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Securities and Exchange Commission on December 10, 2004</font></p>

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<h1 style="margin:6.0pt 0in .0001pt;page-break-after:avoid;punctuation-wrap:simple;text-align:center;text-autospace:none;"><b><font size="5" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:18.0pt;">SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION</font></b></h1>

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SECURITIES ACT OF 1933</font></b></p>

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Wyatt &amp; Company Holdings</font></b><b><font face="Times New Roman" style="font-weight:bold;"><br>
</font></b><font face="Times New Roman">(Exact
Name of Registrant as Specified in its Charter)</font></p>

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  </font></b><font face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;(State or Other Jurisdiction of <font style="position:relative;top:-3.0pt;">Incorporation or
  Organization)</font></font></p>
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  <p align="left" style="line-height:normal;margin:0in 0in .0001pt;punctuation-wrap:simple;text-align:left;text-autospace:none;"><b><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:1.0pt;font-weight:bold;">&nbsp;</font></b></p>
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  <p align="center" style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:normal;margin:0in 0in .0001pt;punctuation-wrap:simple;text-align:center;text-autospace:none;"><b><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-weight:bold;">1717 H Street, N.W.<br>
  Washington, D.C. 20006<br>
  </font></b><font face="Times New Roman" style="position:relative;top:-3.0pt;">(Address of Principal
  Executive Offices Including Zip Code)</font></p>
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  <p align="left" style="line-height:normal;margin:0in 0in .0001pt;punctuation-wrap:simple;text-align:left;text-autospace:none;"><b><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:1.0pt;font-weight:bold;">&nbsp;</font></b></p>
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  <p align="center" style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:normal;margin:0in 0in .0001pt;punctuation-wrap:simple;text-align:center;text-autospace:none;"><b><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-weight:bold;">52-2211537<br>
  </font></b><font face="Times New Roman">(I.R.S.
  Employer<br>
  Identification No.)</font></p>
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Wyatt &amp; Company Holdings Compensation Plan for Outside Directors</font></b></p>

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Title of the Plan)</font></p>

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  <p style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:normal;margin:4.2pt 0in .0001pt;punctuation-wrap:simple;text-align:center;text-autospace:none;"><b><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-weight:bold;">Walter W.&nbsp; Bardenwerper, Esq.<br>
  Hong L.&nbsp; Nguyen, Esq.<br>
  </font></b><b><font face="Times New Roman" style="font-weight:bold;">Watson Wyatt &amp; Company Holdings<br>
  1717 H Street, N.W.<br>
  Washington, D.C.&nbsp; 20006<br>
  (202) 715-7000</font></b></p>
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  <p style="line-height:normal;margin:4.2pt 0in .0001pt;punctuation-wrap:simple;text-align:center;text-autospace:none;"><b><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-weight:bold;">Copies to:<br>
  Ronald O.&nbsp; Mueller, Esq.<br>
  Gibson, Dunn &amp; Crutcher LLP<br>
  1050 Connecticut Avenue, N.W.<br>
  Washington, D.C.&nbsp; 20036<br>
  (202) 955-8500</font></b></p>
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and Address of Agent For Service)</font></p>

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Number, Including Area Code, of Agent For Service)</font></p>

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<h1 style="margin:.1pt .5in 4.2pt;page-break-after:avoid;punctuation-wrap:simple;text-align:center;text-autospace:none;"><b><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE</font></b></h1>

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  <p align="center" style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt 10.0pt;text-align:center;text-indent:-10.0pt;"><b><font size="1" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:8.0pt;font-weight:bold;">Title of Securities<br>
  to be Registered</font></b></p>
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  <p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><b><font size="1" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:1.0pt;font-weight:bold;">&nbsp;</font></b></p>
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  <p align="center" style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-align:center;"><b><font size="1" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:8.0pt;font-weight:bold;">Amount<br>
  to be Registered <font style="position:relative;top:-3.0pt;">(1)</font></font></b></p>
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  <p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><b><font size="1" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:1.0pt;font-weight:bold;">&nbsp;</font></b></p>
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  <p align="center" style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-align:center;"><b><font size="1" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:8.0pt;font-weight:bold;">Proposed Maximum Offering Price<br>
  Per Share</font></b></p>
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  <p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><b><font size="1" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:1.0pt;font-weight:bold;">&nbsp;</font></b></p>
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  <p align="center" style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-align:center;"><b><font size="1" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:8.0pt;font-weight:bold;">Proposed Maximum Aggregate<br>
  Offering Price<font style="position:relative;top:-3.0pt;">(2)</font></font></b></p>
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  <p align="center" style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-align:center;"><b><font size="1" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:8.0pt;font-weight:bold;">Amount of Registration Fee</font></b></p>
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  <p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt 10.0pt;text-indent:-10.0pt;"><b><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-weight:bold;">Class A Common Stock, par value $0.01 per share</font></b></p>
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  <p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><b><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:1.0pt;font-weight:bold;">&nbsp;</font></b></p>
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  <p align="center" style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-align:center;"><b><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-weight:bold;">25,000 shares</font></b></p>
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  <p align="center" style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-align:center;"><b><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-weight:bold;">N/A</font></b></p>
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  <p align="center" style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-align:center;"><b><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-weight:bold;">$669,500</font></b></p>
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  <p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><b><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:1.0pt;font-weight:bold;">&nbsp;</font></b></p>
  </td>
  <td width="17%" valign="bottom" style="border:none;padding:0in .7pt 0in 0in;width:17.16%;">
  <p align="center" style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-align:center;"><b><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-weight:bold;">$84.83</font></b></p>
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  <td width="2%" valign="bottom" style="padding:0in .7pt 0in 0in;width:2.28%;">
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<p align="left" style="line-height:normal;margin:12.0pt 0in .0001pt 22.3pt;punctuation-wrap:simple;text-align:left;text-autospace:none;text-indent:-22.3pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">(1)</font><font size="1" style="font-size:3.0pt;">&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; </font><font size="2" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Consists of 25,000 shares of Class&nbsp;A
Common Stock, par value $0.01 per share, (the &#147;Common Stock&#148;) that may be
issued under the Watson Wyatt &amp; Company Holdings Compensation Plan for Outside
Directors (the &#147;Plan&#148;).&#160; Pursuant to Rule
416(a), this registration statement also registers such number of additional
securities that may be offered or issued pursuant to the terms of the Watson
Wyatt &amp; Company Holdings Compensation Plan for Outside Directors, which
provides for a change in the amount or type of securities being offered or
issued to prevent dilution as a result of stock splits, stock dividends or
similar transactions.</font></p>

<p align="left" style="line-height:normal;margin:3.0pt 0in .0001pt 22.3pt;punctuation-wrap:simple;text-align:left;text-autospace:none;text-indent:-22.3pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">(2) </font><font size="1" style="font-size:3.0pt;">&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; </font><font size="2" style="font-size:10.0pt;">The registration fee has been calculated pursuant to
Rule 457(h)(1) and Rule 457(c) of the Securities Act of 1933 based on the
average of the high and low prices of the common stock of Watson Wyatt &amp;
Company Holdings on the New York Stock Exchange on December 9, 2004, which was
$26.78.</font></p>

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<p align="center" style="line-height:normal;margin:3.0pt 0in .0001pt;punctuation-wrap:simple;text-align:center;text-autospace:none;text-indent:0in;"><b><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-weight:bold;">Explanatory Note</font></b></p>

<p align="left" style="line-height:normal;margin:12.0pt 0in .0001pt;punctuation-wrap:simple;text-align:left;text-autospace:none;text-indent:.5in;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">This
registration statement, together with the registration statement on Form S-8
filed on December 19, 2001, No. 333-75502, registers shares of Class A common
stock, par value $0.01 per share, of Watson Wyatt &amp; Company Holdings (&#147;we,&#148;
&#147;Watson Wyatt&#148; or the &#147;Company&#148;) issuable under the Watson Wyatt &amp; Company
Holdings Compensation Plan for Outside Directors (the &#147;Plan&#148;).</font></p>

<p align="center" style="line-height:normal;margin:.25in 0in .0001pt;punctuation-wrap:simple;text-align:center;text-autospace:none;text-indent:0in;"><b><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-weight:bold;">PART I</font></b></p>

<p align="center" style="line-height:normal;margin:12.0pt 0in .0001pt;punctuation-wrap:simple;text-align:center;text-autospace:none;text-indent:0in;"><b><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-weight:bold;">INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE SECTION 10(a)
PROSPECTUS</font></b></p>

