In 2008, Weston supported Democrat Barack Obama 60 % to Republican John McCain 38 %.

The book is set in 1999 ( 25 years in the future, as seen from 1974 ) and consists of the diary entries and reports of William Weston, a mainstream media reporter who is the first proper American to investigate Ecotopia, a newly formed country that broke from the USA in 1980.

After securing $ 100, 000 in angel investments from friends and family, he started Cook ’ s Magazine from a tiny office in Weston, Connecticut in 1980 when he was 29 years old.

In 1978, both Loblaw and George Weston Limited returned to profitability and in 1980 Weston ’ s showed record earnings of $ 76 million on sales of $ 6 billion.

Yellow Pack was a brand of generic groceries, first launched in March 1980 by Fine Fare, a British regional supermarket chain ultimately owned by the Weston family, whose extensive interests include the UK's Associated British Foods, Loblaws Companies in North America, and a range of upmarket retailers such as Selfridges, Brown Thomas and Fortnum & Mason.

Former UND students who have gone on to notable careers in athletics include former NBA player and current NBA coach Phil Jackson, ice hockey player who played in the 1980 Winter Olympics " Miracle on Ice " game Dave Christian, NHL professional ice hockey players Ed Belfour, Tony Hrkac, Jonathan Toews – captain of the Chicago Blackhawks, Zach Parise – New Jersey Devils, Travis Zajac – New Jersey Devils, T. J. Oshie – St. Louis Blues, Ryan Bayda – Pittsburgh Penguins, Drew Stafford – Buffalo Sabres, Brian Lee – Ottawa Senators, Matt Smaby – Tampa Bay Lightning, Matt Jones – Toronto Maple Leafs, Mike Commodore – Columbus Blue Jackets, Jason Blake – Anaheim Ducks, Ryan Johnson – Vancouver Canucks, NFL professional football players Jim Kleinsasser – and Dave Osborn, both of the Minnesota Vikings, CFL professional football players Weston Dressler, David Griswold – Saskatchewan Roughriders.

Only in recent decades ( after Saunders retired ) has the strip centered more on the title character, along with a regular cast of her closest friends, most of whom were introduced to the strip after 1980: Professor Ian Cameron and his younger wife Toby, advice columnist Wilbur Weston and his college student daughter Dawn, and Dr. Jeff Cory, Mary's perennial beau, and his son, Dr. Drew Cory.

They divorced in 1980, when he started a long-term relationship with actress Diana Weston, with whom he has a daughter, Sydney Laura Stevenson, who co-starred with him in three episodes of My Family.

Damon won an Emmy Award for Soap in 1980, but could not appear in person to receive the Award owing to an actors ' strike ( to which her former co-star Richard Mulligan actually referred when he received his own Emmy more than a decade later for his role as Dr. Weston on the television series Empty Nest ).

* Will Weston MVO, Director from 1980 – 93 of the West Yorkshire Playhouse, and Chief Executive from 2000 – 5 of the Royal Parks Agency ( 1960 – 7 )

* Weston, Anthony ( 1984 ).

On November 13, 1984 he was assigned by Law to St. Julia ’ s Parish in Weston, Massachusetts.

Weston also purchased an interest in Brown Thomas, the upscale Dublin department store, and eventually acquired full ownership in 1984.

He helped influence several party nomination contests, including John Nunziata's 1984 victory over Paul Hellyer in York South — Weston.

Faced with continuing poor results, and two hostile takeover attempts by The Limited in 1984 and 1986, the company, still led by Phillip M. Hawley, reacted by first selling Waldenbooks to K-mart in 1985, Holt Renfrew to the Weston Family in April 1986, Wanamaker's to A. Alfred Taubman's Woodward & Lothrop in January 1987 and then splitting off the desirable specialty store business as Neiman-Marcus Group, Inc. ( encompassing the Neiman-Marcus, Bergdorf Goodman and Contempo Casuals stores ).

:* Stanley Weston Award ( 1984 )

A 1984 training accident killed Sergeant Christopher Eney, while a mentally disturbed gunman named Russell Eugene Weston Jr. killed Officer Jacob Chestnut and Detective John Gibson in a shootout on July 24, 1998.

