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LONG-TERM INCENTIVE PLAN

Each February the Executive Compensation and Development Committee approves a three-year performance cycle under the Performance Stock Program. Participation in the program is limited to selected senior executives. The program's performance goal is total shareholder return equal to at least that earned by a company at the 50th percentile in terms of total shareholder return within the Standard & Poor's 500 Composite Stock Price Index.

After the close of a cycle, the Committee calculates the percentage earned of each participant's target award. No awards are paid unless the performance goal is achieved. Fifty percent of the target award is earned if the performance goal is achieved. One hundred percent is earned if total shareholder return for the cycle equals that of a company at the 60th percentile within the Standard & Poor's 500 Composite Stock Price Index.

The Committee has the discretion to reduce or eliminate the award earned by any participant based upon any criteria it deems appropriate. Awards are paid in the form of restricted stock, which restrictions lapse at age 60. The table below shows the threshold (i.e., attainment of the performance goal), target and maximum number of shares for the named executive officers for each cycle. No awards were earned for the 2000-2002 performance cycle as shown in the "LTIP Payouts" column of the Summary Compensation Table on page 96.

The Executive Compensation and Development Committee approved a performance-based, long-term award program, i.e., the Executive Incentive Program, under the 2002-2004 cycle of the Performance Stock Program. The purposes of this one-time program are to increase by year-end 2003 investable cash flow and the financial performance of certain strategic product groups. In this regard, certain target and threshold performance goals were established by the Committee based on these two metrics for the two-year period commencing January 1, 2002, and ending December 31, 2003.

Awards under the Executive Incentive Program will be coordinated with awards received under the 2002-2004 performance cycle of the Performance Stock Program. As a result, any award earned by a participant under the 2002-2004 performance cycle of the Performance Stock Program will be reduced by the amount of any award earned by the participant under the Executive Incentive Program.

Participation in the Executive Incentive Program is limited to 18 selected key executive officers, including the five named executive officers. Each participant's target award under the program is 75% of the participant's total target annual compensation (annual base salary plus target EXCEL award) expressed in the form of shares of common stock based on a March 8, 2002, stock price of $32.37 per share. Any awards earned under the program will be paid in the form of the Company's common stock.

In order to encourage strong performance against the program's two metrics in 2002, participants were given the opportunity to earn a portion of their target award after the first year of the program's two-year performance cycle. Payment of this interim award was based on achieving certain pre-established interim goals by year-end 2002. Each participant was eligible for an interim award equal to 30% of his or her target award under the program. The interim awards were payable in the form of restricted shares of the Company's common stock, the restrictions on which lapse at year-end 2003. In determining a participant's award for the entire two-year cycle, any interim award earned by a participant will be subtracted from the award the participant would otherwise receive under the program.

As explained in the Report of the Executive Compensation and Development Committee on page 112, both of the program's interim goals were achieved by year-end 2002. As a result, each program participant received an interim award. The interim awards paid to the named executive officers are included in the amounts shown under the column entitled "Restricted Stock Awards" in the Summary Compensation Table on page 96.

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