The SelectaVision videodisc system, not to be confused with the same trademark that RCA applied to its VCRs, never developed the manufacturing volumes to substantially bring down its price, could not compete against cheaper, recordable videotape technology, and was abandoned in 1985 for a write-off of several hundred million dollars.

This was largest asset write-off in UK corporate history.

The depreciation write-off permitted for tax purposes may also diverge from so-called " economic depreciation " or " real " depreciation rates.

Publicly humiliated, Sony suffered an enormous loss on its investment in Columbia, taking a $ 2. 7 billion write-off in 1994.

Slightly inebriated from the office party, Johnny confronts Mrs. Carlson at her home, at which point she admits to Johnny that WKRP was meant to be a liability to her business empire for tax write-off purposes ; the surprise format change was meant to undo the station's unexpected affluence.

The provision allowing accelerated write-off of oil sands investments will be phased out gradually, so projects that had relied on them can proceed.

Lu faces charges of embezzlement and of using false receipts to write-off expenses totalling over US $ 165, 000 from a special governmental account.

The bank had to write-off more than $ 19 billion ; 10 billion euros ($ 12. 7 billion ) of them in the restructuring of the debt.

While this made G-ARPT a complete write-off, the aircraft next to it was subsequently repaired and re-entered service.

Yu faces charges of embezzlement and of using false receipts to write-off expenses totaling over US $ 70, 000 from a special governmental account.

Docomo had invested very large multi-billion dollar amounts in KPN, KT Freetel, AT & T Wireless, and had to write-off or sell all these investments in foreign carriers.

The second method is the direct write-off method.

Serafini managed to land at Assab, but his aircraft was a write-off.

Left bankrupt when her accountant embezzles all of her money, she is forced to make a living by running the detective agency she had previously owned as a tax write-off.

Charity shops may receive overstock or obsolete goods from local for-profit businesses ; the for-profit businesses benefit by taking a tax write-off and clearing unwanted goods from their store instead of throwing the goods out, which is costly.

Rumors circulated that the band had been signed to facilitate a tax write-off for the label, although this was never proven.

Canadian Chief of the Defence Staff General Rick Hillier denied reports that a Leopard II tank that was struck by an IED was a write-off, insisting that the tank has been repaired and is once again in use.

The Cessna was declared a write-off by Rivers ' insurance.

Still, the first season turned out to be a complete write-off: he appeared in only three league matches with a notable shining moment-scoring a free-kick goal versus FC Barcelona in El Clásico on 19 October 1991.

National republican strategists had also begun to write-off Tydings ’ seat as unwinnable for the 1970 election, due to his wealth and popularity in the dense, urban areas of Montgomery County and Baltimore.

" He said Shaik stood to benefit most from the write-off.

Auditing clerk Anthony Reed said he was instructed by Ahmed Paruk to effect the write-off.

The write-off would only occur if and when ABN-AMRO would cease to be an independent bank ( on the integration of the retail activities of ABN-AMRO into Fortis ), but Fortis would then be in danger of no longer meeting the standards for capital required of banks.

Roseman contacted Sotheby's, who appraised the work, then was able to find a non-profit group to take possession of the mural enabling him to use the moving costs as a tax write-off for Roth.

However the plane was declared a write-off by the company two weeks later, due to the saltwater damage on the fuselage.

Not much in terms of real quality was expected by AIP heads Samuel Z. Arkoff and James H. Nicholson, and the movie was intended to be nothing more than a tax write-off.

A major worry was the upcoming future write-off on ABN-AMRO: the price paid included a huge amount for intangibles that could not be put on the balance sheet.

The car ended up on its roof on the hard shoulder of the motorway, and was a write-off.

The car ( which was only 4 races old ) was declared a write-off and Lowndes was fortunate to only suffer a knee injury.

The Canberra, VN799, was acquired in 1953 but was a write-off following a crash landing in August that year due to a double engine failure, fortunately without serious injury to the crew.

All nineteen coaches of the Indian Pacific received varying degrees of damage, from minor internal damage to the write-off of luggage / smoking car HM311 ; some abandoned wrecked carriages are still at the site.

