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Ÿ Employee workforce factors including changes in key executives and employee retention;
Ÿ Social attitudes regarding the utility, natural gas and power industries;
Ÿ Identification of suitable investment opportunities to enhance shareowner returns and achieve long-term financial
objectives through business acquisitions and divestitures;
Ÿ Some future investments made by the Company could take the form of noncontrolling interests which would limit
the Company’s ability to control the development or operation of an investment;
Ÿ Increased pension and healthcare costs;
Ÿ Costs and other effects of legal and administrative proceedings, settlements, investigations, claims and matters,
including but not limited to those described in Note 12 of Notes to Financial Statements of the Company’s Form 10-
K for the year ended December 31, 2009, under the caption Commitments and Contingencies;
Ÿ Technological developments, changing markets and other factors that result in competitive disadvantages and create
the potential for impairment of existing assets;
Ÿ Other business or investment considerations that may be disclosed from time to time in the Company’s SEC filings
or in other publicly disseminated written documents;
Ÿ Approval of future regulatory filings with the Oklahoma Corporation Commission or the Arkansas Public Service
Commission; and
Ÿ Discontinuance of accounting principles for certain types of rate-regulated activities.
The Company undertakes no obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of
new information, future events or otherwise.
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