Africa's year-round tropical temperatures offer no winter to freeze off disease cycles, so each year nearly half the sweet potato crop fails.
He's known for performing "cryosurgery"--a form of surgery that uses liquid nitrogen or nitrous oxide to freeze off cancerous tumors rather than cutting them out or amputating the host limb.
ScotRail added that it hoped to freeze off peak fares from 2013 through until the end of its franchise in 2015, provided the Retail Prices Index (RPI) measure of inflation remained below 3.5% per annum.
But while the credit freeze may kill off some firms, the good news is that those that can stick out the downturn will likely do as well if not better than originally expected if they can survive a few years.
So I trek back to Hermann Stadium the following week and freeze my pants off to watch my 49ers in the A10 quarters, only to see their top 10 ranking and NCAA seeding fall at the hands of an OT upset loss to Xavier.
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But it pledged to freeze the price of off-peak fares in 2014 and 2015.
Mr McClements described the results as a "surprise", since 63% of respondents voting to raise council tax rather than accept a one-off government grant to freeze it.
The TUC has issued its own economic plan, which contains measures including cutting VAT, reversing the public sector wage freeze and giving a one-off increase in child benefits before Christmas.
Powerful public-sector union leaders condemned the pay freeze almost before the shadow chancellor was off the podium.
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"I was frightened guests would drive off into "neverland" and freeze to death during the winter, " he said.
But he said savings were being made "off the back of a wage freeze, which is not sustainable".
The crudest is simply that in some future and unpredictable crisis Russia could turn off the gas and Europe would freeze.
If turned off for even a moment, hoses freeze, leaving them plugged, stiff and useless.
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But his likely Republican opponent is trying to take the ball off the field by also supporting the freeze.
And still, as I write this, I can hear my kids outside my home office, laughing as they play freeze tag and hide and seek, enjoying another day off school.
By heading off the next generation of controlled weapons, the freeze would do much to dispel that dangerous belief....Sounds like good arms control to me.
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The changes freeze wages and cut certain benefits such as the jobs bank for laid-off workers.
Water on the tiles could freeze as the shuttle reaches orbit, and could cause the tiles to come off.
But Mr Brown managed to fight off an attempt by Mr Blair to go further by promising to freeze the tax burden generally.
So unless we want to stop technological progress, pinch off our fiber pipes to the world and to each other, and freeze capital, I think the only long-term remedy is education.
"If you turn off the oil pipeline, and there is literally a pipeline, the North Koreans freeze pretty quickly, " Dr Noland explains.
It is difficult to envisage wages taking off when the public sector is shedding jobs and facing a two-year pay freeze and there are 2.5m people unemployed, close to 8% of the labour force.
Instead, in late 2008, in the terminal stages of the collapsing 2007 nuclear freeze deal, the U.S. made a last-ditch attempt to woo North Korea by taking it off the U.S. list of terror sponsoring states.
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