<p align="left" style="line-height:normal;margin:12.0pt 0in .0001pt;punctuation-wrap:simple;text-align:left;text-autospace:none;text-indent:.5in;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">The
documents containing the information required by Part I of Form S-8 will be
sent or given to participants of the Plan as specified by Rule 428 under the
Securities Act.&#160; In accordance with Rule
428 and the requirements of Part I of Form S-8, such documents are not being
filed with the Commission either as part of this registration statement or as
prospectuses or prospectus supplements pursuant to Rule 424 under the
Securities Act.&#160; The Company will
maintain a file of such documents in accordance with the provisions of Rule
428.&#160; Upon request, the Company will
furnish to the Commission or its staff a copy or copies of all documents
included in that file.</font></p>

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REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT</font></b></p>

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<p align="left" style="line-height:normal;margin:12.0pt 0in .0001pt;punctuation-wrap:simple;text-align:left;text-autospace:none;text-indent:.5in;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">The
following documents previously filed with the Commission are hereby incorporated
by reference into this registration statement:</font></p>

<p align="left" style="line-height:normal;margin:12.0pt 0in .0001pt .5in;punctuation-wrap:simple;text-align:left;text-autospace:none;text-indent:0in;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">1.&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; The
description of our shares of class A common stock, par value $0.01 per share,
contained in our Registration Statement on Form S-3, SEC File No. 333-94973, as
amended, under the caption of &#147;Description of Capital Stock, Certificate of
Incorporation and Bylaws&#148;, which in turn is incorporated by reference in our
Form 8-A, filed October 4, 2000 (SEC file number 001-16159) pursuant to Section
12 of the Exchange Act, together with all amendments and reports filed with the
Commission for the purposes of updating that description.</font></p>

<p align="left" style="line-height:normal;margin:12.0pt 0in .0001pt .5in;punctuation-wrap:simple;text-align:left;text-autospace:none;text-indent:0in;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">2.&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; Our
Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2004, filed on
August 17, 2004.</font></p>

<p align="left" style="line-height:normal;margin:12.0pt 0in .0001pt .5in;punctuation-wrap:simple;text-align:left;text-autospace:none;text-indent:0in;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">3.&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; Our
Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the three months ended September 30, 2004,
filed on November 9, 2004.</font></p>

<p align="left" style="line-height:normal;margin:12.0pt 0in .0001pt .5in;punctuation-wrap:simple;text-align:left;text-autospace:none;text-indent:0in;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">4.&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; Our
Current Report on Form 8-K, filed on November 30, 2004.</font></p>

<p align="left" style="line-height:normal;margin:12.0pt 0in .0001pt;punctuation-wrap:simple;text-align:left;text-autospace:none;text-indent:.5in;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">All
reports and other documents that the Company subsequently files with the
Commission pursuant to Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act,
prior to the filing of a post-effective amendment indicating that all
securities offered under this registration statement have been sold or that
deregisters all such securities then remaining unsold, shall be deemed to be
incorporated by reference into this registration statement from the date of
filing of such report or document.&#160; Any
statement contained in this registration statement or any report or document
incorporated into this registration statement by reference, however, shall be
deemed to be modified or superseded for purposes of this registration statement
to the extent that a statement contained in a subsequently dated report or
document that is also considered part of this registration statement, or in any
amendment to this registration statement, is inconsistent with such prior
statement.&#160; The Company&#146;s file number
with the Commission is 001-16159.</font></p>

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of Securities.</font></h2>

<p align="left" style="line-height:normal;margin:12.0pt 0in .0001pt;punctuation-wrap:simple;text-align:left;text-autospace:none;text-indent:.5in;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Inapplicable.</font></p>

<h2 style="margin:12.0pt .5in .0001pt;page-break-after:avoid;punctuation-wrap:simple;text-autospace:none;text-indent:-.5in;"><b><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Item 5.</font></b><font size="1" style="font-size:3.0pt;">&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; </font><font size="2" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Interests
of Named Experts and Counsel.</font></h2>

<p align="left" style="line-height:normal;margin:12.0pt 0in .0001pt;punctuation-wrap:simple;text-align:left;text-autospace:none;text-indent:.5in;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Inapplicable.</font></p>

<h2 style="margin:12.0pt .5in;page-break-after:avoid;punctuation-wrap:simple;text-autospace:none;text-indent:-.5in;"><b><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Item 6.</font></b><font size="1" style="font-size:3.0pt;">&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; </font><font size="2" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Indemnification of Directors and Officers.</font></h2>

<p style="margin:0in 0in 12.0pt;text-indent:.5in;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Subsection (a) of Section 145 of the Delaware General
Corporation Law empowers a corporation to indemnify any person who was or is a
party or is threatened to be made a party to any threatened, pending or
completed action, suit or proceeding, whether civil, criminal, administrative
or investigative (other than an action by or in the right of the corporation)
by reason of the fact that he is or was a director, officer, employee or agent
of the corporation or is or was serving at the request of the corporation as a
director, officer, employee or agent of another corporation, partnership, joint
venture, trust or other enterprise, against expenses (including attorneys&#146;
fees), judgments, fines and amounts paid in settlement actually and reasonably
incurred by him in connection with such action, suit or proceeding if he acted
in good faith and in a manner he reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to
the best interests of the corporation and, with respect to any criminal action
or proceeding, had no cause to believe his conduct was unlawful.</font></p>

<p style="margin:0in 0in 12.0pt;text-indent:.5in;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Subsection (b) of Section 145 of the Delaware General
Corporation Law empowers a corporation to indemnify any person who was or is a
party or is threatened to be made a party to any threatened, pending or
completed action or suit by or in the right of the corporation to procure a
judgment in its favor by reason of the fact that such person acted in any of
the capacities set forth above, against expenses (including attorneys&#146; fees)
actually and reasonably incurred by him in connection with the defense or
settlement of such action or suit if he acted in good faith and in a manner he
reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to the best interests of the
corporation and except that no indemnification may be made in respect to any
claim, issue or matter as to which such person shall have been adjudged to be
liable to the corporation unless and only to the extent that the Court of
Chancery or the court in which such action or suit was brought shall determine
that despite the adjudication of liability such person is fairly and reasonably
entitled to indemnity for such expenses which the court shall deem proper.</font></p>

<p style="margin:0in 0in 12.0pt;text-indent:.5in;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Section 145 of the Delaware General Corporation Law
further provides that to the extent a director, officer, employee or agent of a
corporation has been successful in the defense of any action, suit or
proceeding referred to in subsections (a) and (b) or in the defense of any
claim, issue or matter therein, he shall be indemnified against expenses
(including attorneys&#146; fees) actually and reasonably incurred by him in
connection therewith; that indemnification or advancement of expenses provided
for by Section 145 shall not be deemed exclusive of any other rights to which
the indemnified party may be entitled; and empowers the corporation to purchase
and maintain insurance on behalf of a director, officer, employee or agent of
the corporation against any liability asserted against him or incurred by him
in any such capacity or arising out of his status as such whether or not the
corporation would have the power to indemnify him against such liabilities
under Section 145.</font></p>

<p style="margin:0in 0in 12.0pt;text-indent:.5in;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Our certificate of incorporation provides that no
director shall be personally liable to Watson Wyatt&nbsp;&amp; Company Holdings
or its stockholders for monetary damages for breach of fiduciary duty as a
director, except for liability:</font></p>

<p style="margin:0in 0in 12.0pt .5in;text-indent:-12.0pt;"><font size="2" face="Symbol" style="font-size:10.0pt;">&#183;<font size="1" face="Times New Roman" style="font:7.0pt 'Times New Roman';">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </font></font><font size="2" style="font-size:10.0pt;">for any breach of that director&#146;s duty of loyalty to Watson
Wyatt&nbsp;&amp; Company Holdings or its stockholders;</font></p>

<p style="margin:0in 0in 12.0pt .5in;text-indent:-12.0pt;"><font size="2" face="Symbol" style="font-size:10.0pt;">&#183;<font size="1" face="Times New Roman" style="font:7.0pt 'Times New Roman';">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </font></font><font size="2" style="font-size:10.0pt;">for acts or omissions not in good faith or which involve intentional
misconduct or a knowing violation of law;</font></p>

<p style="margin:0in 0in 12.0pt .5in;text-indent:-12.0pt;"><font size="2" face="Symbol" style="font-size:10.0pt;">&#183;<font size="1" face="Times New Roman" style="font:7.0pt 'Times New Roman';">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </font></font><font size="2" style="font-size:10.0pt;">under Section 174 of the Delaware General Corporation Law; or</font></p>

