1.   She thought about what a colleague had said to her the previous week.

2.   Alan Winmill says the Labour party has lost direction, but his former colleagues say they wanted him out anyway.

3.   Although Leichter rarely stops hurling accusations and complaints, his colleagues say he is one of the best-liked legislators in Albany.

4.   Although Kelly was highly ambitious and competitive, his colleagues said, he never seemed to feel threatened by Fred Astaire.

5.   Although Sullivan can be warm and wry, colleagues say, he rarely offers praise, a trait some actors find frustrating and to which he freely confesses.

6.   And former colleagues say he influenced a generation or two of art teachers in a three-state area.

7.   And his wife and his father, colleagues say, have encouraged Gates to become a more active philanthropist.

8.   And colleagues say he may become the first attorney to win damages in a tobacco liability case.

9.   And the results, his colleagues say, are both spectacular and imaginative.

10.   And their colleagues say the firm will never be quite the same.