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.

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

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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.

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

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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?

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

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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

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.

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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