They may appear to be in step with their bosses' decrees, but cynicism and careerism increase.

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In many ways, then, she represents both the triumph and limitations of political careerism.

BBC: Julia Gillard: Still finding her feet

One camp advocates child-destroying careerism and the other promotes soul-destroying 24-hour sacrificial motherhood.

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Whatever one may think of the merits of female careerism, how exactly is Jones's message "the opposite" of Sandberg's and Zeithaml's?

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In other words, if storms caused by careerism in the curia threatened to sink the papal ship, it was partly because Benedict himself had been too zealous in stilling the nurturing waters of theological debate.

ECONOMIST: Benedict's departure

With his dissimulation and compensating zeal, his accommodations and rationalisations, his mix of motives (careerism, but also fear and genuine belief) and his proximity to the suffering he nevertheless condoned, Simonov provides exemplary answers to the questions that weave through the book.

ECONOMIST: The Soviet Union