"The perverse incentives in the digital advertising marketplace can, I believe, have a perverse impact, particularly on kids," he said.
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Republicans who after mass shootings regularly exonerate our perverse gun
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Economists warn that rent caps tend to have perverse effects.
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It's a perverse way of showing respect for the military.
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The perverse depths of their bond remains a tantalizing mystery.
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Trump gets a perverse sense of satisfaction from deflating his
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This is an arbitrary distinction, and leads to perverse outcomes.
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The results could seem perverse or beautiful — or healthily confusing.
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This perverse government incentive is why we, along with Reps.
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No one finds comedy in the perverse with more ingenuity.
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Having sex on the brain, then, isn't perverse — it's inevitable.
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There is a perverse kind of freedom in lacking agency.
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The project sounded fascinating, and more than a little perverse.
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I don't see it as this ugly or perverse thing.
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I wave, with a smile that hides a perverse satisfaction.
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It got dark, perverse, and crazy, hence the spray paint.
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Attention in the Twitterverse comes in perverse and unexpected ways.
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It was sexual, it was perverse, and it was ugly.
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What are the perverse side effects of deploying driverless cars?
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Considering her subject matter, Emre's heterodox approach is appropriately perverse.
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From a policy perspective, state EV fees are somewhat perverse.
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That intense or potent solitude is abnormal and even perverse.
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It's an even more perverse way to go through life.
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His collections are bohemian, romantic and sometimes a little perverse.
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And allocating funds in this way can have perverse consequences.
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Trump took a kind of perverse credit for the ceasefire.
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There's a relationship here, albeit a perverse and destructive one.
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That perverse pleasure drives "When You Win It's Winning," Ariel
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It's kind of nice to watch, in a perverse way.
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The experience has given her a perverse sense of community.
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If he is capable of the "perverse glee" and the
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It is perverse for Britain to try to look away.
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But videogames, in a perverse way, share a similar fate.
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A perverse psychological fable of unchecked ego and unhinged desire.
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That was the perverse glory of the "Aida" on Monday.
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And he pursued that to a very perverse outcome. Right.
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It felt perverse, like I knew it shouldn't have happened.
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I thought it was pretty perverse, actually to be honest.
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For example, I found a curly cucumber in the supermarket, and I immediately found it to be perverse—like, sexually—but by creating more of them, they lose the perverse meaning attached to them.
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Second, even apparent success in tackling bias can have perverse consequences.
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Yet these new rules are weak and may encourage perverse outcomes.
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It seems perverse now to reject the option out of hand.
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The alternative is simply too perverse (Trump) or too cruel (Cruz).
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What these fighters choose to embrace is a (perverse) ideological vision.
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There's a strangely perverse pleasure in watching an interview go south.
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It is a sign of almost perverse integrity on his part.
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The tumor was "progressing" — surely one of medicine's most perverse coinages.
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We even get some perverse pleasure from cleaning out the ashes.
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It is a fitting venue for a superlatively perverse dining experience.
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Disclosure can also cause perverse effects even when biases are unavoidable.
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The perverse catch was that the longer doctors waited to perform
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He takes this mandate to extremes that can verge on perverse.
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Does that create perverse incentives for them not to find anything?
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The play's pervy, perverse influence is American Apparel's founder, Dov Charney.
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So it's somewhat perverse to blame Democrats for the ensuing shutdown.
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It would be perverse to embrace inconvenience as a general rule.
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A reverse — and equally perverse — dynamic propels the India-Pakistan rivalry.
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"Indiana's view would lead to perverse results," the group's brief said.
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The president's foolish undermining of the Iran nuclear deal is perverse.
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"Cold Snap" turns post-breakup despair into an almost perverse triumph.
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But there's also something perverse about the fierce blowback he received.
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Such blocks grants reverse the perverse incentives of the federal match.
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You either saw a perverse rainbow or you stared into darkness.
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One reason for all this: perverse incentives for health care providers.
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What a perverse hall of mirrors our White House has become.
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This approach, which Philadelphians call the Process, is a touch perverse.
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Trump and his henchmen have a perverse way of celebrating Christmas.
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The composition of "The Burial of Saint Lucy" is particularly perverse.
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So it&aposs all a perverse system that we&aposve set up.
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"There's something perverse and horrific about this family story," Trier told me.
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It's like a perverse credit roll: the cast, in order of disappearance.
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Part of the perverse pleasure of the genre is recognizing familiar strategies.
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Decades in, Reubens retains his masterful, almost perverse, sense of comic timing.
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Which is sort of perverse, I guess, using prose to describe film.
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However, like any electoral system, it is capable of producing perverse results.
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Perverse: 20 percent off any order (using code GETAWAY20); through May 30.
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We know that perverse incentives are behind a lot of bad research.
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Admittedly, this is a rather perverse way of looking at the world.
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For this reason its use in GDP figures can have perverse results.
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That could have the perverse effect of reducing choices and raising premiums.
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It's in this context that the Robeson County decision seems so perverse.
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The crackdown was merited, but some of its results have been perverse.
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In a perverse fashion, then, Williamson may be the perfect conservative columnist.
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Some names are proudly perverse: one off-white shade is called Blackened.
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"It was sexual, it was perverse, and it was ugly," she writes.
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"The presence of the army created a perverse incentive," Durazo Montaño says.
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The beneficiaries of the study are also, in a perverse way, lucky.
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In many ways the tax law is already having a perverse effect.
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These perverse incentives send a clear signal to would-be Good Samaritans.
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That was one of the most perverse cases of domination I've seen.
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It is a perverse subversion of the human enterprise of scientific pursuit.
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This habit, of legend unfurling alongside history, has some oddly perverse effects.
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These performers gave the event interest and a perverse kind of glamour.
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However, in a perverse way, Trump provided a service to the nation.
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Technical problems, temperament, nerves — or could it be some perverse genius calculation?
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What he markets as irreverence can be something coarser and more perverse.
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Genet's writings uncover the perverse anarchies that operate within well-ordered hierarchies.
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Or does it exhaust us – or worse, encourage a perverse kind of voyeurism?
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This is big business in Marshall and Tyler, which creates totally perverse incentives.
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Is it a spiritual romance with a perverse misunderstanding of faith and love?
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Efforts to reduce the government's role in the industry have had perverse results.
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Multiracial people were examined with perverse fascination, a pseudo-scientific poking and prodding.
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African folklore is just as rich, and just as perverse as that shit.
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In a perverse gesture, the gunmen separated the Muslims from the non-Muslims.
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And how she takes some perverse comfort in the melancholy of being single.
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"GRAND coalitions", Willy Brandt apocryphally opined, "have the feel of perverse sex acts".
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This sometimes leads to "anti-monopoly" policies that can sound a little perverse.
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Being busy is often seen as a "perverse badge of honor," says Ferriss.
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Then he unleashes a finale that's not only outrageously bloody but queasily perverse.
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One is ignorance, and the risk of perverse outcomes that flows from it.
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Even perverse decisions will not take you too far from the main plotline.
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Reducing the perverse incentives around scientific research itself could also help reduce overhype.
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What would you say to people who find your work pathological or perverse?
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There was something perverse about the whole ordeal for everyone on the outside.
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He is in an especially perverse mood: "Did you like that?" he snarls.
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Editorial In a perverse way, Russia has done a favor to international sport.
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Was there not a perverse irony in Germany accepting refugees rejected by Israel?
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She has a novelist's sense of pacing and a perverse genius for description.
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Indeed, they end up fostering a dangerous, almost perverse critique of modern capitalism.
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But earmarking copious disaster money for fires threatens to entrench some perverse incentives.
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And no-dating rules, as well as being intrusive, can have perverse consequences.
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There is instead something perverse about an economy impoverished by lack of spending.
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This could be a perverse, hilarious situation, a freaky farce about taboo emotions.
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In fact, the whole scandal offers a perverse win-win opportunity for Putin.
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To start worrying about kids enjoying friendships with robots seems, to me, perverse.
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It was a perverse decision with life-altering consequences but I was strong.
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There's something deeply perverse about doing State of the Thunder Zone every week.
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Each, with its peculiar, hard, perverse beauty, is a complete narrative, a perfection.
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I thought the triplets were pretty fun and the clues sort of perverse.
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Mr. Neenan, whose tastes in music are diverse, has a wacky, perverse side.
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In this case, cutting corporate tax rates could actually have a perverse effect.
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In some perverse magic trick, it becomes both atmospheric and far, far away.
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This is to say nothing of the perverse ways people speak to themselves.
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I like the fact that it isn't judgmental and it's a little perverse.
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In the meantime, we are having a perverse kind of fun, aren't we?
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I must admit to gleaning a perverse satisfaction from these exhibitions of collapse.
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He said the current, convoluted system of paying for drugs had perverse incentives.
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That doesn't stop her from being playful, hedonistic or perverse when she chooses.
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But no previous Republican president has tackled America's perverse, uncompetitive corporate tax rates.
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Former foreign minister and parliament speaker Jaime Gama, a Socialist, called it "perverse".
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And in the opening scenes, I worried that a perverse preciousness might dominate.
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In theory, private markets should act as a bulwark against these perverse incentives.
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The perverse incentives of for-profit insurance undermine the application of any reform.
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In perverse fashion, therefore, the Greenspan Fed operated a bread and circuses economy.
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And it became this perverse experiment to stay here and continue making music.
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That combination of unmoored bawdiness and moral gravity characterize Roth's greatest and most perverse moments, as in the amazing scene in Sabbath's Theater where the title character Mickey Sabbath, Roth's most perverse imp, masturbates over the grave of his lover.
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The mid-70s records are also quite perverse, albeit in a more erratic way.
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Decades of perverse incentives cemented the automobile as the main way people get around.
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Some people find them perverse and disturbing, and others think they're kind of sexy.
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Whether easy or extreme, angry reactions may be perverse, but they can feel exhilarating.
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And it is not the only perverse outcome created by the top-two system.
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This has the perverse result of making most of the scenes play the same.
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It's so cynical and perverse when people try to stage these crimes as 'fun.
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The no-dating policies common in America are intrusive, useless and have perverse consequences.
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They have other perverse distractions, such as M1343S's sympathy with the anti-vaccination movement.
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It just seems like a perverse way to weight the interests of different citizens.
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Although they may look perverse, they serve an important spiritual need for many women.
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Nowhere today is the turn against Western liberal democracy more startling or seemingly perverse.
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Adoring life means embracing everything you desire, even if it seems perverse or gauche.
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This practice of prioritizing foreign interests over American interests implies very perverse policy outcomes.
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And yet at the same time, The Act's languorous rhythms become a perverse attraction.
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China's denial of Hong Kong's demand for more open politics is having perverse consequences.
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The perverse experimentation is as wasteful of our tax dollars as it is repugnant.
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The flat rate "creates a perverse incentive" for Senior Health Partners, the lawsuit says.
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Moreover, the focus on child protection creates perverse incentives for caseworkers and welfare agencies.
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The downside: If designed incorrectly, these pay-for-performance contracts can incentivize perverse behavior.
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"To suggest that Brookner is a comic writer might seem perverse," Ms. Seymour wrote.
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But anyway, what I'm doing today has nothing to do with that perverse novel.
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Having experienced her share of loss, Hazel takes perverse pleasure in watching people leave.
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The fundraising limits have had the perverse effect of pushing money into the shadows.
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"If we consider how things ought to work, it is perverse," Mr. Barr said.
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And rigged in kind of a perverse, almost unconscious way, in the way Sen.
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But this administration takes both to perverse summits, and Sanders is its mountaineer extraordinaire.
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It's perverse that we live in a society where this is allowed to happen.
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And he did feel bad—the story was awful, perverse, made his gut tighten.
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However, her proposal could well have perverse effects that make the world less stable.
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This perverse co-opting of Christianity is consistent with what I have witnessed myself.
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It therefore sounds perverse to say that Marx's philosophy was dedicated to human freedom.
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And Wall Street banks provide this debt in a way that creates perverse incentives.
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If you think that's as perverse as it gets, be prepared for further disbelief.
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Yet the rush to set them and then meet them has had perverse effects.
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" Toure himself recalls stories of other gay initiates called "perverse, mad, demented (and/or) insane.
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The perversity barely registers, not because it isn't perverse but because it is so familiar.
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It had to feel perverse but as if I was choosing for it to happen.
