31.   Banks wrote off hundreds of millions of dollars in bad real estate.

32.   Banks are also seen dragging their feet, not taking painful measures to write off nonperforming loans.

33.   Banks are re-evaluating their customers, writing off loans, calling in others or demanding partial repayment.

34.   Before you write off Arizona against the Bruins, consider this.

35.   Besides, not enough is known about La Nina to entirely write off the winter.

36.   Bradley said that if Bush does run and wins the GOP nomination, Democrats should not write off Texas.

37.   Brazilians may not want to admit it in the flush of victory, but most of them had also written off their team before play began a month ago.

38.   A chunk of those debts were written off last year and more would be written off this year and next.

39.   A Japanese government plan to boost land sales may fail in its goal to help banks write off trillions of yen in bad loans, analysts said.

40.   A number of banks are using these profits to write off bad debts.