But Penny still has plenty of memories of her mother.

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Yet at the urging of venture capitalists with somewhat longer memories and plenty of cash at risk, firms across California's Silicon Valley and beyond have been making big cuts in their relatively small budgets.

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He gave all of us plenty of opportunities to learn and create lasting memories.

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This is important as, looking ahead, we expect macroeconomic developments to feed through to a marked rally in the gold price and, with plenty of room for the gold:silver ratio to contract, particularly if memories of uncomfortable investor losses in silver during 2011 continue to fade, it is easy to see decent scope for sizable gains in the silver price this year.

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Meantime, new Creative Memories President Asha Morgan Moran, granddaughter of Antioch's founder, says there's still plenty of room to expand in the U.S., mostly in the South and East.

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