<p style="margin:0in 0in 12.0pt .5in;text-indent:-12.0pt;"><font size="2" face="Symbol" style="font-size:10.0pt;">&#183;<font size="1" face="Times New Roman" style="font:7.0pt 'Times New Roman';">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </font></font><font size="2" style="font-size:10.0pt;">for any transaction from which the director derived an improper personal
benefit.</font></p>

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<p style="margin:0in 0in 12.0pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; Our
bylaws provide that we must indemnify our directors, officers and employees
against any liability incurred in connection with any proceeding in which they
may be involved as a party or otherwise, by reason of the fact that he or she
is or was a director, officer, employee, or agent of Watson Wyatt
Holdings&nbsp;&amp; Company or is or was serving at the request of Watson Wyatt
Holdings&nbsp;&amp; Company as a director, officer, employee, agent, fiduciary
or trustee of another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust, employee
benefit plan, or other entity or enterprise, to the fullest extent authorized
by the laws of Delaware.</font></p>

<p style="margin:0in 0in 12.0pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; Such
indemnification may include advances of expenses prior to the final disposition
of such proceeding.</font></p>

<h2 style="margin:12.0pt .5in;page-break-after:avoid;punctuation-wrap:simple;text-autospace:none;text-indent:-.5in;"><b><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Item 8.</font></b><font size="1" style="font-size:3.0pt;">&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; </font><font size="2" style="font-size:10.0pt;">&#160; Exhibits.</font></h2>

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  <p align="left" style="line-height:normal;margin:0in 0in .0001pt;page-break-after:avoid;punctuation-wrap:simple;text-align:left;text-autospace:none;"><b><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-weight:bold;">&nbsp;</font></b></p>
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  <p align="left" style="line-height:normal;margin:0in 0in .0001pt;page-break-after:avoid;punctuation-wrap:simple;text-align:left;text-autospace:none;"><b><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-weight:bold;">&nbsp;</font></b></p>
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  <p align="left" style="line-height:normal;margin:0in 0in .0001pt;page-break-after:avoid;punctuation-wrap:simple;text-align:left;text-autospace:none;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:1.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
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  <p align="left" style="line-height:normal;margin:0in 0in .0001pt;page-break-after:avoid;punctuation-wrap:simple;text-align:left;text-autospace:none;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Amended and Restated Certificate of
  Incorporation of the Company (1)</font></p>
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  <p align="left" style="line-height:normal;margin:0in 0in .0001pt;page-break-after:avoid;punctuation-wrap:simple;text-align:left;text-autospace:none;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
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  <p align="left" style="line-height:normal;margin:0in 0in .0001pt;page-break-after:avoid;punctuation-wrap:simple;text-align:left;text-autospace:none;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Watson Wyatt &amp; Company Holdings
  Compensation Plan for Outside Directors</font></p>
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  <p align="left" style="line-height:normal;margin:0in 0in .0001pt;page-break-after:avoid;punctuation-wrap:simple;text-align:left;text-autospace:none;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
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  <td width="1%" valign="bottom" style="border:none;padding:0in .7pt 0in .7pt;width:1.44%;">
  <p align="left" style="line-height:normal;margin:0in 0in .0001pt;page-break-after:avoid;punctuation-wrap:simple;text-align:left;text-autospace:none;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:1.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
  </td>
  <td width="87%" valign="top" style="border:none;padding:0in .7pt 0in .7pt;width:87.38%;">
  <p align="left" style="line-height:normal;margin:0in 0in .0001pt;page-break-after:avoid;punctuation-wrap:simple;text-align:left;text-autospace:none;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Consent of Gibson, Dunn &amp; Crutcher, LLP
  (included in Exhibit 5.1)</font></p>
  </td>
 </tr>
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  <p align="left" style="line-height:normal;margin:0in 0in .0001pt;page-break-after:avoid;punctuation-wrap:simple;text-align:left;text-autospace:none;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
  </td>
  <td width="1%" valign="bottom" style="border:none;padding:0in .7pt 0in .7pt;width:1.44%;">
  <p align="left" style="line-height:normal;margin:0in 0in .0001pt;page-break-after:avoid;punctuation-wrap:simple;text-align:left;text-autospace:none;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
  </td>
  <td width="87%" valign="top" style="border:none;padding:0in .7pt 0in .7pt;width:87.38%;">
  <p align="left" style="line-height:normal;margin:0in 0in .0001pt;page-break-after:avoid;punctuation-wrap:simple;text-align:left;text-autospace:none;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
  </td>
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  <td width="11%" valign="top" style="border:none;padding:0in .7pt 0in .7pt;width:11.18%;">
  <p align="left" style="line-height:normal;margin:0in 0in .0001pt;page-break-after:avoid;punctuation-wrap:simple;text-align:left;text-autospace:none;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">23.2</font></p>
  </td>
  <td width="1%" valign="bottom" style="border:none;padding:0in .7pt 0in .7pt;width:1.44%;">
  <p align="left" style="line-height:normal;margin:0in 0in .0001pt;page-break-after:avoid;punctuation-wrap:simple;text-align:left;text-autospace:none;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:1.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
  </td>
  <td width="87%" valign="top" style="border:none;padding:0in .7pt 0in .7pt;width:87.38%;">
  <p align="left" style="line-height:normal;margin:0in 0in .0001pt;page-break-after:avoid;punctuation-wrap:simple;text-align:left;text-autospace:none;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Consent of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP,
  independent accountants</font></p>
  </td>
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  <p align="left" style="line-height:normal;margin:0in 0in .0001pt;page-break-after:avoid;punctuation-wrap:simple;text-align:left;text-autospace:none;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
  </td>
  <td width="1%" valign="bottom" style="border:none;padding:0in .7pt 0in .7pt;width:1.44%;">
  <p align="left" style="line-height:normal;margin:0in 0in .0001pt;page-break-after:avoid;punctuation-wrap:simple;text-align:left;text-autospace:none;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
  </td>
  <td width="87%" valign="top" style="border:none;padding:0in .7pt 0in .7pt;width:87.38%;">
  <p align="left" style="line-height:normal;margin:0in 0in .0001pt;page-break-after:avoid;punctuation-wrap:simple;text-align:left;text-autospace:none;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
  </td>
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  <td width="11%" valign="top" style="border:none;padding:0in .7pt 0in .7pt;width:11.18%;">
  <p align="left" style="line-height:normal;margin:0in 0in .0001pt;page-break-after:avoid;punctuation-wrap:simple;text-align:left;text-autospace:none;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">24.1</font></p>
  </td>
  <td width="1%" valign="bottom" style="border:none;padding:0in .7pt 0in .7pt;width:1.44%;">
  <p align="left" style="line-height:normal;margin:0in 0in .0001pt;page-break-after:avoid;punctuation-wrap:simple;text-align:left;text-autospace:none;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:1.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
  </td>
  <td width="87%" valign="top" style="border:none;padding:0in .7pt 0in .7pt;width:87.38%;">
  <p align="left" style="line-height:normal;margin:0in 0in .0001pt;page-break-after:avoid;punctuation-wrap:simple;text-align:left;text-autospace:none;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Power of Attorney (included on the signature page
  of this registration statement)</font></p>
  </td>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt .5in;text-indent:-.5in;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">(1)</font><font size="1" style="font-size:3.0pt;">&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; </font><font size="2" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Incorporated by
reference from the Company&#146;s Form S-3/A, Amendment No.&#160; 1 (File No.&#160;
333-94973), filed on March 17, 2000.</font></p>

<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>

<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">(2)&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; Incorporated
by reference from the Company&#146;s Form 10-Q, filed on May 2, 2001.</font></p>

<p style="margin:12.0pt 0in .0001pt;text-indent:.5in;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>

<h2 style="margin:12.0pt .5in .0001pt;page-break-after:avoid;punctuation-wrap:simple;text-autospace:none;text-indent:-.5in;"><b><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Item 9.</font></b><font size="1" style="font-size:3.0pt;">&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; </font><font size="2" style="font-size:10.0pt;">&#160; Undertakings.</font></h2>

<p align="left" style="line-height:normal;margin:12.0pt 0in .0001pt;punctuation-wrap:simple;text-align:left;text-autospace:none;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">(1)&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; The undersigned hereby undertakes:</font></p>

<p style="margin:12.0pt 0in .0001pt 1.0in;text-indent:-.5in;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">(a)</font><font size="1" style="font-size:3.0pt;">&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; </font><font size="2" style="font-size:10.0pt;">To file, during
any period in which offers or sales are being made, a post-effective amendment
to this registration statement:</font></p>

