1.   Investing in the very shortest term borrowings of governments and corporations, these funds usually yield much less than longer-term bond funds.

2.   It is three years less than the shortest term of a co-defendant in the racketeering case, that of Carmen Tortora, a soldier, they argued.

3.   Ordinarily, that rate is the lowest in the marketplace because it is for the shortest term.

4.   Which chief executive had the shortest term of office?