The greatness of Detroit can forever be a fading memory, or there can be a new beginning.

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Such discrimination may be a fading memory, but then churches have a different way of measuring time.

ECONOMIST: Catholics in Britain

As another season of annual general meetings approaches, the shareholder revolts and executive sackings that used to accompany such occasions are a fading memory.

ECONOMIST: In the boardroom

Whilst they will remember the trauma of long waiting times, shabby buildings and a crisis every winter in the Tory years, it's a fading memory, and their concerns are about the future.

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This time, the invasion is a fading memory.

ECONOMIST: Better together. If necessary, alone

The Walesa episode was fading into memory when President Obama made his opening remarks.

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Hurricane Irene has come and gone, and except for a few places that got walloped, is fading into memory, leaving nothing but the Monday-morning media analysis behind.

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