He is not one to remain more comfortably and unquestioningly within a body of social, cultural, or literary traditions than he was within the traditions -- or possibly the regulations -- governing his tenure in the post office at Oxford, Mississippi, thirty-five years ago.

Unlike officeholders, the citizen initiator was not vetted before taking up office or automatically reviewed after stepping down — it had after all no set tenure and might be an action lasting only a moment.

During most of his tenure with Capp, Frazetta's primary responsibility — along with various specialty art, such as a series of Li ' l Abner greeting cards — was tight-penciling the Sunday pages from studio roughs.

He received tenure at Berkeley in 1962 and was given his first sabbatical in 1964.

During the tenure of the government from 1995 to 1999, Thackeray was nicknamed ' remote control ' since he played a major role in government policies and decisions from behind the scenes.

" Later in his SIU tenure, Fuller was also a visiting professor at SIU Edwardsville, where he designed the dome for the campus Religious Center.

In 1946, shortly after the end of Norman's tenure, the bank was nationalised by the Labour government.

Security of tenure for farmers was introduced, while consumers were protected by food subsidies and the redistributive effects of deficiency payments.

During his tenure Doke developed and promoted a method of linguistic analysis and description of the Bantu languages that was based upon the structure of these languages.

McBride's tenure as owner was viewed favorably, partly because of the Browns ' on-field success but also because he gave Brown a free hand to sign players and coach.

Sammy Sosa was the captain of the Chicago Cubs during his tenure with the team.

The usual grant was in precaria, the granting of a life tenure, whereby the tenant stayed on the land only at the pleasure of the lord.

The longest-serving was Archibald Henderson, sometimes referred to as the " Grand old man of the Marine Corps " due to his thirty-nine year tenure.

Capellas was able to restore some of the luster lost in the latter part of the Pfeiffer era and he repaired the relationship with Microsoft which had deteriorated under his predecessor's tenure, but the company still struggled against lower-cost competitors such as Dell who took over the top spot of PC manufacturer from Compaq in 2001.

Within months of beginning his tenure as university president, Eisenhower was requested to advise Secretary of Defense James Forrestal on unification of the armed services.

The unnamed college attended by the main characters was later given the name " Walden College ", revealed to be in Connecticut ( the same state as Yale ), and depicted as devolving into a third-rate institution under the weight of grade inflation, slipping academic standards, and the end of tenure — issues that Trudeau has consistently revisited since the original characters graduated.

Notable jazz bassists from the 1940s to the 1950s included bassist Jimmy Blanton ( 1918 – 1942 ) whose short tenure in the Duke Ellington Swing band ( cut short by his death from tuberculosis ) introduced new melodic and harmonic solo ideas for the instrument ; bassist Ray Brown ( 1926 – 2002 ), known for backing Beboppers Dizzy Gillespie, Oscar Peterson, Art Tatum and Charlie Parker, and forming the Modern Jazz Quartet ; hard bop bassist Ron Carter ( born 1937 ), who has appeared on 3, 500 albums make him one of the most-recorded bassists in jazz history, including LPs by Thelonious Monk and Wes Montgomery and many Blue Note Records artists ; and Paul Chambers ( 1935 – 1969 ), a member of the Miles Davis Quintet ( including the landmark modal jazz recording Kind of Blue ) and many other 1950s and 1960s rhythm sections, was known for his virtuosic improvisations.

It was under his tenure as Master General that the sisters in the Order were given official membership.

His tenure was marred by bitter wrangling with other branches of Government and his own brief kidnapping by elements of the military.

Yannias ' tenure at Britannica. com Inc. was marked by missteps, large lay-offs and financial losses.

During his tenure, Burnett was 49 – 50 with a 3. 73 ERA, 14 complete games and a team record 8 shutouts, tied with Dontrelle Willis.

He was a key factor to the Marlins ' 2003 World Series run and the ballclub's primary power hitter during his tenure, hitting 138 home runs and driving in 523 in five seasons.

