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                                                                     Exhibit 4.2
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                       364-DAY REVOLVING CREDIT AGREEMENT

                           Dated as of August 15, 2000

                                      among

                       THE GOODYEAR TIRE & RUBBER COMPANY,

                            THE LENDERS NAMED HEREIN,

                                       and

                            THE CHASE MANHATTAN BANK
                                    as Agent

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                              CHASE SECURITIES INC.
                acted as Advisor, Lead Arranger and Book Manager

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                                                        [CS&M Ref. No. 6700-240]

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                                TABLE OF CONTENTS

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        I.        DEFINITIONS............................................................................1

                  1.01.    Defined Terms.................................................................1
                  1.02.    Terms Generally..............................................................11

       II.        THE CREDITS...........................................................................12

                  2.01.    Commitments..................................................................12
                  2.02.    Loans........................................................................12
                  2.03.    Competitive Bid Procedure....................................................13
                  2.04.    Standard Borrowing Procedure.................................................15
                  2.05.    Refinancings.................................................................16
                  2.06.    Fees.........................................................................16
                  2.07.    Repayment of Loans; Evidence of Debt; Conversion and
                           Continuation of Standard Borrowings..........................................17
                  2.08.    Interest on Loans............................................................20
                  2.09.    Default Interest.............................................................21
                  2.10.    Unavailability of LIBO Rate and CD Rate Quotations...........................21
                  2.11.    Termination, Reduction, Extension and Addition of
                           Commitments..................................................................21
                  2.12.    Prepayment...................................................................22
                  2.13.    Reserve Requirements; Change in Circumstances................................23
                  2.14.    Change in Legality...........................................................25
                  2.15.    Pro Rata Treatment...........................................................25
                  2.16.    Payments.....................................................................26
                  2.17.    Taxes........................................................................26
                  2.18.    Termination or Assignment of Commitments.....................................28

      III.        REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES........................................................28

       IV.        CONDITIONS OF LENDING.................................................................29

                  4.01.    All Borrowings...............................................................29
                  4.02.    First Borrowing..............................................................30

        V.        AFFIRMATIVE COVENANTS.................................................................30

       VI.        NEGATIVE COVENANTS....................................................................32

      VII.        EVENTS OF DEFAULT.....................................................................33

     VIII.        THE AGENT.............................................................................35
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       IX.        MISCELLANEOUS.........................................................................37

                  9.01.    Notices......................................................................37
                  9.02.    Survival of Agreement........................................................38
                  9.03.    Binding Effect; Successors and Assigns.......................................38
                  9.04.    Applicable Law...............................................................38
                  9.05.    Waivers; Amendment...........................................................38
                  9.06.    Interest Rate Limitation.....................................................39
                  9.07.    Entire Agreement.............................................................39
                  9.08.    Information; Access and Confidentiality......................................39
                  9.09.    Severability.................................................................40
                  9.10.    Counterparts.................................................................40
                  9.11.    Headings.....................................................................40
                  9.12.    Jurisdiction; Consent to Service of Process..................................40
                  9.13.    Stamp Taxes..................................................................41
                  9.14.    Change of Control Option.....................................................41

Exhibit A-1                  Form of Competitive Bid Request
Exhibit A-2                  Form of Notice of Competitive Bid Request
Exhibit A-3                  Form of Competitive Bid
Exhibit A-4                  Form of Competitive Bid Accept/Reject Letter
Exhibit A-5                  Form of Standard Borrowing Request
Exhibit B                    Form of Opinion of Counsel
Exhibit C                    Form of Schedule of Compliance
Exhibit D                    Form of Agreement Providing for Additional Lender
Exhibit E                    Form of Promissory Note to Facilitate Assignments to Federal
                             Reserve Banks
Schedule 2.01                Commitments; Addresses for Notices and  Reserve Percentages.
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                                    364-DAY REVOLVING CREDIT AGREEMENT dated as
                  of August 15, 2000, among THE GOODYEAR TIRE & RUBBER COMPANY,
                  an Ohio corporation (the "Borrower"), the lenders listed in
                  Schedule 2.01 (the "Lenders") and THE CHASE MANHATTAN BANK, a
                  New York banking corporation, as administrative agent for the
                  Lenders (in such capacity, the "Agent").

                  The Borrower has requested the Lenders to extend credit to the
Borrower in order to enable it to borrow on a standby revolving credit basis on
and after the date hereof and at any time and from time to time prior to the
Commitment Termination Date (as herein defined), and thereafter to have
outstanding prior to the Maturity Date, a principal amount not in excess of
$750,000,000 at any time outstanding. The Borrower has also requested the
Lenders to provide a procedure pursuant to which the Borrower may invite the
Lenders to bid on an uncommitted basis on borrowings by the Borrower. The
Lenders are willing to extend such credit to the Borrower on the terms and
subject to the conditions herein set forth.

                  Accordingly, the Borrower, the Lenders and the Agent agree as
follows:

ARTICLE I.  DEFINITIONS

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

                  "ABR BORROWING" shall mean a Borrowing comprised of ABR Loans.

                  "ABR LOAN" shall mean any Standard Loan bearing interest at a
rate determined by reference to the Alternate Base Rate in accordance with the
provisions of Article II.

                  "ADJUSTED CD RATE" shall mean, with respect to any CD Loan,
the rate per annum (rounded upward, if necessary, to the nearest 1/1000th of 1%)
equivalent to the sum of (i) the quotient of (x) the CD Rate with respect to the
Interest Period in respect of such CD Loan, divided by (y) one minus the CD
Reserve Requirement of the applicable Lender, if any, PLUS (ii) the Assessment
Rate of the applicable Lender, if any. The Adjusted CD Rate shall be determined
as of the first day of, and shall remain constant throughout, the applicable
Interest Period.

                  "ADJUSTED LIBO RATE" shall mean, with respect to any
Eurodollar Loan, the rate per annum (expressed as a percentage rounded upward,
if necessary, to the nearest 1/1000th of 1%) equivalent to the sum of (i) the
quotient of (x) the LIBO Rate for the Interest Period in respect of such
Eurodollar Loan, divided by (y) one minus the Eurodollar Reserve Requirement, if
any. The Adjusted LIBO Rate shall be the rate appropriately determined to be in
effect on the first day of, and shall remain constant throughout, such Interest
Period. The Eurodollar Reserve Requirement shall be determined as at the first
day of, and shall remain constant throughout, such Interest Period.

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                  "ADMINISTRATIVE FEES" shall have the meaning assigned to such
term in Section 2.06(c).

                  "ALTERNATE BASE RATE" shall mean, for any day, a rate per
annum (rounded upwards, if necessary, to the next 1/16 of 1%) equal to the
greater of (a) the Prime Rate in effect on such day and (b) the Federal Funds
Effective Rate in effect on such day plus 1/2 of 1%. For purposes hereof, "PRIME
RATE" shall mean the rate of interest per annum publicly announced from time to
time by the Agent as its prime rate in effect at its principal office in New
York City; each change in the Prime Rate shall be effective on the date such
change is publicly announced as effective. "FEDERAL FUNDS EFFECTIVE RATE" shall
mean, for any day, the weighted average of the rates on overnight Federal funds
transactions with members of the Federal Reserve System arranged by Federal
funds brokers, as published on the next succeeding Business Day by the Federal
Reserve Bank of New York, or, if such rate is not so published for any day which
is a Business Day, the average of the quotations for the day of such
transactions received by the Agent from three Federal funds brokers of
recognized standing selected by it. If for any reason the Agent shall have
determined (which determination shall be conclusive absent manifest error) that
it is unable to ascertain the Federal Funds Effective Rate for any reason,
including the inability or failure of the Agent to obtain sufficient quotations
in accordance with the terms thereof, the Alternate Base Rate shall be
determined without regard to clause (b) of the first sentence of this definition
until the circumstances giving rise to such inability no longer exist. Any
change in the Alternate Base Rate due to a change in the Prime Rate or the
Federal Funds Effective Rate shall be effective on the effective date of such
change in the Prime Rate or the Federal Funds Effective Rate, respectively.

                  "ANNUAL PERIOD" shall mean a period of four complete,
consecutive fiscal quarters of the Borrower, taken together and constituting one
accounting period.

                  "ASSESSMENT RATE" shall mean, at any date as of which any
determination thereof is being or to be made and with respect to any CD Loan and
the applicable Interest Period in respect of which any determination thereof is
being or to be made, the aggregate of the net annual assessment rates or similar
fees or charges (expressed on a per annum percentage basis, rounded upward, if
necessary, to the nearest 1/1000th of 1%), if any, paid by the Lender making
such Loan on its Dollar time deposits in the United States of America insured by
the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (or any successor agency) or any other
Governmental Body which has general jurisdiction over such Lender and such
rates, fees or charges, if any, are measured with respect to Dollar time
deposits (including certificates of deposit and equivalent instruments) with
such Lender in the United States of America; such rates, fees or charges, if
any, shall be determined by annualizing the then most recent assessment rates or
similar fees or charges levied on such Lender by said Corporation or other
Governmental Body with respect to such Dollar time deposits evidenced by
certificates of deposit or equivalent instruments in amounts and for periods
substantially equal to the applicable Interest Period.

                  "AUTHORIZED OFFICER" shall mean (i) any of the Chairman of the
Board, any Vice Chairman of the Board, any President, any Executive Vice
President, any Senior Vice President, any Vice President and the Treasurer of
the Borrower, and (ii) in respect of all matters relating to this Agreement
other than the execution and delivery of this Agreement, the Secretary, any
Assistant Treasurer or any Assistant Secretary of the Borrower and any other
person designated in writing by any officer specified in clause (i) above as
duly authorized to act on behalf of the Borrower hereunder.

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                  "BOARD" shall mean the Board of Governors of the Federal
Reserve System of the United States.

                  "BORROWING" shall mean a group of Loans of a single Type made
by the Lenders (or, in the case of a Competitive Borrowing, by the Lender or
Lenders whose Competitive Bids have been accepted pursuant to Section 2.03) on a
single date and as to which a single Interest Period is in effect.

                  "BUSINESS DAY" shall mean any day (other than a day which is a
Saturday, Sunday or legal holiday in the State of New York) on which banks are
open for business in New York City; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that, when used in
connection with a Eurodollar Loan, the term "Business Day" shall also exclude
any day on which banks are not open for dealings in Dollar deposits in the
London interbank market.

                  "CD BORROWING" shall mean a Borrowing comprised of CD Loans.

                  "CD LOAN" shall mean any Standard Loan bearing interest at a
rate determined by reference to the Adjusted CD Rate in accordance with the
provisions of Article II.

                  "CD RATE" shall mean with respect to any CD Borrowing for any
Interest Period, the rate of interest (expressed as an annual rate) equal to the
arithmetic average (expressed as a percentage rounded upward, if necessary, to
the nearest 1/1000th of 1%) of the rates specified as (x) the "Average" rate and
(y) the "Secondary CD" rate, each such rate to be in respect of certificates of
deposits or similar instruments having a maturity which is equal or
substantially equal to such Interest Period, which rates appear on the display
designated as page "CDNY" on the Reuter System (or on such other display on the
Reuter System as shall then display rates for the purchase at face value of
certificates of deposit or equivalent instruments) at 10:00 a.m., New York City
time, on the first day of such Interest Period; PROVIDED, THAT, if no rates can
be obtained from page "CDNY" of the Reuter System (or such other display), CD
Rate shall be equal to the rate set forth under the caption "Certificates of
Deposit" in the daily statistical release published by the Federal Reserve Bank
of New York entitled "Composite 3:30 p.m. Quotations for U.S. Government
Securities", or any successor publication (the "Composite Quotations"), for the
first day of such Interest Period in respect of certificates of deposit having a
maturity substantially equal to such Interest Period; PROVIDED, FURTHER, that if
no rates are available from the Reuter System or the Composite Quotations, or
the Agent or the Borrower shall in good faith reasonably determine (and promptly
give notice to the other party of such determination) that the CD Rate in
respect of such Interest Period determined as aforesaid is materially higher (as
reasonably determined by the Borrower) or lower (as reasonably determined by the
Agent) than the prevailing rate of interest the Agent is required to pay to
acquire funds evidenced by non-negotiable certificates of deposit in amounts of
$1,000,000 or more for a period substantially equal to such Interest Period,
then, in any such event, CD Rate shall mean, with respect to such Interest
Period and to the applicable CD Borrowing, the arithmetic average (expressed as
a percentage rounded upward, if necessary, to the nearest 1/1000th of 1%) of the
offered rates (each expressed as a per annum rate) offered by leading New York
City dealers in negotiable certificates of deposit at 10:30 a.m., New York City
time, on the first day of such Interest Period for the purchase at face value
from the Agent of negotiable certificates of deposit or equivalent instruments
in amounts of $1,000,000 or more for the period of, or for a period comparable
or substantially equal to, such Interest Period.

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                  "CD RESERVE REQUIREMENT" shall mean, at any date as of which
any determination thereof is being or to be made and with respect to any CD Loan
and the applicable Interest Period in respect of which any determination thereof
is being or to be made, the amount (expressed as a decimal, rounded upward, if
necessary, to six decimal places) equal to the sum of (i) the aggregate of all
reserve requirements (including, without duplication, all basic, supplemental,
marginal and other reserves) in effect on such date (as established under
Regulation D of the Board, or any other regulation of the Board which prescribes
reserve requirements applicable to non-personal time deposits then in effect and
applicable to the Lender making such Loan), on Dollar non-personal time deposits
in the United States of the type used as a reference in determining the CD Rate
and having a maturity equal or comparable to the applicable Interest Period, as
and to the extent that such Lender is subject to such requirements, and (ii) the
aggregate of all reserve or similar requirements of any other Governmental Body
having jurisdiction over such Lender in respect of such Dollar non-personal time
deposits in the United States having a maturity equal or comparable to the
applicable Interest Period.

                  "CLOSING DATE" shall mean August 15, 2000.

                  "CODE" shall mean the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as the
same may be amended from time to time.

                  "COMMITMENT" shall mean, with respect to each Lender, the
commitment of such Lender hereunder as set forth in Schedule 2.01 hereto, as
such Lender's Commitment may be permanently terminated or reduced from time to
time pursuant to Section 2.11. Schedule 2.01 will be deemed to have been
appropriately amended to reflect any addition of a Commitment pursuant to
Section 2.11(d), assignment pursuant to Section 9.03 or termination or reduction
of any Commitment.

                  "COMMITMENT TERMINATION DATE" shall mean August 14, 2001, or
any date to which the Commitment Termination Date shall have been extended
pursuant to Section 2.11(e).

                  "COMPETITIVE BID" shall mean an offer by a Lender to make a
Competitive Loan pursuant to Section 2.03.

                  "COMPETITIVE BID ACCEPT/REJECT LETTER" shall mean a
notification made by the Borrower pursuant to Section 2.03(d) in the form of
Exhibit A-4.

                  "COMPETITIVE BID RATE" shall mean, as to any Competitive Bid
made by a Lender pursuant to Section 2.03(b), (i) in the case of a Eurodollar
Loan, the Margin, and (ii) in the case of a Fixed Rate Loan, the fixed rate of
interest offered by the Lender making such Competitive Bid.

                  "COMPETITIVE BID REQUEST" shall mean a request made pursuant
to Section 2.03 in the form of Exhibit A-1.

                  "COMPETITIVE BORROWING" shall mean a borrowing consisting of a
Competitive Loan or concurrent Competitive Loans from the Lender or Lenders
whose Competitive Bids for such Borrowing have been accepted by the Borrower
under the bidding procedure described in Section 2.03.

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                  "COMPETITIVE LOAN" shall mean a Loan from a Lender to the
Borrower pursuant to the bidding procedure described in Section 2.03. Each
Competitive Loan shall be a Eurodollar Competitive Loan or a Fixed Rate Loan.

                  "CONSOLIDATED" shall refer to the consolidation of the
accounts of the Borrower and the Subsidiaries in accordance with generally
accepted accounting principles, including principles of consolidation.

                  "CONSOLIDATED DEBT" shall mean, as at the date as of which any
determination thereof is being or to be made, Debt of the Borrower and the
Subsidiaries, without duplication, determined on a Consolidated basis in
accordance with generally accepted accounting principles.

                  "CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS OF THE BORROWER" shall mean
the Consolidated balance sheet of the Borrower and Subsidiaries as at December
31, 1999 and 1998 and the Consolidated statements of income, shareholders'
equity and cash flows for each of the three years in the period ended December
31, 1999, and the Notes to Financial Statements in respect thereof, together
with the Report of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, independent accountants, in
respect thereof, all as set forth at pages 52 through 82, inclusive, of the
Annual Report on Form 10-K for the Borrower for the year ended December 31,
1999, a copy of which has heretofore been delivered to each of the Lenders.

                  "CONSOLIDATED INTEREST EXPENSE" shall mean, with respect to
any Annual Period in respect of which a determination thereof is being or to be
made, without duplication and excluding intercorporate transactions among the
Borrower and the Subsidiaries, the sum of (i) Consolidated interest accrued in
respect of all Consolidated Debt of the Borrower and the Subsidiaries during
such Annual Period, whether or not paid and whether expensed or capitalized,
calculated and determined after giving effect, as and to the extent permitted by
generally accepted accounting principles, to any amounts paid or received by the
Borrower or the Subsidiaries under interest rate exchange and similar agreements
and arrangements which are intended to hedge or limit interest rates and
expenses, PLUS (ii) amortization of debt expense and discount or premium
relating to any such Debt (including and giving effect to any similar amounts
paid or received by the Borrower and the Subsidiaries under any such interest
rate exchange or similar agreement or arrangement) during such period, whether
or not paid and whether expensed or capitalized, PLUS (iii) the portion of
rental expense payable during such period pursuant to all capital lease
obligations (which are recorded as Debt) representing imputed interest recorded
in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles.

