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(The news was) quite a surprise, although it is not uncommon for CEOs to move on after that kind of tenure, having somebody already in the business succeeding him is probably no bad thing. I don't think we are looking for a change of direction. Investors are still waiting for the Bolland plan of a more cash generative, well invested and internet enabled business to be fully delivered. – Richard Marwood	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Wars end when either one side is defeated or the other side stops. The other side is not stopping, under Obama's tenure, Al Qaeda, which is sort of international terrorism, jihadist terrorism, has expanded to a point where a branch, ISIS is essentially a branch, is the largest training camp of terrorism in the history of the world. – Charles Krauthammer	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
Justice Scalia has been on the court for 30 years. That makes him a leader in terms of where the court has been, how it has operated. To some extent, he has more leadership authority when it comes to tenure on the court and what that entails than I do. – Chief Justice John Roberts	Found on CNN 8 years ago
(Obama) does not support law enforcement. Simply doesn't. And he's going to come today to New Jersey in a place where, under my tenure, we have reduced crime 20 percent and reduced the prison population 10 percent, it's a disgrace that he's coming to New Jersey today to take credit for this stuff when he's been someone who's undercut it. – Chris Christie	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Her tenure at HP involved a lot of really difficult choices, but getting voters to a place where they agree with the tough decisions when you're talking about layoffs is a very difficult thing to do. – Matt McDonald	Found on CNN 8 years ago
But companies are also realizing they have a competitive edge if they address potential social conflicts around tenure issues upfront, indigenous people and local communities are becoming more aware that they have rights under national and international legislation. – Rodney Schmidt	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
If you listed all of the things that have passed during Walker's tenure it's a long and impressive list, the big and bold thing was Act 10 (labor measures from 2011), but to me all of the small ball things matter. – Charles Franklin	Found on CNN 8 years ago
I remain mystified by the fact that the use of a private e-mail account apparently went either unnoticed or unremarked upon during the four-year tenure in office of the former secretary, simply put, where was everyone ? Is there any record indicating that any lawyer, any FOIA officer, any records person, any high-level official ever respectfully confronted the former secretary with reasonable questions about the practice of sending e-mails from a private account ? It is unfathomable to me that this would not have been noticed and reported up the chain. – Jason Baron	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
We simply cannot afford to elect as our next president one of the leading agents of this administration’s foreign policy – a leader from yesterday whose tenure as secretary of state was ineffective at best and dangerously negligent at worst. – Marco Rubio	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
Overall, the new catering agreements provide for a strict service level agreement and key performance indicators to be adhered to, considerably improved pricing, non-exclusivity and a shortened tenure, compared with the previous catering agreement. – Malaysia Airlines on Monday	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Our dogged work forced the disclosure of documents that provided a road map for over 200 conflict-of-interest rulings that led to $ 48 million for Clinton Foundation Board and other Clinton-connected entities during Hillary Clinton’s tenure as secretary of state, previously disclosed documents in this lawsuit, for example, raise questions about funds Hillary Clinton accepted from entities linked to Saudi Arabia, China and Iran, among others. – Tom Fitton	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
The committee has Mr. Kendall's letter under advisement and will issue a response tomorrow setting out a reasonable path forward with respect to Secretary Clinton's appearances to discuss both Benghazi as well as congressional efforts to ensure the public record is complete with respect to her tenure as Secretary of State. – Trey Gowdy	Found on CNN 9 years ago
President Shalala was one of the most highly respected voices, a leading voice in international health, there's no question that she had such a successful tenure here, and that was very attractive in making this a very attractive opportunity for me. I think she's done a great job of improving the university. – Julio Frenk	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
Syverud said in a statement. RECRUITING HIT : The NCAA penalties included the reduction of three men's basketball scholarships a year for four years and recruiting restrictions will be enforced for two years. Jim Boeheim has what is regarded as the best recruiting class in Jim Boeheim long tenure coming in the fall. In its decision, The NCAA indicated that Syracuse can delay the scholarship reductions by one year in the case of any student-athletes that have a financial agreement with the university. Syracuse loses only Rakeem Christmas from this year's team and is at the 13-scholarship limit for 2015-16. MIDDLING MAN : The NCAA said several violations involved students and staff. The report added that academic violations stemmed from the director of basketball operations, who was hand-picked by Jim Boeheim to address academic matters and ended up violating academic integrity.'' The rule's pretty clear, the head coach has a duty to monitor activities in his program. Jim Boeheim did dispute that Jim Boeheim should be held accountable. There was controversy over that. It( the charge) was not effectively rebutted at all. – Britton Banowsky	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
It's deep-value in the sense that all the companies in the portfolio have an amazing tenure. – Craig Watkins	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Be clear, this board has had no discussions at any time about her tenure as general manager, we hoped and expected that she would fulfill her three year contract, which ends in December of this year. – John Jenkins	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
While the discipline assessed is indeed greater than in most prior cases, this is arguably one of the most egregious cases of domestic violence in this Commissioner's tenure -- the severe beating of a 4-year old child, with a tree branch, striking him repeatedly about the body and inflicting injuries visible days later. – Harold Henderson	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
Poor farmers don't have the money, time or labor to prevent degradation or improve their soils, if they don't have land tenure, there is no incentive to invest in improving their farms. – Gordon Conway	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
In government offices which are sensitive to the vehemence and passion of mass sentiment public men have no sure tenure. They are in effect perpetual office seekers, always on trial for their political lives, always required to court their restless constituents. They are deprived of their independence. Democratic politicians rarely feel they can afford the luxury of telling the whole truth to the people. And since not telling it, though prudent, is uncomfortable, they find it easier if they themselves do not have to hear too often too much of the sour truth. The men under them who report and collect the news come to realize in their turn that it is safer to be wrong before it has become fashionable to be right. – Walter Lippmann	added by anonymous 10 years ago
You know who has tenure? The pope has tenure. The Queen of England has tenure. So does Fidel and the communists - because they represent the people, of course (scoff). Federal judges have tenure as well - no federal judge has ever successfully been removed. And then there's the college professors. Me. How do you like that? – Ira Carmen	added by anonymous 10 years ago
The loss of a much-prized treasure is only half felt when we have not regarded its tenure as secure. – Goethe	added by anonymous 12 years ago

