He went home, wrote some more songs, as usual, and was wrapping up a new album when he found a lump in his throat, literally.
Then it was business more or less as usual.
Franz Fischler, the farm commissioner, and Sir Leon Brittan, the commissioner for trade, have also been giving the impression of business more or less as usual.
The duration of observations was limited to 1 week per case, which means the health care team could have behaved more 'desirably' than as usual.
"This approach is a recipe for more business as usual, more obesity and more diabetes," trumpeted Dr Swinburn and 14 other leading academics in the Lancet, a British medical journal.
The authors say that, as usual, more research is necessary.
"The main point is that, as usual, more research is needed".
The anti-war movement, as usual, has more well known groups trying to take the credit.
Medleys were the rule, squeezing in more songs per minute, and as usual the Grammys featured generation-crossing duets.
"It was no more status quo, no more politics as usual, it was all about change.