                  "CONSOLIDATED NET WORTH" shall mean, as at the end of any
fiscal quarter in respect of which a determination thereof is being or to be
made, the Consolidated stated capital, surplus and retained earnings of the
Borrower and the Subsidiaries, before (i) foreign currency translation
adjustment and (ii) the effect (on such retained earnings) of the recognition of
the one time charge for the "transition obligation" of the Borrower and the
Subsidiaries upon the Borrower's adoption of, and under and in accordance with
the applicable provisions of, Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No.
106, "Employers' Accounting for Postretirement Benefits other than Pensions" in
1992.

                  "CONSOLIDATED OPERATING INCOME" shall mean, with respect to
any Annual Period in respect of which a determination thereof is being or to be
made, the

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Consolidated net sales of the Borrower and the Subsidiaries for such Annual
Period, PLUS other income, MINUS cost of goods sold and selling, administrative
and general expense properly attributable to continuing operations of the
Borrower and the Subsidiaries for such Annual Period.

                  "DEBT" shall mean and shall include, as at the date as of
which any determination thereof is being or is to be made and in respect of any
Person, without duplication and excluding in the case of the Borrower and the
Subsidiaries intercorporate debt and other intercorporate obligations solely
among the Borrower and the Subsidiaries, all (i) indebtedness of such Person for
borrowed money, (ii) obligations of such Person evidenced by bonds, debentures,
notes or other similar instruments, (iii) obligations of such Person to pay the
deferred purchase price of property or services under conditional sales or other
similar agreements which provide for the deferral of the payment of the purchase
price for a period in excess of one year following the date of such Person's
receipt and acceptance of the complete delivery of such property and/or
services, (iv) obligations of such Person as lessee under leases which
obligations are, in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles,
recorded as capital lease obligations, and (v) obligations of such Person under
direct or indirect guaranties in respect of, and obligations (contingent or
otherwise) of such Person to purchase or otherwise acquire, indebtedness or
obligations of others of the kinds referred to in clauses (i) through (iv)
above. Whenever any determination of the amount of Debt (or of Consolidated Debt
or Funded Debt) is required or permitted to be, or is otherwise being or to be,
made for any purpose under this Agreement, the amount of any such Debt
denominated in any currency other than Dollars shall be calculated at the Dollar
Equivalent of such Debt as at the date as of which such determination of the
amount of Debt is being or to be made, except that, if all or any portion of the
principal amount of any such Debt which is payable in a currency other than
Dollars is hedged into Dollars, the principal amount of such hedged Debt, or the
hedged portion thereof, shall be deemed to be equal to the amount of Dollars
specified in, or determined pursuant to, the applicable hedging contract.

                  "DOLLAR EQUIVALENT" shall mean, in respect of any amount of
any currency, and as at the date and time as of which any determination thereof
is being or to be made, that number of Dollars into which such amount of
currency may be converted on such date, which shall be equal to the product of
(a) the principal amount of such currency (expressed in standard units of such
currency) multiplied by (b) the prevailing spot rate for exchanging such
currency into Dollars as quoted on page "Spot" of the Reuter System as at such
date and time as of which the determination of Dollar Equivalent is being or to
be made, or, if no rate is quoted in respect of such currency on the Reuter
System display designated page "Spot" as at such date and time, the prevailing
spot rate for exchanging such currency into Dollars in the New York City foreign
currency exchange market (or, if a more substantial and liquid market for the
exchange of such currency, the London currency exchange market or the currency
exchange market in the principal financial center of such currency) as at such
date and time.

                  "DOLLARS" or "$" shall mean lawful money of the United States
of America.

                  "ERISA" shall mean the Employee Retirement Income Security Act
of 1974, as the same may be amended from time to time, and the regulations
promulgated and the rulings issued thereunder.

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                  "ERISA LIABILITIES" shall mean, as at the date as of which any
determination in respect thereof is being or to be made, the minimum liability
with respect to Plans which would be required to be reflected at such time as a
liability on the Consolidated balance sheet of the Borrower and the Subsidiaries
under paragraphs 36 and 70 of Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No. 87
as such statement may from time to time be amended, modified or supplemented, or
under any successor statement issued in replacement thereof.

                  "EURODOLLAR BORROWING" shall mean a Borrowing comprised of
Eurodollar Loans.

                  "EURODOLLAR COMPETITIVE LOAN" shall mean any Competitive Loan
bearing interest at a rate determined by reference to the LIBO Rate in
accordance with the provisions of Article II.

                  "EURODOLLAR LOAN" shall mean any Eurodollar Competitive Loan
or Eurodollar Standard Loan.

                  "EURODOLLAR RESERVE REQUIREMENT" shall mean, at any date as of
which any determination thereof is being or to be made and with respect to any
Eurodollar Loan and the applicable Interest Period in respect of which any
determination thereof is being or to be made, the amount (expressed as a
decimal, rounded upward, if necessary, to six decimal places) of the applicable
statutory reserve or similar requirements (including, without duplication, all
basic, supplemental, marginal, emergency, special and other reserves), if any,
on Eurodollar deposits applicable to and imposed upon the applicable Lender from
time to time under regulations issued from time to time by the Board (or any
successor) for determining the minimum reserve requirement (including, without
limitation, any such reserve requirements under Regulation D of the Board and
any emergency, supplemental or other marginal reserve requirements), or by any
other Governmental Body having jurisdiction over such Lender, applicable to such
Lender with respect to liabilities or assets consisting of or including
Eurocurrency liabilities (as defined in Regulation D of the Board, as in effect
from time to time) having a term substantially equal to such Interest Period.

                  "EURODOLLAR STANDARD LOAN" shall mean any Standard Loan
bearing interest at a rate determined by reference to the LIBO Rate in
accordance with the provisions of Article II.

                  "EVENT OF DEFAULT" shall have the meaning assigned to such
term in Article VII.

                  "EXCHANGE ACT" shall mean the Securities Exchange Act of 1934,
as amended, and any successor Federal statute.

                  "FACILITY FEE" shall have the meaning assigned to such term in
Section 2.06(a).

                  "FEES" shall mean the Facility Fee, the Utilization Fee and
the Administrative Fees.

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                  "FIXED RATE BORROWING" shall mean a Borrowing comprised of
Fixed Rate Loans.

                  "FIXED RATE LOAN" shall mean any Competitive Loan bearing
interest at a fixed percentage rate per annum (expressed in the form of a
decimal to no more than four decimal places) specified by the Lender making such
Loan in its Competitive Bid.

                  "FUNDED DEBT" shall mean and include, as at any date as of
which any determination thereof is being or to be made, any Debt of the Borrower
which by its terms (i) matures more than one year after the date on which it was
issued, incurred, assumed or guaranteed by the Borrower, or (ii) matures one
year or less after the date it was issued, incurred, guaranteed or assumed which
at such date may be renewed at the sole election or option of the Borrower so as
to mature more than one year after such date.

                  "GOVERNMENTAL BODY" shall mean the United States of America,
any State thereof, any other country or any political subdivision of such other
country, or any department, agency, commission, board, bureau or instrumentality
of the United States of America, any State thereof, any other country or
political subdivision of such other country or any subdivision of any of them,
and, to the extent the term is used in respect of the Agent or any Lender, any
quasi-governmental body, agency or authority (including any central bank)
exercising regulatory authority over the Agent or any Lender pursuant to
applicable law in respect of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement.

                  "INTEREST PAYMENT DATE" shall mean, with respect to any Loan,
the last day of the Interest Period applicable thereto and, in the case of a
Eurodollar Loan with an Interest Period of more than three months' duration or a
Fixed Rate Loan or a CD Loan with an Interest Period of more than 90 days'
duration, each day that would have been an Interest Payment Date for such Loan
had successive Interest Periods of three months' duration or 90 days' duration,
as the case may be, been applicable to such Loan and, in addition, the date of
any refinancing or conversion of such Loan with or to a Loan of a different
Type.

                  "INTEREST PERIOD" shall mean (a) as to any Eurodollar
Borrowing, the period commencing on the date of such Borrowing or on the last
day of the immediately preceding Interest Period applicable to such Borrowing,
as the case may be, and ending on the numerically corresponding day (or, if
there is no numerically corresponding day, on the last day) in the calendar
month that is 1, 2, 3, 6 or 12 months thereafter (or, in the case of a
Eurodollar Competitive Borrowing, on any day that is 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9,
10, 11 or 12 months thereafter), as the Borrower may elect, (b) as to any CD
Borrowing, a period of 30, 60, 90, 180 or 360 days' duration, as the Borrower
may elect, commencing on the date of such Borrowing, (c) as to any ABR
Borrowing, the period commencing on the date of such Borrowing and ending on the
date 90 days thereafter or, if earlier, on the Maturity Date or the date of
prepayment of such Borrowing and (d) as to any Fixed Rate Borrowing, the period
commencing on the date of such Borrowing and ending on the date specified in the
Competitive Bids in which the offers to make the Fixed Rate Loans comprising
such Borrowing were extended, which shall not be earlier than seven days after
the date of such Borrowing or later than the Maturity Date; PROVIDED, HOWEVER,
that if any Interest Period would end on a day other than a Business Day, such
Interest Period shall be extended to the next succeeding Business Day unless, in
the case of Eurodollar Loans only, such next succeeding Business Day would fall
in the next calendar month, in which case such Interest Period shall end on the
next preceding Business Day. Interest

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shall accrue from and including the first day of an Interest Period to but
excluding the last day of such Interest Period.

                  "LIBO RATE" means, with respect to any Interest Period
relating to a Eurodollar Loan, the rate of interest (expressed as an annual
rate) equal to the British Bankers Association (the "BBA") interest settlement
rate for United States Dollars (the "BBA Interest Settlement Rate for USD") for
a period substantially equal to such Interest Period as quoted on the Bloomberg
at index page 3745 of display "a M-Mkt BBAM" ("Bloomberg 3745") and/or at page
3750 of the Telerate Service ("Telerate 3750"), or at such page or display as
may replace Bloomberg 3745 or Telerate 3750, respectively, or on such other
service as may be nominated by the BBA as the information vendor for the purpose
of displaying the BBA Interest Settlement Rate for USD ("BBA Interest Settlement
Rate Screen"), for delivery on the first day of such Interest Period, such rate
to be established from the quote on Bloomberg 3745 or Telerate 3750 (it being
agreed that in the event of any inconsistency between the rate reported on
Bloomberg 3745 and Telerate 3750 the rates quoted on Bloomberg 3745 shall
control, save manifest error) at 11:00 a.m. (or as near as practicable thereto),
London time, two Business Days prior to the first day of such Interest Period
(which shall be a Business Day); PROVIDED, THAT, if no rate for the relevant
Interest Period is quoted on Bloomberg 3745, Telerate 3750, or any successor or
substitute BBA Interest Settlement Rate Screen, then the LIBO Rate shall be the
rate of interest (expressed as an annual rate) equal to the arithmetic average
(expressed as a percentage rounded upward, if necessary, to the nearest 1/1000th
of 1%) of the offered rates for deposits in Dollars for a period substantially
equal to such Interest Period of the banks whose rates appear on the display
designated as page "LIBO" on the Reuter System, or on such other display on the
Reuter System as shall then display the London interbank offered rates for
deposits in Dollars quoted by selected banks (page "LIBO" or such other display
being herein referred to as the "Reuter Screen"), for delivery on the first day
of such Interest Period, such rate to be established from quotes on the Reuter
Screen at (or as near to as practicable) 11:00 a.m. (London time) two Business
Days prior to the first day of such Interest Period (which shall be a Business
Day); PROVIDED FURTHER, THAT, if no rates can be obtained from the Reuter
Screen, the LIBO Rate shall be equal to the arithmetic average (expressed as a
percentage rounded upward, if necessary, to the nearest 1/1000th of 1%) of the
rates (expressed as annual rates) at which deposits in Dollars in amounts of
$5,000,000 or more for a period substantially equal to such Interest Period are
offered by the LIBOR Reference Banks to prime banks in the London interbank
market for delivery on the first day of such Interest Period, such rates to be
established from quotes obtained at (or as near as practicable to) 12:00 noon
(London time) two Business Days prior to the first day of such Interest Period
(which shall be a Business Day); PROVIDED FURTHER, THAT, if with respect to any
such Interest Period fewer than two LIBOR Reference Banks are offering
quotations, then the LIBO Rate shall be equal to the arithmetic average (rounded
upward, if necessary, to the nearest 1/1000th of 1%) of the rates (expressed as
annual rates) at which the Reference Banks are offered deposits in Dollars in
New York in amounts of $5,000,000 or more for delivery on the first day of such
Interest Period for a period substantially equal to the Interest Period by
leading banks in the New York interbank market as of 11:00 a.m. (New York time)
on the first day of such Interest Period (which shall be a business day). As
used herein, the term "LIBOR REFERENCE BANKS" shall mean Banque Nationale de
Paris, London, Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, London, Commerzbank
Aktiengesellschaft London, and Credit Suisse, London, Limited, and the term
"REFERENCE BANKS" shall mean Bank of America N.A., The Chase Manhattan Bank,
Citibank, N.A. and Morgan Guaranty Trust Company of New York.

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                  "LIEN" shall mean, with respect to any asset, (a) any
mortgage, deed of trust, lien, pledge, encumbrance, charge or security interest
in or on such asset or (b) the interest of a vendor or a lessor under any
conditional sale agreement, capital lease or title retention agreement relating
to such asset.

                  "LOAN" shall mean a Competitive Loan or a Standard Loan,
whether made as a Eurodollar Loan, a CD Loan, an ABR Loan or a Fixed Rate Loan,
as permitted hereby.

                  "MAJORITY LENDERS" shall mean, at any time, Lenders having
Commitments representing at least a majority of the Total Commitment.

                  "MANUFACTURING FACILITY" shall mean any plant, other facility
or equipment owned by the Borrower which is used primarily to manufacture
automotive or other products and is located within the United States of America,
but shall not include (i) retread plants, facilities or equipment, (ii) plants,
facilities or equipment which, in the opinion of the Board of Directors of the
Borrower, are not of material importance to the total business conducted by the
Borrower and the Subsidiaries, or (iii) plants, facilities or equipment which,
in the opinion of the Board of Directors of the Borrower, are used primarily for
transportation, marketing or warehousing.

                  "MARGIN" shall mean, as to any Eurodollar Competitive Loan,
the margin (expressed as a percentage rate per annum in the form of a decimal to
no more than four decimal places) to be added to or subtracted from the LIBO
Rate in order to determine the interest rate applicable to such Loan, as
specified in the Competitive Bid relating to such Loan.

                  "MATURITY DATE" shall mean the second anniversary of the
Commitment Termination Date.

                  "PERSON" shall mean any natural person, corporation, business
trust, joint venture, association, company, partnership or Governmental Body.

                  "PLAN" shall mean an employee benefit plan, other than a
Multiemployer Plan (as defined in Section 4001(a)(3) of ERISA), which (i) is
(or, in the event that any such plan has been terminated within five years of a
transaction described in Section 4069 of ERISA, was) maintained for employees of
the Borrower (or any trade or business which would be considered as under common
control with the Borrower within the meaning of Section 4001(b) of ERISA) and
subject to Title IV of ERISA, and (ii) has assets having an aggregate market
value in excess of $100,000,000.

                  "REQUIRED LENDERS" shall mean, at any time, Lenders having
Commitments representing at least two-thirds of the Total Commitment or, for
purposes of acceleration pursuant to clause (ii) of Article VII, Lenders holding
Loans representing at least two-thirds of the aggregate principal amount of the
Loans outstanding.

                  "REUTER SYSTEM" means the Reuter Money Service Monitor System.

                  "SCHEDULE OF COMPLIANCE" shall mean a Schedule of Compliance,
substantially in the form of Exhibit C, prepared by the Borrower and delivered
to the Lenders pursuant to subsection (c) of Article V.

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                  "STANDARD BORROWING" shall mean a borrowing consisting of
simultaneous Standard Loans from each of the Lenders.

                  "STANDARD BORROWING REQUEST" shall mean a request made
pursuant to Section 2.04 in the form of Exhibit A-5.

                  "STANDARD LOANS" shall mean the revolving loans made by the
Lenders to the Borrower pursuant to Section 2.04. Each Standard Loan shall be a
Eurodollar Standard Loan, a CD Loan or an ABR Loan.

                  "SUBSIDIARY" shall mean any corporation, partnership, limited
liability company, joint venture, trust or estate of which (or in which) more
than 50% of

                  (i) the outstanding capital stock having ordinary voting power
         to elect a majority of the board of directors of such corporation
         (irrespective of whether or not at the time capital stock of any other
         class or classes of such corporation shall or might have voting power
         upon the occurrence of any contingency),

                  (ii) the interest in the capital or profits of such
         partnership, limited liability company or joint venture, or

                  (iii) the beneficial interest of such trust or estate,

is at the time directly or indirectly owned by the Borrower, by the Borrower and
one or more other Subsidiaries, or by one or more other Subsidiaries.

                  "SUPPLEMENTAL AMOUNT" shall mean, as at the end of any fiscal
quarter of the Borrower in respect of which a determination thereof is being or
to be made, the Dollar amount (if a positive number), if any, which is equal to
the product of (x) the remainder obtained by subtracting $2.25 billion from the
Consolidated Net Worth of the Borrower as at the end of such fiscal quarter,
multiplied by (y) .50.

                  "TOTAL COMMITMENT" shall mean at any time the aggregate amount
of the Lenders' Commitments, as in effect at such time.

                  "TYPE", when used in respect of any Loan or Borrowing, shall
refer to the Rate by reference to which interest on such Loan or on the Loans
comprising such Borrowing is determined. For purposes hereof, "RATE" shall
include the LIBO Rate, the CD Rate, the Alternate Base Rate and the Fixed Rate.

                  "UTILIZATION FEE" shall have the meaning assigned to such term
in Section 2.06(b).

                  SECTION 1.02. TERMS GENERALLY. The definitions in Section 1.01
shall apply equally to both the singular and plural forms of the terms defined.
Whenever the context may require, any pronoun shall include the corresponding
masculine, feminine and neuter forms. The words "include", "includes" and
"including" shall be deemed to be followed by the phrase "without limitation".
All references herein to Articles, Sections, Exhibits and Schedules shall be
deemed references to Articles and Sections of, and Exhibits and Schedules to,
this Agreement unless the context shall otherwise require.

