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It has shored up vulnerable gulf states and, up to this point, contributed to hopes for U. N. action to end the war.

For now, at least, the Gulf states -- and their economies -- seem to have dodged a bullet.

The company is still the leading driller in the Gulf, and operates more leases there than any other company.

The counting of dead wildlife in the Gulf is more than an academic exercise; the deaths will help determine how much BP pays in damages.

Many of you morn the animals in the gulf, but fail to see the total destruction your food animals deal with daily.

For Dubai, just like the other small Gulf sheikhdoms, the economic crisis does not automatically translate into a social issue.

The contamination is already spreading up the East Coast, so be watchful anywhere the Gulf waters may have contact with you.

Bahrain was perceived to be a liberal oasis in the Persian Gulf, with a robust banking sector and a per capita income to rival Europe's.

And in 1995, after four years of deception, Iraq finally admitted it had a crash nuclear weapons program prior to the Gulf War.

Now the company is said to be in talks with Norway's StatoilHydro about a deal in the Gulf of Mexico.

Researchers have collected the bodies in an attempt to determine whether the turtles died due to the Gulf of Mexico oil spill.

When Hazen's team put oil samples in a laboratory setup designed to mimic Gulf conditions, it had a half-life of between one and six days.

Wealthy families and industrial groups from the oil-rich Gulf countries make up the majority of the bank's founding shareholders.

By 1980, he was launching CNN, although it was not until the Gulf war that the often-derided channel came into its own.

a state in S United States on the Gulf of Mexico; one of the Confederate states during the American Civil War.

The British oil company BP's Gulf of Mexico spill has given President Obama one of the biggest problems of his presidency.

Marine reef ecologist Scott Porter works to remove oil from his hands in the Gulf of Mexico south of Venice, Louisiana.

As he prepared to leave for the Gulf, my husband was complaining to a friend about his uniform.

Heading to the US BP says a mile-long tube is funneling crude oil from the ruptured well in the Gulf of Mexico into a tanker on the surface.

of the side garden to the front, where she could stand as if in an immense gulf of white light, the moon streaming high in face of her.

The Gulf is trying hard to set out a vision of why people should go there and, at the heart of that vision, is architecture.

The spread of oil on the water's surface in April was a clue used to determine the size of the leak from the Gulf of Mexico rig disaster.

It sometimes feels as if in Latin America, with its even bigger gulf, the same thing is true on a larger scale.

'The company is still producing and its one refinery is operating at capacity, ' said Ahmed Sharif, head of Arabian Gulf Oil Co.

And in the name of connectedness, the only thing she wanted before she died was to be brought home by her beloved Gulf of Mexico.

Will the oil and petrol fumes released into the air over the Gulf accumulate to the degree that such a firestorm might occur today?

A price increase is of course inevitable, but there is likely to be a very wide gulf between the buyers' and suppliers' price ideas.

How much oil might actually lie in Cuba's sector of the Gulf of Mexico is a matter of dispute.

They know there is nothing a man in Washington can do to plug a hole a mile down in the gulf.

I have never been madder at anything in my life than I was at Halsey during Leyte Gulf.

So the blowout in the Gulf is just a little piece of a much larger problem that we have with the energy that we use to run civilization.

When winter comes, I'll go up to the Gulf of Finland, where the frost is quite peculiar, in fact the best-looking in Russia.

Last week was no exception, with the rate out of the Center Gulf up nearly $10 per tonne.

And I think, personally, that we have not begun to see the impacts of this spill on the wildlife of the Gulf.

Researchers found a carpet of small crustaceans inhabiting the head of the Mississippi Canyon in the Gulf of Mexico.

The real danger is not the wind, though, it's the storm surge the wind will be pushing into the city from the Gulf through the lake.

It has only been a few weeks since Hurricane Katrina, one of the greatest natural disasters to hit the US mainland, hit the Gulf Coast.

Mrs. Clinton decided to delay her departure for the Persian Gulf to Saturday from Friday to be with her husband.

"The contest remained far from over, " said the cable. "Gulf Air's selection still needed to be endorsed by the government. "

But about a year after the Gulf War's end, I discovered that JPL was not the only place that serendipitously preenacted that war. The U. S.

