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(b) any Interest Period which would otherwise end after the Termination Date shall end on the Termination
Date.
"Internal Revenue Code" means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, or any successor statute.
"Investment" means all loans, advances, extensions of credit, guarantees, purchases of stock (other than stock of the Borrower)
or other securities, contributions to capital or otherwise, whether existing on the date of this Agreement or hereafter made.
"Issuing Bank" means JPMorgan Chase Bank and any other Lender that may agree to issue Letters of Credit hereunder
pursuant to an instrument in form satisfactory to the Administrative Agent, in each case as issuer of a Letter of Credit hereunder.
"Lender" means (i) each bank or other institution listed on the Commitment Schedule, (ii) each financial institution which
becomes a Lender pursuant to Section 2.18, (iii) each assignee which becomes a Lender pursuant to Section 9.06(b) and (iv) their
respective successors.
"Lender Parties" means the Lenders, the Issuing Banks and the Agents.
"Letter of Credit" means a letter of credit to be issued hereunder by an Issuing Bank.
"Letter of Credit Liabilities" means, for any Lender and at any time, such Lender's ratable participation in the sum of (x) the
aggregate amount then owing by the Borrower in respect of amounts drawn under Letters of Credit and (y) the aggregate amount then
available for drawing under all Letters of Credit.
"Letter of Credit Termination Date" means the tenth day prior to the Termination Date.
"Leverage Ratio" means, at any date, the percentage equivalent of a fraction the numerator of which is Total Adjusted Debt at
such date and the denominator of which is Total Capitalization at such date. Calculation of the Leverage Ratio shall be subject to
Section 1.02(b).
"LIBOR Auction" means a solicitation of Competitive Bid Quotes setting forth Competitive Bid Margins based on the London
Interbank Offered Rate pursuant to Section 2.03.
"Lien" means, with respect to any asset, any mortgage, lien, pledge, charge, security interest or encumbrance of any kind in
respect of such asset. For the purposes of this Agreement, the Borrower or any Subsidiary shall be deemed to own subject to a Lien
any asset which it has acquired or holds subject to the interest of a vendor or lessor under any conditional sale agreement, capital lease
or other title retention agreement relating to such asset.
"Loan" means a Committed Loan or a Competitive Bid Loan and "Loans" means Committed Loans or Competitive Bid Loans
or any combination of the foregoing.
"London Interbank Offered Rate" has the meaning specified in Section 2.07(b).
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