21.   The best-performing bond funds had long maturities, including the American Century-Benham Target Maturity funds, several Vanguard long-term funds and T. Rowe Price U.S. Treasury Long-Term.

22.   The gap is getting narrower so why bother getting into long maturities.

23.   The Mass Transit Railway bond will be the first major Asian public infrastructure bond financing with a long maturity.

24.   The insured bonds went well, while investors picked up the long maturities.

25.   Thursday, the inflation concerns kept many buyers on the sidelines and caused others to sell long maturities and seek refuge in the shorter maturities.

26.   To offset the redemptions, the portfolio managers are buying Treasury bonds to maintain their presence in long maturities until the mortgage market settles down.

27.   Traders said there was strong investor interest in the Nationsbank deal because of their long maturities.

28.   With shorter maturities down in price Thursday, the long maturity managed to hang onto the gains made over the last four days.

29.   With the exception of some long maturities, prices of Treasury securities rose again Tuesday, much as they had on Monday.

30.   It attracts funds with very long maturities, often with seven year grace and eighteen year repayments.