8 Powers of Attorney
POWER OF ATTORNEY
The undersigned director of Transamerica Occidental Life Insurance
Company, a California corporation (the "Company"), hereby constitutes and
appoints Aldo Davanzo, James W. Dederer, David M. Goldstein, David E. Gooding,
and William M. Hurst and each of them (with full power to each of them to act
alone), his true and lawful attorney-in-fact and agent, with full power of
substitution to each, for him and on his behalf and in his name, place and
stead, to execute and file any of the documents referred to below relating to
registrations under the Securities Act of 1933 and under the Investment Company
Act of 1940 with respect to any life insurance and annuity policies:
registration statements on any form or forms under the Securities Act of 1933
and under the Investment Company Act of 1940, and any and all amendments and
supplements thereto, with all exhibits and all instruments necessary or
appropriate in connection therewith, each of said attorneys-in-fact and agents
and his or their substitutes being empowered to act with or without the others
or other, and to have full power and authority to do or cause to be done in the
name and on behalf of the undersigned each and every act and thing requisite and
necessary or appropriate with respect thereto to be done in and about the
premises in order to effectuate the same, as fully to all intents and purposes
as the undersigned might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming
all that said attorneys-in-fact and agents, or any of them, may do or cause to
be done by virtue thereof.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has hereunto set his hand, this
20th day of March, 1998.
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Robert Abeles
POWER OF ATTORNEY
The undersigned director of Transamerica Occidental Life Insurance
Company, a California corporation (the "Company"), hereby constitutes and
appoints Aldo Davanzo, James W. Dederer, David M. Goldstein, David E. Gooding,
and William M. Hurst and each of them (with full power to each of them to act
alone), his true and lawful attorney-in-fact and agent, with full power of
substitution to each, for him and on his behalf and in his name, place and
stead, to execute and file any of the documents referred to below relating to
registrations under the Securities Act of 1933 and under the Investment Company
Act of 1940 with respect to any life insurance and annuity policies:
registration statements on any form or forms under the Securities Act of 1933
and under the Investment Company Act of 1940, and any and all amendments and
supplements thereto, with all exhibits and all instruments necessary or
appropriate in connection therewith, each of said attorneys-in-fact and agents
and his or their substitutes being empowered to act with or without the others
or other, and to have full power and authority to do or cause to be done in the
name and on behalf of the undersigned each and every act and thing requisite and
necessary or appropriate with respect thereto to be done in and about the
premises in order to effectuate the same, as fully to all intents and purposes
as the undersigned might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming
all that said attorneys-in-fact and agents, or any of them, may do or cause to
be done by virtue thereof.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has hereunto set his hand, this
20th day of March, 1998.
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Thomas J. Cusack
POWER OF ATTORNEY
The undersigned director of Transamerica Occidental Life Insurance
Company, a California corporation (the "Company"), hereby constitutes and
appoints Aldo Davanzo, James W. Dederer, David M. Goldstein, David E. Gooding,
and William M. Hurst and each of them (with full power to each of them to act
alone), his true and lawful attorney-in-fact and agent, with full power of
substitution to each, for him and on his behalf and in his name, place and
stead, to execute and file any of the documents referred to below relating to
registrations under the Securities Act of 1933 and under the Investment Company
Act of 1940 with respect to any life insurance and annuity policies:
registration statements on any form or forms under the Securities Act of 1933
and under the Investment Company Act of 1940, and any and all amendments and
supplements thereto, with all exhibits and all instruments necessary or
appropriate in connection therewith, each of said attorneys-in-fact and agents
and his or their substitutes being empowered to act with or without the others
or other, and to have full power and authority to do or cause to be done in the
name and on behalf of the undersigned each and every act and thing requisite and
necessary or appropriate with respect thereto to be done in and about the
premises in order to effectuate the same, as fully to all intents and purposes
as the undersigned might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming
all that said attorneys-in-fact and agents, or any of them, may do or cause to
be done by virtue thereof.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has hereunto set his hand, this
20th day of March, 1998.
