11.   But not all companies write mission statements as a gospel for employees.

12.   Can great big software companies write truly great computer programs?

13.   Changes in the accounting rules now require movie companies to write off advertising expenses faster.

14.   Declines in stocks could prompt the Bank of Japan to reiterate its pledge to keep interest rates low to help banks and real estate companies write off bad loans.

15.   Essentially the company has written off all dollar costs for the year, said Georg Stuerzer, analyst with Bayerische Vereinsbank in Munich.

16.   However, Polaroid also notes that a company can write by-laws so that the Delaware law does not apply.

17.   However, several business editors who attended the speech objected to having to write companies to get the footnote disclosures.

18.   If a fund is closed, investors will be allowed to switch money into another Fidelity product without incurring an extra charge, the company wrote.

19.   In most cases, it requires companies to write a letter informing the Labor Department that deferred compensation is being offered.

20.   Investors, analysts said, had feared the company would write down assets and take a charge that would reduce its earnings and book value.