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                                                                     EXHIBIT 4.1

                  2.75% CONVERTIBLE SUBORDINATED NOTE DUE 2033

THIS CONVERTIBLE SUBORDINATED NOTE IS A GLOBAL CONVERTIBLE SUBORDINATED NOTE
WITHIN THE MEANING OF THE INDENTURE HEREINAFTER REFERRED TO AND IS REGISTERED IN
THE NAME OF A DEPOSITARY OR A NOMINEE THEREOF. THIS CONVERTIBLE SUBORDINATED
NOTE MAY NOT BE EXCHANGED IN WHOLE OR IN PART FOR A CONVERTIBLE SUBORDINATED
NOTE REGISTERED, AND NO TRANSFER OF THIS CONVERTIBLE SUBORDINATED NOTE IN WHOLE
OR IN PART MAY BE REGISTERED, IN THE NAME OF ANY PERSON OTHER THAN SUCH
DEPOSITARY OR A NOMINEE THEREOF, EXCEPT IN THE LIMITED CIRCUMSTANCES DESCRIBED
IN THE INDENTURE.

UNLESS THIS CONVERTIBLE SUBORDINATED NOTE IS PRESENTED BY AN AUTHORIZED
REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DEPOSITORY TRUST CORPORATION (55 WATER STREET, NEW YORK,
NEW YORK) TO THE ISSUER OR ITS AGENT FOR REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER, EXCHANGE OR
PAYMENT AND ANY CONVERTIBLE SUBORDINATED NOTE ISSUED IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME
OF CEDE & CO. OR SUCH OTHER NAME AS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF
THE DEPOSITORY TRUST CORPORATION AND ANY PAYMENT HEREON IS MADE TO CEDE & CO.,
ANY TRANSFER, PLEDGE OR OTHER USE HEREOF FOR VALUE OR OTHERWISE BY A PERSON IS
WRONGFUL SINCE THE REGISTERED OWNER HEREOF, CEDE & CO., HAS AN INTEREST HEREIN.

No. 1                                            CUSIP No.  087851 AR 2

                            BEVERLY ENTERPRISES, INC.
                  2.75% CONVERTIBLE SUBORDINATED NOTE DUE 2033

Principal Amount: $115,000,000

Regular Record Date: Close of business on the 15th calendar day prior to the
relevant Interest Payment Date (whether or not a Business Day)

Original Issue Date: October 22, 2003

Stated Maturity:  November 1, 2033

Interest Payment Dates: Semi-annually on May 1 and November 1 of each year,
commencing May 1, 2004

Interest Rate:  2.75% per annum (as provided for on the reverse hereof)

Authorized Denomination:  $1,000 and any integral multiples thereof

                                      Note

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         IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Corporation has caused this instrument to be
duly executed under its corporate seal.

Dated:

                                            Beverly Enterprises, Inc.

                                            By:  /s/ Authorized Signatory
                                                --------------------------------
                                            Name:
                                            Title:
Attest:

    /s/ Authorized Signatory
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Name:
Title:

                          CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION

         This is one of the Convertible Subordinated Notes of the series
designated therein referred to in the within-mentioned Indenture.

                                               The Bank of New York,
                                                     as Trustee

                                               By:   /s/ Authorized Signatory
                                                   -----------------------------
                                                   Authorized Signatory

                                      Note

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                            BEVERLY ENTERPRISES, INC.

                  2.75% CONVERTIBLE SUBORDINATED NOTES DUE 2033

SECTION 1.        Indenture; Convertible Subordinated Notes.

                  This Convertible Subordinated Note is one of a duly authorized
series of the 2.75% Convertible Subordinated Notes due 2033 (the "Convertible
Subordinated Notes") of Beverly Enterprises, Inc. a Delaware corporation
(including any successor Person under the Indenture hereinafter referred to, the
"Corporation"), issued under an Indenture (the "Original Indenture"), dated as
of October 22, 2003 as supplemented by the First Supplemental Indenture dated as
of October 22, 2003 (the "First Supplemental Indenture"; and together with the
Original Indenture, and as may be amended from time to time, the "Indenture"),
between the Corporation and The Bank of New York, as trustee (the "Trustee").
The terms of the Convertible Subordinated Note include those stated in the
Indenture and those made part of the Indenture by reference to the Trust
Indenture Act of 1939, as amended ("TIA"). This Convertible Subordinated Note is
subject to all such terms, and Holders are referred to the Indenture and the TIA
for a statement of all such terms. To the extent permitted by applicable law, in
the event of any inconsistency or difference between the terms of this
Convertible Subordinated Note and the terms of the Indenture, the terms of the
Indenture shall control. Capitalized terms used but not defined herein have the
meanings assigned to them in the Indenture referred to below unless otherwise
indicated.

SECTION 2.        Principal and Interest.

                  The Corporation promises to pay Interest on the principal
amount of the Convertible Subordinated Notes at the Interest Rate from the date
of issuance until repayment in full at Stated Maturity, redemption or purchase.
The Corporation will pay Interest on this Convertible Subordinated Note
semi-annually in arrears on May 1 and November 1 of each year (each, an
"Interest Payment Date"), commencing May 1, 2004.

                  The Convertible Subordinated Notes shall bear Interest from
October 22, 2003 until the principal thereof is paid or made available for
payment, or until such date on which the Convertible Subordinated Notes are
converted, redeemed or purchased as provided herein, (i) prior to the occurrence
of a Reset Transaction, at a rate of 2.75% per annum, and (ii) following the
occurrence of a Reset Transaction, at the Adjusted Interest Rate related to such
Reset Transaction to, but not including, the effective date of any succeeding
Reset Transaction. Interest shall be payable semi-annually in arrears on each
Interest Payment Date.

                  Interest on the Convertible Subordinated Notes shall be
computed (i) for any full semi-annual period for which a particular Interest
Rate is applicable, on the basis of a 360-day year comprised of twelve 30-day
months and (ii) for any period for which a particular Interest Rate is
applicable for less than a full semiannual period for which Interest is
calculated, on the basis of a 30-day month and, for such periods of less than a
month, the actual number of days elapsed over a 30-day month. For purposes of
determining the Interest Rate, the Trustee may assume that a Reset Transaction
has not occurred unless the Trustee has received an Officers'

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Certificate stating that a Reset Transaction has occurred and specifying the
Adjusted Interest Rate then in effect.

                  Further reference is made to Sections 1.01(c) and 2.01 of the
First Supplemental Indenture for other provisions of the Convertible
Subordinated Notes relating to the payment of Interest.

                  If the Corporation fails to make a payment of principal of or
Interest on any Convertible Subordinated Note when due and payable, it shall pay
such Interest on such amounts (to the extent lawful), which shall be calculated
using the applicable Interest Rate (such amounts, the "Defaulted Interest"). It
may elect to pay such Defaulted Interest, plus any other Interest payable on it,
to the Persons who are Holders on which the Interest is due on a subsequent
special record date. The Corporation shall notify the Trustee in writing of the
amount of Defaulted Interest proposed to be paid on each such Convertible
Subordinated Note. The Corporation shall fix any such special record date and
payment date for such payment. At least 15 days before any such special record
date, the Corporation shall mail to Holders affected thereby a notice that
states the special record date, the Interest Payment Date and amount to be paid.

SECTION 3.        Method of Payment.

                  Interest on this Convertible Subordinated Note which is
payable, and is punctually paid or duly provided for, on any Interest Payment
Date shall be paid to the Person in whose name that Convertible Subordinated
Note (or one or more Predecessor Convertible Subordinated Notes) is registered
at the close of business on the Regular Record Date for such Interest. principal
of and Interest on Global Convertible Subordinated Notes will be payable, for
the benefit of the Holders of this Convertible Subordinated Note, to the
Depositary in immediately available funds.

                  Principal on Physical Convertible Subordinated Notes will be
payable at the office or agency of the Corporation maintained for such purpose,
initially the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee. Interest on Physical
Convertible Subordinated Notes having an aggregate principal amount of
$5,000,000 or less will be payable by a U.S. Dollar check drawn on a bank in The
City of New York mailed to the address of the Person entitled thereto as such
address shall appear in the security register held by the Security Registrar and
Interest on Physical Convertible Subordinated Notes having an aggregate
principal amount of more than $5,000,000 will be payable by wire transfer in
immediately payable funds if requested by Holder of those Convertible
Subordinated Notes.

SECTION 4.        Paying Agent and Registrar.

                  Initially, The Bank of New York will act as Paying Agent,
Registrar and Conversion Agent. The Corporation may change the Paying Agent or
Registrar without notice to any Holder.

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SECTION 5.        Subordination

         The indebtedness evidenced by the Convertible Subordinated Notes is, to
the extent and in the manner provided in Article 11 of the First Supplemental
Indenture, expressly subordinated and subject on right of payment to the prior
payment in full of all Senior Debt of the Corporation.

SECTION 6.        Optional Redemption

                  Reference is made to Article 4 of the First Supplemental
Indenture regarding the Corporation's right to optionally redeem the Convertible
Subordinated Notes, which is incorporated into this Convertible Subordinated
Note by reference as if stated herein in its entirety.

SECTION 7.        Purchase Right Upon a Specific Date or Repurchase Event.

                  Reference is made to Article 5 of the First Supplemental
Indenture regarding the Corporation's obligations to the Holders upon a
Repurchase Event and the Holders' rights to require the Corporation to
repurchase their Convertible Subordinated Notes upon a Repurchase Event, which
is incorporated into this Convertible Subordinated Note by reference as if
stated herein in its entirety.

SECTION 8.        Conversion Right.

                  Reference is made to Article 6 of the First Supplemental
Indenture regarding the Holders' right to convert their Convertible Subordinated
Notes and related matters, which is incorporated into this Convertible
Subordinated Note by reference as if stated herein in its entirety.

SECTION 9.        No Sinking Fund and No Defeasance.

                  The Convertible Subordinated Notes shall not have a sinking
fund or any analogous provision pursuant to Article XII of the Original
Indenture or otherwise.

                  The Convertible Subordinated Notes will not be subject to
defeasance or other analogous provision pursuant to Sections 9.3 and 9.4 of the
Original Indenture or otherwise.

SECTION 10.       Absolute Obligation.

                  No reference herein to the Indenture and no provision of this
Convertible Subordinated Note or of the Indenture shall alter or impair the
obligation of the Corporation under the Indenture and this Convertible
Subordinated Note which is absolute and unconditional, to pay the principal of
or Interest on this Convertible Subordinated Note at the place and time and in
the coin or currency herein prescribed.

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SECTION 11.       Denominations; Transfer; Exchange.

                  The Convertible Subordinated Notes are issuable in registered
form, without coupons, in denominations of $1,000 and integral multiples of
$1,000 in excess thereof. A Holder may transfer and register the transfer or
exchange of Convertible Subordinated Notes in accordance with the Indenture.

                  Pursuant to the Indenture, when this Convertible Subordinated
Note (or any portion thereof in integral multiples of $1,000 in principle
amount) is presented to the Registrar with a request to register the transfer or
to exchange it for an equal principal amount other authorized denominations, the
Registrar shall register the transfer or make the exchange as requested if the
requirements hereunder for such transactions are met (including that such
portions thereof are duly endorsed or accompanied by a written instrument of
transfer duly executed by the Holder thereof or by an attorney who is authorized
in writing to act on behalf of the Holder). Subject to Section 2.3 of the
Original Indenture, to permit registrations of transfers and exchanges, the
Corporation shall execute and the Trustee shall authenticate Convertible
Subordinated Notes at the Registrar's request. No service charge shall be made
for any registration of transfer or exchange or redemption of the Convertible
Subordinated Notes, but the Corporation may require payment of a sum sufficient
to cover any transfer tax or similar governmental charge payable in connection
therewith (other than any such transfer taxes or other similar governmental
charge payable upon exchanges pursuant to Sections 2.12 or 10.6 of the Original
Indenture or Section 4.7 of the First Supplemental Indenture).

                  Pursuant to the Indenture, neither the Corporation nor the
Registrar shall be required to exchange or register a transfer of this
Convertible Subordinated Note (or any portion thereof):

                  (a) for a period of 15 days prior to the day of any selection
         of any portion of this Convertible Subordinated Note for redemption
         under Article 4 of the First Supplemental Indenture;

                  (b) so selected for redemption or, if a portion of this
         Convertible Subordinated Note is selected for redemption, such portion
         thereof selected for redemption; or

                  (c) surrendered for conversion or, if a portion of this
         Convertible Subordinated Note is surrendered for conversion, such
         portion thereof surrendered for conversion.

                  In the event of redemption, conversion or purchase of the
Convertible Subordinated Notes in part only, a new Convertible Subordinated Note
or Convertible Subordinated Notes for the unredeemed, unconverted or unpurchased
portion thereof will be issued in the name of the Holder hereof.

SECTION 12.       Persons Deemed Owners.

                  The registered Holder of this Convertible Subordinated Note
shall be treated as its owner for all purposes.

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SECTION 13.       Discharge Prior to Redemption or Stated Maturity.

                  Subject to certain conditions contained in the Indenture, the
Corporation may discharge its obligations under the Convertible Subordinated
Notes and the Indenture if (1)(A) all of the Outstanding Convertible
Subordinated Notes shall become due and payable at their scheduled Stated
Maturity within one year or (B) all of the Outstanding Convertible Subordinated
Notes are scheduled for redemption within one year or have all been converted,
and (2) the Corporation shall have deposited with the Trustee cash or, in the
event of a conversion pursuant to the terms of the Indenture, Common Stock,
sufficient to pay all amounts due and owing on all Outstanding Convertible
Subordinated Notes on the date of their scheduled maturity or the scheduled date
of redemption, as the case may be.

SECTION 14.       Amendment; Supplement; Waiver.

                  The Indenture permits, with certain exceptions as therein
provided, the amendment thereof and the modification of the rights and
obligations of the Corporation and the rights of the Holders of the Convertible
Subordinated Notes under the Indenture at any time by the Corporation and the
Trustee with the consent of the Holders of a majority of the aggregate principal
amount of the Outstanding Convertible Subordinated Notes. The Indenture also
contains provisions permitting the Holders of specified percentages in principal
amount of the Convertible Subordinated Notes at the time Outstanding, on behalf
of the Holders of all the Convertible Subordinated Notes, to waive compliance by
the Corporation with certain provisions of the Indenture and certain past
defaults under the Indenture and their consequences. Any such consent or waiver
by the Holder of this Convertible Subordinated Note shall be conclusive and
binding upon such Holder and upon all future Holders of this Convertible
Subordinated Note and of any Convertible Subordinated Note issued upon
registration of transfer hereof or in exchange herefor or in lieu hereof,
whether or not notation of such consent or waiver is made upon this Convertible
Subordinated Note or such other Convertible Subordinated Note.

                  No reference herein to the Indenture and no provision of this
Convertible Subordinated Note or of the Indenture shall alter or impair the
obligation of the Corporation, which is absolute and unconditional, to pay the
principal of and Interest on this Convertible Subordinated Note at the times,
places and rate, and in the coin or currency, herein prescribed or to convert
this Convertible Subordinated Note (or pay cash in lieu of conversion) as
provided in the Indenture.

SECTION 15.       Defaults and Remedies.

                  Reference is made to the Indenture for the Events of Default,
remedies and related provisions with respect to the Convertible Subordinated
Notes, which is incorporated into this Convertible Subordinated Note by
reference as if stated herein in its entirety.

SECTION 16.       Authentication.

                  This Convertible Subordinated Note shall not be valid until
the Trustee executes the certificate of authentication in the space provided
therefore on the Convertible Subordinated Note.

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SECTION 17.       Abbreviations.

                  Customary abbreviations may be used in the name of a Holder or
an assignee, such as: TEN COM (= tenants in common), TEN ENT (= tenants by the
entireties), JT TEN (= joint tenants with right of survivorship and not as
tenants in common), CUST (= Custodian) and U/G/M/A (= Uniform Gifts to Minors
Act).

SECTION 18.       CUSIP Numbers.

                  Pursuant to a recommendation promulgated by the Committee on
Uniform Convertible Subordinated Note Identification Procedures, the Corporation
has caused one or more CUSIP numbers, as appropriate, to be printed on this
Convertible Subordinated Note and the Trustee may use CUSIP numbers in notices
of redemption as a convenience to Holders. No representation is made as to the
accuracy of such numbers either as printed on this Convertible Subordinated Note
or as contained in any notice of redemption and reliance may be placed only on
the other identification numbers placed thereon.

SECTION 19.       Governing Law.

                  The Indenture and this Convertible Subordinated Note shall be
governed by, and construed in accordance with, the laws of the State of New
York.

SECTION 20.       Successor Corporation.

                  In the event a successor Person assumes all the obligations of
the Corporation under this Convertible Subordinated Note, pursuant to the terms
hereof and of the Indenture, the Corporation will be released from all such
obligations.

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                 (Reverse Side of Convertible Subordinated Note)

         This 2.75% Convertible Subordinated Note due 2033 is one of a duly
authorized issue of Convertible Subordinated Notes of the Corporation (the
"Convertible Subordinated Notes"), issued and issuable in one or more series
under a Subordinated Indenture, dated as of October 22, 2003, as supplemented by
the First Supplemental Indenture, dated as of October 22, 2003 (collectively,
the "Indenture"), between the Corporation and The Bank of New York, as Trustee
(the "Trustee," which term includes any successor trustee under the Indenture),
to which Indenture and all indentures supplemental thereto reference is hereby
made for a statement of the respective rights, limitation of rights, duties and
immunities thereunder of the Corporation, the Trustee and the Holders of the
Convertible Subordinated Notes issued thereunder and of the terms upon which
said Convertible Subordinated Notes are, and are to be, authenticated and
delivered. This Convertible Subordinated Note is one of the series designated on
the face hereof as 2.75% Convertible Subordinated Note due 2033 initially in the
aggregate principal amount of $100,000,000 (plus up to an additional $15,000,000
principal amount upon exercise by the Underwriter of its over-allotment option
pursuant to the Underwriting Agreement). Capitalized terms used herein for which
no definition is provided herein shall have the meanings set forth in the
Indenture.

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                                 ASSIGNMENT FORM

                  To assign this Convertible Subordinated Note, fill in the form
below and have your signature guaranteed: (I) or (we) assign and transfer this
Convertible Subordinated Note to:

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             (Insert assignee's social security or tax I.D. number)

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              (Print or type assignee's name, address and zip code)

and irrevocably appoint ____________ to transfer this Convertible Subordinated
Note on the books of the Corporation. The agent may substitute another to act
for him.

         Your Name:
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                          (Print your name exactly as it appears on the face of
                          this Convertible Subordinated Note)

                           Dated:
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                  Your Signature:
                                  ----------------------------------------------
                                  (Sign exactly as your name appears on the face
                                  of this Convertible Subordinated Note)

         Signature Guarantee*:
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                                      Note

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*        Participant in a recognized Signature Guarantee Medallion Program (or
         other signature guarantor acceptable to the Trustee)

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                               SIGNATURE GUARANTEE

         Signatures must be guaranteed by an "eligible guarantor institution"
meeting the requirements of the Security Registrar, which requirements include
membership or participation in the Security Transfer Agent Medallion Program
("STAMP") or such other "signature guarantee program" as may be determined by
the Security Registrar in addition to, or in substitution for, STAMP, all in
accordance with the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.

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            [TO BE ATTACHED TO GLOBAL CONVERTIBLE SUBORDINATED NOTES]

            SCHEDULE OF INCREASES OR DECREASES IN GLOBAL CONVERTIBLE
                               SUBORDINATED NOTE

                  The following increases or decreases in this Global
Convertible Subordinated Note have been made:

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                   Principal Amount of      Principal Amount of          Convertible             of Trustee or
                       this Global              this Global           Subordinated Note          Custodian of
                       Convertible              Convertible            following such             Convertible
     Date            Subordinated Note        Subordinated Note      decrease or increase      Subordinated Notes
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                                                                     EXHIBIT 4.2

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                            BEVERLY ENTERPRISES, INC.

