Word: instead
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...committee's report stopped short of recommending any minimum wage floor, focusing instead on workers' "total compensation," a term that includes both wages and fringe benefits. On one level, this is a reasonable approach. The purpose of a "living wage" is to insure that workers can live above the poverty line. In many cases, health insurance can be far more valuable toward this end than a small increase in wages...
...computing the appropriate level of compensation falls on Harvard's shoulders, since the University has decided, unlike the City of Cambridge, to focus on total compensation instead of wages. Perhaps such a calculation will be more than just a simple figure, one that takes into account the marginal value of benefits at various wage levels. For example, many subcontracted workers, particularly guards employed by SSI and janitors employed by UNICCO, currently earn wages far lower than their Harvard counterparts. In their cases, simply adding health benefits might not be as valuable as a pay raise. Since Harvard has dismissed...
...food stamps by counting their on-base housing as income. The proposal, not surprisingly, turned out to be a p.r. disaster. The Pentagon would have been cutting its food-stamp rolls not by boosting benefits but by a bookkeeping trick. Defense Secretary William Cohen ordered the scheme scrapped. Instead, Cohen is taking the opposite tack. He wants to stop counting the off-base housing allowance no longer calculated as part of a soldier's income. Doing that, Pentagon officials acknowledge, could double the number of soldiers on food stamps. Cohen says it is wrong for soldiers to be treated differently...
...President-elect Vladimir Putin, he wants to make headway on an accord both to slash U.S. and Russian strategic nuclear weapons to between 1,500 and 2,000 and to amend the Anti-ballistic Missile Treaty of 1972 to allow the U.S. to begin building a national missile defense. Instead he may be staring at the collapse of practically every major arms-control treaty...
...ivory. Material success apparently did not keep Erik and his family content, though; they undoubtedly heard of a voyage by a captain named Bjarni Herjolfsson, who had been blown off course while en route to Greenland from Iceland. After drifting for many days, Bjarni spotted a forested land. But instead of investigating this unknown territory, he turned back and reached Greenland...