The company also disclosed that it would write off $15 billion to $20 billion of good will from previous acquisitions.

"We now risk the possibility of writing off an entire generation of black men from leading productive lives."

Small firms that go it alone shouldn't be allowed to write off insurance premiums from taxes.

Businesses can write off against ordinary income losses from financial hedges, the Tax Court ruled.

And the employer can write off the cost, often thousands of dollars, from the company's taxable income.

And don't write me off as one of those "married for life" women from middle America.

"But I think others know it's been a rather ugly year, with these national media just writing us off from day one."

Amazon.com wrote off millions of dollars from toys it could not sell.

The images sealed her decision to run for the Senate in a campaign most prognosticators wrote off from the beginning.

And of Bill Clinton, she says: "I wrote him off from the start.