To the intense frustration of those who want to see the back of him, the law gives Mr Fazio life tenure.

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The law, however, gives Mr Fazio life tenure.

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Tenure virtually guarantees employment for life at these institutions regardless of productivity of professors.

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Videla is already serving a life sentence for human rights abuses during his tenure.

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Mr Scargill, 74, said he was given use of the rented three-bed Barbican flat for life when he became NUM president in 1982, a tenure that lasted 20 years.

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Mr Scargill, 74, says he was given use of the rented three-bed Barbican flat for life when he became president of the National Union of Mineworkers in 1982, a tenure that lasted 20 years.

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As the story unfolds, Jane struggles with the demands of being on both the mommy track and the tenure track, as well as with the sense that her seemingly emancipated life has some queasy similarities to Masha's wifely serfdom.

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Besides the pay gap, academic life is less secure than it used to be: staff who would once have had tenure are as sackable as anybody else.

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For most of her tenure as leader of the Christian Democrats, Angela Merkel has refused to talk about her private life, because it is nobody's business and her husband is publicity-shy.

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