Word: skunking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Since January 1993, eight rabid reccoons and one rabid skunk have been caught by Cambridge authorities Mark McCabe, director of the Cambridge Animal Commission, estimated that there are between 50 and 70 sick raccoons in the area...
...course, the new book seems to focus on a love affair that young Lipsha Morrissey never quite convinces beautiful Shawnee Ray that she should dive into with him. (His failure may have something to do with an unsuccessful vision quest during which he is sprayed by a talking skunk.) But Erdrich loses interest in Lipsha's love troubles, and we hear nothing more. Similarly, a chapter in which Lyman Lamartine, Lipsha's rival, goes off to Las Vegas and loses a big wad of the tribe's money leads nowhere...
...mascot could also give the other fans some one to look at when attention to the event inevitably lags. Have you ever been to a swim meet? Or a field hockey match? Having a kid dressed up as a moose or a skunk or a cod could only help...
...understand Trotman's management style, look at the Mustang. To save the company's new muscle car from the scrap heap -- a mission he took on as a personal project -- he allowed free reign to a skunk-works operation where teamwork and cooperation replaced procedures and hierarchies. One innovation that might never have fitted into an organization chart: putting engineers and computer designers into the same test cars just to keep their very different technical worlds focused on the real product. Trotman and other key Ford executives checked up on the Mustang project in after-hours visits by the back...
...relationship of the time. Johnson loved the inside dirt that Hoover, then 68, often whispered to him. Hoover used his confidential files to hang on to power long past retirement age. Once when an aide suggested Johnson get rid of Hoover, the President replied, "Son, when you have a skunk it is better to have him inside the tent pissing out than outside pissing...