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...memory of a fellow-barber's wife and sister entering the gas chamber, Bomba begs, "Don't make me go on please." Lanzmann continues to insist. For a minute or two the barber silently snips at the hair in front of him. Then he dries his face with a towel and tells the rest of the story Lanzmann would break a man to hear. No scoop is that important...
While chip sales were sinking, U.S. firms continued to lose ground to the Japanese. Rather than cutting back production, such companies as Hitachi and Toshiba persisted in selling at falling prices to boost their market share. "The Japanese don't throw in the towel on the downturns," says Lane Mason, an analyst for Dataquest, which studies electronics firms. "They are willing to suffer a little more red ink in the short term to achieve their long-term goals...
...freshman, the roof of the Science Center boasts a convenient tar platform and sweeping views. Grab a towel and shades and head up to the 8th floor after bio lecture...
...numbered. Yet unfortunately for the White House, the announcement coincided with the climax of negotiations on the budget for fiscal 1986. "The timing was very awkward," said one official. "It added a complication at a very delicate moment." It came during a week in which Reagan threw in the towel on restraining middle-class entitlements such as Social Security and Medicare, leaving Congressmen groping with illusory savings and phony numbers (see following story) in their efforts to pretend to cut the deficit...
Which of course explains a second aspect of Donato’s legend across the River—the product of his penchant for disappearing on towel runs and returning with a van that wasn’t quite the van it used to be, on more than one occasion...