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                             SUBORDINATED INDENTURE

                          Dated as of October 22, 2003

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                              THE BANK OF NEW YORK

                                     Trustee

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ARTICLE I         DEFINITIONS AND INCORPORATION BY REFERENCE.....................................................1

         SECTION 1.1           Definitions.......................................................................1

         SECTION 1.2           Other Definitions.................................................................5

         SECTION 1.3           Incorporation by Reference of Trust Indenture Act.................................5

         SECTION 1.4           Rules of Construction.............................................................6

ARTICLE II        THE SECURITIES.................................................................................6

         SECTION 2.1           Issuable in Series................................................................6

         SECTION 2.2           Establishment of Terms of Series of Securities....................................6

         SECTION 2.3           Execution and Authentication......................................................9

         SECTION 2.4           Registrar and Paying Agent.......................................................10

         SECTION 2.5           Paying Agent to Hold Money in Trust..............................................10

         SECTION 2.6           Securityholder Lists.............................................................11

         SECTION 2.7           Transfer and Exchange............................................................11

         SECTION 2.8           Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost and Stolen Securities.................................11

         SECTION 2.9           Outstanding Securities...........................................................12

         SECTION 2.10          Treasury Securities..............................................................12

         SECTION 2.11          Temporary Securities.............................................................12

         SECTION 2.12          Cancellation.....................................................................13

         SECTION 2.13          Defaulted Interest...............................................................13

         SECTION 2.14          Global Securities................................................................13

         SECTION 2.15          CUSIP Numbers....................................................................14

         SECTION 2.16          Original Issue Discount Security.................................................14

ARTICLE III       REDEMPTION....................................................................................15

         SECTION 3.1           Notice to Trustees...............................................................15

         SECTION 3.2           Selection of Securities to be Redeemed...........................................15

         SECTION 3.3           Notice of Redemption.............................................................15

         SECTION 3.4           Effect of Notice of Redemption...................................................16

         SECTION 3.5           Deposit of Redemption Price......................................................16

         SECTION 3.6           Securities Redeemed in Part......................................................16

ARTICLE IV        COVENANTS.....................................................................................16

         SECTION 4.1           Payment of Principal and Interest................................................16

         SECTION 4.2           SEC Reports......................................................................16
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         SECTION 4.3           Compliance Certificate...........................................................17

         SECTION 4.4           Stay, Extension and Usury Laws...................................................17

         SECTION 4.5           Corporate Existence..............................................................17

         SECTION 4.6           Taxes............................................................................17

ARTICLE V         SUCCESSORS....................................................................................17

         SECTION 5.1           When Company May Merge, Etc. ....................................................17

         SECTION 5.2           Successor Corporation Substituted................................................18

ARTICLE VI        DEFAULTS AND REMEDIES.........................................................................18

         SECTION 6.1           Events of Default................................................................18

         SECTION 6.2           Acceleration of Maturity; Rescission and Annulment...............................19

         SECTION 6.3           Collection of Indebtedness and Suits for Enforcement by Trustee..................20

         SECTION 6.4           Trustee May File Proofs of Claim.................................................21

         SECTION 6.5           Trustee May Enforce Claims Without Possession of Securities......................21

         SECTION 6.6           Application of Money Collected...................................................21

         SECTION 6.7           Limitation on Suits..............................................................22

         SECTION 6.8           Unconditional Right of Holders to Receive Principal and Interest.................22

         SECTION 6.9           Restoration of Rights and Remedies...............................................23

         SECTION 6.10          Rights and Remedies Cumulative...................................................23

         SECTION 6.11          Delay or Omission Not Waiver.....................................................23

         SECTION 6.12          Control by Holders...............................................................23

         SECTION 6.13          Waiver of Past Defaults..........................................................23

         SECTION 6.14          Undertaking for Costs............................................................24

ARTICLE VII       CONVERSION....................................................................................24

         SECTION 7.1           Conversion Privilege.............................................................24

         SECTION 7.2           Conversion Procedure.............................................................24

         SECTION 7.3           Fractional Shares................................................................25

         SECTION 7.4           Taxes on Conversion..............................................................25

         SECTION 7.5           Company to Provide Stock.........................................................25

         SECTION 7.6           Adjustment for Change in Capital Stock...........................................26

         SECTION 7.7           Adjustment for Rights Issue......................................................27

         SECTION 7.8           Adjustment for Other Distributions...............................................27

         SECTION 7.9           Current Market Price.............................................................28
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         SECTION 7.10          When Adjustment May be Deferred..................................................28

         SECTION 7.11          When No Adjustment Required......................................................28

         SECTION 7.12          Notice of Adjustment.............................................................29

         SECTION 7.13          Voluntary Reduction..............................................................29

         SECTION 7.14          Notice of Certain Transactions...................................................29

         SECTION 7.15          Reorganization of Company........................................................29

         SECTION 7.16          Company Determination Final......................................................30

         SECTION 7.17          Trustee's Disclaimer.............................................................30

ARTICLE VIII      TRUSTEE.......................................................................................30

         SECTION 8.1           Duties of Trustee................................................................30

         SECTION 8.2           Rights of Trustee................................................................31

         SECTION 8.3           Individual Rights of Trustee.....................................................32

         SECTION 8.4           Trustee's Disclaimer.............................................................32

         SECTION 8.5           Notice of Defaults...............................................................32

         SECTION 8.6           Reports by Trustee to Holders....................................................33

         SECTION 8.7           Compensation and Indemnity.......................................................33

         SECTION 8.8           Replacement of Trustee...........................................................34

         SECTION 8.9           Successor Trustee by Merger, etc. ...............................................34

         SECTION 8.10          Eligibility; Disqualification....................................................35

         SECTION 8.11          Preferential Collection of Claims Against Company................................35

ARTICLE IX        SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE....................................................................35

         SECTION 9.1           Satisfaction and Discharge of Indenture..........................................35

         SECTION 9.2           Application of Trust Funds; Indemnification......................................36

         SECTION 9.3           Legal Defeasance of Securities of any Series.....................................36

         SECTION 9.4           Defeasance of Certain Obligations................................................38

         SECTION 9.5           Repayment to Company.............................................................39

ARTICLE X         AMENDMENTS AND WAIVERS........................................................................39

         SECTION 10.1          Without Consent of Holders.......................................................39

         SECTION 10.2          With Consent of Holders..........................................................40

         SECTION 10.3          Limitations......................................................................40

         SECTION 10.4          Compliance with Trust Indenture Act..............................................40

         SECTION 10.5          Revocation and Effect of Consents................................................41
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         SECTION 10.6          Notation on or Exchange of Securities............................................41

         SECTION 10.7          Trustee Protected................................................................41

ARTICLE XI        MISCELLANEOUS.................................................................................41

         SECTION 11.1          Trust Indenture Act Controls.....................................................41

         SECTION 11.2          Notices..........................................................................41

         SECTION 11.3          Communication by Holders with Other Holders......................................42

         SECTION 11.4          Certificate and Opinion as to Conditions Precedent...............................42

         SECTION 11.5          Statements Required in Certificate or Opinion....................................42

         SECTION 11.6          Rules by Trustee and Agents......................................................43

         SECTION 11.7          Legal Holidays...................................................................43

         SECTION 11.8          No Recourse Against Others.......................................................43

         SECTION 11.9          Counterparts.....................................................................43

         SECTION 11.10         Governing Laws...................................................................43

         SECTION 11.11         No Adverse Interpretation of Other Agreements....................................43

         SECTION 11.12         Successors.......................................................................43

         SECTION 11.13         Severability.....................................................................44

         SECTION 11.14         Table of Contents, Headings, Etc.................................................44

         SECTION 11.15         Securities in a Foreign Currency or in ECU.......................................44

         SECTION 11.16         Judgment Currency................................................................44

         SECTION 11.17         Waiver of Jury Trial.............................................................45

ARTICLE XII       SINKING FUNDS.................................................................................45

         SECTION 12.1          Applicability of Article.........................................................45

         SECTION 12.2          Satisfaction of Sinking Fund Payments with Securities............................45

         SECTION 12.3          Redemption of Securities for Sinking Fund........................................46

ARTICLE XIII      SUBORDINATION OF SECURITIES...................................................................46

         SECTION 13.1          Agreement to Subordinate.........................................................46

         SECTION 13.2          Distribution on Dissolution, Liquidation and Reorganization; Subrogation of
                               Securities.......................................................................46

         SECTION 13.3          No Payments on Securities in Event of Defaults on Designated Senior
                               Indebtedness.....................................................................48

         SECTION 13.4          Payments Permitted if no Default.................................................49

         SECTION 13.5          Authorization of Holders to Trustee to Effect Subordination......................49
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                                TABLE OF CONTENTS
                                  (CONTINUED)
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         SECTION 13.6          Notice to Trustee................................................................49

         SECTION 13.7          Trustee as Holder of Senior Indebtedness.........................................50

         SECTION 13.8          Modification of Terms of Senior Indebtedness.....................................50

         SECTION 13.9          Trustee Not Fiduciary for Senior Indebtedness....................................50
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                            BEVERLY ENTERPRISES, INC.

    Reconciliation and tie between Trust Indenture Act of 1939 and Indenture,
                          dated as of October 22, 2003
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<S>                                                                                              <C>
Section 310(a)(1) .............................................................................. 8.10
(a)(2) ......................................................................................... 8.10
(a)(3) ......................................................................................... Not Applicable
(a)(4) ......................................................................................... Not Applicable
(a)(5) ......................................................................................... 8.10
(b) ............................................................................................ 8.10

Section 311(a) ................................................................................. 8.11
(b) ............................................................................................ 8.11
(c) ............................................................................................ Not Applicable

Section 312(a) ................................................................................. 2.6
(b) ............................................................................................ 11.3
(c) ............................................................................................ 11.3

Section 313(a) ................................................................................. 8.6
(b)(1) ......................................................................................... 8.6
(b)(2) ......................................................................................... 8.6
(c)(1).......................................................................................... 8.6
(d) ............................................................................................ 8.6

Section 314(a) ................................................................................. 4.2, 11.5
(b) ............................................................................................ Not Applicable
(c)(1) ......................................................................................... 11.4
(c)(2) ......................................................................................... 11.4
(c)(3) ......................................................................................... Not Applicable
(d) ............................................................................................ Not Applicable
(e) ............................................................................................ 11.5
(f) ............................................................................................ Not Applicable

Section 315(a) ................................................................................. 8.1
(b) ............................................................................................ 8.5
(c) ............................................................................................ 8.1
(d) ............................................................................................ 8.1
(e) ............................................................................................ 6.14

Section 316(a) ................................................................................. 2.10
(a)(1)(A) ...................................................................................... 6.2
................................................................................................. 6.12
(a)(1)(B) ...................................................................................... 6.13
(b) ............................................................................................ 6.8

Section 317(a)(1) .............................................................................. 6.3
(a)(2) ......................................................................................... 6.4
(b) ............................................................................................ 2.5

Section 318(a) ................................................................................. 11.1
</Table>

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Note:    This reconciliation and tie shall not, for any purpose, be deemed to be
         part of the Indenture.

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                                                                  EXECUTION COPY

                  Indenture dated as of October 22, 2003, between Beverly
Enterprises, Inc., a Delaware corporation ("Company"), and The Bank of New York
("Trustee").

                  Each party agrees as follows for the benefit of the other
party and for the equal and ratable benefit of the Holders of the Securities
issued under this Indenture.

                                   ARTICLE I

                   DEFINITIONS AND INCORPORATION BY REFERENCE

         SECTION 1.1 Definitions.

                  "Affiliate" of any specified person means any other person
directly or indirectly controlling or controlled by or under direct or indirect
common control with such specified person. For the purposes of this definition,
"control" (including, with correlative meanings, the terms "controlled by" and
"under common control with"), as used with respect to any person, shall mean the
possession, directly or indirectly, of the power to direct or cause the
direction of the management or policies of such person, whether through the
ownership of voting securities or by agreement or otherwise.

                  "Agent" means any Registrar, Paying Agent or Service Agent.

                  "Authorized Newspaper" means a newspaper in an official
language of the country of publication customarily published at least once a day
for at least five days in each calendar week and of general circulation in the
place in connection with which the term is used. If it shall be impractical to
make any publication of any notice required hereby in an Authorized Newspaper,
any publication or other notice in lieu thereof that is made or given by the
Company or the Trustee shall constitute a sufficient publication of such notice.

                  "Bankruptcy Law" means title 11, U.S. Code or any similar
Federal or State law for the relief of debtors.

                  "Bearer" means anyone in possession from time to time of a
Bearer Security.

                  "Bearer Security" means any Security that does not provide for
the identification of the Holder thereof.

                  "Board of Directors" means the Board of Directors of the
Company or any duly authorized committee thereof.

                  "Board Resolution" means a copy of a resolution certified by
the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of the Company to have been adopted by
the Board of Directors or pursuant to authorization by the Board of Directors
and to be in full force and effect on the date of the certificate and delivered
to the Trustee.

                  "Business Day" means a day other than a Saturday, a Sunday or
a day which shall be in the City of New York a day on which banking institutions
are authorized or obligated by law or required by executive order to be closed.

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                  "Capitalized Lease" means any lease of property where the
obligations of the lessee thereunder are required to be classified and accounted
for as a capitalized lease on a balance sheet of such lessee under generally
accepted accounting principles.

                  "Common Stock" means the Common Stock, $.10 par value per
share, of the Company.

                  "Company" means the party named as such above until a
successor replaces it and thereafter means the successor.

                  "Company Order" means a written order signed in the name of
the Company by two Officers, one of whom must be the Company's principal
executive officer, principal financial officer or principal accounting officer.

                  "Company Request" means a written request signed in the name
of the Company by its Chairman of the Board, its President or a Vice President,
and by its Treasurer, an Assistant Treasurer, its Secretary or an Assistant
Secretary, and delivered to the Trustee.

                  "Corporate Trust Office" means the office of the Trustee at
which at any particular time its corporate trust business shall be principally
administered.

                  "Custodian" means any receiver, Trustee, assignee, liquidator
or similar official under any Bankruptcy Law.

                  "Default" means any event which is, or after notice or passage
of time would be, an Event of Default.

                  "Depository" means, with respect to the Securities of any
Series issuable or issued in whole or in part in the form of one or more Global
Securities, the person designated as Depository for such Series by the Company,
which Depository shall be a clearing agency registered under the Exchange Act;
and if at any time there is more than one such person, "Depository" as used with
respect to the Securities of any Series shall mean the Depository with respect
to the Securities of such Series.

                  "Designated Senior Indebtedness" means the Company's existing
credit facility and any other senior indebtedness that expressly provides that
it is "designated senior indebtedness."

                  "Discount Security" means any Security that provides for an
amount less than the stated principal amount thereof to be due and payable upon
declaration of acceleration of the maturity thereof pursuant to Section 6.2.

                  "Dollars" means the currency of the United States of America.

                  "ECU" means the European Currency Unit as determined by the
Commission of the European Union.

                  "Exchange Act" means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as
amended.

                  "Foreign Currency" means any currency issued by a government
other than the government of the United States of America.

                  "Foreign Government Securities" means with respect to
Securities of any Series that are denominated in a Foreign Currency, noncallable
(i) direct obligations of the government that issued such

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Foreign Currency for the payment of which obligations its full faith and credit
is pledged or (ii) obligations of a person controlled or supervised by and
acting as an agency or instrumentality of such government, the payment of which
obligations is unconditionally guaranteed as a full faith and credit obligation
of such government.

                  "Global Security" or "Global Securities" means a Security or
Securities, as the case may be, in the form established pursuant to Section 2.1
evidencing all or part of a Series of Securities, issued to the Depository for
such Series or its nominee, and registered in the name of such Depository or
nominee.

                  "Holder" or "Securityholder" means a person in whose name a
Security is registered or the holder of a Bearer Security.

                  "Indebtedness" means, with respect to any person, and without
duplication:

                  (a) any liability of such person (A) for borrowed money, or
(B) for any letter of credit for the account of such person supporting
obligations of such person or other persons, or (C) evidenced by a bond, note,
debenture or similar instrument (including a purchase money obligation) given in
connection with the acquisition of any businesses, properties or assets of any
kind (other than a trade payable or a current liability arising in the ordinary
course of business), or (D) for the payment of money relating to a Capitalized
Lease;

                  (b) any liability of others described in the preceding clause
(a) that the person has guaranteed or that is otherwise its legal liability; and

                  (c) any amendment, supplement, modification, deferral,
renewal, extension or refunding of any liability of the types referred to in
clauses (a) and (b) above.

                  "Indenture" means this Indenture as amended from time to time
and shall include the form and terms of particular Series of Securities
established or contemplated hereunder.

                  "Maturity," when used with respect to any Security or
installment of principal thereof, means the date on which the principal of such
Security or such installment of principal becomes due and payable as therein or
herein provided, whether at the Stated Maturity or by declaration of
acceleration, call for redemption or otherwise.

                  "Officer" means the Chairman of the Board, any President, any
Vice-President, the Treasurer, the Secretary, any Assistant Treasurer or any
Assistant Secretary of the Company.

                  "Officers' Certificate" means a certificate signed by two
Officers, one of whom must be the Company's principal executive officer,
principal financial officer or principal accounting officer.

                  "Opinion of Counsel" means a written opinion of legal counsel
who is acceptable to the Trustee. The counsel may be an employee of or counsel
to the Company.

                  "person" means any individual, corporation, partnership, joint
venture, association, joint-stock company, trust, unincorporated organization or
government or any agency or political subdivision thereof.

                  "principal" of a Security means the principal of the Security
plus, when appropriate, the premium, if any, on the Security.

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                  "Responsible Officer" when used with respect to the Trustee,
means any vice-president, any trust officer, any assistant vice-president or any
officer of the Trustee other than those specifically above mentioned customarily
performing functions similar to those performed by the persons who at the time
shall be such officers, respectively, or to whom any corporate trust matter is
referred because of his knowledge of and familiarity with a particular subject
and who shall have direct responsibility for the administration of this
Indenture.

                  "SEC" means the Securities and Exchange Commission.

                  "Securities" means the debentures, notes or other debt
instruments of the Company of any Series authenticated and delivered under this
Indenture.

                  "Senior Indebtedness" means the principal of, premium, if any,
and unpaid interest including interest accrued after the filing of any
bankruptcy proceeding relating to the Company whether or not such interest is an
allowed claim in such bankruptcy proceeding on (a) indebtedness for borrowed
money for the payment of which the Company is responsible or liable or the
payment of which the Company has guaranteed, whether such indebtedness is
outstanding as of the date of this Indenture or thereafter created, incurred,
assumed or guaranteed by the Company, unless in the instrument creating or
evidencing the same or pursuant to which the same is outstanding it is
specifically provided that such indebtedness is not superior in right of payment
to the Securities, (b) Capitalized Lease obligations, (c) any obligation of the
Company to reimburse banks pursuant to letters of credit extended by such banks,
advances made by such banks and other credit arrangements entered into with such
banks in connection with tax exempt obligations issued for the benefit of the
company.

                  "Series" or "Series of Securities" means each series of
debentures, notes or other debt instruments of the Company created pursuant to
Sections 2.1 and 2.2 hereof.

                  "Stated Maturity" when used with respect to any Security or
any installment of principal thereof or interest thereon, means the date
specified in such Security as the fixed date on which the principal of such
Security or such installment of principal or interest is due and payable.

                  "Subsidiary" of any specified person means (i) a corporation a
majority of whose capital stock with voting power, under ordinary circumstances,
to elect directors is at the time, directly or indirectly, owned by such person
or by such person and a subsidiary or subsidiaries of such person or by a
subsidiary or subsidiaries of such person or (ii) any other person (other than a
corporation) in which such person or such person and a subsidiary or
subsidiaries of such person or a subsidiary or subsidiaries of such person
directly or indirectly, at the date of determination thereof has at least
majority ownership interest.