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It's considered a controversial classic that pushed the boundaries of portraying perverse sexuality on film.
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There was a perverse pleasure in eschewing the thing that everybody's there for: the kills.
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It also allows voters to vote sincerely and is most likely to avoid perverse outcomes.
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"The perverse secrecy of child separation should concern us all," Murphy wrote in a tweet.
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One insight from the literature is that a tightly specified contract can have perverse outcomes.
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Perverse and prosaic, his subjects show that idiosyncrasy is far more common than we realize.
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To be honest, Donald Trump as a presidential candidate is fascinating, in a perverse way.
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It would have perverse consequences, too, for it would discourage small farmers from getting bigger.
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The callousness required of these self-identified gamers to target employees verges on the perverse.
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All [the music] is romantic—[it's] as perverse and aggressive it may want to be.
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It goes without saying that Democrats have none of those perverse incentives to worry about.
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It would be as perverse as paying Trump to give a lecture on university governance.
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Policymakers should focus on reforming safety net programs that create perverse incentives and obstruct opportunity.
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I feel [redacted] proceeded on a unprofessional way somehow malicious and perverse towards my sister.
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We embrace our wants and needs by actively and consensually participating in these perverse acts.
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We in Mexico are familiar with the perverse logic of keeping people hostage as leverage.
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The Russian Revolution, however perverse, produced an experiment, albeit a failed one, in economic planning.
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The perverse achievement of 'Melancholia' is how difficult it is to argue with her conclusion.
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Worse yet, government dependence on carbon tax revenue could create a perverse incentive for failure.
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I don't know how I'm going to celebrate—it seems a bit morbid and perverse.
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But some of the most perverse treatment has come from the other women in town.
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" In a series of tweets, former Scalise spokesman T.J. Tatum called the ad "beyond perverse.
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It fundamentally affects the way our cells grow and divide, changing them in perverse ways.
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It was some perverse triumph to recross the line between obese and overweight in reverse.
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But what do you see as the sort of perverse pressures on reporters right now?
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Denying the Court the opportunity to make concrete decisions, meanwhile, is a perverse plan indeed.
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In their perverse way, dictatorships know full well they're doing wrong when they imprison dissidents.
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The "caliphate" also developed a perverse power to attract recruits, including many from developed nations.
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"It was weird, almost perverse that we were now a middle-class family," he said.
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When the market is dropping, pouring more hard-earned cash into stocks may seem perverse.
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In a perverse way, Trump appears to benefit from the sheer volume of his offenses.
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We also need to quickly end perverse subsidies that are encouraging the use of biofuels.
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They thought the combination of living and dead, human and animal, was perverse and grotesque.
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Fixing this perverse political culture demands that people show up to the polls on Sept.
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Swine fever devastated China's stock because with unsound governance, even sound regulations have perverse effects.
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Which may be the biggest shock of all, and also a perverse source of comfort.
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That true history is deployed this way in the service of fighting progress is perverse.
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This neglect is particularly perverse since the climate crisis disproportionately affects Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries.
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"When you use a cap, you're using a perverse incentive for under-reporting," Camus says.
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"I took a perverse pleasure in having survived the struggle of my ancestors," she said.
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One takeaway: plastic is perverse; it goes away only when you don't want it to.
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There was something perverse about the fact that the poster itself was now a commodity.
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This propagated perverse incentives, raised prices and reduced choices, ultimately costing patients and taxpayers dearly.
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His work was as calm as it was obsessive, as perverse as it was innocent.
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That said, I confess a perverse curiosity about carefully spreading onion dip on a Funyun.
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Worse, Mr Coons has argued, they create perverse incentives for big companies to flout patents.
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Medicaid has all kinds of complicated rules, which can create perverse incentives throughout the system.
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After that, there is competition, with perverse incentives: whoever has the most heartrending story wins.
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But in Kushner's case — in Ivanka Trump's, too — that has been an especially perverse spectacle.
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When absolutes go unchallenged, they have a perverse tendency to be reborn as the truth.
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Here's another example of a different industry, where there is a similar perverse incentive: Energy.
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White people refused to touch Black people unless it was on their white perverse terms.
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But, as I wrote in my book, the Bench also had a perverse side effect.
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Which is why this robotic pour-over machine is to me so perverse… and so tempting.
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Wouldn't that give the Innovation Party a perverse amount of influence over who runs the Senate?
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I love the perverse idea of rendering a massive ship indecipherable through the most garish ornamentation.
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"Now this perverse caliphate is shrinking so they are very much on the defensive," he added.
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Half a century from now, America's current drugs policy may seem just as perverse as Prohibition.
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Hill's worldview, though bleak, has a moral coherence; things make sense in a grimly perverse way.
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And trying to pretend that there's some "American pride" in loving weapons is perverse and disturbing.
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"GRAND coalitions have the feel of perverse sex acts," Willy Brandt is said to have opined.
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So the business model is to get rid of the best customers, which seems almost perverse.
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This makes their drive to replace them with plans that provide even worse coverage seem perverse.
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"We think, in sort of a perverse way, that yields actually go up," he said Thursday.
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The disgusting and perverse violence projected onto the Black body in Western society is an abomination.
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The effect is perverse, encouraging people to funnel yet more cash into Britain's bubbly housing market.
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Instead, it would create a lot of perverse incentives, due to the way benefits eligibility works.
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A vast amount of Kate's catalogue consists of tales rooted in the deeply perverse and disturbing.
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It's also terribly difficult to describe, which, in a perverse way, only adds to its charms.
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In a perverse way, what times were more interesting than the era of the Third Reich?
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That dog represents a real character who's just as rascally and perverse as the book's humans.
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In a perverse sense, this chaotic history has turned out to be something of a boon.
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"A huge part of the solution is dealing with perverse incentives on social media," Farid said.
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Put simply, it's a perverse contrast to how we normally talk about and treat tragic deaths.
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But with this most-unlikely President, such a bizarre turn makes a perverse kind of sense.
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The many entrenched beneficiaries, both Afghan and American, have perverse incentives to continue the futile war.
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"An admissions policy that relies exclusively on class rank creates perverse incentives for applicants," he wrote.
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The closed door denies access, but it also heightens the perverse interest by this very estrangement.
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"The system is so perverse that sales are about to rise like an arrow," he said.
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It feels perverse to celebrate such a venerable part of America's history with imported, disposable knicknacks.
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Publication bias puts a perverse pressure on scientists to cherry-pick their results to skew positive.
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But the basis on which you can be denied a visa can still be very perverse.
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The perverse result is that the shunners are shunning themselves because people have been supporting me.
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His Southern-rooted fiction, heartbreaking, dark and perverse, is often remembered for its long, winding sentences.
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Priestdaddy is a funny and perverse and melancholy memoir, a terrific accomplishment from poet Patricia Lockwood.
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"Infrastructure that has such a perverse objective is difficult to think of as aesthetic," he said.
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In a perverse way, President Trump's tough stance against Beijing, despite its unpredictability, is proving effective.
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Muslimova's riff on the trope of woman as vessel is a perverse celebration of olfactory delight.
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I've also heeded criticism of it from those who find its vision of racial reconciliation perverse.
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And for some people (even the president's opponents), the climate of crisis inspires a perverse thrill.
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But that approach may also have the perverse consequence of denying payments to the very poorest.
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This argument only holds, however, if TBTF does not create perverse incentives for excessive risk-taking.
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This perverse affinity for strongmen limits America's potential as well as democracy's potential around the world.
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Because pizza and Chinese food make perverse sense together, like when Britney Spears dated Fred Durst.
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It is, to thousands, a perfectly perverse place to drunkenly celebrate the passing of another year.
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Eklof subsequently inverts revenge conventions in a way that dares the audience to call it perverse.
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Guarantee access to health "care," require price transparency and stop perverse incentives that add unnecessary costs.
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The larger issue, though, is that governing through a series of deals creates serious perverse incentives.
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The result was perverse: in the name of equality, all taxpayers were forced to subsidise the privileged.
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Border-adjustment would have removed the perverse incentives; Republicans say they have another fix up their sleeves.
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That seems perverse in a country where smartphones account for only about a quarter of mobile connections.
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Except in Meet the Feebles, most of the puppets are diseased, drug-addicted, and / or sexually perverse.
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Worse, the octopus I ordered turn out to be a single, throbbing, large, perverse-looking tentacle. #LonelyManEatsLargeLeginCoatroom.
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The Charlottesville rally was a perverse aberration, one that the rest of us have no part in.
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Just as important, is correcting short-sighted government policy and the perverse incentives that make flooding worse.
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As with the Iron Maiden, though, for its exciting, perverse nature, historians and museum professionals invented it.
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" Journalist Sarah Vine agreed, writing on the Daily Mail that Beckham receiving an OBE is "beyond perverse.
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His only interest in the details of my rape came in the form of perverse, sick questions.
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And Carol, Rick, and Abraham seem to get some perverse pleasure out of stomping out their enemies.
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The federal government could eliminate the perverse business incentive to keep people incarcerated, earning pennies per hour.
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This creates a perverse incentive, no department should rely on fines and fees to fill budget gaps.
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It seems perverse to require a warrant if the agents want to look at a smaller subset.
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This might create a perverse incentive for them to get to the border before it's too late.
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I just say this now because our culture is set on proving men of power are perverse.
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"No group has been as successful at drawing people into its perverse message as ISIS," Floris continued.
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It's a perverse, profit-based framework that helps spin the revolving door of the criminal justice system.
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They told us that, in a variety of ways, their careers are being hijacked by perverse incentives.
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The place to begin is right where the perverse incentives first start to creep in: the money.
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In fact, my Yale colleague Zack Cooper has recently offered shocking new details about America's perverse pricing.
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Others have neutralized the perverse profit motive by directing all forfeiture proceeds into the state general fund.
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That it's also a perverse fantasy about men, women, love and sacrifice makes it all the better.
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In that first encounter he taught me a crucial lesson about writing history: The truth is perverse.
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Individuals in the agencies did not take bribes — it was the perverse incentives that corrupted the institutions.
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So it seems perverse that fashion's love affair with splashy status badges shows no signs of cooling.
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Or at least they make a learning experience out of what might otherwise be more frankly perverse.
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Attempts to track performance in the veterans health care system have repeatedly created perverse outcomes, he said.
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Anything less than zero tolerance at the border creates what Mr. Miller calls "perverse" incentives for lawbreakers.
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His Southern-rooted fiction, heartbreaking, dark and perverse, is often remarked on for its long, winding sentences.
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And by uniting in outrage against those in that second category, we find perverse satisfaction and reward.
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At a time when we need to be strengthening Social Security, this perverse tradeoff does the opposite.
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But economists also argue that the exclusion creates perverse incentives that drive up the cost of coverage.
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In a perverse way, we should count ourselves lucky that Trump is as terrible as he is.
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This is so quickly agreed on and so widely accepted that it seems perverse to dispute it.
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The potent, perverse and pervasive ideology of ISIS and its ilk does not operate in a vacuum.
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In a perverse way, the stricter, more reliable pension systems could be the ones to face complications.
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Privately, some venture capitalists have bemoaned the way they're locked into rigid investment mandates with perverse incentives.
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It is that for some perverse reason, the most valuable human insights are easily lost or forgotten.
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This combination of low revenue and high spending obligations has created a perverse incentivestructure of local governments.
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If it seems perverse that the league is more eager to sell the fantasy of owning and disciplining some of the world's greatest athletes than it is to simply turn those players loose to play where everyone can watch, that is mostly because that is a totally perverse inclination.
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The members of this internet subculture are not simply a perverse sect occupying the recesses of the internet.
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It is cruel and perverse, therefore, that the costs of warming should be disproportionately borne by the poor.
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Ballot Measure 9 would have defined being gay as "abnormal, wrong, unnatural and perverse," essentially equivalent to pedophilia.
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Scientists are unwittingly biased toward results consistent with their hopes and expectations, and may suffer from perverse incentives.
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In retrospect, perhaps it was also a perverse way of embracing my otherness as a black immigrant girl.
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So perverse is the universe that in some ways, losing a child can be easier than losing football.
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Few people support entirely open societies—it would be perverse to allow Ebola victims to cross borders unimpeded.
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However, the phrase also signifies a perverse desire for self-destruction—the decadent and ultimate sense of masochism.
