41.   In June, the company implemented a hiring freeze instead of continuing the rapid growth it had forecast for the rest of the year.

42.   Indeed, consumer confidence withstood shocks from a volatile stock market and some layoffs or hiring freezes in key industries, such as semiconductors and financial services.

43.   Instead, with the FBI in a hiring freeze, Harrison wound up joining the LAPD six years ago.

44.   It has a hiring freeze on.

45.   It also plans a hiring freeze and a brief closure of all of its plants.

46.   Just Wednesday, Apple CEO Steve Jobs announced a cost-cutting program and a hiring freeze.

47.   Layoffs and hiring freezes during the past eight months have forced many workers to do the jobs of two or three people.

48.   News Corp., which owns Fox, has imposed a worldwide hiring freeze, and ABC has imposed a freeze with possible exceptions.

49.   No matter how bad the economy gets, no company that values talent will have a hiring freeze.

50.   News Corp., parent of Fox News, recently announced plans for a hiring freeze.