Soon they were trying to pay us in advance to get our records.
Every once in a while I'd go, 'Whoa!' The scholars were trying to pay no attention to me".
Does it seem unfair that you got caught while you were trying to pay the money back, not while the crime was actually being committed?
The justice secretary, Ken Clarke, has said journalists "are entitled to bribe" in extreme cases as he revealed he once had to move his bank account because journalists were trying to pay staff for information about his finances.
Kelly Skinner, 29, of Dothan, Ala., said she and her husband, who has just completed his residency as a doctor, were trying to pay off credit-card debt and putting off "life-changing decisions," uncertain what the economy would look like six months from now.
Robert and Shirley McCall of Paris, Ill., were trying to pay off $7,720 in medical bills when they took out a new $22,000 mortgage on their house, but in failing to keep up with the larger mortgage payments, they were warned by their lender in August that they were nearing foreclosure.
