| 31. | The life insurance industry is battening down its hatches _ and consumers, it turns out, will pay the price.
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| 32. | The increasingly blurry direction of these events has left currency investors moving to the sidelines and simply battening down the hatches.
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| 33. | But they are not in a situation where they are battening down the hatches, either, " he added.
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| 34. | Opening onto the verandah are two substantial sliding doors clad in beaded boards, with panels of open timber battening above.
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| 35. | The battening pattern used was consistent throughout : below arched openings and on the front stair balustrade in the infill latticework.
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| 36. | "All of our facilities are secured, " said Riley . " We're just battening down the hatches ."
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| 37. | "I think it's typical battening down the hatches in advance of a downturn, " he said.
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| 38. | Unfortunately, it looks like he's responded to this just by battening down the hatches and preparing for a crusade.
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| 39. | Corrugated iron clad window hoods, with sides of timber battening, provide sun shading to many of the pairs of casements.
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| 40. | "Times are so uncertain that people are not just cocooning but really battening down the hatches, " she said.
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