Some intermediate funds extend maturities well past the intermediate part of the yield curve to time the market or boost returns, adding market risk.

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GLCM's were eventually scrapped as part of the terms of the Intermediate Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty signed between the United States and the former Soviet Union.

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Investors should be asking whether this is this part of a bigger correction or is this simply an intermediate sort of thing.

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He also thought it made sense to accept Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev's call to take 15 intermediate-range U.S. Jupiter missiles out of Turkey as part of the deal.

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