative and not exclusive
of any rights, remedies, powers and privileges provided by law.

                  11.03 ATTORNEY COSTS, EXPENSES AND TAXES. The Borrower agrees
(a) to pay or reimburse the Administrative Agent for all costs and expenses
incurred in connection with the development, preparation, negotiation,
syndication and execution of this Agreement and the

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other Bridge Loan Documents, and any amendment, waiver, consent or other
modification of the provisions hereof and thereof (whether or not the
transactions contemplated hereby or thereby are consummated), and the
consummation and administration of the transactions contemplated hereby and
thereby, including all Attorney Costs, and (b) to pay or reimburse each Agent
and each Bridge Lender for all costs and expenses incurred in connection with
the enforcement of any rights or remedies under this Agreement or the other
Bridge Loan Documents (including all such costs and expenses incurred during any
legal proceeding, including any proceeding under any Debtor Relief Law),
including all Attorney Costs. The foregoing costs and expenses shall include,
without limitation the cost of independent public accountants and other outside
experts retained by any Agent or, upon the occurrence of an Event of Default,
retained by any Bridge Lender. All amounts due under this SECTION 11.03 shall be
payable within ten Business Days after demand therefore, when such demand
includes a reasonably detailed invoice with respect to the amounts claimed. The
agreements in this Section shall survive the termination of the Aggregate Bridge
Commitments and repayment of all other Obligations. If any Loan Party fails to
pay when due any costs, expenses or other amounts payable by it hereunder or
under any Bridge Loan Document, including, without limitation, Attorney Costs
and indemnities, such amount may be paid on behalf of such Loan Party by any
Agent or any Bridge Lender, in its sole discretion.

                  11.04 INDEMNIFICATION BY THE BORROWER. Whether or not the
transactions contemplated hereby are consummated, the Borrower shall indemnify
and hold harmless each Agent-Related Person, each Bridge Lender and their
respective Affiliates, directors or officers (or their equivalents), employees,
counsel, agents and attorneys-in-fact (collectively the "INDEMNITEES") from and
against any and all liabilities, obligations, losses, damages, penalties,
claims, demands, actions, judgments, suits, costs, expenses and disbursements
(including Attorney Costs) of any kind or nature whatsoever which may at any
time be imposed on, incurred by or asserted against any such Indemnitee in any
way relating to or arising out of or in connection with (a) the execution,
delivery, enforcement, performance or administration of any Bridge Loan Document
or any other agreement, letter or instrument delivered in connection with the
transactions contemplated thereby or the consummation of the transactions
contemplated thereby, (b) any Bridge Commitment or Bridge Loan or the use or
proposed use of the proceeds therefrom, (c) any actual or alleged presence or
release of Hazardous Materials on or from any property currently or formerly
owned or operated by the Borrower, any Subsidiary or any other Loan Party, or
any Environmental Liability related in any way to the Borrower, any Subsidiary
or any other Loan Party, or (d) any actual or prospective claim, litigation,
investigation or proceeding relating to any of the foregoing, whether based on
contract, tort or any other theory (including any investigation of, preparation
for, or defense of any pending or threatened claim, investigation, litigation or
proceeding) and regardless of whether any Indemnitee is a party thereto (all the
foregoing, collectively, the "INDEMNIFIED LIABILITIES"), in all cases, whether
or not caused by or arising, in whole or in part, out of the negligence of the
Indemnitee; PROVIDED that such indemnity shall not, as to any Indemnitee, be
available to the extent that such liabilities, obligations, losses, damages,
penalties, claims, demands, actions, judgments, suits, costs, expenses or
disbursements are determined by a court of competent jurisdiction by final and
nonappealable judgment to have resulted from the gross negligence or willful
misconduct of such Indemnitee or any officer, director or employee of such
Indemnitee. No Indemnitee shall be liable for any damages arising from the use
by others of any information or other materials obtained through IntraLinks or
other similar information transmission systems in connection

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with this Agreement, nor shall any Indemnitee have any liability for any
indirect or consequential damages relating to this Agreement or any other Bridge
Loan Document or arising out of its activities in connection herewith or
therewith (whether before or after the Effective Date). In the case of an
investigation, litigation or other proceeding to which the indemnity in this
SECTION 11.04 applies, such indemnity shall be effective whether or not such
investigation, litigation or proceeding is brought by any Loan Party, its
directors, shareholders or creditors or an Indemnitee or any other Person,
whether or not any Indemnitee is otherwise a party thereto and whether or not
any of the transactions contemplated hereunder or under any of the other Bridge
Loan Documents is consummated. All amounts due under this SECTION 11.04 shall be
payable within ten Business Days after demand therefor, when such demand
includes a reasonably detailed invoice with respect to the amounts claimed. The
agreements in this Section shall survive the resignation of any Agent, the
replacement of any Bridge Lender, the termination of the Aggregate Bridge
Commitments and the repayment, satisfaction or discharge of all the other
Obligations.

