The four above-named groups that now comprise 60% of eligible American voters, comprised only 54% of it in 2004 and just 39% in 1980.

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There is irony in the fact that one of America's leading conservation groups is named after him.

ECONOMIST: John James Audubon

One more example of how congressional Republicans have lost their political moorings--look at their spending record and their inability, so far, to extend or make permanent the prosperity-producing tax cuts of 2003--was the recent vote by the House of Representatives to severely restrict so-called 527 groups (so named for the section of the tax code under which they are incorporated).

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Indeed, legislation designed to force disclosure on those groups, known as 527 committees, named for a section of the federal tax code, recently was approved by the House and Senate.

CNN: latimes.com: Talking baseball and politics with George W. Bush

Under the bipartisan act, interest groups were banned from airing adverts that named a candidate for office in the 60 days before a general election and 30 days before a primary election.

BBC: NEWS | Americas | Court eases TV ad election curbs

Decades before the 1929 stock market crash and Great Depression, a Baptist minister named Russell Conwell began to deliver a lecture to groups of impoverished and dejected individuals around Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and ultimately, the entire country.

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According to InSight Crime, a Colombia- and U.S.-based research and investigation outfit that monitors criminal groups, the Oficina de Envigado, named after a small city in the Medellin metropolitan area, are the inheritors of Escobar's drug trafficking empire.

CNN: Colombia captures leader of violent drug cartel

Merck says that, as of October 31st, the company had been named as a defendant in 375 Vioxx lawsuits, involving about 100 groups of plaintiffs.

ECONOMIST: Big trouble for Merck

The Journal's Kim Strassel reported an Idaho businessman named Frank VanderSloot, who'd donated more than a million dollars to groups supporting Mitt Romney.

WSJ: This Is No Ordinary Scandal

Graph Search (which I suspect was named by the engineers and nobody thought to change it) allows clear language search terms to be made to find groups of people.

FORBES: Graph Search Can Do To Google What Google Did To Alta Vista