American horses regularly won on the old dirt track, taking eight of the first 14 races.
Thus, we must be certain the Cold War relics we keep (with their "eight-track tape" technology) function when called upon.
This so-called East Side Access will bring about 160, 000 passengers a day from Long Island to a new station in Queens' Sunnyside neighborhood, then about five more miles to the new, eight-track Grand Central hub.
It tapped directly into long summer rides to Jones Beach with the dash-mounted eight-track blasting, to boom boxes in the Rockaways and Beach Haven, and turntables in back bedrooms of ethnic neighborhoods in the Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens and the burbs.
Near Utica Avenue, they found a complete set of track work on six or eight pillars.
City officials acknowledge that the open air cable cars, which ply only eight miles of track, produce a disproportionate amount of accident-related costs.
That's down from a peak of 4, 027 in May 2004, the highest number since the TSA began to track and release complaint data eight years ago.
Pushed for time and strapped for cash, the engineers laid eight miles of track straight up Big Hill, at a gradient more than twice the safe maximum.
The planned eight miles of track will open Manhattan's East Side to millions of people who now squeeze daily onto the Nos. 4, 5 and 6 subway trains running under Lexington Avenue.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will lead the multi-million dollar project to build a computerised network that will enable experts to track medical data on residents of eight major US cities.
The four Democrats and four Republicans responsible for assembling the overall "Gang of Eight" plan are on track to unveil the sweeping measure next Tuesday, the sources said.
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It takes just a half-hour to fly to Bamiyan's provincial capital from Kabul, but to drive you bounce for at least eight hours on a bone-jarring dirt track.
Eight heads rose in a line on the track as a wave of sound and flash photography exploded around the stadium before crashing on to the most scrutinized piece of land on the planet like a tsunami.
But years later the track is widely reviled and ranks high on another chart: number eight on Blender Magazine's list of the 50 Worst Songs Ever.
The company funds the degree for about eight employees a year, which helps those on the executive track feel rewarded, says Carol Pledger, a managing director at Goldman Sachs.
But a puncture to his right-rear tyre slowed down his progress and he was passed on track by both Button and Alonso before coming into the pits on lap eight.
Hamilton, who has already stated he does not want to drive for any other F1 team, had been on a fast-track to superstardom from the moment he started racing go-karts aged eight.
Eight new stations in central London and Docklands and almost 120km of track will link Maidenhead and Heathrow with Shenfield and Abbey Wood.
The expenses so far include 220 delivery vehicles, eight warehouses and 40 shops - opened in off-the-beaten-track spaces to give a retail face to the company.
Eight months later the train is not only going faster but we are running out of track.
In November, the Government Accountability Office's head of acquisition management reminded a congressional panel that eight years into the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, the U.S. still has trouble keeping track of contractors--a problem with severe cost implications.
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