May 2010: Nearly a month after the explosion, the damaged well on the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico continued to spill oil.

But there was not all that much follow-through. The Gulf War was over, and the energy problem looked like it had been "solved. "

Just a few weeks ago western bankers were lining up in the Gulf in a bid to raise rescue financing for ailing institutions.

We apace, in a tranquil gulf saw a man from abandoned in foam on the surface, it will be poured into a agate goo.

Diplomats in the Gulf say the Saudis are not likely to help Saleh get back to Yemen, even if he were well enough to travel.

Now he was mercifully snatched out of the gulf by a convincing work upon his mind, but I was left as if I was forsaken of God's grace.

I don't think any of the gulf states would be very impressed if you were to see a high profile glitzy glamorous player fail in this way.

So the Gulf oil will have to be shipped to Asia's newer refineries, which are designed to deal with a wide variety of grades of oil.

I believe you know that we are going to take two or three of our tankers off the Persian Gulf run, either this year of next.

His latest project, a cable news channel, is launching just as a hurricane bears down on the Gulf Coast.

The decoupling of these processes means that the gulf between physical and psychological maturity has never been greater.

The China oil spill is now 165 square miles, but still just a fraction of the size of the BP oil spill in Gulf.

But the companies say it will be ready to go at all times and can be used on the wide variety of equipment found in the deepwater Gulf.

In the end, we have to figure out how much is actually pouring into the Gulf.

Politicians in the U. S. say BP should be using all its resources to stop the spill and clean up the Gulf, not rewarding shareholders.

(A year after the BP spill in the Gulf of Mexico, let's hope we've learned how to do that, at least. ) Tow the platforms back to shore.

A few days before his wife's death, Gus's father, a seaman with Gulf Oil, had been killed when his oil tanker collided with a ship.

Seven weeks after an undersea oil well blew out in the Gulf of Mexico, Florida is beginning to feel the impact.

The gulf between the two clubs was apparent from the start and, by half-time, it had become an exercise in damage-limitation for Leeds.

The company appears to be on track, albeit in repair mode, and gearing up for a kind of drilling homecoming in the Gulf.

The influence of foreign religious organisations seems to be growing along with rising government loans from Gulf states.

The gulf oil spill put New Orleans through devastation it had not seen since the hurricane.

The woman was believed to have been a member of a well-off family visiting Venice from Saudi Arabia or a Gulf state.

What drew him out of his shell was the invitation to talk about his favorite topic - the Gulf War.

One Gulf businessman told your correspondent that he gave up on a deal in Iraq after nine different officials came to ask him for bribes.

They were a real danger; in the Gulf War twenty-eight of our soldiers had been killed by an Iraqi Scud missile.

These areas are situated around the Finnish coast from Mid-part of Gulf of Finland up to the northern part of the Gulf of Bothnia.

How much oil is already sullying the gulf, and thus how far the disaster's effects may yet spread, is a matter of dispute.

The capture vessels could take other jobs around the gulf, but on contracts that allowed them to break off immediately in case of emergency.

"His lifestyle, " the authors conclude, "can be compared to that of a Persian Gulf monarch or a flamboyant oligarch. "

The U. S. president will seek Arab support to help contain Iran when his tour takes him to Gulf countries and Egypt.

He said other Gulf governments could also be interested to strike similar deals with TUI or other tour operators.

It centers upon an old Cuban fisherman Santiago who struggles with a giant marlin far out in the Gulf Stream.

Bahrain is the only Arab state so far in the oil-rich Persian Gulf beset by unrest amid protests across much of the rest of the Mideast.

Glen Brooks, president of the Gulf Fishermen's Association and a participant in the rule making, said the process was "stressful. "

Predicting where the ball will go is equivalent to deciding whether to open a chain of seafood restaurants on the Gulf Coast.

In trying to bridge the gulf between sexes, male authors usually betray some misunderstanding of how women see themselves.

To date , it has been used on a variety of land installations and on a deepwater drillship in the Gulf of Mexico .

Multi-million dollar construction projects in the Gulf countries have been a major driver of economic growth in Bangladesh.

The evacuation plan is an attempt to save the next generation of Gulf sea turtles.

