1.   Escalating personal debts have driven many people to despair.

2.   I want to acknowledge a personal debt to him.

3.   International debt relief is at last getting serious attention, but personal debt continues to be a festering problem.

4.   Those who fall deeply into personal debt become vulnerable to unflattering press reports.

5.   Americans also are starting to realize they must reduce personal debt.

6.   An advocate of fiscal austerity, he spent his way deeply into personal debt.

7.   Analysts link weak spending growth to the rapid rise in personal debt.

8.   Analysts linked the weak growth to a rapid rise in personal debt, a signal the economy is likely to expand little in the months ahead.

9.   At the time, Hubbell was becoming a focus of a criminal investigation and facing enormous personal debts.