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ACCESSION NUMBER:		0001051512-16-000098
CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE:	8-K
PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT:		2
CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT:	20160616
ITEM INFORMATION:		Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers: Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers
ITEM INFORMATION:		Financial Statements and Exhibits
FILED AS OF DATE:		20160622
DATE AS OF CHANGE:		20160622

FILER:

	COMPANY DATA:	
		COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:			TELEPHONE & DATA SYSTEMS INC /DE/
		CENTRAL INDEX KEY:			0001051512
		STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION:	TELEPHONE COMMUNICATIONS (NO RADIO TELEPHONE) [4813]
		IRS NUMBER:				362669023
		STATE OF INCORPORATION:			DE
		FISCAL YEAR END:			1231

	FILING VALUES:
		FORM TYPE:		8-K
		SEC ACT:		1934 Act
		SEC FILE NUMBER:	001-14157
		FILM NUMBER:		161725638

	BUSINESS ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		30 NORTH LASALLE STREET
		STREET 2:		STE 4000
		CITY:			CHICAGO
		STATE:			IL
		ZIP:			60602
		BUSINESS PHONE:		3126301900

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		STREET 1:		30 NORTH LASALLE STREET
		STREET 2:		STE 4000
		CITY:			CHICAGO
		STATE:			IL
		ZIP:			60602
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            <p style="margin:0pt; text-indent:72pt; line-height:200%; font-size:9pt"><font style="font-family:Helvetica; font-size:9pt">(a)&#160; </font><font style="font-family:Helvetica; font-size:9pt; text-decoration:underline">Death, Disability</font><font style="font-family:Helvetica; font-size:9pt; text-decoration:underline"> or Retirement</font><font style="font-family:Helvetica; font-size:9pt">.&#160; Except as otherwise provided in Section 7 in connection with a Change in Control, if the Employee terminates employment with the Employers and Affiliates prior to the last day of the Performance Period due to death, Disability or Retiremen</font><font style="font-family:Helvetica; font-size:9pt">t, then the Employee (or his or her beneficiary, as applicable) shall receive a pro-rata portion of</font><font style="font-family:Helvetica; font-size:9pt; font-weight:bold"> </font><font style="font-family:Helvetica; font-size:9pt">the vested Award, with such vesting calculated in accordance with Section 3 based upon actual achievement of the Performance Measures through the end of the</font><font style="font-family:Helvetica; font-size:9pt"> Performance Period, and the remaining portion of the Award shall be forfeited and the Employee (or his or her beneficiary, as applicable) shall have no rights with respect thereto (including, without limitation, any rights relating to unvested accumulated</font><font style="font-family:Helvetica; font-size:9pt"> dividend equivalents under Section 2).&#160; Such pro-rata portion shall be measured by a fraction, of which the numerator is the number of whole months of the Performance Period during which the Employee remained in continuous employment with the Employers an</font><font style="font-family:Helvetica; font-size:9pt">d Affiliates, and the denominator is the number of whole months of the Performance Period.&#160; Subject to Section 7 in connection with a Change in Control, the shares payable to the Employee (or his or her beneficiary, as applicable) pursuant to this Section </font><font style="font-family:Helvetica; font-size:9pt">4(a) shall be delivered following the Performance Period at the time set forth in Section 6 hereof.</font></p>
            <p style="margin:0pt; text-indent:72pt; line-height:200%; font-size:9pt"><font style="font-family:Helvetica; font-size:9pt">For purposes of this Award Agreement, &#8220;Disability&#8221; shall mean </font><font style="font-family:Helvetica; font-size:9pt">a total physical disability which, in the Committee&#8217;s judgment, prevents the Employee from sub</font><font style="font-family:Helvetica; font-size:9pt">stantially performing such Employee&#8217;s employment duties and responsibilities for a continuous period of at least six months, and &#8220;Retirement&#8221; shall mean the Employee&#8217;s termination of employment on or after January 1, 2017 and at or after attainment of age </font><font style="font-family:Helvetica; font-size:9pt">66.</font><font style="font-family:Helvetica; font-size:9pt; font-weight:bold"> </font><font style="font-family:Helvetica; font-size:9pt"> For the avoidance of doubt, if the Employee&#8217;s employment terminates by reason of negligence or willful misconduct, as determined by the Company in its sole discretion, such termination shall not qualify as a termination due to Retirement (despite the </font><font style="font-family:Helvetica; font-size:9pt">attainment of age 66 by the Employee).</font></p>
