Instead of slashing transportation projects or other infrastructure, for example, leaders would be pressed to cut operating expenditures.
Instead of slashing the workforce, as in previous recessions, many firms have halted recruitment and cut working hours.
She said: "Instead of slashing their pay, we should be encouraging people with real experience of our health and care service to get involved in inspections.
Recent data suggest that Japanese exporters are keeping the prices of their goods unchanged, preferring simply to expand profits instead of slashing prices to increase export volumes.
Instead of slashing prices and accelerating delivery times, praying for fickle customers to stay loyal, many retailers are aiming higher, to become a desirable place to shop.
Instead of slashing their deficits now, the rich world's governments need to promise, credibly, that they will do so once their economies are stronger.Lord, make me prudent but not yetBut how?
But instead of slashing and burning, it has developed a sensible plan that links reduced spending with modernizing reforms that will let it contribute more troops to NATO operations.
Refiners could get the extra allowances in return for cutting carbon emissions by 50percentt at a single point of a vast refinery complex instead of slashing emissions by 50percentt for the entire facility.
These cuts in child tax credits could come alongside or instead of slashing working tax credits, but there are suggestions that the measure will only be applied to new claimants, with existing families of three, four and more children set to be unaffected by the change.
Instead of slashing social services budgets, as states across the nation are doing, it would make sense to create and finance comprehensive, community-based mental health services that would make it attractive for people to accept care, and needed supports like employment and housing programs.
