This was a disaster for the record books: The offshore exploratory well was the deepest drilling ever, plunging more than 30,000 feet through ocean and seabed strata, and the spill was the largest in U.S. history, spewing 206 million gallons of oil -- nearly 20 times what the Exxon Valdez had dumped into Prince William Sound in Alaska a decade earlier.
The result means that Britain's established church is more divided than ever and plunges its soon to be new leader, the Right Reverend Justin Welby, into the midst of a crisis when he takes over from Rowan Williams early next year.
The music, an ever-soaring, ever-plunging vocal line with weirdly luminous orchestration all around, sounded nothing like Ives, but it might have been a modern sequel to "Three Places in New England": the Housatonic with its waters turning red.
EVER since Greece plunged into a sovereign-debt crisis in 2009, investors have focused on which European country might be next.
He is as cheerful and loquacious as ever and has plunged into an active social life in Baltimore with his wife, Patricia.
And as lending standards evaporated and the housing boom reached full throttle, banks plunged ever deeper into risky mortgage-backed securities and derivatives.
Mr. Saab likes to mix day and evening but, as ever, the clothes plunged right into summer dressing up, with white lace introduced even into the back of a white blazer.
Yesterday the price of crude plunged ever further as traders realised that the Saudi Arabian-imposed floor under the price no longer exists – or not until the next Opec meeting in June, anyway.
This isn't a book for everyone, but if you've ever found yourself plunged into existential despair while shopping at a department store, you'll enjoy the scene in which one Bradshaw brother becomes quietly unhinged while trying to buy a coat.