<p style="line-height:normal;margin:12.0pt 0in .0001pt 1.5in;punctuation-wrap:simple;text-autospace:none;text-indent:-.5in;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">(i)</font><font size="1" style="font-size:3.0pt;">&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; </font><font size="2" style="font-size:10.0pt;">To include any prospectus required by
Section 10(a)(3) of the Securities Act;</font></p>

<p style="line-height:normal;margin:12.0pt 0in .0001pt 1.5in;punctuation-wrap:simple;text-autospace:none;text-indent:-.5in;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">(ii)</font><font size="1" style="font-size:3.0pt;">&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; </font><font size="2" style="font-size:10.0pt;">To reflect in the prospectus any facts or
events arising after the effective date of the registration statement (or the
most recent post-effective amendment thereof) which, individually or in the
aggregate, represent a fundamental change in the information set forth in the
registration statement.&#160; Notwithstanding
the foregoing, any increase or decrease in volume of securities offered (if the
total dollar value of securities offered would not exceed that which was
registered) and any deviation from the low or high end of the estimated maximum
offering range may be reflected in the form of prospectus filed with the
Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) if, in the aggregate, the changes in volume
and price represent no more than a 20 percent change in the maximum aggregate
offering </font></p>

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<p style="line-height:normal;margin:12.0pt 0in .0001pt 1.5in;punctuation-wrap:simple;text-autospace:none;text-indent:-.5in;"><font size="1" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:3.0pt;">&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; </font><font size="2" style="font-size:10.0pt;">price set forth in the &#147;Calculation of
Registration Fee&#148; table in the effective registration statement;</font></p>

<p style="line-height:normal;margin:12.0pt 0in .0001pt 1.5in;punctuation-wrap:simple;text-autospace:none;text-indent:-.5in;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">(iii)</font><font size="1" style="font-size:3.0pt;">&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; </font><font size="2" style="font-size:10.0pt;">To include any material information with
respect to the plan of distribution not previously disclosed in the
registration statement or any material change to such information in the
registration statement;</font></p>

<p style="margin:12.0pt 0in 6.0pt .25in;"><i><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-style:italic;">provided,
however, </font></i><font size="2" style="font-size:10.0pt;">that paragraphs (1)(a)(i) and (1)(a)(ii) do not
apply if the information required to be included in a post-effective amendment
by those paragraphs is contained in periodic reports filed by the Company
pursuant to Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act that are
incorporated by reference in this registration statement.</font></p>

<p style="margin:12.0pt 0in .0001pt 1.0in;text-indent:-.5in;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">(b)</font><font size="1" style="font-size:3.0pt;">&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; </font><font size="2" style="font-size:10.0pt;">That, for the
purpose of determining any liability under the Securities Act, each such
post-effective amendment shall be deemed to be a new registration statement
relating to the securities offered therein, and the offering of such securities
at that time shall be deemed to be the initial <i><font style="font-style:italic;">bona fide</font></i>
offering thereof.</font></p>

<p style="margin:12.0pt 0in .0001pt 1.0in;text-indent:-.5in;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">(c)</font><font size="1" style="font-size:3.0pt;">&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; </font><font size="2" style="font-size:10.0pt;">To remove from
registration by means of a post-effective amendment any of the securities being
registered which remain unsold at the termination of the offering.</font></p>

<p align="left" style="line-height:normal;margin:12.0pt 0in .0001pt;punctuation-wrap:simple;text-align:left;text-autospace:none;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">(2)&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; The undersigned hereby undertakes that,
for purposes of determining any liability under the Securities Act, each filing
of the Company&#146;s annual report pursuant to Section&nbsp;13(a) or
Section&nbsp;15(d) of the Exchange Act that is incorporated by reference in the
registration statement shall be deemed to be a new registration statement
relating to the securities offered therein, and the offering of such securities
at that time shall be deemed to be the initial <i><font style="font-style:italic;">bona fide</font></i>
offering thereof.</font></p>

<p align="left" style="line-height:normal;margin:12.0pt 0in .0001pt;punctuation-wrap:simple;text-align:left;text-autospace:none;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">(3)&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; Insofar as indemnification for
liabilities arising under the Securities Act may be permitted to directors,
officers and controlling persons of the Company pursuant to the foregoing
provisions, or otherwise, the Company has been advised that in the opinion of
the Commission such indemnification is against public policy as expressed in
the Securities Act and is, therefore, unenforceable.&#160; In the event that a claim for indemnification
against such liabilities (other than the payment by the Company of expenses
incurred or paid by a director, officer or controlling person of the Company in
the successful defense of any action, suit or proceeding) is asserted by such
director, officer or controlling person in connection with the securities being
registered, the Company will, unless in the opinion of its counsel the matter has
been settled by controlling precedent, submit to a court of appropriate
jurisdiction the question whether such indemnification by it is against public
policy as expressed in the Securities Act and will be governed by the final
adjudication of such issue.</font></p>

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<h1 style="margin:12.0pt .5in .0001pt;page-break-after:avoid;punctuation-wrap:simple;text-align:center;text-autospace:none;"><b><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">SIGNATURES</font></b></h1>

<p align="left" style="line-height:normal;margin:12.0pt 0in .0001pt;punctuation-wrap:simple;text-align:left;text-autospace:none;text-indent:.5in;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Pursuant
to the requirements of the Securities Act, the Company 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 Washington, D.C. on
this 10<sup>th</sup> day of December, 2004.</font></p>

<p align="left" style="line-height:normal;margin:12.0pt 0in .0001pt;punctuation-wrap:simple;text-align:left;text-autospace:none;text-indent:.5in;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>

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  <p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:1.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
  </td>
  <td width="52%" colspan="3" valign="top" style="padding:0in .7pt 0in .7pt;width:52.68%;">
  <p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><b><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-weight:bold;">WATSON WYATT &amp; COMPANY
  HOLDINGS</font></b></p>
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  <p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
  </td>
  <td width="4%" valign="top" style="padding:0in .7pt 0in .7pt;width:4.08%;">
  <p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
  </td>
  <td width="1%" valign="top" style="padding:0in .7pt 0in .7pt;width:1.4%;">
  <p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
  </td>
  <td width="47%" valign="top" style="padding:0in .7pt 0in .7pt;width:47.2%;">
  <p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
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  <p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:1.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
  </td>
  <td width="4%" valign="top" style="padding:0in .7pt 0in .7pt;width:4.08%;">
  <p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">By:</font></p>
  </td>
  <td width="1%" valign="top" style="padding:0in .7pt 0in .7pt;width:1.4%;">
  <p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:1.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
  </td>
  <td width="47%" valign="top" style="border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in .7pt 0in .7pt;width:47.2%;">
  <p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">/s/ JOHN J. HALEY</font></p>
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  <p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:1.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
  </td>
  <td width="4%" valign="top" style="padding:0in .7pt 0in .7pt;width:4.08%;">
  <p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:1.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
  </td>
  <td width="1%" valign="top" style="padding:0in .7pt 0in .7pt;width:1.4%;">
  <p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:1.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
  </td>
  <td width="47%" valign="top" style="border:none;padding:0in .7pt 0in .7pt;width:47.2%;">
  <p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Name: John J. Haley</font></p>
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  </td>
  <td width="4%" valign="top" style="padding:0in .7pt 0in .7pt;width:4.08%;">
  <p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:1.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
  </td>
  <td width="1%" valign="top" style="padding:0in .7pt 0in .7pt;width:1.4%;">
  <p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:1.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
  </td>
  <td width="47%" valign="top" style="padding:0in .7pt 0in .7pt;width:47.2%;">
  <p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Title: Chief Executive Officer</font></p>
  </td>
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<p align="center" style="line-height:normal;margin:12.0pt 0in .0001pt;punctuation-wrap:simple;text-align:center;text-autospace:none;text-indent:0in;"><b><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-weight:bold;">POWER OF ATTORNEY</font></b></p>

<p align="left" style="line-height:normal;margin:12.0pt 0in .0001pt;punctuation-wrap:simple;text-align:left;text-autospace:none;text-indent:.5in;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act, this registration
statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the
date indicated.&#160; Each of the directors
and/or officers of the Company whose signature appears below hereby appoints
each of John J. Haley and Walter W. Bardenwerper as his attorney-in-fact, with
full power of substitution, to sign his name and on his behalf, in any and all
capacities stated below, and to file with the Commission any and all
amendments, including post-effective amendments to this registration statement
as appropriate, and generally to do all such things in their behalf in their
capacities as officers and directors to enable the Company to comply with the
provisions of the Securities Act, and all requirements of the Commission.</font></p>