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            <p style="margin:0pt; ; line-height:200%; font-size:9pt"><font style="font-family:Helvetica; font-size:9pt"> </font><a name="EDGAR_PAGE_START3"></a><font style="font-family:Helvetica; font-size:9pt">delivere</font><font style="font-family:Helvetica; font-size:9pt">d to the Employee pursuant to the Award within the twelve-month period immediately preceding such Competition, Misappropriation, Solicitation or Disparagement, if any (without reduction for any shares of Common Stock delivered by the Employee or withheld b</font><font style="font-family:Helvetica; font-size:9pt">y the Company pursuant to Section 8.3) by the Fair Market Value of a share of Common Stock on the date that the Award was settled.&#160; The Employee acknowledges and agrees that the Award, by encouraging stock ownership and thereby increasing an employee&#8217;s pro</font><font style="font-family:Helvetica; font-size:9pt">prietary interest in the Company&#8217;s success, is intended as an incentive to participating employees to remain in the employ of the Employers or an Affiliate.&#160; The Employee acknowledges and agrees that this Section 5 is therefore fair and reasonable, and not</font><font style="font-family:Helvetica; font-size:9pt"> a penalty. </font></p>
            <p style="margin:0pt; text-indent:72pt; line-height:200%; font-size:9pt"><font style="font-family:Helvetica; font-size:9pt">The Employee may be released from the Employee&#8217;s obligations under this Section 5 only if and to the extent the Committee determines in its sole discretion that such release is in the best interests of the Company. </font></p>
            <p style="margin:0pt; text-indent:72pt; line-height:200%; font-size:9pt"><font style="font-family:Helvetica; font-size:9pt">The Employee agrees that by</font><font style="font-family:Helvetica; font-size:9pt"> executing this Award Agreement the Employee authorizes the Employers and any Affiliate to deduct any amount owed by the Employee pursuant to this Section 5 from any amount payable by the Employers or any Affiliate to the Employee, including, without limit</font><font style="font-family:Helvetica; font-size:9pt">ation, any amount payable to the Employee as salary, wages, vacation pay or bonus.&#160; The Employee further agrees to execute any documents at the time of setoff required by the Employers and any Affiliate in order to effectuate the setoff.&#160; Should the Employ</font><font style="font-family:Helvetica; font-size:9pt">ee fail to do so and the Employers and/or any Affiliate institute a legal action against the Employee to recover the amounts due, the Employee agrees to reimburse the Employers and/or any Affiliate for their reasonable attorneys&#8217; fees and litigation costs </font><font style="font-family:Helvetica; font-size:9pt">incurred in recovering such amounts from the Employee.&#160; This right of setoff shall not be an exclusive remedy and an Employer&#8217;s or an Affiliate&#8217;s election not to exercise this right of setoff with respect to any amount payable to the Employee shall not con</font><font style="font-family:Helvetica; font-size:9pt">stitute a waiver of this right of setoff with respect to any other amount payable to the Employee or any other remedy.</font></p>
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            <p style="margin:0pt; ; line-height:200%; font-size:9pt"><font style="font-family:Helvetica; font-size:9pt"> </font><a name="EDGAR_PAGE_START4"></a><font style="font-family:Helvetica; font-size:9pt">of employment or upon the req</font><font style="font-family:Helvetica; font-size:9pt">uest of the Employers or an Affiliate, fails to return all Confidential Information then in the Employee&#8217;s possession.&#160; &#8220;Confidential Information&#8221; shall mean any confidential and proprietary drawings, reports, sales and training manuals, customer lists, co</font><font style="font-family:Helvetica; font-size:9pt">mputer programs and other material embodying trade secrets or confidential technical, business or financial information of the Employers or an Affiliate.</font></p>
