1.   Research might yield footnotes, piled into the back of the book in a great slag heap.

2.   With that in mind, it seems a good time to survey the slag heap that is the telecom stock sector.

3.   Troy Read, a father of two, stands in front of his house, which is next to an old slag heap.

4.   Miners have been cast on to the slag heap of terminal unemployment and the central shopping district has been decimated as spending power has leached from the community.