1.   The word bond comes from the same root as bind, for the corporation binds it-self to make the specified payments.

2.   And if you need to sell before a bond comes due, most issues are so thinly traded that you may take a beating.

3.   As bonds come due, the Treasury Department would pay them off using surplus tax revenue.

4.   As soon as the bonds came on the market, Western investors gobbled them up.

5.   As this view takes hold, emerging-market bonds may come under even more intense pressure.

6.   Bonds is coming here to hit home runs, not talk to Letterman.

7.   Bonds also came under pressure from a flood of corporate bonds entering the market today.

8.   Bonds came in with homers in three of his last four games.

9.   Bonds also came under some pressure as investors made room for a raft of bonds sold by Philip Morris Cos. and other companies today, traders said.

10.   Bonds came back along with stocks but bond investors remain a bit more wary than stock investors.