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and Exchange Commission on August 1, 2005</b></font></p>
<p align="right"><font face="serif" size="2"><b>Registration No. 333-_____</b></font></p>
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<p align="center"><font face="serif" size="3"><b>SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION</b></font></p>
<p align="center"><font face="serif" size="2"><b>Washington, D.C. 20549</b></font></p>
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<p align="center"><font face="serif" size="4"><b>FORM S-8</b></font></p>
<p align="center"><font face="serif" size="2"><b>REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER</b><br>
<b>THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933</b></font></p>
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<p align="center"><font face="serif" size="5"><b>Savient Pharmaceuticals, Inc.</b></font></p>
<p align="center"><font face="serif" size="2"><b>(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Its Charter)</b></font></p>
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    <td><div align="center" style="margin-left:3%; text-indent:-3%"><font face="serif" size="2"><b>Delaware</b></font></div></td>
    <td align="center"><font face="serif" size="2"><b>13-3033811</b></font></td>
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    <td><div align="center" style="margin-left:3%; text-indent:-3%"><font face="serif" size="2">(State or Other Jurisdiction of<br>
Incorporation or Organization)</font></div></td>
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Identification No.)</font></td>
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    <td><div align="center" style="margin-left:3%; text-indent:-3%"><font face="serif" size="2"><b>One Tower Center, 14<sup>th</sup> Floor,</b><br>
<b>East Brunswick, New Jersey</b></font></div></td>
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<b><font size="2">01930</font></b></font></td>
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<p align="center"><font face="serif" size="2"><b>Savient Pharmaceuticals, Inc.</b><br>
<b>1998 Employee Stock Purchase Plan</b><br>
</font><font face="serif" size="1">(Full Title of the Plan)</font></p>
<p align="center"><font face="serif" size="2"><b>Philip K. Yachmetz</b><br>
<b>Senior Vice President &#150; Corporate Strategy, General Counsel &amp; Secretary</b><br>
<b>One Tower Center, 14<sup>th</sup> Floor</b><br>
<b>East Brunswick, New Jersey</b></font></p>
<p align="center"><font face="serif" size="2">(Name and Address of Agent For Service)</font></p>
<p align="center"><font face="serif" size="2"><b>(732) 418-9300</b></font></p>
<p align="center"><font face="serif" size="2">(Telephone Number, Including Area Code, of Agent For Service)</font></p>
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<p align="center"><font face="serif" size="2"><b>CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE</b></font></p>
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    <td><div style="margin-left:3%; text-indent:-3%"><font face="serif" size="2">Common Stock, $0.01 par value per share (including the associated Preferred Stock Purchase Rights)</font></div></td>
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    <td align="center"><font face="serif" size="2">1,000,000 shares</font></td>
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    <td align="center"><div align="right"><font face="serif" size="2">$4.40</font></div></td>
    <td><font face="serif" size="2">(2)</font></td>
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    <td align="center"><font face="serif" size="2">$4,440,000.00</font></td>
    <td><font face="serif" size="2">(2)</font></td>
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    <td align="center"><div align="right"><font face="serif" size="2">$517.88</font></div></td>
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    <td width="3%"><font face="serif" size="1">(1)</font></td>
    <td><div align="left"><font face="serif" size="1">In accordance with Rule 416 under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, this registration statement shall be deemed to cover any additional securities that may from time to time be offered or issued to prevent dilution resulting from stock splits, stock dividends or similar
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    <td><div align="left"><font face="serif" size="1">Estimated solely for the purpose of calculating the registration fee pursuant to Rules 457(c) and 457(h) of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and based upon the average of the high and low prices of the Registrant&#146;s Common Stock as reported on the Nasdaq National Market
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<p align="center"><font face="serif" size="2"></font><font face="serif" size="2"><b>STATEMENT OF INCORPORATION BY REFERENCE</b></font></p>
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<p align="left"><font face="serif" size="2">This Registration Statement is being filed for the purpose of registering additional securities of the same class as other securities for which a Registration Statement on Form&nbsp;S-8 has previously been filed and is effective. Accordingly, this Registration Statement on
Form&nbsp;S-8 incorporates by reference the contents of the Registration Statement on Form&nbsp;S-8, File No.&nbsp;333-64541, filed by the Registrant on September&nbsp;29, 1998 relating to the Registrant&#146;s 1998 Employee Stock Purchase Plan, except for Item 8, Exhibits, which is
incorporated herein by reference to the Exhibit List immediately preceding the exhibits attached hereto.</font></p>