                  "TIA" means the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 (15 U.S. Code
Sections 77aaa-77bbbb) as in effect on the date of this Indenture; provided,
however, that in the event the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 is amended after such
date, "TIA" means, to the extent required by any such amendment, the Trust
Indenture Act as so amended.

                  "Trustee" means the person named as the "Trustee" in the first
paragraph of this instrument until a successor Trustee shall have become such
pursuant to the applicable provisions of this Indenture, and thereafter
"Trustee" shall mean or include each person who is then a Trustee hereunder, and
if at any time there is more than one such person, "Trustee" as used with
respect to the Securities of any Series shall mean the Trustee with respect to
Securities of that Series.

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                  "U.S. Government Obligations" means securities which are (i)
direct obligations of the United States of America for the payment of which its
full faith and credit is pledged or (ii) obligations of a person controlled or
supervised by and acting as an agency or instrumentality of the United States of
America, the payment of which is unconditionally guaranteed as a full faith and
credit obligation by the United States of America which are not callable or
redeemable at the option of the issuer thereof, and shall also include a
depository receipt issued by a bank or trust company as custodian with respect
to any such U.S. Government Obligation or a specific payment of interest on or
principal of any such U.S. Government Obligation held by such custodian for the
account of the holder of a depository receipt, provided that (except as required
by law) such custodian is not authorized to make any deduction from the amount
payable to the holder of such depository receipt from any amount received by the
custodian in respect of the U.S. Government Obligation evidenced by such
depository receipt.

         SECTION 1.2 Other Definitions.

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                                                                                          DEFINED
                  TERM                                                                  IN SECTION
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                  "Event of Default"........................................................   6.1
                  "Journal"................................................................. 11.15
                  "Judgment Currency"....................................................... 11.16
                  "Legal Holiday"...........................................................  11.7
                  "mandatory sinking fund payment"..........................................  12.1
                  "Market Exchange Rate".................................................... 11.15
                  "New York Banking Day".................................................... 11.16
                  "Non-Payment Default".....................................................  13.3
                  "optional sinking fund payment"...........................................  12.1
                  "Paying Agent"............................................................   2.4
                  "Payment Blockage Notice".................................................  13.3
                  "Registrar"...............................................................   2.4
                  "Required Currency"....................................................... 11.16
                  "Service Agent"...........................................................   2.4
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         SECTION 1.3 Incorporation by Reference of Trust Indenture Act.

                  Whenever this Indenture refers to a provision of the TIA, the
provision is incorporated by reference in and made a part of this Indenture. The
following TIA terms used in this Indenture have the following meanings:

                  "Commission" means the SEC.

                  "indenture securities" means the Securities.

                  "indenture security holder" means a Securityholder.

                  "indenture to be qualified" means this Indenture.

                  "indenture Trustee" or "institutional Trustee" means the
                  Trustee.

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                  "obligor" on the indenture securities means the Company and
                  any successor obligor upon the Securities.

                  All other terms used in this Indenture that are defined by the
TIA, defined by TIA reference to another statute or defined by SEC rule under
the TIA and not otherwise defined herein are used herein as so defined.

         SECTION 1.4 Rules of Construction.

                  Unless the context otherwise requires:

                  (a) a term has the meaning assigned to it;

                  (b) an accounting term not otherwise defined has the meaning
         assigned to it in accordance with generally accepted accounting
         principles;

                  (c) references to "generally accepted accounting principles"
         shall mean generally accepted accounting principles in effect as of the
         time when and for the period as to which such accounting principles are
         to be applied;

                  (d) "or" is not exclusive;

                  (e) words in the singular include the plural, and in the
         plural include the singular; and

                  (f) provisions apply to successive events and transactions.

                                   ARTICLE II

                                 THE SECURITIES

         SECTION 2.1 Issuable in Series.

                  The aggregate principal amount of Securities that may be
authenticated and delivered under this Indenture is unlimited. The Securities
may be issued in one or more Series. All Securities of a Series shall be
identical except as may be provided in a Board Resolution and/or an Officers'
Certificate detailing the adoption of the terms thereof pursuant to the Board
Resolution or a supplemental indenture hereto. In the case of Securities of a
Series to be issued from time to time, the Officers' Certificate may provide for
the method by which specified terms (such as interest rate, maturity date,
record date or date from which interest should accrue) are to be determined.
Securities may differ between Series, in respect of any matters; provided that
all Series of Securities shall be equally and ratably entitled to the benefits
of this Indenture.

                  The Securities will rank equally with all other unsecured and
unsubordinated indebtedness of the Company.

         SECTION 2.2 Establishment of Terms of Series of Securities.

                  At or prior to the issuance of any Securities within a Series,
the following shall be established (as to the Series generally, in the case of
Subsections 2.2.1 and 2.2.2 and either as to such Securities within the Series
or as to the Series generally in the case of Subsections 2.2.3 through 2.2.21)

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by either a Board Resolution, a supplemental indenture hereto or an Officers'
Certificate pursuant to authority granted under a Board Resolution:

                  2.2.1 the title of the Series (which shall distinguish the
         Securities of that particular Series from the Securities of any other
         Series), and whether the Securities of that particular Series are
         subordinate to any other unsecured indebtedness of the Company;

                  2.2.2 any limit upon the aggregate principal amount of the
         Securities of the Series which may be authenticated and delivered under
         this Indenture (except for Securities authenticated and delivered upon
         registration of transfer of, or in exchange for, or in lieu of, other
         Securities of the Series pursuant to Section 2.7, 2.8 or 2.11);

                  2.2.3 the date or dates on which the principal of the
         Securities of the Series is payable;

                  2.2.4 the rate or rates at which the Securities of the Series
         shall bear interest, if any, or the formula or provision pursuant to
         which such rate or rates are determined including, but not limited to,
         any commodity, commodity index, stock exchange index or financial
         index, the date or dates from which such interest, if any, shall
         accrue, the dates on which such interest, if any, shall be payable and
         the record date for the interest payable on any interest payment date;

                  2.2.5 the place or places where the principal of, the premium,
         if any, and interest on the Securities of the Series will be payable,
         or the method of such payment, if by wire transfer, mail or other
         means;

                  2.2.6 the date, if any, after which the price or prices at
         which and the terms and conditions upon which the Securities of the
         Series may, pursuant to any optional or mandatory redemption
         provisions, be redeemed and the other detailed terms and provisions of
         any such optional or mandatory redemption provisions;

                  2.2.7 the person to whom any interest on the Securities of the
         Series shall be payable, if other than the person in whose name the
         Securities of the Series are registered at the close of business on the
         record date for such interest;

                  2.2.8 the obligation, if any, of the Company to redeem or
         purchase the Securities of the Series pursuant to any sinking fund or
         analogous provisions or at the option of a Holder thereof and the
         period or periods within which, the price or prices at which and the
         terms and conditions upon which Securities of the Series shall be
         redeemed or purchased, in whole or in part, pursuant to such
         obligation;

                  2.2.9 if other than denominations of $1,000 and any integral
         multiple thereof, the denominations in which the Securities of the
         Series shall be issuable;

                  2.2.10 if the amount of principal of or premium, if any, or
         interest on any of such Securities of the Series may be determined with
         reference to an index or pursuant to a formula, the manner in which
         such amounts will be determined;

                  2.2.11 if the principal amount payable at the Stated Maturity
         of any of the Securities of the Series will not be determinable as of
         any one or more dates prior to the stated maturity, the amount which
         will be deemed to be such principal amount as of any such date for any
         purpose, including the principal amount thereof which will be due and
         payable upon any maturity other

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         than the stated maturity or which will be deemed to be outstanding as
         of any such date (or, in any such case, the manner in which such deemed
         principal amount is to be determined);

                  2.2.12 if applicable, that such Securities of the Series, in
         whole or any specified part, are defeasible pursuant to Article IX of
         this Indenture;

                  2.2.13 if other than the principal amount thereof, the portion
         of the principal amount of the Securities of the Series that shall be
         payable upon declaration of acceleration of the maturity thereof
         pursuant to Section 6.2;

                  2.2.14 the currency of denomination of the Securities of the
         Series, which may be Dollars, any Foreign Currency or composite
         currency, including, but not limited to, the ECU, and if such currency
         of denomination is a composite currency other than the ECU, the agency
         or organization, if any, responsible for overseeing such composite
         currency;

                  2.2.15 if other than the currency of the United States, the
         designation of the currency or currencies in which payment of the
         principal of, premium, if any, or interest on the Securities of the
         Series will be made, and the designation, if any, of the currency or
         currencies in which payment of the principal of, premium, if any, or
         interest on the Securities of the Series, at the election of a Holder
         thereof, may also be payable;

                  2.2.16 if the payments of principal of, premium, if any, or
         interest on the Securities of the Series are to be made in a Foreign
         Currency other than the currency in which such Securities are
         denominated, the currency, currencies or currency units in which
         payment of any such amount will be payable, the periods within which
         and the terms and conditions upon which such election is to be made and
         the amount so payable (or the manner in which such amount is to be
         determined);

                  2.2.17 if other than currency of the United States of America,
         the currency, currencies or currency units in which the principal of,
         premium, if any, or interest on the Securities of the Series may be
         determined with reference to an index, the manner in which such amounts
         shall be determined and payable (and the manner in which the equivalent
         of the principal amount thereof in the currency of the United States of
         America is to be determined for any purpose, including for the purpose
         of determining the principal amount deemed to be outstanding at any
         time);

                  2.2.18 the forms of the Securities of the Series in bearer or
         fully registered form (and, if in fully registered form, whether the
         Securities will be issuable in the form of one or more Global
         Securities);

                  2.2.19 if issuable in the form of one or more Global
         Securities, the respective depositaries for such Global Securities, the
         form of any legend or legends to be borne by any such Global
         Securities, any circumstances under which any such Global Securities
         may be exchanged in whole or in part for Securities of the Series
         registered, any transfer of such Global Securities in whole or in part
         for Securities of the Series registered, any transfer of such Global
         Securities in whole or in part may be registered, in the names of
         Persons other than the depository for such Global Securities or its
         nominee;

                  2.2.20 any depositories, interest rate calculation agents,
         exchange rate agents or other agents with respect to Securities of such
         Series if other than those appointed herein;

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                  2.2.21 any change in the right of the Trustee or the Holders
         to declare the principal amount of any of such Securities due and
         payable; and

                  2.2.22 any other terms of the Securities of the Series
         (including any additions to or changes in the covenants or the Events
         of Default contained in this Indenture applicable to any of such
         Securities of the Series).

                  All Securities of any one Series need not be issued at the
same time and may be issued from time to time, consistent with the terms of this
Indenture, if so provided by or pursuant to the Board Resolution or Officers'
Certificate referred to above or as set forth in a supplemental indenture
hereto, and, unless otherwise provided, the authorized principal amount of any
Series may be increased to provide for issuances of additional Securities of
such Series.

         SECTION 2.3 Execution and Authentication.

                  One Officer shall sign the Securities for the Company by
manual or facsimile signature. The Company's seal, which may be in facsimile
form, shall be reproduced on the Securities.

                  If an Officer whose signature is on a Security no longer holds
that office at the time the Security is authenticated, the Security shall
nevertheless be valid.

                  A Security shall not be valid until authenticated by the
manual signature of the Trustee or an authenticating agent. The signature shall
be conclusive evidence that the Security has been authenticated under this
Indenture.

                  The Trustee shall at any time, and from time to time,
authenticate Securities for original issue in the principal amount provided in
the Board Resolution or Officers' Certificate detailing the adoption of terms
pursuant to the Board Resolution, upon receipt by the Trustee of a Company
Order. If provided for in such procedures, such Company Order may authorize
authentication and delivery pursuant to oral or electronic instructions from the
Company or its duly authorized agent or agents, which oral instructions shall be
promptly confirmed in writing. Each Security shall be dated the date of its
authentication unless otherwise provided by Board Resolution or supplemental
indenture hereto.

                  The aggregate principal amount of Securities of any Series
outstanding at any time may not exceed any limit upon the maximum principal
amount for such Series set forth in the Board Resolution or Officers'
Certificate or supplemental indenture hereto delivered pursuant to Section 2.2,
except as provided in Section 2.8.

                  Prior to the issuance of Securities of any Series, the Trustee
shall have received and (subject to Section 8.2) shall be fully protected in
relying on: (a) the Board Resolution or Officers' Certificate detailing the
adoption of terms pursuant to the Board Resolution or a supplemental indenture
hereto establishing the form and terms of the Securities of that Series, (b) an
Officers' Certificate complying with Section 11.4, and (c) an Opinion of Counsel
complying with Section 11.4.

                  The Trustee shall have the right to decline to authenticate
and deliver any Securities of such Series: (a) if the Trustee, being advised by
counsel, determines that such action may not lawfully be taken; or (b) if the
Trustee in good faith shall determine that such action would expose the Trustee
to personal liability to Holders of any then outstanding Series of Securities.

                  The Trustee may appoint an authenticating agent acceptable to
the Company to authenticate Securities. An authenticating agent may authenticate
Securities whenever the Trustee may

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do so. Each reference in this Indenture to authentication by the Trustee
includes authentication by such agent. An authenticating agent has the same
rights as an Agent to deal with the Company or an Affiliate.

         SECTION 2.4 Registrar and Paying Agent.

                  The Company shall maintain, with respect to each Series of
Notes, at the place or places specified with respect to such Series pursuant to
Section 2.2, an office or agency where Securities of such Series may be
presented or surrendered for payment of principal, premium, if any, and interest
thereon (except that at the option of the Company, payment of any interest may
be made by check mailed to the address of the person entitled thereto as such
address appears in the security register) ("Paying Agent"), where Securities of
such Series may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange
("Registrar") and where notices and demands to or upon the Company in respect of
the Securities of such Series and this Indenture may be served ("Service
Agent"). The Registrar shall keep a register with respect to each Series of
Securities and to their transfer and exchange. The Company will give prompt
written notice to the Trustee of the name and address, and any change in the
name or address, of each Registrar, Paying Agent or Service Agent. If at any
time the Company shall fail to maintain any such required Registrar, Paying
Agent or Service Agent or shall fail to furnish the Trustee with the name and
address thereof, such presentations, surrenders, notices and demands may be made
or served at the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee, and the Company hereby
appoints the Trustee as its agent to receive all such presentations, surrenders,
notices and demands.

                  The Company may also from time to time designate one or more
co-registrars, additional paying agents or additional service agents and may
from time to time rescind such designations; provided, however, that no such
designation or rescission shall in any manner relieve the Company of its
obligations to maintain a Registrar, Paying Agent and Service Agent in each
place so specified pursuant to Section 2.2 for Securities of any Series for such
purposes. The Company will give prompt written notice to the Trustee of any such
designation or rescission and of any change in the name or address of any such
co-registrar, additional paying agent or additional service agent. The term
"Registrar" includes any co-registrar; the term "Paying Agent" includes any
additional paying agent; and the term "Service Agent" includes any additional
service agent.

                  The Company hereby appoints the Trustee the initial Registrar,
Paying Agent and Service Agent for each Series unless another Registrar, Paying
Agent or Service Agent, as the case may be, is appointed prior to the time
Securities of that Series are first issued.

         SECTION 2.5 Paying Agent to Hold Money in Trust.

                  The Company shall require each Paying Agent other than the
Trustee to agree in writing that the Paying Agent will hold in trust, for the
benefit of Securityholders of any Series of Securities, or the Trustee, all
money held by the Paying Agent for the payment of principal or interest on the
Series of Securities, and will notify the Trustee of any default by the Company
in making any such payment. While any such default continues, the Trustee may
require a Paying Agent to pay all money held by it to the Trustee. The Company
at any time may require a Paying Agent to pay all money held by it to the
Trustee. Upon payment over to the Trustee, the Paying Agent (if other than the
Company or a Subsidiary) shall have no further liability for the money. If the
Company or a Subsidiary acts as Paying Agent, it shall segregate and hold in a
separate trust fund for the benefit of Securityholders of any Series of
Securities all money held by it as Paying Agent.

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         SECTION 2.6 Securityholder Lists.

                  The Trustee shall preserve in as current a form as is
reasonably practicable the most recent list available to it of the names and
addresses of Securityholders of each Series of Securities and shall otherwise
comply with TIA Section 312(a). If the Trustee is not the Registrar, the Company
shall furnish to the Trustee at least ten days before each interest payment date
and at such other times as the Trustee may request in writing a list, in such
form and as of such date as the Trustee may reasonably require, of the names and
addresses of Securityholders of each Series of Securities.

         SECTION 2.7 Transfer and Exchange.

                  Where Securities of a Series are presented to the Registrar or
a co-registrar with a request to register a transfer or to exchange them for an
equal principal amount of Securities of the same Series and date of maturity of
other denominations, the Registrar shall register the transfer or make the
exchange if its requirements for such transactions are met. To permit
registrations of transfers and exchanges, the Trustee shall authenticate
Securities at the Registrar's request. No service charge shall be made for any
registration of transfer or exchange (except as otherwise expressly permitted
herein), but the Company may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any
transfer tax or similar governmental charge payable in connection therewith
(other than any such transfer tax or similar governmental charge payable upon
exchanges pursuant to Sections 2.11 or 10.6).

                  Except in connection with a conversion pursuant to Article
VII, neither the Company nor the Registrar shall be required (a) to issue,
register the transfer of, or exchange Securities of any Series for the period
beginning at the opening of business fifteen days immediately preceding the
mailing of a notice of redemption of Securities of that Series selected for
redemption and ending at the close of business on the day of such mailing, or
(b) to register the transfer of or exchange Securities of any Series selected,
called or being called for redemption as a whole or the portion being redeemed
of any such Securities selected, called or being called for redemption in part.

         SECTION 2.8 Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost and Stolen Securities.

                  If any mutilated Security is surrendered to the Trustee, the
Company shall execute and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver in exchange
therefor a new Security of the same Series and of like tenor and principal
amount and bearing a number not contemporaneously outstanding.

                  If there shall be delivered to the Company and the Trustee (i)
evidence to their satisfaction of the destruction, loss or theft of any Security
and (ii) such security or indemnity as may be required by them to save each of
them and any agent of either of them harmless, then, in the absence of notice to
the Company or the Trustee that such Security has been acquired by a bona fide
purchaser, the Company shall execute and upon its request the Trustee shall
authenticate and make available for delivery, in lieu of any such destroyed,
lost or stolen Security, a new Security of the same Series and of like tenor and
principal amount and bearing a number not contemporaneously outstanding.

                  In case any such mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Security
has become or is about to become due and payable, the Company in its discretion
may, instead of issuing a new Security, pay such Security (unless the Holder
elects conversion pursuant to Article VII).

                  Upon the issuance of any new Security under this Section, the
Company may require the payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other
governmental charge that may be imposed in relation thereto and any other
expenses (including the fees and expenses of the Trustee) connected therewith.

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                  Every new Security of any Series issued pursuant to this
Section in lieu of any destroyed, lost or stolen Security shall constitute an
original additional contractual obligation of the Company, whether or not the
destroyed, lost or stolen Security shall be at any time enforceable by anyone,
and shall be entitled to all the benefits of this Indenture equally and
proportionately with any and all other Securities of that Series duly issued
hereunder.

                  The provisions of this Section are exclusive and shall
preclude (to the extent lawful) all other rights and remedies with respect to
the replacement or payment of mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Securities.

         SECTION 2.9 Outstanding Securities.

                  The Securities outstanding at any time are all the Securities
authenticated by the Trustee except for those cancelled by it, those delivered
to it for cancellation, those reductions in the interest on a Global Security
effected by the Trustee in accordance with the provisions hereof and those
described in this Section as not outstanding.

                  If a Security is replaced pursuant to Section 2.8, it ceases
to be outstanding until the Trustee receives proof satisfactory to it that the
replaced Security is held by a bona fide purchaser.

                  If the Paying Agent (other than the Company, a Subsidiary or
an Affiliate of any thereof) holds on the Maturity date of Securities of a
Series money sufficient to pay such Securities payable on that date, then on and
after that date such Securities of the Series cease to be outstanding and
interest on them ceases to accrue.

