But whereas the 1930s is seared in American memory, it is less clearly remembered in Germany.
The Vietnam War was so toxic for the public that none of its generals found later political success, and their names are not etched in the American memory in the same way.
Buying a half-share of such a giant would be too expensive for most of the firms that are likley to be interested (Intel, the obvious exception, has already joined Micron, an American memory maker).
Today the events of September 11 are still vivid enough in the American memory for America to continue the fight despite the administration's efforts to discredit the war in the national discourse and imagination.
Cemetery after cemetery across Europe honours the memory of American soldiers, resting row upon row - often alongside comrades-in-arms from Britain.
For many years, the story of the first failed commune of Plymouth Bay was part of the collective memory of American students.
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And let me say that you now have the most pro-American European leadership in living memory.
Later on Wednesday, Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin will attend a religious ceremony to honour the victims' memory at the American Cathedral in Paris.
Senator Helms used the occasion to provide the most eloquent and authoritative description in recent memory of traditional American principles and popular sentiments concerning U.S. sovereignty.
President Obama has opted to deprive American kids of this lifelong memory because the sequester cuts, which he describes as drastic, leave him without funds to offer tours of the White House.
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To allay concerns about reliability--Fiats still rank near the bottom of owner-satisfaction surveys in Europe, and "Fix It Again Tony" remains lodged in the memory of potential American buyers--Fiat has included a 50, 000-mile warranty on the 500 and free maintenance for three years.
Although Intel, under CEO Andy Grove, was able to abandon the memory business and focus on microprocessors at a time when Japanese firms, backed by generous government subsidies, were driving their American rival out of the memory market, the company has not been able to pull a similar trick when it comes to the architectural transition from x86 to ARM.
Mr Parra thinks this may reflect Dow's memory of the way the American government left it to pick up the legal fallout from the use of the notorious Agent Orange defoliant during the Vietnam war.
"The American people ... have a long, long memory, " he said.
Two years ago, Micron bought (with equity) the memory-chip operations of Texas Instruments, an American rival.
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"From 1862 to 1867, the public memory of Cinco de Mayo was forged in the American West, " Hayes-Bautista said.
New York (CNN) -- Broadway's bright glow will dim for a moment on Wednesday in memory of the late Marvin Hamlisch, a prolific American composer who died this week after a more than four-decade long career that spanned film, music, television and theater.
"Dry farming" is labor intensive, but in the American West, plentiful, cheap water for irrigation is a distant memory.
AMD, an American semiconductor firm, in an effort to streamline its flash-memory business.
More than any president in recent memory, Reagan uniquely had all the qualities of an American president: Optimism, determination, vision, and gravitas.
The minimum wage has been a part of American life for so long now that very few citizens have any memory of a time when it did not exist.
And more than 40 American soldiers are alive today to carry on, to keep alive the memory of their fallen brothers, to help make sure that this country that we love so much remains strong and free.
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Plymouth endured, the English prevailed in the contest for the continent, and Anglo-American Protestants New Englanders, in particular molded the new nation's memory.
Although the historical memory of the Soviet invasions of Hungary in 1956 and Czechoslovakia in 1968 still stirs pro-American feelings, a more recognisably European mindset has emerged since the early 1990s.
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Already, even with American unemployment at record post-war lows and the economy steaming ahead, industries such as steel and memory chips have resorted to anti-dumping suits to protect themselves against imports.
Addressing the American Psychological Association annual convention in Chicago, they said that a positive diagnosis depends on the extent of the memory loss.
When Masuoka presented his flash memory at the annual International Electronics Developers Meeting in San Jose, California, in 1984, the American semiconductor industry saw it as a threat.
As we said, the main differences you'll see between these US-centric models and the original version are the processor and amount of RAM used: the American variants all make use of a dual-core, 1.5GHz Snapdragon S4 chip and 2GB of memory, while the I9300 runs on quad-core Exynos silicon and one gig of RAM.
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