Word: expression
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...Communion for divorced Catholics who remarry. Pope John Paul helped establish the synod's forthright mood with an opening homily that avoided touching on specific issues; it seemed clear to Vatican observers that the Pope was presenting the synod participants with a blank page on which to express their thoughts freely. Godfried Cardinal Danneels of Belgium, who was assigned to summarize official reports for the meeting, told journalists that the Pope "said nothing about the work of the coming synod, gave no guidelines for what we were...
Government buildings have a special obligation to express their public nature. Taft Architects, a partnership of three Houstonians, has met that obligation with its elegant Water Resources Building for the Houston exurb of The Woodlands, a structure that serves, for now, as the town hall. The columns and pediment are stucco and the "stone" is split-faced concrete block, but classic American civic form is evoked with a convincing freshness...
...chip stocks of the Dow. The Investor's Daily index of more than 5,200 stocks traded on the New York and American exchanges and over the counter had risen almost 33% in 1985 by the end of last week. From such familiar favorites as General Electric and American Express to small, obscure companies like California-based IntelliCorp, which is developing artificial-intelligence programs for computers, the large majority of share prices went up. If investors picked stocks by throwing darts at the Wall Street Journal listings, they stood an excellent chance of making money...
COVER: Airlines say "Happy New Year" with a rousing round of price rollbacks 40 Air travel used to be an expensive way to go, but a new fleet of cut-rate carriers, led by People Express, is now offering low fares from coast to coast and on hundreds of routes in between. The attractive price of tickets has encouraged more people to take more flights to more places than ever. Travelers who used to ride the bus or drive are hopping a plane. See ECONOMY & BUSINESS...
...writer of a major TIME story rarely works in the field, relying instead on the magazine's network of correspondents and reporter-researchers. For this week's story on People Express and the deregulated airline industry, however, Associate Editor Charles Alexander decided to do things differently. "I usually write about abstract things like economic policy," he says. "My previous cover story was on the budget deficit, and I got buried under statistical reports. This one was a change of pace, a consumer-oriented subject. It made sense to take a firsthand look...