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Perhaps the clearest example of the perverse narrative dynamic around the 2018 election is the results in Texas.
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Since then, they're 1-22, including a 23-21 loss, because baseball has a perverse sense of humor.
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It's all particularly perverse because, when I go outside for a cigarette, I can see actually see Turkey.
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The other half is a dark, perverse sort of nostalgia — the kind that is right up Murphy's alley.
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" At the same time, he said, it "seems perverse to focus on the casualties or hardship in Afghanistan.
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Anger is everywhere—you could see this is a perverse continuation on the continuum of the Corbyn revolution.
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The sculptures' deformed helms, however, are their only perverse appendages: everything from the neck down is unmistakably human.
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He blasted hedge funds and corporations who practice "perverse capitalism" that prioritizes dividends and executive bonuses over workers.
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Together, they create a perverse financial incentive for racialized enforcement and expanded detention, with little to no oversight.
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The good news is that excessive CEO pay and the perverse incentives that accompany it are not inevitable.
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Holidays are treated like consequence-free bubbles which celebrate emotional coercion and enforce a perverse sense of duty.
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Many of the responses did, however, vividly illustrate the challenges and perverse incentives that scientists across fields face.
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They lead the league in hand-wringing, and in a perverse way, maybe they secretly love the losing.
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This Madden tournament in Jacksonville, it's like a perverse sort of intersection between these really barbaric worlds, right?
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It's almost like you didn't need to have a rationalization for why photography is perverse in that way.
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And, although all the rituals and games would soon turn into perverse manipulations, those early days seemed magical.
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The perverse irony is, by assuming jurors credit rape myths, police and prosecutors can end up perpetuating them.
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The design explores the "perverse effect of capitalism" in which lower classes create luxurious objects for the wealthy.
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But "Marie and Bruce," which is being revived at Brooklyn's Jack, is considerably more perverse than most stories.
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And so she hits upon the brilliantly perverse idea of having Rostand rewrite Shakespeare to eliminate the poetry.
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Out came the models, like refugees from a perverse fairy tale, raindrops glittering like crystals on the tulle.
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Women may claim to have perverse fantasies, he said, but they don't know what it's like for him.
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Instead, the misuse of financial instruments is creating perverse incentives, rewarding crafty creditors for forcing companies into bankruptcy.
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Before the bodies start piling up, they act as if they're in a dark, perverse comedy about parenthood.
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"I was on a kind of perverse pilgrimage," a writer who traveled there writes in the Times Magazine.
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They also ignore the degree to which blackface is actually little more than a perverse expression of whiteness.
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The dearth of new drugs is tied to the perverse economics of antimicrobial resistance and the free market.
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One reason the financial crisis was so bad was that the financial system was full of perverse incentives.
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All this defiant anti-environmentalism looks more perverse than ever, though it's nothing new for the conservative movement.
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Since then, however, fiscal policy has become perverse: first austerity despite high unemployment, now expansion despite low unemployment.
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Entitlement reform must also address the perverse policies that keep less-skilled workers trapped in low-growth regions.
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The show placed its very anxious (hello) Australian protagonist in a world of perverse caricature and logo hysteria.
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The perverse incentive structure in private prison contracts encourages states to keep private prisons full, or very close.
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An overindulgent owner, too, may take a perverse pride in a cat's epicurean tastes and cater to it.
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The other editors warned me, saying their boss took perverse pleasure from smashing the hopes of naïve reporters.
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That dynamic puts contending teams and their fans in the somewhat perverse position of rooting for schedule strength.
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For policymakers, however, the problem of perverse incentives is an agonizing one, and it runs in both directions.
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I consider myself a sadistic constructor (I take perverse pleasure in creating challenging grids — the tougher the better).
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Prior authorizations create perverse incentives for doctors to change their prescription choices to avoid wasting hours on paperwork.
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China's state interference with commerce, for instance, can lead to perverse incentives and an inevitable misallocation of resources.
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The perverse, if unintended, result of federal pension policy has thus been to aggravate America's growing wealth gap.
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He has become a guru of sorts, and his views have grown correspondingly capricious—even perverse at times.
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What does Trump have to do to right the ship and prevent this perverse history from repeating itself?
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In his classic book, "The Denial of Death," Ernest Becker examined various manifestations of the subject, some perverse.
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But the perverse reality of the market today is that cancer treatment comes with its own financial toxicity.
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Many analysts considered the market reaction to the ECB rather perverse given the actual steps were very aggressive.
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The perverse empathy we feel for the apes comes from how thoroughly awful humans are made to seem.
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Policies you support in principle aren't invalidated when their beneficiaries turn out to have vexing or perverse views.
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Thanks to America's perverse cash bail system, money can literally get you out of jail in most cases.
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"It creates all these perverse incentives for employers to oppose workers trying to join the union," says Madland.
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And when the close happens on one of those, it's actually a really perverse element of the venture industry.
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"It's a controversial, perverse decision to say the least," Cardinal Elio Sgreccia told La Repubblica of the McDonald's opening.
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And, perhaps, give a kind of perverse thanks if your company ran into trouble during a good job market.
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I wonder how much longer he can keep doing these before he runs out of unintentionally perverse romance comics.
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Ranked-choice or other systems that allow voters to rank preferences for multiple candidates would greatly reduce perverse outcomes.
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But forsaking one unelected, unaccountable bureaucracy in Brussels for another housed in a leafy district of Geneva seems perverse.
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Donald Trump is a perverse man who is perverting not only our democracy but the very concept of truth.
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They call into question the increasingly invasive, perverse reach technology (and its corporate architects) keep taking in our lives.
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And with it, we bring certain expectations, which Baron Fellowes is taking a perverse 11th-hour pleasure in flouting.
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This may even create perverse incentives, as firms could appear better by outsourcing low-paid jobs done by women.
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Like a Barry Hannah short story, Kokoska's gothic relies on the spookiness of the familiar reimagined as the perverse.
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Enjoy a taste of his perverse humor and knack for turning shapes into emotional observations in the Instagrams below.
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Mr. Trump's racism, bullying, misogyny, nepotism, crudity and warmongering don't inspire doubts; they are part of his perverse appeal.
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In recent years, flawed policies like "wet foot, dry foot" have created perverse incentives for dangerous forms of migration.
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The perverse and nepotistic front office structure, which is unchanged and seemingly unchangeable, seems to guarantee more of this.
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There was something perverse about being so squeezed for time in a place where no one had anything but.
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His frequent mentions of MS-13 are a perverse marketing trick to associate all Latino immigrants with this gang.
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It can do this by pushing through legislative reforms that strike at the perverse incentives faced by the USPTO.
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And yet, territorial unincorporation has made possible the most perverse interventions by Washington in the economy of Puerto Rico.
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But surely some members of the audience, perverse creatures that we are, might find the "wrong" option more interesting.
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He became interested in journalism early on, inspired, in a perverse way, by the local paper, The Tuscaloosa News.
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Sadly, this lack of oversight provides a perverse incentive to pad profit margins at the expense of the poor.
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It's a perverse equation: As the number of insurers goes down, the leverage they have over regulators goes up.
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"We will not wait for an industry with so many conflicting and perverse incentives to reform itself," Azar said.
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There's a perverse honesty about it, a kind of acceptance that fantasy and reality are never supposed to meet.
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"We believe it will have perverse outcomes for women in the workplace," said Mark Mitchell, a National Party lawmaker.
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Trump is the Commander of Fear and those who support him have found a perverse comfort in that fear.
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The piece is both perverse and domestic, a combination that reverberates with varying degrees of success throughout the exhibition.
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But his direction often compensates with B-movie energy, particularly when he's able to concentrate on his perverse vision.
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It is an uncannily similar response to the perverse yet predictable reaction from tobacco companies when advertising was curtailed.
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Or maybe it's the livestock wandering around that create the perverse atmosphere, constantly shitting and pissing and having intercourse.
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This intense documentary shows a driven creator walking the walk, so to speak, in the most perverse fashion possible.
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They are perverse, impulsive and narcissistic in ways common both to feuding Valhallans and your typical, hormone-flooded teenager.
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The content is not alluring, but in their own perverse way, they have become a small totem of remembrance.
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It is easy to understand why many struggle with ISOYG's almost perverse split between exploitation cinema and documentary realism.
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The prohibitions on drugs have also created perverse economic incentives that make combating drug producers and distributors extremely difficult.
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Most VCs take a kind of perverse pride in living on planes in order to meet portfolio firms regularly.
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This is one of the more perverse traps members of historically oppressed groups can find themselves hemmed up in.
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Obsessions, meanwhile, are inseparable from our peculiarities as people — we come to love things for often strange, perverse reasons.
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" Taking little trips into corners of Toronto with her binoculars, Maclear examines "the perverse audacity of someone aiming tiny.
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It seems quixotic, or even perverse, to mourn it, but how will we address genetic differences in the future?
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"Degas at the Opéra," a deep, enlightening, rather perverse exhibition on view here at the Musée d'Orsay through Jan.
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But since last January, when Jair Bolsonaro became President, the destruction has become a kind of perverse political goal.
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The whole scenario is as perverse and titillating as anything in the notoriously erotic stories of Isaac Bashevis Singer.
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But sex in public isn't just a sandy daydream, and it's often not a perverse or malicious thrill, either.
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After a long week working in my restaurant, I find the idea of cooking a meal at home perverse.
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This in turn would create perverse feedback loops that might lead to winners who aren't actually the most beautiful.
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Obviously, this creates the perverse incentive for students to progress through their degrees more slowly than they otherwise would.
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But you can see why he'd be concerned, since, on one level, the project feels like a perverse joke.
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We need to acknowledge the perverse effect that this can have on the freedom of action of women MPs.
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For too long the perverse incentives created by the fee-for-service payment system have led health care astray.
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They would dramatically reverse the many perverse incentives that currently exist for capital and companies to flee our shores.
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He worked as hard as he could, but to the doctors' perverse relief he did not improve at all.
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Critics have long decried civil forfeiture for creating a perverse incentive for law enforcement to essentially police for profit.
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Azar, in an interview with Reuters on Friday, said rebates created a perverse incentive to continuously raise drug prices.
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Fixating so totally on a single figure strikes me as a particularly perverse way to go about it, though.
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Though Warhol's vision can seem dystopian, it also implies a kind of perverse democracy, since everything (and everyone) is interchangeable.
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For a time, its residents recall with perverse pride, Veles was the second-most polluted town in the former Yugoslavia.
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If Joslin were shooting such a moment as a continuation of his project, it would likely seem a little perverse.
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Like a perverse yoga instructor, Wurm takes pleasure in challenging viewers to contort their bodies into ever more awkward positions.
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"There is no doubt whatsoever in my mind that the two ideologies, both perverse, are feeding each other," Basu said.
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Independence, after all, is primarily about shaping incentives, and the incentive to protect institutional independence can lead to perverse behaviour.
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It seems only inevitable that something similarly perverse might arise again, from the primordial ooze of our deeply divided country.
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A perverse effect, besides the higher workload, is that it could make it hard for board members to confer privately.
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Perverse though it seems, it is no coincidence that the president's popularity with white evangelicals has increased amid these scandals.
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Few people support entirely open societies: it would be perverse, for example, to allow Ebola victims to cross borders unimpeded.
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Their proposals trade on the rhetoric of states' rights, but they would have the perverse effect of inhibiting state power.
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Just as in Dogtooth and Alps, The Lobster's protagonist eventually attempts to escape the violent, perverse authority that's suffocating him.
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"When shareholders don't have the ability to remove management, you can end up with some perverse incentives," the host said.
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In this perverse society, the "psychological violence" of knowing a job is utterly pointless justifies it carrying a generous salary.
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Whatever judges decide, Europe's pursuit of Apple, Starbucks and Amazon underscores something less contentious: multinationals benefit unduly from perverse rules.
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But in the Netherlands, the association between China and black market baby formula has taken an even more perverse turn.
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Now, someone has added a new, perverse twist to this tried and tested scheme: demanding naked photographs instead of Bitcoin.
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Jean-Jacques Urvoas, the justice minister, told a parliamentary commission in June that he was aware of possible "perverse effects".
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Thus, in a perverse reversal of the usual formula, public defenders routinely work on a "No lose, no fee" basis.
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This creates a perverse incentive: Unprincipled companies may enter the process purely in the hope of achieving this financial windfall.
