Word: paranoiacal
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These traits have allowed Grove to push with paranoiac obsession the bounds of innovation and to build Intel, which makes nearly 90% of the planet's PC microprocessors, into a company worth $115 billion (more than IBM), with $5.1 billion in annual profits (seventh most profitable in the world) and an annual return to investors of 44% during the past 10 years. Other great entrepreneurs, most notably the visionary wizard Bill Gates, have become richer and better known by creating the software that makes use of the microchip. But more than any other person, Andy Grove has made real...
...considered a love story: Howard Stern says, "I love you, Alison" even more often than "penis." The mostly genial Private Parts, written by Len Blum and Michael Kalesniko and directed, with more style and verve than absolutely necessary, by Betty Thomas, is like Stern's radio show: self-obsessed, paranoiac, very funny and way too long...
...University of the Philippines, "but there was agreement on the first draft in only three minutes." She credits successful diplomacy for the smoothing of Beijing feathers. "Perhaps because people (in the group) are no longer ganging up against the Chinese, they are less paranoid." But to the paranoiac always comes a threat, and China's other hand is a fist. In Hong Kong Thursday, pro-democracy activists rallied outside a conference hall that will tomorrow host China foreign minister Qian Qichen at a meeting to pick Hong Kong's first leader under Chinese rule, which begins July 1. "Qian needs...
...there you'll find the genre's cool, metallic intellect touched by the fever of despair. The X-Files' twin mantras--"The truth is out there" and "Trust no one"--are the ideal ingredients for a sci-fi cocktail with a '90s twist. The paranormal and the paranoiac have joined hands through a pop-cultural wormhole; they meet and multiply. It's not so much science as psychic or psychoanalytic fiction...
...weekend warriors, but you are talking about weapons training here, and you are also attracting people who are sociopaths, some of the same sort of bozos who made up the terrorist left in the '60s and '70s. You're putting out a hate-filled message, a paranoiac message, and you go beyond that and say, 'Get your guns, because it is coming,' and you've just raised their temperature another 25?...