Until recently however, the left had forgotten the importance of solidarity.

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And, in another few weeks, half of the people left will have forgotten all about it as well.

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The left had never forgotten the bitter battles between Murdoch and the print unions during the Wapping dispute in the 1980s.

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Moreover, once found these items are rarely displayed and are mostly left to deteriorate in some forgotten box on a shelf somewhere.

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Should the anti-conventioneers be left in their protest pits and forgotten?

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So he left, his murals seemingly destined to be forgotten.

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Nothing is ever forgotten, and very few debts are left unpaid...

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"Over the last few years, we became poorer and poorer, thousands of people were laid off and we were forgotten by the rest of Italy, left to rot in a corner, " said Pietro Airaudo, 72, at a cafe opposite an Olympic venue.

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Of course, people have always forgotten the car keys (or where they left the horse).

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With the introduction of lighter and hardier plastics in the 1960s, old wooden decoys were retired: tossed in garages, left on the water or put up on mantels, mainly forgotten except by hunters who saw sentimental value in them.

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Bill Clinton, on his recent visit to Moscow, paid former Russian president Boris Yeltsin a private visit that carried with it a very public message: though Yeltsin may have left political life, the man who brought democracy to Russia is hardly forgotten.

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