Chimney material was frozen at −80°C immediately after collection and remained frozen until onshore analysis.
When you turn back, confident that events have remained frozen, you see everything has changed.
Households have faced large price increases in recent years at the same time as wages have remained frozen, squeezing budgets.
There were no green shoots; the credit markets remained frozen, and stock prices seemed destined for new lows.
"Some aspects of spring failed altogether – with frogs and toads struggling to breed in ponds which remained frozen".
Appointments, planning approvals and budgets have remained frozen, while political camps have feuded over who should take the top job.
A separate, more significant, military retirement pension, for those serving at least 15 years in the army, was not affected and remained frozen for non-French soldiers.
But while economic relations have improved, political ties have remained frozen because of Moscow's refusal to compromise on the status of Georgia's separatist regions.
For starters, the annual total, $16.5 billion, has remained frozen for 20 years, meaning they are worth one-third less than they were in 1996.
But they were doing so in an environment where credit markets remained frozen, where there was much less opportunity to make big profits by taking huge risks.
Peace talks between Israel and Syria remained frozen, however, as Netanyahu refused to continue the negotiations begun by the previous Labor government.