If anyone asked us, after we made the remark that the suffering was a bad thing, whether we should think it relevant to what we said to learn that the incident had never occurred and no pain had been suffered at all, we should say that it made all the difference in the world, that what we were asserting to be bad was precisely the suffering we thought had occurred back there, that if this had not occurred, there was nothing left to be bad, and that our assertion was in that case mistaken.

The suggestion that in saying something evil had occurred we were after all making no mistake, because we had never meant anyhow to say anything about the past suffering, seems to me merely frivolous.

For English, this is partly because the Great Vowel Shift occurred after the orthography was established, and because English has acquired a large number of loanwords at different times, retaining their original spelling at varying levels.

While Poirot's actual death and funeral occurred in " Curtain ", years after his retirement from active investigation, it was not the first time Hastings attended the funeral of his best friend.

The last known deportation of Ainu to Japan occurred in 1982, when Keizo Nakamura, a full blooded Northern Kurils Ainu was deported to Hokkaido after serving 15 years hard labor in the province of Magadan.

According to Velleius Paterculus the foundation of Rome occurred 437 years after the capture of Troy by the Achaeans ( 1182 BC ).

: When, after the action had thus occurred, his own men returned to each general, Scipio could adopt no fixed plan of proceeding, except that he should form his measures from the plans and undertakings of the enemy: and Hannibal, uncertain whether he should pursue the march he had commenced into Italy, or fight with the Roman army which had first presented itself, the arrival of ambassadors from the Boii, and of a petty prince called Magalus, diverted from an immediate engagement ; who, declaring that they would be the guides of his journey and the companions of his dangers, gave it as their opinion, that Italy ought to be attacked with the entire force of the war, his strength having been nowhere previously impaired.

Isaiah's first significant acts as a prophet occurred when Judah, under king Ahaz, faced invasion from Israel and Aram Damascus ( Syria ) after refusing to join them in a revolt against Assyria, the dominant imperial power of the age.

This song was recorded just one day after the disaster occurred.

This theory therefore utilises Herodotus ' suggestion that after Marathon, the Persian army re-embarked and tried to sail around Cape Sounion to attack Athens directly ; however, according to the first theory this attempt would have occurred before the battle ( and indeed have triggered the battle ).

The Maritz Rebellion or the Boer Revolt or the Five Shilling Rebellion or the Third Boer War, occurred in South Africa in 1914 at the start of World War I, in which men who supported the re-creation of the old Boer republics rose up against the government of the Union of South Africa because they did not want to side with the British against Germany so soon after they had had a long bloody war with the British.

The Battles occurred in Egypt in and around an area named after a railway stop called El Alamein at.

In 1988, five Mexican fishermen became lost at sea after a storm that occurred during their trip along the coast of Costa Rica.

Forty-seven years after the initial freeze, Costa Rican President Óscar Arias Sánchez announced on 18 March 2009 that normal relations were to be re-established, saying, " If we have been able to turn the page with regimes as profoundly different to our reality as occurred with the USSR or, more recently, with the Republic of China, how would we not do it with a country that is geographically and culturally much nearer to Costa Rica?

The only execution in Israeli history occurred in 1961, when Adolf Eichmann, one of the principal organizers of the Holocaust, was put to death after his trial in Jerusalem.

The port at Ostia was part of Claudius ' solution to the constant grain shortages that occurred in winter, after the Roman shipping season.

A game which modern audiences would more readily recognize as American football occurred six years after the first ever game and occurred between Harvard University and Tufts University on June 4, 1875.

Abusive incidents occurred following a drunk American General making comments about Chiang's regime, and a low point in Sino-American relations followed the rape of a Chinese university student by American marines shortly after World War II.

Depending on the penalty, the penalty yardage may be assessed from the original line of scrimmage, the spot the violation occurred ( for example, for a pass interference infraction ), or the place the ball ended after the play.

The first clash occurred in 1996 after a nearly two-months stand-off.

The addition of HIV positivity to surveillance criteria as an absolutely necessary condition for case reporting occurred only in 1993, after a scientific consensus was established that HIV caused AIDS.

Opposition from local seamen and merchants saw the route diverted to Kingswear on the opposite side of the river, but this occurred after the station had been built at Dartmouth.