Word: supplanting
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...development process. The story, set like Scissorhands and Batman Returns at Christmas, is about Jack Skellington, the ruler of Halloweentown and his suffering what amounts to a mid-life crisis. Upon discovering Christmastown, Jack believes that this is a way to re-invigorate Halloween, and he misguidedly tries to supplant Santa Claus, if just for one year. The movie was a success, given its low production costs and soon garnered a cult following that rivaled any of Burton's previous films...
...provision of social services rather than an expansion. If funding for religious charities were increased, given the current budget climate, it is unreasonable to think that funding for the government's social programs--Bush's "secular alternatives"--would not decline. While some would rejoice in seeing motivated individuals supplant a government bureaucracy, this is not always good public policy...
...Crimson then faced its toughest test of the season, drawing Princeton and Penn on back-to-back days at home. The Tigers and Quakers represented the teams most likely to supplant Harvard as champion...
...first big brands -- Yahoo, Excite, Lycos -- were all search engines. But can they still cut the mustard? A new generation of search services is springing up, with names like Google and FAST, armed with next-generation technology, and they say they have the power to supplant their elders and finally make sense...
...decided now is that we'll identify, assess and honor a much wider range of human abilities than just whatever it is that IQ tests measure. That's the theory. The practice is that IQ testing--cheap, consistent and established--is still ubiquitous. Even the attempts to supplant it pay IQ the tribute of accepting its frame of reference. We have got used to trying to understand what goes on inside people's head in terms of "intelligences" and "quotients," and there doesn't seem to be any way to put that particular horse back in the barn...