21.   What stirred the unusual opposition is that the agreement would freeze wages for the first two years.

22.   Belgian wages have been frozen for the past two years and plans call for only a marginal increase over the next two, angering the workers throughout the nation.

23.   But workers prefer freezing wages and shortening work hours to layoffs.

24.   Concerns about rising inflation eroding the purchasing power of Argentines whose wages are frozen hammered companies like automaker Renault and real estate developer IRSA.

25.   Earlier, he had ended fuel subsidies and frozen public sector wages.

26.   For those who remain, wages were frozen and bimonthly bonuses halved.

27.   Kim Dae-jung, a former leading dissident and four-time populist candidate, has pledged to halt inevitable layoffs for six months and freeze wages.

28.   Labor groups are fighting government plans to privatize state holdings and freeze wages to lower inflation.

29.   Since then, the government has frozen wages but raised rates of giveaway services taking cost and profit into consideration.

30.   The chief executive of Qantas Airways said Friday he will forego a hefty performance bonus as the company prepares to shed thousands of jobs and freeze staff wages.