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When we viewed consecutive 12-month performance or non-overlapping cumulative periods, consistent top performers all had experienced management teams with tenure higher than their peers. Experienced management teams can successfully maneuver their funds through a variety of market environments.

Rosanne Pane

I've often heard academics disparage non-academic writing in terms that suggest it could be a negative in the tenure process, irrespective of the quality of academic work under review.

Daniel Drezner

I look forward to working closely with the DNC under Terry's tenure, ... I look forward to continuing the focus I began in my campaign on rebuilding state parties, election reform and ensuring that no voter and no state is left behind.

Maynard Jackson

Many new teachers that we hire are actually ready to earn permanent status after their second year. Taking away from us the ability to award tenure to the best and brightest that we hire actually hurts us in recruiting highly qualified teaching staff.

Bob Wells

Only actions will dispel critics who believe I have a political agenda, which I do not have. I want to define my tenure in as open a way as I can.

Patricia Harrison

Before my tenure, people didn't seem to think that citizens had a right to limit the size of their government.

William Weld

I have some pretty mixed feelings about ending my tenure here. I've had as enjoyable a life as anybody could have. Teaching and horses are my passion. Combining them makes me a lucky person.

Larry Kasten

I believe five years is a good kind of tenure as head. . . . After that you lose your edge.

Martha Burk

I never graduated high school; they had to change the Ivy League rules. During my tenure at Brown, I helped them become the number one Ivy League school.

Robert Evans

People had their image of what a cowboy was, ... A lot of it was perpetuated by the media presentations of the cowboys in fiction and old Westerns. And because of the tenure of the times, African-Americans were left out. As a result, reality was distorted.

Phil Roberts

We are working to obtain documents from her tenure as the Dallas Bar Association president and the Texas state bar association president.

Dana Perino

I don't think we should be ashamed of the North Dakota Lottery. It is a very highly visible, very growth-oriented industry. As the director for the lottery, I don't think I would have a long-term tenure ... if I did not intend to promote sales of lottery tickets.

Chuck Keller

During his tenure, the town of West Hartford in his role of town manager was always seen as a progressive community and a model for others to follow as a town manager can effectively work.

Kevin Maloney

During his four-year tenure as conductor of the symphony orchestra, Kevin did much to raise the standards for the group. He challenged them with new repertory as well as with some of the giants of the traditional repertory. His performance of the Mahler Second Symphony was said by some long-time music faculty to be one of the highest points in the history of the School of Music.

Glenn Chandler

No one is more disappointed with the outcome of this season than Ernie. He genuinely hurts for his players, coaches and the fans. I do feel, however, that he continues to possess the energy and passion that are necessary to regain the unprecedented success that Oregon has enjoyed during his tenure as head coach.

Bill Moos

If you think your teacher is tough, wait until you get a boss. He doesn't have tenure.

Bill Gates

There is a historical pattern that everyone should be aware of because each of the past three newly appointed Fed chairman began their tenure with a quick succession of interest rate hikes.

David Rosenberg

Steve has a good reputation for turning businesses around and creating value for shareholders. His short tenure is surprising and cannot bode well for the share price in the short term.

George O'connor

Bill has exhibited strong leadership over teams in North America, Europe and Asia and has contributed to the Avnet Technology Solutions team's success throughout his tenure.

Roy Vallee

We are extremely pleased by his addition to our staff. We have had the pleasure of working closely with Kevin during his tenure at Rockwood and it is very exciting to have him join our executive team.

Chris Dolan

I think he will probably try to do some bold decisions early in his tenure when he has his honeymoon period, but I think the half-life of his honeymoon is not going to be very long.

Ken Conboy

I grew up here, my parents still live here, and I've been able to raise my girls here. We've been in the same house since 1992 and that's unique in our business. I've got one [daughter] in college, another graduating this year, and one in the ninth grade. If I'm fortunate enough to get them all through high school, I think that would be one of the better achievements of my tenure here.

Bill Cowher

We're very excited to see his tenure begin here. He seems to be someone of high character. He comes highly recommended from everyone we've talked to. He stood out in the field of candidates.

Greg Mack

Where the credit is really due is in the early part of Greenspan's tenure: being faced with the aftershocks of the Wall Street crash in 1987 and dealing with that quite well. He confronted some very serious potential crises and got us to a point where we avoided them and are better off than we might have been otherwise.

Christian Stracke

Teacher tenure is a myth, ... California teachers only have basic due process rights so they aren't fired for arbitrary reasons like speaking out on behalf of textbooks for their students. Proposition 74 just adds millions in costs to the current evaluation system and does absolutely nothing to improve education or help students.

