71.   Domestic investors continued to sell to raise money to help them inflate their earnings and write off bad debt in the fiscal year ending in March.

72.   DuPont said it will take an unspecified charge in the fourth quarter to write off current research and development at the unit being acquired.

73.   DuPont said it will take an unspecified charge in the fourth quarter to write off current research and development at the Ralston unit.

74.   Earlier this year British Airways wrote off half of its investment in USAir, which has run up huge losses in recent years and is struggling to survive.

75.   Every time they are written off, they start winning in bunches.

76.   Especially after everyone was ready to write him off five years ago.

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

78.   Finance Minister Hiroshi Mitsuzuka told reporters this morning that the Bank of Japan would help Nippon Credit Bank write off its problems loans.

79.   Finance Minister Hiroshi Mitsuzuka told reporters this morning the Bank of Japan would help Nippon Credit Bank write off its problems loans.

80.   First, authorities could continue to allow banks time to accumulate adequate reserves to write off bad loans.