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  <p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">/s/ JOHN J.
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  <p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Name: JOHN J.
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<h1 style="margin:12.0pt .5in;page-break-after:avoid;punctuation-wrap:simple;text-align:center;text-autospace:none;"><b><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">EXHIBIT INDEX</font></b></h1>

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  <p align="center" style="line-height:normal;margin:0in 0in .0001pt;page-break-after:avoid;punctuation-wrap:simple;text-align:center;text-autospace:none;"><b><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-weight:bold;">Exhibit No.</font></b></p>
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  <p align="left" style="line-height:normal;margin:0in 0in .0001pt;page-break-after:avoid;punctuation-wrap:simple;text-align:left;text-autospace:none;"><b><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:1.0pt;font-weight:bold;">&nbsp;</font></b></p>
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  <td width="68%" valign="bottom" style="border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in .7pt 0in .7pt;width:68.56%;">
  <p align="center" style="line-height:normal;margin:0in 0in .0001pt;page-break-after:avoid;punctuation-wrap:simple;text-align:center;text-autospace:none;"><b><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-weight:bold;">Description</font></b></p>
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  <td width="2%" valign="bottom" style="border:none;padding:0in .7pt 0in .7pt;width:2.62%;">
  <p align="left" style="line-height:normal;margin:0in 0in .0001pt;page-break-after:avoid;punctuation-wrap:simple;text-align:left;text-autospace:none;"><b><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:1.0pt;font-weight:bold;">&nbsp;</font></b></p>
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  <td width="14%" valign="top" style="border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in .7pt 0in .7pt;width:14.48%;">
  <p align="center" style="line-height:normal;margin:0in 0in .0001pt;page-break-after:avoid;punctuation-wrap:simple;text-align:center;text-autospace:none;"><b><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-weight:bold;">Sequentially Numbered Page</font></b></p>
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  <p align="left" style="line-height:normal;margin:0in 0in .0001pt;page-break-after:avoid;punctuation-wrap:simple;text-align:left;text-autospace:none;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
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  <td width="2%" valign="bottom" style="border:none;padding:0in .7pt 0in .7pt;width:2.62%;">
  <p align="left" style="line-height:normal;margin:0in 0in .0001pt;page-break-after:avoid;punctuation-wrap:simple;text-align:left;text-autospace:none;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
  </td>
  <td width="68%" valign="top" style="border:none;padding:0in .7pt 0in .7pt;width:68.56%;">
  <p align="left" style="line-height:normal;margin:0in 0in .0001pt;page-break-after:avoid;punctuation-wrap:simple;text-align:left;text-autospace:none;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
  </td>
  <td width="2%" valign="bottom" style="border:none;padding:0in .7pt 0in .7pt;width:2.62%;">
  <p align="left" style="line-height:normal;margin:0in 0in .0001pt;page-break-after:avoid;punctuation-wrap:simple;text-align:left;text-autospace:none;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
  </td>
  <td width="14%" valign="top" style="border:none;padding:0in .7pt 0in .7pt;width:14.48%;">
  <p align="center" style="line-height:normal;margin:0in 0in .0001pt;page-break-after:avoid;punctuation-wrap:simple;text-align:center;text-autospace:none;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
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  <td width="11%" valign="top" style="border:none;padding:0in .7pt 0in .7pt;width:11.7%;">
  <p align="left" style="line-height:normal;margin:0in 0in .0001pt;page-break-after:avoid;punctuation-wrap:simple;text-align:left;text-autospace:none;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">4.1</font></p>
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  <td width="2%" valign="bottom" style="border:none;padding:0in .7pt 0in .7pt;width:2.62%;">
  <p align="left" style="line-height:normal;margin:0in 0in .0001pt;page-break-after:avoid;punctuation-wrap:simple;text-align:left;text-autospace:none;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:1.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
  </td>
  <td width="68%" valign="top" style="border:none;padding:0in .7pt 0in .7pt;width:68.56%;">
  <p align="left" style="line-height:normal;margin:0in 0in .0001pt;page-break-after:avoid;punctuation-wrap:simple;text-align:left;text-autospace:none;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Amended and Restated Certificate of
  Incorporation of the Company (1)</font></p>
  </td>
  <td width="2%" valign="bottom" style="border:none;padding:0in .7pt 0in .7pt;width:2.62%;">
  <p align="left" style="line-height:normal;margin:0in 0in .0001pt;page-break-after:avoid;punctuation-wrap:simple;text-align:left;text-autospace:none;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:1.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
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  <td width="14%" valign="top" style="border:none;padding:0in .7pt 0in .7pt;width:14.48%;">
  <p align="center" style="line-height:normal;margin:0in 0in .0001pt;page-break-after:avoid;punctuation-wrap:simple;text-align:center;text-autospace:none;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">N/A</font></p>
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  <p align="left" style="line-height:normal;margin:0in 0in .0001pt;page-break-after:avoid;punctuation-wrap:simple;text-align:left;text-autospace:none;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
  </td>
  <td width="2%" valign="bottom" style="border:none;padding:0in .7pt 0in .7pt;width:2.62%;">
  <p align="left" style="line-height:normal;margin:0in 0in .0001pt;page-break-after:avoid;punctuation-wrap:simple;text-align:left;text-autospace:none;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
  </td>
  <td width="68%" valign="top" style="border:none;padding:0in .7pt 0in .7pt;width:68.56%;">
  <p align="left" style="line-height:normal;margin:0in 0in .0001pt;page-break-after:avoid;punctuation-wrap:simple;text-align:left;text-autospace:none;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
  </td>
  <td width="2%" valign="bottom" style="border:none;padding:0in .7pt 0in .7pt;width:2.62%;">
  <p align="left" style="line-height:normal;margin:0in 0in .0001pt;page-break-after:avoid;punctuation-wrap:simple;text-align:left;text-autospace:none;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
  </td>
  <td width="14%" valign="top" style="border:none;padding:0in .7pt 0in .7pt;width:14.48%;">
  <p align="center" style="line-height:normal;margin:0in 0in .0001pt;page-break-after:avoid;punctuation-wrap:simple;text-align:center;text-autospace:none;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
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  <td width="11%" valign="top" style="border:none;padding:0in .7pt 0in .7pt;width:11.7%;">
  <p align="left" style="line-height:normal;margin:0in 0in .0001pt;page-break-after:avoid;punctuation-wrap:simple;text-align:left;text-autospace:none;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">4.2</font></p>
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  <td width="2%" valign="bottom" style="border:none;padding:0in .7pt 0in .7pt;width:2.62%;">
  <p align="left" style="line-height:normal;margin:0in 0in .0001pt;page-break-after:avoid;punctuation-wrap:simple;text-align:left;text-autospace:none;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:1.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
  </td>
  <td width="68%" valign="top" style="border:none;padding:0in .7pt 0in .7pt;width:68.56%;">
  <p align="left" style="line-height:normal;margin:0in 0in .0001pt;page-break-after:avoid;punctuation-wrap:simple;text-align:left;text-autospace:none;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Amended and Restated Bylaws of the Company (2)</font></p>
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  <td width="2%" valign="bottom" style="border:none;padding:0in .7pt 0in .7pt;width:2.62%;">
  <p align="left" style="line-height:normal;margin:0in 0in .0001pt;page-break-after:avoid;punctuation-wrap:simple;text-align:left;text-autospace:none;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:1.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
  </td>
  <td width="14%" valign="top" style="border:none;padding:0in .7pt 0in .7pt;width:14.48%;">
  <p align="center" style="line-height:normal;margin:0in 0in .0001pt;page-break-after:avoid;punctuation-wrap:simple;text-align:center;text-autospace:none;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">N/A</font></p>
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  <p align="left" style="line-height:normal;margin:0in 0in .0001pt;page-break-after:avoid;punctuation-wrap:simple;text-align:left;text-autospace:none;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
  </td>
  <td width="2%" valign="bottom" style="border:none;padding:0in .7pt 0in .7pt;width:2.62%;">
  <p align="left" style="line-height:normal;margin:0in 0in .0001pt;page-break-after:avoid;punctuation-wrap:simple;text-align:left;text-autospace:none;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
  </td>
  <td width="68%" valign="top" style="border:none;padding:0in .7pt 0in .7pt;width:68.56%;">
  <p align="left" style="line-height:normal;margin:0in 0in .0001pt;page-break-after:avoid;punctuation-wrap:simple;text-align:left;text-autospace:none;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
  </td>
  <td width="2%" valign="bottom" style="border:none;padding:0in .7pt 0in .7pt;width:2.62%;">
  <p align="left" style="line-height:normal;margin:0in 0in .0001pt;page-break-after:avoid;punctuation-wrap:simple;text-align:left;text-autospace:none;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
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  <td width="14%" valign="top" style="border:none;padding:0in .7pt 0in .7pt;width:14.48%;">
  <p align="center" style="line-height:normal;margin:0in 0in .0001pt;page-break-after:avoid;punctuation-wrap:simple;text-align:center;text-autospace:none;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
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  <p align="left" style="line-height:normal;margin:0in 0in .0001pt;page-break-after:avoid;punctuation-wrap:simple;text-align:left;text-autospace:none;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">5.1</font></p>
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  <p align="left" style="line-height:normal;margin:0in 0in .0001pt;page-break-after:avoid;punctuation-wrap:simple;text-align:left;text-autospace:none;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:1.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
  </td>
  <td width="68%" valign="top" style="border:none;padding:0in .7pt 0in .7pt;width:68.56%;">
  <p align="left" style="line-height:normal;margin:0in 0in .0001pt;page-break-after:avoid;punctuation-wrap:simple;text-align:left;text-autospace:none;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Opinion of Gibson, Dunn &amp; Crutcher, LLP</font></p>
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  <td width="2%" valign="bottom" style="border:none;padding:0in .7pt 0in .7pt;width:2.62%;">
  <p align="left" style="line-height:normal;margin:0in 0in .0001pt;page-break-after:avoid;punctuation-wrap:simple;text-align:left;text-autospace:none;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:1.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
  </td>
  <td width="14%" valign="top" style="border:none;padding:0in .7pt 0in .7pt;width:14.48%;">
  <p align="center" style="line-height:normal;margin:0in 0in .0001pt;page-break-after:avoid;punctuation-wrap:simple;text-align:center;text-autospace:none;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">9</font></p>
