1.   An immediate freeze on prices and wages was imposed, the latter to be adjusted twice yearly instead of according to monthly indexation mechanisms.

2.   Hernandez ordered an immediate hiring freeze and started a frenzied campaign to raise funds to make up for borrowed money.

3.   Hospitals would face an immediate freeze on Medicare payments.

4.   In private, some Republicans concede that insisting on special inspections sooner might have led to confrontation instead of an immediate nuclear freeze.

5.   President Bush on Monday ordered an immediate freeze of all assets in the United States of suspected Islamic terrorist groups and individuals.

6.   Wells Fargo declined to detail where the cuts might occur, but it imposed an immediate hiring freeze yesterday.

7.   European Union foreign ministers, reiterating their concern over political violence in Zimbabwe, decided on Monday to impose an immediate freeze on high level contacts with Zimbabawe.

8.   The declaration also called for an immediate freeze on the building of Jewish settlements in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.

9.   Israeli Environment Minister Yossi Sarid urged an immediate freeze on the project.

10.   Environment Minister Yossi Sarid urged an immediate freeze on the project.