Brazilian companies are required under Brazilian law to compensate employees, in addition to their salary and benefits, with profit sharing. We have developed an employee profit sharing model that ties the distribution of these incentives to key performance indicators such as revenue growth, cost containment, customer satisfaction and quality of work. We have worked with labor unions and have carefully communicated these goals to achieve their support. The 2000 employee profit share distribution was R$36.8 million but could have been as high as R$42 million had we not experienced the significant increase in bad debt. In 1999, while the profit sharing policy was still being developed, we distributed R$36.0 million to such account. For 1998, the policy was a relic from the pre-privatization era, and we paid R$24 million based on previously existed guidelines.