When it is a question of probing a wound, a gulf, a society, since when has it been considered wrong to go too far? to go to the bottom?

However much they dislike Iran's mullahs, Gulf Arabs dislike more the idea of getting caught up in a war between Iran and America.

Dr. Joye said there's so much gas leaking into the Gulf that we might be looking at severe oxygen depletion in Gulf water.

Even if oil never washes up in the refuge, the region's birds may be silenced if the crude lingers deep in the Gulf of Mexico, experts say.

The wind is currently coming from the north-west, pushing the slick. towards the mouth of the gulf and away from danger.

I approached the verge of despair; a remnant of self-respect was all that intervened between me and the gulf.

So, between the lack of evaporation and the darkness of that oil, actually heats up the Gulf.

China is the largest exporter to the Gulf and the only big country to have maintained broad balance in its trade with the region.

Dudley, 54, was born in New York and grew up in Mississippi, part of the Gulf Coast region suffering environmental and economic damage.

Governments in the Gulf, too, are trying to quash speculation that their exchange-rate regimes will change.

The contrast is cartoonish but apt, for the gulf between town and country was far deeper than I was used to.

Bahrain may return to its habitual role as a perky financial hub that weathered the global crisis a lot better than some others in the Gulf.

If I can relinquish myself unconditionally is there not Grace to help me bridge the gulf which separates God and me?

Not, however, from any fear of disadvantage from it individually to herself; for at any rate, there seemed a gulf impassable between them.

For now, it could help navies struggling to police the vast area of the Gulf of Aden and along the rest of the Somali coast. The U.

Young people should try to bridge a speech between them and their parents to avoid gulf cause by time.

He was unable to be with us, because he had to stay and work very urgently on the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

The wind screamed over the Gulf and turned the water white , and the mangroves plunged like frightened cattle .

The operation under way at night, taking place in the predawn darkness at the Persian Gulf involves allied air forces of four nations.

The American government reopened the last maritime area off the Gulf coast that had been closed to fishing because of the BP oil spill.

Some of these whales may already be near the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration reports.

The panel believes the Gulf Stream will go on bathing Britain with its warm waters for the next 100 years.

Areas of the Gulf have been closed to fishing. But job losses in the fishing industry are not the only worry.

It will be France's first permanent base in the Gulf, in a country where it has no colonial ties.

The loss of a minesweeper, at a time of rising tension in the Persian Gulf over Iran's nuclear programme, was questioned by opposition MPs.

Iran called the Council's involvement in the Gulf War issue absurd and said the action was tantamount to aiding Iraq.

The Emperor spoke to the Primarch , and his reply echoed clear across the plaza . Since that day , it has echoed across the gulf of time .

It seemed to him that at last the gulf between them had been bridged.

The animal life in the whole of the gulf is all but dead.

Skerry A leaping manta ray (Manta birostris) seems to fly above the Gulf of California off the coast of Mexico.

He said Gulf currents are too unpredictable to make accurate forecasts of where the oil will travel.

Olivia's father James grew up in Orange Beach, Alabama, and still has family along the Gulf coast.

The United Arab Emirates-based Gulf News quoted the boy's father as saying that the children had exchanged rings.

If she went away there would be a distinct gulf that would not soon be overcome .

BP's rig disaster in the Gulf of Mexico is only unusual for being so near the United States, writes John Vidal.

Mamoun Fandy, an expert on the Gulf at the International Institute for Strategic Studies, said the comparisons to Saddam were misplaced.

Barry weakened to a tropical depression as it came ashore in Florida, cancelling all storm warnings and watches along the Gulf Coast.

Less than a year ago, Russian and Gulf billionaires were paying the full asking price for their new superyachts and the fittings.

They had proved to their satisfaction, that the Mississippi did not empty into the Gulf of California, or into the Atlantic.

He had made a profitable deal with a businessman to do a gymnastic exhibition on the beach near the gulf.

The restraint of Saudi Arabia, and of a handful of other countries of the Arabian Gulf, has propped up oil prices.

Aerial support has been used to improve information and security in the Gulf of Aden.

Gulf Coast states of the situation despite the serious, do not regard a severe blow to the U. S. economy.