                  A Security does not cease to be outstanding because the
Company or an Affiliate holds the Security.

                  In determining whether the Holders of the requisite principal
amount of outstanding Securities have given any request, demand, authorization,
direction, notice, consent or waiver hereunder, the principal amount of a
Discount Security that shall be deemed to be outstanding for such purposes shall
be the amount of the principal thereof that would be due and payable as of the
date of such determination upon a declaration of acceleration of the Maturity
thereof pursuant to Section 6.2.

         SECTION 2.10 Treasury Securities.

                  In determining whether the Holders of the required principal
amount of Securities of a Series have concurred in any direction, waiver or
consent, Securities of a Series owned by the Company or an Affiliate shall be
disregarded, except that for the purposes of determining whether the Trustee
shall be protected in relying on any such direction, waiver or consent, only
Securities of a Series that a Responsible Officer of the Trustee knows are so
owned shall be so disregarded.

         SECTION 2.11 Temporary Securities.

                  Until definitive Securities are ready for delivery, the
Company may prepare and the Trustee shall authenticate temporary Securities upon
a Company Order. Temporary Securities shall be substantially in the form of
definitive Securities but may have variations that the Company considers
appropriate for temporary Securities. Without unreasonable delay, the Company
shall prepare and the Trustee upon request shall authenticate definitive
Securities of the same Series and date of maturity in exchange for temporary
Securities. Until so exchanged, temporary securities shall have the same rights
under this Indenture as the definitive Securities.

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         SECTION 2.12 Cancellation.

                  The Company at any time may deliver Securities to the Trustee
for cancellation. The Registrar and the Paying Agent shall forward to the
Trustee any Securities surrendered to them for registration of transfer,
exchange or payment. The Trustee shall cancel all Securities surrendered for
transfer, exchange, payment, replacement or cancellation and shall dispose of
such cancelled Securities (subject to the record retention requirement of the
Exchange Act) and deliver a certificate of such disposal to the Company, unless
the Company otherwise directs. The Company may not issue new Securities to
replace Securities that it has paid or delivered to the Trustee for
cancellation.

         SECTION 2.13 Defaulted Interest.

                  If the Company defaults in a payment of interest on a Series
of Securities, it shall pay the defaulted interest, plus, to the extent
permitted by law, any interest payable on the defaulted interest, to the persons
who are Securityholders of the Series on a subsequent special record date. The
Company shall fix the record date and payment date. At least 30 days before the
record date, the Company shall mail to the Trustee and to each Securityholder of
the Series a notice that states the record date, the payment date and the amount
of interest to be paid. The Company may pay defaulted interest in any other
lawful manner.

         SECTION 2.14 Global Securities.

                  2.14.1 Terms of Securities. A supplemental indenture or a
         Board Resolution (and, to the extent not set forth in the Board
         Resolution, an Officers' Certificate detailing the adoption of terms
         pursuant to the Board Resolution) shall establish whether the
         Securities of a Series shall be issued in whole or in part in the form
         of one or more Global Securities and the depository for such Global
         Security or Securities.

                  2.14.2 Transfer and Exchange. Notwithstanding any provisions
         to the contrary contained in Section 2.7 of this Indenture and in
         addition thereto, any Global Security shall be exchangeable pursuant to
         Section 2.7 of this Indenture for securities registered in the names of
         Holders other than the Depository for such Security or its nominee only
         if (i) such Depository notifies the Company that it is unwilling or
         unable to continue as Depository for such Global Security or if at any
         time such Depository ceases to be a clearing agency registered under
         the Exchange Act, and, in either case the Company fails to appoint a
         successor Depository within 90 days of such event, (ii) the Company
         executes and delivers to the Trustee an Officers' Certificate to the
         effect that such Global Security shall be so exchangeable, (ii) an
         event shall have happened and be continuing which is or after notice or
         lapse of time or both, would be, an Event of Default with respect to
         the Securities represented by such Global Security, (iii) there shall
         exist such circumstances, if any, in addition to or in lieu of those
         described above as may be described in a supplemental indenture or a
         Board Resolution establishing the Securities of a Series. Any Global
         Security that is exchangeable pursuant to the preceding sentence shall
         be exchangeable for Securities registered in such names as the
         Depository shall direct in writing in an aggregate principal amount
         equal to the principal amount of the Global Security with like tenor
         and terms.

                  Except as provided in this Section 2.14.2, a Global Security
may not be transferred except as a whole by the Depository with respect to such
Global Security to a nominee of such Depository, by a nominee of such Depository
to such Depository or another nominee of such Depository or by the Depository or
any such nominee to a successor Depository or a nominee of such a successor
Depository.

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                  2.14.3 Legend. Any Global Security issued hereunder shall bear
         a legend in substantially the following form:

                  "This Security is a Global Security within the meaning of the
Indenture hereinafter referred to and is registered in the name of the
Depository or a nominee of the Depository. This Security is exchangeable for
Securities registered in the name of a person other than the Depository or its
nominee only in the limited circumstances described in the Indenture, and may
not be transferred except as a whole by the Depository to a nominee of the
Depository, by a nominee of the Depository to the Depository or another nominee
of the Depository or by the Depository or any such nominee to a successor
Depository or a nominee of such a successor Depository."

                  2.14.4 Acts of Holders. The Depository, as a Holder, may
         appoint agents and otherwise authorize participants to give or take any
         request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or
         other action which a Holder is entitled to give or take under this
         Indenture.

                  2.14.5 Payments. Notwithstanding the other provisions of this
         Indenture, unless otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 2.2,
         payment of the principal of and interest on any Global Security shall
         be made to the person specified therein.

                  2.14.6 Consents, Declaration and Directions. Except as
         provided in Section 2.14.5, the Company, the Trustee and any Agent
         shall treat a person as the Holder of such principal amount of
         outstanding Securities of such Series represented by a Global Security
         as shall be specified in a written statement of the Depository with
         respect to such Global Security, for purposes of obtaining any
         consents, declarations or directions required to be given by the
         Holders pursuant to this Indenture.

         SECTION 2.15 CUSIP Numbers.

                  The Company in issuing the Securities may use "CUSIP" numbers
(if then generally in use), and, if so, the Trustee shall use "CUSIP" numbers in
notices of redemption as a convenience to Holders; provided that any such notice
may state that no representation is made as to the correctness of such numbers
either as printed on the Securities or as contained in any notice of a
redemption and that reliance may be placed only on the other elements of
identification printed on the Securities, and any such redemption shall not be
affected by any defect in or omission of such numbers.

         SECTION 2.16 Original Issue Discount Security.

                  If any of the Securities is an Original Issue Discount
Security, the Company shall file with the Trustee promptly at the end of each
calendar year (i) a written notice specifying the amount of original issue
discount (including daily rates and accrual periods) accrued on Outstanding
Securities as of the end of such year and (ii) such other specific information
relating to such original issue discount as may then be relevant under the
Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended from time to time.

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                                  ARTICLE III

                                   REDEMPTION

         SECTION 3.1 Notice to Trustees.

                  The Company may, with respect to any Series of Securities,
reserve the right to redeem and pay the Series of Securities or may covenant to
redeem and pay the Series of Securities or any part thereof before maturity at
such time and on such terms as provided for in such Securities. If a Series of
Securities is redeemable and the Company wants or is obligated to redeem prior
to the Stated Maturity thereof all or part of the Series of Securities pursuant
to the terms of such Securities, it shall notify the Trustee of the redemption
date and the principal amount of Series of Securities to be redeemed. The
Company shall give the notice at least 60 days before the redemption date (or
such shorter notice as may be acceptable to the Trustee).

         SECTION 3.2 Selection of Securities to be Redeemed.

                  Unless otherwise indicated for a particular Series by Board
Resolution or by a supplemental indenture hereto (or to the extent not set forth
in such Board Resolution or supplemental indenture, in an Officers' Certificate
so indicating pursuant to the Board Resolution), if less than all the Securities
of a Series are to be redeemed, the Trustee shall select the Securities of the
Series to be redeemed in any manner that the Trustee deems fair and appropriate.
The Trustee shall make the selection from Securities of the Series outstanding
not previously called for redemption. The Trustee may select for redemption
portions of the principal of Securities of the Series that have denominations
larger than $1,000. Securities of the Series and portions of them it selects
shall be in amounts of $1,000 or whole multiples of $1,000 or, with respect to
Securities of any Series issuable in other denominations pursuant to Section
2.2.9, the minimum principal denomination for each Series and integral multiples
thereof. Provisions of this Indenture that apply to Securities of a Series
called for redemption also apply to portions of Securities of that Series called
for redemption.

         SECTION 3.3 Notice of Redemption.

                  Unless otherwise indicated for a particular Series by Board
Resolution or by a supplemental indenture hereto, at least 30 days but not more
than 60 days before a redemption date, the Company shall mail a notice of
redemption by first-class mail to each Holder whose Securities are to be
redeemed and if any Bearer Securities are outstanding, publish on one occasion a
notice in an Authorized Newspaper.

                  The notice shall identify the Securities of the Series to be
redeemed and shall state:

                  (a) the redemption date;

                  (b) the redemption price;

                  (c) the name and address of the Paying Agent;

                  (d) that Securities of the Series called for redemption must
         be surrendered to the Paying Agent to collect the redemption price;

                  (e) that interest on Securities of the Series called for
         redemption ceases to accrue on and after the redemption date; and

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                  (f) any other information as may be required by the terms of
         the particular Series or the Securities of a Series being redeemed.

                  At the Company's request, the Trustee shall give the notice of
redemption in the Company's name and at its expense.

         SECTION 3.4 Effect of Notice of Redemption.

                  Once notice of redemption is mailed or published as provided
in Section 3.3, Securities of a Series called for redemption (and not converted
in accordance with the provisions of Article VII by the close of business on the
Business Day immediately preceding the date of redemption fixed in the notice)
become due and payable on the redemption date and at the redemption price. A
notice of redemption may not be conditional. Upon surrender to the Paying Agent,
such Securities shall be paid at the redemption price plus accrued interest to
the redemption date.

         SECTION 3.5 Deposit of Redemption Price.

                  Prior to 10:00 a.m. on the redemption date, the Company shall
deposit with the Paying Agent money sufficient to pay the redemption price of
and accrued interest on all Securities to be redeemed on that date.

         SECTION 3.6 Securities Redeemed in Part.

                  Upon surrender of a Security that is redeemed in part, the
Trustee shall authenticate for the Holder a new Security of the same Series and
the same maturity equal in principal amount to the unredeemed portion of the
Security surrendered.

                                   ARTICLE IV

                                    COVENANTS

         SECTION 4.1 Payment of Principal and Interest.

                  The Company covenants and agrees for the benefit of each
Series of Securities that it will duly and punctually pay the principal of and
interest on the Securities of that Series in accordance with the terms of such
Securities and this Indenture.

         SECTION 4.2 SEC Reports.

                  The Company shall deliver to the Trustee within 15 days after
it files them with the SEC copies of the annual reports and of the information,
documents, and other reports (or copies of such portions of any of the foregoing
as the SEC may by rules and regulations prescribe) which the Company is required
to file with the SEC pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act. The
Company also shall comply with the other provisions of TIA Section 314(a).
Delivery of such reports, information and documents to the Trustee is for
informational purposes only and the Trustee's receipt of such shall not
constitute constructive notice of any information contained therein or
determinable from information contained therein, including the Company's
compliance with any of its covenants hereunder (as to which the Trustee is
entitled to conclusively rely exclusively on Officers' Certificates).

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         SECTION 4.3 Compliance Certificate.

                  The Company shall deliver to the Trustee, within 90 days after
the end of each fiscal year of the Company, an Officers' Certificate stating
that a review of the activities of the Company and its Subsidiaries during the
preceding fiscal year has been made under the supervision of the signing
Officers with a view to determining whether the Company has kept, observed,
performed and fulfilled its obligations under this Indenture, and further
stating, as to each such Officer signing such certificate, that to the best of
his knowledge the Company has kept, observed, performed and fulfilled each and
every covenant contained in this Indenture and is not in default in the
performance or observance of any of the terms, provisions and conditions hereof
(or, if a Default or Event of Default shall have occurred, describing all such
Defaults or Events of Default of which he may have knowledge).

                  The Company will, so long as any of the Securities are
outstanding, deliver to the Trustee within 10 days of becoming aware of (i) any
Default, Event of Default or default in the performance of any covenant,
agreement or condition contained in this Indenture or (ii) any event of default
referred to in Section 6.1(e), an Officers' Certificate specifying such Default,
Event of Default or default.

         SECTION 4.4 Stay, Extension and Usury Laws.

                  The Company covenants (to the extent that it may lawfully do
so) that it will not at any time insist upon, plead, or in any manner whatsoever
claim or take the benefit or advantage of, any stay, extension or usury law
wherever enacted, now or at any time hereafter in force, which may affect the
covenants or the performance of this Indenture; and the Company (to the extent
it may lawfully do so) hereby expressly waives all benefit or advantage of any
such law, and covenants that it will not, by resort to any such law, hinder,
delay or impede the execution of any power herein granted to the Trustee, but
will suffer and permit the execution of every such power as though no such law
has been enacted.

         SECTION 4.5 Corporate Existence.

                  Subject to Article V, the Company will do or cause to be done
all things necessary to preserve and keep in full force and effect its corporate
existence and the rights (charter and statutory), licenses and franchises of the
Company; provided, however, that the Company shall not be required to preserve
any such right, license or franchise if the Board of Directors shall determine
that the preservation thereof is no longer desirable in the conduct of the
business of the Company and its Subsidiaries taken as a whole.

         SECTION 4.6 Taxes.

                  The Company shall pay prior to delinquency all taxes,
assessments and governmental levies, except as contested in good faith and by
appropriate proceedings.

                                   ARTICLE V

                                   SUCCESSORS

         SECTION 5.1 When Company May Merge, Etc.

                  The Company shall not consolidate or merge with or into, or
sell, convey or otherwise dispose of its assets substantially as an entirety
(computed on a consolidated basis) to, any person unless:

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                  (a) the corporation formed by or surviving any such
         consolidation or merger (if other than the Company), or to which such
         sale, conveyance or other disposition shall have been made, assumes by
         supplemental indenture or Board Resolution, all the obligations of the
         Company under the Securities and this Indenture; and

                  (b) immediately after the transaction no Default or Event of
         Default exists.

                  The Company shall deliver to the Trustee prior to the
consummation of the proposed transaction an Officers' Certificate to the
foregoing effect and an Opinion of Counsel stating that the proposed transaction
and such supplemental indenture comply with this Indenture.

         SECTION 5.2 Successor Corporation Substituted.

                  Upon any consolidation or merger, or any sale, lease,
conveyance or other disposition of all or substantially all of the assets of the
Company in accordance with Section 5.1, the successor corporation formed by such
consolidation or into or with which the Company is merged or to which such sale,
conveyance or other disposition is made shall succeed to, and be substituted
for, and may exercise every right and power of, the Company under this Indenture
with the same effect as if such successor person has been named as the Company
herein; provided, however, that the predecessor Company in the case of a sale,
conveyance or other disposition shall not be released from the obligation to pay
the principal of and interest on the Securities.

                                   ARTICLE VI

                              DEFAULTS AND REMEDIES

         SECTION 6.1 Events of Default.

                  "Event of Default," wherever used herein with respect to
Securities of any Series, means any one of the following events:

                  (a) default in the payment of any interest on any Security of
         that Series when it becomes due and payable and continuance of such
         default for a period of 30 days; or

                  (b) default in the payment of principal, or premium, if any,
         of any Security of that Series at its Stated Maturity, whether or not
         prohibited by the provisions of Article XIII; or

                  (c) default in the payment of principal, premium, if any, of
         any Security of that Series within 30 days following redemption or
         purchase by the Company at the option of Holder (if such redemption or
         purchase provision is provided in the supplemental indenture or Board
         Resolution applicable to the Securities of such Series); or

                  (d) default in the deposit of any sinking fund payment, when
         and as due by the terms of a Security of that Series; or

                  (e) default in the performance, or breach, of any covenant or
         warranty of the Company in this Indenture (other than a covenant or
         warranty a default whose performance or whose breach is elsewhere in
         this Section specifically dealt with or which has expressly been
         included in this Indenture solely for the benefit of Series of
         Securities other than that Series), and continuance of such default or
         breach for a period of 60 days after there has been given, by
         registered or certified mail, to the Company by the Trustee or to the
         Company and the Trustee by

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         the Holders of at least 25% in principal amount of the outstanding
         Securities of that Series a written notice specifying such default or
         breach and requiring it to be remedied and stating that such notice is
         a "Notice of Default" hereunder; or

                  (f) the Company pursuant to or within the meaning of any
         Bankruptcy Law:

                           (i) commences a voluntary case,

                           (ii) consents to the entry of an order for relief
                  against it in an involuntary case,

                           (iii) consents to the appointment of a Custodian of
                  it or for all or substantially all of its property,

                           (iv) makes a general assignment for the benefit of
                  its creditors, or

                           (v) generally is unable to pay its debts as the same
                  become due; or

                  (g) a court of competent jurisdiction enters an order or
         decree under any Bankruptcy Law that:

                           (i) is for relief against the Company in an
                  involuntary case,

                           (ii) appoints a Custodian of the Company or for all
                  or substantially all of its property, or

                           (iii) orders the liquidation of the Company, and the
                  order or decree remains unstayed and in effect for 60 days; or

                  (h) any other Event of Default provided with respect to
         Securities of that Series.

         SECTION 6.2 Acceleration of Maturity; Rescission and Annulment.

                  If an Event of Default with respect to Securities of any
Series at the time outstanding occurs and is continuing, then in every such case
the Trustee or the Holders of not less than 25% in principal amount of the
outstanding Securities of that Series may declare the principal amount (or, if
any Securities of that Series are Discount Securities, such portion of the
principal amount as may be specified in the terms of such Securities) of all of
the Securities of that Series to be due and payable immediately, by a notice in
writing to the Company (and to the Trustee if given by Holders), and upon any
such declaration such principal amount (or specified amount) shall become
immediately due and payable. If an Event of Default specified in Section 6.1(e)
shall occur, the principal amount (or specified amount) of all outstanding
Securities shall ipso facto become and be immediately due and payable without
any declaration or other act on the part of the Trustee or any Holder.

                  At any time after such a declaration of acceleration with
respect to any Series has been made and before a judgment or decree for payment
of the money due has been obtained by the Trustee as hereinafter in this Article
provided, the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the outstanding
Securities of that Series, by written notice to the Company and the Trustee, may
rescind and annul such declaration and its consequences if:

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                  (a) the Company has paid or deposited with the Trustee a sum
         sufficient to pay

                           (i) all overdue interest on all Securities of that
                  Series,

                           (ii) the principal of any Securities of that Series
                  which have become due otherwise than by such declaration of
                  acceleration and interest thereon at the rate or rates
                  prescribed therefor in such Securities,

                           (iii) to the extent that payment of such interest is
                  lawful, interest upon any overdue principal and overdue
                  interest at the rate or rates prescribed therefor in such
                  Securities, and

                           (iv) all sums paid or advanced by the Trustee
                  hereunder and the reasonable compensation, expenses,
                  disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its agents and
                  counsel; and

                  (b) all Events of Default with respect to Securities of that
         Series, other than the non-payment of the principal of Securities of
         that Series which have become due solely by such declaration of
         acceleration, have been cured or waived as provided in Section 6.13.

                  No such rescission shall affect any subsequent Default or
impair any right consequent thereon.

         SECTION 6.3 Collection of Indebtedness and Suits for Enforcement by
Trustee.

                  The Company covenants that if

                  (a) default is made in the payment of any interest on any
         Security when such interest becomes due and payable and such default
         continues for a period of 30 days, or

                  (b) default is made in the payment of principal of any
         Security at the Maturity thereof, or

                  (c) default is made in the deposit of any sinking fund payment
         when and as due by the terms of a Security,

the Company will, upon demand of the Trustee, pay to it, for the benefit of the
Holders of such Securities, the whole amount then due and payable on such
Securities for principal and interest and, to the extent that payment of such
interest shall be legally enforceable, interest on any overdue principal or any
overdue interest, at the rate or rates prescribed therefor in such Securities,
and, in addition thereto, such further amount as shall be sufficient to cover
the costs and expenses of collection, including the reasonable compensation,
expenses, disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its agents and counsel.

