Word: supplant
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...last Thursday's meeting, both full-time andpart-time attendants asked Conway, their union'sbusiness agent, to confirm or deny that an effortwas underway to supplant full time employees...
...their March 7th editorial, The Crimson's staff describes the weekend protest on ethnic studies courses and minority faculty hiring as "half-hearted" and as "protest for the sake of protesting." This was manifestly not the case and I hope that by writing in, I can supplant the staff's speculation with facts...
Many faculty thought the field-specific classes would completely supplant a discipline-wide survey. But student interests were not quite so focused as their professors,' apparently, since the classes' combined enrollment did not add up to that of the popular...
...Kirk Fordice is increasingly misplaced. More accurately, the country's traditional consensus faith is biblical monotheism, which comfortably includes Judaism. Now, however, there is a major new player. Islam, the third great monotheistic faith, is expanding through both immigration and the conversion of African Americans and is bidding to supplant Judaism as America's second largest faith. In 1978 the Interfaith Conference of Metropolitan Washington became the first major interfaith organization to include Muslims alongside the Catholics, Protestants and Jews. It has since admitted Mormons and Sikhs; Hindus will probably be next. Other prospects: Buddhists, Baha...
...mitigate student competitiveness, to improve the consistency of grade values and to make the grading system altogether more logical, Harvard should scrap the 15-point system and supplant it with the conventional 4.0 system...