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You could refuse the role, but that would be ungracious and perverse; you might as well turn down a medal.
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Nobody had actually seen it happen, of course, but the urban legend's black humor revealed a perverse pride in survival.
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Second, there is something perverse about issuing a warning for a territory as vast and diverse as the United States.
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But we have created perverse incentives: C.E.O.s have a responsibility to shareholders to make money, and tax dodging accomplishes that.
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The real problem is the pathology of a perverse minority of extremists with distorted notions of holy war and martyrdom.
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Serial killers like Rifkin are a unique breed of perverse amorality: they often don't process and feel like normal people.
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There's also a perverse comfort to be found in the ever-shifting story lines offered to explain the market weakness.
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Thus, the recipe of the Fiscal Control Board, based on the idea that mismanagement alone caused the crisis, is perverse.
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But this also speaks to his actual political philosophy, which elevates cruelty—often misconstrued as "strength"—into a perverse virtue.
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The resulting lack of accountability and perverse financial incentive are troubling enough, but civil forfeiture laws go a step further.
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The Islamic State's "entire worldview is based on eliminating those who do not subscribe to its perverse ideology," he said.
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Since this is Cards Against Humanity we're talking about, there were obviously quite a few delightfully perverse answers to behold.
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Mr. Lowery turns the moral and dramatic heat down to the faintest simmer, as if conducting a perverse genre experiment.
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Our training instructors seemed to take a perverse pleasure in informing us how dumb we were compared with the dogs.
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And they told us that in a variety of ways, they feel their careers are being hijacked by perverse incentives.
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HOW FAR HAS THIS NOBLE AND PURE SPORT FALLEN THAT NO ONE WILL SAVE US FROM THIS INTERLOPER'S PERVERSE SALIVA!!
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It's what's behind the perverse, ubiquitous, and undeniably transfixing photographic genre of ruin porn, to which these images squarely belong.
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Ms. Waller-Bridge understands that we are all laws unto ourselves, governed by our own special imps of the perverse.
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In an ever more casual era, there is a refreshing perversity to the posh — and a poshness to the perverse.
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While it seems perverse to lump two unprofitable companies together, Musk is hoping there's an opportunity for fruitful collaboration here.
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For good measure, they laid rows of lights across the cover, creating a festive — albeit slightly perverse — evening light show.
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Public relations firms are paid to craft campaigns to preserve team names as tradition or some kind of perverse tribute.
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In some perverse world, it would be better if he were just a political mastermind, knowing these stories are fake.
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Anyhow, it's not opining on movies that's perverse to me, and good thing, since that's how I make a living.
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Mr. Parfrey thrived as a cultish curator of the provocative, the vile and the perverse, from anarchism to serial murderers.
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Since 2003, Red Bull Theatre has devoted itself to stylish mountings of the classics, with a nose for the perverse.
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It seems perverse that the administration would take steps to address human rights abuses abroad while committing them at home.
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Pretending that they truly are pure love matches, as Alcott's narrator does, will always feel a little dishonest and perverse.
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However, the inclination to fixate on such disparities as the only objectionable form of inequality can create perverse political incentives.
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The disparity between these two scenarios suggests something perverse but inescapable about the media's expectations for politicians' response to scandals.
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Kells goes on a quest through the oddly perverse world of booksellers and bibliographers, in search of Shakespeare's own tomes.
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But there is something perverse about politicians signing on as co-sponsors of legislation whose provisions they don't actually support.
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There, she adopts the nickname "belle de jour" and caters to the desires of a variedly perverse clientele (and possibly herself).
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Like Dior, Chiuri is a romantic in her own way: she makes retrograde femininity perverse by taking it out of time.
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This is a perverse part of the series' charm, especially in the five-episode second half of the series' first season.
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Netflix Star Rating: 1.5This is a terrible movie; we can blame maybe 50% of that on Anton Yelchin's perverse facial hair.
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It removes perverse incentives whereby somebody moving from welfare to work can lose about as much in benefits as they earn.
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As the head of the Italian state police, Franco Gabrielli, acknowledged, the baby gangs are a perverse result of successful policing.
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It would be perverse for Brussels to limit the scale of Europe's defence ambitions just as the neighbourhood is getting rougher.
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Paradoxically, Saipov's perverse mission failed: New Yorkers were not cowed, and he was denied the martyrdom that he was clearly seeking.
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"I thought it was pretty perverse," Siano said about watching Jagger stroll around the disco club on a large white horse.
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The film does a particularly good job establishing the deep and perverse infrastructure involved in carrying off an exhibition like this.
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In their decade together, the duo released six albums of miserably perverse storytelling and skulking indie rock that never stopped evolving.
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This executive actions, designed to mollify upset customers, had the perverse effect of keeping more people out of the insurance market.
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It clearly very much wanted Lewandowski to be exonerated and for Fields to be guilty of making up some perverse hoax.
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This not only maintains perverse incentives for inefficiently designed insurance, but also reduces annual tax revenues by $260 billion in total.
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And in case you missed it, we had an exclusive reveal of Coachella frequenter Olivia Holt's upcoming collaboration with Perverse sunglasses.
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For Britain, the departure of its best bank would be perverse (if only it could deport Royal Bank of Scotland instead).
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Although share-price increases are precisely what shareholders want from their chief executive, the effects can sometimes be perverse for investors.
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But the most perverse judgments arise from an unholy hybrid of antiquated British rules and Islamic law: the law against blasphemy.
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Bass ably combines an account of a perverse legal tangle with a snapshot of Bessemer, the town where the events occurred.
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But, of course, the fact that they could be taught to be stupid is only more perverse evidence of their intelligence.
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For Mr. Colapinto, there was a perverse sense of pride: He had seemingly written a novel too dirty for American publishers.
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Instead of trying to form a bipartisan offensive against the ideology of ISIS, Republicans, in a perverse way, are empowering them.
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Binyamin Appelbaum of The New York Times wrote Saturday that the plan could have the perverse effect of driving tuition higher.
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In some perverse way, both Hillary and Huma Abedin may have found some motivating energy in their husbands' chronic sexual exploits.
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And I've always had a perverse affection for state legislatures, which tend to be wonderful in their terribleness, wherever you are.
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It's just so perverse to me: The people with the least political power are being impacted the most by these laws.
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What would they have thought of something as "perverse" as The Oscar Wilde Temple opening to the public on September 11?
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The most intimate aspects of human relations and bodies — those perverse and pathetic states typically hidden behind closed doors — were exposed.
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Del Toro didn't want the central relationship in the film to read as "a bestiality, kinky, perverse thing," he told Wired.
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Twirling in a long dress and sneakers while smoking a cigarette, she's enchanting — a perverse flower-child version of Isadora Duncan.
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At the same time, though, doesn't it feel somehow perverse to associate Theresa May and Donald Trump with normal old people?
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Stars like Serge Gainsbourg and Jacques Dutronc were intellectuals who sang from the head, even when their lyrical content was perverse.
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We now know that the system was shot through with perverse incentives that privileged short-term gains over long-term stability.
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When the potential outcome of being proactive is becoming an international pariah and economic disaster, policymakers face perverse incentives to underreport.
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Voters and the media take a perverse pleasure in building candidates up so they can turn around and knock them down.
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Slashing and burning the existing forests to make way for oil-palm cultivation had a perverse effect: It released more carbon.
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He reiterated his belief that their possession is indefensibly perverse and immoral and their use a crime against mankind and nature.
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Handing out prizes for the "best" art is perverse — and I say that as a member of several awards-giving bodies.
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Regardless of Ms. Haspel's fate, the United States needs a national conversation about the whole perverse architecture of complicity and impunity.
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This is a novel about conquering the addiction to abuse and the perverse idea that it's somehow a form of loyalty.
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This movie's "believe in yourself" message is borne out, in a perverse way, by the very fact that it even exists.
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That's because plurality rules can produce perverse outcomes, when a third candidate (let alone a fourth or a fifth), complicates matters.
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ObamaCare's perverse funding formula actually incentivizes states to make cuts to traditional Medicaid in order to protect funding for ObamaCare expansion.
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Childhood abuse victims said the shame they felt from these interviews resulted in a perverse sense of responsibility for their abuse.
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I was appalled that the killers of these animals did not seem to realize how sadistic and perverse their actions are.
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And sometimes that expresses itself in very perverse ways, like it helps lead to Trump, who's going to make it worse.
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Suzette, 213, psychologist, Bariloche, ArgentinaThis is another sample of a perverse, dehumanized system, like capitalism, where power is enabled through violence.
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Opinion Columnist In "The Handmaid's Tale," Margaret Atwood's ever-resonant tale of misogynist dystopia, Christian fascism has a sordid, perverse underbelly.
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The implicit notion that any longstanding practice, regardless of cruelty, should endure for the sake of cultural memory is rather perverse.
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It wasn't a crass collection of moments, it was a fog of pure delight, an opaque purple mist of perverse genius.
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Florida State has a perverse and highly permissive relationship with the law, as this New York Times report outlined two years ago.
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In paying companies to run detention centers, we are creating the perverse incentives that were also present in German camps and ghettos.
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To choose this moment to move closer to a continental European model of more regulated markets is not just perverse but risky.
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Maybe it's not all that perverse to take satisfaction from stories in which the human race appears doomed by its own decisions.
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Alex Edmans, professor of finance at the London Business School, warns of the perverse incentives and unintended consequences of publishing pay ratios.
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Rules that were supposed to help investors have had the perverse effect of forcing firms to go public abroad, mostly in America.
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Engaging in sexual activity—to indulge one's basest instincts—has become, to some, an idea too perverse to practice in Trump's America.
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That tools so radical might be used to conserve or preserve, not disrupt, might seem a bit of a contradiction—even perverse.
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He called that prospect "frankly perverse" because copycat devaluations would leave everyone in the same position and would not really alter anything.
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Just as we have a perverse fascination with fictional dystopias, we like to see the darkest timeline in comparison to our own.
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It wasn't just Google that had perverse incentives; it was also Apple and Facebook, with their broad ecosystems of attention-grabbing apps.
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ObamaCare expansion's perverse funding formula directly threatens the truly needy who are served by traditional Medicaid, including those receiving community-based services.
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The perverse thing about the current crop of OBC-seekers is that each is already what sociologists define as a "dominant caste".
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Because they are not going to want to be limited in their questioning on the obstruction angle, whatever perverse angle they have.
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Now they could quit, even if they were sick; a positive development for them, but with a perverse effect on the economy.
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Homeric in its crudity, in its liberating simplicity, it transcends epochs and borders, attaining a perverse immortality by its sheer, unrelenting evil.
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"In a perverse way, Russia and the United States help us," said one senior EU diplomat hoping to keep the British close.
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Yeshwant said it takes about six months to fully understand that the healthcare industry is both "screwed up" and has "perverse" incentives.
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It also would create perverse incentives both for Puerto Rico fiscal decision-making moving forward, and for the entire municipal bond market.
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For too long, their perverse incentives have had striking parallels to the sub-prime mortgage broker business before the 2007 financial collapse.
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"I get pleasure — I don't think it's perverse pleasure, but good, honest, wholesome pleasure — by infuriating these Trump trolls," Weiner told me.
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For the people of the region, the liberation of the last territory held by this perverse death cult is a welcomed milestone.
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In a perverse way, it's easier to become incensed at an opponent who makes self-righteous arguments than polite but disingenuous ones.
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"Suddenly someone wants to turn the clock back in some really perverse way," Oddie said at a campaigning beach party in May.
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That's how I feel when I watch you onscreen: your characters are always so well rounded and so human and so perverse.
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Policymakers have long struggled to correct this perverse inequity, but one of the best solutions may already be in our pockets - smartphones.
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But it's perverse to ignore — and effectively whitewash — the Saudi regime's own malignant character, though that has been U.S. policy for years.
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Such perverse incentives have predictably led to a string of abuses around the country, leading to efforts at reform or outright abolition.
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His work has a streamlined intelligence, attention to detail and austere beauty that make it seem transparent yet mysterious, straightforward yet perverse.
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Looking left and right down Hammamet's vacant coastline, there's perverse reassurance in the reality that there is hardly anyone here to target.
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Just before halftime, LeBron took a free-throw and 297,1153 people booed, which was electrifying in a perverse and deeply abstracted way.
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He gamed the internet, and in some perverse way, it's awe-inspiring, like watching someone pull a rabbit out of a hat.
