That was looking less likely today, after the BSkyB announcement about writing off its Kirch investment.
RFF's books, in effect writing off the infrastructure investment of building the high-speed network.
Bottom line: I would think twice before writing off an entire department of higher education.
And all businesses will be able to continue writing off the investments they make in 2012.
Writing off either of these giants, even after their slow start, would be daft.
And they retained the Kentucky governorship easily, with the GOP virtually writing off the contest.
Some, such as writing off debts to heavily indebted countries, are fairly congenial to the Treasury.
However. given the Stormont parties' propensity for locking horns, I'm not writing off the potential for deadlock.
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Banks up and down Wall Street were writing off billions worth of mortgage exposures in late 2007.
This would be a writing off of more bad debts, not the collapse of the financial system.
The merged bank will somehow have to combine the two lists of clients, writing off the worst.
Natural-resource companies, particularly in mining, have recently been writing off billions in poor investments made during the boom.
Back on the home front, some critics are already writing off Wal-Mart's foray into upscale goods as a failure.
They argue that they have already made a concession by writing off Iraqi debt, a move they originally resisted.
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Wags are already writing off the 2002 games as another Atlanta, where corporate dollars will overshadow the Olympic spirit.
But before writing off the Z10, these loyalists should try its on-screen keyboard.
If you can't get receipts from the previous owner, take pictures to document the high-end appliances or fancy shrubs you're writing off.
Many weak, indebted borrowers would be driven out of business should the banks start writing off bad debts and cutting credit lines.
Officials argue therefore that while Monday was a blow and a reversion to national foreign policies, writing off Europe's foreign-policy influence is premature.
To be sure, no one is writing off China's retail sector, with retail sales still growing at 12.8% year over year in April.
During that time the company strove to earn from normal operations profits that would allow writing off of the losses in the future.
Banks have made slow progress in writing off bad loans, and companies have been equally slow to sell off assets and reduce debts.
The auditors said that guidelines were often violated while writing off loans and accused bank officials of siphoning off funds meant for the scheme.
Though Indian banks have been trying hard to improve the quality of earnings, they are still writing off bad loans made in the 1980s.
Writing off the differences is sometimes the wisest course of action.
Calder succeeds chairman Keith Cousins, who took over in 2006 from a supporters' trust and has now quit the club, reportedly writing off his loans.
Going into 1986, there were tax shelter abuses, mostly from the use of non-recourse debt, and investors writing off much more than their cost basis.
They must wait 30 days to repurchase the stock, however, if they want the flexibility of writing off a potential loss on the new position.
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Although everyone seems to be writing off our chances of retaining the Ashes, I think we have proved we can play the cricket to beat Australia.
No one is writing off South Korea, but there is still a long way to go before its corporations wind up as role models in business-school case studies.
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