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McDonnell Douglas executives supplanted Boeing veterans at the highest echelons of Boeing management — exemplified by the appointment of Harry Stonecipher, who was CEO of McDonnell Douglas at the time of the merger, as CEO of Boeing in 2003.

In other words, the program was in the red from the start; had it not been supplanted by Obamacare, it surely would have experienced rising deficits requiring a revision.

Americans would remember it as the “Great Depression” until the 1930s economic reversal supplanted it in the economic lexicon.

Walker Buehler, who supplanted Clayton Kershaw as the Dodgers’ October ace, has made seven starts since returning from the injured list for the second time this season.

Questions of what people own, and control are increasingly supplanted by questions of who or what people are, replacing clashes of classes with the collaging of identities and morals.

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