1.   Steel cable will be used to replace worn ropes.

2.   IBM says PROFS is not used to replace the human contacts.

3.   And Snoopy is used to replace the Gallic cartoon hero Asterix.

4.   At the same time, the president ordered the Pentagon to report back on technologies that might be used to replace land mines in the U.S. arsenal.

5.   A cherry picker was used to replace the burned-out lights on One Times Square.

6.   After a MIDI performance is recorded, a sequencer can be used to replace sloppy rhythms and fix flubbed notes by dragging them to the appropriate pitch.

7.   Agents believe the robbers have a cache of stolen license plates that they use to replace the plates on the stolen vehicles.

8.   But there are limits on the number of vouchers that can be used to replace housing that has been demolished.

9.   Coronary bypass surgery, in which leg veins are used to replace clogged arteries supplying the heart, has been a boon to millions of heart patients.

10.   District Judge David Edelstein in New York City, who is the ultimate Teamsters election supervisor, declined to comment on procedures that will be used to replace Quindel.