Set a timer for 5 minutes and write down as many things you can think of that your company could improve.
Set a timer for 5 minutes and write down as many options you can think of for earning money outside your current job.
It recorded a large write-down as a result of uncertainty over the U.S. defense budget and spending cuts known as the sequester.
Rio Tinto declined to comment on Mr. Albanese's departure, but Chairman Jan du Plessis described the Mozambique write-down as "unacceptable" last week.
Accounting rules urge firms to write down such assets as soon as they realize they will not collect.
Sumner Redstone's company, which owns MTV Networks and Paramount Pictures, said it would be suspending salary increases for senior-level management in 2009, as well as write down the value of certain programming and other assets.
As banks write down assets and reduce their leverage by reining in risk-taking activities, loans will be harder for consumers and businesses to come by.
In fact, all of Japan's banks have been underinvesting in technology for several years, and are likely to continue to do so for several more, as they write down their remaining bad debts.
As I sat down to write today, it dawned on me that this might come off as a touch self-indulgent.
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Deteriorating home values forced the mass write-down of any asset related to mortgages, and as write-downs turned into selling, more write-downs were needed.
U.ed drove Spratt and, to a lesser extent, Conrad to write watered-down resolutions that included as little detail as necessary.
You have to write this down and keep it safe, as it is not subsequently dispatched to you.
It required banks to write down the value of assets (such as long-term bonds) to market value, even if the banks intended to hold them until maturity.
Mark-to-market accounting rules, which the government imposed in 2007, forced banks and life insurance companies to write down the value of their regulatory capital as if it were a day-trading account.
With no election, I at first thought it might be difficult to come up with predictions, but as I began to write down some ideas, I found that there is indeed a lot going on worthy of discussion.
There have been numerous lawsuits against HP as a result of its write down.
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As we sat down to write this, the cell phone began vibrating against the desk.
Instead we packed, charged our phones and cried as I sat down to write this.
As you read it, write down the 3 or 4 most immediate key lessons that you take away from the story.
On one floor, about two dozen editorial staff write book reviews, while down a hall perhaps as many programmers keep the software running.
Shanghai's stock index has lagged badly this year, down 8.5% as I write this.
As a consequence, a write-down of 30% of that debt could lead to a European financial crisis not unlike that which struck the U.S. banks from sub-prime mortgages.
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This would tweak the existing bankruptcy provision known as Chapter 13 to allow judges to write down the value of a primary mortgage.
On Tuesday, as I write this, Nokia shares are down 17 cents, giving back every single penny they gained on Monday, and I think for good reason.
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That way, at least, it could write down the value of its private and public debts, as well as cutting its wages and prices relative to those abroad, improving its competitiveness.
As Citigroup faces another massive quarterly write-down of credit derivative assets, questions remain about other banks' exposures, and when the crisis goes from a trading book issue into an industrywide credit quality problem.
And she would refer to them as transmissions, and she would just write them down.
The pound is already down by 25% against the dollar as we write.
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The pen works as a transmitter: When you press down to write, a switch inside the pen turns it on.
He could feel the words rumbling somewhere in the back of his mind, as though he still had the diligence to write them down.
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