Word: paranoia
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Gritz: Both liberals and conservatives think the government is after them. But I don't feel this paranoia. I don't fear anybody, and I don't hate anybody. If people could feel as comfortable and confident as I do, maybe we wouldn't have all this "Henny-penny, the sky is falling!" There ought to be a place to go. So we're building a constitutional-covenant community near Kamiah. The only requirement for moving in there-it has nothing to do with race, color, creed, sexual persuasion or anything else -- is that you are willing to stand...
...families. None of the unfortunate individuals who have resided temporarily or passed through this town had anything at all to do with the Oklahoma incident. Associating those who are homeless, despondent and trapped in their own personal turmoil with the machinations of paramilitary organizations serves only to promote paranoia and hysteria. We in Needles will try to understand the Oklahoma tragedy and ignore the outrageous connection you have made. LEON BERGER, City Manager Needles, California...
...constant pumping of hate-filled images and inflammatory statements can do to a culture. I do not believe censorship is the answer. But I have no doubt good taste and responsibility will not limit the entertainment industry's ability to provide mature work that attacks our corruption, challenges our paranoia and pulls the covers off the shortcomings that Balkanize us. What we need is simply the same sense of responsibility and dire consequences that we bring to the issue of anti-Semitism...
...Poverty and paranoia" manifest themselves inthe increasing gap between rich and poor and inintolerance, West said, speaking of his sense of"overwhelming despair...
...touch of paranoia is not a bad thing to bring to the computer-software business, where shifting alliances, rapid technological changes and intricate co-dependencies make plotting long-term strategies hazardous. For example, Software Arts, which invented the electronic spreadsheet, lost its market to Lotus because it failed to anticipate the impact of the IBM PC. Lotus, in turn, failed to recognize the importance of Windows and the Mac, and was overtaken by Microsoft...