Consequently we are ascending steadily, just as Smear once recommended.

I recommended once and, quite rightly I am not allowed to recommend again, so here it is.

Most experts recommend once a week because it takes this long for any real loss to show.

And an analyst who once recommended selling at $137 is among those predicting that it will rise to $600 within a year.

He once recommended two or three cigarettes a day as an aid to clarity of thought and memory.

Ms. Chamberlain once recommended buying some of them, but she no longer does.

"My neighbor is a nurse, and her doctor never once recommended the vaccination," she said.

So what lessons have those who once recommended the customs union learned from the failure of their strategy?

Health officials once recommended smallpox vaccination every three years for travelers to infected areas.