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The disrespect of our US military and middle-class Americans via Cohen's foreign commentaries under the guise of interview questions was perverse.
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But while she was going through the process of applying for the U Visa, she experienced a perverse kind of inner turmoil.
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The Trump administration has said existing U.S. laws provide a perverse incentive for traffickers and smugglers to bring children to the border.
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The big question is whether these sorts of reporting requirements create perverse disincentives that discourage firms from addressing particularly challenging operational scenarios.
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This perverse ideological focus hides or denies the fascinating interplay among legal doctrine, textual interpretation and the factual record in determining outcomes.
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It's not the craziness, the looniness of the idea that's most distinctive, though elsewhere Taylor could be plenty whimsical or willfully perverse.
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"There is a particular perverse irony about barring a book about racism and mass incarceration from prisons in our state," he said.
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Catchy songs and a moody, woodwind-heavy score by Enzo Avitabile enrich a setting steeped in poverty, corruption and a perverse Catholicism.
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And yes, it is perverse and annoying to be speaking about a presidential race that is still, mercifully, two long years away.
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It seems perverse that Franken could be on his way out of the Senate while Moore might be on his way in.
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That is a perverse way of measuring progress; species once hurtling toward extinction can hardly be expected to build sustainable populations overnight.
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The two women engage in perverse role-playing: "I don't think Uncle has had his morning kiss," Solidor teases Giselle, who complies.
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This creates the perverse effect that electric car sales can actually increase fuel use and emissions from the overall fleet for now.
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Not only were the benefits paltry, the incentives were perverse: If you worked, you frequently lost most or all of your benefits.
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The time seems right, then, to confess a thought I've long harbored: GIFs can be glorious, but they are also deeply perverse.
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The naïve belief that the seafood trade deficit should be a national concern could lead to a host of perverse policy prescriptions.
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Mina even holds out her hand to those inarticulate thugs whose violent acts are a perverse way of validating their own lives.
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We had been taught that even French kissing was dangerous, that anything not marked as white and Christian was murky and perverse.
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But feeling doomed is a kind of perverse gift for Mitski, who understands the perils of contentedness and the possibilities within despair.
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But there's something perverse about denying someone the right to vote to stop other people from denying them the right to vote.
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The absurdity of looking at history and redefining it to meet the social needs of the present can produce some perverse results.
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One perverse effect of this incentive is that recent G.O.P. electoral losses may have strengthened the party's determination to do unpopular things.
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Do you think this perverse culture surrounding wealth and the trappings of it is worse in the US than in other places?
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On neutral ground, where no one fancies welling up publicly, it's just a perverse reenactment of the breakup you literally just had.
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But the British delegation to the OPCW called Russia's request for a joint probe a "perverse" attempt by Moscow to evade scrutiny.
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It's a perverse twist on Heinlein's arguments about serving to earn citizenship, which implied that one has to earn their freedom through service.
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Faith calls every Christian to stand up against these perverse politics and embrace the fairness, inclusion and justice we learned in Sunday School.
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Yet Trump has taken the lead in all the most recent polls — which has had the perverse effect of raising expectations for him.
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"There has been an unprecedented and perverse trick, a transfer of resources over time that has literally knocked out millennials economically," Censis said.
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Jennifer Butler preached that Christian love is a challenge -- to stand up to perverse politics -- not a weapon to sideline the marginalized further.
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I also think there's something weirdly perverse about bedding men based on not wanting to repeat the experience of what happened with Blaine.
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"It is not at all strange that perverse words always come out from the mouth of a structurally defective guy," the spokesman said.
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The article also claimed that private equity benefits from the "perverse aspects" of the capital-gains treatment of carried interest and interest deductibility.
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The potentially perverse results in California should provide an impetus to consider reforms that would produce more democratic results beyond the Golden State.
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Since America tolerates 97% of dollar interest-rate swaps being cleared in London, it seems perverse for the EU to shift euro clearing.
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In the same way, if one were launching a satellite, it would be perverse to insist on using Copernicus's "De revolutionibus orbium coelestium".
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My people spent the whole day in our basement, leaving only to rush to the kitchen and cook in a perverse relay race.
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And yet — whether because of special deals or slashed prices or some kind of perverse loyalty — lots of people continue to use Uber.
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It seems slightly perverse that so small an area could block so important a deal which had been so long in the making.
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It is also representative of the perverse extent to which elites spent vast amounts of their wealth to preserve their likeness for posterity.
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In fact, Black Lives Matter activists may find themselves on the receiving end of a particularly perverse application of the new Louisiana law.
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Requiring companies to publicly report each bug could be a perverse incentive, punishing the products that do the most to protect their users.
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The colonizers and their dreams are as sinister as they are romantic, satisfying both a greed and a perverse need in their hearts.
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To applaud deconstruction without applauding the original is either perverse or mean; appreciation of what came before predicates appreciation of 22, A Million.
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The administration says those confidential rebates have led to a "perverse incentive" for drug makers to make list prices on drugs artificially high.
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Like the protagonist of an H.P. Lovecraft story, I have seen the perverse underbelly of our universe and will never be the same.
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If that player happens to be the weakest hitter among the starting nine, the manager has demonstrated a perverse sense of resource allocation.
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Druckmann and Straley made a fantastic Uncharted movie, and, in some perverse fashion, the first great film adapted from the world of games.
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And the recent election of Donald Trump can be thought of as a perverse twist in America's conflation of business success with piety.
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"We have to take away the perverse incentives, especially in the tax code, that allow these things to happen," Issacson said to CNBC.
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Yes, The Bachelor and The Bachelorette are regularly gross depictions of vanity and narcissism, and they pervert the already perverse fairy tale trope.
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In practice, this promotes perverse financial incentives and leads to conflicts of interest in which advisors profit at the expense of their clients.
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Yet Trump has taken the lead in all the most recent polls — which has had the perverse effect of raising expectations for him.
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Still, given that IS's appeal lies in a perverse but seductive form of religion, some of the counter-argument has to be religious.
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The Sessions letter's language about "per se" protections is also odd and, if taken to its logical conclusion, would lead to perverse results.
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Bevin's legal team has filed a response to the lawsuit, calling it a "perverse distortion" of the Supreme Court's landmark 1973 Roe v.
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Redistricting is a perverse take on that old song, "Hokey Pokey:" you put your right foot in, you take your left foot out.
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The immigration law now creates perverse incentives to remain in the United States even if they want to leave and come back legally.
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"Richard III," which proved to be one of Shakespeare's first great hits, explores how this loathsome, perverse monster actually attained the English throne.
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He reveals what makes a person feel lost—the perverse and tawdry elements that define people as castoffs in a skewed American landscape.
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But it is probably also a perverse kind of nostalgia, for a time when the ideological divides and battle lines seemed much clearer.
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But, because it is 1936, Universal studio requested script changes to "avoid any suggestion of perverse sexual desires," as exec Harry Zehner said.
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Experts say the system is loaded with perverse incentives, and that pharmaceutical companies and intermediaries like pharmacy benefit managers have worked in tandem.
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"I wanted to highlight the point that it was perverse to portray this as protecting women's health," she said of the challenged requirements.
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The result is a perverse, witty and uningratiating pictorial world in which sadomasochism is inevitable and trust has been beached on the sand.
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Other artistic inspirations include the perverse Japanese art of Toshio Saeki, British illustrator Aubrey Beardsley, and Mexican culture and its veneration of death.
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States are increasingly focused on addressing these perverse practices and the effect they have on what patients actually pay for their prescription medicines.
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That creates perverse incentives for politicians to create real problems for the disenfranchised as a way to show symbolic solidarity with the enfranchised.
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But if it actually happens, the perverse scenario in which beneficiaries of the welfare state come to oppose its further expansion get worse.
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Increasingly, it seems, the law has provided an able hand to a culture that takes perverse, outsize pleasure in spectacles of female desperation.
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That makes Trump's campaign a logical evolution of what has been standard Republican extremism — yet, simultaneously, a perverse and significant refinement of it.
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His work can be serenely perverse, but there is nonetheless a vertigo to the logical extremes that Bader will pursue in his ideas.
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I felt a perverse amount of relief when I realized it was almost certainly too far for him to have traveled by mule.
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And he surrounds himself, in the Trumpland of Misfit Toys, with playmates who have that same perverse gift for self-incrimination and immolation.
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Milking our collective cultural memory — while demonstrating a perverse selective memory of his own — constitutes stratospheric cynicism, or perhaps, a professional death rattle.
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Their efforts to help him, though rooted in charity, dovetail with a perverse brand of narcissism, which Osborne captures with a sharp eye.
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WM: The failure of this man to lead in any direction is...it's a travesty of American democracy in the most perverse sense.
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But by forcing these companies to take sides in an emerging culture war, these activists have already achieved a kind of perverse goal.
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What does the proliferation of farm-to-table restaurants say about city folks' perverse predilection for eating how most of us don't live?
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Michôd and Edgerton are under no obligation, of course, to follow Shakespeare's trail, yet to spurn his offers of dramatic intensity seems perverse.
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It would be perverse to portray her as a victim of censorship simply because she cannot express her ideas on the Berkeley campus.
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"It's almost as if there was something a little perverse with that line of questioning or that particular type of research," she said.
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It's a perverse hope — one that if we're honest we can all understand, but one that if we're responsible, we must ultimately reject.
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"We need to put a stop to this perverse man," Sonia Guajajara, leader of the Association of Indigenous Peoples (APIB), wrote on Twitter.
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But as I go on, I often find that loathing is mixed with other emotions — fear, perverse attraction, even complicated strains of sympathy.
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If the result is great literature, it would be perverse to judge hearing voices an aberration requiring treatment rather than a precious gift.
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Her government's growing suppression of speech on the internet seems perverse for a onetime democracy icon who spent 15 years under house arrest.
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Together, the rising rents and perverse incentives helped push hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers from their homes and, too often, into shelters.
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I find Mr. Tower's advice here to be diabolically perverse, a platinum thumb up the nose of the rule formerly known as golden.
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But by forcing these companies to take sides in an emerging culture war, these activists have already achieved a kind of perverse goal.
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They saw in Expressionism and abstraction a "perverse Jewish spirit," as Joseph Goebbels named it, and culled all museum collections of Modernist artworks.
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What follows is an intensely perverse game of hide-and-seek, with Joan and her son finding sanctuary in spots of varying ingenuity.
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Equally perverse is how the president's budget request doubles down on dangerous and divisive partisan demands that have come to define his administration.
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And maybe — I'm going out on a limb here — that's a reason perverse people find their way into the ranks of the church.
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Some say the system has created a series of perverse incentives, where the middlemen have an interest in keeping the list price high.
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"People are interested in the lurid, the perverse, something with a sexual tinge, something that's a little bit odd or kinky," he says.
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The drug war, a creature of our own creation, stalks us with its perverse consequences; still, we report being mugged by a stranger.
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It's actually had the perverse effect of locking people into the US who otherwise would have gone back to their country of origin.
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Marx said we have this perverse and unjust system, which is propped up by perverse and unjust values, but the system persists because the people suffering the most are mad at the wrong people, and if only we could get rid of all this and liberate people, they could spend their days fishing or creating art or whatever and we'd all be happier.
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This wound up creating a perverse incentive for people to start planting coca, so they could receive compensation later on for giving it up.
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"The Nxivm courses were used as a way to draw people into the more restricted and more perverse inner circles, including DOS," Lalich said.
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"This seems perverse given the political/policy setting in South Africa, (and) worse ratios over Turkey," said Timothy Ash of Nomura International in London.
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Locals speak wistfully about the work of their fathers, taking an almost perverse pleasure in underscoring the hardships that were part of their lives.
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That movie, which opened in New York a few weeks ago, might be described as a perverse folk tale set in the present day.
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Culled from the most perverse corners of the male mind, the movie is a raunchy, phallic overload, full of lowbrow wordplay and general filth.
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PBMs' primary business model is drawing increasing scrutiny, as critics suggest it gives them a perverse incentive to play along with higher drug prices.
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To average voters, the tax reform framework released by the Trump administration and Republicans in Congress looks baffling at best and perverse at worst.
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Most MPs support the idea of simplifying the benefits system, and of removing some of the perverse incentives that existed under the old one.
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"They both fought against the most perverse threats to their environment in a country rife with socioeconomic inequality and human rights violations," Kennedy said.
