Word: supplanting
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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...
Then there is the matter of vocabulary Shakespeare's Falstaff says. "I am melancholy as a gib cat or a lugg'd bear." But Coe's Falstaff changes this to "castrated cat" (and no bear), thus running the punchy parade of six monosyllables. Coe has also seen fit to supplant wenches with daughters Nit-picking, you say? Then how about Coe's alteration of one of the most famous lines in all Shakespeare? When Prince Hal comes upon the supposedly dead Falstaff, he says. "I could have better spar'd a better man" And Coe has substituted the word lost...