Consumers Union once advocated changing the vehicles, but it now argues only that the propensity to roll over can be measured, on a tilt table or in road tests.

He once advocated televised executions and the use of an "electric sofa" to execute more than one criminal at a time.

(He did once advocate the "complete elimination of the public and social aspects of musical composition.")

This is a reversal for Mr. Reich, who once advocated industrial policy.

By the 1930's, the city that once advocated advanced social and artistic ideas seemed hopelessly stagnant to the avant-garde.

For doctors who performed late-term abortions, he once advocated death by suction of the brain.

He once advocated against a proposal to study the feasibility of a bridge or tunnel to the Toronto Islands, speaking on the joys of ferry travel.

Jean Cocteau once advocated a kind of art he termed a "rehabilitation of the commonplace."

Despite once advocating a ban, President Clinton bowed to pressure from Pentagon commanders opposed to the treaty's restrictions.

At the old Clark farmhouse, where Freemen theorists once advocated the supremacy of white males, a new kind of pecking order is incubating.