"Under current accounting rules, underfunded public pension plan sponsors face some perverse incentives to maintain aggressive or risky investments, and that public plan sponsors are unlikely to significantly shift toward safer but lower-return investment policies, at least in the short run".
Revulsion in the face of a perverse economy is felt by many respectable people: unemployed, not yet unemployed, shakily employed and plain disgusted.
But from "None but the Lonely Heart" one retains June Duprez's puzzlingly perverse face and voice; a scene of Grant and a buddy (Barry Fitzgerald) drunk in a tunnel, letting out their voices and teasing their echoes; and — especially — Grant and Ethel Barrymore together.
They certainly grow from the gardening manuals Bushnell analyses; but to use the poems to gloss the manuals is on the face of it perverse: less complicated and prior things can be invoked to explain more complicated and subsequent things, but not the other way around - unless you believe that the later and more complex phenomena reveal something about where the earlier and simpler texts are going.
However, regardless of category, every funder has its own agenda and may face its own perverse incentives.
Instead, difficult emotions are registered in close-ups of individual human faces, and a perverse, persuasive idea rises to the surface.
A pollster working within a campaign may face a variety of perverse incentives that compete with his ability to produce the most accurate possible results to his candidate.
Similarly, for a French parliamentary committee to call for a ban on the burqa, notwithstanding more pressing local issues such as the state of the economy or the war in the courts between the president and the former prime minister, does seem, on the face of things, rather perverse.
In recent years, the cult of victimization has taken on a perverse new face.
