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Of the eight analysts surveyed by FactSet who cover Avis’s stock, Woronka is now one of the six who are neutral.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 6, 2026

At UCLA, the master’s of social welfare — which runs for eight quarter sessions — amounts to more than $65,000 for California residents without financial aid.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 6, 2026

We were running this airlift, like small propeller planes with eight seats, trying to get more than 100 people back to the mainland before twilight hits because they don’t have lighting on the runway.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 6, 2026

There were several days that Concannon spent eight hours poring over files.

From Slate • Apr. 6, 2026

The thing’s enormous, eight feet high and wide, with webs of wires and rows of rotating rotors—like something the Son of Frankenstein might have invented, if he’d been a brilliant code breaker.

From "The Bletchley Riddle" by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin