José Mujica, a Socialist senator who spent 14 years in prison after waging an urban guerilla war seeking to install a Marxist-style government here, was the candidate of the governing Broad Front coalition, whose tenure has improved economic conditions in Uruguay.
It was left to others to speak of what Mr. Lardière has meant to Burgundy and Jadot, a leading négociant who over the course of his tenure has improved the quality of its wines to the point where they are now among the best values in Burgundy.
Then there are the genuine, bread-and-butter improvements he has made to the country Turkey's GDP has trebled in his 12-year tenure, while quality of life has improved (if you don't include things like having a free press or not getting constantly water-cannoned).
To Mattingly, this was evidence that the farm system has improved over his tenure as manager.
Scott has staked his campaign largely on a platform of economic recovery, arguing that Florida's economy has improved under his tenure after cratering during Crist's.
Mr. Eckert has improved the company's financial performance, but, looking back, he is happy that he resisted calls from analysts early in his tenure to sell off Mattel's 12 factories and outsource all production.
Health care has improved, he said, citing as one example the assignment of doctors during all shifts at each of the 10 jails on Rikers Island, instead of merely the physician's assistants who sometimes filled in during the St . Barnabastenure.
In December, Harvard University Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Michael Smith, informed the faculty that "all originally authorized tenure-track and tenured searches have been reviewed and most have been postponed until a point in time when our financial situation has improved".
Mr. Safir did allow that during Mr. Wohl's tenure the quality of board investigations had improved, vitiating the need for additional Police Department investigation.
But Mr. McCall, who was president of the Board of Education from 1991 to 1993, defended his record, saying the school system's budget had been cut sharply the day after he took office and attendance and the graduation rate had improved during his tenure.
In the chateau... Gynnie stretched and thought about her former boyfriends, how each of their lives had improved during her tenure, and gone right downhill again after the breakup: one more reason to believe that Rich was the one — his life had not improved at all since they met.
