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Fifty miles south of Washington, in rural Calvert County, Maryland, Dorsey's Gray's Ford truck and tractor dealership is on the verge of bankruptcy, "Damn worst I've seen since I've been in business," he matters. And the once-booming Calvert construction business is dormant now: New building permits are down 44 percent from last year, idling most of the county's predominantly black construction workers. Officially, unemployment in Calvert is 18 percent, making the current recession Calvert's most distressing economic situation in recent memory...
...hope that Americans will stand up for their right to participate in the decisions that affect their livelihood. That is the common aspiration that could yet unite the realtors--who suffer from a Reagan-induces flight at capital from savings and loans to commercial banks--and the unemployed of Calvert Country--whose jobs are being siphoned off to defense-spending-enriched boom towns in the Sun Belt. Reagan's victims are already mad: it remains to be seen if they can get together. If they do, they can turn to Greed Is Not Enough for some ideas to start with
...other Crimson swimmers qualified for the finals in any event, but Zimic, Anita Rival, Jeanne Hoyd and Shetty Calvert were one place and 2 seconds away in the 800 freestyle relay...
Harvard's final entry in the meet will be today when Calvert races in the 200-yard backstroke. Her season best of 2:09 should put her in the top sixteen finishers, but a recent cold could harm her chances of placing well...
...only other entry in yesterday's events was the 800-yard free-style relay of Zimic, freshman Anita Rival, sophomore Jones Floyd and junior transfer from West Point, Shelby Calvert. Despite a very strong third leg from Floyd and a powerful finish by Calvert, the Crimson quarter finished 17th--just .2 seconds away from the finals...