This article was originally published in the Gulf Times on Wednesday, January 9, 2013.
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The media and the military "are separated by a large and at times fatal gulf of mutual misunderstanding", said Insi Director Rodney Pinder.
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Bob Dickey, who runs Gannett's community papers, says they have realised there is no need to work out what to say about the Gulf oil leak seven times.
It's based on a schedule where there's I think roughly one-and-a-half carrier groups at all times in the Gulf.
For Gulf oil producers, boom times are back, with a fury unseen since the oil-price shocks of the 1970s.
If good times prevail, the gulf between old-and new-economy valuations will not converge.
The move made business sense: India had tight government controls over gold, and the prices in the subcontinent were at least three times those in the Gulf.
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But there is an interesting geographical variation: Gulf-coast sites are hit five times as often as those on the Atlantic coast.
The fledgling stock markets in the Gulf are volatile at the best of times and, of course, they have continued to track their more established forerunners throughout this rollercoaster of a month.
They showed that the levees along a navigation channel east of the city, known as the Mississippi River Gulf Outlet, sank at five-times the average rate for the rest of the city.
These are hard times in Louisiana and across the Gulf Coast, an area that has already seen more than its fair share of troubles.
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According to Dr Smit, the multiple layers were the result of waves from the impact sloshing around in the primitive Gulf of Mexico and passing over individual sites several times.
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But even in these straitened times, there are limits to what jobs Gulf nationals will take.
Then in 1999 BP found Crazy Horse, with an estimated 1.5 billion barrels lying 1, 800 meters below, a field that is expected to produce wells tapping more than 20, 000 barrels a day by 2005, 20 times the average in shallower portions of the Gulf.
At different times, he has been for and against both Gulf Wars, Giuliani said.
And both the Indian and Filipino numbers likely are diminished by inadequate root census data from the Persian Gulf economies where so many have gone for jobs in recent times.
But despite these convulsions, there have been times of close co-operation - in the first Gulf War, in Bosnia and now Afghanistan.
News from the Gulf of Mexico got a little more positive this morning after the LA Times reported that BP "top kill" procedure was a success.
The cost of producing fuel at a German plant was soon ten times the price of gasoline shipped from the ports of the Gulf of Mexico.
There have also been times that Arabs complained the waterway should be called the Arabian Gulf, says Clive Holes, a professor at the University of Oxford who specializes in language and the contemporary Arab world.
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The Center for Security Policy today welcomed the insightful -- albeit astonishingly belated -- assessment of the state of U.S.-Soviet cooperation on the Persian Gulf crisis published on the front page of yesterday's New York Times by reporter Thomas L. Friedman.
The area involved -- off the coast of Somalia and Kenya as well as the Gulf of Aden -- equals more than 1.1 million square miles, roughly four times the size of Texas, or the size of the Mediterranean and Red Sea combined.
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BP's computer centre in the Gulf of Mexico operates at 270 teraflops (270 trillion calculations per second), nearly 3, 000 times faster than a decade ago.
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