Word: reston
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Despite all these problems, the new town concept is not dead. Several privately financed new communities-notably Columbia, Md., Reston, Va., and Irvine, Calif.-are profitable and growing. Even HUD does not label its program a total failure. The agency will try to sell off or transfer financing of seven of the 13 federally backed towns and dissolve the corporation that oversees the project, but it will continue to spend money on the six other communities that HUD planners think might survive. Besides, a 1976 National Science Foundation study of 17 new towns, HUD-backed and otherwise, shows that most...
...administration decided to make an "exception" to the U.N. sanctions against Rhodesia because "we believe the visit can contribute to the process of achieving a settlement," Thomas Reston, a Department spokesman, said yesterday...
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Most overrated: James Reston. Most respected: David Broder. Least respected: Rowland Evans and Robert Novak. Most pretentious: Joseph Kraft. Most thoughtful: Richard Strout and John Osborne of the New Republic. Most predictable: Patrick Buchanan and Tom Wicker...
...Scotty Reston of the New York Times overrated? This seems a melancholy assessment to those many who have long regarded him as Washington's ablest journalist-the role model of an aggressive competitor and fair reporter, with great sources, literate style and Calvinist integrity. The Washingtonian quotes one Reston colleague: "His problem is over-access. He gets to see people others can't see and he believes them and blows their horn." But surely, to be able to quote Carter's or Kissinger's private comment accurately is to provide valuable information. Reston's real...