Word: devour
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...need all the help he can get, Fox's room for maneuver is exceedingly narrow. For starters, some 80 percent of his national budget is already spoken for in paying off external debt and the residue of Mexico's banking scandal, which will devour about $5 billion in interest. That gives him little to spend on efforts to promote economic growth, which remains his overarching priority. But even if he had the money to spend, he'd have to contend with the fact that he lacks a majority in the legislature, and most state governors still belong...
...sleazier rap music, is not adult. It is, essentially, infantile - the expression of a caterwauling baby whose main pleasures are breaking things and playing with his caca. And the child of the '50s that still lives inside me wonders whether I would have been as eager to devour the scraps of this culture as I was to consume the bounty of the one I grew...
Mbeki is believed to have encountered "dissident" thinking last year during a late-night Web-browsing session, and it's hardly surprising that he may have been searching for an intellectual escape route from the implications of his country's nightmare. Over the next decade, AIDS is expected to devour up to 20% of South Africa's national wealth. Half its population of 15-year-olds is expected to die of the disease. Far from a renaissance, sub-Saharan Africa is in the throes of a plague of medieval proportions. Even at 80% discounts, treatment therapies are simply beyond...
...More than half the mass-market paperback fiction titles sold annually in the U.S. are romance novels. Factor in hardback sales, and romances account for about 40% of the fiction total. Almost 1 of every 5 adult books sold is a romance novel. Those 37.9 million women readers could devour three romances every day of the year and still not exhaust the annual output of some 2,000 new titles...
Students also devour the remains of dessert, which the staff kindly leaves for the 2 a.m. munchies...