It can be business reversals, family circumstances, even a change of heart.

Following business reversals, White moved briefly to Brooklyn in 1847.

He was raised in an educated middle-class family which fell into poverty as a result of business reversals and the death of Worcester's father.

AT&T ranked first in 1981, before repeated breakups, not to mention business reversals, left it a shadow of its former self.

Although Monsanto had some business reversals, employment in the region's chemical industry stood at 19,800 in November, up 700 from a year earlier.

In the late 1980's, he said, he suffered business reversals and went into a deep depression, seeking help and beginning treatment with the drug Prozac.

But, he said, the TW case was viewed as being equivalent to a company suffering a business reversal.

All are vowing to get to the bottom of one of the most precipitous business reversals in history.

Ward returned to her career in 1905, after her husband suffered business reversals that left him, a news account reported, "practically penniless".

After yet another business reversal, he comes home with his childish wife, Lily.