(The news was) quite a surprise, although it is not uncommon for CEOs to move on after that kind of tenure, having somebody already in the business succeeding him is probably no bad thing. I don't think we are looking for a change of direction. Investors are still waiting for the Bolland plan of a more cash generative, well invested and internet enabled business to be fully delivered.

– Richard Marwood

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Wars end when either one side is defeated or the other side stops. The other side is not stopping, under Obama's tenure, Al Qaeda, which is sort of international terrorism, jihadist terrorism, has expanded to a point where a branch, ISIS is essentially a branch, is the largest training camp of terrorism in the history of the world.

– Charles Krauthammer

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

Justice Scalia has been on the court for 30 years. That makes him a leader in terms of where the court has been, how it has operated. To some extent, he has more leadership authority when it comes to tenure on the court and what that entails than I do.

– Chief Justice John Roberts

Found on CNN
8 years ago

(Obama) does not support law enforcement. Simply doesn't. And he's going to come today to New Jersey in a place where, under my tenure, we have reduced crime 20 percent and reduced the prison population 10 percent, it's a disgrace that he's coming to New Jersey today to take credit for this stuff when he's been someone who's undercut it.

– Chris Christie

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Her tenure at HP involved a lot of really difficult choices, but getting voters to a place where they agree with the tough decisions when you're talking about layoffs is a very difficult thing to do.

– Matt McDonald

Found on CNN
8 years ago

But companies are also realizing they have a competitive edge if they address potential social conflicts around tenure issues upfront, indigenous people and local communities are becoming more aware that they have rights under national and international legislation.

– Rodney Schmidt

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

If you listed all of the things that have passed during Walker's tenure it's a long and impressive list, the big and bold thing was Act 10 (labor measures from 2011), but to me all of the small ball things matter.

– Charles Franklin

Found on CNN
8 years ago

I remain mystified by the fact that the use of a private e-mail account apparently went either unnoticed or unremarked upon during the four-year tenure in office of the former secretary, simply put, where was everyone ? Is there any record indicating that any lawyer, any FOIA officer, any records person, any high-level official ever respectfully confronted the former secretary with reasonable questions about the practice of sending e-mails from a private account ? It is unfathomable to me that this would not have been noticed and reported up the chain.

– Jason Baron

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

We simply cannot afford to elect as our next president one of the leading agents of this administration’s foreign policy – a leader from yesterday whose tenure as secretary of state was ineffective at best and dangerously negligent at worst.

– Marco Rubio

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

Overall, the new catering agreements provide for a strict service level agreement and key performance indicators to be adhered to, considerably improved pricing, non-exclusivity and a shortened tenure, compared with the previous catering agreement.

– Malaysia Airlines on Monday

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Our dogged work forced the disclosure of documents that provided a road map for over 200 conflict-of-interest rulings that led to $ 48 million for Clinton Foundation Board and other Clinton-connected entities during Hillary Clinton’s tenure as secretary of state, previously disclosed documents in this lawsuit, for example, raise questions about funds Hillary Clinton accepted from entities linked to Saudi Arabia, China and Iran, among others.

– Tom Fitton

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

The committee has Mr. Kendall's letter under advisement and will issue a response tomorrow setting out a reasonable path forward with respect to Secretary Clinton's appearances to discuss both Benghazi as well as congressional efforts to ensure the public record is complete with respect to her tenure as Secretary of State.

– Trey Gowdy

Found on CNN
9 years ago

President Shalala was one of the most highly respected voices, a leading voice in international health, there's no question that she had such a successful tenure here, and that was very attractive in making this a very attractive opportunity for me. I think she's done a great job of improving the university.

– Julio Frenk

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

Syverud said in a statement. RECRUITING HIT : The NCAA penalties included the reduction of three men's basketball scholarships a year for four years and recruiting restrictions will be enforced for two years. Jim Boeheim has what is regarded as the best recruiting class in Jim Boeheim long tenure coming in the fall. In its decision, The NCAA indicated that Syracuse can delay the scholarship reductions by one year in the case of any student-athletes that have a financial agreement with the university. Syracuse loses only Rakeem Christmas from this year's team and is at the 13-scholarship limit for 2015-16. MIDDLING MAN : The NCAA said several violations involved students and staff. The report added that academic violations stemmed from the director of basketball operations, who was hand-picked by Jim Boeheim to address academic matters and ended up violating academic integrity.'' The rule's pretty clear, the head coach has a duty to monitor activities in his program. Jim Boeheim did dispute that Jim Boeheim should be held accountable. There was controversy over that. It( the charge) was not effectively rebutted at all.

– Britton Banowsky

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

It's deep-value in the sense that all the companies in the portfolio have an amazing tenure.

– Craig Watkins

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Be clear, this board has had no discussions at any time about her tenure as general manager, we hoped and expected that she would fulfill her three year contract, which ends in December of this year.

– John Jenkins

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

While the discipline assessed is indeed greater than in most prior cases, this is arguably one of the most egregious cases of domestic violence in this Commissioner's tenure -- the severe beating of a 4-year old child, with a tree branch, striking him repeatedly about the body and inflicting injuries visible days later.

– Harold Henderson

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

Poor farmers don't have the money, time or labor to prevent degradation or improve their soils, if they don't have land tenure, there is no incentive to invest in improving their farms.

– Gordon Conway

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

In government offices which are sensitive to the vehemence and passion of mass sentiment public men have no sure tenure. They are in effect perpetual office seekers, always on trial for their political lives, always required to court their restless constituents. They are deprived of their independence. Democratic politicians rarely feel they can afford the luxury of telling the whole truth to the people. And since not telling it, though prudent, is uncomfortable, they find it easier if they themselves do not have to hear too often too much of the sour truth. The men under them who report and collect the news come to realize in their turn that it is safer to be wrong before it has become fashionable to be right.

– Walter Lippmann

added by anonymous
10 years ago

You know who has tenure? The pope has tenure. The Queen of England has tenure. So does Fidel and the communists - because they represent the people, of course (scoff). Federal judges have tenure as well - no federal judge has ever successfully been removed. And then there's the college professors. Me. How do you like that?

– Ira Carmen

added by anonymous
10 years ago

The loss of a much-prized treasure is only half felt when we have not regarded its tenure as secure.

– Goethe

added by anonymous
12 years ago

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