With more than 43 percent of the land vacant, Youngstown is slowly being erased.

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Opportunities for Americans on the bottom to better their station in life are being erased.

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That prevents data from being erased, limiting the stick's life.

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Handhelds have been the most successful pen-based computers, but as the market has matured, it looks as though their signature input method is on the verge of being erased.

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Most flash modules fail after being written to and erased about 10, 000 times, but Macronix found that the tired memory could be restored by baking it for extended periods of time.

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For using ineligible players, the school is being stripped of its 2011 Class 6A state championship, it having its 2010 state runner-up status erased from the history books, and must send back the trophies associated with those appearances.

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