Dedicated Transport means CenturyLink transmission facilities between Wire Centers or switches owned by CenturyLink, or between Wire Centers or switches owned by CenturyLink and switches owned by CLEC, including, but not limited to, DS1, DS3, and OCn-capacity level services, as well as Dark Fiber, dedicated to a particular End User Customer or carrier.
Critical incident means an occurrence or set of events inconsistent with the routine operation of the facility, or the routine care of a consumer. Critical incidents specifically include but are not necessarily limited to the following: adverse drug events; self-destructive behavior; deaths and injuries to consumers, staff and visitors; medication errors; consumers that are absent without leave (AWOL); neglect or abuse of a consumer; fire; unauthorized disclosure of information; damage to or theft of property belonging to a consumers or the facility; other unexpected occurrences; or events potentially subject to litigation. A critical incident may involve multiple individuals or results.
Price Source Disruption means (a) the failure of the Price Source to announce or publish the Reference Price (or the information necessary for determining the Reference Price); or (b) the temporary or permanent discontinuance or unavailability of the Price Source.
ECB Recommended Rate Index Cessation Effective Date means, in respect of an ECB Recommended Rate Index Cessation Event, the first date on which the ECB Recommended Rate is no longer provided, as determined by the Issuer and notified by the Issuer to the Calculation Agent;
Intent-Based Replacement Disclosure means, as to any Qualifying Preferred Stock or Qualifying Capital Securities, that the issuer has publicly stated its intention, either in the prospectus or other offering document under which such securities were initially offered for sale or in filings with the Commission made by the issuer under the Securities Exchange Act prior to or contemporaneously with the issuance of such securities, that the issuer will redeem or purchase such securities only with the proceeds of replacement capital securities that have terms and provisions at the time of redemption or repurchase that are as or more equity-like than the securities then being redeemed or repurchased, raised within 180 days prior to the applicable redemption or repurchase date. Notwithstanding the use of the term “Intent-Based Replacement Disclosure” in the definitions of “Qualifying Capital Securities” and “Qualifying Preferred Stock”, the requirement in each such definition that a particular security or the related transaction documents include Intent-Based Replacement Disclosure shall be disregarded and given no force or effect for so long as the Corporation is a bank holding company within the meaning of the Bank Holding Company Act of 1956, as amended.
Variant of a type means vehicles within a type which do not differ in at least the following essential respects:
Material Gas Imbalance means, with respect to all Gas Balancing Agreements to which the Borrower or any other Credit Party is a party or by which any Oil and Gas Property owned by the Borrower or another Credit Party is bound, a net overproduced gas imbalance to the Borrower and the other Credit Parties, taken as a whole, in excess of 110,000 Mcf.
Non-Disrupted Valuation Date means a Valuation Date which is not a "Disrupted Day". “Normal Exposure” means a +1x exposure to the Reference Asset.
ECB Recommended Rate Index Cessation Event means the occurrence of one or more of the following events, as determined by the Issuer and notified by the Issuer to the Calculation Agent:
Reference man means a hypothetical aggregation of human physical and physiological characteristics determined by international consensus. These characteristics may be used by researchers and public health workers to standardize results of experiments and to relate biological insult to a common base.
HICP Daily Inflation Reference Index means (A) in relation to the first day of any given month, the HICP Monthly Reference Index of the third month preceding such month, and (B) in relation to a day (D) (other than the first day) in any given month (M), the linear interpolation of the HICP Monthly Reference Index pertaining respectively to the third month preceding such month (M - 3) and the second month preceding such month (M - 2) calculated in accordance with the following formula:
long term specified asset means any bond, redeemable after three years and issued on or after the 1st day of April 2006:
serious incident means any incident that directly or indirectly led, might have led or might lead to any of the following:
Force Majeure Exception means any failure or delay in the performance of the Fund’s reporting obligation pursuant to Section 2.3 arising out of or caused, directly or indirectly, by circumstances beyond its reasonable control, including, without limitation, acts of God; earthquakes; flood; terrorism; wars and other military disturbances; sabotage; epidemics; riots; loss or malfunctions of utilities, computer (hardware or software) or communication services; accidents; acts of civil or military authority and governmental action. The Fund shall use commercially reasonable efforts to commence performance of its obligations during any of the foregoing circumstances.
Reference Schedule means the reference schedule in Part A of this Invitation
Commercially Sensitive Information Schedule means the Schedule containing a list of the Commercially Sensitive Information.
Force Majeure Report means a report to be given by the Affected Party to the other party following the giving of a Force Majeure Notice;
CPI Daily Inflation Reference Index means (A) in relation to the first day of any given month, the CPI Monthly Reference Index of the third month preceding such month, and (B) in relation to a day (D) (other than the first day) in any given month (M), the linear interpolation of the CPI Monthly Reference Index pertaining respectively to the third month preceding such month (M - 3) and the second month preceding such month (M - 2) calculated in accordance with the following formula:
Uncontrollable Circumstance means any act, event or condition that is:
PRICED SCHEDULE OR QUANTITIES means the schedule duly priced.
Force Majeure Event means an event beyond the reasonable control of any party including an outbreak of a serious disease or epidemic, or quarantine or other public health emergencies, fire, flood, earthquake, explosion or other casualty or accident or act of God, or war or other violence, strike, lock-out, labour dispute, acts of any governmental body, war, insurrection, sabotage, embargo, interruption of or delay in transportation, unavailability of or interruption or delay in telecommunications or inability to obtain raw materials, supplies or power.
FX Disruption Event ' means the occurrence of any event on any day or any number of consecutive days as determined by the Calculation Agent in its sole and reasonable discretion that affects the Issuer’s currency hedging (if any) with respect to the Products.
Low-level radioactive waste or “waste” means radioactive material that consists of or contains class A, B, or C radioactive waste as defined by 10 C.F.R. 61.55, as in effect on January 26, 1983, but does not include waste or material that is any of the following:
Specified Matter means any Amendment of a Portfolio Investment that (a) reduces the principal amount of such Portfolio Investment, (b) reduces the rate of interest payable on such Portfolio Investment, (c) postpones the due date of any scheduled payment or distribution in respect of such Portfolio Investment, (d) alters the pro rata allocation or sharing of payments or distributions required by any related underlying instrument in a manner adverse to the Company, (e) releases any material guarantor of such Portfolio Investment from its obligations, (f) terminates or releases any lien on a material portion on the collateral securing such Portfolio Investment, (g) changes any of the provisions of any such underlying instrument specifying the number or percentage of lenders required to effect any of the foregoing or (h) materially changes any financial maintenance covenant.
Index Disruption means in respect of an Index on any Valuation Date, the Index Sponsor fails to calculate and announce such Index.
Hedging Disruption Event means any event which, in the Issuer’s reasonable opinion, would make it illegal or commercially unfeasible for the Issuer to continue to hedge its obligations in relation to the Bond.