U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson is working on an interest-rate freeze with big lenders, and some politicians would go a lot beyond the Paulson plan, with moratoriums on foreclosures.
The administration of former U.S. President George W. Bush scrapped a nuclear-freeze agreement with North Korea in 2002 over allegations that Pyongyang abrogated the pact by exploring uranium-enrichment activities.
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This sentiment was strengthened by European Central Bank President Mario Draghi's decision to cut off certain Greek banks from receiving ECB funds and the IMF's announcement, earlier Friday, that it would freeze contacts with Greece until the June 17 election.
This freeze in relations with Brazil, and Iran's gradual loss of allies in the region, also opens up further opportunity for the United Nations to impose and enforce additional sanctions on Iran.
Shell had planned to have six new wells fully drilled in the Chuckchi Sea (Alaska) before year-end, but snafus when it tested spill containment equipment and the onset of the winter freeze left it with no wells completed.
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The authority's cabinet is to debate how to deal with the freeze on Monday.
Sunday for most of Southern California, with a freeze watch posted for Sunday night through Monday morning.
Inside the chambers the sample mixes with a freeze-dried bead of a chemical reagent designed for a particular test.
Even if Congress goes along with the freeze, perhaps 60% of those 2 million workers will get raises each year anyway.
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But the Bush administration then eased up, and through the Six-Party Talks cut a nuclear freeze deal in 2007 with North Korea.
He was cross because Mesut Yilmaz, prime minister for the past six months, had declared a public-sector price freeze without clearing it with him first.
Additionally, high-speed image processing helps achieve fast continuous shooting at approximately eight frames-per-second (up to six continuous shots) affording the ability to freeze a fleeting moment with exacting precision.
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So a big rise in income with a freeze in costs sees the state finances back on track or at least greatly improved, all without dropping a guillotine on spending.
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But with Obama requiring a freeze of all such construction, Abbas made clear in an interview with The Washington Post in May that he couldn't talk to Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu without looking like a sellout.
Or, put your credit cards in a tin can fill it with water and freeze it.
The Scottish SPCA believes the animals died after being deliberately poisoned with anti-freeze.
Obama wants such outposts dismantled, along with an immediate freeze on settlement expansion.
I'll bet if I asked to be promoted to Senior Media Planner Ninja-Czar, I'd get it with a pay freeze until 2020.
It wanted to use the summit proposed by the Palestinians to persuade the Arabs to freeze any ties they had with Israel and to restore an economic blockade.
The Obama administration's devotion to appeasement shows that even if it wished to reward Israel in some way for going along with a construction freeze, it has nothing to offer.
"The proposed increase in pension contributions will still hit more than half of all NHS staff who are already struggling to cope with the pay freeze and rising inflation, " said Christina McAnea, from Unison, which represents more than 1.3 million public sector staff.
Binyamin Netanyahu, the present prime minister, strikes a deal not only with Hamas but responds to Mr Abbas's pleas for a freeze on Jewish settlement-building in the West Bank with a surge in construction.
The government has already agreed with provincial governors to freeze central-government transfers to the provinces.
The company is in the middle of negotiations with its employees to freeze their pensions and increase their hours.
Today's skin-tightening devices, such as the Fractora, eMatrix and Venus Freeze, can give similar results with minimal pain and downtime.
The Labour Party, Mr Netanyahu's next-biggest coalition partner, threatens to walk out if the freeze ends and no serious negotiations with the Palestinians have begun.
The Ice Bird looks like he might be particularly interesting, with the ability to freeze objects in levels, presumably then opening them up to destruction by other birds.
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It begins with pieces from "Freeze, " which include some Donald-Judd-influenced Minimalist colored boxes and the first spot painting, the dripped paint revealing the hand of the artist himself.
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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.
In fact, the law's stiffer funding requirements for defined-benefit plans will likely push companies with underfunded plans to freeze them, says Jack VanDerhei, a Temple University professor and fellow at the Employee Benefit Research Institute.
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