Article 27　When it seems that if no adjustment is made to the supply and demand of electricity, a shortage of electricity supply will adversely affect the national economy, standard of living or public interest, the Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry may, to the extent necessary2 for resolving such a situation and pursuant to the provision of a Cabinet Order, restrict the use of electricity supplied by a General Electricity Utility, Specified Electricity Utility or Specified-Scale Electricity Utility by limiting the power usage or peak load or specifying the purpose of use or the date and time when power usage should be stopped, or restrict the receiving of electricity from a General Electricity Utility, Specified Electricity Utility or Specified-Scale Electricity Utility by limiting the capacity of receiving electricity.

The underlying logic here is that even if they are approved under the Companies Act, or even if they were approved by general shareholders meetings, there are certain activities which listed companies are not allowed to take, in order to protect existing shareholders; that certain market rules are required for ensuring protection of shareholders and investors as well as market credibility; and that listed companies, which use public market unlike other general companies, are in a position to conform to norms of the listed companies.

For the British Empire, offshore naval bases were essential for colonial rule and for building trade networks in territories around the world, but there was also a financial burden to maintaining this.

Sony cautions you that a number of important risks and uncertainties could cause actual results to differ materially from those discussed in the forward-looking statements, and therefore you should not place undue reliance on them.

Visual verification under load on its own does not provide much value because it does not indicate the root causes of application-level errors.

In consideration of the fragile profitability of petroleum business, the investment in solar cell business, and the need for improvement the financial strength, we cut interim and year-end dividend, and we paid 9 yen per share as an interim dividend for the current period and the year-end dividend is planned to be 9 yen per share.

Even if military technology was achieved that meant forward-deployed bases were not needed, in order to deal with new threats such as international terrorism, piracy and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, political and diplomatic cooperation among a large number of countries has become essential.

In addition, we monitored and verified the content of the resolution of the Board of directors and system actually placed as “internal control system” in accordance to this resolution, which is stipulated in Item 6 in Paragraph 4 of Article 362 of the Corporate Law and Paragraphs 1 and 3of Article 100 of the Enforcement Regulation of Corporate Act as a system required to ensure the compliance of laws and the Articles of Associations in the execution of businesses by directors.

Nonetheless, there are some types of corporate acquisition that benefit neither the corporate value of the target company nor the common interests of its shareholders including (i) those with a purpose that would obviously harm the corporate value of the target company and the common interests of its shareholders, (ii) those with the potential to substantially coerce shareholders into selling their shares, (iii) those that do not provide sufficient time or information for the target company’s board of directors and shareholders to consider the details of the large-scale acquisition or for the target company’s board of directors to make an alternative proposal, and (iv) those that require the target company to negotiate with the acquirer in order to procure more favorable terms for shareholders than those presented by the acquirer.

Charging and discharging in a short time is therefore possible compared with batteries that require chemical reaction, enabling frequent engine speed variations of construction machinery.

Between the stage where companies prepare information for disclosure and the stage where investors use that information to make investment decisions there is a need for agents who will intervene to check whether that information is appropriate and to relay it accurately, clearly and free of distortion.

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The hydrolysis stage is often considered the bottleneck in total fat analysis because a limited flow of samples here means limited flow in the subsequent extraction phase.

In order to avoid interest rate fluctuation risk and foreign exchange fluctuation risk associated with some of the securities, loans payable and bonds, the Company and some subsidiaries apply hedge accounting using various derivatives instruments such as interest rate swaps, currency swaps and similar transactions.

Research into the causes and mechanisms of coral bleaching and establishment and propagation of reef conservation and bleaching recovery technologies.

If the screen is not displayed correctly even after performing the Self Adjust operation, adjust the screen according to the procedures on the following pages to use the monitor comfortably.

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In order to hide distortion or noise at the image’s edge, the display area of the input image can be changed so that peripheral images are not displayed.

This proposal does not consider that the independence of outside directors is sufficient for realizing shareholder profit, but believes that it is important, and some of the other propositions utilize the independence requirements that will be stipulated in the Articles of Incorporation when this proposition is approved.

During the interim period, we reported a decline in sales of ¥29.9 billion accompanying the full termination of this business; however, sales expansion in growth businesses, including especially new MFP (multifunctional peripheral) products, and continued growth in demand for TAC film (protective film for polarizing plates) resulted in the first rise in overall Group sales in three interim periods.

AT.11 If the international application is for both a utility model and a patent, the applicant must, within the time limit applicable for the entry into the national phase, pay two fees for entry into the national phase (for the patent application and the utility model application) and, where the international application was not filed in the German language, furnish a translation into German, and file a power of attorney (if any) in duplicate.

The Forward-Looking Statements contained in this document are prepared based upon the information the Tender Offeror possesses as of the date hereof and unless otherwise obligated under laws and regulations, or regulations of stock exchanges, neither the Tender Offeror nor its affiliated companies assumes any obligations to renew or amend the descriptions of the Forward-Looking Statements in order to reflect the future events and circumstances.

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As a result of Kommuninvest’s rapid growth in recent years and to clarify the division of roles between the executive management and the Board of Directors, the President and Executive Vice President notified the nominating committee that they wish to leave their posts as member and deputy member respectively of the company’s Board at the General Meeting in March 2005.

Introduction, maintenance, change, and abolition of the Takeover Defense Measures stipulated in the foregoing paragraph shall mean that the Company stipulates provisions concerning the procedures to be observed by a Purchaser of the Company’s shares and other rights the Company issued as well as concerning countermeasures, etc. to be implemented against a Purchaser who violates the procedures, and maintains the implementation of the procedures and countermeasures, changes the details of the procedures and countermeasures, or abolishes the procedures and countermeasures, for the purpose of preventing a person who is deemed to be inappropriate in light of the Basic Policy for the way of being of a person who controls the Company’s financial and business policy decisions from controlling the Company’s financial and business policy decisions.

In addition, the Large-scale Acquisition Rule requires the Large-scale Acquirer to comply with the rule, and determines the response policy for in case of both compliance and non-compliance of the Large-scale Acquisition Rule by the large-scale acquirer, and if necessary, implements an appropriate countermeasure to protect the Company’s corporate value and the common interests of shareholders such as gratis allotment of Stock Acquisition Right with discriminative condition to exercise.