So, I've got here a term structure; well, the term structure is the plot of yield-to-maturity against time-to-maturity.

我这有一张期限结构图,期限结构其实是,到期收益率与到期期限之间的关系图

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RFLP-based databases, it will probably be true manyfold for medical databases that hold data on particular genes, and may well be linked to samples that could, in the fullness of time, yield the complete genome of an individual.

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This eases the cash flow of a strapped business, and the time value of money makes such investment yield a higher (after-tax) rate of return.

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But I also know that, in a time of crisis, we cannot afford to govern out of anger or yield to the politics of the moment.

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