Word: paranoidal
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...completely freaked out about meningitis. Our roommate's uncle is a doctor and her aunt gets really paranoid. So she's been telling us all year that we need to get our vaccine...
Part of the explanation is the special nature of our current prosperity, which is widening the income gap rather than narrowing it, as in the past. Part is the growth of global economic forces that are actually impinging on national sovereignty, even though it's the paranoid hysterics who say so. But the WTO isn't responsible for either of these trends, both of which are probably inevitable and neither of which undermines the basic case for free trade or for an organization empowered to promote trade through binding arbitration of trade disputes...
Maybe there's something about being immersed in cyberspace that makes people paranoid. That's one possible explanation, anyway, for the waves of panic emanating Tuesday from a meeting of international business and legal executives in London. The conclusions from the conference, organized to address issues affecting international commerce, led the director of the FBI's national infrastructure center to dire postulations. "Companies and private-sector entities are the new targets for terrorism and acts of war," he told Reuters. Internet crime, he added, is spreading rapidly and will affect everyone...
Emmet Ray (Sean Penn) is the premier American jazz guitarist. His fingers sculpt gorgeous sounds from the six strings; I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles was never so poignant or supple as in his hands. But Emmet is also a pimp, petty thief, paranoid...if there's a bad word that starts with p, he's likely to be it. Driven by ego, dogged by insecurity, he rationalizes his outrages as the spillage of an overflowing talent...
Defense experts testified that Kinkel was suffering from paranoid schizophrenia and had been fighting voices telling him to kill since he was 12. In 1997 he was found to have depression and anger-management problems and put on Prozac, which he later stopped taking. Critics of the sentence are disturbed that Kinkel's illness was not given due weight and feel that he is unlikely to get proper mental-health care in prison. "It's throwing away a life without regard for the possibility that Kinkel could change or that the circumstances that led to this could be mediated," says...