Word: reston
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Baker, who believed he was doing just fine at the Sun, was less sure. The paper nurtured and rewarded his talents; its editor was like a father. James Reston, then the Times's Washington bureau chief, would eventually assume a similar role as Baker's boss. But before the relationship could be established, home-office politics required that Baker pay dues in New York City. Underemployed in the Times's vast, overstaffed city room, the "jumper," as he describes himself, guiltily plowed through Dostoyevsky and corresponded with his wife Mimi. "The Times felt like an insurance office," he observes. "Writing...
...lack of attention this problem receives is emblematic of our response to environmental dangers. Environmentalists warned us for years about the possibilities of the greenhouse effect, but politicians and the media didn't talk about it until last summer's heat wave. New York Times columnist James Reston has said that "the networks will only cover the environment when you get a picture of a forest that died." Will we need a disaster the size of Chernobyl to start thinking about nuclear satellites...
Jason and I were best friends in Reston, Virginia, where we grew up. One of the nation's first planned communities, Reston fondly referred to itself as a "place called Reston," clearly setting itself apart from places where other people live like towns or cities...
...brother hated Reston, seeing in it all that was wrong with American suburbia, and I suppose he had a point. For a high school student like my brother there was not much to do, unless drinking beers in a park fulfilled your dreams of what life could be like. But I loved Reston, and I cried when my parents decided to move out of the place and into a city, Washington, D.C. to be exact...
...Jason and the rest of our gang, Reston was a playground with limitless possibilities. During football season, Jason McDevitt's front yard was home field to the Michigan Wolverines. For people who knew little about life, we knew everything about sports. Street and Smith's was our bible, and the starting lineups of major college powers rolled off our tongues with ease...