Word: paranoids
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Kang says that his MCAT instructor was so paranoid that his car would break down the morning of his own exam that he stayed at a cheap motel next to the test center the night before to make sure that there were no mishaps...
Nathaniel Lachenmeyer's childhood memories of his father Charles are bitterly divided. The earliest and fondest ones are of his dad's gentle counsel during nightly walks with the dog. But as Nathaniel grew older, Charles, a promising sociology professor, became ill with paranoid schizophrenia. The boy was terrified by his father's delusions that CIA agents and Nathaniel's mother had "enslaved" his mind. Charles left home in 1981 when...
...Instead of making incremental changes, the IRS spent six years formulating an overarching plan called the Tax Administration System that would cost $649 million and be in operation by the early '80s. The IRS presented the plan to Congress shortly after the final agonies of Watergate (which featured a paranoid President who used the IRS to harass his enemies). Congress was spooked by the idea of a more centralized, all-knowing, all-seeing IRS, and said no thanks. The IRS was told simply to replace worn-out machines: nothing new and nothing fancy...
...Under the Pitons, for example, an Irishman named Blessington embarks on a Caribbean drug run that proves more terrifying than he could have imagined. His French partner seems headed toward paranoid violence. Worse still is Blessington's memory of the men who sold them the dope. They had asked for "Frenchy," and Blessington, trying to appear in control, said they would have to wait until his partner arrived. "They drew themselves up around their hidden weaponry behind a silent, drug-glazed wall of suspicion that looked impermeable to reason. They were zombies, without mercy, and he, Blessington, was wasting their...
...victim of a fall from their building's rooftop. An accident, the police insist. A murder, her intuition tells her. This suspicion is confirmed by the increasingly hostile behavior of the authorities as she begins to investigate the case. It will come as no surprise to devotees of the paranoid thriller--is there any other kind nowadays?--that the victim is accidentally privy to information that threatens the secret plans of a powerful mining corporation to exploit and sully Greenland's purity. It will come as no surprise to them either that as the conspiracy surrounding Smilla begins to take...