                  If the Company fails to pay such amounts forthwith upon such
demand, the Trustee, in its own name and as Trustee of an express trust, may
institute a judicial proceeding for the collection of the sums so due and
unpaid, may prosecute such proceeding to judgment or final decree and may
enforce the same against the Company or any other obligor upon such Securities
and collect the moneys adjudged or deemed to be payable in the manner provided
by law out of the property of the Company or any other obligor upon such
Securities, wherever situated.

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                  If an Event of Default with respect to any Securities of any
Series occurs and is continuing, the Trustee may in its discretion proceed to
protect and enforce its rights and the rights of the Holders of Securities of
such Series by such appropriate judicial proceedings as the Trustee shall deem
most effectual to protect and enforce any such rights, whether for the specific
enforcement of any covenant or agreement in this Indenture or in aid of the
exercise of any power granted herein, or to enforce any other proper remedy.

         SECTION 6.4 Trustee May File Proofs of Claim.

                  In case of the pendency of any receivership, insolvency,
liquidation, bankruptcy, reorganization, arrangement, adjustment, composition or
other judicial proceeding relative to the Company or any other obligor upon the
Securities or the property of the Company or of such other obligor or their
creditors, the Trustee (irrespective of whether the principal of the Securities
shall then be due and payable as therein expressed or by declaration or
otherwise and irrespective of whether the Trustee shall have made any demand on
the Company for the payment of overdue principal or interest) shall be entitled
and empowered, by intervention in such proceeding or otherwise,

                  (a) to file and prove a claim for the whole amount of
         principal and interest owing and unpaid in respect of the Securities
         and to file such other papers or documents as may be necessary or
         advisable in order to have the claims of the Trustee (including any
         claim for the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and
         advances of the Trustee, its agents and counsel) and of the Holders
         allowed in such judicial proceeding, and

                  (b) to collect and receive any moneys or other property
         payable or deliverable on any such claims and to distribute the same,
         and any custodian, receiver, assignee, trustee, liquidator,
         sequestrator or other similar official in any such judicial proceeding
         is hereby authorized by each Holder to make such payments to the
         Trustee and, in the event that the Trustee shall consent to the making
         of such payments directly to the Holders, to pay to the Trustee any
         amount due to it for the reasonable compensation, expenses,
         disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its agents and counsel, and
         any other amounts due the Trustee under Section 8.7.

                  Nothing herein contained shall be deemed to authorize the
Trustee to authorize or consent to or accept or adopt on behalf of any Holder
any plan of reorganization, arrangement, adjustment or composition affecting the
Securities or the rights of any Holder thereof or to authorize the Trustee to
vote in respect of the claim of any Holder in any such proceeding.

         SECTION 6.5 Trustee May Enforce Claims Without Possession of
Securities.

                  All rights of action and claims under this Indenture or the
Securities may be prosecuted and enforced by the Trustee without the possession
of any of the Securities or the production thereof in any proceeding relating
thereto, and any such proceeding instituted by the Trustee shall be brought in
its own name as Trustee of an express trust, and any recovery of judgment shall,
after provision for the payment of the reasonable compensation, expenses,
disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its agents and counsel, be for the
ratable benefit of the Holders of the Securities in respect of which such
judgment has been recovered.

         SECTION 6.6 Application of Money Collected.

                  Any money collected by the Trustee pursuant to this Article
shall be applied in the following order, at the date or dates fixed by the
Trustee and, in case of the distribution of such money on

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account of principal or interest, upon presentation of the Securities and the
notation thereon of the payment if only partially paid and upon surrender
thereof if fully paid:

                  First: To the payment of all amounts due the Trustee under
Section 8.7; and

                  Second: To the payment of the amounts then due and unpaid for
principal of and interest on the Securities in respect of which or for the
benefit of which such money has been collected, ratably, without preference or
priority of any kind, according to the amounts due and payable on such
Securities for principal and interest, respectively; and

                  Third: To the Company.

         SECTION 6.7 Limitation on Suits.

                  No Holder of any Security of any Series shall have any right
to institute any proceeding, judicial or otherwise, with respect to this
Indenture, or for the appointment of a receiver or Trustee, or for any other
remedy hereunder, unless

                  (a) such Holder has previously given written notice to the
         Trustee of a continuing Event of Default with respect to the Securities
         of that Series;

                  (b) the Holders of not less than 25% in principal amount of
         the outstanding Securities of that Series shall have made written
         request to the Trustee to institute proceedings in respect of such
         Event of Default in its own name as Trustee hereunder;

                  (c) such Holder or Holders have offered to the Trustee
         indemnity reasonably satisfactory to it against the costs, expenses and
         liabilities to be incurred in compliance with such request;

                  (d) the Trustee for 60 days after its receipt of such notice,
         request and offer of indemnity has failed to institute any such
         proceeding; and

                  (e) no direction inconsistent with such written request has
         been given to the Trustee during such 60-day period by the Holders of a
         majority in principal amount of the outstanding Securities of that
         Series;

it being understood and intended that no one or more of such Holders shall have
any right in any manner whatever by virtue of, or by availing of, any provision
of this Indenture to affect, disturb or prejudice the rights of any other of
such Holders (it being understood that the Trustee does not have an affirmative
duty to ascertain whether or not such actions or forbearances are unduly
prejudicial to such Holders), or to obtain or to seek to obtain priority or
preference over any other of such Holders or to enforce any right under this
Indenture, except in the manner herein provided and for the equal and ratable
benefit of all such Holders.

         SECTION 6.8 Unconditional Right of Holders to Receive Principal and
Interest.

                  Notwithstanding any other provision in this Indenture, the
Holder of any Security shall have the right, which is absolute and
unconditional, to receive payment of the principal of and interest on such
Security on the Stated Maturity or Stated Maturities expressed in such Security
(or, in the case of redemption, on the redemption date) and to institute suit
for the enforcement of any such payment or to

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demand conversion of its Securities pursuant to Article VII, if applicable to a
Series, and such rights shall not be impaired without the consent of such
Holder.

         SECTION 6.9 Restoration of Rights and Remedies.

                  If the Trustee or any Holder has instituted any proceeding to
enforce any right or remedy under this Indenture and such proceeding has been
discontinued or abandoned for any reason, or has been determined adversely to
the Trustee or to such Holder, then and in every such case, subject to any
determination in such proceeding, the Company, the Trustee and the Holders shall
be restored severally and respectively to their former positions hereunder and
thereafter all rights and remedies of the Trustee and the Holders shall continue
as though no such proceeding had been instituted.

         SECTION 6.10 Rights and Remedies Cumulative.

                  Except as otherwise provided with respect to the replacement
or payment of mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Securities in Section 2.8, no
right or remedy herein conferred upon or reserved to the Trustee or to the
Holders is intended to be exclusive of any other right or remedy, and every
right and remedy shall, to the extent permitted by law, be cumulative and in
addition to every other right and remedy given hereunder or now or hereafter
existing at law or in equity or otherwise. The assertion or employment of any
right or remedy hereunder, or otherwise, shall not prevent the concurrent
assertion or employment of any other appropriate right or remedy.

         SECTION 6.11 Delay or Omission Not Waiver.

                  No delay or omission of the Trustee or of any Holder of any
Securities to exercise any right or remedy accruing upon any Event of Default
shall impair any such right or remedy or constitute a waiver of any such Event
of Default or an acquiescence therein. Every right and remedy given by this
Article or by law to the Trustee or to the Holders may be exercised from time to
time, and as often as may be deemed expedient, by the Trustee or by the Holders,
as the case may be.

         SECTION 6.12 Control by Holders.

                  The Holders of a majority in principal amount of the
outstanding Securities of any Series shall have the right to direct the time,
method and place of conducting any proceeding for any remedy available to the
Trustee, or exercising any trust or power conferred on the Trustee, with respect
to the Securities of such Series, provided that

                  (a) such direction shall not be in conflict with any rule of
         law or with this Indenture,

                  (b) the Trustee may take any other action deemed proper by the
         Trustee which is not inconsistent with such direction, and

                  (c) subject to the provisions of Section 8.1, the Trustee
         shall have the right to decline to follow any such direction if the
         Trustee in good faith shall, by a Responsible Officer of the Trustee,
         determine that the proceeding so directed would involve the Trustee in
         personal liability.

         SECTION 6.13 Waiver of Past Defaults.

                  The Holders of not less than a majority in aggregate principal
amount of the outstanding Securities of any Series may on behalf of the Holders
of all the Securities of such Series waive any past Default hereunder with
respect to such Series and its consequences, except a Default (1) in the payment
of

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the principal of or interest on any Security of such Series, (2) under Article
VII or (3) in respect of a covenant or provision hereof which under Article X
cannot be modified or amended without the consent of the Holder of each
outstanding Security of such Series affected. Upon any such waiver, such Default
shall cease to exist, and any Event of Default arising therefrom shall be deemed
to have been cured, for every purpose of this Indenture; but no such waiver
shall extend to any subsequent or other Default or impair any right consequent
thereon.

         SECTION 6.14 Undertaking for Costs.

                  All parties to this Indenture agree, and each Holder of any
Security by his acceptance thereof shall be deemed to have agreed, that any
court may in its discretion require, in any suit for the enforcement of any
right or remedy under this Indenture, or in any suit against the Trustee for any
action taken, suffered or omitted by it as Trustee, the filing by any party
litigant in such suit of an undertaking to pay the costs of such suit, and that
such court may in its discretion assess reasonable costs, including reasonable
attorneys' fees and expenses, against any party litigant in such suit, having
due regard to the merits and good faith of the claims or defenses made by such
party litigant; but the provisions of this Section shall not apply to any suit
instituted by the Company, to any suit instituted by the Trustee, to any suit
instituted by any Holder, or group of Holders, holding in the aggregate more
than 10% in principal amount of the outstanding Securities of any Series, to any
suit instituted by any Holder for the enforcement of the payment of the
principal of or interest on any Security on or after the Stated Maturity or
Stated Maturities expressed in such Security (or, in the case of redemption, on
or after the redemption date), or for the enforcement of the right to convert
the Securities of any Series as provided in Article VII.

                                  ARTICLE VII

                                   CONVERSION

         SECTION 7.1 Conversion Privilege.

                  Holders of the Securities of any Series shall have the
conversion rights set forth in this Article VII if the supplemental indenture or
Board Resolution applicable to the Securities of such Series so designates.

                  A Holder of the Securities of any Series may convert such
Securities into Common Stock at any time prior to the close of business on a
date to be designated in such supplemental indenture or Board Resolution. If
Securities of any Series are called for redemption, the Holder may convert such
Securities at any time before the close of business on the Business Day
immediately preceding the redemption date, unless the Company defaults in making
the payment due upon redemption.

                  The initial conversion price shall be set forth in the
applicable supplemental indenture or Board Resolution. The conversion price is
subject to adjustment.

         SECTION 7.2 Conversion Procedure.

                  To convert the Securities of any Series, a Holder must (1)
complete and sign the conversion notice attached to the Securities, (2)
surrender the Securities to the Company at the office or agency to be maintained
by the Company, (3) furnish appropriate endorsements and transfer documents if
required by the Company, and (4) pay any transfer or similar tax if required.
The date on which the Holder satisfies all those requirements is the conversion
date. As soon as practical after the conversion date, the Company shall deliver
a certificate for the number of full shares of Common Stock, or other securities
as applicable, issuable upon the conversion and a check for any fractional share
of Common

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Stock. The person in whose name the certificate is registered shall be treated
as a stockholder of record on and after the conversion date.

                  No payment or adjustment will be made for accrued interest on
the converted Securities of any Series. If the Securities of a Series not called
for redemption are converted between a record date for the payment of interest
and the next succeeding interest payment date, such Securities must be
accompanied by funds equal to the interest payable on such interest payment date
on the principal amount so converted. Nothing in this Section shall affect the
right of a person in whose name the Securities of a Series are registered at the
close of business on any record date with respect to any interest payment date
to receive the interest payable thereon on such interest payment date in
accordance with the terms of the applicable supplemental indenture or Board
Resolution.

                  If a Holder converts more than one Security of a Series at the
same time, the number of full shares of Common Stock issuable upon the
conversion shall be based on the total principal amount of the Securities
converted.

                  Upon surrender of a Security of a Series that is converted in
part, the Trustee shall authenticate for the Holder a new Security of a Series
equal in principal amount to the unconverted portion of the Security of the
Series surrendered.

         SECTION 7.3 Fractional Shares.

                  The Company will not issue a fractional share of Common Stock
upon conversion of the Securities of any Series. Instead the Company will
deliver its check for the current market value of the fractional share, or other
securities as applicable. The current market value of a fraction of a share, or
other securities as applicable, is determined by multiplying the current market
price of a full share, or other securities as applicable, by the fraction and
rounding the result to the nearest cent.

                  For purposes of this Section 7.3, but not of Sections 7.7 and
7.8 the current market price of a share of Common Stock is the last reported
sale price of the Common Stock on the New York Stock Exchange--Composite Tape on
the last trading day prior to the conversion date. In the absence of such
quotation, the Company shall determine the current market price on the basis of
such quotations as it considers appropriate.

         SECTION 7.4 Taxes on Conversion.

                  Conversion price adjustments or omissions in making such
adjustments may, under certain circumstances, be deemed to be distributions that
could be taxable as dividends under the Internal Revenue Code to Holders of
Securities or holders of Common Stock.

                  If a Holder of the Securities of a Series converts its
Securities, the Company shall pay any documentary, stamp or similar issue or
transfer tax due on the issue of shares of Common Stock upon the conversion.
However, the Holder shall pay any other tax which is due.

         SECTION 7.5 Company to Provide Stock.

                  The Company shall reserve out of its authorized but unissued
Common Stock or its Common Stock held in treasury enough shares of Common Stock
to permit the conversion of the Securities of any Series.

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                  All shares of Common Stock which may be issued upon conversion
of the Securities of any Series shall be fully paid and non-assessable.

                  The Company will endeavor to comply with all securities laws
regulating the offer and delivery of shares of Common Stock upon conversion of
the Securities of any Series and will endeavor to list such shares on each
national securities exchange on which the Common Stock is then listed.

         SECTION 7.6 Adjustment for Change in Capital Stock.

                  The conversion price will be subject to adjustment in case of
certain events, including:

                  (a) the subdivision, combination or reclassification of the
         outstanding Common Stock of the Company,

                  (b) the issuance of Common Stock as a dividend or distribution
         on Common Stock,

                  (c) the issuance of rights or warrants (expiring within 45
         days after the record date) to all holders of Common Stock entitling
         them to acquire shares of Common Stock (or securities convertible into
         or exchangeable for Common Stock) at less than the then current market
         price (as defined in the supplemental indenture) of the Common Stock,

                  (d) the distribution to all holders of Common Stock of shares
         of any class other than Common Stock, or debt securities or assets
         (excluding regular quarterly cash dividends or distributions) or rights
         or warrants to purchase assets or securities of the Company (other than
         those referred to above),

                  (e) the issuance (with certain exceptions) of Common Stock or
         securities convertible into, or exchangeable for, Common Stock at less
         than the current market price of the Common Stock, or

                  (f) the merger or consolidation with or into, or the sale or
         conveyance of the Company's assets substantially as an entirety
         (computed on a consolidated basis) to, any person.

                  The conversion privilege and the conversion price in effect
immediately prior to such action shall be adjusted so that the Holder of the
Securities of a Series thereafter converted may receive the number of shares of
capital stock of the Company which he would have owned immediately following
such action if he had converted the Securities immediately prior to such action.

                  The adjustment shall become effective immediately after the
record date in the case of a dividend or distribution and immediately after the
effective date in the case of a subdivision, combination or reclassification.

                  If after an adjustment, a Holder of the Securities of any
Series upon conversion of such Securities may receive shares of two or more
classes of capital stock of the Company, the Company shall determine the
allocation of the adjusted conversion price between the classes of capital
stock. After such allocation, the conversion privilege and the conversion price
of each class of capital stock shall thereafter be subject to adjustment on
terms comparable to those applicable to Common Stock in this Article.

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         SECTION 7.7 Adjustment for Rights Issue.

                  If the Company (a) distributes any rights or warrants to all
holders of its Common Stock entitling them for a period expiring within 45 days
after the record date mentioned below to purchase shares of Common Stock or
securities convertible into or exchangeable for Common Stock at a price per
share (or having a conversion or exchange price per share) less than the current
market price (as defined in Section 7.9) per share on that record date, or (b)
issues shares of Common Stock for cash or securities convertible into or
exchangeable for Common Stock to any person at a price per share (or having a
conversion or exchange price per share) less than the current market price (as
defined in Section 7.9) per share on the date of issuance, the conversion price
shall be adjusted in accordance with the formula:

                                                      NxP
                                                     ----
                                         C' = C x  O  + M
                                                   ------
                                                      O+N

                  where:

                  C' = the adjusted conversion price.

                  C  = the current conversion price.

                  O  = the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding on
                       the record date or issuance date, as applicable.

                  N  = the number of additional shares of Common Stock
                       offered or issuable upon conversion or exchange.

                  P  = the offering, conversion or exchange price per share of
                       the additional shares.

                  M  = the current market price per share of Common Stock on
                       the record date or issuance date as applicable.

                  Under clause (a) above, the adjustment shall become effective
immediately after the record date for the determination of stockholders entitled
to receive the rights or warrants. Under clause (b) above, the adjustment shall
be made whenever any such securities are issued and shall become effective on
the date of such issuance.

         SECTION 7.8 Adjustment for Other Distributions.

                  If the Company distributes to all holders of its Common Stock
any of its assets or debt securities or any rights or warrants to purchase
assets or securities of the Company, the conversion price shall be adjusted in
accordance with the formula:

                                         C' =  Cx  M-F
                                                  ----
                                                     M

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                  where:

                  C' = the adjusted conversion price.

                  C  = the current conversion price.

                  M  = the current market price (as defined in Section 7.9)
                       per share of Common Stock on the record date mentioned
                       below.

                  F  = the fair market value on the record date of the
                       assets, securities, rights or warrants applicable to one
                       share of Common Stock. The Company shall determine the
                       fair market value.

                  The adjustment shall become effective immediately after the
record date for the determination of stockholders entitled to receive the
distribution.

                  This Section does not apply to quarterly cash dividends or
cash distributions paid out of consolidated current or retained earnings as
shown on the books of the Company. Also, this Section does not apply to rights
or warrants referred to in Section 7.7.

         SECTION 7.9 Current Market Price.

                  In Sections 7.7 and 7.8 the current market price per share of
Common Stock on any date is the average of the last reported sales prices of the
Common Stock on the New York Stock Exchange--Composite Tape for thirty
consecutive trading days commencing 45 trading days before the date in question.
In the absence of one or more such quotations, the Company shall determine the
current market price on the basis of such quotations as it considers
appropriate.

         SECTION 7.10 When Adjustment May be Deferred.

                  No adjustment in the conversion price need be made unless the
adjustment would require a decrease or an increase (to the extent permitted by
Section 7.11) of at least 1% in the conversion price. Any adjustments that are
not made shall be carried forward and taken into account in any subsequent
adjustment.

                  All calculations under this Article shall be made to the
nearest cent or to the nearest 1/100th of a share, as the case may be.

         SECTION 7.11 When No Adjustment Required.

                  No upward adjustment in the conversion price will be made
except in the event of a reverse stock split.

                  No adjustment need be made for issuances of shares of Common
Stock (a) to officers, directors or employees of the Company pursuant to any
benefit plan now in existence or hereafter approved by the stockholders of the
Company or (b) pursuant to the Company's plan for reinvestment of dividends, as
now in effect and as the same may be amended in accordance with its terms.

