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Reed highlighted the "perverse incentives" in the current system, which he said were encouraging families to cross the Channel in small boats.

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Ministers say the current system creates a "perverse incentive" to remain in the UK without status.

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During the 1920s and ’30s, nonlinear narratives of this nature would come to be seen as models of the modern mind: a dark, unknowable place riddled with unconscious desires and perverse complexes.

PBMs have perverse incentives to discriminate against the sick in favor of the healthy.

Jones said PCCs had sought to provide strong oversight and tackle crime but the model "weakened local police accountability and has had perverse impacts on the recruitment of chief constables."

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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