House economists noted the sticky rate of long duration unemployment and the high share of part-timers.
In an environment when yields have been falling, that relatively long duration has paid off as bond prices jumped.
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Still, we are concerned for people with excessively large bond allocations especially ones including long duration Treasuries or leveraged mutual funds.
Expect the Federal Reserve Board to reinstitute its program of bond repurchasing, thereby driving down interest rates on long duration Treasuries.
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Long duration paper, always dangerous, outshone the 5-year duration players (me).
But the Tranquility Module also is going to serve as a gym, as a hygiene area, as a place a crew can maintain themselves for a long duration.
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And a long duration living and working in space is what the Space Station is all about -- to do the research and the science necessary to take us beyond Earth orbit.
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Long duration fixed income, such as 10-year sovereigns.
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Although several studies have looked at exercise for diabetes, the current investigation is unique for its long duration, as well as the fact that it included an ethnically diverse group of patients, says Ronald J.
Difference in leverage, borrowings (short duration vs. long duration), asset holdings (adjustable mortgages vs. long-term mortgages), and hedging strategies are the main differences among the Agency Mortgage REITs, who number less than a dozen names.
In light of these developments, we respectfully suggest that the treaty that will result from the "Ottawa process" will be incompatible with the U.S. military's abiding requirement to use short-duration anti-personnel landmines where appropriate and to deploy long-duration APLs in Korea.
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We have written previously to express our strong opposition to prohibitions on the responsible use by American military personnel of short-duration anti-personnel landmines (APLs) and the retention of existing long-duration APLs in defense of South Korea.
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Usachev could have an easier time recovering, having spent two long-duration missions on the retired Russian space station Mir.
Atop this vehicle would sit a capsule, called Orion, equipped with the life support technologies able to sustain humans on long-duration missions.
Only fellow cosmonauts have stayed in space longer, including the long-duration champion, Sergey Avdeyev, who on three missions spent 747 days off the planet.
Ditching the 1951 Fed-Treasury accord ending government control of bond yields, the Fed selected and purchased trillions of dollars in long-duration bonds and mortgages.
Usachev has experience dealing with the consequences of a long-term stay in space, having spent two long-duration missions on the retired Russian space station Mir.
But Mr Aldrin disagreed with the view that astronauts should test capabilities for a long-duration flight on the Moon before attempting a journey to Mars.
This has come against a background of louder calls from pension funds for long-duration bonds, which have cashflows that can offset future payments to pensioners.
Steinmetz suggests buying and holding long-duration fixed income, such as 10-year sovereigns, and rolling them out, staying out in the same part of the yield curve.
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The long-duration index has also recovered quickly from adversity, helped in no small measure by the bullish tint to the bond market over the past decade.
Many leases in the healthcare sector are long in duration and triple net, meaning the tenant is responsible for taxes, insurance, and common area maintenance fees.
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And that's a great question because one of the hard things about long-duration space flight is the human body dealing with weightlessness and a lack of gravity.
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Once the exorbitant fees are taken into account, returns look much less impressive than the industry's promoters claim, and than an illiquid, leveraged and long-duration investment would warrant.
This flight will shortly be followed by another test run to ensure that everything checks out, after which it will begin its first long-duration mission sometime later this month.
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The truth is, of course, that any weapon as capable of being universally and cheaply made as long-duration landmines, and as useful for terrorizing or laying waste to civilian populations, will never be abolished.
We're also doing metallic research and materials research to help us understand how to make materials on Earth better, but also to find out what materials are better for long-duration missions and traveling beyond Earth's orbit.
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That they were essentially long on duration and it was interest rates that drove that portfolio, not other decisions that could be made in a portfolio, or other investments that could be made in a portfolio.
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