Word: jon
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...while their sales were holding steady or were even higher than last year’s figures, their costs had risen dramatically in recent months.“The costs side is out of wack, it’s through the roof,” said b.good co-founder Jon Olinto, who noted that the price of beef had risen from $3.25 per pound to over $4 in the course of three months. “Even though it only seems like 80 cents, that stuff adds up really, really quickly—a burger isn’t just...
...ELECTIONObservers are predicting an intense election. Unlike last year, said UC representative Maia Usui ’11, referring to the tickets led by UC insiders, “candidates will be able to bring forward comparable track records.”Even former UC representative and SAC Chair Jon T. Staff V ’10, who said he has grown disillusioned with the UC, said he is hopeful about the election. “This year, there is already competition, much more than last year,” he said. “It will be a more...
...we’ve seen, change means different things to different people. But it might augur something particularly unfortunate for Jon Stewart and Steven Colbert, the anchors of Comedy Central’s two immensely popular fake news shows, “The Daily Show” and “The Colbert Report...
...eight years, the fortunes of Stewart and Colbert have been intimately linked to the Republican leaders they lampoon. At the start of Bush’s presidency, Jon Stewart was the little-known host of an obscure TV show that promised reporting on “all the day’s events—at least the ones we’re let into.” Spurred largely by his coverage of the 2000 and 2004 elections, Stewart has since become an icon of American popular culture—a 2007 Pew Research Center poll found that Stewart...
...Republicans are in need of new leaders. South Carolina party chair Katon Dawson, a probable candidate for the national chairmanship, will be hosting a meeting of state leaders in Myrtle Beach later this month. Republican governors, a group that includes such potential 2012 presidential candidates as Sanford, Utah's Jon Huntsman Jr. and Louisiana's Bobby Jindal, plan to meet in Florida. Social conservatives, a faction that Mike Huckabee is positioning himself to lead, were scheduled to caucus in Virginia. No one is quite sure yet whether Palin will become the darling of one of these armies or simply...