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Management's Discussion and Analysis Financial Resources and Liquidity: Contractual Obligations

Contractual Obligations
As defined by reporting regulations, our contractual obligations for future payments as of December 31, 2004, follow:

  Payments due by period
(In millions)   Total   2005   2006–2007   2008–2009  
2010 and
thereafter
 
Borrowings                              
(note 18)(e) $ 370,364   $ 157,694   $ 84,926   $ 47,438   $ 80,306  
Interest on                              
borrowings   59,000     11,000     16,000     10,000     22,000  
Operating lease                              
obligations                              
(note 4)   7,718     1,383     2,240     1,613     2,482  
Purchase obligations(a)(b)   53,000     35,000     11,000     4,000     3,000  
Insurance liabilities                              
(note 19)(c)   92,000     14,000     19,000     13,000     46,000  
Other liabilities(d)   68,000     18,000     5,000     3,000     42,000  
(a) Included all take-or-pay arrangements, capital expenditures, contractual commitments to purchase equipment that will be classified as equipment leased to others, software acquisition/license commitments, contractual minimum programming commitments and contractually required cash payments for acquisitions.

(b) Excluded funding commitments entered into in the ordinary course of business by our financial services businesses. Further information on these commitments is provided in note 30.

(c) Included guaranteed investment contracts, structured settlements and single premium immediate annuities based on scheduled payouts, as well as those contracts with reasonably determinable cash flows such as deferred annuities, universal life, term life, long-term care, whole life and other life insurance contracts as well as workers compensation tabular indemnity loan and long-term liability claims.

(d) Included an estimate of future expected funding requirements related to our pension and postretirement benefit plans. Because their future cash outflows are uncertain, the following non-current liabilities are excluded from the table above: deferred taxes, derivatives, deferred revenue and other sundry items. Refer to notes 21 and 28 for further information on these items.

(e) As restated.

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