At times during their congressional tenures, of course, both Frank and Bean agreed with Wall Street.
His White House tenure was, of course, cut short after just four years, when Carter found himself on the wrong end of one of the biggest landslides in US political history.
(Life tenure today, of course, has a dimension that would surprise the Constitution's framers; since 1900, the average life expectancy, now 77 years, has increased by 30 years).
"Your tenure has, of course, been marked by gaffes and embarrassments, but I for one have never paid much attention to them, and have never thought they would matter much to the success of the causes and principles we share," Mr. Kristol wrote Friday.
Land-tenure reform, of course, can improve the scale of operations by enlarging the farm or by reducing it.
The tenure system — antiquated, ritualistic and of course unfair — by its very quirkiness protects the academic side from being engulfed by the administrative side, as does the independence of departments.
And then there's the "year of education reform," as Christie has proclaimed 2011, in which he intends to push his case for merit pay, charter schools and the abolition of teacher tenure — all of which are, of course, anathema to the union.
Of course, my tenure in the agency — 1998 to 2003 — postdated its cold-war heyday, but it was precisely the allure of the C.I.A.'s spy-versus-spy game against the K.G.B. in the '70s and '80s that drew me to the murky world of espionage in the first place.
I did of course have tenure and a chair at the point.
3. Don't overextend America's military: Much of Mattis's tenure at the Defense Department will of course be determined by the type of national security policy that President-Elect Trump will formulate in the weeks and months to come.