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Except as otherwise expressly provided herein, all terms of an accounting or
financial nature shall be construed in accordance with generally accepted
accounting principles in the United States, as in effect on the date of this
Agreement.

ARTICLE II.  THE CREDITS

                  SECTION 2.01. COMMITMENTS. Subject to the terms and conditions
and relying upon the representations and warranties herein set forth, each
Lender agrees, severally and not jointly, to make Standard Loans to the
Borrower, at any time and from time to time on and after the date hereof and
until (and including) the Commitment Termination Date or the date of any earlier
termination of the Commitment of such Lender, in an aggregate principal amount
at any time outstanding not to exceed such Lender's Commitment minus the amount
by which the Competitive Loans outstanding at such time shall be deemed to have
used such Commitment pursuant to Section 2.15, subject, however, to the
conditions that (a) at no time shall (i) the sum of (x) the outstanding
aggregate principal amount of all Standard Loans made by all Lenders plus (y)
the outstanding aggregate principal amount of all Competitive Loans made by all
Lenders exceed (ii) the Total Commitment and (b) except as otherwise provided in
Section 2.07(a), at all times the outstanding aggregate principal amount of all
Standard Loans made by each Lender shall equal the product of (i) the percentage
which its Commitment represents of the Total Commitment times (ii) the
outstanding aggregate principal amount of all Standard Loans made pursuant to
Section 2.04. Each Lender's Commitment is set forth opposite its respective name
in Schedule 2.01. Such Commitments may be terminated, reduced or extended from
time to time pursuant to Section 2.11.

                  Within the foregoing limits, the Borrower may borrow, pay or
prepay and reborrow hereunder, on and after the Closing Date and prior to the
Commitment Termination Date, subject to the terms, conditions and limitations
set forth herein.

                  SECTION 2.02. LOANS. (a) Each Standard Loan shall, except as
otherwise provided in Section 2.07(a), be made as part of a Borrowing consisting
of Loans made by the Lenders ratably in accordance with their Commitments;
PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that the failure of any Lender to make any Standard Loan
shall not in itself relieve any other Lender of its obligation to lend hereunder
(it being understood, however, that no Lender shall be responsible for the
failure of any other Lender to make any Loan required to be made by such other
Lender). Each Competitive Loan shall be made in accordance with the procedures
set forth in Section 2.03. The Standard Loans or Competitive Loans comprising
any Borrowing shall be in an aggregate principal amount which is an integral
multiple of $1,000,000 and not less than $25,000,000 in the case of Standard
Loans and $5,000,000 in the case of Competitive Loans (or an aggregate principal
amount equal to the remaining balance of the available Total Commitment).

                  (b) Each Competitive Borrowing shall be comprised entirely of
Eurodollar Competitive Loans or Fixed Rate Loans, and each Standard Borrowing
shall be comprised entirely of Eurodollar Standard Loans, CD Loans or ABR Loans,
as the Borrower may request pursuant to Section 2.03 or 2.04, as applicable.
Borrowings of more than one Type or of the same Type and having different
Interest Periods may be outstanding at the same time. For purposes of the
foregoing, Loans of different Types

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and Loans having different Interest Periods, regardless of whether they commence
on the same date, shall be considered separate Loans and separate Borrowings.

                  (c) Subject to Section 2.05, each Lender shall make each Loan
to be made by it hereunder on the proposed date thereof by wire transfer of
immediately available funds to the Agent in New York, New York, not later than
11:30 a.m., New York City time, and the Agent shall transfer the entire amount
received to the Borrower in Dollars in immediately available funds at the bank
and to the account designated by the Borrower as promptly as practicable and in
any event by such a time that such funds will be available for retransfer,
investment or other use by the Borrower on the borrowing date or, if a Borrowing
shall not occur on such date because any condition precedent herein specified
shall not have been met, return the amounts so received to the respective
Lenders. Competitive Loans shall be made by the Lender or Lenders whose
Competitive Bids therefor are accepted pursuant to Section 2.03 in the amounts
so accepted and Standard Loans shall be made by the Lenders pro rata in
accordance with Section 2.15. Unless the Agent shall have received notice from a
Lender prior to the date of any Borrowing that such Lender will not make
available to the Agent such Lender's portion of such Borrowing, the Agent may
assume that such Lender has made such portion available to the Agent on the date
of such Borrowing in accordance with this paragraph (c) and the Agent may, in
reliance upon such assumption, make available to the Borrower on such date a
corresponding amount. If and to the extent that such Lender shall not have made
such portion available to the Agent, such Lender and the Borrower severally
agree to repay to the Agent forthwith on demand such corresponding amount
together with interest thereon, for each day from the date such amount is made
available to the Borrower until the date such amount is repaid to the Agent at
the Federal Funds Effective Rate; PROVIDED that if such Lender does not pay such
principal amount to the Agent within five Business Days and the Borrower repays
such principal amount on the sixth Business Day, such Lender shall be
responsible for interest during such six Business Day period, provided that the
Agent, if it shall first have made demand on such Lender and shall not have
received payment, may recover such interest from the Borrower. If such Lender
shall pay to the Agent such corresponding amount within five Business Days, such
amount shall constitute such Lender's Loan as part of such Borrowing for
purposes of this Agreement.

                  (d) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement, the
Borrower shall not be entitled to request any Borrowing if the Interest Period
requested with respect thereto would end after the Maturity Date.

                  SECTION 2.03. COMPETITIVE BID PROCEDURE. (a) In order to
request Competitive Bids, the Borrower shall hand deliver or telecopy to the
Agent a duly completed Competitive Bid Request in the form of Exhibit A-1
hereto, to be received by the Agent (i) in the case of a Eurodollar Competitive
Borrowing, not later than 10:00 a.m., New York City time, four Business Days
before a proposed Competitive Borrowing and (ii) in the case of a Fixed Rate
Borrowing, not later than 10:00 a.m., New York City time, one Business Day
before a proposed Competitive Borrowing. No CD Loan or ABR Loan shall be
requested in, or made pursuant to, a Competitive Bid Request. A Competitive Bid
Request that does not conform substantially to the format of Exhibit A-1 may be
rejected in the Agent's sole discretion, and the Agent shall promptly notify the
Borrower of such rejection by telecopier. Such request shall in each case refer
to this Agreement and specify (x) whether the Borrowing then being requested is
to be a Eurodollar Borrowing or a Fixed Rate Borrowing, (y) the date of such
Borrowing (which shall be a Business Day) and the aggregate principal amount
thereof which shall be in a minimum

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principal amount of $25,000,000 and in an integral multiple of $1,000,000, and
(z) the Interest Period with respect thereto (which may not end after the
Maturity Date). Promptly after its receipt of a Competitive Bid Request that is
not rejected as aforesaid, the Agent shall invite by telecopier (in the form set
forth in Exhibit A-2 hereto) the Lenders to bid, on the terms and conditions of
this Agreement, to make Competitive Loans pursuant to the Competitive Bid
Request.

                  (b) Each Lender may, in its sole discretion, make one or more
Competitive Bids to the Borrower responsive to a Competitive Bid Request. Each
Competitive Bid by a Lender must be received by the Agent via telecopier, in the
form of Exhibit A-3 hereto, (i) in the case of a Eurodollar Competitive
Borrowing, not later than 9:30 a.m., New York City time, three Business Days
before a proposed Competitive Borrowing and (ii) in the case of a Fixed Rate
Borrowing, not later than 9:30 a.m., New York City time, on the day of a
proposed Competitive Borrowing. Multiple bids will be accepted by the Agent.
Competitive Bids that do not conform substantially to the format of Exhibit A-3
may be rejected by the Agent after conferring with, and upon the instruction of,
the Borrower, and the Agent shall notify the Lender making such nonconforming
bid of such rejection as soon as practicable. Each Competitive Bid shall refer
to this Agreement and specify (x) the principal amount (which shall be in a
minimum principal amount of $5,000,000 and in an integral multiple of $1,000,000
and which may equal the entire principal amount of the Competitive Borrowing
requested by the Borrower) of the Competitive Loan or Loans that the Lender is
willing to make to the Borrower, (y) the Competitive Bid Rate or Rates at which
the Lender is prepared to make the Competitive Loan or Loans and (z) the
Interest Period and the last day thereof. If any Lender shall elect not to make
a Competitive Bid, such Lender shall so notify the Agent via telecopier (I) in
the case of Eurodollar Competitive Loans, not later than 9:30 a.m., New York
City time, three Business Days before a proposed Competitive Borrowing, and (II)
in the case of Fixed Rate Loans, not later than 9:30 a.m., New York City time,
on the day of a proposed Competitive Borrowing; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that failure
by any Lender to give such notice shall not cause such Lender to be obligated to
make any Competitive Loan as part of such Competitive Borrowing. A Competitive
Bid submitted by a Lender pursuant to this paragraph (b) shall be irrevocable.

                  (c) The Agent shall promptly notify the Borrower by telecopier
of all the Competitive Bids made, the Competitive Bid Rate and the principal
amount of each Competitive Loan in respect of which a Competitive Bid was made
and the identity of the Lender that made each bid. The Agent shall send a copy
of all Competitive Bids to the Borrower for its records as soon as practicable
after completion of the bidding process set forth in this Section 2.03.

                  (d) The Borrower may in its sole and absolute discretion,
subject only to the provisions of this paragraph (d), accept or reject any
Competitive Bid referred to in paragraph (c) above (and the Competitive Bids
accepted need not be in any minimum aggregate amount except as provided below in
this paragraph). The Borrower shall notify the Agent by telephone, confirmed by
telecopier in the form of a Competitive Bid Accept/Reject Letter in the format
of Exhibit A-4, whether and to what extent it has decided to accept or reject
any of or all the bids referred to in paragraph (c) above, (x) in the case of a
Eurodollar Competitive Borrowing, not later than 10:30 a.m., New York City time,
three Business Days before a proposed Competitive Borrowing, and (y) in the case
of a Fixed Rate Borrowing, not later than 10:30 a.m., New York City time, on the
day of a proposed Competitive Borrowing; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that (i) the failure
by the

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Borrower to give such notice shall be deemed to be a rejection of all the bids
referred to in paragraph (c) above, (ii) the Borrower shall not accept a bid
made at a particular Competitive Bid Rate if the Borrower has decided to reject
a bid made at a lower Competitive Bid Rate, (iii) if the Borrower shall accept a
bid or bids made at a particular Competitive Bid Rate but the amount of such bid
or bids shall cause the total amount of bids to be accepted by the Borrower to
exceed the amount that the Borrower desires to borrow, then the Borrower shall
accept a portion of such bid or bids in an amount equal to the amount that the
Borrower desires to borrow less the amount of all other Competitive Bids
accepted with respect to such Competitive Bid Request, which acceptance, in the
case of multiple bids at such Competitive Bid Rate, shall be made pro rata in
accordance with the amount of each such bid at such Competitive Bid Rate, and
(iv) except pursuant to clause (iii) above, no bid shall be accepted for a
Competitive Loan unless such Competitive Loan is in a minimum principal amount
of $5,000,000 and an integral multiple of $1,000,000; PROVIDED FURTHER, HOWEVER,
that if a Competitive Loan must be in an amount less than $5,000,000 because of
the provisions of clause (iii) above, such Competitive Loan may be for a minimum
of $1,000,000 or any integral multiple thereof, and in calculating the pro rata
allocation of acceptances of portions of multiple bids at a particular
Competitive Bid Rate pursuant to clause (iv) the amounts shall be rounded to
integral multiples of $1,000,000 in a manner which shall be in the discretion of
the Borrower. The Borrower may accept Competitive Bids in an aggregate principal
amount in excess of the principal amount specified in the relevant Competitive
Bid Request. A notice given by the Borrower in the form of a Competitive Bid
Accept/Reject Letter pursuant to this paragraph (d) shall be irrevocable.

                  (e) The Agent shall promptly notify each bidding Lender
whether or not its Competitive Bid has been accepted (and if so, in what amount
and at what Competitive Bid Rate or Rates) by telecopy sent by the Agent, and
each successful bidder will thereupon become bound, subject to the other
applicable conditions hereof, to make the Competitive Loans in respect of which
its bid has been accepted.

                  (f) A Competitive Bid Request shall not be made within five
Business Days after the date of any previous Competitive Bid Request.

                  (g) If the Agent shall elect to submit a Competitive Bid in
its capacity as a Lender, it shall submit such bid directly to the Borrower one
quarter of an hour earlier than the latest time at which the other Lenders are
required to submit their bids to the Agent pursuant to paragraph (b) above.

                  (h) All notices required by this Section 2.03 shall be given
in accordance with Section 9.01.

                  SECTION 2.04. STANDARD BORROWING PROCEDURE. In order to
request a Standard Borrowing, the Borrower shall hand deliver or telecopy to the
Agent notice thereof in the form of Exhibit A-5 (a) in the case of a Eurodollar
Standard Borrowing, not later than 3:00 p.m., New York City time, three Business
Days before a proposed Borrowing, (b) in the case of a CD Borrowing, not later
than 10:30 a.m., New York City time, two Business Days before a proposed
Borrowing and (c) in the case of an ABR Borrowing, not later than 10:30 a.m.,
New York City time, on the day of a proposed Borrowing. No Fixed Rate Loan shall
be requested or made pursuant to a Standard Borrowing Request. Such notice shall
be irrevocable and shall in each case specify (i) whether the Borrowing then
being requested is to be a Eurodollar Standard Borrowing, a

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CD Borrowing or an ABR Borrowing; (ii) the date of such Standard Borrowing
(which shall be a Business Day) and the amount thereof; and (iii) if such
Borrowing is to be a Eurodollar Standard Borrowing or CD Borrowing, the Interest
Period with respect thereto. If no election as to the Type of Standard Borrowing
is specified in any such notice, then the requested Standard Borrowing shall be
an ABR Borrowing. If no Interest Period with respect to any Eurodollar Standard
Borrowing or CD Borrowing is specified in any such notice, then the Borrower
shall be deemed to have selected an Interest Period of one month's duration, in
the case of a Eurodollar Standard Borrowing, or 30 days' duration, in the case
of a CD Borrowing. If the Borrower shall not have given notice in accordance
with this Section 2.04 of its election to refinance a Standard Borrowing prior
to the end of the Interest Period in effect for such Borrowing, then the
Borrower shall (unless such Borrowing is repaid at the end of such Interest
Period) be deemed to have given notice of an election to refinance such
Borrowing with an ABR Borrowing and the Agent will advise the Borrower that such
notice has not been received (but shall not be liable to the Borrower for any
unintentional omission to do so). The Agent shall promptly advise the Lenders of
any notice given or deemed to have been given pursuant to this Section 2.04 and
of each Lender's portion of the requested Borrowing.

                  SECTION 2.05. REFINANCINGS. The Borrower may refinance all or
any part of any Borrowing with a Borrowing of the same or a different Type made
pursuant to Section 2.03 or Section 2.04, subject to the conditions and
limitations set forth herein and elsewhere in this Agreement, including
refinancings of Competitive Borrowings with Standard Borrowings and Standard
Borrowings with Competitive Borrowings. Any Borrowing or part thereof so
refinanced shall be deemed to be repaid in accordance with Section 2.07 with the
proceeds of a new Borrowing hereunder and the proceeds of the new Borrowing, to
the extent they do not exceed the principal amount of the Borrowing being
refinanced, shall not be paid by the Lenders to the Agent or by the Agent to the
Borrower pursuant to Section 2.02(c); PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that (i) if the
principal amount extended by a Lender in a refinancing is greater than the
principal amount extended by such Lender in the Borrowing being refinanced, then
such Lender shall pay such difference to the Agent for distribution to the
Lenders described in (ii) below, (ii) if the principal amount extended by a
Lender in the Borrowing being refinanced is greater than the principal amount
being extended by such Lender in the refinancing, the Agent shall return the
difference to such Lender out of amounts received pursuant to (i) above, and
(iii) to the extent any Lender fails to pay the Agent amounts due from it
pursuant to (i) above, any Loan or portion thereof being refinanced with such
amounts shall not be deemed repaid in accordance with Section 2.07 and shall be
payable by the Borrower.

                  SECTION 2.06. FEES. (a) The Borrower agrees to pay to each
Lender, through the Agent, on each March 31, June 30, September 30 and December
31, and on the Maturity Date or on any earlier date on which the Commitment of
such Lender shall have terminated and its outstanding Loans repaid, a facility
fee (a "FACILITY FEE") equal to 0.10% per annum on the amount of the Commitment
of such Lender, whether used or unused, or, following the Commitment Termination
Date, the amount of the outstanding Loans of such Lender, during the preceding
quarter (or shorter period commencing with the date hereof or ending with the
Maturity Date or the date of such termination and repayment). All Facility Fees
shall be computed on the basis of the actual number of days elapsed in a year of
365 or 366 days, as the case may be. The Facility Fee due to each Lender shall
commence to accrue on the date hereof and shall cease to accrue on the Maturity
Date or any earlier date on which the Commitment of such Lender shall have

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terminated (but shall in any event accrue until all Loans made by such Lender
have been repaid).

                  (b) The Borrower agrees to pay to each Lender, through the
Agent, on each March 31, June 30, September 30 and December 31 and on each date
on which the Commitment of such Lender shall be terminated or reduced as
provided herein, a utilization fee of .125% per annum (a "Utilization Fee") (i)
on such Lender's pro rata portion (based on the ratio of such Lender's
Commitment to the Total Commitment) of the aggregate principal amount of all of
the outstanding Loans for each day during the preceding quarter (or other period
commencing on the date hereof or ending with the Maturity Date or any date on
which the Commitment of such Lender shall be terminated and its outstanding
Loans repaid in full) on which the sum of the outstanding Loans, including
Competitive Loans, exceeds 50% of the Total Commitment and (ii) after the
termination of such Lender's Commitment (other than as a result of the
termination of the Commitments due to the occurrence of an Event of Default
under clause (a) or (b) of Article VII), on the principal amount of such
Lender's outstanding Loans. The Utilization Fee shall be computed on the basis
of the actual number of days elapsed in a year of 360 days. The Utilization Fee
due to each Lender shall be payable in arrears and shall commence to accrue on
the date hereof and cease to accrue on the earlier of the Maturity Date and the
date on which the Commitment of such Lender is terminated and its outstanding
Loans repaid in full as provided herein.

