The study also examined city records in Philadelphia and found that nearly 3 percent of its population had endured bouts of homelessness in the same period.

Some students had nervous breakdowns; some endured bouts of drunkenness and drug abuse; some got divorced.

Maruman endures frequent bouts of madness, and even at his most sane he is prone to making cryptic predictions about Elspeth's fate.

Maybe it was true one week ago, before both teams endured bouts with suspect baseball.

The teaching assistant said she had endured bouts of depression, but she maintained that these had nothing to do with what transpired in the class.

She suffered a depression that put her in a psychiatric hospital and in subsequent years endured bouts with alcoholism, two divorces and two suicide attempts.

Frost endured bouts of tremors at that point-a side effect he'd been warned against should he be aroused from the myx-induced coma too soon.

The system (which has inputs for video games and camcorders) may delight sojourning parents who would otherwise endure long bouts of familial closeness with their children.

Only one Kurdish man was not afraid to be named: Abdurrahim Guler, 37, who has endured repeated bouts of torture and death threats.

Petra, the mother, abandoned by her husband and raising five children alone, has endured bouts of insanity and self-mutilation.