4) For membership of the Fifa executive committee to be limited to fixed terms, and the Fifa president not to serve more than two terms of office.
"You have to remember the history of what it was like before — people were appointed to fixed terms, and then took on their own life, and the people who appointed them complained that they were bowing to other groups," Mr. Walcott said.
But it is necessary and overdue.The other good idea around which opinion is coalescing is a switch to fixed-term parliaments.
That commitment is not just to tougher expenses rules but to a national debate in a referendum on the electoral system, to fixed-term parliaments, to an elected House of Lords, and to a much more powerful role for backbenchers in the Commons.
The Network on Ethnicity and Women Scientists (NEWS) found that minority women are usually confined to fixed-term or part-time positions.
However, many landlords have switched to fixed-term leases to avoid this problem.
The idea is to establish a single director of national intelligence, appointed to a fixed term of office like the current F.B.I. chief, and give that director real authority over bodies like the Defense Intelligence Agency and the National Security Agency, which now remain under Pentagon control.
Mr. Liu, who spearheaded effort, said that to assure independence, the new top investment manager would not report to any elected official, would not be appointed by an elected official and would be appointed to a fixed term.
The overseer will be appointed to a fixed term and will be given many protections from dismissal, said the lawyers, who spoke on the condition of anonymity.
An Israel that gratuitously violated the rights of its citizens would not have sentenced him to a fixed term and then released him, proud and by all appearances healthy, when his time came..
