The bank suffered heavy blows to its fixed-income business, causing it to write off $3.55 billion from deteriorating securities prices, leveraged loans and bad trading bets.
This, together with his gargantuan output - he was working right up to his Aids-related death, aged 31, in 1990 - led to an overexposure that has caused some to write off his work as at best mere graphics, at worst tacky doodles.
That caused analysts to write off the company, which was left with an assortment of slow-growth businesses and dismal prospects.
Driving was also an ability Amis identified where Bond was good, but others were better; one of those who is a better driver than Bond is Sir Hugo Drax, who causes Bond to write off his battleship-grey supercharged Bentley 4½ Litre.
And when a stock price does not recover, the deals can ultimately cause boards to write off millions of dollars of bad loans to keep executives out of bankruptcy.
Though initially the absence of specific demands caused many to write off this movement, the vagueness of their goals has actually helped the protesters.
That one didn't last, causing theater doomsayers to write off Mr. Herman as an artifact of the old-fangled hummable feel-good genre of musical comedy.
Fox's presence is the prime reason for the increase in rights fees -- fees that would eventually cause the network to write off $909 million from the value of its Nascar, Major League Baseball and N.F.L. deals.
In that way, the companies would escape the annual hits to earnings caused by writing off good will over the years.
"Never write off an Australian side.
Iain Duncan Smith's fall from grace, because of a botched IT system which has already caused £140m to be written off, is properly a cause of both frustration and comedy – like Al Capone being arrested for tax evasion.
