Word: paranoiacs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...decision to explode the nuclear devices fits snugly into the B.J.P.'s somewhat paranoiac view of its world: that India is sliding into chaos, with insurgencies in Kashmir and the northeastern jungles threatening its stability, China trying to stretch its influence through Burma into the Indian Ocean, and Pakistan secretly developing nuclear missiles that can target Indian cities. B.J.P. strategists argue that India needs to be ready to defend itself...
...Foster's head. Dan Burton is so afraid of catching AIDS that he brings his own scissors to the House barbershop and refuses to eat soup at public restaurants. But the man who will do or say anything to nail Bill Clinton suddenly has the worst problem a paranoiac can have: He keeps making more enemies. And they're not just Democrats anymore...
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...