Synapses are the junctions between nerve cells, and their action is central to learning and memory.

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The Federal Reserve, confronted with a global stock sell-off fanned by increased fears of an American recession, cut a key interest rate by three-quarters of a percentage point on Tuesday, the biggest one-day move by the central bank in recent memory.

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The Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences was established in 1968 by the Central Bank of Sweden in memory of Alfred Nobel.

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The upgrade on the machine includes a boost to the system bus--the primary pathway between the central processing chip and the computer's memory, from 100 MHz to 133 MHz.

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It does not take a long memory to recall how in 1992 the central bank supplied 2.9 trillion won in special loans to three big investment trusts (South Korean mutual funds).

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In the case of Germany, that includes a scarring memory of what happened the last time a central bank "came to the rescue" of the government.

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These include a CPU (central processing unit), GPU (graphics processing unit), memory and other elements.

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Last weekend I was in central Ohio for the annual charity race we hold to raise cancer-research money in memory of my late friend Jack Roth.

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