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  <p align="left" style="line-height:normal;margin:0in 0in .0001pt;page-break-after:avoid;punctuation-wrap:simple;text-align:left;text-autospace:none;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
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  <td width="2%" valign="bottom" style="border:none;padding:0in .7pt 0in .7pt;width:2.62%;">
  <p align="left" style="line-height:normal;margin:0in 0in .0001pt;page-break-after:avoid;punctuation-wrap:simple;text-align:left;text-autospace:none;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
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  <td width="68%" valign="top" style="border:none;padding:0in .7pt 0in .7pt;width:68.56%;">
  <p align="left" style="line-height:normal;margin:0in 0in .0001pt;page-break-after:avoid;punctuation-wrap:simple;text-align:left;text-autospace:none;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
  </td>
  <td width="2%" valign="bottom" style="border:none;padding:0in .7pt 0in .7pt;width:2.62%;">
  <p align="left" style="line-height:normal;margin:0in 0in .0001pt;page-break-after:avoid;punctuation-wrap:simple;text-align:left;text-autospace:none;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
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  <td width="14%" valign="top" style="border:none;padding:0in .7pt 0in .7pt;width:14.48%;">
  <p align="center" style="line-height:normal;margin:0in 0in .0001pt;page-break-after:avoid;punctuation-wrap:simple;text-align:center;text-autospace:none;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
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  <p align="left" style="line-height:normal;margin:0in 0in .0001pt;page-break-after:avoid;punctuation-wrap:simple;text-align:left;text-autospace:none;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">10.1</font></p>
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  <td width="2%" valign="bottom" style="border:none;padding:0in .7pt 0in .7pt;width:2.62%;">
  <p align="left" style="line-height:normal;margin:0in 0in .0001pt;page-break-after:avoid;punctuation-wrap:simple;text-align:left;text-autospace:none;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:1.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
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  <td width="68%" valign="top" style="border:none;padding:0in .7pt 0in .7pt;width:68.56%;">
  <p align="left" style="line-height:normal;margin:0in 0in .0001pt;page-break-after:avoid;punctuation-wrap:simple;text-align:left;text-autospace:none;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Watson Wyatt &amp; Company Holdings
  Compensation Plan for Outside Directors</font></p>
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  <td width="2%" valign="bottom" style="border:none;padding:0in .7pt 0in .7pt;width:2.62%;">
  <p align="left" style="line-height:normal;margin:0in 0in .0001pt;page-break-after:avoid;punctuation-wrap:simple;text-align:left;text-autospace:none;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:1.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
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  <td width="14%" valign="top" style="border:none;padding:0in .7pt 0in .7pt;width:14.48%;">
  <p align="center" style="line-height:normal;margin:0in 0in .0001pt;page-break-after:avoid;punctuation-wrap:simple;text-align:center;text-autospace:none;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">10</font></p>
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  <p align="left" style="line-height:normal;margin:0in 0in .0001pt;page-break-after:avoid;punctuation-wrap:simple;text-align:left;text-autospace:none;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
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  <td width="2%" valign="bottom" style="border:none;padding:0in .7pt 0in .7pt;width:2.62%;">
  <p align="left" style="line-height:normal;margin:0in 0in .0001pt;page-break-after:avoid;punctuation-wrap:simple;text-align:left;text-autospace:none;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
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  <td width="68%" valign="top" style="border:none;padding:0in .7pt 0in .7pt;width:68.56%;">
  <p align="left" style="line-height:normal;margin:0in 0in .0001pt;page-break-after:avoid;punctuation-wrap:simple;text-align:left;text-autospace:none;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
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  <td width="2%" valign="bottom" style="border:none;padding:0in .7pt 0in .7pt;width:2.62%;">
  <p align="left" style="line-height:normal;margin:0in 0in .0001pt;page-break-after:avoid;punctuation-wrap:simple;text-align:left;text-autospace:none;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
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  <td width="14%" valign="top" style="border:none;padding:0in .7pt 0in .7pt;width:14.48%;">
  <p align="center" style="line-height:normal;margin:0in 0in .0001pt;page-break-after:avoid;punctuation-wrap:simple;text-align:center;text-autospace:none;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
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  <p align="left" style="line-height:normal;margin:0in 0in .0001pt;page-break-after:avoid;punctuation-wrap:simple;text-align:left;text-autospace:none;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">23.1</font></p>
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  <p align="left" style="line-height:normal;margin:0in 0in .0001pt;page-break-after:avoid;punctuation-wrap:simple;text-align:left;text-autospace:none;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:1.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
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  <p align="left" style="line-height:normal;margin:0in 0in .0001pt;page-break-after:avoid;punctuation-wrap:simple;text-align:left;text-autospace:none;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Consent of Gibson, Dunn &amp; Crutcher, LLP
  (included in Exhibit 5.1)</font></p>
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  <td width="2%" valign="bottom" style="border:none;padding:0in .7pt 0in .7pt;width:2.62%;">
  <p align="left" style="line-height:normal;margin:0in 0in .0001pt;page-break-after:avoid;punctuation-wrap:simple;text-align:left;text-autospace:none;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:1.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
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  <td width="14%" valign="top" style="border:none;padding:0in .7pt 0in .7pt;width:14.48%;">
  <p align="center" style="line-height:normal;margin:0in 0in .0001pt;page-break-after:avoid;punctuation-wrap:simple;text-align:center;text-autospace:none;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">N/A</font></p>
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  <td width="2%" valign="bottom" style="border:none;padding:0in .7pt 0in .7pt;width:2.62%;">
  <p align="left" style="line-height:normal;margin:0in 0in .0001pt;page-break-after:avoid;punctuation-wrap:simple;text-align:left;text-autospace:none;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
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  <p align="left" style="line-height:normal;margin:0in 0in .0001pt;page-break-after:avoid;punctuation-wrap:simple;text-align:left;text-autospace:none;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
  </td>
  <td width="2%" valign="bottom" style="border:none;padding:0in .7pt 0in .7pt;width:2.62%;">
  <p align="left" style="line-height:normal;margin:0in 0in .0001pt;page-break-after:avoid;punctuation-wrap:simple;text-align:left;text-autospace:none;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
  </td>
  <td width="14%" valign="top" style="border:none;padding:0in .7pt 0in .7pt;width:14.48%;">
  <p align="center" style="line-height:normal;margin:0in 0in .0001pt;page-break-after:avoid;punctuation-wrap:simple;text-align:center;text-autospace:none;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
  </td>
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  <td width="11%" valign="top" style="border:none;padding:0in .7pt 0in .7pt;width:11.7%;">
  <p align="left" style="line-height:normal;margin:0in 0in .0001pt;page-break-after:avoid;punctuation-wrap:simple;text-align:left;text-autospace:none;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">23.2</font></p>
  </td>
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  <p align="left" style="line-height:normal;margin:0in 0in .0001pt;page-break-after:avoid;punctuation-wrap:simple;text-align:left;text-autospace:none;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:1.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
  </td>
  <td width="68%" valign="top" style="border:none;padding:0in .7pt 0in .7pt;width:68.56%;">
  <p align="left" style="line-height:normal;margin:0in 0in .0001pt;page-break-after:avoid;punctuation-wrap:simple;text-align:left;text-autospace:none;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Consent of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP,
  independent accountants</font></p>
  </td>
  <td width="2%" valign="bottom" style="border:none;padding:0in .7pt 0in .7pt;width:2.62%;">
  <p align="left" style="line-height:normal;margin:0in 0in .0001pt;page-break-after:avoid;punctuation-wrap:simple;text-align:left;text-autospace:none;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:1.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
  </td>
  <td width="14%" valign="top" style="border:none;padding:0in .7pt 0in .7pt;width:14.48%;">
  <p align="center" style="line-height:normal;margin:0in 0in .0001pt;page-break-after:avoid;punctuation-wrap:simple;text-align:center;text-autospace:none;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">11</font></p>
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  </td>
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  <p align="left" style="line-height:normal;margin:0in 0in .0001pt;page-break-after:avoid;punctuation-wrap:simple;text-align:left;text-autospace:none;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
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  <p align="left" style="line-height:normal;margin:0in 0in .0001pt;page-break-after:avoid;punctuation-wrap:simple;text-align:left;text-autospace:none;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
  </td>
  <td width="2%" valign="bottom" style="border:none;padding:0in .7pt 0in .7pt;width:2.62%;">
  <p align="left" style="line-height:normal;margin:0in 0in .0001pt;page-break-after:avoid;punctuation-wrap:simple;text-align:left;text-autospace:none;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
  </td>
  <td width="14%" valign="top" style="border:none;padding:0in .7pt 0in .7pt;width:14.48%;">
  <p align="center" style="line-height:normal;margin:0in 0in .0001pt;page-break-after:avoid;punctuation-wrap:simple;text-align:center;text-autospace:none;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
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  <p align="left" style="line-height:normal;margin:0in 0in .0001pt;page-break-after:avoid;punctuation-wrap:simple;text-align:left;text-autospace:none;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">24.1</font></p>
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  <p align="left" style="line-height:normal;margin:0in 0in .0001pt;page-break-after:avoid;punctuation-wrap:simple;text-align:left;text-autospace:none;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Power of Attorney (included on the signature
  page of this registration statement)</font></p>
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  <p align="left" style="line-height:normal;margin:0in 0in .0001pt;page-break-after:avoid;punctuation-wrap:simple;text-align:left;text-autospace:none;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:1.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
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by reference from the Company&#146;s Form S-3/A, Amendment No.&#160; 1 (File No.&#160;
333-94973), filed on March 17, 2000.</font></p>