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Simplification also removes some of the perverse incentives of the old system, under which some claimants faced marginal tax rates of up to 100%.
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Though elegant at first glance, the prints uncritically celebrate the male gaze, reproducing perverse standards of "feminine" beauty: narrow waists, revealing clothing, light skin.
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I think girls in Afghanistan, I think it's perverse that my daughters are so much luckier by pure accident than girls living in Afghanistan.
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As a celebration of contentment and first love's glow (her "golden hour"), this album is less perverse and more spare, sweeping, dazed, almost hypnotic.
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Not only does it poorly target subsidies to where they are needed, it also creates perverse incentives that run up the bill for taxpayers.
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Think of "Fuller House" as a perverse play on Gus Van Sant's "Psycho," only with "Full House" creator Jeff Franklin Xeroxing his own sitcom.
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The original was perverse in an unsettling way that hasn't necessarily aged that well; it'll be fascinating to see what direction Coppola takes it.
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The Diamondbacks selected him from the Rays and when he suffered a broken hamate bone during spring training, in a perverse way they benefitted.
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And this defiantly perverse new set, whose jokes come with so much baggage they threaten to obscure the performer, will inspire heated, divisive reactions.
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And indeed the idea of returning him to jail, harmless and greying as he is, for something that happened 43 years ago, seems perverse.
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"The disrespect of our U.S. military and middle-class Americans via Cohen's foreign commentaries under the guise of interview questions was perverse," she added.
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Representative Nita Lowey denounced as "perverse" DeVos's decision to abandon Obama-era guidance and instead solicit notice and comment for new Title IX regulations.
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Her act of recording what might be her grandfather's last moments comes to her completely naturally, a perverse storytelling impulse that mirrors Haneke's own.
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"The public will be equally strong against this plan that is so perverse in helping the wealthy and hurting the middle class," Wyden said.
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Instagram users who love the outdoors have a habit of ruining the wild places they touch—a perverse irony that seems lost on them.
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By making technical degrees more expensive, however, this would have the perverse effect of discouraging exactly the kind of graduates we need more of.
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Kirk's campaign strategists have chosen to view Trump, in a life-gives-you-lemons sort of way, as a perverse gift for their candidate.
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Similar to budgets his administration has proposed in previous years, Obama's latest proposal creates perverse incentives, but some states just won't swing that way.
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The homes she depicts are both cozy and claustrophobic, the marriages companionate and perverse, and the March girls' dreams both fulfilled and depressingly renounced.
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Worse still, a perverse policy underlying many state laws almost ensures that many of those in default will never manage to repay their loans.
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Perverse physician incentives are now well-recognized, perhaps most clearly demonstrated by the effects on emergency physicians for refusing to prescribe narcotic pain medication.
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Legislation through litigation is costly, not just in terms of dollars, but more importantly, in terms of its perverse effects on our legal system.
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It was a perverse, adolescent, iconoclastic streak, a dark troll that lived under the otherwise more-or-less serviceable bridge of my conscious mind.
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But some customers, independent of the pledge, vowed to steer clear of the store until it changed its "perverse" bathroom and dressing room policies.
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Now that the repeal has come through there isn't any question anymore about the perverse reaction to monetary policy so the direction is clear.
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The rule is perverse because any player who decided to protest the anthem rule by fully striking — not playing at all — would be protected.
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To understand how a potential employee thinks, you need to look at the place they hide their deepest, most perverse worldviews: their Twitter likes.
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"It's the latest in this administration's almost perverse behavior of putting people automatically disqualified from serving in these agencies into leadership roles," McEnaney said.
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"The disrespect of our US military and middle-class Americans via Cohen's foreign commentaries under the guise of interview questions was perverse," she wrote.
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But to see the actual changing room—to see those numbers—is to confront the perverse theater of it on a whole new level.
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Inside of those walls are neighbors—neighbors who, without the right to vote, might even boost your political power, perverse as that may seem.
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MORRIS Between this and "Cruising," from 1980, which has always felt misunderstood to me, Friedkin really did have a perverse sympathy for gay life.
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At the time, the novel was mostly seen as a tragedy, the tale of a man tormented by lust and guilt — a perverse love.
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But his subconscious repulsion at the prospect of fatherhood manifests itself through perverse, weird, frightening symbology — most notably in the deformed monster he fathers.
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But currently, as a result of largely neglecting college expenses beyond tuition, too many states are generating perverse outcomes regarding who receives public aid.
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It was a performative case for criminalizing disagreement, a perverse and authoritarian pageant that preyed on the worst, darkest tendencies of the Trump movement.
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They too express immense frustration with the perverse incentives and insurance-driven constraints of the system, and champions among them openly question current practice.
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The result, if they succeed, will be a law riddled with loopholes and perverse incentives, doing nothing for growth but adding hugely to debt.
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An exercise in vehicular virtuosity—chase, pass, ram, escape—the movie is relentless, mischievous, almost perverse; at times, you're invited to enjoy Weaver's torment.
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It's somehow perverse that an artist this prime for discussion is given nothing but monotonous praise, while his work is treated as an afterthought.
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The National Flood Insurance Program has avoided significant reform to date despite its perverse effects because of an entrenched group of politically connected beneficiaries.
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Because Trump holds Thor's hammer, with its notably short handle, we must keep trying to figure out his strange, perverse, aggrieved style of reasoning.
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"This has been handled in a way that is cruel and perverse," said Ms. Núñez, the founder of the Nicaraguan Center for Human Rights.
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"There's a perverse incentive system for public officials," said Adam Green, co-founder of the Progressive Change Campaign Committee, which has endorsed Ms. Warren.
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It also worked as a balm; there was some perverse pleasure in seeing my own inability to figure out my life reflected in others.
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This could "trigger a perverse spiral of expectations of default, which may prove to be self-fulfilling," he said in a speech last week.
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Look at the recent controversy over Colin Kaepernick becoming the face of Nike as a great example of perverse incentives with regard to loyalty.
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Conservatives should continue to make clear that the "alt-right," despite their name, is a perverse and dangerous movement that does not represent conservatism.
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You have essentially a perverse incentive in a market and you need to be able to say, how do we get out of this?
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But you're right: The celibacy vows just seem to me so unnatural and perverse and yet so fundamental to the traditions of the church.
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For the dozens of women Mr. DeRogatis has interviewed, he said, their experience with Mr. Kelly is a perverse inversion of music's transformative power.
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Companies have a "perverse incentive" to maximize profits at detention centers, Fischer said, a statement echoed by Cho, the author of the SPLC report.
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The new system could "eliminate today's perverse incentives," to throw away viable organs and encourage OPOs to also find more "imperfect organs," Verma said.
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It offered a scorecard of his rise from the provinces and a perverse kind of protection: The Kremlin would never bend to Navalny's accusations.
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There seems to be a perverse pride attached: First you suffer, then you collect your reward and enjoy the smug fruits of your labor.
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In short, a statistical perspective can help reveal how behavior that seems like an aberration can actually be a natural response to perverse incentives.
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The original ban even had the perverse effect of preventing an Iraqi general in charge of counterterrorism from visiting his family in the United States.
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A deadly love triangle emerges in The Galapagos Affair: Satan Came to Eden that feels at once biblical and perfectly perverse enough for the screen.
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My desire is admittedly perverse, and indifferent toward what anyone who creates television shows (or ponies up to underwrite and profit off them) actually wants.
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In the early passages, Hilbig conjures a perverse version of a Tom Sawyer boyhood, mired in a wasteland of war widows, poverty and environmental degradation.
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Nothing prepared me for the shame that washed over my body as every question I asked became perverse in the mouths of the inappropriate callers.
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Yes, but: If poor governments expect that the U.S. and other big donors may fill their coffers after terrorist attacks, it could create perverse incentives.
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The resulting tale is a perverse and funny satire of the foibles of Brooklyn literati, with Marion — cool, determined, kleptomaniac Marion — as the unforgettable center.
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That created a perverse incentive for marketers to focus only on getting clicks, instead of on the marketing that drives engagement to get the click.
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Because of his affiliation with the Trump White House and the Trump family, he is subject to the perverse standard of guilty until proven innocent.
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Donald Trump's executive order earlier this month, rolling back Obama-era provisions aimed at avoiding infrastructure damage from future climate-related calamities, was downright perverse.
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For a family of four this perverse and confusing effect riddles Obamacare's tax credits all the way up to a household income of almost $100,85033.
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With New York obsessed by stock prices and material displays of wealth, spending on something so nebulous and conceptual appeared not just eccentric, but perverse.
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Berners-Lee said the system has since been designed with "perverse" incentives, which he sees as the second source of dysfunction in the web today.
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His trips to the cemetery originally struck me as perverse—his loitering in a park for dead people, around the monument to his unfinished life.
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It's hardly perverse that a contemporary, acclaimed former indie band should most pungently recall corporate '80s soft-rock from Bruce Hornsby to solo Don Henley.
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Other information about the musical is scant thus far, but we can only imagine that it will be a creepy, slightly perverse, grand ol' time.
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The way they have kept certain people away from the development and how they've grown just one part of the city—it's a perverse disparity.
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Firing Comey changes the terms of the bargain, but in a perverse way it also makes the bargain harder for Republicans in Congress to abrogate.
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For instance, Jonathan Adler, a Case Western Reserve University law professor with a libertarian take, argues that perverse incentives make the Endangered Species Act ineffective.
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But I was impressed by John's menacing desperation this season, compounded by his perverse audacity to expose himself to scrutiny in his bid for sheriff.
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Women's emotions, particularly their rage, are often deemed overblown or self-indulgent, and marginalized people are frequently told that they are exaggerating for perverse effect.
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Working for her meant becoming wholly consumed by people who didn't exist, which felt harder and more perverse when confronted by a baby who did.
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These passages sometimes devolve into labored imitations of Céline — so willfully perverse and repetitious that they gradually lose their shock value, becoming gratuitously stomach-turning.
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But the Bush tax cuts of 2001 had the perverse effect of making more taxpayers subject to AMT by reducing taxes on the regular return.
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"Her vow to keep taxpayer dollars flowing to organizations that perform abortions — a truly perverse example of cronyism — surely helped seal the deal," he wrote.
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The 'cabotage laws' (or 'sabotage' laws, for their perverse economic effects), restrict transportation of goods between ports of the United States to U.S.-flag vessels.
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"One perverse consequence of all those ineffective meetings is that they lead to even more meetings," writes Hansen, which creates a cycle of wasteful meetings.
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There is a potentially important caveat here, one that comes from a perverse and byzantine part of our labor law called the "partial strike" rule.
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Economics 27, however, would argue that these kinds of regulations will have perverse effects — by capping the price of credit, you'll fatally reduce its supply.
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Drew Michael is his attempt to wrestle his way out of the perverse feedback loop that exists between a performer, their audience, and their relationships.
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Why the Titans would be fine taking Lewan but not Tunsil has a lot to do with their own perverse priorities, but also the NFL's.
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HR: What I'm looking at and trying to understand is everyone's motivation around the table, because you can create these perverse situations for certain VCs.
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It's a perverse future that builds upon Blomkamp's credentials in bringing together politics, aliens, and the darker side of humanity seen in his previous films.
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"We have developed a very dysfunctional and perverse segment of culture, which focuses on violence and the unstable evil fools who undertake it," continues Levin.
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Fueled by these perverse financial incentives more and more hospitals are cornering their local markets, taking over independent physicians' offices and converting them into HOPDs.
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All kinds of details, painful and perverse and deeply droll, cling to her heroine and are appraised and examined and skewered and simply wondered at.
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The FIFO mandate could also create perverse incentives, encouraging investors to invest in a new stock rather than purchasing more of a high performing stock.
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It is perverse for states to turn around and inhibit this emerging market with new fees, in pursuit of a relatively paltry amount of revenue.
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For one thing, as we're seeing, it creates a perverse incentive for states to keep people burning gas, or to penalize them for burning less.
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It may seem a little perverse, however, to hand the keys right back over to the person who just totaled the car, so to speak.
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There is something to admire about Michaux, his perverse integrity in refusing the consolation of metaphor and ignoring the hunger of his readers for meaning.
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Ms. Verma insisted that the Affordable Care Act had given states perverse financial incentives, paying a higher share of Medicaid costs for newly eligible beneficiaries.
