Word: paranoia
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...course, there are other arguments against Clipper, most of them more compelling than the one that Mr. Liu is able to muster. But by merely beating the drum of social paranoia, he gives short shrift to not only these other potential arguments, but also the genuinely legitimate interest of the government to protect us all against electronic criminals. Brian d. Galle...
Paralyzed by its paranoia, the CIA was in need of a radical new teaching, a new founding, which came in the form of William Casey. Beginning in the early eighties, the Agency once again returned to its de facto charter--spying on the enemy, the Soviet enemy...
Remember when five Florida college students were slaughtered in their apartments in 1990, plunging the state's campuses into a frenzy of paranoia...
What isn't discussed, however, is the downward pressure on grades exerted by grade-inflation paranoia. "The B+ is kind of caught between the crossfire of this," Lump says. "It's used in response to upward grade inflation, and it's also used in grade deflation. You're trying to deflate grades, so you give someone a B+. You know they're doing work that in another class might get them an A or an A-, [but] you can get away with that. Whereas if you give them, like, a B, they might seriously start to think they'd been...
...finally said, "I have to stop this. Either I make a commitment to just live my life and make sure I live it to the fullest and not be paranoid about things like this, or else I'm just going to be overwhelmed and consumed by this paranoia. When I made that commitment, that liberated...