skunk

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Many in the Defense Department didn’t realize that Johnson’s streamlined, entrepreneurial management style at the Skunk Works was the reason it produced results, often at lower costs than other more-audited defense programs.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 18, 2026

“She carved out her own space and just occupied it,” she says of Skin, a Black woman who appeared on the cover of Skunk Anansie’s 1995 debut wearing camo pants and a shaved head.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 4, 2025

Suggestions from the BLM included incorporating more robust information about the effects the mine would have on groundwater, and the stabilization of the tailings dam in Skunk Camp, a river located southeast of the mine.

From Salon • May 25, 2023

The actors all seem to be having fun, especially Keung as the roguish Skunk, but the best part is the way the movie enthusiastically wallows in the excessiveness of the action.

From New York Times • Dec. 22, 2022

At Lockheed Aircraft Corporation in Burbank, California, Johnson had created the "Skunk Works," a secret research-and-development lab hidden from prying eyes by tall barbed-wire fences and blacked-out windows.

From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau