Board Discretion. Except as otherwise provided by the Plan, each Award may be made alone or in addition or in relation to any other Award. The terms of each Award need not be identical, and the Board need not treat Participants uniformly.

Discretion. Any other provision in the Plan to the contrary notwithstanding, # the Committee shall have the right, in its sole discretion, to pay to any Participant an annual incentive payment for such year in an amount based on individual performance or any other criteria or the occurrence of any such event that the Committee shall deem appropriate and # the Committee may provide for a minimum incentive payment to any or all, or any class of, Participants in respect of any calendar year, regardless of whether any applicable performance objectives are attained.

Discretion of Company, Board, and Committee. Any decision made or action taken by the Company or by the Board or by the Committee arising out of or in connection with the creation, amendment, construction, administration, interpretation, and effect of the Plan shall be within the absolute discretion of such entity and shall be conclusive and binding upon all persons. No member of the Committee shall have any liability for actions taken or omitted under the Plan by the member or any other person.

Board. The board of directors of [[Organization B:Organization]] has approved the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents; said approval has not been amended, rescinded or modified and remains in full force and effect as of the date hereof, and a true, correct and complete copy of such resolutions duly adopted by the board of directors of [[Organization B:Organization]] shall have been provided to [[Organization A:Organization]].

Committee Discretion. The Committee, in its discretion, may accelerate the vesting of the balance, or some lesser portion of the balance, of the unvested Shares subject to this Award at any time. If so accelerated, such Shares subject to this Award will be considered as having vested as of the date specified by the Committee.

Committee Discretion. If the Committee determines that Participant cannot satisfy Participant’s Tax Withholding Obligation through the default procedure described in clause (a), it may permit Participant to satisfy Participant’s Tax Withholding Obligation by # delivering to the Company Shares that Participant owns and that have vested with a fair market value equal to Participant’s Tax Withholding Obligation (in which case, the Company shall remit the amount that is required under applicable law to the appropriate governmental authorities in cash with the remainder, if any, to be promptly paid to Participant), # electing to have the Company withhold otherwise deliverable Shares having a fair market value equal to Participant’s Tax Withholding Obligation (in which case, the Company shall remit the amount that is required under applicable law to the appropriate governmental authorities in cash with the remainder, if any, to be promptly paid to Participant), # payment by Participant in cash, or # such other means as the Committee deems appropriate.

Any action on matters within the discretion of the Committee, including but not limited to, the amount of Severance Pay conferred upon a Participant, shall be final and conclusive as to all Eligible Employees and other persons claiming rights under the Plan. The Committee shall exercise all of the powers, duties and responsibilities set forth hereunder in its sole discretion. Notwithstanding anything in this Plan to the contrary, the Committee shall have the sole discretion to interpret the terms of the Plan included but not limited to, whether a termination is voluntarily or involuntary, whether a Participant’s termination is for Cause or whether a Participant could have been terminated for Cause, whether a Participant is offered a Comparable Position, and whether Severance Pay shall be payable to any Participant under this Plan.

No Discretion. No person will have any discretion to select which Outside Directors will be granted any Awards under this Policy or to determine the number of Shares to be covered by such Awards, except as provided in [Sections 2(d)(iii) and 9] below.

Negative Discretion. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Section 9, the Committee retains the discretion to reduce the amount of any Long-Term Incentive Bonus, including a reduction of such amount to zero. By way of illustration, and not in limitation of the foregoing, the Committee may, in its discretion, determine # not to grant a pro-rated Award Opportunity pursuant to Section 9.A above, # not to adjust an outstanding Award Opportunity pursuant to Section 9.B above, # to grant a pro-rated Award Opportunity in a smaller amount than would otherwise be provided by Section 9.A above, or # to adjust an outstanding Award Opportunity to produce a smaller Long-Term Incentive Award than would otherwise be provided by Section 9.B above.

Committee Discretion. Each type of Award may be made alone, in addition to or in relation to any other Award. The terms of each type of Award need not be identical, and the Committee need not treat Participants uniformly. Except as otherwise provided by the Plan or a particular Award, any determination with respect to an Award may be made by the Committee at the time of grant or at any time thereafter.