And very successful at it it is too: it has about the same market impact as WalMart does in the US, some one eighth of all retail spending passing through its books.
The Senate proposal directs Fannie and Freddie's regulator to raise those fees by at least one-eighth of one percent over the next two years.
Greece is struggling to raise funds, but so is California, which accounts for a far bigger share of America's output (one-eighth) than Greece does of the euro zone's (a bit more than one-fortieth).
That's equal to one-eighth of the GDP of the U.S. economy, the world's largest.
ProStrakan is one-eighth owned by a Dutch company, Norgine, which mounted a full takeover bid in November.
This could put upward pressure on prices, because the agreement currently supplies one-eighth of world uranium needs.
Indonesia has an enormous bureaucracy, which gobbles up one-eighth of all public spending.
Fewer recall that it changed hands some years later for one-eighth as much.
With support for up to 1, 800 servers per rack, HP Moonshot servers occupy one-eighth of the space required by traditional servers.
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Japan's big private banks have admitted that about one-eighth of their loans are dubious, and the real proportion could be twice that.
Spain accounts for one-eighth of euro-area GDP but until recently was generating a much larger share of consumer spending and new jobs.
One-half of the children in New York City are overweight, and of all Latinos in that city, one-eighth are already type 2 diabetics.
This new, drought-resistant variety requires only one-eighth as much irrigation as conventional wheat, and in some deserts can be cultivated with rainfall alone.
NetJets allows individuals or companies to buy as little as a one-eighth interest in a business jet aircraft, depending on the flight hours needed.
Unit-trust assets now represent only one-eighth of the life industry's total assets, says Arnold Basserabie, head of Fedsure, which owns a big life insurer.
In the three months to January the value of exports to Germany, which buys about one-eighth of the British total, was 2.8% lower than a year before.
The tally of strikes involving 1, 000 or more workers last year reached 29, the lowest since the second world war and one-eighth the level of two decades ago.
By some estimates, American navy ships spend 80% of their time travelling at half speed, which requires barely one-eighth of the power needed to propel a ship at top speed.
Total federal spending relative to GDP declined from 1995 to 2000 by 12.5%, a reduction in the federal government relative to the economy of about one-eighth in just 5 short years.
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Latin American growers of the premium beans still bear the scars of 2001, when arabica prices hit an all-time low of 41.5 cents a pound, one-eighth the price only four years earlier.
The streamlined M5M provides the same high-performance and reliability expected of a Plextor SSD in a space one-eighth the size of a standard 2.5 inch drive, making it especially well-suited for use in ultrabooks.
So far, the company has built a one-eighth-size prototype to test its design, which consists of a carbon-fibre keel, an envelope made from modern composite materials, half-a-dozen engines, a passenger compartment, and a specially lightened crane.
Only about one-eighth of the 400, 000 visitors expected on average each day will be able to get into the Chinese pavilion (though unlike most of the other structures, this will not be dismantled after the expo).
Ocwen has long emphasized its cost advantages and low operating expenses as a competitive advantage, with at least three-quarters of its 5, 000 employees based in India and Uruguay, where it says its per-employee costs are one-eighth of those of a U.S. worker.
Beverly Johnson, the first African-American woman to grace the cover of Vogue, appears in the film, as does another black beauty ("one-eighth African-American, " she clarifies in "About Face"): Cleveland, who spoke poignantly about being attacked in the racist South during her early days modeling with the Ebony Fashion Fair.
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Meanwhile, Thai Chapchai Nirat rocketed up the leaderboard when he sunk a hole-in-one at the eighth.
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