1.   At the same time, the legislation would freeze Medicare payments to HMOs in parts of the country with a heavy concentration of teaching hospitals.

2.   Indeed, the Senate legislation could freeze or cut reimbursements in cities where HMOs do their most business with Medicare, the government health insurance program for the elderly.

3.   On drug trafficking, the leaders agreed to push for legislation to freeze and confiscate the proceeds of money laundering.

4.   The legislation also freezes new grants for dozens of youth, jobs and education programs.

5.   The Medicare legislation would freeze resident programs, but the Council on Graduate Medical Education recommended to Congress this year that it reduce the number of residents.

6.   In the impasse, legislation has frozen, and there has been no government budget for two consecutive years.

7.   The legislation freezes loans and debt relief to Zimbabwe from Western financial institutions.

8.   The EU claims that Korean legislation effectively freezes EU companies out of an eight-billion-dollar a year market for telecommunications equipment.