21. We don't just write off a loan ." 22. Flood victims may be eligible to write off a portion of their losses on federal income-tax returns. 23. LOS ANGELES _ It is difficult to write off a season, especially a season that hasn't started. 24. "Banks will have to write off a lot of bad loans, just about to everybody, " he said. 25. Plans call for writing off a combined 300 billion yen ( $ 2.5 billion ) in bad loans. 26. Many were schooled during Tropical Storm Allison about the dangers of writing off a seemingly insignificant weather system. 27. That left $ 1 . 9 billion worth of inventories and related assets to write off as worthless. 28. Could General Motors write off a tax break if a ball bearing they made makes it into space? 29. Tristan and Elizabeth notice that Iris is nervous and smells different, which she writes off as Halloween stress. 30. This is being attacked pretty much from the standpoint of writing off a good part of their sovereign debt.