This can include activities by private companies or groups.

Their play list includes rock standards as well as songs by current groups like Darkness and Outkast.

The day's events included impromptu news conferences in the Council chamber by groups lobbying against Mr. Lisa.

(The number does not include state or local races or presidential spots by independent groups.)

Hostage-taking in Iraq has included attacks by groups with clear political aims, especially those trying to force American allies into withdrawing troops.

Mrs. Clinton has rightly insisted that any ban on soft money also include a ban on expenditures by outside groups.

These totals reflect the campaign accounts of the candidates themselves, and do not include independent expenditures by other groups.

Other provisions included limits on contributions to campaigns and expenditures by campaigns, individuals, corporations and other political groups.

The rapid expansion of urban agriculture in the early 1990s included the colonization of vacant land both by community and commercial groups.

But these days, that is taken to include "indirect elections," such as the selection of legislators by local professional groups.