If a bank loan goes into default, it makes sense to write it off the books.
Though previous attempts to write it off have proved premature the Franco-German axis is no longer the force it was.
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This locks in the loss and allows the investor to write it off against his or her capital gains.
But to write it off as archaic or irrelevant would be to write off one of the most imaginative games ever designed.
But the euro has so far proved far more durable than the doomsters expected and it would be a mistake to write it off yet.
If Windows Vista's various desktop enhancements and purtifications haven't managed to get you excited about the new OS, don't write it off altogether just yet.
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He was not willing to write it off, but in exchange for taxpayer assistance, insisting that those companies reform themselves and make themselves more competitive.
No matter what you think about the petition site, to write it off as simply a hangout for Death Star enthusiasts is missing the point.
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Alternatively, they could write it off as a charitable deduction.
So all this does is allow a company to simply write it off once by not counting it as income, rather than both not counting it as income and getting able -- being able to write it off.
The UI may feel a little sluggish, and the continued lack of 3G will write it off completely for many, but for mobile users starting at the lower rungs, who want a well built phone with core functionality, Nokia's made a very reasonable proposition.
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The Basel club of regulators proposes to do just that by taking a type of debt at the bottom of the pecking order (known, confusingly, as Tier 2 capital), and giving supervisors power to write it off or convert it into equity without triggering a default if a bank is in serious trouble.
It dramatically increases the amount small businesses can write off on new equipment investments -- and we want to do more, so that you can write it all off.
They decided to pull the plug and write it all off, and sent a letter to Drake telling him to close down the start-up.
While it was nice to write off some of the expense, it was not nice to discuss lay-offs and worst case scenarios the day of my birthday.
Sir Mervyn King said the other day it would be wrong for the Bank to write off the government debt it had bought as part of its quantitative easing policy, because that would be an act of fiscal policy - and an irresponsible one, at that.
Though it might be tempting to write off this young group as one-dimensional, it is worth noting that they also include on their album songs like "In the Name of Jesus Christ" and "Someone Like Daniel" that grapple with religion.
They made the extra effort to pick out one just for me, physically write on it and send it off.
First, Westinghouse's financial crisis had generated a large potential tax write-off, which it could set against profits in future years.
It cannot readily write off debts as most of them are domestic and a large proportion owed by state entities of one sort or another.
However, it would be madness to write off Denman, who himself beat another Gold Cup rival Albertas Run out of sight that day, and it would be no surprise at all to see him bounce back.
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These include a partial redundancy of its IT system and a write-off of development costs on its traditional build centres.
Premature though it may be to write Apple off again, the irascible Mr Jobs may have to find some new tricks.
We can glimpse humanity in it or we can write him off as just another character in the reality TV show of our times.
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The point of nationalisation would be that it would make shareholders write off the losses against their own capital, and allow the state to take equity in exchange for a public rescue.
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Obama said it was prudent for Chrysler to prepare a bankruptcy contingency plan, but since major banks have agreed to write off a majority of their debt, it's not clear the automaker will have to use it.
But IDC's figures suggested that it would be unwise to write off the tablet format just yet.
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