Asked about energy, Gordon Brown has tended to waffle on about his (unfulfilled) ambitions for renewable energy.

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On his latest whistle-stop tour, Mr Klima seems to have found other leaders agreed mainly on the need to put lots of uplifting waffle about employment policy high on the Vienna agenda.

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On the night of May 1st all the waffle will have to cease, at least temporarily, as both politicians and pollsters find out what the voters really think.

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Cardinals guard Russ Smith, the tournament's leading scorer and odds-on favorite for Most Outstanding Player, is a loyal customer of Waffle House where, he says, he likes to order a waffle, scrambled eggs with cheese, grits with sugar, two sausages and either "hot tea with three creams" or, if it's Sunday, a cup of coffee.

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What Mr Kim has been ditching, and must keep on ditching, is not a left-wing ideology but pre-election waffle.

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As the calendar turns to March and April, Louisville players attempt to swear off convenient restaurants like McDonald's and Qdoba, and visits to Waffle House drop from "two or three times a week" to once a month, said Louisville walk-on Jordan Bond.

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