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As filed with the
Securities and Exchange Commission on December 10, 2004
Registration No.  333-
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C.  20549
FORM S-8
REGISTRATION STATEMENT
UNDER
THE
SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
Watson
Wyatt & Company Holdings
(Exact
Name of Registrant as Specified in its Charter)
Delaware
(State or Other Jurisdiction of
Incorporation or
  Organization)
1717 H Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20006
(Address of Principal
  Executive Offices Including Zip Code)
52-2211537
(I.R.S.
  Employer
Identification No.)
Watson
Wyatt & Company Holdings Compensation Plan for Outside Directors
(Full
Title of the Plan)
Walter W.  Bardenwerper, Esq.
Hong L.  Nguyen, Esq.
Watson Wyatt & Company Holdings
1717 H Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C.  20006
(202) 715-7000
Copies to:
Ronald O.  Mueller, Esq.
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP
1050 Connecticut Avenue, N.W.
Washington, D.C.  20036
(202) 955-8500
(Name
and Address of Agent For Service)
(202) 715-7000
(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
(2)
Amount of Registration Fee
Class A Common Stock, par value $0.01 per share
25,000 shares
N/A
$669,500
$84.83
(1)
Consists of 25,000 shares of Class A
Common Stock, par value $0.01 per share, (the "Common Stock") that may be
issued under the Watson Wyatt & Company Holdings Compensation Plan for Outside
Directors (the "Plan").  Pursuant to Rule
416(a), this registration statement also registers such number of additional
securities that may be offered or issued pursuant to the terms of the Watson
Wyatt & Company Holdings Compensation Plan for Outside Directors, which
provides for a change in the amount or type of securities being offered or
issued to prevent dilution as a result of stock splits, stock dividends or
similar transactions.
(2)
The registration fee has been calculated pursuant to
Rule 457(h)(1) and Rule 457(c) of the Securities Act of 1933 based on the
average of the high and low prices of the common stock of Watson Wyatt &
Company Holdings on the New York Stock Exchange on December 9, 2004, which was
$26.78.
Explanatory Note
This
registration statement, together with the registration statement on Form S-8
filed on December 19, 2001, No. 333-75502, registers shares of Class A common
stock, par value $0.01 per share, of Watson Wyatt & Company Holdings ("we,"
"Watson Wyatt" or the "Company") issuable under the Watson Wyatt & Company
Holdings Compensation Plan for Outside Directors (the "Plan").
PART I
INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE SECTION 10(a)
PROSPECTUS
The
documents containing the information required by Part I of Form S-8 will be
sent or given to participants of the Plan as specified by Rule 428 under the
Securities Act.  In accordance with Rule
428 and the requirements of Part I of Form S-8, such documents are not being
filed with the Commission either as part of this registration statement or as
prospectuses or prospectus supplements pursuant to Rule 424 under the
Securities Act.  The Company will
maintain a file of such documents in accordance with the provisions of Rule
428.  Upon request, the Company will
furnish to the Commission or its staff a copy or copies of all documents
included in that file.
PART II
INFORMATION
REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT
Item 3.
Incorporation of Documents by Reference.
The
following documents previously filed with the Commission are hereby incorporated
by reference into this registration statement:
1.             The
description of our shares of class A common stock, par value $0.01 per share,
contained in our Registration Statement on Form S-3, SEC File No. 333-94973, as
amended, under the caption of "Description of Capital Stock, Certificate of
Incorporation and Bylaws", which in turn is incorporated by reference in our
Form 8-A, filed October 4, 2000 (SEC file number 001-16159) pursuant to Section
12 of the Exchange Act, together with all amendments and reports filed with the
Commission for the purposes of updating that description.
2.             Our
Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2004, filed on
August 17, 2004.
3.             Our
Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the three months ended September 30, 2004,
filed on November 9, 2004.
4.             Our
Current Report on Form 8-K, filed on November 30, 2004.
All
reports and other documents that the Company subsequently files with the
Commission pursuant to Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act,
prior to the filing of a post-effective amendment indicating that all
securities offered under this registration statement have been sold or that
deregisters all such securities then remaining unsold, shall be deemed to be
incorporated by reference into this registration statement from the date of
filing of such report or document.  Any
statement contained in this registration statement or any report or document
incorporated into this registration statement by reference, however, shall be
deemed to be modified or superseded for purposes of this registration statement
to the extent that a statement contained in a subsequently dated report or
document that is also considered part of this registration statement, or in any
amendment to this registration statement, is inconsistent with such prior
statement.  The Company's file number
with the Commission is 001-16159.
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Item 4.
Description
of Securities.
Inapplicable.
Item 5.
Interests
of Named Experts and Counsel.
Inapplicable.
Item 6.
Indemnification of Directors and Officers.
Subsection (a) of Section 145 of the Delaware General
Corporation Law empowers a corporation to indemnify any person who was or is a
party or is threatened to be made a party to any threatened, pending or
completed action, suit or proceeding, whether civil, criminal, administrative
or investigative (other than an action by or in the right of the corporation)
by reason of the fact that he is or was a director, officer, employee or agent
of the corporation or is or was serving at the request of the corporation as a
director, officer, employee or agent of another corporation, partnership, joint
venture, trust or other enterprise, against expenses (including attorneys'
fees), judgments, fines and amounts paid in settlement actually and reasonably
incurred by him in connection with such action, suit or proceeding if he acted
in good faith and in a manner he reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to
the best interests of the corporation and, with respect to any criminal action
or proceeding, had no cause to believe his conduct was unlawful.
Subsection (b) of Section 145 of the Delaware General
Corporation Law empowers a corporation to indemnify any person who was or is a
party or is threatened to be made a party to any threatened, pending or
completed action or suit by or in the right of the corporation to procure a
judgment in its favor by reason of the fact that such person acted in any of
the capacities set forth above, against expenses (including attorneys' fees)
actually and reasonably incurred by him in connection with the defense or
settlement of such action or suit if he acted in good faith and in a manner he
reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to the best interests of the
corporation and except that no indemnification may be made in respect to any
claim, issue or matter as to which such person shall have been adjudged to be
liable to the corporation unless and only to the extent that the Court of
Chancery or the court in which such action or suit was brought shall determine
that despite the adjudication of liability such person is fairly and reasonably
entitled to indemnity for such expenses which the court shall deem proper.
Section 145 of the Delaware General Corporation Law
further provides that to the extent a director, officer, employee or agent of a
corporation has been successful in the defense of any action, suit or
proceeding referred to in subsections (a) and (b) or in the defense of any
claim, issue or matter therein, he shall be indemnified against expenses
(including attorneys' fees) actually and reasonably incurred by him in
connection therewith; that indemnification or advancement of expenses provided
for by Section 145 shall not be deemed exclusive of any other rights to which
the indemnified party may be entitled; and empowers the corporation to purchase
and maintain insurance on behalf of a director, officer, employee or agent of
the corporation against any liability asserted against him or incurred by him
in any such capacity or arising out of his status as such whether or not the
corporation would have the power to indemnify him against such liabilities
under Section 145.
