Word: carey
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...seen the numbers [of Blacks going tocollege decline] and we've had to increase ourrecruitment just to maintain the same number ofapplications," said Jennifer D. Carey '78,director of Harvard's minority recruitmentprogram. The number of Black applications hasremained between 600 and 700 per year since 1972,Carey said...
...Michael Carey, 32, is an Iowa farmer and poet ("The thing about farming is there is nothing between you and the world") who one day soon will fold his beloved notebook of verse and go down to his cornfields to meet his neighbor Jim Anderzhon. Anderzhon will be there in his John Deere 6620 SideHill combine. Carey cannot afford a combine of his own, so he hires his neighbor's machine. The two will talk the quiet talk of farmers for a few minutes, looking at the breathtaking beauty of abundance. Then, in the huge stillness of dawn along...
...Start your engines, gentlemen," Carey could pen to an army of Anderzhons deployed from the Oregon plateau to the piedmont of the Carolinas. The visceral roar of the nation's 640,000 combines, were they all gathered in one spot for the harvest assault, would dwarf the sound of Patton's tanks pushing toward Bastogne. Yet the only violence would be to cornstalks and soybean plants, and in that death is life. "The thing about farming," writes Carey "is it's so easy, half of it is learning to kill...
Back in the clear, cold winter, when he had time for his verses, Farmer- Poet Carey looked at his world and wondered and wrote: "There is such a sadness on the land, Chicken Little. Chicken Little, the sky has fallen...
...Carey asked Cuomo to run with him as Lieutenant Governor in 1978, and the duo won easily. Within a year, however, there was tension between them, and Cuomo began thinking about challenging his benefactor. By the time Carey announced that he would not seek re-election in 1982, Cuomo was primed. But there was one thing he had not counted on: Ed Koch. After the mayor decided to seek the nomination, Cuomo's support suddenly became scarce...