But these privations also present the opportunity to come together and share what we have, including stories: people who otherwise have little time for reading find that they are compelled to light the fire, hunker down on the armchair and open a book.
Football not only UEFA by now, but also the world body, FIFA could not just hunker down and hope.FIFA's first reaction was an own goal: so be it, transfer fees for players 24 years old or more could go.
To entice the richest travellers out of business lounges, where they tend to hunker down, Heathrow recently launched a "personal-shopper" service.Such tricks have built up shopping at airports, on board ferries and aeroplanes and at border crossings into a big business.
Israel plans to tuck itself in behind the barrier it began building four years ago in the West Bank, withdraw from the land on the other side, pull the settlers living there back over, and hunker down.As well it might.
If he is smart, however, he will hunker down and try to run Delhi well, so voters might trust him later nationally.
Most firms will hunker down in the Bakken, the Eagle Ford and the Permian Basin, where they have scale and infrastructure.
The former are typically run by Koreans, who hunker behind ceiling-high bulletproof glass, with a little hatch through which they sell pints and half-pints of spirits.
In bad times, firms are inclined to hunker down with the businesses they think they are best at, and to shed the rest.
They worry that in a crisis America might just hunker down under its shield, decoupling its security from that of its friends.
Wind whipped through the stands; the spectators around me began to hunker down.
Boosters, hoping to lure NGOs with the city's tax-free status, low-cost housing for aid-workers and hotels where they and foreign correspondents can hunker down on their way to emergencies, promise that a "humanitarian city" will be available in Dubai by 2008.
