21.   For the career diplomats, advancement has been steady but slower.

22.   For women who are career diplomats, as opposed to political appointees such as Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, progress has also been steady but slower.

23.   From the start, there was never any love lost between Albright and the Egyptian-born career diplomat.

24.   He also named a blunt-talking career diplomat, R. Nicholas Burns of Wellesley, Mass., ambassador to Greece.

25.   He is not a career diplomat.

26.   He conducts his business with the exquisite politeness one associates with career diplomats.

27.   He had been a career diplomat who showed the courage of his independent convictions in several difficult posts while remaining loyal to superiors in Washington.

28.   Here a fashion expert might have noted that career fashion editors must be career diplomats.

29.   In one indicative appointment, she named a senior career diplomat, Hassan Wirayudha, as foreign minister.

30.   Matlock, a career diplomat, answered questions at a news conference on the University of Kansas campus.