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Camden's destitution lends its prosperous past an evanescent air, so starkly does it clash with the town of today. Up until 1945 or so, this city was a monument to the gusto and grit of a nation laboring to create itself. Camden built everything from battleships to toilet seats, and people here claim you could find more industry per capita in these nine square miles than anywhere else in the world. This was the home of the Victor talking machine, Campbell's soup and the Esterbrook pen. In the cavernous shipyards, 35,000 men once toiled, hammering out eight...
...sophomores, Harvard's Mike Giardi and Dartmouth's Jay Fiedler, played with the grit, determination and, above all, talent of wily veterans, true leaders...
...jump ship. The Environmental Protection Agency director has been telling friends that he is tired of trying to do the right thing on clean air and other issues only to be stymied by more powerful Administration free-marketeers like John Sununu and Richard Darman. President Bush admires Reilly's grit. But Reilly complains that he is becoming the President's environmental poster child and may have to leave to preserve his integrity...
...that girl a thank-you because she put a fire under my tail." With the help of a government program for dislocated workers, Drumm spent the next two years earning a bookkeeping degree, and now works for a local entrepreneur. It will take a nationwide confluence of such grit, entrepreneurship and effective public programs to speed the recovery -- and put Americans back to work...
...years ago, the lean touring cycles popularly known as 10-speeds accounted for 80% of U.S. sales. But today mountain bikes make up more than half the total and are gaining ground. Cross-bikes, a fast-growing hybrid of ATB grit and sleeker 10-speed styling, account for an additional 10%. Sales of ATBs and cross-bikes more than doubled during the first three months of this year, compared with 1990. The easy handling of mountain bikes has vastly broadened biking's appeal. Says Net Payne, 21, a Cornell University senior: "Before, bicycling was only for kids and racers...