Word: flash
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...areas where pedestrian traffic is heavy at certain times of the day. St. Petersburg, Fla., for example, has installed motion detectors at some crossings where there are no traffic signals; when a pedestrian approaches, a squawkbox urges him or her to push a button before crossing, triggering high-intensity flashing lights that drivers can see some distance from the intersection. City officials credit the system with boosting driver compliance with crosswalk laws from 8% to 84%. Washington plans to install similar bilingual devices at some of its high-risk intersections. In Boulder, Colo., the city has placed audible warning devices...
...He’s got the type of power to hit in the three or four hole, but he’s got the type of speed and average to hit in the one hole.”Other potential standouts include senior Jeff Stoeckel—who will flash the leather at shortstop—senior outfielder Tom Stack-Babich—who had great run in the summer leagues—and Douglas, who is finally healthy after a string of injuries.“Obviously, scoring runs is the name of the game,” Walsh...
...glared icily at each other across the narrow but heavily armed strait that separates them. Beijing considers Taiwan to be no more than a wayward province destined to be reunified under communist rule. The disagreement has on occasion inched close to war and remains one of Asia's potential flash points. Neither side formally recognizes the existence of the other, so nearly 60 years after their separation, Taiwan residents still cannot send a letter or take a regularly scheduled flight directly to China...
...helium heads” resonates powerfully over a doughy beat layered beneath the sampled bells of Bob James’s “Take me to the Mardi Gras.” Del seems more than happy to let the flash-in-the-pan artists “stroll down the golden road [even though] you know they’ll hate it when they find out the bricks is golden plated...
...number of ads you would normally see. For example, when I went to Fox.com to watch a recent episode of The Simpsons, I had to suffer through a minute of commercials before I got to see the show. On Hulu, while I had to update my copy of Macromedia Flash, there were less than 20 seconds of ads in the first 8 minutes. And unlike digital video recorders such as TiVo, which cost hundreds of dollars and require time to set up and schedule recordings, Hulu has no setup and no cost...