Write-downs also artificially inflate accounting profitability metrics and can make companies with lots of write-downs look more profitable than companies with no write-downs.
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The media has consistently picked on RIMM as having no developers write apps for their devices compared to Apple and Android.
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So no further write-downs, at least for the time being - and investors will be breathing a big sigh of relief.
There is no way to write a six-page, narratively structured memo and not have clear thinking.
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After all, I figure, if he has no time to write, it means he is involved in camp and having fun.
Despite all the concerns, Merrill Ross, an analyst at Friedman, Billings, Ramsey kept her outperform rating on the company, adding that there is no potential for write-downs from the announcement.
And with the unpredictability this season has produced there's no need to write off either Button -- who has always been dogged by bad luck in his home grand prix -- or his fellow former world champion Hamilton.
The bank confirmed there was no likelihood of future write-downs, with exposure to further losses contained through risk management.
Needless to say, I had no clue how to write a BusinessWeek article.
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It's no longer enough to write or say something and consign any responses to the letters page or occasional "have your say" programme.
Finally, Missy was able to get the checkbook away from dad and no one else could write checks for this blind man to sign.
However, due to the current economic volatility and pressure to be profitable, organizations can no longer afford to write a blank check for their marketing initiatives.
And yet there is no suggestion that a write-down of the 161bn euros owed by Greece to eurozone governments and the 50bn euros owed to the European Central Bank is on the negotiating table.
He was too dejected to write and had no support system to help him through that tough time.
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The two-day conference will also hear calls for doctors to no longer be required to write sick notes for patients.
But as only Shakespeare could write it, no one would believe that on the most important game of the season this would be the one time they lose.
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Without that, his authority could be fatally weakened - although ministers will, no doubt, attempt to write off poor performance as a "mid term" protest vote, as they did at Dunfermline.
Usha Chaumar was singled out for her amazing accomplishments: She can read and write now and is no longer doing the dirtiest of work.
Euroland is a near disaster with no final fix possible without massive write-downs in national debt covering Greece and probably Spain, Italy, Portugal and Ireland.
Last year, General Electric paid no federal income taxes due to write downs from previous losses from its financial arm GE Capital during the 2008 credit crisis.
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In an editorial in the New England Journal, two other veterans of the Vioxx controversy--Bruce Psaty of the University of Washington and Curt Furberg of Wake Forest University--write that there is no clear reason to prescribe Avandia at all now.
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