Beijing also has resorted to the blunt tool of freezing prices of electricity and some other basic goods, but that is starting to backfire.

北京动用了冻结电价以及几类其他基本商品价格的生硬手段，但如今开始显得适得其反。

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It's not hard to see why Saudi Arabia is reluctant to take the relatively modest step of freezing crude output unless Iran also joins the producer initiative to support oil prices.

除非伊朗也加入旨在支撑油价的冻产协议，否则沙特不会情愿迈出冻结产量这一小步。个中缘由，其实不难理解。

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And freezing prices, any technocrat worth his salt knows, means little unless it is accompanied by measures to hold down wages: something Mr Yilmaz does not appear to contemplate.

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If he can make voters smile by freezing prices on things like bread and petrol, he reckons, he can call an election sooner than that with a decent chance of winning.

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The Boston Red Sox, despite having a successful team and the smallest ballpark in the majors, are freezing ticket prices for 2009.

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