                  No adjustment need be made in the conversion price of less
than 1% of such price, but the same will be carried forward and taken into
account in the computation of any subsequent adjustment.

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                  No adjustment need be made for a change in the par value of
the Common Stock.

                  To the extent the Securities of a Series become convertible
into cash, no adjustment need be made thereafter as to the cash. Interest will
not accrue on the cash.

         SECTION 7.12 Notice of Adjustment.

                  Whenever the conversion price is adjusted, the Company shall
promptly mail to Holders a notice of the adjustment. The Company shall file with
the Trustee a certificate from the Company's independent public accountants
briefly stating the facts requiring the adjustment and the manner of computing
it. The certificate shall be conclusive evidence that the adjustment is correct.

         SECTION 7.13 Voluntary Reduction.

                  The Company from time to time may reduce the conversion price
by any amount for any period of time if the period is at least 20 days and if
the reduction is irrevocable during the period.

                  Whenever the conversion price is reduced, the Company shall
mail to Holders a notice of the reduction. The Company shall mail the notice at
least 15 days before the date the reduced conversion price takes effect. The
notice shall state the reduced conversion price and the period it will be in
effect.

                  A reduction of the conversion price does not change or adjust
the conversion price otherwise in effect for purposes of calculating the
adjustments required by Sections 7.6 through 7.8.

         SECTION 7.14 Notice of Certain Transactions.

                  If:

                  (1) the Company takes any action that would require an
         adjustment in the conversion price pursuant to Sections 7.6, 7.7 or
         7.8,

                  (2) the Company takes any action that would require a
         supplemental indenture or Board Resolution pursuant to Section 7.15, or

                  (3) there is a liquidation or dissolution of the Company, the
         Company shall mail to Holders a notice stating the proposed record date
         for a dividend or distribution or the proposed effective date of a
         subdivision, combination, reclassification, consolidation, merger,
         transfer, liquidation or dissolution. The Company shall mail the notice
         at least 15 days before such date. Failure to mail the notice or any
         defect in it shall not affect the validity of the transaction.

         SECTION 7.15 Reorganization of Company.

                  If the Company is a party to a transaction subject to Section
5.1 or a merger which reclassifies or changes its outstanding Common Stock, the
person obligated to deliver securities, cash or other assets upon conversion of
the Securities of any Series shall enter into a supplemental indenture. If the
issuer of securities deliverable upon conversion of such Securities is an
Affiliate of the surviving or transferee corporation, that issuer shall join in
the supplemental indenture.

                  The applicable supplemental indenture or Board Resolution
shall provide that the Holder of a Security of any Series may convert it into
the kind and amount of securities, cash or other assets which he would have
owned immediately after the consolidation, merger or transfer if he had
converted

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the Security immediately before the effective date of the transaction. The
applicable supplemental indenture or Board Resolution shall provide for
adjustments which shall be as nearly equivalent as may be practical to the
adjustments provided for in this Article. The successor company shall mail to
Holders a notice briefly describing the supplemental indenture.

                  If this Section applies, Section 7.6 does not apply.

         SECTION 7.16 Company Determination Final.

                  Any determination that the Company or the Board of Directors
must make pursuant to Section 7.3, 7.6, 7.7, 7.8, 7.9 or 7.11 is conclusive.

         SECTION 7.17 Trustee's Disclaimer.

                  The Trustee has no duty to determine when an adjustment under
this Article should be made, how it should be made or what it should be. The
Trustee has no duty to determine whether any provisions of a supplemental
indenture under Section 7.15 are correct. The Trustee makes no representation as
to the validity or value of any securities or assets issued upon conversion of
the Securities of any Series. The Trustee shall not be responsible for the
Company's failure to comply with this Article. Each conversion agent other than
the Company shall have the same protection under this Section as the Trustee.

                                  ARTICLE VIII

                                     TRUSTEE

         SECTION 8.1 Duties of Trustee.

                  (a) If an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, the
         Trustee shall exercise the rights and powers vested in it by this
         Indenture and use the same degree of care and skill in their exercise
         as a prudent man would exercise or use under the circumstances in the
         conduct of his own affairs.

                  (b) Except during the continuance of an Event of Default:

                           (i) The Trustee need perform only those duties that
                  are specifically set forth in this Indenture and no others. No
                  implied covenants or obligations shall be read into this
                  Indenture against the Trustee.

                           (ii) In the absence of bad faith on its part, the
                  Trustee may conclusively rely, as to the truth of the
                  statements and the correctness of the opinions expressed
                  therein, upon Officers' Certificates or Opinions of Counsel
                  furnished to the Trustee and conforming to the requirements of
                  this Indenture; however, in the case of any such Officers'
                  Certificates or Opinions of Counsel which by any provisions
                  hereof are specifically required to be furnished to the
                  Trustee, the Trustee shall examine such Officers' Certificates
                  and Opinions of Counsel to determine whether or not they
                  conform to the requirements of this Indenture (but need not
                  confirm or investigate the accuracy of mathematical
                  calculations or other facts stated therein).

                  (c) The Trustee may not be relieved from liability for its own
         negligent action, its own negligent failure to act or its own willful
         misconduct, except that:

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                           (i) This paragraph does not limit the effect of
                  paragraph (b) of this Section.

                           (ii) The Trustee shall not be liable for any error of
                  judgment made in good faith by a Responsible Officer, unless
                  it is proved that the Trustee was negligent in ascertaining
                  the pertinent facts.

                           (iii) The Trustee shall not be liable with respect to
                  any action taken, suffered or omitted to be taken by it with
                  respect to Securities of any Series in good faith in
                  accordance with the direction of the Holders of a majority in
                  principal amount of the outstanding Securities of such Series
                  relating to the time, method and place of conducting any
                  proceeding for any remedy available to the Trustee, or
                  exercising any trust or power conferred upon the Trustee,
                  under this Indenture with respect to the Securities of such
                  Series.

                  (d) Every provision of this Indenture that in any way relates
         to the Trustee is subject to paragraph (a), (b) and (c) of this
         Section.

                  (e) The Trustee may refuse to perform any duty or exercise any
         right or power unless it receives indemnity satisfactory to it against
         any loss, liability or expense.

                  (f) The Trustee shall not be liable for interest on any money
         received by it except as the Trustee may agree in writing with the
         Company. Money held in trust by the Trustee need not be segregated from
         other funds except to the extent required by law.

                  (g) No provision of this Indenture shall require the Trustee
         to risk its own funds or otherwise incur any financial liability in the
         performance of any of its duties, or in the exercise of any of its
         rights or powers, if it shall have reasonable grounds for believing
         that repayment of such funds or adequate indemnity against such risk is
         not reasonably assured to it.

         SECTION 8.2 Rights of Trustee.

                  (a) The Trustee may conclusively rely on and shall be
         protected in acting or refraining from acting upon any document
         believed by it to be genuine and to have been signed or presented by
         the proper person.

                  (b) Before the Trustee acts or refrains from acting, it may
         require an Officers' Certificate or an Opinion of Counsel. The Trustee
         shall not be liable for any action it takes or omits to take in good
         faith in reliance on such Officers' Certificate or Opinion of Counsel.

                  (c) The Trustee may act through agents and shall not be
         responsible for the misconduct or negligence of any agent appointed
         with due care. No Depository shall be deemed an agent of the Trustee
         and the Trustee shall not be responsible for any act or omission by any
         Depository.

                  (d) The Trustee shall not be liable for any action it takes or
         omits to take in good faith which it believes to be authorized or
         within its rights or powers.

                  (e) The Trustee may consult with counsel and the advice of
         such counsel or any Opinion of Counsel shall be full and complete
         authorization and protection in respect of any action taken, suffered
         or omitted by it hereunder in good faith and in reliance thereon.

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                  (f) The Trustee shall be under no obligation to exercise any
         of the rights or powers vested in it by this Indenture at the request
         or direction of any of the Holders of Securities unless such Holders
         shall have offered to the Trustee security or indemnity reasonably
         satisfactory to it against the costs, expenses and liabilities which
         might be incurred by it in compliance with such request or direction.

                  (g) The Trustee will not be bound to make any investigation
         into the facts or matters stated in any resolution, certificate,
         statement, instrument, opinion, report, notice, request, direction,
         consent, order, bond, debenture, note, other evidence of indebtedness,
         or other paper or document, but the Trustee, in its discretion, may
         make such further inquiry or investigation into such facts or matters
         as it may see fit, and, if the Trustee shall determine to make such
         further inquiry or investigation, it will be entitled to examine the
         books, records, and premises of the Company, personally or by agent or
         attorney.

                  (h) The Trustee shall not be deemed to have notice of any
         Default or Event of Default (other than an Event of Default described
         in Section 6.1(a), (b), (c) or (d) so long as the Trustee is the Paying
         Agent) unless a Responsible Officer of the Trustee has actual knowledge
         thereof or unless written notice of any event which is in fact such a
         default is received by the Trustee at the Corporate Trust Office of the
         Trustee, and such notice references the Securities and this Indenture.

                  (i) The rights, privileges, protections, immunities and
         benefits given to the Trustee, including, without limitation, its right
         to be indemnified, are extended to, and shall be enforceable by, the
         Trustee in each of its capacities hereunder, and to each agent,
         custodian and other Person employed to act hereunder.

                  (j) The Trustee may request that the Company deliver an
         Officers' Certificate setting forth the names of individuals and/or
         titles of officers authorized at such time to take specified actions
         pursuant to this Indenture, which Officers' Certificate may be signed
         by any person authorized to sign an Officers' Certificate, including
         any person specified as so authorized in any such certificate
         previously delivered and not superseded.

         SECTION 8.3 Individual Rights of Trustee.

                  The Trustee in its individual or any other capacity may become
the owner or pledgee of Securities and may otherwise deal with the Company or an
Affiliate with the same rights it would have if it were not Trustee. Any Agent
may do the same with like rights. However, the Trustee is subject to Sections
8.10 and 8.11.

         SECTION 8.4 Trustee's Disclaimer.

                  The Trustee makes no representation as to the validity or
adequacy of this Indenture or the Securities, it shall not be accountable for
the Company's use of the proceeds from the Securities, and it shall not be
responsible for any statement in the Securities other than its authentication.

         SECTION 8.5 Notice of Defaults.

                  If a Default or Event of Default occurs and is continuing with
respect to the Securities of any Series and if it is known to a Responsible
Officer of the Trustee, the Trustee shall mail to each

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Securityholder of the Securities of that Series and, if any Bearer Securities
are outstanding, publish on one occasion in an Authorized Newspaper, notice of a
Default or Event of Default within 90 days after it occurs or, if later, after a
Responsible Officer of the Trustee has knowledge of such Default or Event of
Default. Except in the case of a Default or Event of Default in payment on any
Security of any Series, the Trustee may withhold the notice if and so long as
its corporate trust committee or a committee of its Responsible Officers in good
faith determines that withholding the notice is in the interests of
Securityholders of that Series.

         SECTION 8.6 Reports by Trustee to Holders.

                  Within 60 days after May 15 in each year, the Trustee shall
transmit by mail to all Securityholders, as their names and addresses appear on
the Security Register, and, if any Bearer Securities are outstanding, publish in
an Authorized Newspaper, a brief report dated as of such May 15, in accordance
with, and to the extent required under, TIA Section 313.

                  A copy of each report at the time of its mailing to
Securityholders of any Series shall be filed with the SEC and each stock
exchange on which the Securities of that Series are listed. The Company shall
promptly notify the Trustee when Securities of any Series are listed on any
stock exchange.

         SECTION 8.7 Compensation and Indemnity.

                  The Company shall pay to the Trustee from time to time such
compensation for its services as the parties hereto shall from time to time
agree in writing. The Trustee's compensation shall not be limited by any law on
compensation of a Trustee of an express trust. The Company shall reimburse the
Trustee upon request for all reasonable out-of-pocket expenses incurred by it.
Such expenses shall include the reasonable compensation and expenses of the
Trustee's agents and counsel.

                  The Company shall indemnify the Trustee (including the cost of
defending itself) against any and all loss, liability, claim, damage or expense
incurred by it except as set forth in the next paragraph in the performance of
its duties under this Indenture as Trustee or Agent. The Trustee shall notify
the Company promptly of any claim for which it may seek indemnity. The Company
shall defend the claim and the Trustee shall cooperate in the defense. The
Trustee may have separate counsel and the Company shall pay the reasonable fees
and expenses of such counsel. The Company need not pay for any settlement made
without its consent, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld. This
indemnification shall apply to officers, directors, employees, shareholders and
agents of the Trustee.

                  The Company need not reimburse any expense or indemnify
against any loss or liability incurred by the Trustee or by any officer,
director, employee, shareholder or agent of the Trustee through negligence or
bad faith.

                  To secure the Company's payment obligations in this Section,
the Trustee shall have a lien prior to the Securities of any Series on all money
or property held or collected by the Trustee, except that held in trust to pay
principal and interest on particular Securities of that Series.

                  When the Trustee incurs expenses or renders services after an
Event of Default specified in Section 6.1(f) or (g) occurs, the expenses and the
compensation for the services (including the reasonable fees and expenses of its
counsel) are intended to constitute expenses of administration under any
Bankruptcy Law. The provisions of this section shall survive the termination of
the Indenture and the removal or resignation of the Trustee.

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         SECTION 8.8 Replacement of Trustee.

                  A resignation or removal of the Trustee and appointment of a
successor Trustee shall become effective only upon the successor Trustee's
acceptance of appointment as provided in this Section.

                  The Trustee may resign with respect to the Securities of one
or more Series by so notifying the Company. The Holders of a majority in
principal amount of the Securities of any Series may remove the Trustee with
respect to that Series by so notifying the Trustee and the Company. The Company
may remove the Trustee with respect to Securities of one or more Series if:

                  (a) the Trustee fails to comply with Section 8.10;

                  (b) the Trustee is adjudged a bankrupt or an insolvent or an
         order for relief is entered with respect to the Trustee under any
         Bankruptcy Law;

                  (c) a Custodian or public officer takes charge of the Trustee
         or its property; or

                  (d) the Trustee becomes incapable of acting.

                  If the Trustee resigns or is removed or if a vacancy exists in
the office of Trustee for any reason, the Company shall promptly appoint a
successor Trustee. Within one year after the successor Trustee takes office, the
Holders of a majority in principal amount of the then outstanding Securities may
appoint a successor Trustee to replace the successor Trustee appointed by the
Company.

                  If a successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of any
one or more Series does not take office within 60 days after the retiring
Trustee resigns or is removed, the retiring Trustee (at the expense of the
Company), the Company or the Holders of at least 10% in principal amount of the
Securities of the applicable Series may petition any court of competent
jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor Trustee.

                  If the Trustee with respect to the Securities of any one or
more Series fails to comply with Section 8.10, any Securityholder of the
applicable Series may petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the
removal of the Trustee and the appointment of a successor Trustee.

                  A successor Trustee shall deliver a written acceptance of its
appointment to the retiring Trustee and to the Company. Immediately after that,
the retiring Trustee shall transfer all property held by it as Trustee to the
successor Trustee subject to the lien provided for in Section 8.7, the
resignation or removal of the retiring Trustee shall become effective, and the
successor Trustee shall have all the rights, powers and duties of the Trustee
with respect to each Series of Securities for which it is acting as Trustee
under this Indenture. A successor Trustee shall mail a notice of its succession
to each Securityholder of each such Series and if any Bearer Securities are
outstanding, publish such notice on one occasion in an Authorized Newspaper.
Notwithstanding replacement of the Trustee pursuant to this Section 8.8, the
Company's obligations under Section 8.7 hereof shall continue for the benefit of
the retiring Trustee with respect to expenses and liabilities incurred by it
prior to such replacement.

         SECTION 8.9 Successor Trustee by Merger, etc.

                  If the Trustee consolidates with, merges or converts into, or
transfers all or substantially all of its corporate trust business to, another
corporation, the successor corporation without any further act shall be the
successor Trustee.

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         SECTION 8.10 Eligibility; Disqualification.

                  This Indenture shall always have a Trustee who satisfies the
requirements of TIA Section 310(a)(1), (2) and (5). The Trustee shall always
have a combined capital and surplus of at least $50.0 million as set forth in
its most recent published annual report of condition. The Trustee shall comply
with TIA Section 310(b).

         SECTION 8.11 Preferential Collection of Claims Against Company.

                  The Trustee is subject to TIA Section 311(a), excluding any
creditor relationship listed in TIA Section 311(b). A Trustee who has resigned
or been removed shall be subject to TIA Section 311(a) to the extent indicated.

                                   ARTICLE IX

                           SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE

         SECTION 9.1 Satisfaction and Discharge of Indenture.

                  This Indenture shall upon Company Order cease to be of further
effect (except as to any surviving rights of registration of transfer or
exchange of Securities herein expressly provided for), and the Trustee, at the
expense of the Company, shall execute proper instruments acknowledging
satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture, when

                  (a) either

                           (i) all Securities theretofore authenticated and
                  delivered (other than Securities that have been destroyed,
                  lost or stolen and that have been replaced or paid) have been
                  delivered to the Trustee for cancellation; or

                           (ii) all such Securities not theretofore delivered to
                  the Trustee for cancellation

                                    (A) have become due and payable, or

                                    (B) will become due and payable at their
                           Stated Maturity within one year, or

                                    (C) are to be called for redemption within
                           one year under arrangements satisfactory to the
                           Trustee for the giving of notice of redemption by the
                           Trustee in the name, and at the expense, of the
                           Company, or

                                    (D) are deemed paid and discharged pursuant
                           to Section 9.3, as applicable;

                  and the Company, in the case of (1), (2) or (3) above, has
                  deposited or caused to be deposited with the Trustee as trust
                  funds in trust in an amount sufficient for the purpose of
                  paying and discharging the entire indebtedness on such
                  Securities not theretofore delivered to the Trustee for
                  cancellation, for principal and interest to the date of such
                  deposit (in the case of Securities which become due and
                  payable) or to the Stated Maturity or redemption date, as the
                  case may be;

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                  (b) the Company has paid or caused to be paid all other sums
         payable hereunder by the Company; and

                  (c) the Company has delivered to the Trustee an Officers'
         Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel, each stating that all conditions
         precedent herein provided for relating to the satisfaction and
         discharge of this Indenture have been complied with.

                  Notwithstanding the satisfaction and discharge of this
Indenture, the obligations of the Company to the Trustee under Section 8.7, and,
if money shall have been deposited with the Trustee pursuant to clause (a) of
this Section or if money or obligations shall have been deposited with or
received by the Trustee pursuant to Section 9.3, the obligations of the Trustee
under Section 9.2 and Section 9.5 shall survive.

         SECTION 9.2 Application of Trust Funds; Indemnification.

                  (a) Subject to the provisions of Section 9.5, all money
deposited with the Trustee pursuant to Section 9.1, all money and U.S.
Government Obligations or Foreign Government Securities deposited with the
Trustee pursuant to Section 9.3 or 9.4 and all money received by the Trustee in
respect of U.S. Government Obligations or Foreign Government Securities
deposited with the Trustee pursuant to Section 9.3 or 9.4, shall be held in
trust and applied by it, in accordance with the provisions of the Securities and
this Indenture, to the payment, either directly or through any Paying Agent
(including the Company acting as its own Paying Agent) as the Trustee may
determine, to the persons entitled thereto, of the principal and interest for
whose payment such money has been deposited with or received by the Trustee or
to make mandatory sinking fund payments or analogous payments as contemplated by
Sections 9.3 or 9.4.

                  (b) The Company shall pay and shall indemnify the Trustee
against any tax, fee or other charge imposed on or assessed against U.S.
Government Obligations or Foreign Government Securities deposited pursuant to
Sections 9.3 or 9.4 or the interest and principal received in respect of such
obligations other than any payable by or on behalf of Holders.

