Word: supplanting
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...markets in the face of spiralling costs, wage and labor disputes, and a dollar squeeze. In the process, Durso thinks, sports businesses like Madison Square Garden, the owners of a racetrack, a basketball and hockey team, an ice show, and boxing interests, fomented a revolution which saw money supplant entertainment as professional sport's raison d'etre...
...these, or any other issues for that matter, Bok must decide for himself the figure he will carve as President of the University. From this figure will evolve an administration certain to depart from the stolid ways of the Pusey years; new faces, new attitudes will soon supplant...
Such problems now plague the U.S., which leads the world in mass schooling. Student discontent, failing public schools, financial pressures-all these lend new weight to gadflies who preach a new heresy. The best way to reform U.S. education, they say, is to supplant compulsory attendance with voluntary learning...
...objections to the ad hoe procedures stem largely from the fact that they modify and supplant Section 7 of the Rogers Motion in such a way as to preclude consideration of Hartman's claim that academic due process was neglected in the non-renewal of his contract...
...group of House Committee chairmen and representatives has almost completed drafting a proposal for two new internal disciplinary committees which would supplant the Committee on Rights and Responsibilities...