                  11.05 PAYMENTS SET ASIDE. To the extent that any payment by or
on behalf of the Borrower is made to any Agent or any Bridge Lender, or any
Agent or any Bridge Lender exercises its right of setoff, and such payment or
the proceeds of such setoff or any part thereof is subsequently invalidated,
declared to be fraudulent or preferential, set aside or required (including
pursuant to any settlement entered into by such Agent or such Bridge Lender in
its discretion) to be repaid to a trustee, receiver or any other party, in
connection with any proceeding under any Debtor Relief Law or otherwise, then
(a) to the extent of such recovery, the obligation or part thereof originally
intended to be satisfied shall be revived and continued in full force and effect
as if such payment had not been made or such setoff had not occurred, and (b)
each Bridge Lender severally agrees to pay to the Administrative Agent upon
demand its applicable share of any amount so recovered from or repaid by any
Agent, plus interest thereon from the date of such demand to the date such
payment is made at a rate per annum equal to the Federal Funds Rate from time to
time in effect.

                  11.06 SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS. (a) The provisions of this
Agreement shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit of the parties hereto
and their respective successors and assigns permitted hereby, except that the
Borrower may not assign or otherwise transfer any of its rights or obligations
hereunder without the prior written consent of each Bridge Lender and no Bridge
Lender may assign or otherwise transfer any of its rights or obligations
hereunder except (i) to an Eligible Assignee in accordance with the provisions
of SECTION 11.06(b), (ii) by way of participation in accordance with the
provisions of SECTION 11.06(d), (iii) by way of pledge or assignment of a
security interest subject to the restrictions of SECTION 11.06(f), or (iv) to an
SPC in accordance with the provisions of SECTION 11.06(h) (and any other
attempted assignment or transfer by any party hereto shall be null and void).
Nothing in this Agreement, expressed or implied, shall be construed to confer
upon any Person (other than the parties hereto, their respective successors and
assigns permitted hereby, Participants to the extent provided in subsection (d)
of this Section and, to the extent expressly contemplated hereby, the
Indemnitees) any legal or equitable right, remedy or claim under or by reason of
this Agreement.

                  (b) Any Bridge Lender may at any time assign to one or more
Eligible Assignees all or a portion of its rights and obligations under this
Agreement (including all or a portion of its Bridge Commitment and the Bridge
Loans at the time owing to it); PROVIDED that (i)