                  (c) The Trustee shall deliver or pay to the Company from time
to time upon Company Request any U.S. Government Obligations or Foreign
Government Securities or money held by it as provided in Sections 9.3 or 9.4
which, in the opinion of a nationally recognized firm of independent certified
public accountants expressed in a written certification thereof delivered to the
Trustee, are then in excess of the amount thereof which then would have been
required to be deposited for the purpose for which such Obligations or Foreign
Government Securities or money were deposited or received. This provision shall
not authorize the sale by the Trustee of any U.S. Government Obligations or
Foreign Government Securities held under this Indenture.

         SECTION 9.3 Legal Defeasance of Securities of any Series.

                  Unless this Section 9.3 is otherwise specified, pursuant to
Section 2.2.12, to be inapplicable to Securities of any Series, the Company
shall be deemed to have paid and discharged the entire indebtedness on all the
outstanding Securities of any such Series on the 91st day after the date of the
deposit referred to in subparagraph (d) hereof, and the provisions of this
Indenture, including the provisions of Article XIII relating to subordination,
as it relates to such outstanding Securities of any such Series, shall no longer
be in effect (and the Trustee, at the expense of the Company, shall, at Company
Request, execute proper instruments acknowledging the same), except as to:

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                  (a) the rights of Holders of Securities of such Series to
         receive, from the trust funds described in subparagraph (d) hereof, (i)
         payment of the principal of and any installment of principal of or
         interest on the outstanding Securities of such Series on the Stated
         Maturity of such principal or installment of principal or interest and
         (ii) the benefit of any mandatory sinking fund payments applicable to
         the Securities of such Series on the day on which such payments are due
         and payable in accordance with the terms of this Indenture and the
         Securities of such Series;

                  (b) the Company's obligations with respect to such Securities
         of such Series under Sections 2.4, 2.7 and 2.8; and

                  (c) the rights, powers, trusts and immunities of the Trustee
         hereunder and the duties of the Trustee under Section 9.2 and the duty
         of the Trustee to authenticate Securities of such Series issued on
         registration of transfer or exchange;

provided that, the following conditions shall have been satisfied:

                  (d) the Company shall have deposited or caused to be deposited
         irrevocably with the Trustee as trust funds in trust for the purpose of
         making the following payments, specifically pledged as security for and
         dedicated solely to the benefit of the Holders of such Securities (i)
         in the case of Securities of such Series denominated in Dollars, cash
         in Dollars (or such other money or currencies as shall then be legal
         tender in the United States) and/or U.S. Government Obligations, or
         (ii) in the case of Securities of such Series denominated in a Foreign
         Currency (other than a composite currency), money and/or Foreign
         Government Securities in the same Foreign Currency, which through the
         payment of interest and principal in respect thereof, in accordance
         with their terms, will provide (and without reinvestment and assuming
         no tax liability will be imposed on such Trustee), not later than one
         day before the due date of any payment of money, an amount in cash,
         sufficient, in the opinion of a nationally recognized firm of
         independent public accountants expressed in a written certification
         thereof delivered to the Trustee, to pay and discharge each installment
         of principal, (including mandatory sinking fund or analogous payments)
         of and any interest on all the Securities of such Series on the dates
         such installments of interest or principal are due;

                  (e) such deposit will not result in a breach or violation of,
         or constitute a default under, this Indenture or any other agreement or
         instrument to which the Company is a party or by which it is bound;

                  (f) such provision would not cause any outstanding Securities
         of such Series then listed on the New York Stock Exchange or other
         securities exchange to be delisted as a result thereof;

                  (g) no Default or Event of Default with respect to the
         Securities of such Series shall have occurred and be continuing on the
         date of such deposit or during the period ending on the 91st day after
         such date;

                  (h) the Company shall have delivered to the Trustee an Opinion
         of Counsel to the effect that (i) the Company has received from, or
         there has been published by, the Internal Revenue Service a ruling, or
         (ii) since the date of execution of this Indenture, there has been a
         change in the applicable Federal income tax law, in either case to the
         effect that, and based thereon such opinion shall confirm that, the
         Holders of the Securities of such Series will not recognize income,
         gain or loss for Federal income tax purposes as a result of such
         deposits, defeasance and discharge and will be subject to Federal
         income tax on the same amount and in

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         the same manner and at the same times as would have been the case if
         such deposit, defeasance and discharge had not occurred;

                  (i) the Company shall have delivered to the Trustee an
         Officers' Certificate stating that the deposit was not made by the
         Company with the intent of preferring the Holders of the Securities of
         such Series over any other creditors of the company or with the intent
         of defeating, hindering, delaying or defrauding any other creditors of
         the Company; and

                  (j) the Company shall have delivered to the Trustee an
         Officers' Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel, each stating that all
         conditions precedent provided for relating to the defeasance
         contemplated by this Section have been complied with.

         SECTION 9.4 Defeasance of Certain Obligations.

                  Unless this Section 9.4 is otherwise specified pursuant to
Section 2.2.12 to be inapplicable to Securities of any Series, on and after the
91st day after the date of the deposit referred to in subparagraph (a) hereof,
the Company may omit to comply with any term, provision or condition set forth
under Sections 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 4.6 and 5.1 and any other covenants established
with respect to such Series pursuant to Section 2.2 (and the failure to comply
with any such provisions shall not constitute a Default or Event of Default
under Section 6.1) and the occurrence of any event described in clause (e) of
Section 6.1 shall not constitute a Default or Event of Default hereunder, and
the provisions of Article XIII herein relating to subordination will cease to be
effective, with respect to the Securities of such Series, provided that the
following conditions shall have been satisfied:

                  (a) With reference to this Section 9.4, the Company has
         deposited or caused to be irrevocably deposited (except as provided in
         Section 9.3) with the Trustee as trust funds in trust, specifically
         pledged as security for, and dedicated solely to, the benefit of the
         Holders of such Securities (i) in the case of Securities of such Series
         denominated in Dollars, cash in Dollars (or such other money or
         currencies as shall then be legal tender in the United States) and/or
         U.S. Government Obligations, or (ii) in the case of Securities of such
         Series denominated in a Foreign Currency (other than a composite
         currency), money and/or Foreign Government Securities in the same
         Foreign Currency, which through the payment of interest and principal
         in respect thereof, in accordance with their terms, will provide (and
         without reinvestment and assuming no tax liability will be imposed on
         such Trustee), not later than one day before the due date of any
         payment of money, an amount in cash, sufficient, in the opinion of a
         nationally recognized firm of independent certified public accountants
         expressed in a written certification thereof delivered to the Trustee,
         to pay and discharge each installment of principal (including mandatory
         sinking fund or analogous payments) and premium, if any, of and any
         interest on all the Securities of such Series on the dates such
         installments of interest or principal are due;

                  (b) Such deposit will not result in a breach or violation of,
         or constitute a default under, this Indenture or any other agreement or
         instrument to which the Company is a party or by which it is bound;

                  (c) No Default or Event of Default with respect to the
         Securities of such Series shall have occurred and be continuing on the
         date of such deposit or during the period ending on the 91st day after
         such date;

                  (d) the Company shall have delivered to the Trustee an Opinion
         of Counsel confirming that Holders of the Securities of such Series
         will not recognize income, gain or loss for federal income tax purposes
         as a result of such deposit and defeasance of certain obligations

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         and will be subject to federal income tax on the same amount, in the
         same manner and at the same times as would have been the case if such
         deposit and defeasance had not occurred;

                  (e) the Company shall have delivered to the Trustee an
         Officers' Certificate stating the deposit was not made by the Company
         with the intent of preferring the Holders of the Securities of such
         Series over any other creditors of the Company or with the intent of
         defeating, hindering, delaying or defrauding any other creditors of the
         Company; and

                  (f) The Company shall have delivered to the Trustee an
         Officers' Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel, each stating that all
         conditions precedent herein provided for relating to the defeasance
         contemplated by this Section have been complied with.

         SECTION 9.5 Repayment to Company.

                  The Trustee and the Paying Agent shall pay to the Company upon
request any money held by them for the payment of principal and interest that
remains unclaimed for two years. After that, Securityholders entitled to the
money must look to the Company for payment as general creditors unless an
applicable abandoned property law designates another person.

                                   ARTICLE X

                             AMENDMENTS AND WAIVERS

         SECTION 10.1 Without Consent of Holders.

                  The Company and the Trustee may amend or supplement this
Indenture or the Securities of one or more Series without the consent of any
Securityholder:

                  (a) to cure any ambiguity, defect or inconsistency;

                  (b) to comply with Article V;

                  (c) to provide for uncertificated Securities in addition to or
         in place of certificated Securities; provided that such amendment or
         supplement does not adversely affect the rights of any Securityholders;

                  (d) to make any change that does not adversely affect the
         rights of any Securityholder;

                  (e) to provide for the issuance of and establish the form and
         terms and conditions of Securities of any Series as permitted by this
         Indenture;

                  (f) to evidence and provide for the acceptance of appointment
         hereunder by a successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of one
         or more Series and to add to or change any of the provisions of this
         Indenture as shall be necessary to provide for or facilitate the
         administration of the trusts hereunder by more than one Trustee; or

                  (g) to comply with requirements of the SEC in order to effect
         or maintain the qualification of this Indenture under the TIA.

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         SECTION 10.2 With Consent of Holders.

                  The Company and the Trustee may enter into a supplemental
indenture with the written consent of the Holders of at least a majority in
aggregate principal amount of the outstanding Securities of each Series affected
by such supplemental indenture, for the purpose of adding any provisions to or
changing in any manner or eliminating any of the provisions of this Indenture or
of any supplemental indenture or of modifying in any manner the rights of the
Securityholders of each such Series, except as provided in Section 6.13, the
Holders of at least a majority in aggregate principal amount of the outstanding
Securities of each Series affected by such waiver by notice to the Trustee may
waive compliance by the Company with any provision of this Indenture or the
Securities with respect to such Series.

                  It shall not be necessary for the consent of the Holders of
Securities under this Section 10.2 to approve the particular form of any
proposed supplemental indenture or waiver, but it shall be sufficient if such
consent approves the substance thereof. After a supplemental indenture or waiver
under this section becomes effective, the Company shall mail to the Holders of
Securities affected thereby and, if any Bearer Securities affected thereby are
outstanding, publish on one occasion in an Authorized Newspaper, a notice
briefly describing the supplemental indenture or waiver. Any failure by the
Company to mail or publish such notice, or any defect therein, shall not,
however, in any way impair or affect the validity of any such supplemental
indenture or waiver.

         SECTION 10.3 Limitations.

                  Without the consent of each Securityholder affected, an
amendment or waiver may not:

                  (a) change the amount of Securities whose Holders must consent
         to an amendment, supplement or waiver; or

                  (b) reduce the rate of or extend the time for payment of
         interest (including default interest) on any Security; or

                  (c) reduce the principal or premium, if any, or change the
         Stated Maturity of any Security or reduce the amount of, or postpone
         the date fixed for, the payment of any sinking fund or analogous
         obligation; or

                  (d) waive a Default or Event of Default in the payment of the
         principal of or interest on any Security (except a rescission of
         acceleration of the Securities of any Series by the Holders of at least
         a majority in aggregate principal amount of the then outstanding
         Securities of such Series and a waiver of the payment default that
         resulted from such acceleration); or

                  (e) make the Security payable in currency other than that
         stated in the Security; or

                  (f) make any change in Sections 6.8, 6.13, 10.3 (this
         sentence), 11.15 or 11.16; or

                  (g) waive a redemption payment with respect to any Security or
         change any of the provisions with respect to the redemption of any
         Securities.

         SECTION 10.4 Compliance with Trust Indenture Act.

                  Every amendment to this Indenture or the Securities of one or
more Series shall be set forth in a supplemental indenture hereto that complies
with the TIA as then in effect.

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         SECTION 10.5 Revocation and Effect of Consents.

                  Until an amendment or waiver becomes effective, a consent to
it by a Holder of a Security is a continuing consent by the Holder and every
subsequent Holder of a Security or portion of a Security that evidences the same
debt as the consenting Holder's Security, even if notation of the consent is not
made on any Security. However, any such Holder or subsequent Holder may revoke
the consent as to his Security or portion of a Security if the Trustee receives
the notice of revocation before the date the amendment or waiver becomes
effective.

                  Any amendment or waiver once effective shall bind every
Securityholder of each Series affected by such amendment or waiver unless it is
of the type described in any of clauses (a) through (g) of Section 10.3. In that
case, the amendment or waiver shall bind each Holder of a Security who has
consented to it and every subsequent Holder of a Security or portion of a
Security that evidences the same debt as the consenting Holder's Security.

         SECTION 10.6 Notation on or Exchange of Securities.

                  The Trustee may place an appropriate notation about an
amendment or waiver on any Security of any Series thereafter authenticated. The
Company in exchange for Securities of that Series may issue and the Trustee
shall authenticate upon request new Securities of that Series that reflect the
amendment or waiver.

         SECTION 10.7 Trustee Protected.

                  In executing, or accepting the additional trusts created by,
any supplemental indenture permitted by this Article or the modifications
thereby of the trusts created by this Indenture, the Trustee shall be entitled
to receive, and (subject to Section 8.1) shall be fully protected in relying
upon, an Opinion of Counsel stating that the execution of such supplemental
indenture is authorized or permitted by this Indenture. The Trustee may, but
will not be obligated to, enter into any such supplemental indenture which
affects the Trustee's own rights, duties, or immunities under this Indenture or
otherwise.

                                   ARTICLE XI

                                  MISCELLANEOUS

         SECTION 11.1 Trust Indenture Act Controls.

                  If any provision of this Indenture limits, qualifies, or
conflicts with another provision which is required or deemed to be included in
this Indenture by the TIA, such required or deemed provision shall control.

         SECTION 11.2 Notices.

                  Any notice or communication by the Company or the Trustee to
the other is duly given if in writing and delivered in person or mailed by
first-class mail:

                  if to the Company:     Beverly Enterprises, Inc.
                                         One Thousand Beverly Way
                                         Fort Smith, Arkansas 72919
                                         Attn: John Arena, General
                                               Counsel--Corporate

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                  if to the Trustee:     The Bank of New York
                                         101 Barclay Street, 8 West
                                         New York NY 10286
                                         Attn: Corporate Trust Administration

                  The Company or the Trustee by notice to the other may
designate additional or different addresses for subsequent notices or
communications.

                  Any notice or communication to a Securityholder shall be
mailed by first-class mail to his address shown on the register kept by the
Registrar and, if any Bearer Securities are outstanding, published in an
Authorized Newspaper. Failure to mail a notice or communication to a
Securityholder of any Series or any defect in it shall not affect its
sufficiency with respect to other Securityholders of that or any other Series.

                  If a notice or communication is mailed or published in the
manner provided above, within the time prescribed, it is duly given, whether or
not the Securityholder receives it.

                  If the Company mails a notice or communication to
Securityholders, it shall mail a copy to the Trustee and each Agent at the same
time.

         SECTION 11.3 Communication by Holders with Other Holders.

                  Securityholders of any Series may communicate pursuant to TIA
Section 312(b) with other Securityholders of that Series or any other Series
with respect to their rights under this Indenture or the Securities of that
Series or all Series. The Company, the Trustee, the Registrar and anyone else
shall have the protection of TIA Section 312(c).

         SECTION 11.4 Certificate and Opinion as to Conditions Precedent.

                  Upon any request or application by the Company to the Trustee
to take any action under this Indenture, the Company shall furnish to the
Trustee:

                  (a) an Officers' Certificate stating that, in the opinion of
         the signers, all conditions precedent, if any, provided for in this
         Indenture relating to the proposed action have been complied with; and

                  (b) an Opinion of Counsel stating that, in the opinion of such
         counsel, all such conditions precedent have been complied with.

         SECTION 11.5 Statements Required in Certificate or Opinion.

                  Each certificate or opinion with respect to compliance with a
condition or covenant provided for in this Indenture (other than a certificate
provided pursuant to TIA Section 314(a)(4)) shall comply with the provisions of
TIA Section 314(e) and shall include:

                  (a) a statement that the person making such certificate or
         opinion has read such covenant or condition;

                  (b) a brief statement as to the nature and scope of the
         examination or investigation upon which the statements or opinions
         contained in such certificate or opinion are based;

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                  (c) a statement that, in the opinion of such person, he has
         made such examination or investigation as is necessary to enable him to
         express an informed opinion as to whether or not such covenant or
         condition has been complied with; and

                  (d) a statement as to whether or not, in the opinion of such
         person, such condition or covenant has been complied with.

         SECTION 11.6 Rules by Trustee and Agents.

                  The Trustee may make reasonable rules for action by or a
meeting of Securityholders of one or more Series. Any Agent may make reasonable
rules and set reasonable requirements for its functions.

         SECTION 11.7 Legal Holidays.

                  Unless otherwise provided by Board Resolution or supplemental
indenture hereto for a particular Series, a "Legal Holiday" is a Saturday, a
Sunday, or a day on which banking institutions are not required to be open. If a
payment date is a Legal Holiday at a place of payment, payment may be made at
that place on the next succeeding day that is not a Legal Holiday, and no
interest shall accrue for the intervening period.

         SECTION 11.8 No Recourse Against Others.

                  A director, officer, employee or stockholder, as such, of the
Company shall not have any liability for any obligations of the Company under
the Securities or this Indenture or for any claim based on, in respect of or by
reason of such obligations or their creation. Each Securityholder by accepting a
Security waives and releases all such liability. The waiver and release are part
of the consideration for the issue of the Securities.

         SECTION 11.9 Counterparts.

                  This Indenture may be executed in any number of counterparts
and by the parties hereto in separate counterparts, each of which when so
executed shall be deemed to be an original and all of which taken together shall
constitute one and the same agreement.

         SECTION 11.10 Governing Laws.

                  THE INTERNAL LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK SHALL GOVERN THIS
INDENTURE AND THE SECURITIES, WITHOUT REGARD TO THE CONFLICT OF LAWS PROVISION
THEREOF.

         SECTION 11.11 No Adverse Interpretation of Other Agreements.

                  This Indenture may not be used to interpret another indenture,
loan or debt agreement of the Company or a Subsidiary. Any such indenture, loan
or debt agreement may not be used to interpret this Indenture.

         SECTION 11.12 Successors.

                  All agreements of the Company in this Indenture and the
Securities shall bind its successor. All agreements of the Trustee in this
Indenture shall bind its successor.

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         SECTION 11.13 Severability.

                  In case any provision in this Indenture or in the Securities
shall be invalid, illegal or unenforceable, the validity, legality and
enforceability of the remaining provisions shall not in any way be affected or
impaired thereby.

         SECTION 11.14 Table of Contents, Headings, Etc.

                  The Table of Contents, Cross-Reference Table, and headings of
the Articles and Sections of this Indenture have been inserted for convenience
of reference only, are not to be considered a part hereof, and shall in no way
modify or restrict any of the terms or provisions hereof.

         SECTION 11.15 Securities in a Foreign Currency or in ECU.

                  Unless otherwise specified in an Officers' Certificate
delivered pursuant to Section 2.2 of this Indenture with respect to a particular
Series of Securities, whenever for purposes of this Indenture any action may be
taken by the Holders of a specified percentage in aggregate principal amount of
Securities of all Series or all Series affected by a particular action at the
time outstanding and, at such time, there are outstanding Securities of any
Series which are denominated in a coin or currency other than Dollars (including
ECUs), then the principal amount of Securities of such Series which shall be
deemed to be outstanding for the purpose of taking such action shall be that
amount of Dollars that could be obtained for such amount at the Market Exchange
Rate at such time. For purposes of this Section 11.15, "Market Exchange Rate"
shall mean the noon Dollar buying rate in New York City for cable transfers of
that currency as published by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York; provided,
however, in the case of ECUs, Market Exchange Rate shall mean the rate of
exchange determined by the Commission of the European Union (or any successor
thereto) as published in the Official Journal of the European Union (such
publication or any successor publication, the "Journal"). If such Market
Exchange Rate is not available for any reason with respect to such currency, the
Trustee shall use, in its sole discretion and without liability on its part,
such quotation of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York or, in the case of ECUs,
the rate of exchange as published in the Journal, as of the most recent
available date, or quotations or, in the case of ECUs, rates of exchange from
one or more major banks in The City of New York or in the country of issue of
the currency in question or, in the case of ECUs, in Luxembourg or such other
quotations or, in the case of ECUs, rates of exchange as the Trustee, upon
consultation with the Company, shall deem appropriate. The provisions of this
paragraph shall apply in determining the equivalent principal amount in respect
of Securities of a Series denominated in currency other than Dollars in
connection with any action taken by Holders of Securities pursuant to the terms
of this Indenture.

