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.

BBC: Arthur Scargill

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.

BBC: Arthur Scargill

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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