21.   But as the linebacker sizes up his last regular-season game Friday against Texas, he finds one thing missing from a distinguished career in maroon and white.

22.   But he had hundreds of fine hours over the course of a distinguished career.

23.   But now all seems forgiven, as the agency prepares to award a distinguished career medal to the highest-ranking official who was fired.

24.   Even as she rises to the pinnacle of a distinguished career, Albright, a grandmother of two, continues to balance concerns shared by millions of working mothers.

25.   First there was John Elway, the Denver Bronco quarterback, leading his team to a Super Bowl victory, the first of his distinguished career.

26.   Flipper went on to a distinguished civilian career as a civil and mining engineer in Mexico and the American Southwest.

27.   Generations of surgeons benefited from his teaching, and scores of them went on to distinguished careers in academic surgery and clinical practice.

28.   Harold Korn had a distinguished legal career and was also involved with propagating the arts.

29.   He has become the last caretaker of his distinguished career.

30.   He became more animated as he struggled to complete one of the most memorable days of a distinguished career.