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            <p style="margin:0pt; text-indent:72pt; line-height:200%; font-size:9pt"><font style="font-family:Helvetica; font-size:9pt">(b)&#160; </font><font style="font-family:Helvetica; font-size:9pt; text-decoration:underline">Award Not Assumed</font><font style="font-family:Helvetica; font-size:9pt">.&#160; Notwithstanding Section 7(a), if the Award is not effectively assumed or co</font><font style="font-family:Helvetica; font-size:9pt">ntinued by a surviving or acquiring company in the Change in Control (including by reason of the surviving or acquiring company not being publicly traded in the United States), as determined by the Committee as constituted immediately prior to the Change i</font><font style="font-family:Helvetica; font-size:9pt">n Control, then the Change in Control Shares shall vest and become nonforfeitable and be delivered to the Employee within sixty (60) days following the occurrence of the Change in Control; </font><font style="font-family:Helvetica; font-size:9pt; text-decoration:underline">provided</font><font style="font-family:Helvetica; font-size:9pt"> </font><font style="font-family:Helvetica; font-size:9pt; text-decoration:underline">however</font><font style="font-family:Helvetica; font-size:9pt"> </font><font style="font-family:Helvetica; font-size:9pt; text-decoration:underline">that</font><font style="font-family:Helvetica; font-size:9pt"> if the Award is considered &#8220;nonqualified defe</font><font style="font-family:Helvetica; font-size:9pt">rred compensation&#8221; within the meaning of section 409A of the Code, and such accelerated payment is not permitted by section 409A of the Code, then payment with respect to the vested Change in Control Shares shall be made following the Performance Period at</font><font style="font-family:Helvetica; font-size:9pt"> the time set forth in Section 6 hereof (or if earlier, the time set forth in Section 7(c)).</font></p>
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            <p style="margin:0pt; text-indent:72pt; line-height:200%; widows:0; orphans:0; font-size:9pt"><font style="font-family:Helvetica; font-size:9pt">(d)&#160; </font><font style="font-family:Helvetica; font-size:9pt; text-decoration:underline">Definition of Cause</font><font style="font-family:Helvetica; font-size:9pt">.&#160; For purposes of this Award Agreement, &#8220;Cause&#8221; shall have the meaning set forth in the employment agree</font><font style="font-family:Helvetica; font-size:9pt">ment between the Employee and an Employer as in effect on the Grant Date, if any.&#160; If the Employee is not a party to such an employment agreement that contains such definition, &#8220;Cause&#8221; shall mean, with respect to the Employee (as reasonably determined in g</font><font style="font-family:Helvetica; font-size:9pt">ood faith by the Committee):</font></p>
            <p style="margin:0pt; text-indent:72pt; line-height:200%; widows:0; orphans:0; font-size:9pt"><font style="font-family:Helvetica; font-size:9pt">(1)&#160; any conviction of, or plea of </font><font style="font-family:Helvetica; font-size:9pt; font-style:italic">nolo contendere </font><font style="font-family:Helvetica; font-size:9pt">to, a felony;</font></p>
            <p style="margin:0pt; text-indent:72pt; line-height:200%; widows:0; orphans:0; font-size:9pt"><font style="font-family:Helvetica; font-size:9pt">(2) </font><font style="font-family:Helvetica; font-size:9pt"> </font><font style="font-family:Helvetica; font-size:9pt">the theft, conversion, embezzlement or misappropriation by the Employee of funds or other assets of the Employers and Affiliates or any other act of fraud or</font><font style="font-family:Helvetica; font-size:9pt"> dishonesty with respect to the Employers and Affiliates;</font></p>
            <p style="margin:0pt; text-indent:72pt; line-height:200%; widows:0; orphans:0; font-size:9pt"><font style="font-family:Helvetica; font-size:9pt">(3) </font><font style="font-family:Helvetica; font-size:9pt"> </font><font style="font-family:Helvetica; font-size:9pt">a material breach by the Employee of his or her employment duties and responsibilities (other than as a result of incapacity due to physical or mental illness) (A) which is the result of the </font><font style="font-family:Helvetica; font-size:9pt">Employee&#8217;s gross negligence or (B) which is demonstrably willful and deliberate on the Employee&#8217;s part and which is committed in bad faith or without reasonable belief that such breach is in the best interests of the Employers and Affiliates; or</font></p>
