This "Aida" kicked off the final season of his ambitious eight-year project of presenting all Verdi's operas in chronological order.

The Bush administration is walking away from a $1.5 billion eight-year government-subsidized project to develop high-mileage gasoline-fueled vehicles.

The remaining members decided not to abandon their eight-year project and actively sought to rebuild their lineup.

He recently completed an eight-year project recording the complete keyboard works of Mozart, a collection which includes many pieces hitherto unrecorded.

Ms. Puglisi said the station, an eight-year project, had helped put Cortlandt, a town of 38,000, more prominently on the map.

He declined to say what companies would take part in the eight-year project, but industry sources said at least four foreign and three Japanese concerns would participate.

It was based on data compiled during an eight-year project started in 1971.

The eight-year project has a budget of $750 million, and Agnew is plumping for a similar effort here.

Included is a $230 million installment toward the eight-year $5.3 billion project to build the world's most powerful atom smasher.

The eight-year project produced two acceptable solutions to what leading atomic scientists then regarded as one of the most pressing problems in the field of nuclear energy.