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Armstrong v. Great Lakes Higher Education Corporation, 2002 WL 459077 (D. Minn. Mar. 18, 2002)- The “… Plan provides in relevant part that "[n]othing in this document is intended to ... restrict the Corporation's right to ... interpret the provisions of this Plan." … Although this language is not as unequivocal as some cited above, it is far more discretion-granting than the standard policy terms that trigger de novo review under Eighth Circuit case law. Therefore, this Court holds that the Plan explicitly grants discretion to Great Lakes, and that the Court should therefore review Great Lakes' interpretation under the abuse-of-discretion standard.