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except in the case of an assignment of the entire remaining amount of the
assigning Bridge Lender's Bridge Commitment and the Bridge Loans at the time
owing to it or in the case of an assignment to a Bridge Lender or an Affiliate
of a Bridge Lender or an Approved Fund that is an Affiliate of the assigning
Bridge Lender, the aggregate amount of the Bridge Commitment (which for this
purpose includes Bridge Loans outstanding thereunder) or, if the applicable
Bridge Commitment is not then in effect, the principal outstanding balance of
the Bridge Loan of the assigning Bridge Lender subject to each such assignment,
determined as of the date the Assignment and Assumption with respect to such
assignment is delivered to the Administrative Agent or, if "Trade Date" is
specified in the Assignment and Assumption, as of the Trade Date, shall not be
less than $500,000, (the foregoing amount being applicable to the assignment to
or from related Approved Funds, in either case, in the aggregate), unless each
of the Administrative Agent and, so long as no Event of Default has occurred and
is continuing, the Borrower otherwise consents (each such consent not to be
unreasonably withheld or delayed); (ii) each partial assignment shall be made as
an assignment of a proportionate part of all the assigning Bridge Lender's
rights and obligations under this Agreement with respect to the Bridge Loans or
the Bridge Commitment assigned and (iii) the parties to each assignment shall
execute and deliver to the Administrative Agent an Assignment and Assumption.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, Banc of America Bridge agrees that it will not
assign more than 49% of its rights and obligations under this Agreement without
the prior written consent of the Borrower. Subject to acceptance and recording
thereof by the Administrative Agent pursuant to SECTION 11.06(c), from and after
the effective date specified in each Assignment and Assumption, the Eligible
Assignee thereunder shall be a party to this Agreement and, to the extent of the
interest assigned by such Assignment and Assumption, have the rights and
obligations of a Bridge Lender under this Agreement, and the assigning Bridge
Lender thereunder shall, to the extent of the interest assigned by such
Assignment and Assumption, be released from its obligations under this Agreement
(and, in the case of an Assignment and Assumption covering all of the assigning
Bridge Lender's rights and obligations under this Agreement, such Bridge Lender
shall cease to be a party hereto but shall continue to be entitled to the
benefits of SECTIONS 3.01, 3.04, 3.05 of the Senior Credit Agreement as
incorporated herein by reference pursuant to SECTION 3.01 and SECTIONS 11.04 and
11.05 of this Agreement with respect to facts and circumstances occurring prior
to the effective date of such assignment). Upon request, the Borrower (at its
expense) shall execute and deliver a Bridge Note to the assignee Bridge Lender.
Any assignment or transfer by a Bridge Lender of rights or obligations under
this Agreement that does not comply with this subsection shall be treated for
purposes of this Agreement as a sale by such Bridge Lender of a participation in
such rights and obligations in accordance with SECTION 11.06(d).

                  (c) The Administrative Agent, acting solely for this purpose
as an agent of the Borrower, shall maintain at the Administrative Agent's Office
a copy of each Assignment and Assumption delivered to it and a register for the
recordation of the names and addresses of the Bridge Lenders, and the Bridge
Commitments of, and principal amounts of the Bridge Loans owing to each Bridge
Lender pursuant to the terms hereof from time to time (the "REGISTER"). The
entries in the Register shall be, absent manifest error, conclusive, and the
Borrower, the Agents and the Bridge Lenders may treat each Person whose name is
recorded in the Register pursuant to the terms hereof as a Bridge Lender
hereunder for all purposes of this Agreement, notwithstanding notice to the
contrary. The Register shall be available for inspection by the Borrower, any
Agent and any Bridge Lender, at any reasonable time and from time to time upon
reasonable prior notice.

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                  (d) Any Bridge Lender may at any time, without the consent of,
or notice to, the Borrower or the Administrative Agent, sell participations to
any Person (other than a natural person or the Borrower or any of the Borrower's
Affiliates or Subsidiaries) (each, a "PARTICIPANT") in all or a portion of such
Bridge Lender's rights and/or obligations under this Agreement (including all or
a portion of its Bridge Commitment and/or the Bridge Loans owing to it);
PROVIDED that (i) such Bridge Lender's obligations under this Agreement shall
remain unchanged, (ii) such Bridge Lender shall remain solely responsible to the
other parties hereto for the performance of such obligations and (iii) the
Borrower, the Agents and the other Bridge Lenders shall continue to deal solely
and directly with such Bridge Lender in connection with such Bridge Lender's
rights and obligations under this Agreement. Any agreement or instrument
pursuant to which a Bridge Lender sells such a participation shall provide that
such Bridge Lender shall retain the sole right to enforce this Agreement and to
approve any amendment, modification or waiver of any provision of this
Agreement; PROVIDED that such agreement or instrument may provide that such
Bridge Lender will not, without the consent of the Participant, agree to any
amendment, waiver or other modification described in the first proviso to
SECTION 11.01 that directly affects such Participant. Subject to SECTION
11.06(e), the Borrower agrees that each Participant shall be entitled to the
benefits of SECTIONS 3.01, 3.04 and 3.05 of the Senior Credit Agreement as
incorporated herein by reference pursuant to SECTION 3.01 (but subject to
SECTION 3.06 of the Senior Credit Agreement as incorporated herein by reference
pursuant to SECTION 3.01) to the same extent as if it were a Bridge Lender and
had acquired its interest by assignment pursuant to SECTION 11.06(b). To the
extent permitted by law, each Participant also shall be entitled to the benefits
of SECTION 10.09 of the Senior Credit Agreement as incorporated herein by
reference pursuant to SECTION 11.07 as though it were a Bridge Lender; PROVIDED
such Participant agrees to be subject to SECTION 2.11 as though it were a Bridge
Lender.

