And that's why, in the next five years, we're seeking to raise fuel-economy standards to an industry average of 35.5 miles per gallon in 2016, an increase of more than eight miles per gallon per vehicle.

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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.

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This is currently if the journey to their nearest, or designated, school is more than two miles for children under eight, or three miles for the over eights.

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The group was at least eight miles (13 kilometers) from shore, and waves more than twice their size tossed them.

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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.

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In dreaming up the idea and getting it done -- putting the audience in those canoes, and having them paddle to each of the six scenes in the play along the eight miles of water -- Gaylord and Hanson may have displayed more sheer ingenuity and grin-inducing creativity than you'll find in any dozen movie-multiplex blockbusters in the months ahead.

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As dawn broke, however, there was agitation throughout the county as word quickly spread of the discovery of a trail of hoof prints (some say cloven), two inches wide and about eight inches apart in the snow stretched in a more-or-less straight line for over a hundred miles.

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