The Kiwis can all but wrap up their eighth world title in nine years in Hong Kong before the party heads to Australia for the Adelaide Sevens, where Wales face Samoa, Tonga and Japan.
With a win so vital to Schumacher's hunt for an eighth world title, Massa is likely to be assigned the task of keeping his rivals at bay while allowing Schumacher to assume the lead.
This could put upward pressure on prices, because the agreement currently supplies one-eighth of world uranium needs.
If found, "it will be the world's eighth wonder, the world's largest statue, " he told BBC News Online.
The best American player is Mardy Fish who is ranked eighth in the world.
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It supplies an eighth of the world's oil and remains, crucially, the only producer with at least some spare capacity.
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Kournikova was still ranked eighth in the world in in May 2001 but her form dipped and she is now down at 67.
The Millennium Round would be the eighth round of world trade talks since the WTO was set up (then called GATT) in l947.
The market leader in Japan is Sharp, but it only ranks eighth in the world, with one-fortieth the sales of Nokia, the top company.
Last year's champion Ana Ivanovic has slipped to eighth in the world rankings, while the top four ranked players have only one French Open title between them.
Guillermo Coria, ranked eighth in the world, will have to bounce back in his reverse singles on Sunday after an opening loss to Beck when he faces Slovak number one Dominik Hrbaty.
It came eighth in the world - higher than the US and UK - for its progress in bridging the gender gap between the sexes by the World Economic Forum (WEF) in 2011.
The 25-year-old is the first Swede to reach the semifinals of the event since Jonas Bjorkman in 1997 and he is set to rise to eighth in the world as a result of his performances here.
"It's a strange rule because if I had dropped the ball on the middle of the marker and it had not moved there's no penalty, " said Poulter, who moved up to eighth in the world rankings.
As a result, the World Bank this year ranked Rwanda as the eighth easiest place in the world to start a business.
Woods has now dropped to eighth in the official world rankings and will be out of the Top 10 soon.
The games had gone with serve until the eighth game when the world number 17 lost his cool following a line call.
Under his care in 2010, Rafi was the eighth child in the world to undergo a stem cell transplant for treatment of EB.
The eruption destroyed the Pink and White Terraces at neighbouring Lake Rotomahana, the stepped rock pools that were once touted as the eighth wonder of the world.
Hand-picked by the charmistatic two-term president Lula da Silva, Dilma will take the reins of an economy that has been growing at about 7% in 2010 and has become the eighth largest in the world.
Before the Communists came to power in 1949, travellers reported an eighth wonder of the world: a green if dusty city, largely unaltered from the medieval plan laid out under Kublai Khan and built upon by the Ming (1368-1644) and Qing (1644-1912) dynasties.
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All this has increased speculation about whether the world's eighth-biggest economy is already in recession.
The company already ranks as the world's eighth-largest producer (in terms of installed capacity) of wind turbine generators.
As insular Brazil--the world's eighth-largest economy--opens to the globe, other family-owned companies there are selling their operations wholesale to foreign firms.
The race is receiving a lot of early attention because California, the world's eighth-largest economy and America's biggest, remains in a dire condition.
On August 5th Chile's CSAV, which runs the world's eighth-largest container fleet, became the first shipper to make a container-derivative trade (with Morgan Stanley).
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In pharmaceuticals, the Corange acquisition nudges Roche up from eighth to sixth in the world, with a 3.3% share of the world's drugs market.
The company has been trying to build up Charles de Gaulle, the world's eighth-biggest airport, as a rival to London's Heathrow and to Frankfurt.
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But not for the first time in Europe's crisis it may be pressure from the markets that decides who will lead the world's eighth largest economy.
Honda, the world's eighth-biggest automaker, has developed a panoply of technologies: hybrids, fuel cells, clean diesels, natural gas vehicles and the world's most sophisticated mass-market gasoline engines.
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