1.   Productivity growth does not depend solely on equipment -- whether or not new, high-productivity machines replace old, low-productivity ones.

2.   But machines have replaced men.

3.   Ellison says the machine will replace the personal computer in businesses and homes.

4.   From the moment the first Jenny spun, machines have gradually replaced human hands.

5.   In the sugar plantations surrounding Sertaozinho in this fertile region of southeastern Brazil, harvesting machines are fast replacing people.

6.   Machines have largely replaced the legions of high school and college students who detasseled much of the Corn Belt in the past.

7.   Mines closed and men were replaced by machines.

8.   Neither machine would replace that system within the United States, at least initially.

9.   Similar to the compact disk players that dominate the home stereo industry, DVD machines could replace VCRs as the most popular way to watch recorded movies.

10.   The idea a few years ago that a notebook machine could replace a desktop was a joke.