Word: invert
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...consciously engage in the formation of their identities, insofar as they can choose to either comply with or resist prevailing gender practices. In this vein, by encouraging women to appropriate their sexuality for their own self-defined and freely chosen ends, the feminist sexual libertarians have attempted to invert the hegemonic norms that place sex fully under male control...
...University would do more to bring out these leaders, to get this talent out into the world to make change, we could see a drastic transformation. It’s time to invert these broken systems, it’s time to take down these broken social institutions, and make them better. Harvard should know this and should be doing more to get its students out in the world making change...
...most students. Sadly, this harmful contempt for math has produced an educational culture that lacks both the enthusiasm and foundational support to produce proficient math students. Given the shortcomings of American math education, a concerted effort must be made to address the dearth of appreciation for math and invert the all too common declarations of “I hate math!” This cultural malaise remains specifically an American problem. According to a study published in the Notices of the American Mathematical Society, the United States is failing to develop the math skills of both girls and boys...
...Indignation” opens, but the novel itself never so much as glimpses the heights to which he seems to aspire. It’s a cliché for artists in their old age to become obsessed with death, and Roth has done well to invert that trope and return to his youth (even if his protagonist dies anyway). But “Indignation” flies by so inexplicably that whatever intention Roth had–whether to explore consciousness, to meditate on his own life, or to tease out an historical period obscured by cultural memory?...
...explained at least in part by China's and Japan's historic demand for Treasury bonds. Absent unprecedented foreign demand, Treasury bond yields likely would be well above short-term yields today-and Chicken Little would have no audience. That's not to say the yield curve won't invert again, and grow more pronounced. If it does, be warned. But we're not at the breaking point today, and may not get there for years...