• When he finally expired, at the age of eighty-eight or so, in 1576, it brought Tintoretto no peace.

    NEWYORKER: Venetian Brass

  • Eighty-eight-year-old President Robert Mugabe has rejected such a suggestion in the proposed new constitution and elections are a year away.

    BBC: African viewpoint: Death on the continent

  • Eighty-eight percent of consumers will celebrate the Fourth this year, up from 85% in 2004, according to the National Retail Federation.

    FORBES

  • With its telltale proteins section you can order an eighty-eight-dollar rib eye for two, sides not included the menu seems specifically designed for expense accounts.

    NEWYORKER: North End Grill

  • Eighty-eight percent of Democrats questioned in the poll said Obama did the best job, with 68 percent of Republicans saying McCain performed best.

    CNN: Poll: Debate watchers say Obama wins

  • Eighty-eight percent of respondents in our study reported that people are less polite on social media than they would be in a face-to-face interaction.

    FORBES: Is Facebook Making Us Antisocial?

  • Eighty-eight-year-old Emma Jordan has lived here for more than 40 years.

    NPR: W. Va. Murders Linked to Crack Dealing

  • When I left Islam, my mother, who's eighty-eight now, I called her a few years ago and I told her yes, she asked me, did you leave Islam?

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Rifqa Bary and the Noor Mosque

  • Eighty-eight percent of the Fortune 100 are testing iPhones.

    FORBES: In A Post-PC Era, Apple Wants To Be Your IT Department

  • Annual return to investors was eighty-eight per cent.

    NEWYORKER: Money Pol

  • Elsewhere, in state ratifying conventions, the Constitution passed by the narrowest of margins: eighty-nine to seventy-nine in Virginia, thirty to twenty-seven in New York, a hundred and eighty-seven to a hundred and sixty-eight in Massachusetts.

    NEWYORKER: The Commandments

  • In a December 15, 2008, memo to the President that my colleague Ryan Lizza unearthed, Summers initially presented two stimulus packages one totalling six hundred and sixty-five billion dollars and the other eight hundred and eighty billion dollars.

    NEWYORKER: Replay

  • Eighty-five million smart phones will be sold this year with GPS built in, eight times the number of in-car and portable navigation devices.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • Line infections occur in eighty thousand people a year in the United States, and are fatal between five and twenty-eight per cent of the time, depending on how sick one is at the start.

    NEWYORKER: The Checklist

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