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James W. Dederer
POWER OF ATTORNEY
The undersigned director of Transamerica Occidental Life Insurance
Company, a California corporation (the "Company"), hereby constitutes and
appoints Aldo Davanzo, James W. Dederer, David M. Goldstein, David E. Gooding,
and William M. Hurst and each of them (with full power to each of them to act
alone), his true and lawful attorney-in-fact and agent, with full power of
substitution to each, for him and on his behalf and in his name, place and
stead, to execute and file any of the documents referred to below relating to
registrations under the Securities Act of 1933 and under the Investment Company
Act of 1940 with respect to any life insurance and annuity policies:
registration statements on any form or forms under the Securities Act of 1933
and under the Investment Company Act of 1940, and any and all amendments and
supplements thereto, with all exhibits and all instruments necessary or
appropriate in connection therewith, each of said attorneys-in-fact and agents
and his or their substitutes being empowered to act with or without the others
or other, and to have full power and authority to do or cause to be done in the
name and on behalf of the undersigned each and every act and thing requisite and
necessary or appropriate with respect thereto to be done in and about the
premises in order to effectuate the same, as fully to all intents and purposes
as the undersigned might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming
all that said attorneys-in-fact and agents, or any of them, may do or cause to
be done by virtue thereof.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has hereunto set his hand, this
20th day of March, 1998.
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Richard H. Finn
POWER OF ATTORNEY
The undersigned director of Transamerica Occidental Life Insurance
Company, a California corporation (the "Company"), hereby constitutes and
appoints Aldo Davanzo, James W. Dederer, David M. Goldstein, David E. Gooding,
and William M. Hurst and each of them (with full power to each of them to act
alone), his true and lawful attorney-in-fact and agent, with full power of
substitution to each, for him and on his behalf and in his name, place and
stead, to execute and file any of the documents referred to below relating to
registrations under the Securities Act of 1933 and under the Investment Company
Act of 1940 with respect to any life insurance and annuity policies:
registration statements on any form or forms under the Securities Act of 1933
and under the Investment Company Act of 1940, and any and all amendments and
supplements thereto, with all exhibits and all instruments necessary or
appropriate in connection therewith, each of said attorneys-in-fact and agents
and his or their substitutes being empowered to act with or without the others
or other, and to have full power and authority to do or cause to be done in the
name and on behalf of the undersigned each and every act and thing requisite and
necessary or appropriate with respect thereto to be done in and about the
premises in order to effectuate the same, as fully to all intents and purposes
as the undersigned might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming
all that said attorneys-in-fact and agents, or any of them, may do or cause to
be done by virtue thereof.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has hereunto set his hand, this
20th day of March, 1998.
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George A. Foegele
POWER OF ATTORNEY
The undersigned director of Transamerica Occidental Life Insurance
Company, a California corporation (the "Company"), hereby constitutes and
appoints Aldo Davanzo, James W. Dederer, David M. Goldstein, David E. Gooding,
and William M. Hurst and each of them (with full power to each of them to act
alone), his true and lawful attorney-in-fact and agent, with full power of
substitution to each, for him and on his behalf and in his name, place and
stead, to execute and file any of the documents referred to below relating to
registrations under the Securities Act of 1933 and under the Investment Company
Act of 1940 with respect to any life insurance and annuity policies:
registration statements on any form or forms under the Securities Act of 1933
and under the Investment Company Act of 1940, and any and all amendments and
supplements thereto, with all exhibits and all instruments necessary or
appropriate in connection therewith, each of said attorneys-in-fact and agents
and his or their substitutes being empowered to act with or without the others
or other, and to have full power and authority to do or cause to be done in the
name and on behalf of the undersigned each and every act and thing requisite and
necessary or appropriate with respect thereto to be done in and about the
premises in order to effectuate the same, as fully to all intents and purposes
as the undersigned might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming
all that said attorneys-in-fact and agents, or any of them, may do or cause to
be done by virtue thereof.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has hereunto set his hand, this
20th day of March, 1998.
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David E. Gooding
POWER OF ATTORNEY
The undersigned director of Transamerica Occidental Life Insurance
Company, a California corporation (the "Company"), hereby constitutes and
appoints Aldo Davanzo, James W. Dederer, David M. Goldstein, David E. Gooding,
and William M. Hurst and each of them (with full power to each of them to act
alone), his true and lawful attorney-in-fact and agent, with full power of
substitution to each, for him and on his behalf and in his name, place and
stead, to execute and file any of the documents referred to below relating to
registrations under the Securities Act of 1933 and under the Investment Company
Act of 1940 with respect to any life insurance and annuity policies:
registration statements on any form or forms under the Securities Act of 1933
and under the Investment Company Act of 1940, and any and all amendments and
supplements thereto, with all exhibits and all instruments necessary or
appropriate in connection therewith, each of said attorneys-in-fact and agents
and his or their substitutes being empowered to act with or without the others
or other, and to have full power and authority to do or cause to be done in the
name and on behalf of the undersigned each and every act and thing requisite and
necessary or appropriate with respect thereto to be done in and about the
premises in order to effectuate the same, as fully to all intents and purposes
as the undersigned might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming
all that said attorneys-in-fact and agents, or any of them, may do or cause to
be done by virtue thereof.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has hereunto set his hand, this
20th day of March, 1998.
