But the reality is that without the support of big record labels, it can be very challenging for music groups to get their music out into the market.

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It could take five years to reach the miscellaneous category and then another few years to get into one of the club's seven groups most likely as a "sporting dog, " a variety that includes cocker spaniels and golden retrievers.

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"We will free up 50 officers from those four groups and essentially they will get translated into investigators or detectives that will operate at a higher level, " said Mr Finnigan.

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But if those who want a little sun to shine into the crannies of these secretive groups could get around Trent Lott, the Senate majority leader who opposed the provision, they couldn't maneuver around Tom DeLay, the House Republican whip who has close ties to three such outfits.

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That's the theory of the poet who takes groups of men into the woods to bang drums and helps us get in touch with our proud, warlike selves.

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But my amusement comes from the way on which, as always happens, when we open a discussion, have an inquiry into, about how such and such an area of life should be regulated we get the same groups leaping in with the same old arguments.

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