31. "We've had to batten down the hatches , " he said. 32. A bunker mentality is descending on consumers and investors _ everyone is battening down the hatches . 33. "So, dear kids, batten down the hatches , " he wrote. 34. Dante's Down the Hatch , at Underground Atlanta; ( 404 ) 577-1800. 35. "But they didn't batten down the hatches in terms of costs ." 36. Perhaps wary of a coming storm, local bankers have battened down the hatches on dollar transactions. 37. "The country goes through cycles of battening down the hatches , " he said. 38. Pessimists can batten down the hatches with David Bower, Case Western Reserve University's economics chairman. 39. Still, some Western investors are battening down the hatches , waiting for the current storm to pass. 40. No more trickery or use of mild force-feeding measures to get the medicine down the hatch .
