81.   For example, many companies now take large charges when they make acquisitions, to write off the value of acquired research and development work.

82.   Fields dismissed suggestions that some Sun Devils have written off the season.

83.   Four years ago President Clinton wrote off Texas, conceding the state to then-President George Bush, who claimed Texas as his home state.

84.   For years, the banks have sold large chunks of their stock holdings and used the profits to write off bad loans.

85.   Fuji Bank Ltd. and Asahi Bank Ltd. have said they are cutting assets as they try and write off trillions of yen in debt they hold.

86.   Fukutoku Bank reported net losses during two of the past three years to write off bad loans.

87.   Government bonds fell on indications that the government will use public funds to help Japanese banks write off mountains of bad loans.

88.   He also pushed to allow businesses to immediately write off some investment as expenses, as well as elimination of the alternative minimum tax for corporations.

89.   He also rejected writing off Congo as a failed nation.

90.   He calls for streamlining industry, writing off bad bank loans and scaling back government borrowing.