Argentines' access to their savings - being rapidly eaten up by inflation - is a highly sensitive issue.

BBC: Banking crisis looms over Argentina talks

Part of the extra money would be eaten up by rising health-care costs, but it would also allow SCHIP to be extended to families at up to 300% of the federal poverty level.

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The old town of mud-brick houses linked by labyrinthine alleys is disappearing, eaten up by broad avenues lined by high-rise buildings.

ECONOMIST: Xinjiang

If you are a twenty-year-old male of unvarnished social aptitude, those movies will seem like much-loved classics that have eaten up half your lifetime.

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One consequence is that funds must display in financial reports their expense ratios--the percent of your money that gets eaten up every year in management fees and other overhead.

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Yet the war in the western region of Darfur, which reached its most violent stage as the CPA was being finalised, has eaten up most of the foreign diplomatic and financial resources that were promised to bolster the north-south agreement.

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