1.   After dinner, the three men met, joined only by translators and note takers, officials said.

2.   Gearan, an ardent note taker, had quoted Ickes using the word several times in an earlier memo.

3.   Karnowski prepares speeches, organizes meetings and is note taker for Leszek Balcerowicz, the new finance minister.

4.   Note takers take notes, scribbling down every concern.

5.   Our note taker had dubious journalistic credentials and grew increasingly disoriented in direct proportion to the number of wine bottles opened.

6.   With the Russian foreign minister, Igor Ivanov, it was just the secretary of state, an interpreter and a note taker.