Methane from the bottom of the Persian Gulf is part-combusted and filtered in a spaghetti-like tangle of steel pipes.

That spill took more than a year to stop, spewing an estimated 140 million gallons of oil into the Gulf.

Operation Desert Storm came to be known as the Gulf War and it began with a month-long aerial bombardment.

He was one of ten Senate Democrats to support President Bush in the first Gulf War.

BP oil company has begun pumping heavy mud into a blown-out well in the Gulf of Mexico in an effort to seal it off permanently.

Many Gulf states have enjoyed great wealth as a consequence of oil, and some are beginning to focus it on broader development.

Speaking to reporters after meeting with his Gulf counterparts, he also said the violence was 'regrettable, ' according to the AP.

Are ocean currents likely to carry oil from the BP spill out of the Gulf of Mexico and into the Atlantic?

The gulf between the haves and the have-nots appeared to have changed little.

But the Gulf of Mexico population is thought to be especially vulnerable due to its relatively small size.

The Gulf's ruling elites generally stayed in power and were reluctant to see the British leave.

No one thought the Gulf of Mexico would be fouled to the horrible extent that it was by the BP oil spill.

This is common practice for oil spills on the surface; using them in bulk at depth, as in the Gulf, is an ecological experiment.

NEW YORK (CNNMoney. com) -- BP has spent $2 billion cleaning up the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, the company said Monday.

Today, look back on past events like the Gulf Stream as an overflow, and perhaps those memories last a day.

NASA satellites have been tracking the growth of the oil spill as it has spread towards the northern Gulf Coast.

If (it) does go that way and then enters the Gulf of Mexico, it could develop into a large storm.

and just across the Gulf in Bahrain, a stately that Iran in its feistier moments claims as its own, where America anchors its Fifth Fleet.

Energy official say oil from the Persian Gulf is now eleven percent of all the oil used in the United States.

Correction to "Temporal and Spatial variation of the surface winds in the Gulf of California"

Texas 5, an official confirmed that the coastal state of the oil found in the Gulf of Mexico oil spill from the ball well.

The British oil company will have to pay roughly $20 billion as compensation for the oil spill at its offshore drill in the Gulf of Mexico.

CM: . . . and so, if I, even I, tell you that the gulf could blow any day now, or at any moment, you will not be completely convinced?

It was a smile that signaled hope and made me temporarily forget the intellectual gulf that separated us.

Iran's top leader is warning there may be a disruption in oil shipments from the Gulf if the U. S. uses military action against it.

Never had she seemed so accessible as now. For the moment the great gulf that separated them was bridged .

The Coast Guard said the switch was being made now because of a predicted week-long lull in the Gulf storm season.

President Nicolas Sarkozy opened France's first military facilities in the Persian Gulf as part of a realignment of its overseas bases.

Nuevo Leon has seen a surge in drug violence since the Zetas gang split with its former employer, the Gulf cartel.

Conversely, the Exxon Valdez claimed the lives of several thousand sea otters - which do not live along the Gulf coast.

So the gulf of Aden may well become a more safer area in the near future, he said.

Would the boxes survive the long journey down the east coast, into the Gulf of Mexico and on to Houston?

But through all this shared hardship and suffering, it seems the huge gulf in understanding between rich and poor, remains.

The still unfolding disaster in the Gulf of Mexico is the main cause, though not the only one.

East is close to the Pacific Ocean. west meets the Baltic Sea Gulf of Finland. north is near Arctic Ocean. stretches across the Eurasia.

Yemen also overlooks a maritime "choke-point" -- a narrow passage like the Strait of Hormuz at the tip of the Persian Gulf.

Bahrain, like Oman, has just been promised $1 billion of aid per year over the next decade from its wealthier Gulf neighbours.

That area is only a tiny fraction of the slick that has resulted from the recent BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

COOPER: Well, it is still not clear when a major amount of oil from the Gulf will actually reach shore and where it's going to reach shore.

To date, eleven members of my Cabinet have visited the Gulf Coast, and I'm looking forward to going to New Orleans later this year.

Nevertheless, the wave quickly ran out of steam as it entered the Gulf of Alaska and soon dissipated, causing no further problems.

