Secretary Gates notes that the current and former Afghanistan commanders have both limited offensive air strikes in order to reduce civilian casualties.

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Many Fed watcher are expecting the committee to announce the purchase of long-term Treasury notes in order to keep interest rates down and stoke economic growth.

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The SEC also claimed Mattera deliberately backdated promissory notes in order to avoid SEC registration requirements.

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And, during the Kennedy Administration, the Fed sold T-bills and purchased an equal amount of longer dated T-Notes in order to reduce long-term rates.

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