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...last Shackleton led the party to solid ground on Elephant Island. He left 22 to hunker down there, and with a crew of five, set out in a 20-foot open boat across 850 miles of the worst seas in the world. He made it to the remote South Atlantic island of South Georgia, then climbed across a mountain and glacier to fetch help at a whaling station. All of the expedition's men were rescued...
...anything, led to a circling of the wagons in Austria, as it did when the country elected Kurt Waldheim president despite foreign condemnation of his wartime record. "Austrians don't like being told what to do," says TIME Central Europe bureau chief Andrew Purvis. "Their response is to hunker down and stick to their guns - European opposition has actually increased Haider's popularity in Austria...
...live on a farm in upstate New York, at 1,000 feet, in the foothills of the Berkshires. On the ridge above the house, coyotes yip and howl in the metaphysical cold, and the deer hunker down among the hemlocks. And the plumber, it turns out, is booked up through...
...week--the scene of marches, teach-ins, street theater and uncivil disobedience? This vintage '60s protest fest is prompted, incongruously, by the first American gathering of the WTO, a sober, 135-nation group that sets the rules for international commerce. Thousands of trade ministers, politicians and their staffs will hunker down by Puget Sound to launch a new multiyear round of wrangling over how to promote exports--and, as much as possible, avoid one another's imports...
...happier were that the case. The company's stock last week closed at about $14, down from $36 three years ago. Low copper and gold prices, which the company obviously can't control, clearly have hurt; but some shareholders also complain that despite a cost-cutting campaign dubbed "Hunker Down and Go," Moffett's 1998 compensation of $4.5 million plus stock options is out of line with Freeport's sagging performance...