31.   More companies are prepared to replace striking workers and more seem willing to move production elsewhere to escape high wages.

32.   Ms. Hoover said the workers would be replaced with ABC employees trained to do the behind-the-camera jobs and with temporary workers.

33.   Ms. Katz asked a plant manager whether robots were replacing human workers.

34.   Now agricultural interests want Congress to give them a new guest-worker program to replace workers they will lose because of a crackdown on illegal immigration.

35.   On Thursday, the administration denied that withdrawing the workfare workers proved the city had been using them to replace regular workers.

36.   Other businesses will permanently replace unskilled workers with automated machinery.

37.   Responding to protests that people on welfare were being hired to replace regular workers, Maryland Gov. Parris Glendening signed an executive order Tuesday banning the practice.

38.   Senate Democrats blocked a Republican effort to overturn a directive by President Clinton that would ban major Federal contracts to companies that replace striking workers.

39.   Stanley typically whittles its overstock by slowing the rate at which it replaces departing workers, who leave the low-wage industry at relatively high rates.

40.   Some union leaders contend that the workfare program violates a state law barring public employers from replacing regular workers with workfare participants.