The southern end of the Greenland sheet is almost on the same latitude as the Shetlands and stroked by the warm waters of the Gulf Stream.

One said the video of the Gulf spill made her physically ill.

The Gulf state wants to be able to scan mobile spectrum for terrorist and anti-state chatter.

The dark water of the true gulf is the greatest healer that there is.

"Birds will land wherever they have to. " For many gulf coast gulls, terns and cormorants, this has been a lethal mistake.

"The wave of revolutions in Maghreb, in the Middle East, in the Gulf, in Yemen, it brought disaster, " he said.

As it inveighs against Colonel Qaddafi, its Saudi allies have helped snuff out the flame of democracy in the Gulf state of Bahrain.

A permanent naval base is likely to be based in Gulf of Aden, the pirate infested waters off the coast of Somalia.

The knowledge of her father's capability of guilt seemed to have opened a dark gulf in his character.

Rush hour is always a headache for drivers on the congested streets of the steamy towns of the oil-rich Gulf of Mexico region.

Some of that history, which has to do with oceans, now pertains to the disaster which we confront in the Gulf.

AZUZ: First up, officials are trying to figure out what caused a fire on a rig in the Gulf of Mexico.

He explained to her that was not the game, but a party to bridge the gulf between East and West.

It was the yellow Gulf weed that had made so much phosphorescence in the night.

American officials have suspended all fishing in parts of the Gulf of Mexico for at least ten days because of the huge oil spill.

Samples have been sent to a lab for analysis to see if there is any link to the Gulf oil spill.

Making the cut, though, could increase the flow of oil spilling into the Gulf by up to 20 percent.

Yet Mr Paulson suggested this week that the Gulf's currency pegs were not the cause of its inflation problems.

Legal requirements to hire a certain number of locals have left the state firms of several Persian Gulf emirates hopelessly over-staffed.

Many suspect it has settled either on the bottom or in mid-layers of the Gulf.

One of these "rivers" in the Atlantic is called the Gulf Stream.

Reports on the websites of the Gulf News and 7 Days newspapers said the man had jumped after a dispute with his employer.

Hairdressers, pet groomers and farmers worldwide are collecting hair and fur to help mop up the devastating oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

Officials also found tar balls Monday in one of two passes that connect Lake Pontchartrain, by New Orleans, with the Gulf of Mexico.

Such a radical repositioning of Gulf money would need to surmount several challenges, beginning with the linguistic barrier.

Japan stands on the brink of nuclear catastrophe a year after the West Virginia mine explosion and the gulf oil spill.

Shares in Porsche rose after the Gulf state of Qatar agreed to take a stake in the the German carmaker.

White House officials hope it shows the rest of the country that the Gulf is safe and open for business.

THERE was a fire, an explosion and now a dark slick of oil disfigures the Gulf of Mexico like a bruise.

So why did Snow think the supposed gulf between the two cultures was such a problem?

Reactions to the killing of the hostages highlighted the widening gulf between the perceptions of Colombians and those of the outside world.

The cost to move grain to Asia continues to get more expensive out of the Center Gulf relative to the Pacific Northwest (PNW).

The USS Oriskany is now at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico.

The Gulf's rulers can perhaps afford to be complacent, for a time.

We called some of our clients in the Persian Gulf, in Kuwait and said, 'why aren't you guys buying gold?

It has accumulated an impressive roster of enemies as it battles the oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico, but it is not dead yet.

Kuwait has no political party before the Gulf War after which there are six political organizations that are officially recognized.

He said they face tough challenges, but he vowed that America's Gulf Coast will rebound.

Dolphins surface in Breton Sound not far from the Louisiana coast on May 1, as gas wells loom farther out in the Gulf of Mexico.

Bed Stu makes shoes that look as if they are covered with oil from the Gulf oil spill.

Gulf Economic Zone in the southwestern tip of China's coastal areas, like a mosaic in the northern Gulf to the top of the bright pearl.

The extreme case of favorable physical resource endowments is, of course, the Persian Gulf oil states.

In terms of overall strategic significance, the South China Sea could become, as some have said, a "second Persian Gulf. "

For businesses around the Gulf, property damage is the least of their worries.

Gustav is expected to move over open waters today where forecasters say it could gain strength as it makes its way toward the Gulf Coast .

