Word: paranoias
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...paranoia level has grown to the point that airlines sometimes are throwing people off flights simply because nervous fellow passengers deem them "suspicious." When an Indian passenger told an American he was a bass guitarist, which another traveler misheard as "Bosnian terrorist," he and another Indian flying with him were booted off a Singapore Airlines flight preparing to leave for Hong Kong. Northwest ground staff refused to board three Iraqi-born Americans on a flight from Minneapolis to Salt Lake City, and two Pakistani businessmen were marched off a US Airways Florida-Baltimore shuttle when the pilot refused to take...
...sword that imaginative free rein provides. While this license will force us to face and interdict the worst acts imaginable done by one group of humans to others, rampant credulity of imagination creates irrational and damaging fears. The key is to harness this imaginative credibility for vigilance and not paranoia...
...know when it's over, so closure would just mean denial. So it was easy last week to find people--even rescue workers at Ground Zero--who said they still could not believe this could possibly have happened. We wobble between resolve and despair; the lines between prudence and paranoia blur. A three-year-old boy in Spotsylvania, Va., fatally shot himself with the gun his father had just brought home to protect his family...
...played during this period, among them Peter, Paul and Mary's Leaving on a Jet Plane. (Clear Channel contends the list was unofficial and did not ban any songs outright.) USA Network canceled an airing of the 1998 movie The Siege, a serious look at anti-Arab bigotry and paranoia after terrorist attacks in New York--arguably precisely the sort of issue the country needs to consider...
...found fertile and nurturing soil to develop themselves and contribute to the well-being of mankind. It is a land where the unusual creativity of individuals is rewarded, where laws are made by the people and taken seriously. We must not give in to insecurity, a false sense of paranoia, a reversion to weak-kneed McCarthyism to break the promises of generations of gifted and humane thinkers who have created this extraordinary republic as a symbol of freedom for the entire world...