                  (c) The Borrower agrees to pay the Agent, for its own account,
agent and administrative fees (the "Administrative Fees") at the times and in
the amounts agreed upon in the letter agreement dated July 24, 2000, between the
Borrower and the Agent.

                  (d) All Fees shall be paid on the dates due, in immediately
available funds, to the Agent for distribution, if and as appropriate, among the
Lenders. Once paid, none of the Fees shall be refundable under any
circumstances.

                  SECTION 2.07. REPAYMENT OF LOANS; EVIDENCE OF DEBT; CONVERSION
AND CONTINUATION OF STANDARD BORROWINGS. (a) The outstanding principal balance
of each Competitive Loan and Standard Loan shall be payable on the last day of
the Interest Period applicable to such Loan prior to the Commitment Termination
Date and on the Commitment Termination Date applicable to the Lender making such
Loan; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that if the Borrower shall, at least three Business
Days prior to such Commitment Termination Date, notify the Agent and such Lender
of its election to (i) extend the maturity of one or more Standard Loans made by
such Lender, or of any portion or portions of the principal amounts thereof,
then outstanding, (ii) obtain from such Lender one or more new Standard Loans in
such amount(s) as Borrower shall elect up to the Commitment of such Lender on
such notice date (which Loan or Loans shall be made by such Lender on the
Commitment Termination Date and, if for less than the entire Commitment of such
Lender, shall be in a minimum amount of at least $1,000,000 and shall be, to the
extent permitted, in integral multiples of $1,000,000), or (iii) obtain any
combination of extensions of outstanding Standard Loans and new Standard Loans
having an aggregate principal amount up to the Commitment of such Lender, all
such Standard Loans shall in each case (notwithstanding the Interest Period(s)
in respect thereof then selected) instead mature on the Maturity Date.
Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement, in the event of any
extensions of Standard Loans or any new Standard Loans, or both, by the Borrower
from any Lender pursuant to the preceding sentence of this paragraph (a) at a
time when the Commitment Termination Date has been

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extended as to other Lenders, then from and after the Commitment Termination
Date in respect of such Lender (i) Section 2.15 shall no longer apply to the
Loans of such Lender, and shall apply to the Loans of the other Lenders as to
which the Commitment Termination Date has been extended as if such Lender were
not a party to this Agreement; (ii) insofar as the rights and obligations of
such Lender are concerned, this Agreement shall operate as if it were an
agreement solely between the Borrower and such Lender, with the result, INTER
ALIA, that (A) such Lender shall have, as to its Loans, all the rights and
obligations of the "Lenders" and the "Agent", (B) such Lender shall have an
independent right to accelerate its Loans as provided in Article VII, (C) the
consent of such Lender shall be required in order for any amendment to or waiver
of this Agreement to be applicable to such Lender (and such Lender shall not be
deemed to have a Commitment or Loans outstanding for the purpose of determining
or participating in any action taken by the Majority Lenders or Required Lenders
or any of the rights or obligations of the other Lenders), (D) all notices
provided for hereunder shall be given directly by the Borrower to such Lender or
by such Lender to the Borrower, as the case may be, and (E) all payments to
which such Lender is entitled shall be made directly by the Borrower to such
Lender; and (iii) the Agent shall have no further responsibilities with respect
to such Lender or the administration of this Agreement as it relates to such
Lender (but, at the request of the Borrower or such Lender from time to time,
will determine the rates of interest applicable to the Loans of such Lender).

                  (b) Each Lender shall maintain in accordance with its usual
practice an account or accounts evidencing the indebtedness to such Lender
resulting from each Loan made by such Lender from time to time, including the
amounts of principal and interest payable and paid such Lender from time to time
under this Agreement.

                  (c) The Agent shall maintain accounts in which it will record
(i) the amount of each Loan made hereunder, the Type of each Loan made and the
Interest Period applicable thereto, (ii) the amount of any principal or interest
due and payable or to become due and payable from the Borrower to each Lender
hereunder and (iii) the amount of any sum received by the Agent hereunder from
the Borrower and each Lender's share thereof.

                  (d) The entries made in the accounts maintained pursuant to
paragraphs (b) and (c) of this Section 2.07 shall, to the extent permitted by
applicable law, be rebuttable evidence of the existence and amounts of the
obligations therein recorded; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that the failure of any Lender
or the Agent to maintain such accounts or any error therein shall not in any
manner affect the obligations of the Borrower to repay the Loans in accordance
with their terms.

                  (e) Following the Commitment Termination Date applicable to
each Lender, if the Borrower shall have elected to extend the maturity of the
Loan of such Lender pursuant to Section 2.07(a), the Borrower shall have the
right at any time upon prior irrevocable notice to the Agent and such Lender (i)
not later than 12:00 (noon), New York City time, one Business Day prior to
conversion, to convert any Eurodollar Standard Loan or CD Loan by such Lender
then outstanding into an ABR Loan by such Lender, (ii) not later than 10:30
a.m., New York City time, two Business Days prior to conversion or continuation,
to convert any Eurodollar Standard Loan or ABR Loan by such Lender into a CD
Loan by such Lender or to continue any CD Loan by such Lender as a CD Loan by
such Lender for an additional Interest Period, and (iii) not later than 3:00
p.m., New York City time, three Business Days prior to conversion or
continuation, to convert any

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ABR Loan or CD Loan by such Lender into a Eurodollar Standard Loan or to
continue any Eurodollar Standard Loan as a Eurodollar Standard Loan for an
additional Interest Period, subject in each case to the following:

              (i) if less than all the outstanding principal amount of any
         Standard Loan shall be converted or continued, the aggregate principal
         amount of such Standard Loan converted or continued shall be an
         integral multiple of $1,000,000 and not less than $1,000,000;

             (ii) if any Eurodollar Standard Loan or CD Loan is converted at a
         time other than the end of the Interest Period applicable thereto, the
         Borrower shall pay, upon demand, any amount due to the applicable
         Lender pursuant to Section 2.12(d); and

           (iii) no Interest Period may be selected for any Eurodollar Standard
         Loan or CD Loan that would end later than the Maturity Date.

                  Each notice pursuant to this paragraph (e) shall be
irrevocable and shall refer to this Agreement and specify (i) the identity and
amount of the Standard Loan that the Borrower requests be converted or
continued, (ii) whether such Standard Loan is to be converted to or continued as
a Eurodollar Standard Loan, a CD Loan or an ABR Loan, (iii) if such notice
requests a conversion, the date of such conversion (which shall be a Business
Day) and (iv) if such Standard Loan is to be converted to or continued as a
Eurodollar Standard Loan or CD Loan, the Interest Period with respect thereto.
If no Interest Period is specified in any such notice with respect to any
conversion to or continuation as a Eurodollar Standard Loan or CD Loan, the
Borrower shall be deemed to have selected an Interest Period of one month's
duration, in the case of a Eurodollar Standard Loan, or 30 days' duration, in
the case of a CD Loan. If the Borrower shall not have given notice in accordance
with this paragraph to continue any Standard Loan into a subsequent Interest
Period (and shall not otherwise have given notice in accordance with this
paragraph to convert such Standard Loan), such Standard Loan shall, at the end
of the Interest Period applicable thereto (unless repaid pursuant to the terms
hereof), automatically be continued into a new Interest Period as an ABR Loan.

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                  SECTION 2.08. INTEREST ON LOANS. (a) Subject to the provisions
of Section 2.09, the Loans comprising each Eurodollar Borrowing shall bear
interest (computed on the basis of the actual number of days elapsed over a year
of 360 days) at a rate per annum equal to (i) in the case of each Eurodollar
Standard Loan, the LIBO Rate for the Interest Period in effect for such
Borrowing plus 0.40%, and (ii) in the case of each Eurodollar Competitive Loan,
the LIBO Rate for the Interest Period in effect for such Borrowing plus (or
minus) the Margin offered by the Lender making such Loan and accepted by the
Borrower pursuant to Section 2.03.

                  (b) Subject to the provisions of Section 2.09, the Loans
comprising each CD Borrowing shall bear interest (computed on the basis of the
actual number of days elapsed over a year of 360 days) at a rate per annum equal
to the CD Rate for the Interest Period in effect for such Borrowing plus 0.525%.

                  (c) Subject to the provisions of Section 2.09, the Loans
comprising each ABR Borrowing shall bear interest (computed on the basis of the
actual number of days elapsed over a year of 365 or 366 days, as the case may
be, when determined by reference to the Prime Rate and over a year of 360 days
at all other times) at a rate per annum equal to the Alternate Base Rate minus
0.10%.

                  (d) Subject to the provisions of Section 2.09, each Fixed Rate
Loan shall bear interest at a rate per annum (computed on the basis of the
actual number of days elapsed over a year of 360 days) equal to the fixed rate
of interest offered by the Lender making such Loan and accepted by the Borrower
pursuant to Section 2.03.

                  (e) Subject to the provisions of Section 2.09, interest on
each Loan shall be payable on each Interest Payment Date applicable to such
Loan. The LIBO Rate and Adjusted LIBO Rate, the CD Rate and Adjusted CD Rate or
the Alternate Base Rate for each Interest Period or day within an Interest
Period shall be determined by the Agent in accordance with the terms and
conditions of this Agreement, and such determination shall be conclusive absent
manifest error.

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                  SECTION 2.09. DEFAULT INTEREST. If the Borrower shall default
in the payment of the principal of or interest on any Loan or any other amount
becoming due hereunder, whether by scheduled maturity, notice of prepayment,
acceleration or otherwise, the Borrower shall on demand from time to time from
the Agent or the Majority Lenders pay interest, to the extent permitted by law,
on such defaulted amount up to (but not including) the date of actual payment
(after as well as before judgment) at a rate per annum (computed on the basis of
the actual number of days elapsed over a year of 360 days) equal to the
Alternate Base Rate plus 1%.

                  SECTION 2.10. UNAVAILABILITY OF LIBO RATE AND CD RATE
QUOTATIONS. (a) In the event that on the day two Business Days prior to the
commencement of any Interest Period for a Eurodollar Borrowing the Agent shall
have determined that it is not possible to ascertain a LIBO Rate for such
Interest Period, either from the Reuter Screen on the Reuter System or from
rates offered by at least two of the LIBO Reference Banks or the Reference Banks
as contemplated in the definition of LIBO Rate at Section 1.01, the Agent shall,
as soon as practicable thereafter, give written or telecopy notice of such event
to the Borrower and the Lenders, in which event any request by the Borrower for
a Eurodollar Borrowing for such Interest Period shall be of no force or effect
and no Borrowing shall be made pursuant to such request.

                  (b) In the event, and on each occasion, that on the day on
which the Interest Period for any CD Borrowing commences the Agent shall have
determined that it is not possible to ascertain a CD Rate for such Interest
Period, either from Page "CDNY" or other display on the Reuter System or from
"Composite Quotations" or, if applicable, the rates offered by leading New York
City dealers in negotiable certificates of deposits as contemplated in the
definition of CD Rate at Section 1.01, the Agent shall, as soon as practicable
thereafter, give written or telecopy notice of such determination to the
Borrower and the Lenders, in which event any request by the Borrower for a CD
Loan for such Interest Period shall be of no force or effect and no Borrowing
shall be made pursuant to such request.

                  SECTION 2.11. TERMINATION, REDUCTION, EXTENSION AND ADDITION
OF COMMITMENTS.   (a) The Commitments shall be automatically terminated on the
Commitment Termination Date.

                  (b) Upon at least three Business Days' prior irrevocable
written or telecopy notice to the Agent, the Borrower may at any time in whole
permanently terminate, or from time to time in part permanently reduce, the
Total Commitment; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that each partial reduction of the Total
Commitment shall be in an integral multiple of $1,000,000 and in a minimum
amount of $5,000,000.

                  (c) Each reduction in the Total Commitment hereunder shall be
made ratably among the Lenders in accordance with their respective Commitments.
The Borrower shall pay to the Agent for the account of the Lenders, on the date
of each termination or reduction, the Facility Fees on the amount of the
Commitments so terminated or reduced accrued to the date of such termination or
reduction.

                  (d) The Borrower may from time to time request that one or
more additional financial institutions be added as Lenders under this Agreement
with Commitments agreed upon by the Borrower and such financial institutions. In
the event of any such request, such financial institutions shall become parties
to and Lenders under this Agreement upon the execution of one or more agreements
to that effect in the form (appropriately completed) of Exhibit D (and without
any action being required on the part of any other Lender), and upon the
effectiveness of any such agreement, Schedule 2.01 shall be automatically
amended to reflect the Commitment of each new Lender.

                  (e) Not later than the date 45 days prior to the first, or, if
the Commitment Termination Date has previously been extended, the second, third
or fourth anniversary of the date hereof, as the case may be, the Borrower may
deliver to the Agent (which shall promptly transmit a copy to each Lender) a
notice requesting that the Commitments then remaining in effect be extended to
the date 364 days after the Commitment Termination Date at the time in effect.
Within 20 days after its receipt of any such notice, each Lender shall notify
the Agent of its willingness or unwillingness so to extend its Commitment. Any
Lender which shall fail so to notify the Agent within such period shall be
deemed to have declined to extend its Commitment. The Commitment of any Lender
that shall so decline (or be deemed to have declined) to extend its Commitment
pursuant to this paragraph (e) shall terminate on the Commitment Termination
Date at the time in effect and the Loans, if any, of such Lender shall, subject
to 2.07(a), be repaid on such date together with all interest accrued thereon
and the accrued Facility Fee and Utilization Fee. Any payment made pursuant to
this Section 2.11(e) shall be without premium, penalty or other cost of any kind
and shall not be subject to the requirements of Sections 2.15 and 2.12(d). The
Commitments of the Lenders notifying the Borrower that they are willing to
extend shall be extended, effective as of the date which shall theretofore have
been the Commitment Termination Date, to the date 364 days after such date.

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                  SECTION 2.12. PREPAYMENT. (a) The Borrower shall have the
right at any time and from time to time to prepay without premium or penalty any
Borrowing (including a Competitive Borrowing), in whole or in part, upon giving
written or telecopy notice (or telephone notice promptly confirmed by written or
telecopy notice) to the Agent: (i) before 5:00 p.m., New York City time, three
Business Days prior to prepayment, in the case of Eurodollar Loans, (ii) before
5:00 p.m., New York City time, two Business Days prior to prepayment, in the
case of CD Loans or Fixed Rate Loans, and (iii) before 10:00 a.m., New York City
time, one Business Day prior to prepayment, in the case of ABR Loans; PROVIDED,
HOWEVER, that each partial prepayment of a Borrowing shall be in an amount which
is an integral multiple of $1,000,000 and, prior to the Commitment Termination
Date, not less than $5,000,000.

                  (b) On the date of any termination or reduction of the
Commitments pursuant to Section 2.11(b), the Borrower shall pay or prepay so
much of the outstanding Borrowings, selected at the Borrower's sole option, as
shall be necessary in order that the aggregate principal amount of the
Competitive Loans and Standard Loans outstanding will not exceed the Total
Commitment after giving effect to such termination or reduction.

                  (c) Each notice of prepayment shall specify the prepayment
date and the principal amount of each Borrowing (or portion thereof) to be
prepaid, shall be irrevocable and shall commit the Borrower to prepay such
Borrowing (or portion thereof) by the amount stated therein on the date stated
therein. All prepayments under this Section 2.12 shall be accompanied by accrued
interest on the principal amount being prepaid to the date of payment.

                  (d) In the event any prepayment is made in respect of any Loan
(or in the event any Lender is required to transfer a Loan or the Borrower
repays any Loan on the Commitment Termination Date and such date shall be prior
to the end of the Interest Period applicable to such Loan), other than (i) any
ABR Loan and (ii) any Loan the prepayment, payment or transfer of which is made
by Borrower pursuant to its right to prepay, repay or require the transfer of
such Loan under Sections 2.11(e), 2.13, 2.14, 2.17 or 9.05 or upon the Lender's
exercise of its option pursuant to Section 9.14, the Borrower shall pay to such
Lender, promptly upon the written request of such Lender (which request shall be
accompanied by a certificate as described below), such amount as shall be
necessary to reimburse such Lender for the loss, if any, reasonably incurred by
such Lender as a result of such repayment, prepayment or transfer arising from
inability due to general market conditions to recover the cost of deposits or
other funds acquired by such Lender to fund such Loan, in the liquidation of
such deposits or other funds so acquired (or from the reemployment thereof if
such reemployment would result in less of a funding loss to such Lender);
PROVIDED, that any such funding loss shall not in any event exceed the cost
incurred by such Lender to obtain such deposit or other funds, minus the fair
market value thereof realizable by such Lender in the liquidation thereof. Such
Lender shall use reasonable efforts to avoid or minimize any such loss. Such
Lender's claim, if any, shall be accompanied by a certificate setting forth in
reasonable detail (including the calculations made in determining) the reason
for and the amount of such loss, which certificate shall be conclusive in the
absence of manifest error. Prepayments of ABR Borrowings shall be without
penalty, premium or other cost of any kind.

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                  SECTION 2.13. RESERVE REQUIREMENTS; CHANGE IN CIRCUMSTANCES.
(a) In the event that at any time or from time to time during the term of this
Agreement any Eurodollar Reserve Requirement shall be applicable to deposits
acquired in respect of any Eurodollar Loan the Lender making such Eurodollar
Loan shall promptly notify the Borrower in writing of any imposition of or
change in or prospective imposition of or change in any Eurodollar Reserve
Requirement, whether in respect of an outstanding Eurodollar Loan or any
possible future Eurodollar Loan, and, for as long as such Eurodollar Reserve
Requirement shall be effective, the Borrower shall, upon written request from
such Lender (with a copy of such request to the Agent), pay to such Lender at
the end of each Interest Period for such Eurodollar Loan, an additional amount
equal to the difference between the interest accrued based upon the LIBO Rate
and the interest that would have accrued had the Adjusted LIBO Rate been
applicable to the Eurodollar Loan of such Lender. Each Lender represents that
currently it is not subject to (and does not incur) any Eurodollar Reserve
Requirement.

