Above all, there are no grand revelations of epic lying, deceit, or criminality — nothing remotely on the scale of the Tonkin Gulf "incident" that justified the escalation of the Vietnam conflict, in 1964, the C.I.A.'s role in bringing Pinochet to power in Chile, in 1973, or, more recently, the Bush-Cheney embrace of torture.
Before the experiment presented here, the large-scale summer circulation of the Gulf of Tehuantepec was thought to be dominated by a poleward flow along the coast.
With the broken well's owner, BP, capturing roughly 15,000 barrels a day, the new estimate suggests that as much as 45,000 barrels a day is escaping into the gulf, punctuating the scale of the substantive and political problems facing Mr. Obama.
THREE KINGS (David O. Russell, 1999) This big-scale satirical action movie brings into question the political and military handling of the Gulf War, attacking by name President George Bush.
"The scale of combating foot-and-mouth disease," he added, "has far exceeded, for example, even the logistical demands of the gulf war".
The monarchs of the Gulf stood firm.
Gulf of Tadjoura, French Golfe de Tadjoura, gulf indenting the coastline of Djibouti, eastern Africa, located at the extreme western end of the Gulf of Aden.
It lies on the coast of the Gulf of Suez.
"The Midwest has tornadoes, parts of the gulf experience hurricanes.