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Edgar H. Grubb
POWER OF ATTORNEY
The undersigned director of Transamerica Occidental Life Insurance
Company, a California corporation (the "Company"), hereby constitutes and
appoints Aldo Davanzo, James W. Dederer, David M. Goldstein, David E. Gooding,
and William M. Hurst and each of them (with full power to each of them to act
alone), his true and lawful attorney-in-fact and agent, with full power of
substitution to each, for him and on his behalf and in his name, place and
stead, to execute and file any of the documents referred to below relating to
registrations under the Securities Act of 1933 and under the Investment Company
Act of 1940 with respect to any life insurance and annuity policies:
registration statements on any form or forms under the Securities Act of 1933
and under the Investment Company Act of 1940, and any and all amendments and
supplements thereto, with all exhibits and all instruments necessary or
appropriate in connection therewith, each of said attorneys-in-fact and agents
and his or their substitutes being empowered to act with or without the others
or other, and to have full power and authority to do or cause to be done in the
name and on behalf of the undersigned each and every act and thing requisite and
necessary or appropriate with respect thereto to be done in and about the
premises in order to effectuate the same, as fully to all intents and purposes
as the undersigned might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming
all that said attorneys-in-fact and agents, or any of them, may do or cause to
be done by virtue thereof.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has hereunto set his hand, this
20th day of March, 1998.
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Frank C. Herringer
POWER OF ATTORNEY
The undersigned director of Transamerica Occidental Life Insurance
Company, a California corporation (the "Company"), hereby constitutes and
appoints Aldo Davanzo, James W. Dederer, David M. Goldstein, David E. Gooding,
and William M. Hurst and each of them (with full power to each of them to act
alone), his true and lawful attorney-in-fact and agent, with full power of
substitution to each, for him and on his behalf and in his name, place and
stead, to execute and file any of the documents referred to below relating to
registrations under the Securities Act of 1933 and under the Investment Company
Act of 1940 with respect to any life insurance and annuity policies:
registration statements on any form or forms under the Securities Act of 1933
and under the Investment Company Act of 1940, and any and all amendments and
supplements thereto, with all exhibits and all instruments necessary or
appropriate in connection therewith, each of said attorneys-in-fact and agents
and his or their substitutes being empowered to act with or without the others
or other, and to have full power and authority to do or cause to be done in the
name and on behalf of the undersigned each and every act and thing requisite and
necessary or appropriate with respect thereto to be done in and about the
premises in order to effectuate the same, as fully to all intents and purposes
as the undersigned might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming
all that said attorneys-in-fact and agents, or any of them, may do or cause to
be done by virtue thereof.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has hereunto set his hand, this
20th day of March, 1998.
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Richard N. Latzer
POWER OF ATTORNEY
The undersigned director of Transamerica Occidental Life Insurance
Company, a California corporation (the "Company"), hereby constitutes and
appoints Aldo Davanzo, James W. Dederer, David M. Goldstein, David E. Gooding,
and William M. Hurst and each of them (with full power to each of them to act
alone), her true and lawful attorney-in-fact and agent, with full power of
substitution to each, for her and on her behalf and in her name, place and
stead, to execute and file any of the documents referred to below relating to
registrations under the Securities Act of 1933 and under the Investment Company
Act of 1940 with respect to any life insurance and annuity policies:
registration statements on any form or forms under the Securities Act of 1933
and under the Investment Company Act of 1940, and any and all amendments and
supplements thereto, with all exhibits and all instruments necessary or
appropriate in connection therewith, each of said attorneys-in-fact and agents
and her or their substitutes being empowered to act with or without the others
or other, and to have full power and authority to do or cause to be done in the
name and on behalf of the undersigned each and every act and thing requisite and
necessary or appropriate with respect thereto to be done in and about the
premises in order to effectuate the same, as fully to all intents and purposes
as the undersigned might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming
all that said attorneys-in-fact and agents, or any of them, may do or cause to
be done by virtue thereof.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has hereunto set his hand, this
20th day of March, 1998.