                  (b) In the event that at any time or from time to time during
the term of this Agreement any CD Reserve Requirement or Assessment Rate shall
be applicable to deposits acquired in respect of any CD Loan the Lender making
such CD Loan shall promptly notify the Borrower in writing of any imposition of
or change in or prospective imposition of or change in any CD Reserve
Requirement or Assessment Rate, whether in respect of an outstanding CD Loan or
any possible future CD Loan, and, for as long as such CD Reserve Requirement or
Assessment Rate shall be effective, the Borrower shall, upon written request
from such Lender (with a copy of such request to the Agent), pay to such Lender
at the end of the Interest Period for such CD Loan, an additional amount equal
to the difference between the interest accrued based upon the CD Rate and the
interest that would have accrued had the Adjusted CD Rate been applicable to the
CD Loan of such Lender. Each Lender represents that its current CD Reserve
Requirement and Assessment Rate are as set forth on Schedule 2.01.

                  (c) Notwithstanding any other provision herein, if after the
date of this Agreement, either (i) the introduction of, or any change in or in
the interpretation of, any law or regulation or (ii) compliance by any Lender
with any directive, guideline or request of any Governmental Body (whether or
not having the force of law) affects or would affect the amount of capital
required or expected to be maintained by such Lender, so as to increase the
minimum amount of capital required to be maintained by such Lender based upon
the existence of this Agreement, the Commitment of such Lender and/or any Loans
made hereunder and such requirement applies equally to other agreements with,
and to commitments and loans similar to the transactions contemplated by this
Agreement to, all other corporate borrowers situated in the United States of
America, then the Borrower shall pay to such Lender amounts sufficient to
compensate such Lender, in light of such circumstances, to the extent that such
Lender reasonably and equitably determines such increase in required capital
over the capital of such Lender in place on the date hereof to be allocable to
this Agreement, to the Commitment of such Lender (or the unused portion
thereof), or to any Loans made by such Lender hereunder, it being understood
that in no event shall the cost allocable, and/or amount charged, to the
Borrower under this paragraph (c) exceed the cost allocable, and/or amount
charged, with respect to any similar agreement between such Lender and any other
corporate borrower located in the United States, in each instance determined
ratably with respect to the relative transactional amounts. Each Lender
represents that, to its best knowledge on the date hereof it would not be
required to increase its capital or to otherwise incur any increased capital
costs in respect of this Agreement under existing laws, rules, regulations,
directives or guidelines (whether or not currently in effect) of any
Governmental Body.

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                  (d) A certificate of a Lender setting forth such amount or
amounts as shall be necessary to compensate such Lender as specified in
paragraph (c) above shall be delivered to the Borrower (with a copy to the
Agent) and shall be conclusive absent manifest error. The Borrower shall pay
each Lender the amount shown as due on any such certificate delivered by it
within 10 days after the receipt of the same. No Lender shall be entitled to any
compensation for any additional costs under this Section 2.13 requested by such
Lender unless such Lender shall have notified the Borrower that it will request
compensation for such additional costs not more than 30 days after the date such
additional costs were first incurred.

                  (e) The Borrower may at any time following its receipt from
any Lender of a notice of the occurrence or prospective occurrence of any
imposition of or increase in the Eurodollar Reserve Requirement, the CD Reserve
Requirement, the Assessment Rate or capital requirements or costs of such Lender
terminate the Commitment of such Lender and repay any outstanding Loans of such
Lender (together with all accrued interest and Facility Fee and Utilization Fee,
if any) on the effective date of such termination, which repayments, if any,
shall be without premium, penalty or other cost of any kind and shall not be
subject to the requirements of Sections 2.15 and 2.12(d).

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                  SECTION 2.14. CHANGE IN LEGALITY. (a) Notwithstanding any
other provision herein, if any change in any law or regulation or in the
interpretation thereof by any Governmental Body charged with the administration
or interpretation thereof shall make it unlawful for any Lender to make or
maintain any Eurodollar Loan or to give effect to its obligations as
contemplated hereby with respect to any Eurodollar Loan, then, by written or
telecopy notice to the Borrower and to the Agent, such Lender may:

                  (i) declare that Eurodollar Loans will not thereafter be made
         by such Lender hereunder, whereupon such Lender shall not submit a
         Competitive Bid in response to a request for Eurodollar Competitive
         Loans and any request by the Borrower for a Eurodollar Standard
         Borrowing shall, as to such Lender only, be without effect and void
         unless such declaration shall be subsequently withdrawn; and

                  (ii) require (if required by law to do so) that all
         outstanding Eurodollar Loans made by it be converted to CD Loans, in
         which event all such Eurodollar Loans shall be automatically converted
         to CD Loans with an Interest Period agreed upon by the Borrower and
         such Lender as of the effective date of such notice as provided in
         paragraph (b) below.

In the event any Lender shall exercise its rights under (i) or (ii) above, all
payments and prepayments of principal which would otherwise have been applied to
repay the Eurodollar Loans that would have been made by such Lender or the
converted Eurodollar Loans of such Lender shall instead be applied to repay the
Loans of such Lender resulting from the conversion of such Eurodollar Loans. The
Borrower may in any event prepay any Loan resulting from the conversion of any
Eurodollar Loan under this Section within five Business Days after such
conversion.

                  (b) For purposes of this Section 2.14, a notice to the
Borrower by any Lender shall be effective as to each Eurodollar Loan, if lawful,
on the last day of the Interest Period currently applicable to such Eurodollar
Loan; in all other cases such notice shall be effective on the date of receipt
by the Borrower.

                  (c) In the event that any Lender shall (i) give Borrower any
notice contemplated by, or exercise its rights under, this Section 2.14 or (ii)
unless Borrower shall fail to meet the conditions set forth at Section 4.01,
Lender for any reason fails to fund any Loan, the Borrower may at any time
terminate the Commitment of the Lender and repay any outstanding Loans of such
Lender (together with all accrued interest and Facility Fee and Utilization Fee,
if any) on the effective date of such termination, which repayment, if any,
shall be without premium, penalty or other cost of any kind and shall not be
subject to the requirements of Sections 2.15 and 2.12(d).

                  SECTION 2.15. PRO RATA TREATMENT. Except as required or
permitted under Section 2.07(a) and (e), 2.11(d) and (e), 2.12, 2.13, 2.14,
2.17, 2.18, 9.05 or 9.14, each Standard Borrowing, each payment or prepayment of
principal of any Standard Borrowing, each payment of interest on the Standard
Loans, each payment of the Facility Fees, each payment of the Utilization Fee,
each reduction of the Commitments and each refinancing of any Borrowing with a
Standard Borrowing of any Type, shall be allocated pro rata among the Lenders in
accordance with their respective Commitments (or, if such Commitments shall have
expired or been terminated, in accordance with the respective principal amounts
of their outstanding Standard Loans). Each payment of principal of any
Competitive Borrowing shall be allocated pro rata among the Lenders
participating in such Borrowing in accordance with the respective principal
amounts of their outstanding Competitive Loans comprising such Borrowing. Each
payment of interest on any Competitive Borrowing shall be allocated pro rata
among the Lenders participating in such Borrowing in accordance with the
respective amounts of accrued and unpaid interest on their outstanding
Competitive Loans comprising such Borrowing. For purposes of determining the
available Commitments of the Lenders at any time, each outstanding Competitive
Borrowing shall be deemed to have utilized the Commitments of the Lenders
(including those Lenders which shall not have made Loans as part of such
Competitive Borrowing) pro rata in accordance with such respective Commitments.
Each Lender agrees that in computing such Lender's portion of any Borrowing to
be made hereunder, the Agent may, in its discretion, round each Lender's
percentage of such Borrowing to the next higher or lower whole dollar amount.

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                  SECTION 2.16. PAYMENTS. (a) The Borrower shall make each
payment (including principal of or interest on any Borrowing or any Fees or
other amounts) hereunder not later than 3:00 p.m., New York City time, on the
date when due in Dollars to the Agent (except as otherwise provided herein) at
its offices at 270 Park Avenue, New York, New York, in immediately available
funds. Except as provided in Section 2.07(a), any payment required to be made to
the Lenders shall be deemed made when made to the Agent and shall, insofar as
the obligations of the Borrower are concerned, be deemed to have been received
by the Lenders at the time of receipt by the Agent (which shall promptly forward
such payment to the Lenders). In the event the Lenders shall receive payments in
an amount less than the amounts at the time due hereunder, the amounts received
shall be applied first against the principal of Loans, second against accrued
interest, third against accrued Fees, fourth against amounts due under Section
2.13 or 2.17, and fifth against any other amounts due hereunder.

                  (b) Whenever any payment (including principal of or interest
on any Borrowing or any Fees or other amounts) hereunder shall become due, or
otherwise would occur, on a day that is not a Business Day, such payment may be
made on the next succeeding Business Day, and such extension of time shall in
the case of a payment of principal be included in the computation of interest.

                  SECTION 2.17. TAXES. (a) Each Lender represents and warrants
unto, and covenants and agrees with, the Borrower that (i) such Lender is
presently exempt from United States Federal withholding tax (including backup
withholding, as such term is defined in the Code), and from any other
withholding tax, assessment or charge imposed by any Governmental Body, on any
amount payable to it under this Agreement, and has heretofore delivered to the
Borrower such evidence as may be required by law to claim or substantiate any
such exemption (stating the provisions of law and/or treaty under which such
exemption is claimed); (ii) such Lender will notify the Borrower promptly upon
its becoming aware of the occurrence or of any prospective occurrence of any
event which would result in any such withholding tax exemption not being
available to such Lender; and (iii) such Lender will indemnify and hold the
Borrower harmless from and against any loss, cost or liability the Borrower may
incur as a result of its reliance on the foregoing representations, or the
failure of such Lender to give prompt notice of any event resulting in any said
withholding tax exemption not being available to such Lender.

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                  (b) All payments by the Borrower to the Lenders under this
Agreement shall be made without setoff or counterclaim and in such amounts as
may be necessary in order that all such payments after deduction or withholding
for or on account of any present or future taxes, levies, imposts, duties or
other charges of whatsoever nature imposed by any Governmental Body or taxing
authority thereof (herein collectively referred to as "TAXES"), other than any
Taxes on or measured by the net income of any Lender pursuant to (i) the income
and/or franchise tax laws of the jurisdictions where such Lender is incorporated
or organized and where the principal office or branch of such Lender is located,
and (ii) the income and/or franchise tax laws of the jurisdictions where the
lending office(s) of such Lender are then located, and other than any
withholding tax or deduction for, or other imposition of, Taxes as to which such
Lender is entitled to a credit against income or franchise taxes payable by it
in the country and/or other jurisdictions of its incorporation or organization
or in the countries and/or other jurisdictions where the principal office or the
lending office(s) of such Lender are then located (herein collectively referred
to as "EXCLUDED TAXES"), shall not be less than the amounts otherwise specified
to be paid by the Borrower to the Lenders under this Agreement. Each Lender
shall use its best efforts to avoid the imposition of any deduction or
withholding of Taxes (other than in respect of Excluded Taxes) by designating
(with the consent of the Borrower which consent shall not be unreasonably
withheld) a different lending office, if such designation will avoid the
imposition of such deduction or withholding, or other imposition, of Taxes
(other than in respect of Excluded Taxes) and will not, in the judgment of such
Lender, reasonably exercised, be otherwise disadvantageous to such Lender or, in
the judgment of the Borrower, reasonably exercised, be disadvantageous to the
Borrower. A certificate as to any additional amounts payable to a Lender under
this paragraph (b) submitted to the Borrower by such Lender shall show in
reasonable detail the amount payable and the calculations used to determine such
amount and shall, absent manifest error, be conclusive and binding, PROVIDED,
that the determination of such additional amounts set forth in such certificate
is made reasonably and in good faith. With respect to each deduction or
withholding for or on account of any Taxes, the Borrower shall promptly (and in
any event not later than 45 days thereafter) furnish to any Lender such
certificates, receipts and other documents as may be necessary to establish any
tax credit to which such Lender may be entitled or as may be required by law to
be in such Lender's possession. Any Lender claiming any additional amounts
payable pursuant to this Section shall use reasonable efforts (consistent with
legal and regulatory restrictions) to file any certificate or document requested
by the Borrower or to change the jurisdiction of its applicable lending office
if the making of such a filing or change would avoid the need for or reduce the
amount of any such additional amounts which may thereafter accrue or avoid the
circumstances giving rise to such exercise and would not, in the sole
determination of such Lender, be otherwise disadvantageous to such Lender. Each
Lender agrees that should any such additional amount paid by the Borrower to or
for such Lender in respect of any Taxes be recovered, in whole or in part, by
such Lender (by credit, offset, deduction or otherwise), against or in computing
any income, franchise or other Taxes in its country and/or other jurisdiction of
its incorporation or organization or in any of the jurisdictions where the
principal office or branch of such Lender and the lending office(s) of such
Lender is then located, such Lender shall reimburse the Borrower the amount of
such recovery. A transferee of any interest in this Agreement shall not be
entitled to the benefits of this Section 2.17 with respect to any Taxes which
would not have been incurred if there had been no transfer.

                  (c) At any time subsequent to the Borrower's receipt of any
notice given by a Lender pursuant to paragraph (a) above, or to the imposition
of any Taxes (other than Excluded Taxes) in respect of which the Borrower shall
have the obligation to "gross up" amounts due under this Agreement pursuant to
paragraph (b) above, the Borrower shall have the right to prepay, in whole or in
part, without penalty or premium, the entire principal amount of any and all
Loans in respect of which such obligation in respect of Taxes (other than
Excluded Taxes) would be incurred upon two Business Days' notice to such Lender
and any such payment shall be without premium, penalty or other cost of any kind
and shall not be subject to the requirements of Sections 2.15 and 2.12(d). Any
such prepayment shall be accompanied by the payment of all accrued interest on
the principal amount prepaid.

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                  (d) In no event shall the Borrower have any obligation to
"gross up" amounts due under this Agreement in respect of Excluded Taxes.

                  (e) The representations, warranties and agreements contained
in this Section 2.17 shall survive the termination of this Agreement and the
payment in full of the Loans.

                  SECTION 2.18. TERMINATION OR ASSIGNMENT OF COMMITMENTS. The
Borrower shall have the right (in addition to its rights pursuant to Sections
2.11(b), 2.11(e), 2.13, 2.14, 2.17 and 9.05), at its own expense, at any time
upon notice to any Lender and the Agent, (i) to terminate the Commitment of such
Lender (with or without, at Borrower's sole election, replacing such terminated
Commitment) or (ii) to require such Lender to transfer and assign without
recourse all its interests, rights and obligations under this Agreement to
another financial institution reasonably acceptable to the Agent which shall
assume such obligations; PROVIDED that (x) no such assignment shall conflict
with any law, rule or regulation or order of any Governmental Body applicable to
such affected Lender and (y) the Borrower or the assignee, as the case may be,
shall pay to the affected Lender in immediately available funds on the effective
date of such termination or assignment the principal of and interest accrued to
the date of payment on the Loans made by it hereunder then outstanding and
accrued and unpaid Facility Fee and Utilization Fee and any amounts which
Borrower had theretofore been notified were accruing in respect of such Loans
under Section 2.13, which payments shall not be subject to the provisions of
Section 2.15.

ARTICLE III.  REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES

                  The Borrower represents and warrants to each of the Lenders
that:

                  (a) The Borrower is a corporation duly organized, validly
         existing and in good standing under the laws of the State of Ohio.

                  (b) The execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement
         by the Borrower are within the Borrower's corporate powers, have been
         duly authorized by all necessary corporate action, will not violate any
         provision of any existing law or regulation or order or decree of any
         court or Governmental Body or of the Amended Articles of Incorporation
         or Code of Regulations of the Borrower, as each is amended to date, or
         of the unwaived terms of any mortgage, indenture, agreement or other
         instrument to which the Borrower is a party or which is binding upon it
         or its assets, and will not result in the creation or imposition of any
         security interest, lien, charge or encumbrance on any of its assets
         pursuant to the provisions of any of the foregoing.

                  (c) No authorization or approval or other action by, and no
         notice to or filing with, any Governmental Body or court is required to
         be made or effected by the Borrower for the due execution and delivery
         of this Agreement by the Borrower and for the performance by the
         Borrower of the obligations on its part to be performed under this
         Agreement.

                  (d) This Agreement constitutes the legal, valid and binding
         obligation of the Borrower enforceable against the Borrower in
         accordance with its terms, subject to applicable bankruptcy,
         insolvency, reorganization, moratorium or similar laws affecting
         creditors' rights generally and subject, as to enforceability, to
         general principles of equity (regardless of whether enforcement is
         sought in a proceeding in equity or at law).

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                  (e) The Consolidated Financial Statements of the Borrower and
         its Subsidiaries present fairly, in all material respects, the
         financial position of the Borrower and its Consolidated Subsidiaries at
         December 31, 1999 and 1998 and the Consolidated results of their
         operations and their Consolidated cash flows for each of the three
         years in the period ended December 31, 1999, in conformity with
         generally accepted accounting principles.

                  (f) The Borrower is not an "investment company", or a company
         "controlled" by an "investment company", within the meaning of the
         Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended.

                  (g) Neither the Borrower nor any Subsidiary is a "holding
         company", or a "subsidiary company" of a "holding company", within the
         meaning of the Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935, as amended.

                  (h) The Borrower is not engaged principally, or as one of its
         important activities, in the business of extending credit for the
         purpose of purchasing or carrying margin stock, within the meaning of
         Regulation U of the Board.

