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The entire country, it seems, is in hunker-down mode.
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The best we can hope for, with respect to the defense industrial base, is probably some version of the hunker-down strategy the Russian Federation has been using for some time.
Ian Fletcher: Curtains for the U.S. Military Industrial Base? Ian Fletcher 2011
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The best we can hope for, with respect to the defense industrial base, is probably some version of the hunker-down strategy the Russian Federation has been using for some time.
Ian Fletcher: Curtains for the U.S. Military Industrial Base? Ian Fletcher 2011
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Mr. Ludwick, a fee-only financial adviser based in Washington, D.C., recommends that Mr. Magarik boost his cash savings to cover at least four months of "hunker-down expenses," which would exclude his high-end gym and eating out.
The Game Plan 2011
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But companies like Terex Corp., a maker of heavy equipment in Westport, Conn., were in hunker-down mode long before the markets started gyrating.
Penny-Pinching Puts Recovery on Thin Ice Ben Casselman 2011
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The best we can hope for, with respect to the defense industrial base, is probably some version of the hunker-down strategy the Russian Federation has been using for some time.
Ian Fletcher: Curtains for the U.S. Military Industrial Base? Ian Fletcher 2011
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"The first step is to go into hunker-down mode and not make snap decisions," he says.
Easy Money's Hard Lessons Ben Levisohn 2011
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The best we can hope for, with respect to the defense industrial base, is probably some version of the hunker-down strategy the Russian Federation has been using for some time.
Ian Fletcher: Curtains for the U.S. Military Industrial Base? Ian Fletcher 2011
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Mr. Ludwick, a fee-only financial adviser based in Washington, D.C., recommends that Mr. Magarik boost his cash savings to cover at least four months of "hunker-down expenses," which would exclude his high-end gym and eating out.
The Game Plan 2011
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Journal Community "This is being driven by the app etite to find more oil, comfort that today's oil prices will be sustained and companies getting out of a hunker-down, recession mode," said James West , an energy analyst with Barclays, who co-authored the survey, which has been produced every year since 1982.
Oil Industry Cranks Up Spending Russell Gold 2010
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