The estates plan, published in 2007, indicates an intention to sell a number of former UMIST teaching buildings, including the Moffat Building, the Maths and Social Sciences Tower, the Morton Building and the Fairbairn Building, as well as formerly UMIST-owned halls of residence including Hardy Farm, Chandos Hall, Wright-Robinson Hall and Weston Hall.

Simon Weston OBE ( born 8 August 1961 ) is a Welsh veteran of the British Army who became well known throughout the United Kingdom for his recovery and charity work after suffering severe burn injuries during the Falklands War.

Weston became patron of a number of charities that support people living with disfigurements, as well as the lead ambassador for The Healing Foundation.

Parnell Bradbury, writing in The Times thought Le Mesurier had played the role " extraordinarily well ", although Harold Hobson, writing in The Sunday Times thought that " the trouble with Mr. John Le Mesurier's Dr. Weston is that he approaches the man too snarlingly ... is a notion of genius that would be unacceptable anywhere outside Victorian melodrama ".

If plans to increase the size of the town by twenty thousand people go ahead, suburban Aylesbury could well meet up with the neighbouring villages of Bierton, Hartwell, Stoke Mandeville, Stone, Sedrup and Weston Turville.

and various businesses, Loblaw Companies Limited, as well as George Weston Limited, had returned to profitability.

Willard Gordon Galen Weston, OC, OOnt ( born October 29, 1940 ), is a Canadian businessman and philanthropist as well as Executive Chairman of George Weston Limited, a leading food processing and distribution company.

Weston also devotes a significant proportion of her time, as well as her business and fashion expertise, to Selfridges, the London department store of which she is a director.

Though the Westons were not wealthy, they were well connected and through her uncle ’ s patronage Weston was educated in England, where she lived until she returned to Boston in 1828, to serve as principal of a newly founded and socially progressive girls ’ high school.

Weston, a retailing expert who is the owner of department store chains such as Holt Renfrew and Brown Thomas as well as major supermarket chains in Canada, has chosen to invest in renovation of the Oxford Street store, rather than to carry out planned expansion to Leeds, Newcastle Upon Tyne, Bristol, and Glasgow, despite Selfridges owning a site in the latter city.

A purpose-built medical education centre, the Weston Education Centre, was built in 1997 and contains a medical library as well as hosting conferences, symposia, and professional training events as well as containing public access computer rooms for students.

Western Reserve claims to have a royal charter from the Royal Family of Kuwait, authorizing it to award academic degrees, as well as an Al-Qassimi Royal Academic Charter from United Arab Emirates The Oregon Office of Degree Authorization identifies Weston Reserve as an unaccredited college whose degrees are not approved for use in Oregon and states that the institution does not any " recognized provincial or national approval.

In Weston Green there is the Cranleighan Rugby Football Club, as well as the Old Cranleighan Hockey Club.

Rovers started the decade well by winning the 1990 FA Cup Final, 2 – 1 against Weston Villa.

Auburndale is surrounded by three other Newton villages ( West Newton, Waban, and Newton Lower Falls ) as well as the city of Waltham and the town of Weston.

Dr. Edward Weston perfected a process for zinc electroplating, as well as a superior arc lamp in Newark.

) Raised in an actively Catholic household, Sullivan became interested in the possibility of life as a Jesuit and as a teacher through the influence of Jesuit instructors he admired at Boston College High School, as well as his uncle Louis Sullivan, a Jesuit teaching at what was then known as Weston College ( now the Boston College School of Theology and Ministry ).

His older brother, Damian, is a local stage actor as well as a teacher and theatre director at Weston High School.

Heatons are another Irish department store with 57 stores nationwide, and Brown Thomas though much smaller, is very long established and well known, and probably represents the very upper-end of the clothes retail market ( but bought by Galen & Hilary Weston in 1971 so now part of a larger UK / Canadian concern ).

On March 19, 2010, the CBC posted a video interview with Lee and Lifeson where they discussed Rush's induction into the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame on March 28, 2010, at the Toronto Centre for the Arts ' George Weston Recital Hall.