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<p align="center"><font face="serif" size="2"></font><font face="serif" size="2"><b>SIGNATURES</b></font></p>
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<p align="left"><font face="serif" size="2">Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the Registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form&nbsp;S-8 and has duly caused this registration statement to be signed on its behalf by the
undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of East Brunswick, State of New Jersey, on this 29th day of July 2005.</font></p>
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<p align="left"><font face="serif" size="2">By: <u>/s/ CHRISTOPHER CLEMENT</u><br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Christopher Clement<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;President and Chief Executive Officer</font></p>
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<p align="center"><font face="serif" size="2"><b>POWER OF ATTORNEY AND SIGNATURES</b></font></p>
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<p align="left"><font face="serif" size="2">We, the undersigned officers and directors of Savient Pharmaceuticals, Inc., hereby severally constitute and appoint Christopher Clement, Lawrence A. Gyenes and Philip K. Yachmetz, and each of them singly, our true and lawful attorneys with full power to them, and
each of them singly, to sign for us and in our names in the capacities indicated below, the registration statement on Form&nbsp;S-8 filed herewith and any and all subsequent amendments to said registration statement, and generally to do all such things in our names and on our
behalf in our capacities as officers and directors to enable Savient Pharmaceuticals, Inc. to comply with the provisions of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and all requirements of the Securities and Exchange Commission, hereby ratifying and confirming our signatures
as they may be signed by our said attorneys, or any of them, to said registration statement and any and all amendments thereto.</font></p>
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<p align="left"><font face="serif" size="2">Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this registration statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates indicated.</font></p>
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<td><font face="serif" size="2">/s/ CHRISTOPHER CLEMENT<br>
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<td><font face="serif" size="2">/s/ LAWRENCE A. GYENES<br>
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    <td><font face="serif" size="2">Senior Vice President &#151; Chief<br>
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<td><font face="serif" size="2">/s/ CLIFF BACSIK<br>
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<td><font face="serif" size="2">/s/ JEREMY HAYWARD-SURRY<br>
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<td><font face="serif" size="2">/s/ HERBERT CONRAD<br>
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<td><font face="serif" size="2">/s/ STEPHEN O. JAEGER<br>
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<td><font face="serif" size="2">/s/ CARL E. KAPLAN<br>
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  </font><font face="serif" size="2">Carl E. Kaplan</font></td>
    <td><font face="serif" size="2">&nbsp;</font></td>
    <td><font face="serif" size="2">Director</font></td>
    <td><font face="serif" size="2">&nbsp;</font></td>
    <td align="right"><font face="serif" size="2">July 29, 2005</font></td>
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<td><font face="serif" size="2">/s/ DAVID TENDLER<br>
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  </font><font face="serif" size="2">David Tendler</font></td>
    <td><font face="serif" size="2">&nbsp;</font></td>
    <td><font face="serif" size="2">Director</font></td>
    <td><font face="serif" size="2">&nbsp;</font></td>
    <td align="right"><font face="serif" size="2">July 29, 2005</font></td>
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<td><font face="serif" size="2">/s/ VIRGIL THOMPSON<br>
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  </font><font face="serif" size="2">Virgil Thompson</font></td>
    <td><font face="serif" size="2">&nbsp;</font></td>
    <td><font face="serif" size="2">Director</font></td>
    <td><font face="serif" size="2">&nbsp;</font></td>
    <td align="right"><font face="serif" size="2">July 29, 2005</font></td>
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<td><hr noshade size="1">  <font face="serif" size="2">Faye Wattleton<br>
      </font></td>
    <td><font face="serif" size="2">&nbsp;</font></td>
    <td><font face="serif" size="2">Director</font></td>
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<td><font face="serif" size="2">/s/ HERBERT WEISSBACH<br>
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  </font><font face="serif" size="2">Herbert Weissbach</font></td>
    <td><font face="serif" size="2">&nbsp;</font></td>
    <td><font face="serif" size="2">Director</font></td>
    <td><font face="serif" size="2">&nbsp;</font></td>
    <td align="right"><font face="serif" size="2">July 29, 2005</font></td>
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    <td><div style="margin-left:3%; text-indent:-3%"><font face="serif" size="1"><b>Exhibit</b><br>
<b>Number</b></font></div></td>
    <td align="left"><font face="serif" size="1">&nbsp;</font></td>
    <td align="left" valign="bottom"><font face="serif" size="1"><b>Description</b></font></td>
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    <td><div style="margin-left:3%; text-indent:-3%"><font face="serif" size="2">&nbsp;&nbsp;3.1(1)</font></div></td>
