Only when the loss is crystallised as unrecoverable is the money finally written off.
But they have not closed out the positions and they have not crystallised these losses.
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The quarrel has crystallised differences between South Korea's conservatives and liberals and divided the country.
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The departure of BankAmerica's headquarters has crystallised San Francisco's fears about what sort of place it is becoming.
Most thought it incompetent, and said the carbon tax had crystallised broader fears.
This has been crystallised in what has happened to Italian and Spanish bond yields in the past 10 days.
But I am still certain that the distinction between a mark to market loss and a crystallised loss from a closed position needs to be made.
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Both the basic sides in Lebanon were supporting what they called the "S-S" (Saudi-Syrian) initiative, which had reportedly been crystallised into a concrete though highly secret accord.
But it wasn't until July last year, when anger at price cuts crystallised in a passionate meeting at the Staffordshire County Showground, that the NFU And FFA combo really took off.
The issue was crystallised when The Times took up a campaigning stance through journalists like Kaya Burgess and Phillip Pank after one of their colleagues was knocked off a bike by an HGV.
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The faith's official theology, after wrestling with the different senses in which Christ was human and divine, had crystallised with the pronouncement in the early fifth century that Mary was Theotokos, the Mother of God: the person whose body was the miraculous locus of a unique cosmic event, the coming together of the Creator and the created, physical world.
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