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When compared to the Social Security hard freeze, the proposed federal worker pay freeze seems more like slush.
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If hard times instead freeze opinions in place, then we may be looking to a long haul.
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BDCs were hit hard by the liquidity freeze during the financial crisis.
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Hungary, Slovakia, Bulgaria and Romania were hit hard, but the gas freeze also affected Germany, France and Italy.
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Still, the arcane computations in defined benefit pension plans make it hard for most employees to predict how much they will suffer in a freeze.
FORBES: The Big Chill
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They've had two years of pay freeze and are facing job losses and to hear this is really hard to swallow.
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Mr Osborne's main giveaway was a qualified pledge to freeze council tax for two years a nice enough break for hard-pressed households but hardly a magisterial take on the credit crunch.
ECONOMIST: The Conservative Party
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But that will be counterbalanced by a new squeeze on liquidity: a 90-day freeze on forward foreign exchange contracts, which will leave companies scrambling for hard currency to pay their overseas suppliers.
ECONOMIST: A detour or a derailment?
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"Added to this, our support for the social wage with a council tax freeze is helping to put money in people's pockets and is supporting hard pressed households, " he added.
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Mr Swinney said the SNP, which is seeking a second term in government after next May's Holyrood election, had worked hard to support families and businesses during the recession, with measures including a council tax freeze and bonus scheme for small firms.
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The Americans, pushing hard for electoral change in Palestine, across the Jordan river, have been mute about the democratic freeze on the river's east bank.
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