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...While no skunks were found, it was assumed that a skunk may have been in the bushes and sprayed the shrubbery the evening before...
...Thanks to rising productivity, real wages have been rising for the first time in nearly three decades without spurring inflation. The U.S. growth rate, while down from its feverish 5.5% in the first quarter, is still expected to register 2%-plus for the rest of the year. The only skunk at this picnic is the Asian, Russian and Latin financial crisis, estimated to have knocked about 2.5 percentage points off second-quarter growth...
...original story, never mentioned sarin or defectors in an after-action briefing he gave. Retired Captain Michael Rose, the Tailwind medic, told Pentagon investigators that he had no doubt the fumes he inhaled were tear gas, just like the whiffs he got in basic training. "It's like skunk," he said. "Once you smell it, you never forget." And, the Pentagon said, two ex-service members that the original report said had scouted the enemy camp before the attack were in fact never in Laos...
...said. When the U.S. planes dropped the gas, Rose said he knew that it was tear gas rather than a nerve gas. "It burned like CS [tear gas] in the eyes; my throat felt like CS; and my skin felt like CS," he said. "CS is like a skunk--once you are exposed to it, there is no question in your mind what it is... I saw no single human being displaying any of the symptoms described for any type of toxic nerve agent...
ORIGIN: Developed at the CIA's behest during the cold war to spy on the Soviet Union, the plane was created by Lockheed's famed Skunk Works unit (nicknamed after the "Skonk Works" in Al Capp's comic strip, Li'l Abner).The aircraft made its first flight in August...