Sharon Scott

I value the contributions Ron made to the Insurance Commission during his 25 year tenure. After he joined the Alabama Insurance Underwriting Association, he also did a fantastic job in that capacity.

Dr George Daley

Mike managed over 160 disasters during his tenure at FEMA, and his service in those disasters has been commended by many, ... He has done everything he possibly could to coordinate the federal response to the unprecedented challenge posed by Hurricane Katrina and the New Orleans levee breach. He is a good man, and I personally appreciate his work and his commitment.

Michael Chertoff

Anytime you encourage critical thinking you risk offending somebody, ... ... I think the basic idea of tenure is to shelter people from political ups and downs.

Andrew Kirk

Since last spring, there's been a lot of speculation in the press about my tenure here. I've made a decision and I wanted you to hear about what's happening from me.

Neal Shapiro

I think toward the end of his tenure he was more sensitive to the compromises that you have to make if you're going to assemble a majority.

Mark Tushnet

All our art programs have maintained a close working relationship with the museum during Michael's tenure, ... It's extremely useful for us to have a museum of this quality in the city because the VCU School of the Arts only has a small resident collection of its own.

James Farmer

Our understanding of the best practice in monetary policy evolved during Alan Greenspan's tenure at the Fed, and it will continue to evolve in the future.

Ben S. Bernanke

Part of the reason why Willingham didn't have a long tenure is because he followed a mediocre coach, ... You can't follow years of mediocrity and expect to get top high school recruits. The UW will have the same problem.

Paul Jury

It's real unusual. I probably have the longest tenure of any superintendent at one school in the state.

John Mcneil

The majority of the houses were built during her tenure, and she did nothing to improve the infrastructure. Now we have a plan. These new houses are going to make up for decades of neglect down there.

Jim Reeve

They ended because we couldn't agree on timing and tenure. Last week, we simply agreed to disagree.

Charles Gibson

We didn't rush to add tenure-track positions because we didn't know how long the increase would continue.

Dale Goodwin

To be honest, I'm excited again to be head coach here at Illinois State. There was a time here when I'm not sure I could say I was excited. My tenure here has not been an easy one. I feel we've got new leadership in the department, we've got good direction in the program. I feel that we're going to get a little bit of traction here and really become productive.

Denver Johnson

The range was initially developed for sustainability, more than it was for modernization, ... During my tenure here, I want to aggressively activate the new test range. That will bring us a lot of capability...so having that new range is really critical to us.

Jack Weinstein

I don't think any of [the local faculty] have gone through the regular faculty-administered procedures for hiring, evaluation, tenure, promotion.

Hugh Miller

Maybe it's ownership. Maybe it's fans. Maybe it's just culture. You see that in the NBA, major-league baseball — every professional sport is like that now. Coaches don't get long tenure. It's win now.

Kelly Herndon

There's a very good chance (of a change) to the management structure as there should be in any case where you lose a very significant employee, ... When you have a person with Stacey's tenure, the structure starts to gravitate toward the individual. Now, we have a clean slate. We have to determine how the existing people fit into it and where the gaps are.

Michael Downey

During the first four years of justices' tenure, their voting behavior correlates at a rather high level with their appointing president's ideology, but for justices with ten or more years of service, that relationship drops precipitously.

Lee Epstein

This is the first time we've had an actual alert status from either of our two (area nuclear power) plants during my tenure, which is 25 years.

Nancy Crowley

Wellington Mara was a dear friend and football fans everywhere mourn his passing. Throughout my tenure as an NFL owner he was an invaluable advisor in person and in our many phone calls. As a Hall of Fame owner and backbone of the League, he shaped the sport we all love so dearly. My thoughts and prayers are with his family during this sad time.

Daniel Snyder

I couldn't ask for a more wonderful opera to end my tenure.

Alfred Anderson

We need motivated educators, and bureaucrats aren't helping anything, ... If they prove motivated, dedicated educators, tenure should be awarded quickly. Why should the best teachers worry about whether they'll be teaching tomorrow?

Colin Brown

I can honestly say that we've had the best year that we have ever had here in my tenure. We've performed very well throughout the year. Men and women, both sides, have really swum at a whole different level.

Arthur Albiero

Black has done a terrific job in his short tenure of making the firm more disciplined and laying out a long-term strategy.

Rachel Barnard

Koizumi's major victory in the election may push forward discussions on raising the consumption tax. But Koizumi is unlikely to change his stance of not raising the tax during his tenure, so any tax increase would be after 2007.

