Venerable operators like yours truly simultaneously are blessed and cursed by their historical memory of the life cycles for great growth companies.

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The Poor People's Campaign has faded from historical memory.

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But perhaps the most damning indictment of the weakness of Guatemala's democratic institutions is the unsolved murder of Juan Gerardi, a Catholic bishop who headed the church's Recovery of Historical Memory project, an investigation into who had killed whom during the war.

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Vittorio Giulini, chairman of Moda Industria, the Italian clothing and knitting industries' association, says that the technological complexity of the industrial system that connects the spinner to the catwalk, and the historical memory it embodies, are two of the four pillars holding up Italian fashion.

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The book, to be sold by Livraria Cultura all over Brazil, is illustrated with beautiful pictures taken by photographer Niven Franci as well as schematic drawings that faithfully register the memory of this piece of Brazilian historical and cultural heritage.

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He also has a photographic memory, and can casually reel off historical facts and economic theories like he's ordering another pint of Guinness.

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And this is the first time in my memory -- and I know of no other historical contrary fact -- that suggests that, when a majority of senators wanted a nomination to be heard properly, that it wasn't heard.

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