Their favorite lamp has been swapped out for an obscure designer lighting system.
Much of it looks like it could easily have been swapped out for a reel of Charlie Chaplin's, "Modern Times" (1936), which lampooned efficiency.
Corporate titans have been swapped out for small-business owners, generals for wounded foot soldiers, entrenched elected leaders for minority House candidates.
The Brazilian beat has been swapped out for Congolese-tinged guitars, while Pitbull offers crude come-ons, and Enrique Iglesias moans, "You're what I want".
Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, have now genetically engineered a strain of mice whose FOXP2 gene has been swapped out for the human version.
In some B.L.M. field offices, posters depicting conservation landmarks, such as a federally protected red-rock canyon, have been swapped out for ones showing a towering black coal bed and a yellow haul truck.
The 2-liter engine of its predecessor has been swapped out for a 1.8-liter 4-cylinder unit, which is designed to deliver quicker, more efficient combustion, though it shed 10 horsepower in transition, settling at 130. The sacrificed power may not be missed, however, given the car also lost more than 150 pounds, according to Nissan.
The sophistication of Russia's operation, whistle-blowers have said, has made some athletes on steroids appear clean because incriminating urine samples have been swapped out or because athletes imbibed drugs with liquor to minimize the period during which the drugs can be detected.
Google's camera app has been swapped out and in its place there is a Kodak camera app.
