We will have to front up and take a write-down.

Another $550 billion in write-downs is expected over the next two years.

What would a further Q3 write-down be based upon, market or model?

Yet he expected a write-down of about half that size.

Despite the write-downs, the bank said it expected to stay on its course.

Further write-downs by the major financial institutions seemed all but certain.

That would be on top of the more than $135 billion in write-downs they have already taken.

Critics of the write-downs may still be on to something, however.

The bank said on Sunday that it will increase write-downs by a further $8 billion-11 billion.

Those three companies have in the last four weeks announced about $24 billion of write-downs.

Financial services firms have already taken nearly $190 billion in write-downs since the middle of 2007.

The write-downs bring Merrill’s total in the last three quarters to more than $30 billion.

Still to come are more write-downs of loans on the banks’ books.

The company was forced to write-down its entire $500 million investment.

Believe it or not, the write-downs are better than what was being discussed.

A big write-down in value would be disastrous for them.

Even bank write-downs can be spun in a good light.

The bank said write-downs were expected to remain within its estimates.

It is already clear that many more write-downs lie ahead.

This is likely to be the end of write-downs for these assets.

That property write-down takes the value of the estate down to £1.3 billion.

"I wouldn't be surprised if they had to take another write-down."

A year later, the company had to make a huge write­down after the failure of a domestic postal venture.

Shares have lost nearly 80 percent of their value this year and the bank has taken $7 billion in write-downs.

As a result, the bank may have to implement further credit write-downs.

After four or five minutes of thought he wrote down something more.

She wrote down the words and looked at the paper.

At the end of the day, they wrote down the total.

If you do change them, write down the old ones first.

Michael has asked him to write down the back story first.

I wrote down a figure and turned it to show her.

But the rest of the story had got to be written down.

I'd no idea such things were written down in books.

But I had to get the great system written down.

And all he did was write down the things I said.

I wrote down my home phone number and gave it to him.

I wrote down in the book, some of the places.

I knew I'd got kids written down here for a reason.

Then, write down all the points you need to cover.

They write down the results and report them to others.

A total of 193 problems were written down in the book.

He told the stories and they were written down for him.

So, right after we got killed again, I wrote down some names.

But I wrote down only $1,400 on my claim form.

"I began taking notes and writing down every word people said."

I do know that the knowledge should never have been written down.

Did he never show it you, written down in a little book?

Maybe if he had another month and a lot of paper to write down his working.

"I never knew anyone who said anything worth writing down."

She told many stories to me, and often I asked her why they must be written down.