They would have told you their industry was about to collapse because credit had completely frozen.

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Leaders in both parties have positions that are completely frozen, causing gridlock and a dangerous game of political poker.

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Ultimately, it is difficult to see Italy being completely frozen out of Libya.

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Okay, so maybe the unlocking of the GPS on Verizon BlackBerrys wasn't an accident after all -- and maybe hell has frozen completely over.

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At the beginning of the crisis, for government not to intervene when the financial system was on the verge of meltdown, and we were shedding hundreds of thousands of jobs a month, and the credit markets had just frozen completely -- for us not to intervene in that situation would have been simply irresponsible -- would have been irresponsible.

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