1. Many companies have imposed a pay freeze.

2. The pay freeze forms part of a package of budget cuts.

3. Cuts in benefits and a public sector pay freeze are thought to be likely.

4. The threatened public sector pay freeze follows Mr Major's decision to preserve capital spending projects to help Britain out of recession.

5. A public sector pay freeze and a squeeze on benefits are thought to be among the main items in the package.

6. About that pay freeze: the president likes to talk about "teachable moments." Well, in this case he seems eager to teach Americans something false.

7. About that pay freeze: the president likes to talk about "teachable moments.

8. He also issued a pay freeze on staff earning more than $100,(/pay freeze.html) 000.

9. There will be a public-sector pay freeze in 2011 and sharp cuts in the budgets of the other big-spending departments providing public services.

10. Instead, he apparently intended the pay freeze announcement as a peace gesture to Republicans the day before a bipartisan summit.

11. The government could announce a pay freeze for all of them.

12. Pfizer Inc. in February lifted a pay freeze that hit Chief Executive Jeffrey Kindler, lifting his pay to $1.8 million from $1.6 million.

13. We've said there will be a public-sector pay freeze from 2011, excluding the million lowest-paid workers.

14. While the Cabinet has yet to make final decisions, ministers seemed set to approve a pay freeze.

15. Around one in eight of the survey sample reported a pay freeze for the workers concerned.

16. The rises come at time when many Londoners face a pay freeze and the retail price index is running at -1.4%, and on top of a 6% increase in fares this year.

17. On Monday, we got the answer: he announced a pay freeze for federal workers.

18. The unions could not take on board the idea of a pay freeze.

19. Ford, Jaguar Land Rover, Bentley and Toyota, which has just announced a pay freeze for staff, have all announced either job losses or production reductions.