            <p style="margin:0pt; text-indent:72pt; line-height:200%; widows:0; orphans:0; font-size:9pt"><font style="font-family:Helvetica; font-size:9pt">(4)</font><font style="font-family:Helvetica; font-size:9pt"> </font><font style="font-family:Helvetica; font-size:9pt"> the E</font><font style="font-family:Helvetica; font-size:9pt">mployee&#8217;s Competition, Misappropriation, Solicitation or Disparagement (in each case, as defined in Section 5), or other material violation of a restrictive covenant made by the Employee for the benefit of the Employers and Affiliates.</font></p>
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            <p style="margin:0pt; ; line-height:200%; widows:0; orphans:0; font-size:9pt"><font style="font-family:Helvetica; font-size:9pt"> </font><a name="EDGAR_PAGE_START6"></a><font style="font-family:Helvetica; font-size:9pt">forth in the employment agreement between the Employee and an Employer as in effect on the Grant Date, if any.&#160; If the Employee is not a party to such an employment</font><font style="font-family:Helvetica; font-size:9pt"> agreement that contains such definition, &#8220;Good Reason&#8221; shall mean the occurrence of any of the following events without the Employee&#8217;s written consent and which is not remedied by the Employers and Affiliates within thirty (30) days after receipt of writt</font><font style="font-family:Helvetica; font-size:9pt">en notice from the Employee specifying such event:&#160; </font></p>
            <p style="margin:0pt; text-indent:72pt; line-height:200%; widows:0; orphans:0; font-size:9pt"><font style="font-family:Helvetica; font-size:9pt">(1) </font><font style="font-family:Helvetica; font-size:9pt"> </font><font style="font-family:Helvetica; font-size:9pt">a material diminution in the Employee&#8217;s authority, duties or responsibilities with the Employers and Affiliates as in effect immediately prior to the Change in Control; </font></p>
            <p style="margin:0pt; text-indent:72pt; line-height:200%; widows:0; orphans:0; font-size:9pt"><font style="font-family:Helvetica; font-size:9pt">(2) </font><font style="font-family:Helvetica; font-size:9pt"> </font><font style="font-family:Helvetica; font-size:9pt">a material diminution i</font><font style="font-family:Helvetica; font-size:9pt">n the authority, duties or responsibilities of the person at the Employers and Affiliates to whom the Employee is required to report as in effect immediately prior to the Change in Control; </font></p>
            <p style="margin:0pt; text-indent:72pt; line-height:200%; widows:0; orphans:0; font-size:9pt"><font style="font-family:Helvetica; font-size:9pt">(3) </font><font style="font-family:Helvetica; font-size:9pt"> </font><font style="font-family:Helvetica; font-size:9pt">a reduction in the Executive&#8217;s rate of base salary, target a</font><font style="font-family:Helvetica; font-size:9pt">nnual bonus, target long-term incentive opportunity or retirement, welfare or other benefits as in effect immediately prior to the Change in Control (other than a reduction in retirement, welfare or other benefits similarly affecting all or substantially a</font><font style="font-family:Helvetica; font-size:9pt">ll executive officers); or </font></p>
            <p style="margin:0pt; text-indent:72pt; line-height:200%; widows:0; orphans:0; font-size:9pt"><font style="font-family:Helvetica; font-size:9pt">(4)</font><font style="font-family:Helvetica; font-size:9pt"> </font><font style="font-family:Helvetica; font-size:9pt"> the relocation of the office at which the Employee was principally employed immediately prior to the Change in Control to a location more than fifty (50) miles from the location of such office (except for required travel on</font><font style="font-family:Helvetica; font-size:9pt"> business substantially consistent with the Employee&#8217;s business travel obligations immediately prior to the Change in Control) .</font></p>
            <p style="margin:12pt 0pt 0pt; line-height:200%; widows:0; orphans:0; font-size:9pt"><font style="font-family:Helvetica; font-size:9pt"> &#8220;Good Reason&#8221; shall exist only if (i) the Employee provides to the applicable Employer or Affiliate the written notice specify</font><font style="font-family:Helvetica; font-size:9pt">ing such event, as referenced above, within sixty (60) days following the initial existence of the event and (ii) the Employee terminates employment due to Good Reason within one hundred twenty (120) days following the initial existence of the event.</font></p>
