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    <footnotes>
        <footnote id="F1">Each share of Deferred Stock is the economic equivalent of one share of non-voting common stock.</footnote>
        <footnote id="F2">As dividends are paid with respect to Company Non-Voting Common Stock, a number of units of Deferred Stock with a current value equal to the amount of the dividend will be allocated to the account of each non-employee Director with respect to each unit of Deferred Stock Awarded at the time such dividends are paid to the stock holders of the Company.</footnote>
        <footnote id="F3">The shares of Deferred Stock granted on November 1, 2018 become payable in cash based on the non-employee director's election at either (1) the earlier of the second anniversary of the grant date or the date of the non-employee director's termination, or (2) upon the non-employee director's termination.</footnote>
        <footnote id="F4">Each share of Phantom Stock is the economic equivalent of one share of non-voting common stock.</footnote>
        <footnote id="F5">As dividends are paid with respect to Company Non-Voting Common Stock, a number of units of Phantom Stock with a current value equal to the amount of the dividend will be allocated to the account of each non-employee Director with respect to each unit of Phantom Stock Awarded at the time such dividends are paid to the stock holders of the Company.</footnote>
        <footnote id="F6">The shares of Phantom Stock granted on November 1, 2017 become payable in cash upon the non-employee director's termination.</footnote>
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    <ownerSignature>
        <signatureName>Mark J. Bumann, Attorney-in-fact</signatureName>
        <signatureDate>2019-02-15</signatureDate>
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