                  All decisions and determinations of the Trustee regarding the
Market Exchange Rate or any alternative determination provided for in the
preceding paragraph shall be in its sole discretion and shall, in the absence of
manifest error, be conclusive to the extent permitted by law for all purposes
and irrevocably binding upon the Company and all Holders.

         SECTION 11.16 Judgment Currency.

                  The Company agrees, to the fullest extent that it may
effectively do so under applicable law, that (a) if for the purpose of obtaining
judgment in any court it is necessary to convert the sum due in respect of the
principal of or interest or other amount on the Securities of any Series (the
"Required Currency") into a currency in which a judgment will be rendered (the
"Judgment Currency"), the rate of exchange used shall be the rate at which in
accordance with normal banking procedures the Trustee could purchase in The City
of New York the Required Currency with the Judgment Currency on the day on which
final unappealable judgment is entered, unless such day is not a New York
Banking Day, then, to

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the extent permitted by applicable law, the rate of exchange used shall be the
rate at which in accordance with normal banking procedures the Trustee could
purchase in The City of New York the Required Currency with the Judgment
Currency on the New York Banking Day preceding the day on which final
unappealable judgment is entered and (b) its obligations under this Indenture to
take payments in the Required Currency (i) shall not be discharged or satisfied
by any tender, any recovery pursuant to any judgment (whether or not entered in
accordance with subsection (a)), in any currency other than the Required
Currency, except to the extent that such tender or recovery shall result in the
actual receipt, by the payee, of the full amount of the Required Currency
expressed to be payable in respect of such payments, (ii) shall be enforceable
as an alternative or additional cause of action for the purpose of recovering in
the Required Currency the amount, if any, by which such actual receipt shall
fall short of the full amount of the Required Currency so expressed to be
payable, and (iii) shall not be affected by judgment being obtained for any
other sum due under this Indenture. For purposes of the foregoing, "New York
Banking Day" means any day except a Saturday, Sunday or a legal holiday in The
City of New York on which banking institutions are authorized or required by
law, regulation or executive order to close.

         SECTION 11.17 Waiver of Jury Trial.

                  Each of the Company and the Trustee hereby irrevocably waives,
to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, any and all right to trial by
jury in any legal proceeding arising out of or relating to the Indenture, the
Securities or the transactions contemplated hereby.

                                  ARTICLE XII

                                  SINKING FUNDS

         SECTION 12.1 Applicability of Article.

                  The provisions of this Article shall be applicable to any
sinking fund for the retirement of the Securities of a Series, except as
otherwise permitted or required by any form of Security of such Series issued
pursuant to this Indenture.

                  The minimum amount of any sinking fund payment provided for by
the terms of the Securities of any Series is herein referred to as a "mandatory
sinking fund payment" and any other amount provided for by the terms of
Securities of such Series is herein referred to as an "optional sinking fund
payment." If provided for by the terms of Securities of any Series, the cash
amount of any sinking fund payment may be subject to reduction as provided in
Section 12.2. Each sinking fund payment shall be applied to the redemption of
Securities of any Series as provided for by the terms of the Securities of such
Series.

         SECTION 12.2 Satisfaction of Sinking Fund Payments with Securities.

                  The Company may, in satisfaction of all or any part of any
sinking fund payment with respect to the Securities of such Series to be made
pursuant to the terms of such Securities (1) deliver outstanding Securities of
such Series to which such sinking fund payment is applicable (other than any of
such Securities previously called for mandatory sinking fund redemption) and (2)
apply as credit Securities of such Series to which such sinking fund payment is
applicable and which have been redeemed either at the election of the Company
pursuant to the terms of such Series of Securities (except pursuant to any
mandatory sinking fund) or through the application of permitted optional sinking
fund payments or other optional redemptions pursuant to the terms of such
Securities, provided that such Securities have not been previously so credited.
Such Securities shall be received by the Trustee, together

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with an Officers' Certificate with respect thereto, not later than 15 days prior
to the date on which the Trustee begins the process of selecting Securities for
redemption, and shall be credited for such purpose by the Trustee at the price
specified in such Securities for redemption through operation of the sinking
fund and the amount of such sinking fund payment shall be reduced accordingly.
If as a result of the delivery or credit of Securities in lieu of cash payments
pursuant to this Section 12.2, the principal amount of Securities of such Series
to be redeemed in order to exhaust the aforesaid cash payment shall be less than
$100,000, the Trustee need not call Securities of such Series for redemption,
except upon receipt of a Company Order that such action be taken, and such cash
payment shall be held by the Trustee or a Paying Agent and applied to the next
succeeding sinking fund payment, provided, however, that the Trustee or such
Paying Agent shall from time to time upon receipt of a Company Order pay over
and deliver to the Company any cash payment so being held by the Trustee or such
Paying Agent upon delivery by the Company to the Trustee of Securities of that
Series purchased by the Company having an unpaid principal amount equal to the
cash payment required to be released to the Company.

         SECTION 12.3 Redemption of Securities for Sinking Fund.

                  Not less than 60 days (unless otherwise indicated in the Board
Resolution or Officers' Certificate or supplemental indenture in respect of a
particular Series of Securities) prior to each sinking fund payment date for any
Series of Securities, the Company will deliver to the Trustee an Officers'
Certificate specifying the amount of the next ensuing mandatory sinking fund
payment for that Series pursuant to the terms of that Series, the portion
thereof, if any, which is to be satisfied by payment of cash and the portion
thereof, if any, which is to be satisfied by delivering and crediting of
Securities of that Series pursuant to Section 12.2, and the optional amount, if
any, to be added in cash to the next ensuing mandatory sinking fund payment, and
the Company shall thereupon be obligated to pay the amount therein specified.
Not less than 45 days (unless otherwise indicated in the Board Resolution or
Officers' Certificate or supplemental indenture in respect of a particular
Series of Securities) before each such sinking fund payment date the Trustee
shall select the Securities to be redeemed upon such sinking fund payment date
in the manner specified in Section 3.2 and cause notice of the redemption
thereof to be given in the name of and at the expense of the Company in the
manner provided in Section 3.3. Such notice having been duly given, the
redemption of such Securities shall be made upon the terms and in the manner
stated in Sections 3.4, 3.5 and 3.6.

                                  ARTICLE XIII

                           SUBORDINATION OF SECURITIES

         SECTION 13.1 Agreement to Subordinate.

                  The Company, for itself, its successors and assigns, covenants
and agrees, and each Holder of Securities, by its acceptance thereof, likewise
covenants and agrees, that the payment of the principal of, and premium, if any,
and interest on each and all of the Securities is hereby expressly subordinated,
to the extent and in the manner hereinafter set forth, in right of payment to
the prior payment in full of all Senior Indebtedness.

         SECTION 13.2 Distribution on Dissolution, Liquidation and
Reorganization; Subrogation of Securities.

                  Upon any distribution of assets of the Company upon any
dissolution, winding up, liquidation or reorganization of the Company, whether
in bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or receivership proceedings or upon an
assignment for the benefit of creditors or any other marshalling of the assets
and liabilities of the Company or otherwise,

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                  13.2.1 the holders of all Senior Indebtedness shall be
         entitled to receive payment in full in money or money's worth of the
         principal thereof, premium, if any, and the interest due thereon before
         the Holders of the Securities are entitled to receive any payment upon
         the principal of, and premium, if any, or interest on indebtedness
         evidenced by the Securities. Certain general creditors of the Company
         may recover more, ratably, than the Holders of the Securities,

                  13.2.2 any payment or distribution of assets of the Company of
         any kind or character, whether in cash, property or securities, to
         which the Holders of the Securities or the Trustee would be entitled
         except for the provisions of this Article XIII shall be paid by the
         liquidating trustee or agent or other person making such payment or
         distribution, whether a trustee in bankruptcy, a receiver or
         liquidating trustee or otherwise, directly to the holders of Senior
         Indebtedness or their representative or representatives or to the
         trustee or trustees under any indenture under which any instruments
         evidencing any of such Senior Indebtedness may have been issued,
         ratably according to the aggregate amounts remaining unpaid on account
         of the principal of, premium, if any, and interest on the Senior
         Indebtedness held or represented by each, to the extent necessary to
         make payment in full of all Senior Indebtedness remaining unpaid, after
         giving effect to any concurrent payment or distribution to the holders
         of such Senior Indebtedness.

                  In the event that, notwithstanding the foregoing, any payment
or distribution of assets of the Company of any kind or character, whether in
cash, property or securities, shall be received by the Trustee or the Holders of
the Securities before all Senior Indebtedness is paid in full, such payment or
distribution shall be paid over to the holders of such Senior Indebtedness or
their representative or representatives or to the trustee or trustees under any
indenture under which any instruments evidencing any of such Senior Indebtedness
may have been issued, ratably as aforesaid, for application to the payment of
all Senior Indebtedness remaining unpaid until all such Senior Indebtedness
shall have been paid in full, after giving effect to any concurrent payment or
distribution to the holders of such Senior Indebtedness.

                  The consolidation of the Company with, or the merger of the
Company into, another corporation or the liquidation or dissolution of the
Company following the sale or conveyance of its property or assets as an
entirety, or substantially as an entirety, to another corporation upon the terms
and conditions provided in Article V shall not be deemed a dissolution, winding
up, liquidation or reorganization of the Company for the purposes of this
Article XIII if such other corporation shall, as a part of such consolidation,
merger, sale or conveyance, comply with the conditions stated in Article V.

                  Subject to the payment in full of all Senior Indebtedness, the
Holders of the Securities shall be subrogated to the rights of the holders of
Senior Indebtedness to receive payments or distributions of cash, property or
securities of the Company applicable to Senior Indebtedness until the principal
of and interest on the Securities shall be paid in full and no such payments or
distributions to the Holders of the Securities of cash, property or securities
otherwise distributable to the holders of Senior Indebtedness shall, as between
the Company, its creditors other than the holders of Senior Indebtedness, and
the Holders of the Securities, be deemed to be a payment by the Company to the
Holders of or on account of the Securities.

                  It is understood that the provisions of this Article XIII are
and are intended solely for the purpose of defining the relative rights of the
Holders of the Securities, on the one hand, and the holders of Senior
Indebtedness, on the other hand. Nothing contained in this Article XIII or
elsewhere in this Indenture or in the Securities is intended to or shall impair,
as between the Company, its creditors other than the holders of Senior
Indebtedness, and the Holders of the Securities, the obligation of the Company,

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which is unconditional and absolute, to pay to the Holders of the Securities the
principal of, premium, if any, and interest on the Securities as and when the
same shall become due and payable in accordance with their terms, or to affect
the relative rights of the Holders of the Securities and creditors of the
Company other than the holders of Senior Indebtedness. Nor shall anything herein
or in the Securities prevent the Trustee or the Holder of any Security from
exercising all remedies otherwise permitted by applicable law upon default under
this Indenture, subject to the rights, if any, under this Article XIII of the
holders of Senior Indebtedness in respect of cash, property or securities of the
Company received upon the exercise of any such remedy.

                  Upon any payment or distribution of assets of the Company
referred to in this Article XIII, the Trustee, subject to the provisions of
Section 8.2, and the Holders of the Securities shall be entitled to rely upon a
certificate of the liquidating trustee or agent or other person making any
distribution to the Trustee or the Holders of the Securities for the purpose of
ascertaining the persons entitled to participate in such distribution, the
holders of Senior Indebtedness and other indebtedness of the Company, the amount
thereof or payable thereon, the amount or amounts paid or distributed thereon
and all other facts pertinent thereto or to this Article XIII.

                  If the Trustee or any Holder of Securities does not file a
proper claim or proof of debt in the form required in any proceeding referred to
above prior to 30 days before the expiration of the time to file such claim in
such proceeding, then the holder of any Senior Indebtedness is hereby
authorized, and has the right, to file an appropriate claim or claims for or on
behalf of such Holder of Securities.

         SECTION 13.3 No Payments on Securities in Event of Defaults on
Designated Senior Indebtedness.

                  No payments by the Company on account of principal, premium,
if any, or interest on the Securities shall be made unless full payment of
amounts then due for principal, premium, if any, sinking funds, or interest on
Designated Senior Indebtedness has been made or duly provided for in money or
money's worth. No payment by the Company on account of principal of, premium, if
any, or interest on the Securities shall be made if, at the time of such payment
or immediately after giving effect thereto, there shall exist any event of
default with respect to any Designated Senior Indebtedness (a "Non-Payment
Default") permitting the holders thereof, or any Trustee under any such
instrument, to accelerate the maturity thereof (other than a payment under
Article III if the mailing of notice of redemption pursuant to Section 3.3
relating to such payment is prior in time to such default) provided, however,
that the Trustee receives a written notice thereof from the Company or any
representative of a holder of Designated Senior Indebtedness (a "Payment
Blockage Notice"). The Company shall resume payments on the Securities on the
date on which such Non-Payment Default is cured, waived or ceases to exist or
such Designated Senior Debt is discharged or paid in full in money or money's
worth or the earlier of the date that is 179 days after receipt by the Trustee
of the Payment Blockage Notice or the date (provided that any Designated Senior
Indebtedness as to which notice was given shall not therefore have been
accelerated) on which such Payment Blockage Period shall have been terminated by
written notice to the Trustee or the Company from the Designated Senior
Indebtedness representative initiating such Payment Blockage Period. In any
event, no new Payment Blockage Notice may be delivered unless and until 360 days
have elapsed since the effectiveness of the immediately prior Payment Blockage
Notice. No Non-Payment Default that existed or was continuing on the date of the
delivery of any Payment Blockage Notice to the Trustee shall be, or can be made,
the basis for the commencement of a subsequent Payment Blockage Notice, unless
such default has been cured or waived for a period of not less than 180
consecutive days subsequent to the commencement of such initial Payment Blockage
Period.

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                  In the event that, notwithstanding the foregoing and the
provisions of Section 13.2, any payments or distribution shall be made to the
Trustee which is prohibited by the foregoing provisions of this Section and the
provisions of Section 13.2, then and in such event such payment shall be paid
over and delivered forthwith by the Trustee to any representative of holders of
Designated Senior Indebtedness, as their interests may appear, for application
to Designated Senior Indebtedness.

         SECTION 13.4 Payments Permitted if no Default.

                  Nothing contained in this Indenture or in any of the
Securities shall (a) affect the obligation of the Company to make, or prevent
the Company from making, at any time, except as provided in Sections 13.2 and
13.3, payments of principal of, premium, if any, or interest on the Securities,
or (b) prevent the application by the Trustee of any moneys deposited with it
hereunder to the payment of or on account of the principal of, premium, if any,
or interest on the Securities, unless the Trustee shall have received at its
Corporate Trust Office written notice of any event prohibiting the making of
such payment more than three Business Days prior to the date fixed for such
payment or the date such payment becomes immediately due and payable by the
terms of this Indenture (except as provided in Section 13.3 with respect to
payments under Article III).

         SECTION 13.5 Authorization of Holders to Trustee to Effect
Subordination.

                  Each Holder of Securities by his acceptance thereof authorizes
and directs the Trustee in his behalf to take such action as may be necessary or
appropriate to effectuate the subordination as provided in this Article XIII and
appoints the Trustee his attorney-in-fact for any and all such purposes.

         SECTION 13.6 Notice to Trustee.

                  Notwithstanding the provisions of this Article XIII or any
other provisions of this Indenture, neither the Trustee nor any paying agent
(other than the Company) shall be charged with knowledge of the existence of any
Senior Indebtedness or of any event which would prohibit the making of any
payment of moneys to or by the Trustee or such paying agent, unless and until
the Trustee or such paying agent shall have received (in the case of the
Trustee, at its Corporate Trust Office) written notice thereof from the Company
or from the holder of any Senior Indebtedness or from the Trustee for any such
Senior Indebtedness, together with proof satisfactory to the Trustee of such
holding of Senior Indebtedness or of the authority of such Trustee; provided,
however, that if at least three Business Days prior to the date upon which by
the terms hereof any such moneys may become payable for any purpose (including,
without limitation, the payment of the principal of, premium, if any, or
interest on any Security) the Trustee shall not have received with respect to
such moneys the notice provided for in this Section 13.6, then, anything herein
contained to the contrary notwithstanding, the Trustee shall have full power and
authority to receive such moneys and to apply the same to the purpose for which
they were received, and shall not be affected by any notice to the contrary,
which may be received by it on or after such three Business Days prior to such
date. The Trustee shall be entitled to rely on the delivery to it of a written
notice by a person representing himself to be a holder of Senior Indebtedness
(or a Trustee on behalf of such Senior Indebtedness) to establish that such a
notice has been given by a holder of Senior Indebtedness or a Trustee on behalf
of the holders of such Senior Indebtedness. In the event that the Trustee
determines in good faith that further evidence is required with respect to the
right of any person as a holder of Senior Indebtedness to participate in any
payment or distribution pursuant to this Article XIII, the Trustee may request
such person to furnish evidence to the reasonable satisfaction of the Trustee as
to the amount of Senior indebtedness held by such person, the extent to which
such person is entitled to participate in such payment or distribution and any
other facts pertinent to the rights of such person under

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this Article XIII and, if such evidence is not furnished, the Trustee may defer
any payment to such person pending judicial determination as to the right of
such person to receive such payment.

         SECTION 13.7 Trustee as Holder of Senior Indebtedness.

                  The Trustee shall be entitled to all the rights set forth in
this Article XIII in respect of any Senior Indebtedness at any time held by it
to the same extent as any other holder of Senior Indebtedness and nothing in
this Indenture shall be construed to deprive the Trustee of any of its rights as
such Holder.

         SECTION 13.8 Modification of Terms of Senior Indebtedness.

                  Any renewal or extension of the time of payment of any Senior
Indebtedness or the exercise by the holders of Senior Indebtedness of any of
their rights under any instrument creating or evidencing Senior Indebtedness,
including without limitation the waiver of default thereunder, may be made or
done all without notice to or assent from the Holders of the Securities or the
Trustee.

                  Notwithstanding the provisions in Article X herein, no
compromise, alteration, amendment, modification, extension, renewal or other
change of, or waiver, consent or other action in respect of, any liability or
obligation under or in respect of, or of any of the terms, covenants or
conditions of any indenture or other instrument under which any Senior
Indebtedness is outstanding or of such Senior Indebtedness, whether or not such
release is in accordance with the provisions of any applicable document, shall
in any way alter or affect any of the provisions of this Article XIII or of the
Securities relating to the subordination thereof.

         SECTION 13.9 Trustee Not Fiduciary for Senior Indebtedness.

                  With respect to the holders of Senior Indebtedness, the
Trustee undertakes to perform or to observe only such of its covenants and
obligations as are specifically set forth in this Article XIII, and no implied
covenants or obligations with respect to the holders of Senior Indebtedness
shall be read into this Indenture against the Trustee. The Trustee shall not be
deemed to owe any fiduciary duty to the holders of Senior Indebtedness and shall
not be liable to any such holder if it shall pay over or distribute to or on
behalf of Holders of Securities or the Company moneys or assets to which any
holder of Senior Indebtedness shall be entitled by virtue of this Article XIII.

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                  IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this
Indenture to be duly executed, as of the day and year first above written.

                                           BEVERLY ENTERPRISES, INC.

                                           By: /s/ AUTHORIZED SIGNATORY
                                              ----------------------------------
                                           Name:
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                                           Title:
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                                           By: /s/ AUTHORIZED SIGNATORY
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                                           Name:
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                                           Title:
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                                           THE BANK OF NEW YORK, as Trustee

                                           By: /s/ AUTHORIZED SIGNATORY
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                                           Name:
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                                           Title:
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