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            <p style="margin:0pt; text-indent:72pt; line-height:200%; font-size:9pt"><font style="font-family:Helvetica; font-size:9pt">8.1.&#160; </font><font style="font-family:Helvetica; font-size:9pt; text-decoration:underline">Nontransferability of Award</font><font style="font-family:Helvetica; font-size:9pt">.&#160; Except to a beneficiary upon the Employee&#8217;s death (as designated on a form prescribed by the Company or under the terms of the Plan), the Award may not be sold, transferred, assigned,</font><font style="font-family:Helvetica; font-size:9pt"> pledged, hypothecated, encumbered or otherwise disposed of (whether by operation of law or otherwise) or be subject to execution, attachment or similar process.&#160; Upon any attempt to so sell, transfer, assign, pledge, hypothecate, encumber or otherwise dis</font><font style="font-family:Helvetica; font-size:9pt">pose of the Award, the Award and all rights hereunder shall immediately become null and void.</font></p>
            <p style="margin:0pt; text-indent:72pt; line-height:200%; font-size:9pt"><font style="font-family:Helvetica; font-size:9pt">By accepting the Award, the Employee agrees that if all beneficiaries designated on a beneficiary designation form prescribed by the Company predecease the Employ</font><font style="font-family:Helvetica; font-size:9pt">ee or, in the case of corporations, partnerships, trusts or other entities which are designated beneficiaries, are terminated, dissolved, become insolvent or are adjudicated bankrupt prior to the date of the Employee&#8217;s death, or if the Employee fails to pr</font><font style="font-family:Helvetica; font-size:9pt">operly designate a beneficiary on a beneficiary designation form prescribed by the Company, then the Employee hereby designates the following Persons in the order set forth herein as the Employee&#8217;s beneficiary or beneficiaries: (i) the Employee&#8217;s spouse, i</font><font style="font-family:Helvetica; font-size:9pt">f living, or if none, (ii) the Employee&#8217;s then living descendants, per stirpes, or if none, (iii) the Employee&#8217;s estate.</font></p>
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            <p style="margin:0pt; ; line-height:200%; font-size:9pt"><font style="font-family:Helvetica; font-size:9pt"> </font><a name="EDGAR_PAGE_START7"></a><font style="font-family:Helvetica; font-size:9pt">effective registration statement under the Securities Act and any applicable state securities laws, or pursuant to an exemption from regis</font><font style="font-family:Helvetica; font-size:9pt">tration under the Securities Act and such state securities laws; and (c)</font><font style="font-family:Helvetica; font-size:9pt">&#xa0;</font><font style="font-family:Helvetica; font-size:9pt">if requested by the Company, the Employee shall submit a written statement, in a form satisfactory to the Company, to the effect that such representation</font><font style="font-family:Helvetica; font-size:9pt">&#xa0;</font><font style="font-family:Helvetica; font-size:9pt">is true and correct as of the</font><font style="font-family:Helvetica; font-size:9pt"> date of vesting of any shares hereunder or is true and correct as of the date of sale of any such shares, as applicable.&#160; As a condition precedent to the issuance or delivery to the Employee of any shares subject to the Award, the Employee shall comply wi</font><font style="font-family:Helvetica; font-size:9pt">th all regulations and requirements of any regulatory authority having control of or supervision over the issuance or delivery of the shares and, in connection therewith, shall execute any documents which the Committee shall in its sole discretion deem nec</font><font style="font-family:Helvetica; font-size:9pt">essary or advisable.</font></p>
