The main doubters were the careerist old guard.

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Terri Tierney Clark edits a website called Advice for the New Careerist to help young professional women optimize their careers.

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My favorite career writer is Penelope Trunk of the Brazen Careerist.

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Yet in the dying days of his relatively short eight-year papacy, Pope Benedict XVI has been putting out new coded phrases which, upon analysis, reveal the extent of his frustration at the administrative infighting he has had to endure among mainly Italian careerist clerics inside the Vatican.

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For all his talks of principle, Woodward is a political careerist, the paper concludes, and his judgement that power lies with New Labour is telling.

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Brazen Careerist has Gen Y in the bag.

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Brennan, 57, is a careerist who spent a quarter-century with the CIA and now serves as Obama's top counter-terrorism adviser.

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In short, Americans see Mrs Clinton for what she is: a laser-brained careerist, who met her future husband in the Yale law library and has propelled him, not always scrupulously, to the White House.

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Hillary, of course, was deeply ambivalent, "at sea about whether she wanted to move to Arkansas, " according to one of their mutual friends, torn about "how hard to be, how careerist to be, " for this was 1974, and she was hardly unaffected by the feminist movement.

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