Word: doorstep
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...lack the flavor punch that you have when it comes from around your area. Those fruits and vegetables, when shipped from a long distance, have to be picked unripe, so that they are hard enough to survive the journey. They've taken a long time to get to your doorstep, and lost flavor and nutrition every step of the way...During the summer months, when it's so easy to support your local grower, you're not only enjoying a fresh meal the minute that you pick up that fork, you're also keeping agriculture in your culture, keeping your...
...door, and there stands Heseltine resigning from Mrs. Thatcher's Cabinet, Marcos on the stump, Gaddafi playing cowboy on his tractor, mummied to the nose. Come in, boys. The columnist will make sense of all this somehow. After the reporters and the editors have dumped the facts on the doorstep, the columnist, like a jigsaw addict, scoops up the pieces, studies the angles, mulls, clears his throat and says, with as much self-assurance as possible: This piece goes here, and this one here...
...they planned an operation that would stop before a bombing and enable Israel to use the matter politically, as it is doing now. Theoretically, they made up a plan to down the plane and created a scenario for executing the plan. But the scenario ends at the plane's doorstep when the woman carrying the briefcase hands it over to an Israeli security officer. She insists on carrying it by hand so that the Israeli security officer can take it. Who is the real beneficiary from this affair? Syria has no interest: blowing up an airplane does not cause...
...heads Allscripts Healthcare Solutions, which sells a product that lets doctors run a paperless medical practice--including booking appointments online and creating e-prescriptions and, most important, collecting X rays, lab results and medical histories in one database, accessible to physicians and patients. He thinks he's on the doorstep of another transformation. "There is less penetration of information technology in health care than any other major industry," says Tullman. "Someone has said the advent of electronic health records will be as significant as the discovery of penicillin...
While one more defensive gem—a 4-1 romp over St. Lawrence in the semis—left Harvard at the doorstep, the most potent attack in college could not be stopped, as Minnesota defeated the Crimson in the title game for a second straight year...