This may have been the Atlantic near the gulf of the St. Lawrence, but more likely it was Hudson Bay.

This will test his political skills just as much as the spill in the Gulf is testing his organisational skills.

Barack Obama cranked up the presidential outrage over the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, demanding to know "whose ass to kick" .

Like the gulf spill, when you mix oil and water, the only result we would expect is precisely what we have here: a disaster.

India, the Arab area, the center in the Persian Gulf near the production area is now widely Zhi Zai in the subtropical regions.

The UNHCR says this latest tragedy coincides with a recent upsurge in people smuggling across the Gulf of Aden.

Witness the Bahrain World Trade Centre. Two 50-storey glass "sails" rise over 240 metres into the sky along the shores of the Persian Gulf.

The parks selected for special monitoring all lie along the U. S. Gulf Coast, which stretches from Texas to Florida.

US and allied pilots have flown thousands of combat missions over hostile territory since the Gulf War.

Too many Gulf nationals receive a government pay cheque for a meaningless job, or owe their jobs in private firms to a hiring quota.

In the Gulf of Mexico, oil spills like the one run wild, wanton bolted, the event is a nightmare from a development to all aspects.

More. . . Nonetheless, the controversy over the games highlights the gulf between India's lofty ambitions and its often messy reality.

But the bill's advocates have been saved the discomfort of such a joint appearance while the Gulf spill response is underway.

The Gulf - one of the world's busiest waterways. Tankers ply up and down here. . .

There were only the flying fish that went up from his bow sailing away to either side and the yellow patches of Gulf weed.

Gulf citizens have a fair bit of cash, so any Gulf state that develops expertise in treating diabetes should attract medical tourists.

Majid Al-Bahadli grew up in Iraq; he came to the United States after the first Gulf War.

It lies in the Gulf of Guinea, 20 miles off the west coast of Africa, one of four islands in an archipelago.

The United States has welcomed the stated commitments of key Gulf allies including Saudi Arabia and Bahrain to set up embassies in Baghdad.

However, previous estimates that it would take decades to switch off the Gulf Stream are not backed by our work.

In addition, Venezuela's heavy oil needs to be processed by complex refineries -- most of which are concentrated along the U. S. Gulf Coast.

AS REPORTS accumulate on the enduring mess in the Gulf states a year after Hurricane Katrina, here is some food for thought.

At present, where the Gulf Oil spill is concerned it has awakened the public to the dangers of drilling for oil on the seabed.

It may be time to stop referring to the Deepwater Horizon rig accident in the Gulf of Mexico as an oil spill.

The Indus Valley civilization of Pakistan traded with Mesopotamian civilization and with Persian Gulf communities.

Search teams are spreading out along the U. S. Gulf Coast, looking for people stranded after Hurricane Ike.

And will pressure like this cause the Gulf to explode during the forthcoming pole shift?

Capacity at the Gulf will be pressured, but not as much in previous years when there was a greater commodity mix.

Hillary now is for a 5-day trip to the Gulf countries, plans to visit UAE, Qatar and Oman. Yemen is not the intended itinerary.

He hopes the growing oil leak in the gulf is not the end of his business.

With the Center Gulf grain and soybean export forecast to be the strongest showing in several years, grain barge movements will benefit.

For the moment, the Gulf states are stuck with a currency peg.

Residents of the Gulf Coast were portrayed for months as innocent victims of a careless corporate polluter's mismanagement.

During the Gulf War, there were quite a few communication satellites in the Iraqi sky.

Analysts blame the drops on fears of an economic downturn in the United States, a key ally and trade partner with Gulf Arab countries.

The Gulf War, too, had the sanction of the U. N. and its Security Council.

The combination of little ice and scattered herds of harp seals has persuaded most hunters around the gulf to stay home.

In that regard, the Gulf of Mexico well being drilled by the Deepwater Horizon was an outlier.

Some officials and Gulf coast residents have slammed the company's response to the disaster as inadequate.

The Bear Glacier in the Kenai Peninsula along the Gulf of Alaska empties into a lake.

Boats are seen spraying water on an oil and gas platform that exploded in the Gulf of Mexico, off the coast of Louisiana.