                  (e) A Participant shall not be entitled to receive any greater
payment under SECTION 3.01 or 3.04 of the Senior Credit Agreement as
incorporated herein by reference pursuant to SECTION 3.01 than the applicable
Bridge Lender would have been entitled to receive with respect to the
participation sold to such Participant, unless the sale of the participation to
such Participant is made with the Borrower's prior written consent. A
Participant that would be a Foreign Bridge Lender if it were a Bridge Lender
shall not be entitled to the benefits of SECTION 3.01 of the Senior Credit
Agreement as incorporated herein by reference pursuant to SECTION 3.01 unless
the Borrower is notified of the participation sold to such Participant and such
Participant agrees, for the benefit of the Borrower, to comply with SECTION
10.15 of the Senior Credit Agreement as incorporated herein by reference
pursuant to SECTION 11.07 as though it were a Bridge Lender.

                  (f) Any Bridge Lender may at any time pledge or assign a
security interest in all or any portion of its rights under this Agreement
(including under its Bridge Note, if any) to secure obligations of such Bridge
Lender, including any pledge or assignment to secure obligations to a Federal
Reserve Bank; PROVIDED that no such pledge or assignment shall release such
Bridge Lender from any of its obligations hereunder or substitute any such
pledgee or assignee for such Bridge Lender as a party hereto.

                  (g) As used herein, the following terms have the following
meanings:

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                  "ELIGIBLE ASSIGNEE" means (a) a Bridge Lender; (b) an
         Affiliate of a Bridge Lender; (c) an Approved Fund; and (d) any other
         Person (other than a natural person) approved by (i) the Administrative
         Agent, and (ii) unless an Event of Default has occurred and is
         continuing, the Borrower (each such approval not to be unreasonably
         withheld or delayed); PROVIDED that notwithstanding the foregoing,
         "Eligible Assignee" shall not include the Borrower or any of the
         Borrower's Affiliates or Subsidiaries.

                  "FUND" means any Person (other than a natural person) that is
         (or will be) engaged in making, purchasing, holding or otherwise
         investing in commercial loans and similar extensions of credit in the
         ordinary course of its business.

                  "APPROVED FUND" means any Fund that is administered or managed
         by (a) a Bridge Lender, (b) an Affiliate of a Bridge Lender or (c) an
         entity or an Affiliate of an entity that administers or manages a
         Bridge Lender.

                  (h) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein,
any Bridge Lender (a "GRANTING BRIDGE Lender") may grant to a special purpose
funding vehicle identified as such in writing from time to time by the Granting
Bridge Lender to the Administrative Agent and the Borrower (an "SPC") the option
to provide all or any part of any Bridge Loan that such Granting Bridge Lender
would otherwise be obligated to make pursuant to this Agreement; PROVIDED that
(i) nothing herein shall constitute a commitment by any SPC to fund any Bridge
Loan, and (ii) if an SPC elects not to exercise such option or otherwise fails
to make all or any part of such Bridge Loan, the Granting Bridge Lender shall be
obligated to make such Bridge Loan pursuant to the terms hereof. Each party
hereto hereby agrees that (i) neither the grant to any SPC nor the exercise by
any SPC of such option shall increase the costs or expenses or otherwise
increase or change the obligations of the Borrower under this Agreement
(including its obligations under SECTION 3.04 of the Senior Credit Agreement as
incorporated herein by reference pursuant to SECTION 3.01), (ii) no SPC shall be
liable for any indemnity or similar payment obligation under this Agreement for
which a Bridge Lender would be liable, and (iii) the Granting Bridge Lender
shall for all purposes, including indemnification obligations and the approval
of any amendment, waiver or other modification of any provision of any Bridge
Loan Document, remain the lender of record hereunder. The making of a Bridge
Loan by an SPC hereunder shall utilize the Bridge Commitment of the Granting
Bridge Lender to the same extent, and as if, such Bridge Loan were made by such
Granting Bridge Lender. In furtherance of the foregoing, each party hereto
hereby agrees (which agreement shall survive the termination of this Agreement)
that, prior to the date that is one year and one day after the payment in full
of all outstanding commercial paper or other senior debt of any SPC, it will not
institute against, or join any other Person in instituting against, such SPC any
bankruptcy, reorganization, arrangement, insolvency, or liquidation proceeding
under the laws of the United States or any State thereof. Notwithstanding
anything to the contrary contained herein, any SPC may (i) with notice to, but
without prior consent of the Borrower and the Administrative Agent and without
paying any processing fee therefor, assign all or any portion of its right to
receive payment with respect to any Bridge Loan to the Granting Bridge Lender
and (ii) disclose on a confidential basis any non-public information relating to
its funding of Bridge Loans to any rating agency, commercial paper dealer or
provider of any surety or Guarantee or credit or liquidity enhancement to such
SPC.

