Michael co-sponsored legislation that would provide an immediate freeze to interest rates before the terms of the Credit CARD Act were implemented.

The Federal Aviation Administration was quickly communicating with the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, imposing an immediate freeze at all airports in the area.

He also said that he had ordered an immediate freeze on all state hiring, awarding of new contracts and signing of new leases.

There's an immediate freeze on all anti-USSR activities, retroactive to 2400 hours last night.

As is his habit, Mr. Gore spoke in dramatic, almost apocalyptic terms, at one point demanding an "immediate freeze" in carbon dioxide emissions.

The package, on which voting was 190 to 153 with six members absent, consisted of an immediate freeze on wages and prices, dividends, rents and local taxes until the end of 1991.

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

The suit was assigned to Judge Knapp, and the S.E.C. asked him for an immediate freeze of the Hoffenberg assets.

Additionally, he requested an "immediate freeze of all boycott and siege decisions" and a general normalization of relations with Iraq.

Mr. Lance urged the administration to impose "an immediate freeze on all discretionary spending and on all hiring in every department in state government."