Word: paranoia
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...where her dysfunctional sister, mother and "Nanny" drive her to escape into a scientific world of gamma rays and cloud chambers. The play has five leading female roles and gives us a candid and amusing picture of how a young girl survives this modern world of borderline insanity and paranoia...
...cuts," the younger Bush said on a campaign stop in California. "I hope the people enter the political process with what's best for the country in mind, not making decisions based on personal vendettas." (Reform party honcho and Perot buddy Russell J. Verney dismissed Bush's remarks as "paranoia...
...trunks of paper to safety. Spy hunters and prosecutors got first crack at the papers, and according to Mitrokhin's co-author, Cambridge University historian Christopher Andrew, a dozen probes of old spies are still active. Mitrokhin wanted to publish his files to reveal to the world the paranoia, cynicism and abuse endemic in Soviet power--the ultimate dissent from a system that died because it could not accept...
...partly due to a case of nerves within the German business community. "Here are 1,600 German companies, scanning the horizon, looking for anything that might threaten their business and profits ? and when they see something, they make a move to head off that potential threat." All this paranoia seems unreasonable to most U.S. consumers, to whom comparison shopping - and the freebies that come with it, like frequent flier miles - are taken for granted. While the German businesses? aggressive stance has been upheld consistently by the country?s highest courts, some companies, like American Express, have taken their appeals...
...historical evidence says there are many more conspiracy theories than actual conspiracies, ongoing work on the JFK assassination(s) notwithstanding. But the amateur sleuths ?- indeed, the entire societies of them that imagine the U.S. government to be far more insidious than incompetent ?- do not thrive on paranoia alone. They require scraps ?- gaps in the narrative, a hitch or two in the official version of things, plenty of questions unanswered, and, of course, a tragic ending, hopefully brought about by a showy use of government force. Waco has all of these, and a built-in audience: the antigovernment militia types...