They are also happy for Wojcik, their longtime colleague.

When he left, some longtime colleagues said they felt abandoned.

The four are close friends as well as longtime colleagues, each having more than two decades of association with the Graham company and school.

Working through longtime colleagues and high school-era friends proved a dead end as well.

Her special talent, according to longtime colleagues, is her apparent ability to sense how events will play in the media.

But these were, you know, e-mails between longtime colleagues.

"What the guy knew was numbers and finance," a longtime colleague said.

It is precisely those calls for change that have suddenly turned longtime colleagues into enemies.

He was once a close, longtime colleague of Yamagawa's.

"But even some of my longtime colleagues would make the same mistake."