    <td><font face="serif" size="2">&nbsp;</font></td>
    <td valign="bottom"><font face="serif" size="2">Certificate of Incorporation of the Registrant, as amended</font></td>
    <td><font face="serif" size="2">&nbsp;</font></td>
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    <td><div style="margin-left:3%; text-indent:-3%"><font face="serif" size="2">&nbsp;&nbsp;3.2(1)</font></div></td>
    <td><font face="serif" size="2">&nbsp;</font></td>
    <td valign="bottom"><font face="serif" size="2">By-Laws of the Registrant, as amended</font></td>
    <td><font face="serif" size="2">&nbsp;</font></td>
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    <td><div style="margin-left:3%; text-indent:-3%"><font face="serif" size="2">&nbsp;&nbsp;4.1(2)</font></div></td>
    <td><font face="serif" size="2">&nbsp;</font></td>
    <td valign="bottom"><font face="serif" size="2">Rights Agreement, dated as of October&nbsp;7, 1998, by and between American Stock Transfer &amp; Trust Company and the Registrant, which
includes the form of Certificate of Designations setting forth the terms of the Series A Junior Participating Cumulative Preferred Stock, par
value $0.01 per share, as Exhibit A, the form of Right Certificate as Exhibit B and the Summary of Rights to Purchase Preferred Shares as
Exhibit C.</font></td>
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    <td><div style="margin-left:3%; text-indent:-3%"><font face="serif" size="2">&nbsp;&nbsp;4.2(2)</font></div></td>
    <td><font face="serif" size="2">&nbsp;</font></td>
    <td valign="bottom"><font face="serif" size="2">Certificate of Designations of the Series A Junior Participating Cumulative Preferred Stock.</font></td>
    <td><font face="serif" size="2">&nbsp;</font></td>
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    <td><div style="margin-left:3%; text-indent:-3%"><font face="serif" size="2">&nbsp;&nbsp;5.1</font></div></td>
    <td><font face="serif" size="2">&nbsp;</font></td>
    <td valign="bottom"><font face="serif" size="2">Opinion of Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP, counsel to the Registrant</font></td>
    <td><font face="serif" size="2">&nbsp;</font></td>
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    <td><div style="margin-left:3%; text-indent:-3%"><font face="serif" size="2">23.1</font></div></td>
    <td><font face="serif" size="2">&nbsp;</font></td>
    <td valign="bottom"><font face="serif" size="2">Consent of Wilmer Cutler
        Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP
(included in Exhibit 5.1)</font></td>
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    <td><div style="margin-left:3%; text-indent:-3%"><font face="serif" size="2">23.2</font></div></td>
    <td><font face="serif" size="2">&nbsp;</font></td>
    <td valign="bottom"><font face="serif" size="2">Consent of Grant Thornton LLP</font></td>
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    <td><div style="margin-left:3%; text-indent:-3%"><font face="serif" size="2">24.1</font></div></td>
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    <td valign="bottom"><font face="serif" size="2">Power of attorney (included on the signature pages of this registration statement)</font></td>
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    <td><div align="left"><font face="serif" size="1">Previously filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission as an Exhibit to the Registrant&#146;s Quarterly Report on Form&nbsp;10-Q for the quarter ended June&nbsp;30, 1994 (File No.&nbsp;000-15313), and incorporated herein by reference.</font></div></td>
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    <td><div align="left"><font face="serif" size="1">Previously filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission as an Exhibit to the Registrant&#146;s Current Report on Form&nbsp;8-K, dated October&nbsp;9, 1998 (File No.&nbsp;000-15313), and incorporated herein by reference.</font></div></td>
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Prepared and filed by St Ives Burrups
As filed with the Securities
and Exchange Commission on August 1, 2005
Registration No. 333-_____
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
FORM S-8
REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER
THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
Savient Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Its Charter)
Delaware
13-3033811
(State or Other Jurisdiction of
Incorporation or Organization)
(I.R.S. Employer
Identification No.)
One Tower Center, 14
th
Floor,
East Brunswick, New Jersey
01930
(Address of Principal Executive Offices)
(Zip Code)
Savient Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
1998 Employee Stock Purchase Plan
(Full Title of the Plan)
Philip K. Yachmetz
Senior Vice President – Corporate Strategy, General Counsel & Secretary
One Tower Center, 14
th
Floor
East Brunswick, New Jersey
(Name and Address of Agent For Service)
(732) 418-9300
(Telephone Number, Including Area Code, of Agent For Service)
CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE
Title of Securities to be Registered
Amount to be
Registered(1)
Proposed Maximum
Offering
Price Per Share
Proposed Maximum
Aggregate
Offering Price
Amount of
Registration Fee
Common Stock, $0.01 par value per share (including the associated Preferred Stock Purchase Rights)
1,000,000 shares
$4.40
(2)
$4,440,000.00
(2)
$517.88
(1)
In accordance with Rule 416 under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, this registration statement shall be deemed to cover any additional securities that may from time to time be offered or issued to prevent dilution resulting from stock splits, stock dividends or similar
transactions.
