Word: cassino
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...anti-Jewish laws were making life difficult for the Caros in Berlin. Henny escaped to London two years later, but her mother and sister died in concentration camps in 1943. Shanti, meanwhile, joined the British army as a dentist and lost his arm at the battle of Monte Cassino. After the war he married Henny and, astonishingly, took up dentistry again. So what? a reader might ask. "I wasn't sure there would be any interest in this story," Seth confides from the office of his London publisher. "My mother asked me to interview Shanti Uncle because he was sick...
...falloff in demand, the company's gross debt has climbed to some $32 million. Fiat last week announced 8,100 layoffs and asked the government to declare a state of crisis, the first step to public aid for its workers and factories. It is a request that people in Cassino, 70 km north of Naples, say must be heeded to save the city from economic disaster. Even more than Turin, the northern city where Fiat was founded by Agnelli's grandfather in 1899, places like Cassino are utterly dependent company towns. Since they were built to extend the company...