Word: supplant
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...support the almost romantic anti-technology stand of the party, which effectively used rallies and other mass-appeal tactics to block the construction of nuclear energy plants between 1977 and 1981. Conservation too remains a cornerstone of the Greens' projected "renaissance", in which windmills and solar power would supplant current "dirty" energy sources...
Twenty years ago, the view was different. Seikan was hailed as a technological "dawn for Asia." With 25 million people expected to travel between the islands each year, it would allow bullet trains to supplant aging ferries and slash travel times...
...could argue that the proposal, which is currently before Congress, can't do any harm. But that presupposes that it isn't used to supplant direct grants to those in need. The White House, in a statement accompanying the plan, indicated that the account is designed to shift dependence from grants to loans, and the estimated cost of $300 million for the first two years can be considered taken from direct...
...fight against Israel] across a number of fronts. Then perhaps the world will see that the only solution is to give the Palestinians their own homeland, to establish a Palestinian democratic state." Such a state, in Gaddafi's view, would not exist alongside Israel. It would supplant Israel...
...Building in Portland, Ore., is nearly completed-on schedule and within budget. Yet the storm of controversy the building has raised is likely to rage long after its official dedication on Oct. 2. The issue is style. With this one brazen gesture, the architect, Michael Graves, 48, attempts to supplant modern architecture's heroic industrialism with postmodern architecture's heroic . . . what? Perhaps it might be called Pop surrealism that uses classic design elements the way Walt Disney cartoons used the physiognomy of a rodent to create Mickey Mouse. For all its playfulness, however, the Portland Building is dangerous...