(2)
Estimated solely for the purpose of calculating the registration fee pursuant to Rules 457(c) and 457(h) of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and based upon the average of the high and low prices of the Registrant's Common Stock as reported on the Nasdaq National Market
on July 25, 2005.
STATEMENT OF INCORPORATION BY REFERENCE
This Registration Statement is being filed for the purpose of registering additional securities of the same class as other securities for which a Registration Statement on Form S-8 has previously been filed and is effective. Accordingly, this Registration Statement on
Form S-8 incorporates by reference the contents of the Registration Statement on Form S-8, File No. 333-64541, filed by the Registrant on September 29, 1998 relating to the Registrant's 1998 Employee Stock Purchase Plan, except for Item 8, Exhibits, which is
incorporated herein by reference to the Exhibit List immediately preceding the exhibits attached hereto.
SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the Registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form S-8 and has duly caused this registration statement to be signed on its behalf by the
undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of East Brunswick, State of New Jersey, on this 29th day of July 2005.
SAVIENT PHARMACEUTICALS, INC.
By:
/s/ CHRISTOPHER CLEMENT
Christopher Clement
President and Chief Executive Officer
POWER OF ATTORNEY AND SIGNATURES
We, the undersigned officers and directors of Savient Pharmaceuticals, Inc., hereby severally constitute and appoint Christopher Clement, Lawrence A. Gyenes and Philip K. Yachmetz, and each of them singly, our true and lawful attorneys with full power to them, and
each of them singly, to sign for us and in our names in the capacities indicated below, the registration statement on Form S-8 filed herewith and any and all subsequent amendments to said registration statement, and generally to do all such things in our names and on our
behalf in our capacities as officers and directors to enable Savient Pharmaceuticals, Inc. to comply with the provisions of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and all requirements of the Securities and Exchange Commission, hereby ratifying and confirming our signatures
as they may be signed by our said attorneys, or any of them, to said registration statement and any and all amendments thereto.
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this registration statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates indicated.
Signature
Title
Date
/s/ CHRISTOPHER CLEMENT
Christopher Clement
President, Chief Executive Officer
and Director
(Principal Executive Officer)
July 29, 2005
/s/ LAWRENCE A. GYENES
Lawrence A. Gyenes
Senior Vice President — Chief
Financial Officer and Treasurer
(Principal Financial Officer and
Principal Accounting Officer)
July 29, 2005
/s/ CLIFF BACSIK
Cliff Bacsik
Vice President and Chief Accounting Officer
July 29, 2005
/s/ JEREMY HAYWARD-SURRY
Jeremy Hayward-Surry
Chairman
July 29, 2005
/s/ HERBERT CONRAD
Herbert Conrad
Director
July 29, 2005
2
Signature
Title
Date
/s/ STEPHEN O. JAEGER
Stephen O. Jaeger
Director
July 29, 2005
/s/ CARL E. KAPLAN
Carl E. Kaplan
Director
July 29, 2005
/s/ DAVID TENDLER
David Tendler
Director
July 29, 2005
/s/ VIRGIL THOMPSON
Virgil Thompson
Director
July 29, 2005
Faye Wattleton
Director
/s/ HERBERT WEISSBACH
Herbert Weissbach
Director
July 29, 2005
3
EXHIBIT LIST
Exhibit
Number
Description
3.1(1)
Certificate of Incorporation of the Registrant, as amended
3.2(1)
By-Laws of the Registrant, as amended
4.1(2)
Rights Agreement, dated as of October 7, 1998, by and between American Stock Transfer & Trust Company and the Registrant, which
includes the form of Certificate of Designations setting forth the terms of the Series A Junior Participating Cumulative Preferred Stock, par
value $0.01 per share, as Exhibit A, the form of Right Certificate as Exhibit B and the Summary of Rights to Purchase Preferred Shares as
Exhibit C.
4.2(2)
Certificate of Designations of the Series A Junior Participating Cumulative Preferred Stock.
5.1
Opinion of Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP, counsel to the Registrant
23.1
Consent of Wilmer Cutler
        Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP
(included in Exhibit 5.1)
23.2
Consent of Grant Thornton LLP
24.1
Power of attorney (included on the signature pages of this registration statement)
(1)
Previously filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission as an Exhibit to the Registrant's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended June 30, 1994 (File No. 000-15313), and incorporated herein by reference.
(2)
Previously filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission as an Exhibit to the Registrant's Current Report on Form 8-K, dated October 9, 1998 (File No. 000-15313), and incorporated herein by reference.