Debt gets marked down, defaulted on and written off.

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We've been written off all the way through (the competition) and I'm sure we'll be written off in the final, but we'll push on and hopefully create even more history for Fulham.

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And it may put pharma executives on notice that certain practices can no longer be written off as business-as-usual settlements and are more costly than once thought.

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As Americans stay unemployed for long stretches, they fall behind on card payments, get written off and have no access to new credit.

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