Takehiro Sato

I really just want to pursue other avenues, ... I got a lot accomplished in my tenure here and I wanted to try new things.

Bill Simon

There might be possibilities for people to get on the tenure track but, then, for a period of time, move off the tenure track and then move back on.

Gertrude Fraser

I figure I've got tenure by now.

Rece Davis

Our funding currently is project finance which is only 12 years and we are building an asset which will last 55, 75 or possibly even 100 years and we would like to match that tenure.

Keith Edelman

I think that conventional political wisdom was that there were high expectations with Mayor Schmoke going in. His tenure as mayor on a whole was disappointing, particularly with the continued deterioration of public schools and a substantial increase in crime.

Herbert Smith

Obviously when we get Kate going, everybody gets caught up in the draft, so to speak. We all have worked harder this fall than any other year in my tenure.

Jason Rodenhaver

During my tenure, I discovered four of the missing and murdered cases occurred here in DeKalb County.

Louis Graham

[Wilson reserves particular respect for those musicians whose tenure is the longest, as they are the living repository of all the best stories about a life spent chasing the changes.] Just to be around those guys, ... is an inspiration. I firmly believe in [formal] education, but you got to go to the sources.

Matt Wilson

The president, in our perspective, is in uncharted territory because he has a really long tenure left and yet he has very low job performance ratings in just his sixth year. Whether he is able to turn it around depends a lot on Iraq. But the events in Iraq seem largely out of his or U.S. control.

Mark Dicamillo

Before the elections of the year 2000 which led me for the second time to the National Palace in Haiti, I had talked about peace, ... And throughout in the National Palace, throughout my tenure, I talked about peace. And today I continue to talk about peace.

Jean bertrand Aristide

The discussion is a result of the boycott from last spring. [Students] didn't think that they were used for anything. Perfectly excellent professors were being replaced by tenure track professors.

Adam Marcoux

It will be very difficult for this program to attain the same success because it sunk so far between Flanagan's tenure and mine. In a lot of respects, we're starting over. We started over four years ago.

Mike Huston

We hope to transition as many as possible to new stores, but employees we are unable to place will receive a severance package based on their tenure with the company.

Jessica Study

He will continue as Leader of the Opposition. He will complete his full tenure.

Venkaiah Naidu

Tenure of a university president is generally four to five years.

Alberto Pimentel

It's so much work to get tenure, it's hard to imagine that more than a tiny minority of people would somehow make it through that incredibly arduous process and then decide to flake out on their whole career.

Andrew Kirk

I would say it was a shock. I think a lot of people expected him to remain in tenure for at least another two or three years.

Paul Kim

The thing is, he's not an American citizen, and he also hasn't earned tenure yet. Because this is such a crazy, underground endeavor, we have to be careful that we protect our identities because we don't want the CIA looking too closely into his background.

John Sherry

I am perfectly aware that HP has never guaranteed absolute tenure status to its employees; but I also know that Bill and Dave never developed a premeditated business strategy that treated HP employees as expendable.

David Packard

While Alan Greenspan may have enjoyed more than his share of good luck during his storied tenure as Fed chairman, he was also confronted with a wide variety of challenges that required subtlety, a deft touch and good judgment.

Alan Blinder

Jerry Levin said in public comments that there was no timetable for how long his tenure would be.

Paul Kim

During his tenure as police chief there were credible reports of summary executions of gang members by police.

Joanne Mariner

Tenure laws basically provide teachers with notice of what they're alleged to have done and the opportunity to be heard.

Brian Oakes

There are many innovations that have been proposed. There is a proposition that life tenure means that you have the position of judge for life, but not the position of chief justice for life.

Judith Resnik

The trauma, according to the death certificate, was a result of his injuries during his tenure as a football player. I think it is the same as what was on Mike Webster's death certificate.

Joseph Dominick

People are told, 'You don't have that much chance of getting tenure here,' so most people within a few years say, 'It's in my interests to start looking elsewhere,' ... I know that in some cases some of my junior colleagues, including people who would I would love to have here for years, are on the job market.

David Watts

Repetitive-stress injuries in the workplace are an important problem. I recognize this critical challenge and want you to understand that the safety and health of our nation's workforce will always be a priority during my tenure as Secretary.

Elaine Chao

There have been contacts on different levels with Pakistani officials for several years, ... Even I myself had contacts with the Pakistani ambassador during my tenure in Washington and I always heard the willingness and desire to establish relations at the right moment.

Zalman Shoval