Indeed, under the Clinton plan, all discretionary spending would be frozen for five years.

Public investments would be frozen for at least three years.

But after being frozen for nearly two years, any investment activity at all looks like a sign of life.

The assessed value of the property is frozen for 25 years, although the tax rate may increase slightly.

Welfare grants were cut, by 4.4 percent, and frozen for five years.

After deep budget cuts, the agency's spending has been frozen for four years.

And the investor group's voting rights in the stock could be frozen for two years, up from the present three months.

All this with my pay frozen for three years now.

The Federal minimum wage has been frozen at $3.35 an hour for six years.

Indeed, much of Lethem seems as if time had frozen for 20 or 30 years.