1.   Critics said such a spending freeze was highly unusual.

2.   Digital Equipment Corp. has ordered a massive, companywide spending freeze, putting restrictions on everything from hiring and travel to the use of cellular phones.

3.   Earley too is a conservative, a traditional advocate of tax-cutting at a time when Virginia is struggling with budget woes that have produced unpopular spending freezes.

4.   Ever present and far less contentious is the threat of a spending freeze.

5.   German government bonds rose, outperforming a tumbling U.S. Treasuries market as Finance Minister Theo Waigel imposed a spending freeze to stem growing deficits.

6.   GERMAN government bonds rose as Finance Minister Theo Waigel imposed a spending freeze to stem growing deficits.

7.   In exchange for a pledge to behave themselves, the rebels say that Speaker Newt Gingrich has promised them their spending freeze.

8.   No decision has been made on whether to impose a spending freeze, he said.

9.   Now the university has imposed a spending freeze.

10.   Waigel said no decision has been made on whether to impose a spending freeze.