He is washing your clothes and drying them at your doorstep.

That's the dot com bubble. This is the Lehman Brothers doorstep there.

But imagine what it was like for them when I showed up at their doorstep?

Because she had some damage to her nerves, she crawled all the way 30 miles to that doorstep, half dead.

And then whatever you design virtually, you click the button and it shows up at your doorstep a week later.

Thanks to the Internet, we believe we can get anything we want whenever we want it, delivered to our own doorstep.

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And he shows up on their porch, their doorstep, with a toothbrush and pajamas, and he's ready to spend the week with them.

If you have clothes, and you don't have enough time to wash them, he brought a washing machine to your doorstep, mounted on a two wheeler.

This, of course, is also how newspapers traditionally delivered the news. Editors and publishers assembled and collated stories, and the newspaper that they produced was then delivered to the subscriber s doorstep.

China s warning that it will not allow North Korean troublemaking on China s doorstep can be considered the equivalent of a yellow card in soccer. China has not decided to abandon North Korea.

Editors and publishers assembled and collated stories, and the newspaper that they produced was then delivered to the subscriber s doorstep. But the last decade has seen a veritable revolution in the news business.

So the next time somebody as cute as this shows up on your doorstep, and sometimes this creature's called Chrysler and sometimes Ford and sometimes ... whatever you want you've just got to say no.

I grew up in Bihar, India's poorest state, and I remember when I was six years old, I remember coming home one day to find a cart full of the most delicious sweets at our doorstep.

What China wants and what it gets may be different things. With its long borders with Russia, China knows it would have much to regret if a new, oil fired Russian empire appeared on its doorstep.

To its credit, the European Commission also issued strong calls to member states for better legislation and practices concerning migration. But there is a clear correlation between unrest at the EU s doorstep and Europe s irresistible instinct to keep trouble at arm s length.

In this Europe, the important moves are now sometimes made in Stockholm or Warsaw, not only in Berlin, Paris, or London. And, with major foreign policy issues on Europe s doorstep whether in Egypt, Belarus, or now Syria useful European initiatives are to be welcomed, regardless of where they originate.

When Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi exchanged phone calls with United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki moon on April 6, he expressed China s rejection of rhetoric and action aimed at destabilizing the Northeast Asian region. Moreover, Wang made clear that China would not allow troublemaking on China s doorstep.

On the issue of Iran s nuclear ambitions, the Iranian government s equivocal position also is a source of growing concern. Many European lawmakers are worried by the prospect of a nuclear armed Iran on Europe s doorstep, and are not convinced by the regime s claim that it seeks only nuclear energy.

They also seek to inflame domestic public opinion. To maintain their influence, it seems, they believe that they need to create an image of America as Russia s implacable enemy, which, by extending NATO membership to ex communist countries, is bringing an existential threat right to the country s doorstep.

Indeed, Ireland is ranked as the best place in Europe to do business, the easiest in Europe for paying taxes, and number one in Europe for completion of tertiary education. We are an open, transparent economy with a highly skilled workforce and a market of 500 million people on our doorstep.

Back then in the early 1930 s there was no vaccine for this highly infectious disease. With good reason, parents everywhere were terrified that poliovirus would reach their doorstep like a plague striking a child and causing irreversible paralysis in a matter of hours, or, worse, death in a matter of days.

In demanding change, freedom, and democracy right on Russia s doorstep, no less the protesters challenged Putin s model of sovereign democracy, in which the president eliminates all opposition, restricts media freedom, and then tells citizens that they can choose their leaders. The Kremlin feared that if the Ukrainians got what they wanted, Russians might be inspired to follow their example.

Erdoğan s ambition to restore Turkey s primacy in the Sunni world is driving him to collude with this challenge to the Western devised regional order. Indeed, Turkey has been offering logistical support to the Islamic State, even as it has enabled the group s murderous members to massacre thousands of civilian Kurds and Yazidis in the Syrian town of Kobani on Turkey s doorstep.

Indeed, on Europe s doorstep, the show trial and imprisonment of former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko is jeopardizing her country s international economic standing. In particular, President Viktor Yanukovych s contempt for the rule of law has put Ukraine s relations with the European Union in cold storage, with a comprehensive free trade and association agreement on hold pending the release of Tymoshenko and other political prisoners.

Average annual growth, at only 2.4 , is well below what is needed and possible for a country with such enormous human and natural endowments, a prime location on the United States doorstep, and considerable catch up potential. Moreover, Mexico s growth record is far inferior to that of some other countries that started with a lot less and yet leap frogged it (and other Latin American economies).

Indeed, on Europe s doorstep, the show trial and imprisonment of former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko is jeopardizing her country s international economic standing. In particular, President Viktor Yanukovich s contempt for the rule of law has put Ukraine s relations with the European Union in cold storage, with a comprehensive free trade and association agreement on hold pending the release of Tymoshenko and other political prisoners.