The moves represented the culmination of an eight-year struggle by Mr. Murdoch to take control of the company.

Mr. Linnas was stripped of American citizenship during his eight-year legal struggle against deportation.

On October 5, 2007, Berdahl died after an eight-year struggle with breast cancer.

An eight-year struggle between government agencies and opponents of the nuclear waste dump ended with the dump being blocked.

The purchase ended an eight-year struggle that was due to have culminated in High Court action.

Admitting to some nervousness, the Spanish pop star spoke of his continuing eight-year struggle to learn the English language.

The case is the culmination of an eight-year struggle between the F.T.C. and Reynolds over the Joe Camel campaign.

The release follows an eight-year struggle.

Mr. Neider's latest work, "Adam's Burden," about his eight-year struggle with prostate cancer, is to be published next month.

She waged an eight-year struggle against financial and political obstacles to establish the home.