Yesterday morning I ate a waffle!

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.

No longer an independent global power, yet unhappy with the London Washington axis that Blair forged, Brown s government continues to waffle in its commitment to a united Europe.

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.

He is an interesting man, a genuine intellectual driven by his inner demons both to flay those who pay insufficient credit to his transformational role in Australian politics and to expose what he regards as waffle and myths.

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.