Right of Person Who Agreed to Purchase to Refuse to Purchase. (a) The Company agrees that any person who has agreed to purchase and pay for any Note, shall have the right to refuse to purchase such Note if (i) at the Closing Date therefor, any condition set forth in Section 5 (except that references to the Prospectus shall be to the Prospectus as supplemented at the Closing Date) shall not be satisfied, (ii) subsequent to the agreement to purchase such Note, any change, or any development with respect to the Company involving a prospective change, in or affecting the business or properties of the Company and its subsidiaries shall have occurred the effect of which is, in the judgment of the Agent, so material and adverse as to make it impractical or inadvisable to proceed with the delivery of such Note or (iii) subsequent to the agreement to purchase such Note, (w) there shall have been any decrease in the ratings of any of the Company's debt securities by Xxxxx'x Investors Service or Standard & Poor's Corporation (each a "Rating Agency") or any such Rating Agency shall publicly announce that it has placed any of such debt securities on a "watchlist" with negative implications, (x) trading in the Company's Common Stock shall have been suspended by the Commission or the New York Stock Exchange or trading in securities generally on the New York Stock Exchange shall have been suspended or limited or minimum prices shall have been established on such Exchange, (y) a banking moratorium shall have been declared either by Federal, Rhode Island or New York State authorities, or (z) there shall have occurred any outbreak or escalation of hostilities or other calamity or crisis the effect of which on the financial markets or the United States is such as to make it, in the judgment of the Agent, impracticable to market such Notes (it being understood that under no circumstance shall the Agent have any duty or obligation to exercise any judgment permitted to be exercised pursuant to this Section 6(a)).
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Samples: Fleet Financial Group Inc, Fleet Financial Group Inc
Right of Person Who Agreed to Purchase to Refuse to Purchase. (a) The Company agrees that any person who has agreed to purchase and pay for any Note, including a Purchaser and any person who purchases pursuant to a solicitation by any of the Agents, shall have the right to refuse to purchase such Note if (i) at the Closing Date therefor, any condition set forth in Section 5 (except that references to the Prospectus shall be to the Prospectus as supplemented at the Closing Date) or 6, as applicable, shall not be satisfied, (ii) subsequent to the agreement to purchase such Note, any change, or any development with respect to the Company involving a prospective change, in or affecting the business or properties of the Company and its subsidiaries considered as one enterprise shall have occurred the effect of which is, in the judgment of the AgentPurchaser or the Agent which presented the offer to purchase such Note, as applicable, so material and adverse as to make it impractical or inadvisable to proceed with the delivery of such Note or (iii) subsequent to the agreement to purchase such Note, (w) there shall have been any decrease in the ratings of any of the Company's debt securities by Xxxxx'x Investors Service or Standard & Poor's Corporation (each a "Rating Agency") or any such Rating Agency shall publicly announce that it has placed any of such debt securities on a "watchlist" with negative implications, (x) trading in the Company's Common Stock shall have been suspended by the Commission or the New York Stock Exchange or trading in securities generally on the New York Stock Exchange shall have been suspended or limited or minimum prices shall have been established on such Exchange, (y) a banking moratorium shall have been declared either by Federal, Rhode Island Federal or New York State authorities, or (z) there shall have occurred any outbreak or escalation of hostilities or other calamity or crisis the effect of which on the financial markets or the United States is such as to make it, in the judgment of the AgentPurchaser or the Agent which presented the offer to purchase such Note, as applicable, impracticable to market such Notes (it being understood that under no circumstance shall the any Agent have any duty or obligation to exercise any judgment permitted to be exercised pursuant to this Section 6(a7(a)).
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Samples: Fleet Boston Corp
Right of Person Who Agreed to Purchase to Refuse to Purchase. (a) The Company agrees that any person who has agreed to purchase and pay for any Note, including a Purchaser and any person who purchases pursuant to a solicitation by any of the Agents, shall have the right to refuse to purchase such Note if (i) at the Closing Date therefor, any condition set forth in Section 5 (except that references to the Prospectus shall be to the Prospectus as supplemented at the Closing Date) or 6, as applicable, shall not be satisfied, (ii) subsequent to the agreement to purchase such Note, any change, or any development with respect to the Company involving a prospective change, in or affecting the business or properties of the Company and its subsidiaries shall have occurred the effect of which is, in the judgment of the AgentPurchaser or the Agent which presented the offer to purchase such Note, as applicable, so material and adverse as to make it impractical or inadvisable to proceed with the delivery of such Note or (iii) subsequent to the agreement to purchase such Note, (w) there shall have been any decrease in the ratings of any of the Company's debt securities by Xxxxx'x Investors Service or Standard & Poor's Corporation (each a "Rating Agency") or any such Rating Agency shall publicly announce that it has placed any of such debt securities on a "watchlist" with negative implications, (x) trading in the Company's Common Stock shall have been suspended by the Commission or the New York Stock Exchange or trading in securities generally on the New York Stock Exchange shall have been suspended or limited or minimum prices shall have been established on such Exchange, (y) a banking moratorium shall have been declared either by Federal, Rhode Island or New York State authorities, or (z) there shall have occurred any outbreak or escalation of hostilities or other calamity or crisis the effect of which on the financial markets or the United States is such as to make it, in the judgment of the AgentPurchaser or the Agent which presented the offer to purchase such Note, as applicable, impracticable to market such Notes (it being understood that under no circumstance shall the any Agent have any duty or obligation to exercise any judgment permitted to be exercised pursuant to this Section 6(a7(a)). (b) The Company further agrees to notify each Agent upon the occurrence of any change, condition or development contemplated by Section 7(a)(ii) or (iii). 8.
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Samples: Fleet Financial Group Inc
Right of Person Who Agreed to Purchase to Refuse to Purchase. (a) The Company agrees that any person who has agreed to purchase and pay for any Note, including a Purchaser and any person who purchases pursuant to a solicitation by any of the Agents, shall have the right to refuse to purchase such Note if (i) at the Closing Date therefor, any condition set forth in Section 5 (except that references to the Prospectus shall be to the Prospectus as supplemented at the Closing Date) or 6, as applicable, shall not be satisfied, (ii) subsequent to the agreement to purchase such Note, any change, or any development with respect to the Company involving a prospective change, in or affecting the business or properties of the Company and its subsidiaries shall have occurred the effect of which is, in the judgment of the AgentPurchaser or the Agent which presented the offer to purchase such Note, as applicable, so material and adverse as to make it impractical or inadvisable to proceed with the delivery of such Note or (iii) subsequent to the agreement to purchase such Note, (w) there shall have been any decrease in the ratings of any of the Company's debt securities by Xxxxx'x Investors Service or Standard & Poor's Corporation (each a "Rating Agency") or any such Rating Agency shall publicly announce that it has placed any of such debt securities on a "watchlist" with negative implications, (x) trading in the Company's Common Stock shall have been suspended by the Commission or the New York Stock Exchange or trading in securities generally on the New York Stock Exchange shall have been suspended or limited or minimum prices shall have been established on such Exchange, (y) a banking moratorium shall have been declared either by Federal, Rhode Island or New York State authorities, or (z) there shall have occurred any outbreak or escalation of hostilities or other calamity or crisis the effect of which on the financial markets or the United States is such as to make it, in the judgment of the AgentPurchaser or the Agent which presented the offer to purchase such Note, as applicable, impracticable to market such Notes (it being understood that under no circumstance shall the any Agent have any duty or obligation to exercise any judgment permitted to be exercised pursuant to this Section 6(a7(a)).
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Samples: Fleet Financial Group Inc