ARTICLE IV.  CONDITIONS OF LENDING

                  The obligation of each Lender to make Loans hereunder is
subject to the satisfaction of the following conditions:

                  SECTION 4.01.  ALL BORROWINGS.  On the date of each Borrowing,
including each Borrowing in which Loans are refinanced with new Loans as
contemplated by Section 2.05:

                  (a) The Agent shall have received a notice of such Borrowing
         as required by Section 2.03 or Section 2.04, as applicable.

                  (b) The representations and warranties set forth in Article
         III hereof shall be true and correct in all material respects on and as
         of the date of such Borrowing with the same effect as though made on
         and as of such date.

                  (c) No event shall have occurred and be continuing on and as
         of the date of such Borrowing, or would result from such Borrowing or
         from (after giving effect to) the application of the proceeds of such
         Borrowing, which constitutes an Event of Default.

Each Borrowing shall be deemed to constitute a representation and warranty by
the Borrower on the date of such Borrowing as to the matters specified in
paragraphs (b) and (c) of this Section 4.01.

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                  SECTION 4.02. FIRST BORROWING. On the Closing Date, the Agent
shall have received the following (in the case of (a), (b), (c) and (d), each
dated the Closing Date):

                  (a) an opinion of the General Counsel, the Associate General
         Counsel or an Assistant General Counsel of the Borrower addressed to
         the Lenders and the Agent in substantially the form of Exhibit B
         hereto;

                  (b) a certified copy of the resolutions of the Board of
         Directors of the Borrower authorizing the execution and delivery of
         this Agreement;

                  (c) a certificate of the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary
         of the Borrower certifying the names and true signatures of the
         Authorized Officers;

                  (d) a certificate signed by an Authorized Officer, confirming
         compliance with conditions set forth in paragraphs (b) and (c) of
         Section 4.01; and

                  (e) all Fees and other amounts due and payable on or prior to
         the Closing Date.

ARTICLE V.  AFFIRMATIVE COVENANTS

                  The Borrower covenants and agrees with each Lender and the
Agent that, so long as the Commitment of such Lender shall remain in effect or
the principal of or interest on any Loan by such Lender shall be unpaid, unless
the Majority Lenders shall otherwise consent in writing, the Borrower will:

                  (a) INTEREST COVERAGE RATIO. Maintain, as at the end of each
         fiscal quarter of the Borrower, a ratio of Consolidated Operating
         Income for the Annual Period then ended to Consolidated Interest
         Expense for the Annual Period then ended of not less than 1.55 to 1.

                  (b) NET WORTH. Maintain, as at the end of each fiscal quarter
         of the Borrower, Consolidated Net Worth at an amount not less than
         $1,250,000,000.

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                  (c) REPORTING REQUIREMENTS. Furnish to the Agent, together
         with sufficient number of copies for each of the Lenders:

                  (i) as soon as available and in any event not later than 60
         days after the end of each of the first three quarters of each fiscal
         year of the Borrower, a conformed copy of the Borrower's Quarterly
         Report on Form 10-Q for such quarter as filed with the Securities and
         Exchange Commission, together with (1) a Schedule of Compliance, signed
         by an Authorized Officer setting forth computations used by the
         Borrower in determining compliance with the covenants contained in
         paragraphs (a) and (b) of this Article V and in paragraphs (a) and (b)
         of Article VI and (2) a certificate of an Authorized Officer stating
         that no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing or, if an Event
         of Default has occurred and is continuing, a statement as to the nature
         thereof and the action which the Borrower has taken and proposes to
         take with respect thereto; and

                  (ii) as soon as available and in any event not later than 120
         days after the end of each fiscal year of the Borrower, a conformed
         copy of the Borrower's Annual Report on Form 10-K for such year as
         filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, together with (1) a
         Schedule of Compliance, signed by an Authorized Officer setting forth
         computations used by the Borrower in determining compliance with the
         covenants contained in paragraphs (a) and (b) of Article V, and in
         paragraphs (a) and (b) of Article VI, and (2) a certificate of an
         Authorized Officer stating that no Event of Default has occurred and is
         continuing or, if an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, a
         statement as to the nature thereof and the action which the Borrower
         has taken and proposes to take with respect thereto; and

                  (iii) as soon as practicable and in any event within ten
         Business Days after any Authorized Officer of the Borrower obtains
         actual knowledge of the occurrence of any Event of Default, a statement
         of an Authorized Officer setting forth details of such Event of Default
         and the action which the Borrower has taken and proposes to take with
         respect thereto; and

                  (iv) promptly after the filing thereof, copies of all reports
         (in addition to Forms 10-K and 10-Q) filed by the Borrower with the
         Securities and Exchange Commission (other than annual reports on Form
         11-K) pursuant to the Exchange Act; and

                  (v) such other publicly available information relating to the
         financial condition or business operations of the Borrower as the Agent
         or any Lender may from time to time reasonably request.

                  (d) PRESERVATION OF CORPORATE EXISTENCE. Preserve and maintain
its corporate existence; PROVIDED, that the Borrower may merge or transfer its
assets in a transaction permitted by paragraph (c) of Article VI.

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ARTICLE VI.  NEGATIVE COVENANTS

                  The Borrower covenants and agrees with each Lender and the
Agent that, so long as the Commitment of such Lender shall remain in effect or
the principal of or interest on any Loan by such Lender shall be unpaid, unless
the Majority Lenders shall otherwise consent in writing, the Borrower will not:

                  (a) LIMITATION ON LIENS. Issue, assume or guarantee Debt if
such Debt is secured by a Lien upon any Manufacturing Facility without providing
(concurrently with the issuance, assumption or guarantee of any such Debt) that
the Loans shall be secured equally and ratably with such Debt; PROVIDED,
HOWEVER, that the foregoing restriction shall not apply to:

                  (i) any Lien on property if such Lien is in existence at the
         time of the acquisition of such property by the Borrower;

                  (ii) any Lien on property to secure the payment of all or any
         part of the purchase price of such property or to secure any Debt
         incurred (prior to, at the time of, or within 360 days after, the
         acquisition by the Borrower of such property) for the purpose of, or in
         connection with, financing all or any part of the purchase price
         thereof;

                  (iii) any Lien on property of a corporation if such Lien was
         in existence prior to the time such corporation is merged into or
         consolidated with the Borrower or prior to the time of a sale, lease or
         other disposition of the properties of an entity as an entirety or
         substantially as an entirety to the Borrower;

                  (iv) any Lien on property in favor of the United States of
         America, any State thereof, or any department, agency or
         instrumentality or political subdivision of the United States of
         America or any State thereof, in favor of any other country or any
         political subdivision thereof, or in favor of any other Governmental
         Body, to secure partial, progress, advance or other payments, or
         performance of any other obligations, pursuant to any contract or
         statute or to secure any indebtedness incurred for the purpose of
         financing all or any part of the purchase price or the cost of
         construction of the property subject to such Lien; or

                  (v) any extension, renewal or replacement (or successive
         extensions, renewals or replacements), in whole or in part, of any Lien
         referred to in the foregoing clauses (i) to (iv), inclusive; PROVIDED,
         HOWEVER, that the principal amount of Debt secured thereby shall not
         exceed the principal amount of Debt so secured at the time of such
         extension, renewal or replacement, and that such extension, renewal, or
         replacement Lien shall be limited to all or a part of the property
         which secured the Lien so extended, renewed or replaced (plus
         improvements on such property).

                  Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Borrower may issue, assume
or guarantee Debt secured by a Lien on a Manufacturing Facility which would
otherwise be subject to the foregoing restrictions in an aggregate amount which,
together with the aggregate principal amount of all other such Debt of the
Borrower outstanding at the time of such issuance, assumption or guarantee (but
excluding Debt permitted by the foregoing clauses (i) to (v), inclusive), does
not at such time exceed fifteen percent (15%) of the Consolidated Net Worth of
the Borrower as at the end of the then most recently completed fiscal year of
the Borrower.

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                  (b) LIMITATION ON DEBT. Issue, incur, assume or guarantee, or
permit any Subsidiary to issue, incur, assume or guarantee, any Debt if,
immediately after giving effect to the issuance, incurrence, assumption or
guarantee of such Debt and after giving effect to the receipt and application of
any and all proceeds thereof, the aggregate principal amount of the Consolidated
Debt of the Borrower and the Subsidiaries would, at the end of any fiscal
quarter of the Borrower, exceed the sum of (x) $5,000,000,000 plus (y) the
Supplemental Amount, if any, at such date. For the purpose of this paragraph
(b), if any such Debt is payable in a currency other than Dollars and all or any
portion of the principal amount of such Debt is hedged into Dollars, then the
principal amount thereof, or such portion thereof, shall be the amount of
Dollars specified in, or determined pursuant to, the applicable hedging
contract.

                  (c) MERGERS, ETC. Merge or consolidate with or into, or
convey, transfer, lease or otherwise dispose of (whether in one transaction or
in a series of transactions) all or substantially all of its assets (whether now
owned or hereafter acquired) to, or acquire all or substantially all of the
assets of, any Person; except that (i) any Subsidiary may merge into or transfer
assets to or obtain assets from the Borrower, and (ii) the Borrower may merge
with or acquire all or substantially all of the assets of any Person, PROVIDED
in any such case that, immediately after giving effect to such proposed
transaction, no Event of Default would exist and, in the case of any such merger
to which the Borrower is a party, the Borrower is the surviving corporation.

                  (d) ERISA LIABILITIES. Create or suffer to exist, as at the
end of any fiscal quarter of Borrower, any ERISA Liabilities of the Borrower in
an aggregate amount in excess of $750,000,000.

ARTICLE VII.  EVENTS OF DEFAULT

                  So long as any Commitment shall be in effect or any amount of
the principal of or accrued interest on any Borrowing shall be unpaid, in case
of the occurrence and continuance of any of the following events ("Events of
Default"):

                  (a) The Borrower shall fail to pay the principal of any Loan
         when due, or shall fail to pay interest on any Loan when due, and any
         such failure shall remain unremedied for more than five Business Days
         after the earlier of (i) the day on which an Authorized Officer first
         obtains actual knowledge of such failure or (ii) written notice of such
         failure shall have been given to the Borrower by the Agent or any
         Lender; or

                  (b) The Borrower shall fail to pay any Fees when due and such
         failure shall remain unremedied for more than ten Business Days after
         the earlier of (i) the day on which an Authorized Officer first obtains
         actual knowledge of such failure or (ii) written notice of such failure
         shall have been given to the Borrower by the Agent or any Lender; or

                  (c) Any representation or warranty made by the Borrower in
         this Agreement or by the Borrower (or any of its Authorized Officers)
         in any certificate delivered pursuant to this Agreement, or deemed to
         have been made pursuant to and in accordance with Section 4.01 of this
         Agreement, shall prove to have been incorrect in any material respect
         when made; PROVIDED, that if any such representation or warranty is
         capable of being rendered true and correct in all material respects,
         such event shall not constitute an Event of Default unless such
         incorrect representation or warranty is not rendered true and correct
         in all material respects within thirty days after the earlier of (i)
         the day on which an Authorized Officer first obtains actual knowledge
         of such event or (ii) the day written notice thereof shall have been
         given to the Borrower by the Agent or any Lender; or

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                  (d) The Borrower shall fail to perform or observe any covenant
         or agreement set forth in paragraph (a) or (b) of Article V or in
         paragraph (a) or (b) of Article VI and such failure shall remain
         unremedied for more than thirty days after the earlier of (i) the day
         on which an Authorized Officer first obtains actual knowledge of such
         failure or (ii) written notice thereof shall have been given to the
         Borrower by the Agent or any Lender; or

                  (e) The Borrower shall fail to perform or observe any other
         material provision of this Agreement on its part to be performed or
         observed and such failure shall remain unremedied for more than thirty
         Business Days after the earlier of (i) the day on which an Authorized
         Officer first obtains actual knowledge of such failure or (ii) written
         notice thereof shall have been given to the Borrower by the Agent or
         any Lender; or

                  (f) The Borrower shall fail to pay any principal of Funded
         Debt of the Borrower which is then outstanding in a principal amount in
         excess of $25,000,000 at the scheduled maturity thereof, such failure
         shall continue after the applicable grace period, if any, specified in
         the agreement or instrument relating to such Funded Debt, and such
         Funded Debt is not paid within ten Business Days after the earlier of
         (i) the day on which an Authorized Officer first obtains actual
         knowledge of such failure or (ii) written notice of such failure shall
         have been given to the Borrower by the holder or holders of such Funded
         Debt; or Funded Debt of the Borrower which is then outstanding in a
         principal amount in excess of $25,000,000 shall become due and payable
         prior to the scheduled maturity thereof as a result of the lawful
         acceleration thereof due to the occurrence of an event of default
         thereunder (other than an event of default resulting from a pledge or
         transfer of any margin stock, as defined in Regulation U of the Board)
         and such Funded Debt is not paid, or such acceleration thereof is not
         rescinded or annulled, within ten Business Days following such lawful
         acceleration thereof; or

                  (g) The Borrower shall sell or otherwise dispose of all or
         substantially all of its assets; or

                  (h) The Borrower shall generally not pay its debts as such
         debts become due, or shall admit in writing its inability to pay its
         debts generally, or shall make a general assignment for the benefit of
         creditors; or any proceeding shall be instituted by or against the
         Borrower seeking to adjudicate it a bankrupt or insolvent, or seeking
         liquidation, winding up, reorganization, arrangement, adjustment,
         protection, relief or composition of it or its debts under any law
         relating to bankruptcy, insolvency or reorganization or relief of
         debtors, or seeking the entry of an order for relief or the appointment
         of a receiver, trustee, or other similar official for it or for any
         substantial part of its property, and, if instituted against the
         Borrower, is consented to by it or remains undismissed or unstayed for
         a period of 90 consecutive days; or the Borrower shall take any
         corporate action to authorize any of the actions set forth above in
         this clause (h);

then, and in every such event (other than the entry of an order for relief with
respect to the Borrower as a bankrupt under the Federal Bankruptcy Code), and at
any time thereafter during the continuance of such event, the Agent, at the
request of the Required Lenders, shall, by notice to the Borrower, take either
or both of the following actions, at the same or different times: (i) terminate
forthwith the Commitments and (ii) declare the Loans then outstanding to be
forthwith due and payable in whole or in part, whereupon the principal of the
Loans so declared to be due and payable, together with accrued interest thereon
and any unpaid accrued Fees and all other liabilities of the Borrower accrued
hereunder, shall become forthwith due and payable, without presentment, demand,
protest or any other notice of any kind, all of which are hereby expressly
waived by the Borrower, anything contained herein to the contrary
notwithstanding; PROVIDED, that in the event of the entry of an order for relief
with respect to Borrower as a bankrupt under the Federal Bankruptcy Code, the
Commitments shall automatically terminate and the principal of the Loans then
outstanding, together with accrued interest thereon and any unpaid accrued Fees
and all other liabilities of the Borrower accrued hereunder, shall automatically
become due and payable, without presentment, demand, protest or any other notice
of any kind, all of which are hereby expressly waived by the Borrower, anything
contained herein to the contrary notwithstanding.

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ARTICLE VIII.  THE AGENT

                  In order to expedite the transactions contemplated by this
Agreement, The Chase Manhattan Bank is hereby appointed to act as Agent on
behalf of the Lenders. Subject to Section 2.07(a), each of the Lenders hereby
irrevocably authorizes the Agent to take such actions on behalf of such Lender
and to exercise such powers as are specifically delegated to the Agent by the
terms and provisions hereof, together with such actions and powers as are
reasonably incidental thereto. The Agent is hereby expressly authorized by the
Lenders, without hereby limiting any implied authority, (a) to receive on behalf
of the Lenders all payments of principal of and interest on the Loans and all
other amounts due to the Lenders hereunder, and promptly to distribute to each
Lender its proper share of each payment so received; (b) to give notice on
behalf of each of the Lenders to the Borrower of any Event of Default specified
in this Agreement of which the Agent has actual knowledge acquired in connection
with its agency hereunder; and (c) to distribute to each Lender copies of all
notices, financial statements and other materials delivered by the Borrower
pursuant to this Agreement as received by the Agent.

                  Neither the Agent nor any of its directors, officers,
employees or agents shall be liable to any Lender as such for any action taken
or omitted by any of them except for its or his own gross negligence or wilful
misconduct, or be responsible for any statement, warranty or representation
herein or the contents of any document delivered in connection herewith, or be
required to ascertain or to make any inquiry concerning the performance or
observance by the Borrower of any of the terms, conditions (except delivery to
the Agent of the items required by Section 4.02 to be delivered to it),
covenants or agreements contained in this Agreement. The Agent shall not be
responsible to the Lenders for the due execution, genuineness, validity,
enforceability or effectiveness of this Agreement or other instruments or
agreements. The Agent shall in all cases be fully protected in acting, or
refraining from acting, in accordance with written instructions signed by the
Required Lenders and, except as otherwise specifically provided herein, such
instructions and any action or inaction pursuant thereto shall be binding on all
the Lenders. The Agent shall, in the absence of knowledge to the contrary, be
entitled to rely on any instrument or document believed by it in good faith to
be genuine and correct and to have been signed or sent by the proper Person or
Persons. Neither the Agent nor any of its directors, officers, employees or
agents shall have any responsibility to the Borrower on account of the failure
of or delay in performance or breach by any Lender of any of its obligations
hereunder or to any Lender on account of the failure of or delay in performance
or breach by any other Lender or the Borrower of any of their respective
obligations hereunder or in connection herewith. The Agent may execute any and
all duties hereunder by or through agents or employees and shall be entitled to
rely upon the advice of legal counsel selected by it with respect to all matters
arising hereunder and shall not be liable for any action taken or suffered in
good faith by it in accordance with the advice of such counsel.

                  The Lenders hereby acknowledge that the Agent shall be under
no duty to take any discretionary action permitted to be taken by it pursuant to
the provisions of this Agreement unless it shall be requested in writing to do
so by the Required Lenders.