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Karen MacDonald
POWER OF ATTORNEY
The undersigned director of Transamerica Occidental Life Insurance
Company, a California corporation (the "Company"), hereby constitutes and
appoints Aldo Davanzo, James W. Dederer, David M. Goldstein, David E. Gooding,
and William M. Hurst and each of them (with full power to each of them to act
alone), his true and lawful attorney-in-fact and agent, with full power of
substitution to each, for him and on his behalf and in his name, place and
stead, to execute and file any of the documents referred to below relating to
registrations under the Securities Act of 1933 and under the Investment Company
Act of 1940 with respect to any life insurance and annuity policies:
registration statements on any form or forms under the Securities Act of 1933
and under the Investment Company Act of 1940, and any and all amendments and
supplements thereto, with all exhibits and all instruments necessary or
appropriate in connection therewith, each of said attorneys-in-fact and agents
and his or their substitutes being empowered to act with or without the others
or other, and to have full power and authority to do or cause to be done in the
name and on behalf of the undersigned each and every act and thing requisite and
necessary or appropriate with respect thereto to be done in and about the
premises in order to effectuate the same, as fully to all intents and purposes
as the undersigned might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming
all that said attorneys-in-fact and agents, or any of them, may do or cause to
be done by virtue thereof.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has hereunto set his hand, this
20th day of March, 1998.
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Mark McEachen
POWER OF ATTORNEY
The undersigned director of Transamerica Occidental Life Insurance
Company, a California corporation (the "Company"), hereby constitutes and
appoints Aldo Davanzo, James W. Dederer, David M. Goldstein, David E. Gooding,
and William M. Hurst and each of them (with full power to each of them to act
alone), his true and lawful attorney-in-fact and agent, with full power of
substitution to each, for him and on his behalf and in his name, place and
stead, to execute and file any of the documents referred to below relating to
registrations under the Securities Act of 1933 and under the Investment Company
Act of 1940 with respect to any life insurance and annuity policies:
registration statements on any form or forms under the Securities Act of 1933
and under the Investment Company Act of 1940, and any and all amendments and
supplements thereto, with all exhibits and all instruments necessary or
appropriate in connection therewith, each of said attorneys-in-fact and agents
and his or their substitutes being empowered to act with or without the others
or other, and to have full power and authority to do or cause to be done in the
name and on behalf of the undersigned each and every act and thing requisite and
necessary or appropriate with respect thereto to be done in and about the
premises in order to effectuate the same, as fully to all intents and purposes
as the undersigned might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming
all that said attorneys-in-fact and agents, or any of them, may do or cause to
be done by virtue thereof.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has hereunto set his hand, this
20th day of March, 1998.
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Gary U. Rolle'
POWER OF ATTORNEY
The undersigned director of Transamerica Occidental Life Insurance
Company, a California corporation (the "Company"), hereby constitutes and
appoints Aldo Davanzo, James W. Dederer, David M. Goldstein, David E. Gooding,
and William M. Hurst and each of them (with full power to each of them to act
alone), his true and lawful attorney-in-fact and agent, with full power of
substitution to each, for him and on his behalf and in his name, place and
stead, to execute and file any of the documents referred to below relating to
registrations under the Securities Act of 1933 and under the Investment Company
Act of 1940 with respect to any life insurance and annuity policies:
registration statements on any form or forms under the Securities Act of 1933
and under the Investment Company Act of 1940, and any and all amendments and
supplements thereto, with all exhibits and all instruments necessary or
appropriate in connection therewith, each of said attorneys-in-fact and agents
and his or their substitutes being empowered to act with or without the others
or other, and to have full power and authority to do or cause to be done in the
name and on behalf of the undersigned each and every act and thing requisite and
necessary or appropriate with respect thereto to be done in and about the
premises in order to effectuate the same, as fully to all intents and purposes
as the undersigned might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming
all that said attorneys-in-fact and agents, or any of them, may do or cause to
be done by virtue thereof.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has hereunto set his hand, this
20th day of March, 1998.
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Paul E. Rutledge III
POWER OF ATTORNEY
The undersigned director of Transamerica Occidental Life Insurance
Company, a California corporation (the "Company"), hereby constitutes and
appoints Aldo Davanzo, James W. Dederer, David M. Goldstein, David E. Gooding,
and William M. Hurst and each of them (with full power to each of them to act
alone), his true and lawful attorney-in-fact and agent, with full power of
substitution to each, for him and on his behalf and in his name, place and
stead, to execute and file any of the documents referred to below relating to
registrations under the Securities Act of 1933 and under the Investment Company
Act of 1940 with respect to any life insurance and annuity policies:
registration statements on any form or forms under the Securities Act of 1933
and under the Investment Company Act of 1940, and any and all amendments and
supplements thereto, with all exhibits and all instruments necessary or
appropriate in connection therewith, each of said attorneys-in-fact and agents
and his or their substitutes being empowered to act with or without the others
or other, and to have full power and authority to do or cause to be done in the
name and on behalf of the undersigned each and every act and thing requisite and
necessary or appropriate with respect thereto to be done in and about the
premises in order to effectuate the same, as fully to all intents and purposes
as the undersigned might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming
all that said attorneys-in-fact and agents, or any of them, may do or cause to
be done by virtue thereof.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has hereunto set his hand, this
20th day of March, 1998.
