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

62.   Cirrus surprised investors by restating fiscal third-quarter results, posting a loss after a charge to write off excess inventory.

63.   Commission member Abigail Thernstrom, a Republican, and an ardent foe of affirmative action, dutifully wrote off the complaints as isolated incidents.

64.   Computers and automobiles, though, can be written off over five years.

65.   Concern banks will sell some of the bonds they hold to raise the money they need to write off bad loans also hurt bonds, traders and investors said.

66.   Crescenzi pointed out that the decline in the Japanese stock market had meant that Japanese banks could not draw on that capital to write off loans.

67.   Cone has shown nothing, but I wrote him off early last year, too, and look how he bounced back.

68.   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.

69.   Despite the absence of a hot product, no one is writing off the holiday toy season.

70.   Despite moves to finally write off the soured loans, a tumbling stock market makes it more difficult for companies to do so.