After teaching for four years at Loyola, Mr. Copps came to Washington in 1970 to be a low-level assistant to Senator Hollings.

From his days as a low-level assistant for the Browns in 1995, he has lived in the moment.

After college, Mangini accepted a job as a low-level assistant to Belichick, another Wesleyan graduate and Chi Psi fraternity brother who was then the Browns' head coach.

He later served as a low-level assistant to the prime minister, but he later quit from governmental service and effectively became a hermit, and he repeatedly rejected governmental commissions.

Donovan got his coaching start in 1989 at Kentucky as a low-level assistant on a staff that included Smith, who became the head coach eight years later.

DeSisto later admitted to not possessing the Master's degree, and said the error was due to a "low-level assistant", who had mistakenly placed it on his résumé.

Patrick F. McCarthy, the lead prosecutor on the case, said the employee was "the public relations director," but Mr. Bacchetti said he was a low-level assistant.

He spoke of the lessons he learned during the three years (1997-99) he spent as a low-level assistant with the Jets watching Bill Parcells's motivational magic.

Since disclosures about the file requests, aides to President Clinton have described Mr. Livingston as a low-level assistant with little influence.

A corporate affair usually meant a semiclandestine liaison between a male executive (married or unmarried and a female secretary or low-level assistant.