The messages clogged the tubes and caused parts of the exchange to freeze up, affecting trading in 975 stocks.
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You feel like you can react more quickly to any dangerous situation, where some people would just freeze up.
But it has the potential to really freeze up the global financial system, and that is as scary as it sounds.
There was a time when you could cause a website to freeze up just by hitting enter repeatedly when your web browser was open to it.
The thing that people really worry about is you have some financial implosion in Europe and markets freeze up and you have some serious financial disruptions.
Any hint of accounting irregularities, for which the Sarbanes-Oxley Act imposes dire penalties, causes corporate managers to freeze up and conservative investors to head for the exits.
Ergen may want to freeze up the satellite industry further, giving him more time to gain on DirecTV as he managed to do while their merger was slated.
Fortunately, the repo market is unlikely to freeze up entirely.
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The Obama administration made much the same assessment of the still plunging economy, continued freeze up of the financial system, and need for continuing the unprecedented government intervention in the free market system.
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My gut feeling is that there will be a few problems--some local power stations will go offline, some old mainframes will go goofy and maybe, with luck, the IRS will freeze up for a few days.
And now, they're reacting in the opposite direction by refusing to touch anything the least bit risky, and that's threatening to freeze up financial markets generally, not just the mortgage markets, but also things like commercial paper and corporate lending.
In a less excusable turn of events, the camera software did freeze up on us a couple of times while processing images, and you'll see an example of it freezing a video recording for a couple of seconds in the sample below.
And he suggested a public sector pay freeze of up to three years.
The big issue for investors is whether French banks are overly dependent on short-term funding that could freeze-up amid further European financial instability.
When inflation is taken into account, the freeze will add up to a pay cut for council workers, unions say.
Maybe it was the fact that every year we renewed our vows since you decided to lock up and freeze.
If you had enough integrity, you would have found out that a few weeks ago, it is France that demanded Germany for some power, as the winter freeze created black outs up north.
"You don't want to go out there and really freeze because it will tighten up your muscles, " Khabie says.
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The middle-aged worker has to scramble to make up for a freeze, boosting his savings by 16% of pay.
In an interview at the State Palace, Habibie told TIME he will not cover up for his former mentor, but he has so far declined to freeze the family's holdings or to follow up on the investigation in any meaningful way.
For these reasons we should step up our efforts to freeze Iran's financial assets around the world.
The money was there for a freeze if they wanted to take it up...it is a matter for them.
The problem is, is that if we have such a freeze, mortgage interest rates will go up across the board and you will have a lot of people who are currently trying to get mortgages who will actually have more of a difficult time.
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Or freeze it, wrapped in foil, for up to 6 months.
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The logic appears to be to get Israel to freeze settlements, the Arab states to offer up partial normalization and together this will somehow get Israel and the Palestinians into a successful negotiation on the toughest issues -- Jerusalem, borders and refugees.
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