Word: jons
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fishing hole took off in the 1980s when the mild-tasting, white-fleshed fish became popular with U.S. chefs. Happy to stoke the surging demand, fishermen are believed to have reduced the biomass of orange roughy as much as 80% before officials stepped in. Now, says Yale University ichthyologist Jon Moore, it may take centuries before the fishery rebounds. As scientists have belatedly learned, orange roughy grow extremely slowly, live 100 years or more and take 25 to 30 years to reach sexual maturity...
...then there is Jon Huntsman. Currently a powerful "area authority," Huntsman may at some point make official church fiscal policy. But right now he is exemplary of the Mormon gift for not only making a buck but also spending it on others. An enthusiastic missionary as a young man, at age 42 he was asked to serve as "mission president" for a group of 220 young proselytizers in Washington. He took leave from his company and moved his wife and nine children with him. When his stint was up, they headed back to Utah, and Huntsman resumed building...
Assistant Professor of Law Jon D. Hanson will host a day-long conference on July 31 to examine the proposed national tobacco settlement currently being considered by Congress...
...plays a lawyer who finds himself accused of rape and murder while in China. If you're thinking of this as an opportunity for the longtime Tibetan activist to educate his fans on the peculiarities of the Chinese judicial system, you're on the right track. Director Jon Avnet says that several Chinese judges and lawyers put themselves at risk to be consultants on the movie. "The catchphrase of the Chinese courts is 'Severity for those who resist,'" says Avnet, who got offered a lot of pirated copies of his last movie, Up Close and Personal, while in Beijing researching...
Part of the reason could be that an ardent supporter of the change, Nebraska Republican JON CHRISTENSEN, is a chef who knows how to mix the dough of legislation. His Omaha district is home to a Metz bakery, a Pepperidge Farm depot and several facilities belonging to the country's largest baking firm, Interstate Bakeries Corp., maker of Wonder bread. Federal records show Interstate CEO Charles A. Sullivan and his wife contributed $3,000 to Christensen in 1996. The American Bakers Association, which gave $46,700 to House Republicans and $1,000 to Christensen in 1995-96, calls...