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                  11.07 MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS OF THE SENIOR CREDIT AGREEMENT
INCORPORATED BY REFERENCE. The provisions of SECTIONS 10.02 AND 10.08 THROUGH
10.15 of the Senior Credit Agreement, and all defined terms used therein
(including, without limitation, all ancillary defined terms used in the
definitions of such defined terms) and each Schedule referenced therein that are
not otherwise fully and expressly set forth in this Agreement are specifically
incorporated herein by reference for the benefit of the Agents and the Bridge
Lenders in accordance with the guidelines specified in SECTIONS 1.04(b) and with
the same force and effect as if the same were set forth in this Agreement
(without giving effect to any waivers thereof or amendments thereto subsequent
to the date hereof without prior written consent of the Required Bridge
Lenders).

                  11.08 GOVERNING LAW. (a) This Agreement shall be governed by,
and construed in accordance with, the law of the State of New York.

                  (b) Any legal action or proceeding with respect to this
Agreement or any other Bridge Loan Document may be brought in the courts of the
State of New York sitting in New York City or of the United States for the
Southern District of such State, and by execution and delivery of this
Agreement, the Borrower, each Agent and each Bridge Lender consents, for itself
and in respect of its property, to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of those
courts. The Borrower, each Agent and each Bridge Lender hereby irrevocably
waives any objection, including any objection to the laying of venue or based on
the grounds of FORUM NON CONVENIENS, which it may now or hereafter have to the
bringing of any action or proceeding in such jurisdiction in respect of any
Bridge Loan Document or other document related thereto. The Borrower, each Agent
and each Bridge Lender waives personal service of any summons, complaint or
other process, which may be made by any other means permitted by the law of such
State.

                  11.09 BINDING EFFECT. This Agreement shall become effective
when it shall have been executed by the Borrower and each Guarantor and the
Administrative Agent shall have been notified by each Bridge Lender, that each
such Bridge Lender has executed it and thereafter shall be binding upon and
inure to the benefit of the Borrower, each Agent and each Bridge Lender and
their respective successors and assigns, except that the Borrower shall not have
the right to assign its rights hereunder or any interest herein without the
prior written consent of the Bridge Lenders.

                  11.10 WAIVER OF RIGHT TO TRIAL BY JURY. Each party to this
Agreement hereby expressly waives any right to trial by jury of any claim,
demand, action or cause of action arising under any Bridge Loan Documents or in
any way connected with or related or incidental to the dealings of the parties
hereto or any of them with respect to any Bridge Loan Document, or the
transactions related thereto, in each case whether now existing or hereafter
arising, and whether founded in contract or tort or otherwise; and each party
hereby agrees and consents that any such claim, demand, action or cause of
action shall be decided by court trial without a jury, and that any party to
this agreement may file an original counterpart or a copy of this SECTION 11.10
with any court as written evidence of the consent of the signatories hereto to
the waiver of their right to trial by jury.

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                  11.11 USA PATRIOT ACT NOTICE. Each Bridge Lender and the
Administrative Agent (for itself and not on behalf of any Bridge Lender) hereby
notifies the Borrower that pursuant to the requirements of the USA Patriot Act
(Title III of Pub. L. 107-56 (signed into law October 26, 2001)) (the "ACT"), it
is required to obtain, verify and record information that identifies the
Borrower, which information includes the name and address of the Borrower and
other information that will allow such Bridge Lender or the Administrative
Agent, as applicable, to identify the Borrower in accordance with the Act.

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

                                      ALDERWOODS GROUP, INC.

