But finding this green in two does not give you a two-putt sinecure for par.
New York's powerful Irish Catholics are unlikely to give up what they regard as a sinecure without a fierce struggle.
But it has its benefits: a secure job, a comfortable retirement, perhaps even a cushy sinecure at one of his company's suppliers.
Japan has a staggering 97 airports, some planned on the basis of fanciful traffic assumptions made by bureaucrats who wanted a retirement sinecure.
This great medieval sinecure relieves academic scientists of the harsh accountability that can land the developers of failed products on the unemployment line.
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It had long been a sinecure for mediocre ministers.
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The role wasn't a complete sinecure: the ruling warlord, Tokugawa Ieyasu, ordered the seppuku, or ritual suicide, of one of Koetsu's circle, the tea master Furuta Oribe, for some real or imagined disloyalty.
Brought before the Ottoman ruler with the connivance of hostile rabbis to answer charges of sedition, Sevi converted to Islam rather than face martyrdom, and accepted a sinecure as the Sultan's head gatekeeper.
Some measure of the challenges that await Black are the apparent gap between the best of the charter schools and the run-of-the-mill public schools where too many teachers think of tenure as a sinecure that spares them the need for serious innovation on the educational front.
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But as a former university professor myself, I can say that in the years prior to this one, at least, being a professor was not the sinecure that Adams sketches in her piece, one of lazy summers, a class taught here and there, civil and collegial co-workers, and all that.
What is perhaps most striking about the U.N. job is not even how promptly it materialized, nor that the United States Ambassador was so personally involved in hiring a young woman with precious little job experience, but that Ambassador Richardson held the specially crafted sinecure open for two months while the former intern kept him waiting on her decision.
Harold and Erica go to good schools, and pass through a series of haute bourgeois jobs museum curator, freelance consultant, corporate marketing functionary, author of mid-list historical biographies until, finally, the hyper-achieving Erica arrives as the chief executive of a cable company, and the ponderous Harold scores a sinecure at a neocon think tank, where he pastes David Brooks opinion columns into papers on public policy.
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