Our certificate of incorporation provides that no
director shall be personally liable to Watson Wyatt & Company Holdings
or its stockholders for monetary damages for breach of fiduciary duty as a
director, except for liability:
·
for any breach of that director's duty of loyalty to Watson
Wyatt & Company Holdings or its stockholders;
·
for acts or omissions not in good faith or which involve intentional
misconduct or a knowing violation of law;
·
under Section 174 of the Delaware General Corporation Law; or
·
for any transaction from which the director derived an improper personal
benefit.
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Our
bylaws provide that we must indemnify our directors, officers and employees
against any liability incurred in connection with any proceeding in which they
may be involved as a party or otherwise, by reason of the fact that he or she
is or was a director, officer, employee, or agent of Watson Wyatt
Holdings & Company or is or was serving at the request of Watson Wyatt
Holdings & Company as a director, officer, employee, agent, fiduciary
or trustee of another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust, employee
benefit plan, or other entity or enterprise, to the fullest extent authorized
by the laws of Delaware.
Such
indemnification may include advances of expenses prior to the final disposition
of such proceeding.
Item 8.
Exhibits.
Exhibit No.
Description
4.1
Amended and Restated Certificate of
  Incorporation of the Company (1)
4.2
Amended and Restated Bylaws of the Company (2)
5.1
Opinion of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, LLP
10.1
Watson Wyatt & Company Holdings
  Compensation Plan for Outside Directors
23.1
Consent of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, LLP
  (included in Exhibit 5.1)
23.2
Consent of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP,
  independent accountants
24.1
Power of Attorney (included on the signature page
  of this registration statement)
(1)
Incorporated by
reference from the Company's Form S-3/A, Amendment No.  1 (File No. 
333-94973), filed on March 17, 2000.
(2)           Incorporated
by reference from the Company's Form 10-Q, filed on May 2, 2001.
Item 9.
Undertakings.
(1)           The undersigned hereby undertakes:
(a)
To file, during
any period in which offers or sales are being made, a post-effective amendment
to this registration statement:
(i)
To include any prospectus required by
Section 10(a)(3) of the Securities Act;
(ii)
To reflect in the prospectus any facts or
events arising after the effective date of the registration statement (or the
most recent post-effective amendment thereof) which, individually or in the
aggregate, represent a fundamental change in the information set forth in the
registration statement.  Notwithstanding
the foregoing, any increase or decrease in volume of securities offered (if the
total dollar value of securities offered would not exceed that which was
registered) and any deviation from the low or high end of the estimated maximum
offering range may be reflected in the form of prospectus filed with the
Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) if, in the aggregate, the changes in volume
and price represent no more than a 20 percent change in the maximum aggregate
offering
4
price set forth in the "Calculation of
Registration Fee" table in the effective registration statement;
(iii)
To include any material information with
respect to the plan of distribution not previously disclosed in the
registration statement or any material change to such information in the
registration statement;
provided,
however,
that paragraphs (1)(a)(i) and (1)(a)(ii) do not
apply if the information required to be included in a post-effective amendment
by those paragraphs is contained in periodic reports filed by the Company
pursuant to Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act that are
incorporated by reference in this registration statement.
(b)
That, for the
purpose of determining any liability under the Securities Act, each such
post-effective amendment shall be deemed to be a new registration statement
relating to the securities offered therein, and the offering of such securities
at that time shall be deemed to be the initial
bona fide
offering thereof.
(c)
To remove from
registration by means of a post-effective amendment any of the securities being
registered which remain unsold at the termination of the offering.
(2)           The undersigned hereby undertakes that,
for purposes of determining any liability under the Securities Act, each filing
of the Company's annual report pursuant to Section 13(a) or
Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act that is incorporated by reference in the
registration statement shall be deemed to be a new registration statement
relating to the securities offered therein, and the offering of such securities
at that time shall be deemed to be the initial
bona fide
offering thereof.
(3)           Insofar as indemnification for
liabilities arising under the Securities Act may be permitted to directors,
officers and controlling persons of the Company pursuant to the foregoing
provisions, or otherwise, the Company has been advised that in the opinion of
the Commission such indemnification is against public policy as expressed in
the Securities Act and is, therefore, unenforceable.  In the event that a claim for indemnification
against such liabilities (other than the payment by the Company of expenses
incurred or paid by a director, officer or controlling person of the Company in
the successful defense of any action, suit or proceeding) is asserted by such
director, officer or controlling person in connection with the securities being
registered, the Company will, unless in the opinion of its counsel the matter has
been settled by controlling precedent, submit to a court of appropriate
jurisdiction the question whether such indemnification by it is against public
policy as expressed in the Securities Act and will be governed by the final
adjudication of such issue.
5
SIGNATURES
Pursuant
to the requirements of the Securities Act, the Company 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 Washington, D.C. on
this 10
th
day of December, 2004.
WATSON WYATT & COMPANY
  HOLDINGS
By:
/s/ JOHN J. HALEY
Name: John J. Haley
Title: Chief Executive Officer
POWER OF ATTORNEY
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act, this registration
statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the
date indicated.  Each of the directors
and/or officers of the Company whose signature appears below hereby appoints
each of John J. Haley and Walter W. Bardenwerper as his attorney-in-fact, with
full power of substitution, to sign his name and on his behalf, in any and all
capacities stated below, and to file with the Commission any and all
amendments, including post-effective amendments to this registration statement
as appropriate, and generally to do all such things in their behalf in their
capacities as officers and directors to enable the Company to comply with the
provisions of the Securities Act, and all requirements of the Commission.
Signature
Title
Date
/s/ JOHN J.
  HALEY
President, Chief Executive Officer and
12/10/04
Name: JOHN J.
  HALEY
Director
/s/ CARL D.
  MAUTZ
Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
12/10/04
Name: CARL D.
  MAUTZ
/s/ JOHN J.
  GABARRO
Director
12/10/04
Name: JOHN J.
  GABARRO
Director
NAME: R. MICHAEL MCCULLOUGH
/S/ LINDA D. RABBITT
Director
12/10/04
NAME: LINDA D. RABBITT
/S/ GILBERT T. RAY
Director
12/10/04
NAME: GILBERT T. RAY
/S/ JOHN B. SHOVEN
Director
12/10/04
NAME: JOHN B. SHOVEN
/S/ PAUL N. THORNTON
Director
12/10/04
NAME: PAUL N. THORNTON
/S/
  GENE H. WICKES
Director
12/10/04
NAME: GENE
  H. WICKES
/S/ JOHN C. WRIGHT
Director
12/10/04
NAME: JOHN C. WRIGHT
By:
WALTER W. BARDENWERPER
A
ttorney-in-fact
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EXHIBIT INDEX
Exhibit No.
Description
Sequentially Numbered Page
4.1
Amended and Restated Certificate of
  Incorporation of the Company (1)
N/A
4.2
Amended and Restated Bylaws of the Company (2)
N/A
5.1
Opinion of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, LLP
9
10.1
Watson Wyatt & Company Holdings
  Compensation Plan for Outside Directors
10
23.1
Consent of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, LLP
  (included in Exhibit 5.1)
N/A
23.2
Consent of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP,
  independent accountants
11
24.1
Power of Attorney (included on the signature
  page of this registration statement)
N/A
(1)           Incorporated
by reference from the Company's Form S-3/A, Amendment No.  1 (File No. 
333-94973), filed on March 17, 2000.
(2)           Incorporated
by reference from the Company's Form 10-Q, filed on May 2, 2001.
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