31.   Described by colleagues as a moderate Republican, he was considered by the administration for a number of top-level jobs.

32.   Flamboyant in interviews, Miss Ekberg is described by colleagues as actually reserved and very private.

33.   Former colleagues at Lucent describe Ms. Fiorina as an intense, inspiring team leader.

34.   Former colleagues describe Leung as the one person who set Peregrine above the Wall Street crowd when it came to bringing Chinese companies to the stock market.

35.   Former colleagues described him in documents in a dispute over custody of his children as a compulsive liar.

36.   For someone who scores high in context, for example, have colleagues describe their backgrounds when they are introduced to him.

37.   Gone is the hard-drinking, sometime tyrant described by colleagues from the past.

38.   His colleagues describe the bespectacled Levy as intense and shy.

39.   Her colleagues in Congress describe her as a dynamo who will somehow wind up a winner.

40.   His Senate colleagues Saturday described him as intelligent, straightforward and fair.