            <p style="margin:0pt; text-indent:72pt; line-height:200%; widows:0; orphans:0; font-size:9pt"><font style="font-family:Helvetica; font-size:9pt">8.3.</font><font style="font-family:Helvetica; font-size:9pt">&#160; </font><font style="font-family:Helvetica; font-size:9pt; text-decoration:underline">Tax Withholding</font><font style="font-family:Helvetica; font-size:9pt">.&#160; (a)&#160; The Employee timely shall pay to the Company such amount as the Company may be required, under all applicable federal, state, local or other</font><font style="font-family:Helvetica; font-size:9pt"> laws or regulations, to withhold and pay over as income or other with</font><font style="font-family:Helvetica; font-size:9pt">&#xad;</font><font style="font-family:Helvetica; font-size:9pt">holding taxes (the &#8220;Required Tax Payments&#8221;) with respect to the Award.&#160; If the Employee shall fail to timely advance the Required Tax Payments, the Company may, in its discretion, deduc</font><font style="font-family:Helvetica; font-size:9pt">t any Required Tax Payments from any amount then or thereafter payable by the Company to the Employee.</font></p>
            <p style="margin:0pt; text-indent:72pt; line-height:200%; widows:0; orphans:0; font-size:9pt"><font style="font-family:Helvetica; font-size:9pt">(b)&#160; The Employee may elect to satisfy his or her obligation to advance the Required Tax Payments by any of the following means:&#160; (1) a cash payment to t</font><font style="font-family:Helvetica; font-size:9pt">he Company, (2) delivery (either actual delivery or by attestation procedures established by the Company) to the Company of previously-owned whole shares of Common Stock, the Fair Market Value of which shall be determined as of the date the obligation to w</font><font style="font-family:Helvetica; font-size:9pt">ithhold or pay taxes first arises in connection with the Award (the &#8220;Tax Date&#8221;), (3) authorizing the Company to withhold whole shares of Common Stock which would otherwise be delivered to the Employee pursuant to the Award, the Fair Market Value of which s</font><font style="font-family:Helvetica; font-size:9pt">hall be determined as of the Tax Date or (4)</font><font style="font-family:Helvetica; font-size:9pt">&#xa0;</font><font style="font-family:Helvetica; font-size:9pt">any combination of (1), (2) and (3).&#160; Shares of Common Stock to be delivered or withheld may not have an aggregate Fair Market Value in excess of the minimum amount of the Required Tax Payments.&#160; Any fraction of</font><font style="font-family:Helvetica; font-size:9pt"> a share of Common Stock which would be required to pay the Required Tax Payments shall be disregarded and the remaining amount due shall be paid in cash by the Employee.&#160; The Employee agrees that if by the pay period that immediately follows the date that</font><font style="font-family:Helvetica; font-size:9pt"> the Award becomes payable, no cash payment attributable to any such fractional share shall have been received by the Company, then the Employee hereby authorizes the Company to deduct such cash payment from any amount payable by the Company or any Affilia</font><font style="font-family:Helvetica; font-size:9pt">te to the Employee, including without limitation any amount payable to the Employee as salary or wages.&#160; </font></p>
            <p style="margin:0pt; text-indent:72pt; line-height:200%; font-size:9pt"><font style="font-family:Helvetica; font-size:9pt">8.4.&#160; </font><font style="font-family:Helvetica; font-size:9pt; text-decoration:underline">Adjustment</font><font style="font-family:Helvetica; font-size:9pt">.&#160; In the event of any conversion, stock split, stock dividend, recapitalization, reclassification, reorganization, merger, consolidat</font><font style="font-family:Helvetica; font-size:9pt">ion, spin-off, combination, exchange of shares, liquidation or other similar change in capitalization or event, or any distribution to holders of Common Stock other than a regular cash dividend, the number and class of shares subject to the Award shall be </font><font style="font-family:Helvetica; font-size:9pt">appropriately and equitably adjusted by the Committee.&#160; If such adjustment would result in a fractional share being subject to the Award, the Company shall pay the Employee, on the date that the shares with respect to the Award are delivered (if any), an a</font><font style="font-family:Helvetica; font-size:9pt">mount in cash determined by multiplying (i) the fraction of such share (rounded to the nearest hundredth) by (ii) the Fair Market Value of a share on the date that the Award became vested.&#160; The decision of the Committee regarding such adjustment and the Fa</font><font style="font-family:Helvetica; font-size:9pt">ir Market Value of any fractional share shall be final, binding and conclusive.&#160; </font><a name="EDGAR_PAGE_END7"></a></p>
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