Many see a job as a teacher in France – a "professeur agrégé", or the lower-ranked "professeur certifié" – as a privileged position: a state employee with a guaranteed post, index-linked pension, plenty of holidays and very little chance of being sacked.
Municipalities that have already reported pipe failures may not qualify for a claim against the new guarantee, according to a copy of the guarantee posted on JM Eagle's Web site.
What are missing, according to the top aide, are the more far-reaching suggestions, including a proposal "guaranteeing post-cloture amendment votes for each side".
The government would guarantee post-bankruptcy financing and stand by car warranties that would be threatened in a conventional administration process.
He said Labour would "secure" the universal service obligation - which guarantees post can be sent anywhere in the UK for the same price - beyond 2015.
Mr. Ai's wife, Lu Qing, said he would post a guarantee of half the tax bill to be allowed to contest the order to pay it.
As governor of the North-West Frontier Province, he aroused opposition by proposing to hold a referendum to decide the fate of the region; he resigned his post as a guarantee of noninterference while voting took place.
And the latest addition to the programme is a 2+2 fellowship, which guarantees a post back in the UK for 2 years after 2 years in Japan.
Executed despite a new Texas statute that guarantees post-conviction DNA testing.
"The new national commitment to a guarantee of one year's post-diagnostic support for everyone receiving a diagnosis of dementia, as well as their partners and families, is a perfect way to build on this".
Two-thirds of prospective adopters surveyed by Adoption UK say they would seriously reconsider becoming adopters if there were no guaranteed post-adoption support.
