The Web is like the next-door neighbor who keeps asking us to play when we know we have homework to do.
As anyone who's ever had to sit through a Powerpoint presentation can tell you, they are one of the banes of business existence, usually about as interesting as the next-door neighbor's wedding and vacation slide shows.
Ray Charles first discovered his gift for music when, at the age of three, his next-door neighbor taught him how to play the piano.
We slept the soundest when our next-door neighbor was a state police officer and parked his patrol car out front.
At one of the many boutique hotels that have popped up in Barcelona of late--one this writer tried after staying at the Grand Marina--the walls were so thin that every sound from a next-door neighbor could be heard.
And, it contrasts with the current crossfire of accusations (vehemently denied by the Rwandan government) of alleged support to a rebel group in its chronically violent next-door neighbor, the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
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Mars, our next-door neighbor in the solar system, hasn't given up many of its secrets yet.
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As its next-door neighbor, the United States must assist the Haitian people in their quest to build back.
After weeks in hiding, anti-virus software company founder emerged publicly Tuesday in Guatemala's capital, hundreds of miles from the Caribbean island in Belize where his next-door neighbor was found dead.
The mega-corp has been adamant about undercutting big box retailers, and while you aren't likely to walk into a Wally World electronics section and find the clean, uncluttered, and well-stocked shelves that a next door neighbor may have, you're likely to stomach the environment for a few minutes in order to save a few Benjamins.
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Traci Randall said the only time she remembers speaking to her next-door neighbor was when he yelled at her son because he thought he had shot an air pellet at his Jeep.
Next-door neighbor Michael Thomas found the bodies after being jolted awake by dozens of gunshots.
Boy Genius Report is reporting that sounds played by the phone are immediately followed by some sort of extremely high-frequency tone -- the kind little kids and the next door neighbor's dogs hear, but you may not.
In 2001, while I was writing for the Dallas Morning News, a videotape surfaced showing African-American City Council candidate Dwayne Caraway delivering a warning to black business leaders: "You better wake up and look at your next-door neighbor, " Caraway told the audience.
Lieberman referred to the two top vote-getters as New Hampshire's next-door-neighbor candidates.
They plan to share it with the family next door, which is buying a table-tennis table, and another neighbor, who's getting an air hockey table.
Then he and his wife decided to go to their next-door neighbor's, but by this time, the water outside had risen about seven feet.
Thanks to the work of two young cyber-security researchers, cellular snooping may soon be affordable enough for your next-door neighbor.
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