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" As Lance Morrow wrote in Time magazine, the president treated words as "perverse, buzzing little demons that need to be brushed away periodically like flies.
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In New Zealand there is no basic right to bear arms, and there is nothing comparable to the perverse influence of the National Rifle Association.
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And Fenty Puma gave the trend a vigorous nod, parading athletic striped thigh-high waders that wiped out the boundary between the sporty and perverse.
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To justify their brutality, slaveholders used the perverse reasoning, articulated by Thomas Jefferson in the 1780s, that slaves were incapable of expressing sentiment or love.
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The perverse narrative function of the menace stalking Angela is to swoop in like a deus ex machina, attempting in vain to rescue the play.
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Instead, how about: Blackness, since its modern inception, was identified as a perverse form of American capital by white purveyors who refused to abdicate power.
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He delights in espousing contrary opinions, some of which come at you with the force of aesthetic revelation, while others seem perverse and largely indefensible.
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It's hard to imagine that the allure of insider-only memes and perverse laughs will be enough to sustain it over the next four years.
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The show, which aired on Mondays between 1 and 3 A.M. , generally featured videos too obscure or perverse to be broadcast at any other time.
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The season's structure suggested they were hurtling toward certain doom, but we've always known these two to make it work in their own perverse way.
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The show presented, among other excitements, Damien Hirst's shark, the Chapman brothers' polymorphously perverse child mannequins, and Sarah Lucas's mordant mattress with its cucumber penis.
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To make matters worse, the pas de deux for the Destroyer and the princess is another love duet, but of a perverse and disturbing kind.
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"It's a very kind of perverse use of a genre that is really counterproductive," said Richard Edelman, chief executive of the public relations company Edelman.
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The neoliberal embrace of individualism and opposition to "the collective society," as Margaret Thatcher put it, also had perverse consequences for social and political life.
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Suffice it to say that their friendly chats eventually evolve into a business proposition, one that is its own perverse sort of master-slave relationship.
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As a computer scientist, I take a certain perverse pride that computers can clearly do a better job at generating bogus research papers than humans.
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The good news is, in New York itself, there are special, sacrosanct spaces that the city's perverse and arcane anti-bath magic cannot penetrate: hotels.
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The Electoral College routinely threatens or produces perverse outcomes, where the will of the voters is thwarted by an ill-considered 18th-century electoral device.
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In his favor: From his unlikely camera setups to the perverse deadpan tone, you can identify a Yorgos Lanthimos film in a matter of seconds.
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We need a way forward that addresses both the perverse economic incentives and expertise issues that justifiably undermine the public's faith in networked news distribution.
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Then he squeezes it more, says "ugh, disgusting" with a perverse laugh, and lets it sit there, just oozing out of the side of his face.
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And our attacks could even have a perverse effect — they could contribute to the impression that a vote for Trump is a vote against intellectual elites.
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By even playing, every entrant had already lost this perverse prisoner's dilemma of economic subsidies—but in this case, "no single winner" is far more literal.
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Even the men we consider ourselves done with continue to hold a perverse fascination, their names popping up again and again in conversation or on celluloid.
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In it, an older English couple come into possession of a grotesque keepsake (the titular paw) that grants three wishes in the most perverse possible way.
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While this is likely true — the painting is full of nightmarish, weird, perverse imaginings – it is still, determinedly, a message told in metaphor: formal and imagistic.
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I felt perverse comfort and sadness when others later told me of their brushes with barbarity: muggings, assaults, sexual violence, being held at gunpoint or knifepoint.
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It may seem perverse to allege that the iPhone, which has always been presented and perceived as a luxe phone purchase, has been a democratizing device.
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If zero-carbon standards were changed to include the emissions from building and demolishing structures, many of the perverse incentives in the building regulations would disappear.
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But it's funny that even as I'm promoting stuff now, I'm gripped by this perverse urge to say the opposite of what I'm supposed to say.
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Suppression of a book, after all, is a perverse acknowledgment that literature holds the power to subvert the status quo — and without a single shot fired.
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Chinese market turmoil and the renminbi's fall to a four-year low against the US dollar risks the prospect of "perverse" currency wars, Mexico has warned.
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"Monsters represent a part of normal human sexuality that has been repressed, or called 'perverse' and 'deviant,'" said Reynolds, who has a doctorate in mass communication.
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Edmund McMillen—of Super Meat Boy and The Binding of Isaac fame—tested out his perverse, subversive, body-horror sense of humor on Newgrounds' willing audience.
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I think it's perverse that a solid beat on the headline may come as a disappointment, but we have the bloated ADP to thank for that.
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High tax rates create perverse incentives for investors to keep their money out of the U.S. while encouraging entrepreneurs to seek new avenues for tax avoidance.
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The controversy surrounding Trumpcare, intensified by Monday's CBO report, has empowered a populist minority in the GOP to speak up against this perverse conception of freedom. .
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This tale of brothers has so much on its mind that the author's choice of the compact novella form seems almost perverse, a kind of stunt.
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Perhaps because, while the show remains true to its back-aisle roots, the curators aren't just limiting themselves to the gory, the offensive, and the perverse.
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Instead, the world points an accusatory finger at Israel even though arguably no other country has ever confronted such a perverse moral dilemma and demonic endgame.
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In another camp is a group of more orthodox economists who argue that this perverse habit is largely an illusion in the eyes of certain researchers.
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The paradox is that this 'solution' has constrained medical institutions and professionals, created perverse incentives, and made existing problems worse, from cost to quality of care.
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Government needs to be nimble rather than creating perverse incentives for higher compensation for work that could be done in more productive sectors of the economy.
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The perverse funding structure of expansion actually prioritizes able-bodied adults over the truly needy, threatening resources and care for those who need it the most.
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Known for its often brutal subject matter and perverse sense of humor, Preacher won a Will Eisner Comic Industry Award for best continuing series in 1999.
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But there is something perverse in the government, and society, marking a species for death, setting it outside the bounds of even our wildlife protection laws.
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" For her part, Maggie understands she is being pulled away from the person she has always believed herself to be: "Dear God, she was turning perverse.
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The bank defined perverse outcomes as situations where, instead of increasing credit to the private sector, lower lending rates led to a decline in credit expansion.
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Though it felt almost perverse, the couple had consented to letting me, and thousands of others, listen to this therapist read them like a children's book.
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"I want to replace the perverse logic of the bulldozer that destroys everything in its wake for the wise culture of dialogue, agreement, collaboration," he said.
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Dancers with their backs to the audience — already it's a little perverse — inch ahead in tiny steps as their bodies lean quietly from side to side.
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Wasn't the public in 2016 taking a perverse glee in tearing Taylor down in part because she was a woman who made art for other women?
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Inside my brain, the relief at not having to face "judgment" was twisted up with self-hatred and fear, along with a perverse sense of defiance.
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Implying a relationship of perverse intimacy with one's foes, this impersonation also distances perpetrators from their own brutality by turning it into a piece of theater.
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Both systems get into trouble when they become overwhelmed with perverse incentives, and when actors assume they can maintain increasingly illogical arrangements and ignore warning signs.
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It is the perverse, insistent, matter-of-factness of male sexual predation and assault — of men's power over women — that haunts the revelations about Mr. Weinstein.
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Mr. Azar said Medicaid, the program for more than 70 million low-income people, was full of perverse incentives that tended to drive up drug costs.
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From a humanitarian standpoint, however, there's something perverse about throwing together an emergency financial assistance program that gives the least assistance to those most in need.
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Its termination during the Johnson administration had the perverse effect of increasing undocumented aliens, as Mexicans that snuck into the country to work did not leave.
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There's a perverse symmetry to the way things work in this mind-bending psychological thriller by the Argentine author Federico Axat, translated here by David Frye.
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The demand is especially perverse because the United States is so much richer than Mexico, which is the reason migrants head north in the first place.
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Like Hubert Sauper's "We Come as Friends" and Michael Glawogger's "Workingman's Death," the movie sees a perverse, almost science-fiction beauty in the ravages of destruction.
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But Ms. Wade's research, drawn from data she personally collected and a range of supplementary sources, does convey exceptionally well the perverse callousness of hookup culture.
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But this lemonade-from-lemons confidence feels perverse—a retrospective assessment that risks ignoring the reality of the conditions that necessitated a song or an album.
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The fact that she's unfaithful is condemned by her husband Keaton (Bob Balaban), but he doesn't view her decision to be with a woman as perverse.
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This is especially perverse, given that the original global trade body, the 1948 International Trade Organization, provides a ready foundation for creating better global trade rules.
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These are not all climate related but they are part of a vile and perverse war against the natural, against the living world and public health.
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Their scenes together alternate with ones in which Angel's lawyer, Mary Jane Hanrahan, must break through his perverse resistance in order to prepare him for court.
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The ACLU's' biggest problem with asset forfeiture is that it creates perverse incentives for law enforcement to stretch the law and search for an easy payday.
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They give us a kind of perverse pleasure in reverse: not of seeing the worst come true, but of seeing the worst without it coming true.
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I have a perverse incentive, if I'm an energy company, I make more money the more energy you use, but that's not good for our environment.
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Unlike Amazon, Google lets you change the assistant's voice to a male, which I prefer because I think it's perverse that an assistant is automatically female.
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Jack Dishel, the comic-genius creator of viral YouTube show :DRYVRS starring in two main roles - the technology-obsessed Sultan, who's a perverse and tyrannical buffoon.
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"Magic Dance" is a perverse song to write about as a favorite—highly camp and ridiculous and anchored by those synth stabs that sound fantastically dated now.
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As social media companies continue to experience positive reinforcement from the market, they are left with a perverse incentive to avoid policing the bot problem head on.
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"I know very well the perverse effects 49.3 can have... it is out of date and it can come across as brutal," he told France Inter radio.
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You should also oppose the growth of government, especially Obamacare and the "perverse incentives and waste," as Regan put it to me, that have resulted from it.
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An ethic of personal responsibility hinges on choice, and as Halley's decision-making turns toward the perverse, we find ourselves able to muster sentiment, but not judgment.
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"It's perverse to describe the Crown Prince as a reformer, when he is threatening to execute young people whose only crime was attending protests calling for reform."
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That this has happened in a week when oil prices topped $50 a barrel for the first time in eight months, potentially boosting inflation, might seem perverse.
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In this situation, "the perverse effects of excessively restrictive fiscal policy could end up worsening the debt-to-GDP ratio rather than improving it," the document said.
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Susan Biali Haas, M.D. a doctor who focuses on mental health, says there's "a perverse deliciousness" akin to gossiping, that makes watching human drama compelling to us.
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In a perverse way, He Jiankui seems to have bet on this dynamic — that by being first, he would enhance his own and his nation's scientific reputation.
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When Lennon wasn't sampling wine, searching for fungus, or staring in amazement at giant barking seals, he was clicking with Claypool's dark and perverse sense of humor.
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Eduardo Porter of The New York Times recently wrote a column arguing that the growth of subsidized renewables is hurting nuclear in energy markets — a perverse outcome.
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And while they've caused serious damage, they've also  brought a small, perverse amount of pleasure to those of us in the anti-gender-reveal party camp.
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"I'm not sure it's so great because you set up a lot of perverse incentives when you try to get mangers focused on stock price," he said.
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In Brussels, however, seasoned diplomats hesitate to quote odds: "The most likely result is one that will be perverse," said one, recalling previous upsets behind closed doors.
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In a perverse and amoral way, the logic of the political suicide mission is self-reinforcing, even if it ultimately fails to meet all of its objectives.
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Others suggested that it created a perverse incentive for business travellers to book the most expensive flights, rather than help their employers by looking for a bargain.
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Trump is also right to recognize the damage that ObamaCare has caused in increasing the costs of health care through its taxes, regulations, and perverse market incentives.
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Smith has previously demonstrated such a gift for vibrant characters with bright, distinctive voices that for her to give us such a subdued narrator seems almost perverse.
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Therefore if you bring in very strict definitions of data localization, across a range of sectors, I think ... it is a perverse thing and should not happen.
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As such, mandating massive hikes in the minimum wage has the perverse effect of cutting off the first rung of the employment ladder in the American dream.
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But, for many readers of my generation, "The Handmaid's Tale" is also a time machine back to the Reagan era, a mightily perverse period for sexual politics.
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He understood how black talent could be co-opted for white gain and how, by denying his blackness, he could exercise a perverse control over his image.
