"To help support the economic recovery in a context of price stability, the Committee will keep constant the Federal Reserve's holdings of securities at their current level by reinvesting principal payments from agency debt and agency mortgage-backed securities in longer-term Treasury securities, " the FOMC says, adding it will continue to roll over the Federal Reserve's holdings of Treasury securities as they mature.

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The Committee also will continue through the end of the year its program to extend the average maturity of its holdings of securities as announced in June, and it is maintaining its existing policy of reinvesting principal payments from its holdings of agency debt and agency mortgage-backed securities in agency mortgage-backed securities.

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The Fed said it will also reinvest the principal payments from its holdings of agency debt and agency mortgage-based securities into agency mortgage-backed securities.

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The Federal Reserve also continues to reinvest the principal amounts of maturing issues of agency debt and mortgage-backed securities into new agency mortgage-backed securities.

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The college said the board of governors, the Skills Funding Agency and the Association of Colleges was seeking an interim principal, which it aims to be in post by July.

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Short-termism has resulted directly or indirectly in corporate earnings games, the deferral of investments needed for long-term competitiveness and the transformation of investment and commercial banking from a capital-facilitating agency service business into a principal proprietary trading business.

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Agency lawyer Louis Brown told the hearing that its principal aim was to "protect and enhance the environment" on inland waterways.

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This flexibility has prompted the principal users of the SR-71 the Central Intelligence Agency, the Defense Intelligence Agency and the State Department to argue for retention of the SR-71.

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