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                  Subject to the appointment and acceptance of a successor Agent
as provided below, the Agent may resign at any time by notifying the Lenders and
the Borrower. Upon any such resignation, the Required Lenders shall have the
right to appoint a successor. If no successor shall have been so appointed by
the Required Lenders and shall have accepted such appointment within 30 days
after the retiring Agent gives notice of its resignation, then the retiring
Agent may, on behalf of the Lenders, appoint a successor Agent which shall be a
bank with an office in New York, New York, having a combined capital and surplus
of at least $500,000,000. Upon the acceptance of any appointment as Agent
hereunder by a successor bank, such successor shall succeed to and become vested
with all the rights, powers, privileges and duties of the retiring Agent and the
retiring Agent shall be discharged from its duties and obligations hereunder.
After the Agent's resignation hereunder, the provisions of this Article and
Section 9.05 shall continue in effect for its benefit in respect of any actions
taken or omitted to be taken by it while it was acting as Agent.

                  With respect to the Loans made by it hereunder, the Agent in
its individual capacity and not as Agent shall have the same rights and powers
as any other Lender and may exercise the same as though it were not the Agent,
and the Agent may accept deposits from, lend money to and generally engage in
any kind of business with the Borrower as if it were not the Agent.

                  Each Lender agrees (i) to reimburse the Agent, on demand, in
the amount of its pro rata share (based on its Commitment hereunder) of any
expenses incurred for the benefit of the Lenders by the Agent, including
reasonable counsel fees and compensation of agents and employees paid for
services rendered on behalf of the Lenders, which shall not have been reimbursed
by the Borrower and (ii) to indemnify and hold harmless the Agent and any of its
directors, officers, employees or agents, on demand, in the amount of such pro
rata share, from and against any and all liabilities, taxes, obligations,
losses, damages, penalties, actions, judgments, suits, costs, expenses or
disbursements of any kind or nature whatsoever which may be imposed on, incurred
by or asserted against it in its capacity as the Agent or any of them in any way
relating to or arising out of this Agreement or any action taken or omitted by
it or any of them under this Agreement, to the extent the same shall not have
been reimbursed by the Borrower; PROVIDED that no Lender shall be liable to the
Agent or any other indemnitee for any portion of such liabilities, obligations,
losses, damages, penalties, actions, judgments, suits, costs, expenses or
disbursements resulting from the gross negligence or wilful misconduct of the
Agent or any of its directors, officers, employees or agents.

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                  Each Lender acknowledges that it has, independently and
without reliance upon the Agent or any other Lender and based on such documents
and information as it has deemed appropriate, made its own credit analysis and
decision to enter into this Agreement. Each Lender also acknowledges that it
will, independently and without reliance upon the Agent or any other Lender and
based on such documents and information as it shall from time to time deem
appropriate, continue to make its own decisions in taking or not taking action
under or based upon this Agreement, any related agreement or any document
furnished hereunder or thereunder.

                  Notwithstanding any other provision herein, each Lender
acknowledges that the Agent is not acting as an agent of the Borrower and that
the Borrower will not be responsible for any acts or failures to act on the part
of the Agent.

ARTICLE IX.  MISCELLANEOUS

                  SECTION 9.01. NOTICES. Except as otherwise expressly provided
herein, notices and other communications provided for herein shall be in writing
and shall be delivered by hand or overnight courier service, priority mail,
mailed by certified or registered mail or sent by telecopy, as follows:

                  (a) if to the Borrower, to it at 1144 East Market Street,
         Akron, Ohio 44316-0001, Attention of the Treasurer (Telecopy No.
         330-796-1021 or 330-796-8836);

                  (b) if to the Agent, to The Chase Manhattan Bank, Loan and
         Agency Services Group, One Chase Manhattan Plaza, 8th Floor, New York,
         New York 10081, Attention of Janet Belden (Telecopy No. 212-552-5658),
         with a copy to The Chase Manhattan Bank, 270 Park Avenue, New York, New
         York 10017, Attention of Julie Long (Telecopy No. 212-270-5127); and

                  (c) if to a Lender, to it at its address (or telecopy number)
         set forth in Schedule 2.01.

All notices and other communications given to any party hereto in accordance
with the provisions of this Agreement shall be deemed to have been given on the
date of receipt if delivered by hand or overnight courier service or sent by
telecopy (as evidenced by machine transmission report), or on the date five
Business Days after dispatch by certified or registered mail, in each case
delivered, sent or mailed (properly addressed) to such party as provided in this
Section 9.01 or in accordance with the latest unrevoked direction from such
party given in accordance with this Section 9.01.

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                  SECTION 9.02. SURVIVAL OF AGREEMENT. All covenants,
agreements, representations and warranties made by the Borrower herein and in
the certificates or other instruments prepared or delivered in connection with
or pursuant to this Agreement shall be considered to have been relied upon by
the Lenders and shall survive the making by the Lenders of the Loans, regardless
of any investigation made by the Lenders or on their behalf, and shall continue
in full force and effect as long as the principal of or any accrued interest on
any Loan or any Fee or any other amount payable under this Agreement is
outstanding and unpaid and so long as the Commitments have not been terminated.

                  SECTION 9.03. BINDING EFFECT; SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS. (a) This
Agreement shall become effective when it shall have been executed by the
Borrower and the Agent and when the Agent shall have received copies hereof
which, when taken together, bear the signatures of each Lender, and thereafter
shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit of the Borrower, the Agent and
each Lender and their respective successors and assigns, except that (i) the
Borrower shall not have the right to assign its rights hereunder or any interest
herein or to delegate any of its duties hereunder without the prior written
consent of all the Lenders and (ii) no Lender shall have the right to assign or
participate its rights hereunder or any interest herein or to delegate any of
its duties hereunder without the prior written consent of the Borrower and
giving a written notice (also signed by the Borrower) to the Agent.

                  (b) Whenever in this Agreement any of the parties hereto is
referred to, such reference shall be deemed to include any successors and
permitted assigns of such party; and all covenants, promises and agreements by
or on behalf of the Borrower, the Agent or the Lenders that are contained in
this Agreement shall bind and inure to the benefit of their respective
successors and permitted assigns.

                  (c) Notwithstanding the limitations set forth in this Section
9.03, any Lender may at any time assign all or any portion of its rights under
this Agreement to a Federal Reserve Bank without the prior written consent of
the Borrower or the Agent; PROVIDED that no such assignment shall release a
Lender from any of its obligations hereunder or substitute any such Bank for
such Lender as a party hereto. In order to facilitate such an assignment to a
Federal Reserve Bank, the Borrower shall, at the request of the assigning
Lender, duly execute and deliver to the assigning Lender a promissory note or
notes in the form of Exhibit E hereto evidencing the Loans made to the Borrower
by the assigning Lender hereunder.

                  SECTION 9.04.  APPLICABLE LAW.  THIS AGREEMENT SHALL BE
CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH AND GOVERNED BY THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK.

                  SECTION 9.05. WAIVERS; AMENDMENT. (a) No failure or delay of
the Agent or any Lender in exercising any power or right hereunder shall operate
as a waiver thereof, nor shall any single or partial exercise of any such right
or power, or any abandonment or discontinuance of steps to enforce such a right
or power or preclude any other or further exercise thereof or the exercise of
any other right or power. The rights and remedies of the Agent and the Lenders
hereunder are cumulative and are not exclusive of any rights or remedies
provided by law. No waiver of any provision of this Agreement or consent to any
departure by the Borrower therefrom shall in any event be effective unless the
same shall be permitted by paragraph (b) below, and then such waiver or consent
shall be effective only in the specific instance and for the purpose for which
given.

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                  (b) Neither this Agreement nor any provision hereof may be
waived, amended or modified except pursuant to an agreement or agreements in
writing entered into by the Borrower and the Majority Lenders; PROVIDED,
HOWEVER, that no such agreement shall (i) amend, modify or otherwise affect the
rights or duties of the Agent hereunder without the prior written consent of the
Agent, (ii) decrease the principal amount of, or extend the maturity of or any
scheduled principal payment date or date for the payment of any interest on any
Loan or any Fees, or waive or excuse any such payment or any part thereof, or
decrease the rate of interest on any Loan or any Fees, without the prior written
consent of each Lender affected thereby, (iii) change or extend the Commitment
or decrease the Facility Fees or the Utilization Fee of any Lender without the
prior written consent of such Lender, or (iv) amend or modify the provisions of
Section 2.15, the provisions of this Section 9.05(b) or the definition of
"Majority Lenders" or "Required Lenders", without the prior written consent of
each Lender; PROVIDED that the provisions referred to in the preceding clauses
(ii), (iii) and (iv) may be amended by the Majority Lenders; but any Lender
which declines to approve any such amendment shall have the right at any time,
on 10 Business Days' notice to the Borrower, to terminate its Commitment and
require the Borrower to pay the principal of and interest on its outstanding
Loans and Fees, and the amount of the principal and interest so paid shall be
determined without giving effect to such amendment. All prepayments made
pursuant to this Section 9.05(b) shall be without premium, penalty or other cost
of any kind and shall not be subject to the requirements of Sections 2.15 and
2.12(d).

                  SECTION 9.06. INTEREST RATE LIMITATION. Notwithstanding
anything herein to the contrary, if at any time the applicable interest rate,
together with all fees and charges which are treated as interest under
applicable law (collectively the "Charges"), as provided for herein, or
otherwise contracted for, charged, received, taken or reserved by any Lender,
shall exceed the maximum lawful rate (the "Maximum Rate") which may be
contracted for, charged, taken, received or reserved by such Lender in
accordance with applicable law, the rate of interest payable hereunder to such
Lender, together with all Charges payable to such Lender, shall be limited to
the Maximum Rate.

                  SECTION 9.07. ENTIRE AGREEMENT. This Agreement and the letter
agreement referred to in Section 2.06(c) constitute the entire contract between
the parties relative to the subject matter hereof. Any previous agreement among
the parties with respect to the subject matter hereof is superseded by this
Agreement. Nothing in this Agreement, expressed or implied, is intended to
confer upon any party other than the parties hereto any rights, remedies,
obligations or liabilities under or by reason of this Agreement.

                  SECTION 9.08. INFORMATION; ACCESS AND CONFIDENTIALITY. So long
as any Commitments shall be in effect or any Loans shall remain unpaid: (i) the
Lenders, acting through their officers and other duly designated employees,
shall have the right to discuss the affairs, finances and accounts of the
Borrower and the Subsidiaries with senior financial officers and employees of
the Borrower at such reasonable times and intervals as the Lenders shall
reasonably request; and (ii) the Borrower will make available to the Lenders
such other information relating to the financial condition or business
operations of the Borrower and the Subsidiaries as the Lenders shall from time
to time reasonably request. Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, in
no event shall the Borrower be required to furnish to the Lenders any
information pursuant to this Section 9.08 if the Borrower shall reasonably
determine that the furnishing of such requested information would be in
violation of any applicable law, regulation or order of any Governmental

<PAGE>   43

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Body or if such information relates to the Borrower's strategic planning,
research, development, testing, manufacturing or marketing activities and the
furnishing thereof would, in the sole judgment of the Borrower reasonably
exercised, adversely affect the competitive position of the Borrower. Each
Lender agrees that all such information provided to such Lender (or any officer
or employee of such Lender) is confidential and proprietary to the Borrower and
that such Lender will not disclose (other than to the directors, officers and
employees of such Lender who require such information in connection with such
Lender's administration of this Agreement and who have been directed to treat
such information as confidential and proprietary to the Borrower) any such
information (excluding information which becomes (i) generally available to the
public other than as a result of the disclosure thereof by such Lender or its
representatives or (ii) available to such Lender on a non-confidential basis
from a source other than the Borrower or the Subsidiaries or any of their
respective directors, officers, employees, agents or representatives, provided
such source is not known to such Lender to be bound by a confidentiality
agreement with the Borrower), except to the extent such Lender is, in the
opinion of legal counsel to such Lender, required by law to disclose such
information and then only after such Lender shall have given the Borrower at
least five (5) days' prior written notice of such required disclosure or, if
such prior notice period is not available to such Lender under applicable law,
such shorter notice period, if any, as shall in fact be available to such Lender
under applicable law.

                  SECTION 9.09. SEVERABILITY. In the event any one or more of
the provisions contained in this Agreement should be held invalid, illegal or
unenforceable in any respect, the validity, legality and enforceability of the
remaining provisions contained herein and therein shall not in any way be
affected or impaired thereby. The parties shall endeavor in good-faith
negotiations to replace the invalid, illegal or unenforceable provisions with
valid provisions the legal and economic effect of which comes as close as
possible to that of the invalid, illegal or unenforceable provisions.

                  SECTION 9.10. COUNTERPARTS. This Agreement may be executed in
two or more counterparts, each of which shall constitute an original but all of
which when taken together shall constitute but one contract, and shall become
effective as provided in Section 9.03.

                  SECTION 9.11. HEADINGS. Article and Section headings and the
Table of Contents used herein are for convenience of reference only, are not
part of this Agreement and are not to affect the construction of, or to be
taken into consideration in interpreting, this Agreement.

                  SECTION 9.12. JURISDICTION; CONSENT TO SERVICE OF PROCESS. (a)
Each party to this Agreement irrevocably and unconditionally submits, for itself
and its property, to the nonexclusive jurisdiction of any New York State court
or Federal court of the United States of America sitting in New York City, and
any appellate court from any thereof, in any action or proceeding arising out of
or relating to this Agreement, or for recognition or enforcement of any judgment
related hereto, and each of the parties hereto hereby irrevocably and
unconditionally agrees that all claims in respect of any such action or
proceeding may be heard and determined in such New York State or, to the extent
permitted by law, in such Federal court. Nothing in this Agreement shall affect
any right that any party may otherwise have to bring any action or proceeding
relating to this Agreement in the courts of any jurisdiction.

<PAGE>   44

                                                                            41

                  (b) Each party to this Agreement irrevocably and
unconditionally waives, to the fullest extent it may legally and effectively do
so, any objection which it may now or hereafter have to the laying of venue of
any suit, action or proceeding arising out of or relating to this Agreement in
any New York State or Federal court. Each of the parties hereto hereby
irrevocably waives, to the fullest extent permitted by law, the defense of an
inconvenient forum to the maintenance of such action or proceeding in any such
court.

                  (c) Each party to this Agreement irrevocably consents to
service of process in the manner provided for notices in Section 9.01. Nothing
in this Agreement will affect the right of any party to this Agreement to serve
process in any other manner permitted by law.

                  SECTION 9.13. STAMP TAXES. The Borrower agrees to pay, and to
save the Agent and each Lender harmless from all liability for, any stamp,
transfer, documentary or similar taxes, assessments or charges (herein "Stamp
Taxes"), and any penalties or interest with respect thereto, which may be
assessed, levied, collected or imposed, or otherwise become payable, in
connection with the execution and delivery of this Agreement. The Agent and each
Lender represents and warrants unto the Borrower that, at the date of this
Agreement, there are not Stamp Taxes in effect which are applicable to this
Agreement or any Loans which may be made hereunder and the Agent and each Lender
agrees that it will promptly notify the Borrower upon becoming aware of the
imposition or prospective imposition of any Stamp Taxes in respect of this
Agreement or any Loan made pursuant to this Agreement. The obligations of the
Borrower, the Agent and each Lender under this Section 9.13 shall survive the
payment of the Loans.

                  SECTION 9.14. CHANGE OF CONTROL OPTION. (a) In the event there
shall occur any Change of Control (as defined below) each Lender shall have the
right, at its option exercisable at any time within six months following the
Change Date (as defined below), to require the Borrower to purchase the Loans of
such Lender on the Purchase Date (as defined below) at a purchase price which
shall be equal to the sum of (i) the principal amount of such Loans then
outstanding, PLUS (ii) any and all accrued and unpaid interest on such Loans and
Fees to the Purchase Date (the "Purchase Price").

                  (b) The Borrower shall give the Lenders, through the Agent,
written notice of the occurrence of a Change of Control within five Business
Days following the Change Date. No failure of the Borrower to give notice of a
Change of Control shall limit the right of any Lender to require the purchase of
its Loans pursuant to this Section 9.14.

                  (c) Any Lender may exercise its right to require the purchase
of its Loans under this Section 9.14 by delivering to the Borrower at any time
within six months after the Change Date written notice thereof, specifying the
Purchase Date. The Commitment of any Lender exercising its right to require the
purchase of its Loans under this Section 9.14 shall automatically terminate
immediately upon the Borrower's receipt of such Lender's written notice of such
exercise of its option in accordance with this Section 9.14.

                  (d) In the event of the exercise by any Lender of its option
under this Section 9.14 in the manner provided herein, the Borrower shall pay or
cause to be paid to such Lender on the Purchase Date the Purchase Price
(determined in accordance with paragraph (a) above) in immediately available
funds. No exercise of the option granted in this Section 9.14 shall be subject
to the requirements of Sections 2.15 and 2.12(d).

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                  (e)  As used in this Section 9.14, the term:

                  (1) "CHANGE DATE" means the date on which any Change of
         Control shall be deemed to have occurred; PROVIDED, that, if the
         Borrower shall fail to give timely notice of the occurrence of a Change
         of Control to the Lenders as provided in paragraph (b) above, for the
         purpose of determining the duration of the Lenders' rights to require
         prepayment under this Section 9.14, "CHANGE DATE" shall mean the
         earlier of (i) the date on which notice of a Change of Control is duly
         given by the Borrower to the Agent or (ii) with respect to any Lender,
         the date on which such Lender obtains actual knowledge of the Change of
         Control.

                  (2) "CHANGE OF CONTROL" means when, and shall be deemed to
         have occurred at such time as, a "person" or "group" (within the
         meaning of Sections 13(d) and 14(d)(2) of the Exchange Act) becomes the
         "beneficial owner" (as defined in Rule 13d-3 under the Exchange Act) of
         more than 50% of the then outstanding Voting Stock of the Borrower;
         PROVIDED, that fifty percent shall become 70% with respect to any
         "employee benefit plan" (as defined in Section 3(3) of ERISA)
         maintained by the Borrower or any Subsidiary or any trust or funding
         vehicle maintained for or pursuant to such "employee benefit plan".

