Word: copus
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...patch, the changes have added to the pressure on shaky developers. Two weeks ago Dallas-based Vantage Companies, the seventh largest U.S. developer, notified its creditors of plans to delay some loan payments and restructure as much as $1 billion in debts. Last week Austin-based Nash Phillips Copus, the seventh largest U.S. builder of single-family homes, put itself into Chapter 11 proceedings...
Three national student groups, including the National Coalition of Independent and Private College and University Students (COPUS), have coordinated the day's activities...
Pointing to a difference between Monday's and last year's protests, George Caparelli, a sophomore at Suffolk University in Boston and a member of the COPUS executive board, noted that the student aid cuts are less obvious this year because the Reagan Administration has carefully rearranged the great structure. He added, "The proposed cuts would kill the middle class." Another new issue this year is the recent law restricting draft non-registrants from receiving federal aid and loans...
...COPUS and USSA, the two nationwide student sponsoring organizations, also pursued widely varying strategies. While COPUS arranged meetings with congressmen, USSA members formed "human billboards" in streets around Capitol Hill and staged a rally on the Capitol steps Monday evening that about 5000 students attended...
...students who lobbied in Washington at the beginning of the week--under the auspices of groups like the United States Student Association (USSA) and the Coalition of Private College and University Students (COPUS)--pursued a less-directed strategy, using every available weapons to sway as many Congressman as possible to vote against the proposed budget...