                                      By:
                                          --------------------------------------
                                      Name: Kenneth Sloan
                                      Title: Executive Vice President and Chief
                                      Financial Officer

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                                 GUARANTORS:

                                 Each of the Guarantors listed on ANNEX A hereto

                                 By:
                                     --------------------------------------
                                 Name: Laurel Langford
                                 Title: Responsible Officer of each of the
                                 entities listed on ANNEX A hereto

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                                 Each of the Guarantors listed on ANNEX B hereto

                                 By:
                                     --------------------------------------
                                 Name: Jeffrey Lowe
                                 Title: Responsible Officer of each of the
                                 entities listed on ANNEX B hereto

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                                          ALDERWOODS (ALABAMA), INC.

                                          By:
                                              --------------------------------
                                          Name: William Tottle
                                          Title: Vice President

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                                         ALDERWOODS (DELAWARE), INC.

                                         By:
                                             --------------------------------
                                         Name: Kenneth Sloan
                                         Title: Treasurer

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                             ALDERWOODS (TEXAS), L.P.
                             By: Alderwoods (Partner), Inc., its general partner

                             By:
                                --------------------------------
                             Name: Laurel Langford
                             Title: Secretary and Treasurer

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                              DIRECTORS (TEXAS), L.P.
                              By: DSP General Partner, Inc., its general partner

                              By:
                                  --------------------------------
                              Name: Laurel Langford
                              Title: Secretary and Treasurer

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                                          DOBA-HABY INSURANCE AGENCY, INC.

                                          By:
                                              --------------------------------
                                          Name: Ronald Collins
                                          Title: Vice President

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                                 BANC OF AMERICA BRIDGE LLC, as
                                 Administrative Agent and Initial Bridge Lender

                                 By:
                                     --------------------------------
                                 Name:
                                     --------------------------------
                                 Title:
                                     --------------------------------

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                                     ANNEX A

ALABAMA
Advanced Planning (Alabama), Inc.

ALASKA
Alderwoods (Alaska), Inc.

ARIZONA
Alderwoods (Arizona), Inc.
Hatfield Funeral Home, Inc.
Phoenix Memorial Park Association

ARKANSAS
Alderwoods (Arkansas), Inc.

CALIFORNIA
Advance Funeral Insurance Services
Alderwoods (Texas), Inc.
Alderwoods Group (California), Inc.
Directors Succession Planning II, Inc.
Directors Succession Planning, Inc.
DSP General Partner II, Inc.
Earthman LP, Inc.
Universal Memorial Centers V, Inc.
Universal Memorial Centers VI, Inc.
Whitehurst-Lakewood Memorial Park and Funeral Service

COLORADO
Alderwoods (Colorado), Inc.

CONNECTICUT
Alderwoods (Connecticut), Inc.

DELAWARE
Administration Services, Inc.
Alderwoods (Commissioner), Inc.
Alderwoods (Mississippi), Inc.
American Burial and Cremation Centers, Inc.
H.P. Brandt Funeral Home, Inc.
Lienkaemper Chapels, Inc.
Osiris Holding Corporation

FLORIDA
Coral Ridge Funeral Home and Cemetery, Inc.

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Funeral Services Acquisition Group, Inc.
Garden Sanctuary Acquisition, Inc.
Kadek Enterprises of Florida, Inc.
Levitt Weinstein Memorial Chapels, Inc.
MHI Group, Inc.
Naples Memorial Gardens, Inc.
Osiris Holding of Florida, Inc.
Security Trust Plans, Inc.

GEORGIA
Advanced Planning of Georgia, Inc.
Alderwoods (Georgia), Inc.
Alderwoods (Georgia) Holdings, Inc.
Green Lawn Cemetery Corporation
Poteet Holdings, Inc.
Southeastern Funeral Homes, Inc.

IDAHO
Alderwoods (Idaho), Inc.

ILLINOIS
Alderwoods (Chicago Central), Inc.
Alderwoods (Chicago North), Inc.
Alderwoods (Chicago South), Inc.
Alderwoods (Illinois), Inc.
Chapel Hill Memorial Gardens & Funeral Home Ltd.
Chicago Cemetery Corporation
Elmwood Acquisition Corporation
Mount Auburn Memorial Park, Inc.
Pineview Memorial Park, Inc.
Ridgewood Cemetery Company, Inc.
Ruzich Funeral Home, Inc.
The Oak Woods Cemetery Association
Woodlawn Cemetery of Chicago, Inc.
Woodlawn Memorial Park, Inc.

INDIANA
Advance Planning of America, Inc.
Alderwoods (Indiana), Inc.
Ruzich Funeral Home, Inc.

IOWA
Alderwoods (Iowa), Inc.

