Word: flashings
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...News flash from the Federal Reserve. Sorry, it's not a drop in interest rates. It's the fact that Americans now make more payments electronically--by credit or debit card or via the Internet--than by paper checks. In 1995 consumers wrote 49.5 billion checks. By 2000 that number had dropped 14% to 42.5 billion. Meanwhile, online bill payment is now used by some 12 million households, up from 10 million...
...into the picnic table, almost shattering Smith’s ulna. For the second round they decided to use their left arms. Whispers of “she’s left-handed” came from Smith’s corner of optimistic friends, along with distracting flash photography. Not even Smith’s left hand could save her. Fayanju once again forced Smith down within two seconds...
...Mountains are large green metal barrels, each holding a smaller eight-quart tub in a mixture of ice and salt. The ice cream mix is poured into the tub and rotated for half an hour; the results are soft-serve. Mix-ins are added and the resulting mess is flash-frozen overnight to achieve standard texture...
...Flash forward 14 years. The girl, now a woman in her 30s, called Greene several times this year for reasons that remain unknown. In June, Greene contacted the FBI and said he felt threatened. The FBI contacted the woman (TIME has decided not to name her because of her youth at the time of the original incident), and she denied threatening him. The FBI found "insufficient evidence" to pursue the case, according to the bureau's Chicago office. Two weeks ago, the Tribune received an e-mail describing the affair but not naming Greene. Tribune executives tracked the woman down...
...stomach-clutching thud of an explosion rolled across Kabul at around 9pm last Saturday. It began with a flash in a small garbage pile on a grassy common outside a sprawling Soviet-era tenement. The building is home to several hundred families in the suburb of Microyan, and the detonation, only thirty yards from the ground floor apartments, shattered every window facing the park in the crumbling five-story block. Sleeping children woke terrified, coated in shards of glass. A three-year-old stood by her mother, her face laced with tiny cuts. Two or three people were reported injured...