But last summer, it wrote off virtually all of it, essentially conceding it was worthless.
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In the 1970s many people wrote off the precursor to the World Trade Organisation.
Morgan Chase wrote off 8.95% of card loans, down from 9.03%, during the same period.
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In the second quarter, it wrote off about 13.4% of the loans, down from 13.6% a year earlier.
Companies like General Electric and Pepco Holdings wrote off their entire tax burdens and earned future offsets.
And as the economy changed, a lot of people wrote off Cleveland as a shell of its former self.
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The balance, says Kamgar with a wave of his hand, he wrote off.
The former England manager also then wrote off the money he was owed for his time at Meadow Lane.
It wrote off 265m euros to reflect lower growth predictions for the brand.
But that moment has stuck in my mind because the fund manager wrote off fixing research so completely and totally.
It was only a few months ago that Greece was granted a second bail-out that wrote off half its debt.
The big banks that wrote off huge losses on their housing-backed bonds in 2007 will be acting real stingy in 2008.
The effort was routinely praised by way of contrast to Iraq, which many wrote off as a failure until the surge proved them wrong.
She represented real-estate executive Charles Kushner's brother-in-law, Richard Stadtmauer, on charges that he wrote off millions of dollars in donations from the company's taxes.
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Payton wrote off the speculation, saying he will visit Parcells on Tuesday or Wednesday, but that he is a "mentor" and the two speak regularly.
Discover wrote off an annualized 7.97% of its card balances in its fiscal second quarter ended May 31, lower than the 8.51% rate in the first quarter.
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As most banks already wrote off bad debt during 2008 and 2009, the decline in credit cards in use is unlikely to have come from card cancellations.
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He wrote off extravagance as detrimental to body and mind, sounding like no one so much as Mark Twain, resisting the siren call of Europe many centuries later.
The net amount that many European banks wrote off was surprisingly low mostly the equity they had invested plus loans the parent company had made to the Argentine subsidiary.
Schorn for 4 million shares. (Schorn's brother, Terence, is president of War Eagle Mining.) CanWest sold the Alberta prospect in October for "nominal cash proceeds" and wrote off the investment.
UniCredit's fourth-quarter net profit fell 65% but beat analysts' expectations, as the bank kept a grip on costs, wrote off fewer loan losses and recorded stable income in its main business.
Her campaign wrote off smaller, outlier states, such as Kansas, Idaho, Nebraska, Wyoming, where Mr Obama plugged away to add to the delegate tally he amassed in places like Illinois, Virginia and Wisconsin.
Our correspondent says the main example is banking giant UBS, which wrote off billions in the wake of the 2007 sub-prime mortgage crisis, and then had to be bailed out by the Swiss government.
Since this was a classified mission for the Department of Defense (you know, to handle super secret military stuff), the shuttle's crew was forced to encrypt the images of the damaged tiles it sent back to NASA, which lowered the resolution of the images enough that the ground crew wrote off the damage as a trick of the light.
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According to the Bank of England's analysis, if every single one of those countries went bust and wrote off 50% of their sovereign debt, banking debt and non-bank private-sector debt, that would wipe out around half the capital in the UK banking system - which is another way of saying that, in theory, the majority of our banks would limp on.
But the pollsters and pundits overlooked just one thing when they wrote him off.
"Everyone wrote us off and that is the greatest motivation - it was a fantastic performance, " he added.
They wrote us off but we came back and did what we had to do and we made history.
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