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Do you have any idea where 'hunker down' came from? ... [Q] From W Walker: When Hurricane Floyd was threatening the American east coast, every weatherman seemed to use the phrase hunker down. Do you have any idea where this word and phrase came from?
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www.hunkerdown.us/
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HUNKER DOWN: The phrase 'hunker down' seems originally to have been Scottish, maybe the eighteenth century? Does anyone know exactly what its origin is? Old Norse 'huka' means to squat. Modern Dutch 'huiken' and German 'hocken,' meaning to squat or crouch.
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Microsoft is going to use Seagate software and its EVault cloud service to take on Symantec's backup products in heterogeneous Windows shops. ... Data Protection Manager 2010 will use Seagate's i365 software to bring non-Windows server environments into the Windows backup and recovery fold, ... Seagate will have been,
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www.theregister.co.uk/2009/11/10/seagate_i365_microsoft...
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hunker down - 6 definitions - a phrase used very commonly by radio announcers as hurricanes pass by. it basically means "hang in there" or "be stro... ... buy hunker down mugs, tshirts and magnets...
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www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=hunker+down
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They see Israel not as a mistake but as a crime. Until they change their view, the longest war of the 20th century will persist deep into the 21st. It is best for Israel to hunker down.
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Questionnaire: Are You A Jew? #gawkerquestionnair #thejews ... Who Took Down the Ft. Hood Shooter? #fthood #kimberlydenisemunl ... Who Took Down the Ft. Hood Shooter?
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Will Robertson of the Quintana Capital Group, another Texas investor, said that his firm had tabled discussions with a handful of companies that had been “far down the road to due diligence.”...
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greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/12/04/venture-capitalis...
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