Many universities' first instinct will be to batten down the hatches and wait for this storm to pass.

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She will need the network as she continues to batten down the hatches.

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At least until the first Vioxx cases, Gilmartin's job is to batten down the hatches and hold the ship through the storm.

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If troubles do come, Mr Paulson will have had some time to batten down the hatches and gain the confidence of the crew.

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In its slide show the firm warned bosses to batten down the hatches of their businesses in order to survive a looming economic storm.

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Just the same, it might be wise to prepare to batten down the hatches, as seafaring men used to say when a storm was looming.

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"They have to batten down the hatches between now and then, " says Brad Hintz, an analyst at Sanford Bernstein (and a former chief financial officer at Lehman).

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Tell them to 'batten down the hatches', because there's a HARD RAIN coming.

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It may be that thriving firms allow themselves the luxury of attending to social issues such as board diversity, whereas poorly performing ones batten down the hatches.

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