Among the 400 guests were many dignitaries and business leaders, including former US President George H. W. Bush and Barbara Bush, Queen Noor of Jordan, Prince Alexander of Yugoslavia and his Greek-born wife Katherine, Galen Weston and Ontario Lieutenant-Governor Hilary Weston, U. S. television personality Kathie Lee Gifford, and media magnate Ted Rogers.

* George Weston Limited, a Canadian food production and distribution company

* George Weston ( 1864 – 1924 ), businessman, founder of George Weston Limited

The incorporators were John B. Smith, Henderson Gaylord, Peter Shupp, Draper Smith, Josiah M. Eno, Daniel Gardiner, A. R. Matthews, William Jenkins, George P. Richards, S. M. Davenport, Edward Griffith, Lewis Boughton, A. F. Shupp, John J. Shonk, James McAlarney, J. P. Davenport, Eli Bittenbender, David McDonald, C. A. Kuschke, Andrew F. Levi, Querin Krothe, David Madden, John Dodson, Darius Gardiner, John Cobley, William L. Lance, Jr., J. E. Smith, R. N. Smith, John Dennis, David Levi, W. W. Lance, William W. Dietrick, James Hutchison, George Brown, Oliver Davenport, Samuel French, A. Gabriel, Theodore Renshaw, Edward G. Jones, J. L. Nesbitt, J. W. Weston, J. H. Waters, John E. Halleck, E. R. Wolfe, F. E. Spry, C. F. Derby, Anthony Duffy, D. Brown, A. G. Rickard, Thomas P. Macfarlane, William L. Lance, Lewis Gorham, John Jessop, A. S. Davenport, A. Hutchison, Brice S. Blair, John S. Geddis and C. H. Wilson, M. D.

Lydia Weston, a farm girl from a large family in Devon, is hired by Lord George and Lady Constance Lamson-Scribener after her local vicar asks for their help to find a suitable position.

Examples include Thomas H. Bailey, founder and former chairman of Janus Capital Group, Geoff Beattie, president of The Woodbridge Company and chairman of CTVglobemedia, George Cope, president and CEO of Bell Canada Enterprise, Edward Rogers III, deputy chairman of Rogers Communications, and former president of Rogers Cable, Arkadi Kuhlmann, chairman of ING Direct, Rob McEwen, chairman and CEO of US Gold Corporation, Minera Andes and the founder, chairman and former CEO of Goldcorp Inc., John Thompson, former chairman of Toronto-Dominion Bank and chancellor of Western, Prem Watsa, chairman, CEO of Fairfax Financial, Lee Seng Wee, former chairman of Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation, Galen Weston, chairman and president of George Weston Limited.

On 28 February 1922, Princess Mary married Henry Charles George, Viscount Lascelles ( 9 September 1882 – 23 May 1947 ), the elder son of Henry Lascelles, 5th Earl of Harewood, and Lady Florence Bridgeman, daughter of Orlando Bridgeman, 3rd Earl of Bradford of Weston Park.

Franklin Pierce ( 1826 ) was America's fourteenth President ; Melville Weston Fuller ( 1853 ) served as Chief Justice of the United States ; Thomas Brackett Reed ( 1860 ) was twice elected Speaker of the House of Representatives ; and Wallace H. White, Jr. ( 1899 ) and George J. Mitchell ( 1954 ) both served as Majority Leader of the United States Senate.

* In 1935 Stanley Holloway recorded a humorous retelling of the tale as St. George and the Dragon written by Weston and Lee

In 1926, George Weston succeeded Garvey in a UNIA Convention Election, becoming the next 2nd elected President-General of the UNIA, Inc.

It was purchased by Colonel George Gibbs for his large and famous collection of minerals ; when the collection became the property of Yale in 1825, Silliman finally acquired this stone ; the only specimen of the Weston meteorite that remains in the Yale Peabody Museum collection today.

Headquartered in Brampton, Ontario, Loblaw Companies Limited is a subsidiary of George Weston Limited.

Weston, president of George Weston Limited, whose interests included

company George Weston Limited and Metcalf was appointed