41.   Rising commodity prices are viewed as harbingers of quickening inflation, which erodes the value of bond interest and principal payments.

42.   Robust economic growth is generally associated with inflation, which erodes the fixed interest and principal payments of bonds.

43.   Roden sees a large build-up of money next week because huge amounts of bonds are retiring on top of the normal interest and principal payments.

44.   She paid off the loan, on which she had never made any principal payments.

45.   That would benefit bondholders, whose fixed interest and principal payments grow more valuable as inflation slows.

46.   The government not only stands behind the principal payments on these mortgages, but also the interest payments.

47.   The price report eased concern that a rebounding economy would spur faster inflation, which erodes bonds fixed interest and principal payments.

48.   The rental income would be used to make the interest and principal payments on the bonds.

49.   The report deepened concern the economy would heat up and quicken inflation, eroding the value of bond interest and principal payments.

50.   The sale comes as the pace of new tax-exempt debt sales is slowing, and as investors are receiving billions of dollars from bond interest and principal payments.