Word: supplant
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...trade you Franklin Pierce for Zachary Taylor. In an effort to supplant the paper dollar, the U.S. Mint in February will begin circulating $1 coins, each with the image of a deceased U.S. President...
...best and most creative ideas of the faculty,” he wrote. “[The fund] should stimulate and foster a competition of ideas that are focused on China.” Dominguez emphasized that the HCF’s purpose was “not to supplant but to supplement and expand the work [on China] that is already under way.” “It will not hire professors, admit students, or grant degrees, but it will help to support professors and students at Harvard who work on China,” he wrote...
...leave his own home, even though it's just 6 km from the summit: "If I do, I would not be guarding the mountain I have promised to guard. I would not be doing my duty." For the villagers living in Merapi's shadow, science has yet to supplant their faith in the power of their mountain...
...Shoutouts to Space Ghost and Scooby Doo supplant Biggie and Pac, and there’s a whole track called “Aqua Teen Hunger Force,” but for the most part Doom sounds like his normal virtuosic self...
...limping behemoths like Sony have discovered, staying ahead in electronics is a relentless challenge. A host of new technologies could disrupt LCD's emergence just as easily as LCD has begun to supplant cathode-ray tubes. Even against existing technologies, Sharp faces a formidable battle. Junzo Masuda, director of iSuppli, a market-research firm in Kyoto, says the real test is how Sharp's big-screen TVs ultimately fare against plasma display panels (PDPs), the dominant type of large-screen, flat-panel displays. Sharp may have better technology, but Masuda wonders whether the company can reduce costs enough to defeat...