Word: paranoia
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...casual cocaine use has become." But Beaty found that some cocaine dealers in Los Angeles were considerably more cautious: "It was the first time I had been in an attorney's office with semiautomatic weapons leaned up against the wall. It is safe to say that the paranoia level was high on all sides." Senior Editor Christopher Porterfield, who edited the cover, was struck by the complexity of the current cocaine craze, both in its origins and implications. "Unlike heroin, cocaine use can't be tied to poverty and neglect," he says. "It seems to have more...
...keep his promise to end draft registration is another. An agreement in the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT II) was one of the few achievements of the Carter administration (ultimately undone in the Senate), and the Reagan administration's reluctance to discuss disarmament or even arms limits shows paranoia getting the best of common sense...
...reduced. A Gallup poll showed that 76% would ban the hiring of illegal immigrants. "There is anger out there," contends Roger Conner, executive director of the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), a Washington-based group leading the battle for more restrictive policies. "There is fear. There is outright paranoia...
...went like three-minute rounds: ex-wives, bad bets and old friends drained it away. The IRS demanded $1.2 million in back taxes and penalties from him, and he suffered the humiliation of professional wrestling to help pay his debts. Following several stays in hospitals for drug abuse and paranoia, he became an "official greeter" at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas...
Finally, the Skocpol case, sex discrimination charges aside, points out once again Harvard's paranoia about people who do not espouse the company line. Even if sex bias were not an issue in Skocpol's case, bias against her radical political views and her qualitative/comparative approach to Sociology would be. Discrimination against political and academic views within the university is as pervasive a problem as sex bias. For that reason, the Faculty should establish a grievance process that encompasses all forms of discrimination. It also needs--as the Skocpol case makes eminently clear--a procedure to allow junior professors...