How else can we explain cuts or freezes in salaries for workers and huge pay raises and bonuses for top executives?

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Then he goes down the steps, and the story ends or freezes in an empty space where appearances gradually fade away.

NEWYORKER: Labyrinth

With so many sellers and too few buyers, prices either plummet or the fund freezes.

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Sixty-nine percent of cities have instituted hiring freezes or layoffs, and 42 percent are delaying or canceling infrastructure projects.

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Has he said, this is going to be an austerity budget and talked about things like spending freezes or anything like that?

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You may need to get a police report, place freezes or fraud alerts on all your credit reports, close accounts that have been compromised and dispute unauthorized charges.

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Since the beginning of the year, investors have sliced the company's stock price nearly in half over fears that spending on online ads will slow or fall as the credit crunch freezes wallets.

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Eighteen percent of the 1, 000 big companies with defined benefit plans had, as of last December, frozen at least one of their plans, with the majority of those freezes occurring in 2004 or 2005, according to consultants Watson Wyatt Worldwide.

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In a televised address, he pledged immediate aid packages, including cash payments and tax freezes, for businesses whose buildings had been torched or property looted.

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The second problem is students and teachers loading software or making changes to the existing software, creating an endless array of software bugs, glitches, freezes and crashes.

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