Word: eight
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...unanimous vote at its meeting last night, the council voted to post "My Eight Rules of Safety" in the parks and schools of Cambridge to teach children personal safety skills...
...children of Cambridge can be given an inoculation against peril through awareness [if the Eight Rules become] a part of the formal and informal education of the children of Cambridge," he added...
...would pudgy little bald guys who'd never been within hailing distance of a famously glamorous woman react to the implication that Ron Perelman's edge in such matters is not his billions but six or eight inches in the breadbasket? I began to picture such a guy, hunched over his fourth or fifth gin in a cheap saloon. On the bar in front of him is a well-worn copy of the Times interview and a magazine with Ellen Barkin on the cover. The guy is insisting that Ron Perelman does not have a 28-in. waist...
There you are--hand on the throttle of a full-size, 100-ton steam engine hauling eight graceful coaches from Worcestershire to Shropshire on a track that follows the Severn River as it meanders through unspoiled English countryside. No need for a time machine to fulfill this dream. Adults healthy enough to shovel piles of coal need only register at the Severn Valley Railway school, based in Bewdley, Worcestershire. In the introductory session, they learn safety guidelines and how a locomotive works. They also put in time on the footplate--where the fireman and driver stand, stoking the boiler, firing...
...companies offered would-be Arctic explorers the kind of expedition they could manage. The company that pioneered such trips, Northwest Passage, is planning its fifth trek to the geographic North Pole starting in early February with a six-day training session on Baffin Island. In April a party of eight to 15 will fly charter aircraft from Resolute Bay, Nunavut, to within 150 miles of the pole. Then, under a 24-hr. polar sun, in often subzero temperatures, the group will follow Peary's route from 88[degrees] to 90[degrees] north, climbing over walls of ice, crossing expanses...