Those with a long memory know that the Japanese were originally known after World War II for their exports of so-called dollar blouses.

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Robert Hughes, of Croydon, south London, was stabbed with a broken bottle and had his head stamped on, leaving him with no long-term memory.

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However, our chance meeting with the spectacular creature will long live in the memory.

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With memristors, one can make dense, long-lasting memory chips.

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Three of these areas have previously been linked with the formation of episodic memories, which are a kind of long-term memory.

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In keeping with his perfectionist nature, Roberts had rehearsed the oath ceremony and had long since committed the words to memory.

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But if you're stuck, as we have been, with the slowest economic recovery in modern memory, most people would probably say it was better for the long-term health of the country to have more people working, less productively, than to have rising productivity but also higher unemployment.

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