In October the New York organization froze salaries, which are already low when compared with other charitable groups.

Then, with sales slowing in the semiconductor industry, the company said last month that it would indefinitely freeze salaries for its white-collar workers.

Merrill Lynch has frozen salaries until the middle of next year.

The church recently cut its national budget by 5 percent and has frozen hiring and salaries for 1991.

It freezes salaries and wages while allowing most prices to rise.

Actually, many universities have frozen salaries for the second year in a row due to funding crises.

Siebel also cut executive salaries by 20 percent and froze other salaries.

The company cites savings like a teachers' contract it helped negotiate that froze salaries for one year.

Airline employees are protesting new legislation to freeze salaries at 1997 levels for two years.

The Clinton Administration tried to freeze military salaries this year and increase them by 1.6 percent for next year.