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Setting strict (and expensive) pollution limits for new sources gave plant owners a perverse incentive to operate old plants for far longer than they otherwise would have.
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In 2008, Congress finally addressed these assertions with the ADA Restoration Act specifically targeting a series of perverse court interpretations that undermine congressional intent in disability rights.
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There's an inherent foolishness in trying to imitate them, because Dillinger Four's perverse honesty, and strange amalgam of influences, ensure no one will ever get it right.
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As such, both of their artistic practices are perverse in their simultaneous insistence on the utter ideals of abstraction and an absolute congruence between ideas and representations.
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Perverse racial logic then attached the watermelon to newly freed people, who built a nation in bondage but were slandered as indolent loafers after the Civil War.
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"In this world, in this crooked, depraved and perverse world, how do we demonstrate that we are a group of people who trust in Jesus?" he said.
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But, because the story can only get more perverse, the movie's ugliness is in its portrayal of Muslims — the villain, Allaudin, and his army — not the Rajputs.
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It is a perverse irony that the far-right Alternative for Germany, rather than the post-Communist Left party, has successfully mobilized the resentment of reunification's losers.
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Like many Shepard plays, "Simpatico" operates according to what might be called a perverse buddy system, in which twinned, seemingly dissimilar characters gradually change places and roles.
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But would "to-MAY-to" sound willfully, brazenly perverse, an aggressive effort to make some sort of tiresome American point to people in restaurants and grocery stores?
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That unwillingness to talk candidly about middle-class taxes, though she was pressed by both a moderator and by other candidates to do so, bordered on perverse.
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Negotiations to end wars can have the perverse effect of escalating them: sometimes, combatants strive to gain leverage at the table by showing strength on the ground.
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The result is a perverse blend of "shop courses" or underdeveloped career exploration seminars that do not ready students to step forward after high school and beyond.
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Sometimes true crime shows or podcasts can feel like perverse rubbernecking, but this gives voice to the victims' families and never ignores the humanity of its subjects.
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It's too easy to describe his interest in unusually large and small bodies, in wounded and painted skin, in amputation and contortion as perverse, freakish or provocative.
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Found after his death in 1973, these compelling and perverse pictures suggest private games between artist and model, and disclose how design can be an erotic enterprise.
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The film grapples with power dynamics as its central characters operate between the realms of "ordinary" and "perverse," challenging the viewer to find connections between the two.
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To the extent that it departs from Kubrick's specifications, watching "Barry Lyndon" with that music performed live by a 50-piece orchestra may be a tad perverse.
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Instead they have Trump, who lashed out at Democrats and pretended that the collapse of the health care bill was some sort of perverse or eventual triumph.
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One of the perverse pleasures in reading about Atwood's Gilead is seeing how the founders of this fictional theocracy dole out societal roles for men and women.
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"We will not wait for an industry with so many conflicting and perverse incentives to reform itself," Azar said at the National Academy of Medicine's annual forum.
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And there's something doubly perverse about policy experts refusing to engage with an idea that actual elected officials want to embrace on the grounds of political inexpediency.
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In this perverse Roman re-enactment, the mob were calling on a band from the Buenos Aires neighborhood, one of the most radical groups of their time.
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A trusted social network platform strips the perverse economic incentives of surveillance capitalism while providing much needed editorial expertise for news creation and distribution on its platform.
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Aksumite fans will find much to devour here, but Ornamental Headpiece is a bit more elegant, a little classier (in a perverse, Master & Margarita kind of way).
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Many psychologists say that the higher rates of diagnosed mental health problems like anxiety in young people today are, in a perverse way, a positive thing. How?
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"No group has been as successful at drawing people into its perverse ideology as ISIS," Federal Bureau of Investigation Director Christopher Wray said in congressional testimony last week.
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Watching the scene in Phoenix unfold on social media felt perverse, like everyone was secretly hoping something exciting would happen to justify spending an evening glued to Twitter.
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Each detail seems a souvenir of his long history in and around the church—a tribute to the joy, pain, and the perverse love of a good spectacle.
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For the better part of a decade, liberals have gazed upon conservatives with perverse glee as they've limited their ranks to an ever shrinking number of True Scotsmen.
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I consider it a gesture of peace and enlightenment, as well as an opportunity to confront the perverse world view of the religious fanatics that caused 9/11.
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It's a movie concerned with the power dynamics of isolated communities, with faith, with hypocrisy, with Game of Thrones-esque spiritual deities, and with absolutely perverse torture devices.
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Perverse Pleasures – Queer Digital Shorts from South Asia and the Diaspora in Providence, Rhode Island, curated by Lakshmi Padmanabhan What would your superpower be if you had one?
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In this anti-diet age of body positivity and intuitive eating, the show needed to better disguise the way it indulges viewers with body shaming and perverse fascination.
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It offers a perverse sort of flattery for some shoppers, but it also certainly adds to (if not full-on creates) total confusion about sizing and self-image.
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For years, smart critics have bemoaned the perverse incentives created by Facebook's annual bonus program, which pays people in large part based on the company hitting growth targets.
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It was proposed in 1995 by Senator J. James Exon, a Nebraska Democrat who'd watched with increasing alarm as "the worst, most vile, most perverse pornography" spread online.
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"We may have a perverse reaction, where indeed, the lowering of the CBR rate leads to a reduction in the level of credit," he told a news conference.
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The other was an announcement that they'd pulled back from product sales goals and thereby alleviated perverse incentives to sign customers up for new accounts without their consent.
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The answer is probably a mixture of all three, with a bit of the perverse incentives through which investment advisors are paid thrown in just for good measure.
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By eliminating these perverse policies, lawmakers can help people achieve their dreams, lower costs for consumers, and get more people back to work and out of entitlement programs.
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It may be, in my view, that the counterreaction is so perverse and so destructive that we will return to this figure as the cornerstone of our future.
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Stripping funds from military communities, which have smaller local tax bases because their land is supporting the nation's armed forces, would be both perverse and politically tone-deaf.
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The Texas Rangers deserve a perverse dollop of credit for blending the two in three short games of the American League Division Series against the Toronto Blue Jays.
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It is perverse to ban a less harmful product like an e-cigarette from a market that allows the more dangerous version to be sold on every street.
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A perverse consequence of a lack of competition is that plans can garner additional government payment by "upcoding," or making their enrollees appear sicker than they really are.
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"When you get into a game like that, it's stressful and everybody is trying so hard to win, it's a perverse way to lighten the mood," Maddon said.
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The current GOP health plan, the American Health Care Act (AHCA), provides perverse incentives for states to continue to expand Medicaid to able-bodied people without dependent children.
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That no easy option is available is obvious, but a control board offers a path forward without the perverse incentives and adverse effects that Chapter 9 would create.
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Sometimes local governments actually decrease yellow-light timing to catch more red-light runners, a result of the perverse financial incentives that tempt government officials and camera companies.
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On the business side, lawmakers could repeal a number of special interest tax breaks, as well as the deductibility of interest, which creates perverse incentives to borrow more.
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Read more: 'Midsommar' is a depraved and horrifying nightmare of a 'breakup' filmIndieWire chief critic Eric Kohn called the movie a "perverse breakup movie" in his B+ review.
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Started under the Bush Administration, APMs are designed to move away from the perverse incentives inherent in the current fee-for-service system and toward patient-centered healthcare.
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Museums catering to perverse, macabre, or just plain bizarre curiosities are nothing new: there's Sicily's "human library," Pennsylvania's Mutter Museum of medical oddities, and Missouri's Glore psychiatric museum.
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This space of depthlessly deep contradiction makes for an interesting display that mixes high culture, whimsy, and an almost perverse level of sexual detailing in several undated drawings.
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The Obama administration has carried forward this perverse vision, in which it views the entire globe as a potential battlefield where the laws of armed conflict perpetually apply.
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That's why it is refreshing, in a perverse way, to see crooks coming up with something a little more inventive lately, like this twist on another old fraud.
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It's nearly impossible to figure out any of the song lyrics — a perverse state of affairs for a show purportedly about one of the world's most famous wits.
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More recently, authorized generics like Lilly's stem largely from a different strategy — based on the perverse ways money flows through our health system and who keeps the cash.
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In a supremely canny move, Bennett produced this unnerving, creepily atmospheric thriller, in which she plays a wealthy, somewhat abstracted housewife making a perverse bid for self-determination.
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I had no one to point me toward better writers; the firm of Puzo, Krantz & Auel, in a perverse form of in loco parentis, would have to do.
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Most notably, it became clear that Eleanor was the show's perverse hero—it was her inability to fake politeness, her crude candor, that enabled her to hack Hell.
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That works, but will become a perverse option in a world in which increasing natural disasters caused by climate change, which is caused by burning carbon, are occurring.
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When your world — or, as it often seems these days, the world — is falling apart, there's perverse comfort in watching things go smash in a safe, contained environment.
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The legislation could lead to a "whole bunch of perverse outcomes," Jeremy Hanson, the attorney general for the conservative-leaning Liberal Party, said during debate on the measure.
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But Bava, best known as a progenitor of giallo — a lurid, colorful, perverse and blood-drenched brand of Italian horror — would probably have been quite cool with that.
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What we see, for instance, in "The Triumph of the Will" (thanks, in good measure, to Leni Riefenstahl's perverse genius), is people experiencing a sort of collective ecstasy.
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It would be perverse to attribute Manchester's economic success to that attack, but the city has indeed, and with proud self-assertion, risen phoenix-like from the ashes.
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Making money off the idea of not needing money is perhaps mildly perverse but little different from a cleric who preaches poverty yet lives in a parish manse.
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One solution to these perverse incentives would be to implement a risk-sharing system and shift the burden of costly cases from states to a central, federal pool.
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Alcott was intentionally being perverse in her invention of Bhaer, but it's unlikely that any ending she wrote that involved marrying off Jo would ever be truly satisfying.
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Aside from the soda incident, a story he told on himself with perverse pride, Mr. Reed seemed to have an uncanny knack for being in the right place.
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Who knew how much German-Jewish comedy was focused on mocking the more pious Jews of Eastern Europe, ridiculing them as foolish, corrupt and sexually perverse country bumpkins.
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The high rate encourages all kinds of perverse behavior, such as leaving money parked in overseas subsidiaries and inverting corporate structures to take advantage of lower rates abroad.
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"Inside Amy Schumer" covered similar territory (particularly the perverse effect of systemic objectification on the psyches of women) but without as much of a believe-in-yourself message.
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"This perverse game of musical chairs within D.H.S. of the incompetent and craven is extremely perilous for national security," said Peter Vincent, a former top lawyer at ICE.
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The point is you could get the total level of spending down to Sweden/Italy/Austria levels without triggering any of the perverse effects Porter is talking about.
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These stiff, ashen, sculptural forms have a slight appeal, but are less interesting than his earlier figures, which were consumed within perverse, post-Cubist fields of fractured displacement.
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One that's risen from the ashes is folk horror, a category that draws on the dark, often perverse, influences of society—characterized in part by European pagan traditions.
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"We will not wait for an industry with so many conflicting and perverse incentives to reform itself," Azar said, speaking at the National Academy of Medicine's Annual President's Forum.
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They are measures only a president and Congress can take: improved public infrastructure, enhanced education and job training, an overhaul for a convoluted tax system rife with perverse incentives.
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By perverse coincidence, the court is expected to give its verdict in the Urresti case just as Peruvians go to the polls in the first round of April's elections.
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In other words, where a perverse pinprick would otherwise form in the space-time fabric, naked for all the world to see, the relative weakness of gravity prevents it.
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The two issues appear unrelated, but they have a perverse connection: Anger makes Americans dismiss government and politics altogether — and that dismissal makes it harder to tackle racial injustice.
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With a props department and a perverse sense of humor at his disposal, Blomkamp shouldn't have any trouble coming up with wacky ways for more kitchen-related body horror.
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Fun fact: the label that releases their material, Perverse Homage, boasts several members of NYC's House of First Light collective on its roster, which makes a lot of sense.
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"It's easy to come up with fictional cruelties, and especially with perverse cruelties towards women, then it just turns into pornography," creator Bruce Miller said at a TCA conference.
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Because I dream of animals standing in a line that bends to infinity, an endless trudge of species waiting for the flood like a perverse reprise of Noah's Ark.
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