An estimated 85.4 trillion cubic feet of "undiscovered, technically recoverable gas" is frozen in the state's North Slope region, according to a U.S. Geological Survey study released by the Interior Department.

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This has a lot to do with the public-sector payrolls that are being cut or frozen to help balance state and federal budgets, some of which are badly in need of cost-cuts (see New Jersey).

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But aid has been frozen for a year and the state coffers are bare.

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He says cities are getting hit on all sides, declining local and state revenues combined with frozen credit markets and the prospect of a deep national recession.

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Firefly is frozen in time, in a suspended state of entrepreneurial joy and limitless optimism.

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But he reportedly managed to escape with 45 million euros in gold bars from the Bank of Tunisia, and the rest of his assets (which he stands accused of embezzling from the state) are now frozen in French banks, and will probably remain there.

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Schmitz grew up in North Dakota where skating on frozen water is more popular than swimming, and swam at a Division 2 Metropolitan State College in Denver, which folded its swim program shortly after he graduated.

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Some areas are stalemated: the EU has frozen several chapters of the talks, and Turkey refuses to recognise Cyprus, an EU member state.

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