How odd that it should be that slab, that word, that evening.

A giant crane strained to lift a 12 foot high slab, yanking it back and forth like some dinosaur gnawing its prey.

These structures consist of a slab of material (such as silicon) which can be patterned using techniques borrowed from the semiconductor industry.

Before these decisions were taken, China had already eliminated a 13 per cent rebate on slab and billet exports in early 2005.

Africa s Structural Transformation Challenge

Structural and jurisdictional issues

Structural foundations remained intact.

Burial was, for as long as there was room, usually in a graveyard adjacent to the church, with a gravestone or horizontal slab, or for the wealthy or important clergy, inside it.

The Mirage of Structural Reform

Any structural adjustment is painful.

Structural change is, by definition, innovative.

Volcanism Prior to the Eocene Epoch (55.8 0.2 to 33.9 0.1 Ma) the convergence rate of the Farallon and North American Plates was fast, the angle of subduction was shallow, and the slab width was huge.

Structural analysis is often in terms of incompressible dynamic pressure, so that equivalent airspeed is a useful speed for structural testing.

EMU was designed to encourage structural reforms.

This structural shift has enormous practical significance.

This isn t for lack of structural reforms.

In fact, where structural weaknesses are the source of problems, the Fund should still require structural adjustment as the price of its assistance.

Meanwhile, fears of structural decline pervade the country.

China s economic problems are more structural than cyclical.

Structural change does not automatically accelerate economic development.

Let us remember what structural unemployment looks like.

The main structural proteins are collagen and elastin.

(d) Structural elements (e.g., trustee, funds flow, timing)

Structural changes in the Palestinian economy 1995 2004

So, it's tens of millions of calculations just to design one connection between a piece of structural steel and another piece of structural steel.

On floods and storm surges, he noted structural measures such as multipurpose cyclone centres, and non structural measures such as subsurface food and seed storage.

Rising structural unemployment will reduce labor input and efficiency.

Individual countries would still need to undertake structural reforms.

Many important structural problems have resulted from this trend.

Both structural factors and the exchange rate are discussed.

Fiscal discipline remains essential, as are deep structural reforms.

Yes, Europe needs structural reform, as austerity advocates insist.

Negotiators will also have to overcome significant structural obstacles.

In this climate, no progressive structural reforms are likely.

FLORENCE Major economic crises are inevitably also structural milestones.

Macro politics is structural, whereas micro politics is daily.

There are structural explanations for policy inaction as well.

The country was also slow in implementing structural reforms.

This process of structural adjustment is still going on.

It would do nothing to correct its structural imbalances.

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The Structural Classification of Proteins (SCOP) database is a largely manual classification of protein structural domains based on similarities of their structures and amino acid sequences.

In other words, lack of social trust blocks structural reform.

The finance minister claims that there is no structural inflation.

It has to do with a deep, historic, structural reality.