This ETF, like TMF, has gained from its leveraged exposure to long-term US Treasuries.
Rising crude oil production in Texas and North Dakota has contributed to a reversal of the long-term US production decline.
That is is one reason why the dollar has been going up today, and so have long-term US interest rates, to the highest level in nearly a year.
In addition, Endeavour delivered a new long-stay US crew member, Tim Kopra, to the ISS and will bring back Japan's Koichi Wakata, who has lived aboard the platform for more than three months.
WorldCom and Sprint are the Number 2 and Number 3 US long-distance telephone companies respectively, and the US government is worried that the two companies already compete in the same areas and that US telecoms industry would be left with only two main competitors.
The US government has now revised its long-term forecast for the US economy, partly on the basis of these trends.
Without being able to dramatically increase its size, many questioned the long-term viability of US Airways.
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It is this expectation of paper currency debasement which makes gold an attractive long-term investment for us.
Moments later, at the other end, a long-range strike from US striker Hercules Gomez was pushed aside by M'bolhi.
In the CIA Directorate of Intelligence at Langley, Virginia, eyes will be rolling skywards as analysts work out the long-term damage to US intelligence.
Mr Tenet, in his statement, said that although the president's words were factually correct - in the sense that they attributed the allegation to the British Government - they should never have been included in the speech, given the long-held doubts that US intelligence had about Britain's claims.
My wife and I flew to Argentina in 1995 after a long period when neither of us had taken a long-haul flight for many years.
We have enough short-term problems presently to keep us from considering the long-term problems associated with addressing them now.
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Many of our neighborhoods have been economically distressed long before this crisis hit -- for as long as many of us can remember.
And again, without prescribing the contents of that deal, which is only a one-year deal, what I think is irrefutable is that no single-year fiscal deal is going to resolve the long-term debt issues that face us in terms of entitlements, tax expenditures, defense spending, and all the major drivers of long-term debt that have to be addressed.
Some violent dose of medication shrunk the squash-sized lump then, and earned him and us a year-long reprieve during which that initially jealous beast became a member of my family -- our family.
"With the rulemaking still underway, the Qualcomm development funding is a risk-based investment, yet it is important for us to accelerate a long-term path to developing both the satellite and ground-based mobile markets, " said Cullen.
And the more we're emphasizing primary care, preventive care, wellness -- all of which will save us money in the long term -- the more that we can deploy nurses as the troops on the front lines in ultimately driving down some of these health care costs.
On Wednesday came the news - apparently long-known to some parts of the US media, who chose not share it - that the US is operating a drone base out of Saudi Arabia.
We have abolished taxes on long-term investment which makes us different from our partners in the G20.
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It is radical social reform that will help us deliver long-term savings in public spending by reducing the demands on the state.
Where once we needed to react instantly to physical danger, now most of us face long-term tensions associated with jobs, relationships, and communities.
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Although Israel's long-standing relationship with the US remains strong, analysts say Mr Netanyahu is likely to find himself under pressure from the US president.
Long-term development could nudge us closer to robots with truly general-purpose code -- a welcome relief from the one-track minds the machines often have today.
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The American generations before us understood these attributes, and their hard work and delayed gratification gave us the long-lasting infrastructure and great lifestyle we enjoy today.
Mr Schroeder's stance was popular at home but Joerg Himmelreich in Berlin says the damage to Germany's relations with its long-time protector, the US, has been lasting.
And as long as each of us -- manager, president's counsel, senator -- does his or her constitutional duty, those who fought for their country will be proud.
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He said it protected the "long-term vitality" of US agriculture.
As long as more devices and carriers come onboard, though, the technology might be the long-term key to pulling us away from fenced-off conversations in Google Talk or Skype.
How on earth can the stock market be going up (we just had the biggest one-week rally in two years) with these imposing and potentially long-lasting problems all around us?
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