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T. Desmond Sugrue
POWER OF ATTORNEY
The undersigned director of Transamerica Occidental Life Insurance
Company, a California corporation (the "Company"), hereby constitutes and
appoints Aldo Davanzo, James W. Dederer, David M. Goldstein, David E. Gooding,
and William M. Hurst and each of them (with full power to each of them to act
alone), his true and lawful attorney-in-fact and agent, with full power of
substitution to each, for him and on his behalf and in his name, place and
stead, to execute and file any of the documents referred to below relating to
registrations under the Securities Act of 1933 and under the Investment Company
Act of 1940 with respect to any life insurance and annuity policies:
registration statements on any form or forms under the Securities Act of 1933
and under the Investment Company Act of 1940, and any and all amendments and
supplements thereto, with all exhibits and all instruments necessary or
appropriate in connection therewith, each of said attorneys-in-fact and agents
and his or their substitutes being empowered to act with or without the others
or other, and to have full power and authority to do or cause to be done in the
name and on behalf of the undersigned each and every act and thing requisite and
necessary or appropriate with respect thereto to be done in and about the
premises in order to effectuate the same, as fully to all intents and purposes
as the undersigned might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming
all that said attorneys-in-fact and agents, or any of them, may do or cause to
be done by virtue thereof.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has hereunto set his hand, this
20th day of March, 1998.
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Bruce A. Turkstra
POWER OF ATTORNEY
The undersigned director of Transamerica Occidental Life Insurance
Company, a California corporation (the "Company"), hereby constitutes and
appoints Aldo Davanzo, James W. Dederer, David M. Goldstein, David E. Gooding,
and William M. Hurst and each of them (with full power to each of them to act
alone), his true and lawful attorney-in-fact and agent, with full power of
substitution to each, for him and on his behalf and in his name, place and
stead, to execute and file any of the documents referred to below relating to
registrations under the Securities Act of 1933 and under the Investment Company
Act of 1940 with respect to any life insurance and annuity policies:
registration statements on any form or forms under the Securities Act of 1933
and under the Investment Company Act of 1940, and any and all amendments and
supplements thereto, with all exhibits and all instruments necessary or
appropriate in connection therewith, each of said attorneys-in-fact and agents
and his or their substitutes being empowered to act with or without the others
or other, and to have full power and authority to do or cause to be done in the
name and on behalf of the undersigned each and every act and thing requisite and
necessary or appropriate with respect thereto to be done in and about the
premises in order to effectuate the same, as fully to all intents and purposes
as the undersigned might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming
all that said attorneys-in-fact and agents, or any of them, may do or cause to
be done by virtue thereof.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has hereunto set his hand, this
20th day of March, 1998.
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Nooruddin Veerjee
POWER OF ATTORNEY
The undersigned director of Transamerica Occidental Life Insurance
Company, a California corporation (the "Company"), hereby constitutes and
appoints Aldo Davanzo, James W. Dederer, David M. Goldstein, David E. Gooding,
and William M. Hurst and each of them (with full power to each of them to act
alone), his true and lawful attorney-in-fact and agent, with full power of
substitution to each, for him and on his behalf and in his name, place and
stead, to execute and file any of the documents referred to below relating to
registrations under the Securities Act of 1933 and under the Investment Company
Act of 1940 with respect to any life insurance and annuity policies:
registration statements on any form or forms under the Securities Act of 1933
and under the Investment Company Act of 1940, and any and all amendments and
supplements thereto, with all exhibits and all instruments necessary or
appropriate in connection therewith, each of said attorneys-in-fact and agents
and his or their substitutes being empowered to act with or without the others
or other, and to have full power and authority to do or cause to be done in the
name and on behalf of the undersigned each and every act and thing requisite and
necessary or appropriate with respect thereto to be done in and about the
premises in order to effectuate the same, as fully to all intents and purposes
as the undersigned might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming
all that said attorneys-in-fact and agents, or any of them, may do or cause to
be done by virtue thereof.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has hereunto set his hand, this
20th day of March, 1998.
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Robert A. Watson