made, over the period beginning on the Issue Date and ending immediately before such payment, under clauses (b), (c), (e) and (f) of the definition of Permitted Payments, other than those payments under clause (e) that are funded entirely from the net cash proceeds of the issuance and sale by the Company of Common Stock of the Company and/or another series of Preferred Stock of the Company that is comparable to the Preferred Stock of the Company being retired, repurchased or redeemed.
“Capital Stock” of any Person means any and all shares, interests, rights to purchase, warrants, options, participations or other equivalents of or interests in (however designated) equity of such Person, including Preferred Stock, but excluding any debt securities convertible into such equity.
“Cash and Cash Equivalents” means, as of a given date, the Company’s cash and cash equivalents as determined in accordance with U.S. GAAP.
“Clearstream” means Clearstream Banking SA or any successor securities clearing agency.
“Commission” means the Securities and Exchange Commission, as from time to time constituted, created under the Exchange Act, or, if at any time after the execution of the Indenture such Commission is not existing and performing the duties now assigned to it under the TIA, then the body performing such duties at such time.
“Continuing Director” means a director who either was a member of the Board of Directors on the issue date of the Notes or who becomes a member of the Board of Directors subsequent to that date and whose election, appointment or nomination for election by the Company’s stockholders is duly approved by a majority of the continuing directors on the Board of Directors at the time of such approval, either by a specific vote or by approval of the proxy statement issued by the Company on behalf of the entire Board of Directors in which such individual is named as nominee for director.
“Corporation” includes corporations and limited liability companies and, except for purposes of “Consolidation, Merger and Sales”, associations, companies and business trusts.
“Credit Facility” means, with respect to the Company or any Subsidiary of the Company, any debt or commercial paper facilities with banks or other lenders providing for revolving credit or term loans or any agreement treated as a finance or capital lease in accordance with U.S. GAAP.
“Cross Default” means, a default by the Company under any Credit Facility if such default: (a) is caused by a failure to pay principal of, or interest or premium, if any, on outstanding indebtedness under such Credit Facility (other thanNon-Recourse Liabilities of any Subsidiary of the Company) prior to the expiration of the grace period for payment of such indebtedness set forth in such Credit Facility (“payment default”); or (b) results in the acceleration of such indebtedness prior to its maturity; and, in each case, the principal amount of any such indebtedness, together with the principal amount of any other such indebtedness under which there has been a payment default or the maturity of which has been so accelerated, aggregates $25 million or more.
“Default” means any event that is, or after notice or passage of time or both would be, an Event of Default.
“Depository” means, with respect to any Note issuable or issued in the form of one or more global Notes, the Person designated as Depository by the Company in or pursuant to the Indenture, which Person must be, to the extent required by applicable law or regulation, a clearing agency registered under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and, if so provided with respect to any Note, any successor to such Person. If at any time there is more than one such Person, “Depository” shall mean, with respect to the Notes, the qualifying entity which has been appointed with respect thereto.
“Dollars” or “$” means a dollar or other equivalent unit of legal tender for payment of public or private debts in the United States of America.
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