                  (3) "PURCHASE DATE" means, with respect to any Lender, the
         date on which the Borrower shall purchase the Loans of such Lender
         pursuant to the exercise by such Lender of its option under this
         Section 9.14, pursuant to a notice given to the Borrower in accordance
         with paragraph (c) of this Section 9.14, which date shall be a Business
         Day not less than 90 nor more than 120 days after the date such Lender
         gives the Borrower written notice of such exercise.

                  (4) "VOTING STOCK" shall mean capital stock of the Borrower of
         any class or classes (however designated) the holders of which are
         ordinarily, in the absence of contingencies, entitled to vote for the
         election of the Board of Directors of the Borrower, it being understood
         that, at the date hereof, the Common Stock, without par value, of the
         Borrower is the only outstanding class of capital stock of the Borrower
         which constitutes "Voting Stock".

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                  IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Borrower, the Agent and the Lenders
have caused this Agreement to be duly executed by their respective authorized
officers as of the day and year first above written.

                                        THE GOODYEAR TIRE & RUBBER
                                        COMPANY,

                                         by  /s/ Stephanie W. Bergeron
                                            ------------------------------------
                                          Name: Stephanie W. Bergeron
                                          Title: Vice President and Treasurer

                                        THE CHASE MANHATTAN BANK,
                                        individually and as Agent,

                                         by  /s/ Julie S. Long
                                            ------------------------------------
                                           Name: Julie S. Long
                                           Title: Vice President

<PAGE>   47

                                              ABN AMRO BANK N.V.,

                                              by /s/ John M. Ellenwood
                                              ---------------------------
                                              Name:   John M. Ellenwood
                                              Title: Group Vice President

                                              by /s/ John J. Mack
                                              ---------------------------
                                              Name:      John J. Mack
                                              Title:    Vice President

                                              BANCA NAZIONALE DEL LAVORO, S.P.A.
                                              - NEW YORK BRANCH,

                                              by /s/ Frederick W. Hall
                                              ---------------------------
                                              Name:   Frederick W. Hall
                                              Title:    Vice President

                                              by /s/ Leonardo Valentini
                                              ---------------------------
                                              Name:   Leonardo Valentini
                                              Title: First Vice President

                                              BANK OF AMERICA, N.A.,

                                              by /s/ Matthew J. Reilly
                                              ---------------------------
                                              Name:   Matthew J. Reilly
                                              Title:    Vice President

                                              THE BANK OF NOVA SCOTIA,

                                              by /s/ M.D. Smith
                                              ---------------------------
                                              Name:      M.D. Smith
                                              Title:  Agent Operations

                                              BANK OF TOKYO-MITSUBISHI TRUST
                                              COMPANY,

                                              by /s/ Friedrich N. Wilms
                                              ---------------------------
                                              Name:      F. N. Wilms
                                              Title:    Vice President

<PAGE>   48
                                      BANK ONE, N.A.,

                                      by /s/ Kelly M. Hamrick
                                         ----------------------------
                                         Name: Kelly M. Hamrick
                                         Title: Vice President

                                      BARCLAYS BANK PLC,

                                      by /s/ L. Peter Yetman
                                         ----------------------------
                                         Name: L. Peter Yetman
                                         Title: Director

                                      BBL INTERNATIONAL (U.K.) LIMITED,

                                      by /s/ M.C. Swinnen
                                         ----------------------------
                                         Name: M.C. Swinnen
                                         Title: Authorised Signatory

                                      by /s/ C.R. Wright
                                         ----------------------------
                                         Name: C.R. Wright
                                         Title: Authorised Signatory

                                      BNP PARIBAS, CHICAGO BRANCH,

                                      by /s/ Richard L. Sted
                                         ----------------------------
                                         Name: Richard L. Sted
                                         Title: Central Region Manager

                                      CIBC INC.,

                                      by /s/ Katherine Bass
                                         ----------------------------
                                         Name: Katherine Bass
                                         Title: Executive Director
                                                CIBC World Markets Corp.
                                                 As Agent
<PAGE>   49

                                              CITIBANK, N.A.,

                                              by /s/ Candi M. Halbert
                                              ---------------------------------
                                              Name:     Candi M. Halbert
                                              Title:     Vice President

                                              COMMERZBANK AG, New York and
                                              Grand Cayman Branches,

                                              by /s/ Graham A. Warning
                                              ---------------------------------
                                              Name:      Graham A. Warning
                                              Title:    Assistant Treasurer

                                              by /s/ John Marlatt
                                              ---------------------------------
                                              Name:         John Marlatt
                                              Title:       Vice President

                                              CREDIT LYONNAIS, Chicago Branch,

                                              by /s/ Mary Ann Klemm
                                              ---------------------------------
                                              Name:       Mary Ann Klemm
                                              Title:      Vice President

                                              CREDIT SUISSE FIRST BOSTON,

                                              by /s/ Bill O'Daly
                                              ---------------------------------
                                              Name:        Bill O'Daly
                                              Title:     Vice President

                                              by /s/ William S. Lutkins
                                              ---------------------------------
                                              Name:      William S. Lutkins
                                              Title:       Vice President

                                              THE DAI-ICHI KANGYO BANK, LTD.,
                                              Chicago Branch,

                                              by /s/ Nobuyasu Fukatsu
                                              ---------------------------------
                                              Name:       Nobuyasu Fukatsu
                                              Title:      General Manager
<PAGE>   50

                                              DEUTSCHE BANK AG NEW YORK
                                              BRANCH AND/OR CAYMAN ISLANDS
                                              BRANCH,

                                              by /s/ Kristen Kunt
                                              ---------------------------------
                                              Name:          Kristen Kunt
                                              Title:        Vice President

                                              by /s/ O. Schwarz
                                              ---------------------------------
                                              Name:        Oliver Schwarz
                                              Title:       Vice President

                                              THE INDUSTRIAL BANK OF JAPAN,
                                              LIMITED,

                                              by /s/ Walter R. Wolff
                                              ---------------------------------
                                              Name:       Walter R. Wolff
                                              Title:   Joint General Manager

                                              KEYBANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,

                                              by /s/ Daniel W. Lally
                                              ---------------------------------
                                              Name:         Daniel W. Lally
                                              Title:   Assistant Vice President

                                              NATIONAL CITY BANK,

                                              by /s/ Janice E. Focke
                                              ---------------------------------
                                              Name:       Janice E. Focke
                                              Title:     Vice President &
                                                      Senior Lending Officer

                                              THE NORTHERN TRUST COMPANY,

                                              by /s/ Craig L. Smith
                                              ---------------------------------
                                              Name:       Craig L. Smith
                                              Title:      Vice President
<PAGE>   51

                                            ROYAL BANK OF CANADA,

                                            by /s/ R. Lee
                                            -----------------------------------
                                            Name:           R. Lee
                                            Title:          Sr. Mgr.

                                            SANWA BANK LTD.,

                                            by /s/ Kenneth C. Eichwald
                                            -----------------------------------
                                            Name:       Kenneth C. Eichwald
                                            Title: Vice President & Area Manager

                                            SOCIETE GENERALE,

                                            by /s/ Carol Radice
                                            -----------------------------------
                                            Name:         Carol Radice
                                            Title:       Vice President

                                            STANDARD CHARTERED BANK (NEW
                                            YORK),

                                            by /s/ Lalita Vadhri
                                            -----------------------------------
                                            Name:          Lalita Vadhri
                                            Title:        Vice President

                                            by /s/ Andrew Ng
                                            -----------------------------------
                                            Name:          Andrew Ng
                                            Title:      Vice President

                                            THE SUMITOMO BANK LIMITED, New
                                            York Branch,

                                            by /s/ C. Michael Garrido
                                            -----------------------------------
                                            Name:     C. Michael Garrido
                                            Title:   Senior Vice President

                                            SVENSKA HANDELSBANKEN,

                                            by /s/ Mark Cleary
                                            -----------------------------------
                                            Name:          Mark Cleary
                                            Title:    Senior Vice President

                                            by /s/ Henrik Jensen
                                            -----------------------------------
                                            Name:        Henrik Jensen
                                            Title:      Vice President<PAGE>   1
                                  EXHIBIT 10.1

                            [GOODYEAR LETTERHEAD]

                               September 11, 2000

Mr Robert J Keegan
212 Royal View
Pittsford, NY 14534

Dear Bob:

I am extremely pleased to extend an offer to you for the position of President
and Chief Operating Officer for The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company at the
company's corporate headquarters in Akron, Ohio. You will be reporting directly
to Sam Gibara, Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer.

Your annual base salary will be $800,000 and will be paid semi-monthly. In
addition, your annual short-term incentive Performance Recognition Plan (PRP)
target for 2001 will be $640,000. With respect to your 2001 PRP, you may earn
anywhere from 0% to 100% of your target depending on the achievement of annual
financial objectives.

For the year 2000, you will be guaranteed a bonus of $432,000 which will be paid
in February 2001.

The current long-term incentive plan consists entirely of stock options, which
are generally granted on an annual basis with a target amount for your position
of 140,000 shares. It is anticipated the next annual grant will be in December
2000. Stock options will vest 25% a year over four years and have a ten-year
term. They also contain a feature for reloading the grants should you exercise
them via a stock for stock swap.

As discussed with you, the Goodyear long-term incentive plan is currently under
consideration for revision. One of the alternatives being considered is the
addition of a second long-term incentive component. If approved, the addition of
this second component would likely reduce the target amount of stock options
described above.

You will be eligible to participate in the Deferred Compensation Plan for
Executives which provides you the opportunity to defer a portion of your salary
and all or a portion of your PRP payment.

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In addition to the items above, compensation is being made to you on a one-time
basis as a replacement for lost compensation as a result of your career move and
as a hiring incentive. To replace your present Kodak stock options, you will be
granted 250,000 Goodyear stock options with the same terms and conditions as the
annual stock option grant described above. Assuming your first day of employment
with Goodyear is on October 1st, the grant price of these stock options will be
the average of the high and the low of Goodyear stock on the 3rd of October 2000
(the date of the next Compensation Committee meeting of the Board of Directors).
In addition to the stock options, you are being awarded restricted stock in the
amount of 50,000 shares at a cost of $.01 per share. The 50,000 shares will be
restricted for a period of two years during which time you will receive
dividends. At the end of two years, you will receive the 50,000 shares free of
restrictions.

On January 1 of each year you will be eligible for five weeks vacation. For the
calendar year 2000 you will be eligible for a prorated portion of five weeks
based on the effective date of your employment with the company. You may carry
over (defer) one years eligibility to the next year. All other vacation rules as
outlined in the Personnel Manual will be applicable.

Goodyear has very competitive benefit plans covering medical, dental,
prescription drug, vision, life insurance, accident insurance, disability and
more. We would be happy to discuss these programs with you in greater detail at
your convenience. Initial waiting periods for enrollment and coverage will be
waived or you will be provided other coverage for the transition to Goodyear.

Goodyear's qualified pension plan (Salaried Plan), consisting of contributory
and non-contributory benefits, will provide a benefit upon your retirement. You
will be eligible for a benefit under the Salaried Plan after completing five
years of service with the company. In addition, you will participate in the
non-qualified Supplementary Pension Plan for executives.

In order to provide you a total pension benefit equivalent to what you would
have earned under the Goodyear pension plans if your Goodyear service were equal
to the total of your service with Goodyear and Kodak, you will be credited with
additional service under the Goodyear Supplementary Plan. This additional
service will be calculated based on your Goodyear earnings, your actual Goodyear
service, your Kodak service, and your pension benefits payable from Kodak. The
methodology for determining this benefit is outlined in attachment to this
letter.

The crediting of additional Supplementary Plan service will apply after three
years of actual Goodyear service. If actual Goodyear service is less than three
years, but the severance clause described below is triggered, then the severance
package will also include the crediting of additional Supplementary Plan
service. Should you elect to leave Goodyear in the first three years and the
severance clause is not triggered, you will not be eligible for any Goodyear
pension benefit. However, in the event of your death or permanent and total
disability at any time during your years of Goodyear employment, the crediting
of additional Supplementary Plan service will apply.

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The 401K savings plan is an additional source of retirement benefits. As a
highly compensated employee, currently you will be eligible effective the first
of the month following three months from the date you become an employee of the
company to contribute up to 10% of your pre-tax dollars. The company will match
your contribution at the rate of 50% of the first 6% you contribute. These
contributions are, of course, subject to the current annual IRS maximums of
$10,500 by the associate and $5,100 by the company in 2000. Therefore the
maximum you may contribute to the Goodyear plan in 2000 is the $10,500 limit
less any contributions you may have made at Kodak.

In regard to your relocation, you will be eligible to participate in the
company's relocation program which will provide home sale and purchase
assistance along with moving of household goods. In addition, the company will
provide you a $10,000 relocation allowance. This will be paid upon your move to
the Akron area and will be subject to any applicable taxes.

You will also be eligible to participate in the Personal Financial Planning
Program for key executives. You may select one of four providers approved by the
company to provide you with comprehensive financial planning services including
the preparation of your income tax return. The cost is paid by the company and
reported as imputed income to you.

Although you are being hired as President and COO of Goodyear, the clear
intention is for you to be given consideration at a future date as Chief
Executive Officer of Goodyear at the sole discretion of the Board of Directors.
Should you not be appointed CEO of Goodyear after completion of thirty-six
months from your date of hire, you may elect to trigger the severance clause
described below. Should you not trigger the severance clause at any time up to
the completion of thirty-seven months from your date of hire as a result of your
not being appointed CEO, the severance clause will lapse.

If your employment with The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company is severed by the
company for other than cause prior to your appointment as CEO or 36 months,
whichever comes first, you will be provided a severance payment equivalent to
thirty-six months of your base salary plus target bonus at the time of your
exit. In addition, the severance package will include the crediting of
additional service under the Goodyear Supplementary Plan, as discussed above. If
your Goodyear service is at least five years, you will also be eligible for
retirement benefits under the Goodyear Salaried Plan. At retirement, your
outstanding options will vest in accordance with the terms specified in your
grant agreement and the 1997 Performance Incentive Plan.

If your retirement is with less than 10 years actual Goodyear service, you will
not be eligible for the company's retiree medical and dental plans. At
retirement with less than 10 years actual Goodyear service or if the severance
clause described above is triggered, the company will provide you an insured
product covering medical and dental benefits comparable to the company's retiree
plans. The insurance program will cover you and your spouse and any eligible
dependents that would normally be covered by the Goodyear retiree plans. At the
time you and your spouse become eligible for Medicare this plan will be
integrated with Medicare part A and part B.

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Upon completion of one year of continuous service you will be eligible for
participation in the Goodyear Severance Plan for Salaried Employees. Under the
current plan, in the event of a hostile takeover you will be eligible to receive
severance pay equal to two years of total annual compensation if you are
involuntarily separated from service within two years following the change in
control. In the event of a change in control and involuntary separation prior to
your completing one year of service, the company will make a payment to you in
lieu of participation in the Severance Plan equivalent to the amount that would
have been provided and subject to all of the other provisions as if you were a
participant in the plan.

Although we anticipate no difficulty, this offer is contingent upon your
satisfactorily completing a physical examination for employment. We will be
happy to make the necessary arrangements for your physical with our company
physician or other physician of your choice. If you have had an executive
physical within the last six months, we should be able to use those results
eliminating the need for another exam.

Enclosed are several documents pertaining to the compensation and benefit
programs for your review. If you have any questions regarding this offer, feel
free to contact me at (330) 796-4140. Please notify me of your acceptance of
this offer within five business days.

                                      Sincerely,

                                      /s/ W. J. Fish

                                      Senior Vice President
                                      Global Human Resources

W J Fish
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                                                                      Attachment

                       Robert J Keegan Pension Provisions

1.   The pension benefit payable under the Goodyear Salaried Plan will be
     calculated based on your actual Goodyear service and Goodyear earnings. A
     pension will be payable from this plan only if your actual Goodyear service
     is at least five years.

2.   The pension benefit under the Goodyear Supplementary Plan formula will be
     calculated based on your combined Goodyear and Kodak service and your
     Goodyear earnings. Kodak service will include all periods of time used by
     Kodak in the calculation of the Kodak pension benefit.

3.   The sum of items 1 and 2 will be the total target pension benefit, prior to
     the offset for the Kodak pension benefit.

4.   Your Kodak pension benefit, calculated at your exit from Kodak and
     inclusive of the value of benefits previously paid by Kodak, will be
     converted into an actuarially equivalent benefit payable at your exit from
     Goodyear. This actuarial equivalent will be determined as follows:

     (a)  Your accrued Kodak annuity benefit, payable at age 65, consists of a
          pre-1996 benefit and a post-1995 benefit. (These are currently assumed
          to be $97,504 and $200,229, respectively.)

     (b)  When you exit Goodyear, the deferred Kodak annuity, item (a), will be
          converted into an immediate annuity based on Kodak service and your
          age at exit from Goodyear. This conversion will use the early
          commencement factors from the Kodak Plan, which differ for the
          pre-1996 and post-1995 components. If the then current Goodyear
          Supplementary Plan formula is annuity-based, the Kodak offset will be
          this immediate annuity.

     (c)  If the then-current Goodyear Supplementary Plan formula is
          lump-sum-based, then the Kodak offset will be the lump sum which is
          actuarially equivalent to the immediate annuity in item (b). For this
          purpose actuarial equivalence will be based on your age at Goodyear
          exit and reciprocals of the factors under the Goodyear Salaried Plan
          used to convert pension point balances into annuities.

5.   The total pension benefit payable by Goodyear will be the total target
     pension benefit, item 3, less the actuarial equivalent of the Kodak
     benefit, item 4.

6.   The Goodyear Supplementary Plan pension benefit will equal the total
     Goodyear pension, item 5, less the vested Goodyear Salaried Plan benefit,
     item 1, if any.

7.   Additional years of credited service under the Supplementary Plan will be
     granted so that the Supplementary Plan formula yields the benefit in item
     6. Thus a Supplementary Plan calculation using service equal to actual
     Goodyear service plus the additional Supplementary service, and using
     Goodyear earnings, will generate the Supplementary Plan benefit.

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