51.   Its lifeline is the Gold Card, expense-account crowd, who can write off those business expenses on their employers, or their taxes.

52.   Just about everything I do is a business expense.

53.   Keating recorded the trip as a business expense.

54.   Many countries, including Germany and France, even allowed their deduction as business expenses.

55.   Mississippi sheriffs would receive a special new tax deduction for their business expenses.

56.   More frequently, the tactics were akin to illegally claiming a tax deduction by misrepresenting a family vacation as a business expense.

57.   Most of their international rivals are not only permitted to bribe foreign officials but can also deduct these pay-offs from their taxes as a business expense.

58.   Money spent on benefits is a deductible business expense, though premiums paid on the policies are not.

59.   Moreover, the companies write them off their federal taxes as a business expense.

60.   Ordinarily, such a cost would have to be recognized as an ordinary business expense in the year in which it was paid.