Word: froze
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Since then, however, economic woes and regional strife have gradually torn the country apart. While neighboring Hungary and the Soviet Union are moving slowly ahead, Yugoslavia is stumbling backward. Some 1,000 strikes have flared since Belgrade first froze wages in February. The country is staggering beneath nearly 200% inflation, the highest in Europe, and a 15% unemployment rate that only a few European countries exceed. At the same time, Mikulic is desperately trying to finance $19 billion in hard-currency debt. "This is perhaps Yugoslavia's greatest crisis in almost 40 years," said a Western diplomat long resident...
...Harvard men's soccer team met with an icy reception at the Yale Soccer Field Saturday. The Elis froze out the Crimson attack, holding Harvard scoreless for only the second time this season...
...smart play on [Mills'] part," Kramer said. "The defense just froze up." Huskie goalie Tom Foley barely the brushed the ball as it went to his left and into goal...
...Hoping at the time that medical advances might someday solve the mystery of his affliction, Elvin-Lewis and Witte, then both at Washington University, froze samples of Robert R.'s blood, brain and other organs. Last June, four years after the AIDS virus was first isolated, Witte sent some of the frozen samples to Tulane University, where they were definitively analyzed by Virologist Robert Garry. "There's no question that the tissue was positive for AIDS," Garry states. In fact, Robert R.'s blood reacted to all nine markers used in the highly sensitive Western blot test for AIDS antibodies...
...midterm elections. The vote, which was viewed as a referendum on the administration's handling of the economy, left Alfonsin without a majority in Congress. After consultations with the opposition Peronist party, Alfonsin promised a 75% increase in the minimum wage, to $87 a month, even as he froze all other wages...