Parts of the building that face downtown are clad in slabs of caramel-coloured Spanish limestone.
It was one of only two companies worldwide (the other was Korea's Posco) to turn a profit making slabs in the fourth quarter last year, when steel prices hit their low point.
The front room of the shop had been filled with the smell of meat, and my grandfather had stood and looked around at the hams and sausages hanging from the rafters, soup bones and square bacon slabs in the cold counter window, the skinned red lamb with its sharp little teeth lying on the block while Luka cleaved the bone of the leg away.
Incredible as it may seem, there was the Sage of Omaha sitting alone scarfing down his low-calorie meal of waffles dripping in syrup, slabs of bacon and on top--like the cherry on a sundae--a serving of eggs benedict, all being washed down with a huge glass of cherry Coke, the first of five such libations he drinks every day.
Kyocera kitted us out with toques, touch-sensitive gloves and giant black faux-fur coats -- well, Brad chose white -- and led us all into a bar made entirely of ice to launch its new handsets here at CTIA. Kyocera, playing off the tough-guy thing, had the Hydro Xtrm and Edge laid out on slabs of ice in a pretty frosty environment for us to handle with our gloved hands.
Heavenly hunks of slow-roasted short rib, peppercorn-crusted and topped with freshly grated horseradish, come in parchment on wooden slabs.
He cobbled together "objects"--please don't call them sculptures--out of found slabs of wood and, in one case, a chickpea and the vertebra of a dog.
Sure it is pretty shiny plastic, but the shape was just great to hang onto which is something of a rarity in our world of giant slabs.
Choking from the tear gas fired into the crowd, some hoisted sledgehammers to smash up the pavement in order to hurl broken slabs over improvised barricades that now enclose a makeshift camp.
Exhibits are displayed not in conventional vitrines, but on slabs resembling tables (evoking endless visits to U.S. consulates) or (closed) doors.
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In the shinkansen case, large slabs of concrete peeled off tunnel walls and slammed into the passenger compartments of passing bullet-trains.
The sulfur, 5 million tons of it so far, is collected in Atyrau in 25-foot-high slabs with footprints the size of football fields.
Photographs he showed from Sandy's destruction looked very much like those after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita in 2005: houses washed from their slabs or collapsed into their foundations, and critical equipment such as generators or switches flooded on ground floors or in basements.
Broccoli Beef Brisket (fat-laced slabs of brisket and Chinese broccoli, doused in garlicky smoked-oyster sauce).
But apparently he knew nothing about our Team Carbeque, despite their use of exactly the same name and a carbeque website to prove it, who were already racing hot laps with slabs of bacon while he was still tinkering in the garage.
"It's one of the largest and finest in the collection of early medieval carved stone grave slabs and crosses to be found at Iona Abbey, " he said.
On the ground floor, in a large workroom, there is the sound of clay slabs being pounded.
"I've been at some of those addresses, and some of those are just slabs, which means there's more concern that there are more people in the debris, " Cataldie said.
Tucker and I will get to the bottom of it, and we intend to do it by in-depth, old-fashioned shoe leather reporting -- beginning tonight over huge slabs of beef and giant pitchers of beer.
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