* Álex González ( 1998 – 2005 ) — Alex Gonzalez was one of the premier defensive shortstops in the game during his tenure with the Marlins, and provided a walk-off homerun in the 12th inning during Game 4 of the 2003 World Series.

In his tenure with the Marlins, Lowell was a three time All-Star and won a Silver Slugger and Gold Glove.

* Hanley Ramirez ( 2006 – 2012 )-As the main piece of the Josh Beckett & Mike Lowell trade in the 2005 off-season, Ramirez was the face of the franchise during his tenure and a major offensive cog, having a 30-30 season in 2008, winning a batting title and finishing 2nd in MVP voting in 2009, and participating in three All-Star games.

Most likely because of his controversial Milgram Experiment, Milgram was denied tenure at Harvard after becoming an assistant professor there.

Thus, as Time magazine wrote during the controversial tenure of Vice President Charles G. Dawes, " once in four years the Vice President can make a little speech, and then he is done.

During his controversial tenure of ENI, Mattei had made many enemies.

During his tenure, he launched, under the guidelines outlined by the United States, a program to fight drug-trafficking in Bolivia, which called for the eradication of coca, a controversial strategy.

Land ownership and tenure can be perceived as controversial in part because ideas defining what it means to access or control land, such as through " land ownership " or " land tenure ", can vary considerably across regions and even within countries.

Osborne had been in the position since 1990 and in one of the most controversial events in the university's administrative history, his tenure was extended for seven years in 1994 by then Chancellor Nancy Millis without consultation of the board.

Stoltenberg's first tenure as Prime Minister ( 2000 – 2001 ) was controversial within his own party, being responsible for reforms and modernisation of the welfare state that included part-privatising several key state-owned services and corporations.

During his brief tenure, he blocked the Nuclear Energy Board's controversial plan to build a nuclear power plant at Carnsore Point in County Wexford.

" One of the more controversial suggestions from the group under her tenure was a suggestion that all musical acts should record morality music while incurring all costs, and donating all profits to the Parents Music Resource

During his tenure as minister, Collins introduced a controversial law which prohibited organisations committed to violence, such as the IRA, from making media broadcasts.

Nin left office on December 16, 1936, concluding a controversial tenure.

Patrick J. Michaels, a controversial part-time research professor at the University of Virginia, wrote: "... tenure has had the exact opposite effect as to its stated goal of diversifying free expression.

During his tenure he oversaw the controversial Corrib gas project.

During Esber's seven-year tenure, Ashton Tate had its most prosperous years and a few of its most controversial.

He is best known for his brief and controversial tenure as the first Governor-General of Australia.

Stockman became one of the most controversial OMB directors ever during a tenure that lasted until his resignation during August 1985.

Bird's tenure as minister of tourism and minister of economic development was controversial, and he personally benefited from tourism partnerships with foreign investors, including in the construction of the Royal Antiguan Hotel.

Greg Chappell took over from John Wright as the new coach of the Indian cricket team following the series, and his methods proved to be controversial during the beginning of his tenure.

Guus Hiddink was caretaker manager of Chelsea in 2009, leading his team to the semi-final of the UEFA Champions League where they shut out FC Barcelona at Nou Camp and tied them back at Stamford Bridge ( the latter being a very controversial game, the match official being Tom Henning Øvrebø ), with Chelsea eliminated on away goals ), and finished off his tenure with the team as they won the FA Cup The club was reported happy to have Hiddink as manager even on a temporary basis.

With the exception of the years 1991 – 1994, when her party was in opposition, she continued to hold that office until she resigned in 2000 over a controversy in which she was criticised, as a private individual, for trying to convert her tenancy into a condominium, circumventing a controversial housing tenure law that she was responsible for introducing and advocating in her public role as Minister of Justice.

However, Bettman's tenure in the NHL has been controversial.

During his tenure he earned the nickname the " Minister for Fun ", however, he presided over much more weighty issues such as investigations into controversial events such as drugs allegations in sport and sex abuse by swimming coaches.

On 2 October 2008, after a controversial start to his tenure at Newcastle, he launched a verbal tirade at the Daily Mirror's journalist Simon Bird calling him a " cunt ".