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Exhibit 24
POWER OF ATTORNEY
KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that each undersigned Director
of Barr Laboratories, Inc., a New York corporation, which is about to file with
the Securities and Exchange Commission under the provisions of the Securities
Act of 1933, as amended, a Registration Statement on Form S-8, hereby
constitutes and appoints Bruce L. Downey and Paul M. Bisaro, and each of them,
his true and lawful attorneys-in-fact and agents, with full power to act without
the other, to sign such Registration Statement and to file such Registration
Statement and the exhibits thereto and any and all other documents in connection
therewith with the Securities and Exchange Commission, and to do and perform any
and all acts and things requisite and necessary to be done in connection with
the foregoing as fully as he might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and
confirming all that said attorneys-in-fact and agents, or either of them, may
lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.
Dated: November 21, 2000
/s/ ROBERT J. BOLGER /s/ EDWIN A. COHEN
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Robert J. Bolger Edwin A. Cohen
/s/ MICHAEL F. FLORENCE /s/ JACOB M. KAY
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Michael F. Florence Jacob M. Kay
/s/ BERNARD C. SHERMAN /s/ GEORGE P. STEPHAN
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Bernard C. Sherman George P. Stephan
