1.   A dishonest clerk may imprint an extra charge slip for personal use or to sell to other thieves.

2.   A former debt collector for Swiss banks has said he saw charge slips bearing the Yeltsin signatures, but did not estimate the value of the purchases.

3.   If the consumer simply signs a charge slip, the merchant pays the higher credit card fee.

4.   They simply hand their cards to the merchant, who will make an imprint and have the customer sign the charge slip.

5.   This optimism prompted consumers to sign charge slips for expensive gifts like home computers, electronics and jewelry, credit card company executives said.

6.   Pinson said dancers often placed the thumbs of drunken men on charge slips to show that the patrons had agreed to the charges.

7.   Another follower produced charge slips from a credit card she had loaned the monk that showed he had toured brothels in Australia and New Zealand.