KANSAS
Alderwoods (Kansas), Inc.

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KENTUCKY
Alderwoods (Partner), Inc.

LOUISIANA
Alderwoods (Louisiana), Inc.

MARYLAND
Alderwoods (Maryland), Inc.

MASSACHUSETTS
Alderwoods (Massachusetts), Inc.

MICHIGAN
Alderwoods (Michigan), Inc.
AMG, Inc.
WMP, Inc.

MINNESOTA
Alderwoods (Minnesota), Inc.

MISSISSIPPI
Family Care, Inc.
Stephens Funeral Fund, Inc.

MISSOURI
Alderwoods (Missouri), Inc.

MONTANA
Alderwoods (Montana), Inc.

NEVADA
Alderwoods (Nevada), Inc.

NEW HAMPSHIRE
Robert Douglas Goundrey Funeral Home, Inc.
St. Laurent Funeral Home, Inc.
ZS Acquisition, Inc.

NEW MEXICO
Alderwoods (New Mexico), Inc.

NEW YORK
Alderwoods (New York), Inc.
Northeast Monument Company, Inc.

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NORTH CAROLINA
Alderwoods (North Carolina), Inc.
Carothers Holding Company, Inc.
Lineberry Group Inc.
MFH, L.L.C.
Reeves, Inc.
Westminster Gardens, Inc.

OHIO
Alderwoods (Ohio) Cemetery Management, Inc.
Alderwoods (Ohio) Funeral Home, Inc.

OKLAHOMA
Alderwoods (Oklahoma), Inc.

OREGON
Alderwoods (Oregon), Inc.
The Portland Memorial, Inc.
Universal Memorial Centers I, Inc.
Universal Memorial Centers II, Inc.
Universal Memorial Centers III, Inc.

PENNSYLVANIA
Alderwoods (Pennsylvania), Inc.
Bright Undertaking Company
H. Samson, Inc.
Knee Funeral Home of Wilkinsburg, Inc.
Nineteen Thirty-Five Holdings, Inc.
Oak Woods Management Company

RHODE ISLAND
Alderwoods (Rhode Island), Inc.

SOUTH CAROLINA
Alderwoods (South Carolina), Inc.
Graceland Cemetery Development Co.

TENNESSEE
Alderwoods (Tennessee), Inc.
Eagle Financial Associates, Inc.

TEXAS
Alderwoods (Texas) Cemetery, Inc.
CHMP Holdings, Inc.
Del Rio Memorial Park, Inc.
DHFH Holdings, Inc.

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DHNC Holdings, Inc.
Directors Cemetery (Texas), Inc.
DSP General Partner, Inc.
Earthman Cemetery Holdings, Inc.
Earthman Holdings, Inc.
EDSB Holdings, Inc.
HFCC Holdings, Inc.
HFJC Holdings, Inc.
HFSC Holdings, Inc.
Panola County Restland Memorial Park, Inc.
Pioneer Funeral Plans, Inc.
Travis Land Company
Tyler Memorial Funeral Home and Chapel, Inc.
Waco Memorial Park

VIRGINIA
Alderwoods (Virginia), Inc.

WASHINGTON
Alderwoods (Washington), Inc.
Evergreen Funeral Home and Cemetery, Inc.
Green Service Corporation
S&H Properties and Enterprises, Inc.
Vancouver Funeral Chapel, Inc.

WEST VIRGINIA
Alderwoods (West Virginia), Inc.

WISCONSIN
Alderwoods (Wisconsin), Inc.
Northern Land Company, Inc.

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                                     ANNEX B

CALIFORNIA
A.L. Cemetery
Colton Funeral Chapel, Inc.
Custer Christiansen Covina Mortuary, Inc.
Dimond Service Corporation
Glasband-Malinow-Weinstein Mortuary, Inc.
Glasband-Willen Mortuaries
Grove Colonial Mortuary, Inc.
Harbor Lawn Memorial Park, Inc.
Home of Peace Memorial Park and Mausoleum, Inc.
Neel Funeral Directors, Inc.
RH Mortuary Corporation
Richardson-Peterson Mortuary, Inc.
San Fernando Mortuary, Inc.
White Funeral Home, Inc.
Workman Mill Investment Company

DELAWARE
RH Cemetery Corp.
RH Satellite Properties Corp.
Rose Hills Company
Rose Hills Holdings Corp.

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