The Ravens and Flacco, 10-6 during the season, become distant memories three weeks before the Super Bowl.

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Some of the issues that arose during that time seem like distant memories.

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On the economic front, weakness from the financial crisis following the peso devaluation in late 1994 and the relative hiccup from the 1998 Asian crisis are now distant memories.

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If Stanford University's research into a new plastic polymer bears fruit, though, our scratched-up phones and tablets are more likely to become distant memories.

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Instead of just searching local networks and familiar territory, creativity requires the system to scour distant corners, odd memories, long forgotten jokes.

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It all seems very distant from those early years, when his first memories associated with radio are the nights he used to spend sitting on his grandmother's lap listening to her favourite news broadcast in Lima.

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Memories of dual or multi-tiered exchange systems are limited, as they are fortunately relics of the distant past.

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