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[ { "title": "Teodolinda Barolini", "sents": [ "Teodolinda Barolini is the Lorenzo Da Ponte Professor of Italian at Columbia University, and has twice served as Chair of the Department of Italian (1992–2004 and 2011–2014).", "She has written on the poetry of Dante, Petrarch and Boccaccio.", "In 1998, she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for the study of Italian literature.", "From 1997 to 2003, she served as president of the Dante Society of America.", "She is the daughter of Antonio Barolini and Helen Barolini.", "In 2007, she won a Flaiano Prize in Italian Studies.", "Barolini was born December, 19, 1951 in Syracuse, NY.", "She is married to James J. Valentini, professor of Chemistry at Columbia and the sixteenth and current Dean of Columbia College." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] }, { "title": "Petrarch", "sents": [ "Francesco Petrarca (] ; July 20, 1304 – July 19, 1374), commonly anglicized as Petrarch ( ), was an Italian scholar and poet in Renaissance Italy, who was one of the earliest humanists.", "His rediscovery of Cicero's letters is often credited with initiating the 14th-century Renaissance.", "Petrarch is often considered the founder of Humanism.", "In the 16th century, Pietro Bembo created the model for the modern Italian language based on Petrarch's works, as well as those of Giovanni Boccaccio, and, to a lesser extent, Dante Alighieri.", "Petrarch would be later endorsed as a model for Italian style by the Accademia della Crusca." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "2015 Indian Open", "sents": [ "The 2015 Indian Open was a professional ranking snooker tournament that took place between 10–14 March 2015 at the Grand Hyatt in Mumbai, India.", "The tournament was originally scheduled for 13–17 October 2014, but was postponed until March due to the State Election in Maharashtra." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] }, { "title": "Mumbai", "sents": [ "Mumbai ( ; also known as Bombay, the official name until 1995) is the capital city of the Indian state of Maharashtra.", "It is the most populous city in India with an estimated city population of 18.4 million.", "Along with the neighbouring regions of the Mumbai Metropolitan Region, it is second most populous metropolitan area in India, with a population of 21.3 million as of 2016 .", "Mumbai lies on the Konkan on the west coast of India and has a deep natural harbour." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "Zdob și Zdub", "sents": [ "Zdob și Zdub (] ) is a Moldovan band, based in Chișinău.", "The name is onomatopoeic for the sound of a drum beat.", "In English the name is sometimes rendered \"Zdob shi Zdub\", and this is how their work is catalogued at iTunes and elsewhere.", "The band represented Moldova in the Eurovision Song Contest 2005 in Kiev, Ukraine, on 21 May 2005, finishing 6th.", "They also represented Moldova in the Eurovision Song Contest 2011 in Düsseldorf, Germany, on May 14, 2011, finishing 12th.", "The band is often referred to by its fans as \"ZSZ\"." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 4 ] }, { "title": "Düsseldorf", "sents": [ "Düsseldorf (] , Low Franconian, Ripuarian: \"Düsseldörp\" [ˈdʏsl̩dœɐ̯p] ) is the capital city of the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia and the seventh most populous city in Germany.", "Düsseldorf is an international business and financial centre, renowned for its fashion and trade fairs.", "The city is headquarters to one Fortune Global 500 and two DAX companies.", "Messe Düsseldorf organises nearly one fifth of premier trade shows." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e3794_p0", "sents": [ "\"I am very, very sad to report that Dave Engelbrecht, EvMBA '00, passed away on June 4. Dave had a heart attack two weeks ago and was in a coma until he passed away.", "Dave was a wonderful, fun, giving, and active person, who's commitment to charitable works was enormous.", "Dave was a Vice President at Schwab and the EvMBA Social Chair for two years while he was in the program.", "He will be sorely missed.", "For those of you who knew him, I have attached, below, an announcement that comes from Schwab.", "Regards, Diane It is with great sadness that we mourn the passing of Dave Engelbrecht, our colleague and friend.", "A memorial service will be held next Tuesday, June 12 at 4 PM at The First Unitarian Universalist Church at 1187 Franklin Street in San Francisco.", "A reception will follow the service from 5 to 7 PM at the St. Francis Yacht Club, On the Marina, San Francisco." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 5, 6 ] }, { "title": "San Francisco", "sents": [ "San Francisco (initials SF) ( , Spanish for Saint Francis; Spanish: ] ), officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the cultural, commercial, and financial center of Northern California.", "The consolidated city-county covers an area of about 47.9 sqmi at the north end of the San Francisco Peninsula in the San Francisco Bay Area.", "It is the fourth-most populous city in California, and the 13th-most populous in the United States, with a 2016 census-estimated population of 870,887.", "The population is projected to reach 1 million by 2033." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 2 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "Gray Davis", "sents": [ "Joseph Graham \"Gray\" Davis Jr. (born December 26, 1942) is a retired American politician and attorney who served as the 37th Governor of California from 1999 to 2003.", "A member of the Democratic Party, only a few months into his second term, in 2003 Davis was recalled and removed from office, the second state governor successfully recalled in U.S. history.", "Prior to serving as governor, Davis was chief of staff to Governor Jerry Brown (1975–81), a California State Assemblyman (1983–87), California State Controller (1987–95) and the 44th Lieutenant Governor of California (1995–99).", "Davis holds a B.A.", "in history from Stanford University and a J.D.", "from Columbia Law School.", "He was awarded a Bronze Star for his service as a Captain in the Vietnam War." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] }, { "title": "e1332_p103", "sents": [ "SoCal Gas has introduced two new rate structures, but the matter is still open for debate.", "Administrative law judge Carol Brown told the Times that the issue is a \"daunting project\" for her that will not receive priority unless regulators tell her to put it high on her list of cases.", "LOAD-DATE: April 17, 2001 35 of 66 DOCUMENTS Associated Press State & Local Wire The materials in the AP file were compiled by Associated Press.", "These materials may not be republished without the express written consent of Associated Press.", "April 16, 2001, Monday, BC cycle SECTION: State and Regional LENGTH: 681 words HEADLINE: Davis may have trouble selling power plan, senators say BYLINE: By DON THOMPSON, Associated Press Writer DATELINE: SACRAMENTO BODY: Gov.", "Gray Davis may have trouble persuading lawmakers to approve his plan to purchase Southern California Edison's transmission lines to help shoulder the utility's debt, legislators said Monday." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 2, 5 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "1985–86 Duke Blue Devils men's basketball team", "sents": [ "The 1985–86 Duke Blue Devils men's basketball team represented Duke University.", "The Head Coach was Mike Krzyzewski.", "The team played its home games in the Cameron Indoor Stadium in Durham, North Carolina, and was a member of the Atlantic Coast Conference." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] }, { "title": "Duke University", "sents": [ "Duke University is a private research university located in Durham, North Carolina.", "Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present-day town of Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1892.", "In 1924, tobacco and electric power industrialist James Buchanan Duke established The Duke Endowment, at which time the institution changed its name to honor his deceased father, Washington Duke." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e24909_p0", "sents": [ "State's Electric Bill Gets Lighter Energy: Davis and the PUC clash over why only a fraction of the 20% reduction will be passed on to consumers.", "By MIGUEL BUSTILLO Times Staff Writer October 20 2001 SACRAMENTO -- California now expects its electricity bill to be 20% less than estimated as recently as two months ago, opening the door for utility rate reductions or a smaller energy bond sale, the Davis administration said Friday.", "Even so, the amount of savings passed on to consumers is likely to be closer to 5%, the administration added.", "The discrepancy and its explanation are an extension of the ongoing political squabble between Gov.", "Gray Davis and Public Utilities Commission President Loretta Lynch.", "Administration officials said residential customers won't see much relief because recent actions by the PUC have negated most of the gains from lower power prices and greater conservation.", "Specifically, officials said, the PUC erred in giving business customers too much time to opt out of the state's power-buying system, and in holding up a bond sale to repay expensive energy loans." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 3, 4 ] }, { "title": "Loretta Lynch", "sents": [ "Loretta Elizabeth Lynch (born May 21, 1959) is an American attorney who served as the 83rd Attorney General of the United States, appointed by President Barack Obama in 2015 to succeed Eric Holder.", "Previously, she held the position for United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York under both the Clinton (1999–2001) and Obama administrations (2010–15).", "As U.S. Attorney, Lynch oversaw federal prosecutions in Brooklyn, Queens, Staten Island and Long Island." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e19992_p36", "sents": [ "The assets will, of course, be transferred to MSEB.", "BA Asia, the facility agent of DPC, sought the permission of the lenders to serve the transfer notice early this week.", "This was put to vote yesterday where the State Bank of India, which has a substantial foreign currency exp osure in the 2,184-mw project, opposed the move.", "\"The majority of the foreign lenders voted in favour of the transfer notice The company may serve it over the next few days,\" said a source in the le nding community.", "Enron holds a 65 per cent stake in DPC, General Electric and Bechtel 10 per cent each and MSEB a 15 per cent stake.", "\"Armed with the lenders' consent, DPC will start the valuation process next month after serving the asset-transfer notice.", "When the lenders consented to serving the preliminary termination notice (PTN) in May, they had refuse d to give the go-ahead for the asset-transfer notice,\" sources said." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 4 ] }, { "title": "Bechtel", "sents": [ "Bechtel's business activities began in 1898 when cattle farmer Warren A. Bechtel moved from Peabody, Kansas, to the Oklahoma Territory to construct railroads with his own team of mules.", "Bechtel moved his family frequently between construction sites around the western United States for the next several years, eventually moving to Oakland, California in 1904, where he worked as the superintendent on the Western Pacific Railroad." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "Prue Leith", "sents": [ "Prudence Margaret \"Prue\" Leith, CBE, DL (born 18 February 1940) has been a restaurateur, caterer, television presenter/broadcaster, businesswoman, journalist, cookery writer and novelist.", "She was born in South Africa, but her working life has been spent mostly in London.", "She is Chancellor of Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh.", "In March 2017, she was confirmed as a judge for \"The Great British Bake Off\" after Mary Berry had left the show." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 2, 3 ] }, { "title": "The Great British Bake Off", "sents": [ "The Great British Bake Off, often referred to as Bake Off or GBBO, is a British television baking competition produced by Love Productions, in which a group of amateur bakers compete against each other in a series of rounds, attempting to impress a group of judges with their baking skills, with a contestant being eliminated in each round, with the winner being selected from the remaining contestants that make it to the finals.", "The show's first episode was aired on 17 August 2010, with its first four series broadcast on BBC Two, until its growing popularity led the BBC to move it to BBC One for the next three series.", "After its seventh series, Love Productions signed a three-year deal with Channel 4 to produce the show for the broadcaster.", "The programme is currently presented by Noel Fielding and Sandi Toksvig, with Paul Hollywood and Prue Leith on the judging panel." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "California Public Utilities Commission", "sents": [ "The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC or PUC) is a regulatory agency that regulates privately owned public utilities in the state of California, including electric power, telecommunications, natural gas and water companies.", "In addition, the CPUC regulates common carriers, including household goods movers, passenger transportation companies (like limousine services) and rail crossing safety.", "The CPUC's headquarters are located in the Civic Center district of San Francisco, and the agency has field offices in Los Angeles and Sacramento." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] }, { "title": "e3793_p88", "sents": [ "\"The applications will be reviewed, and a decision will likely be made in August,\" said PUC spokesman Armando Rendon.", "Enron chairman says company would deal on state settlement Houston Enron Corp. Chairman Kenneth Lay said the world's largest energy trader would accept less than 100 percent of the money it's owed for power sold to California if it could reach a settlement with the state.", "Lay, who spoke on PBS's \"Frontline\" television program, refused to say how much of a \"haircut\" the company would accept.", "In other news: California utilities would have to pay some alternative-energy producers 15 percent of back debts under a plan by state energy regulators to reduce the likelihood of power shortages.", "The proposal, which the California Public Utilities Commission plans to vot e on today, would permit payments to individual alternative-power generators that show they need the money to keep making electricity.", "House Republicans declared dead Wednesday a proposed bill to help electricity-starved California avoid summer power outages, after Democrats refused to drop demands for wholesale price caps opposed by President Georg e W. Bush." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "Southern California", "sents": [ "Southern California (colloquially known as SoCal) is a geographic and cultural region that generally comprises California's 10 southernmost counties.", "The region is traditionally described as eight counties, based on demographics and economic ties: Imperial, Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, San Diego, Santa Barbara, and Ventura.", "The more extensive 10-county definition, which includes Kern and San Luis Obispo counties, is also used and is based on historical political divisions." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] }, { "title": "e5399_p25", "sents": [ "\"So that clearly shows they're looking for ways around it.", "As soon as they export it, they bring it right back through a marketer, and then the marketer has a price that's not challengeable under the FERC order.\"", "FERC Chairman Curt Hebert disputed that, saying the agency can order marketers to justify their prices.", "Meanwhile, the continued across-the-board drop in California power prices is beginning to attract at least as much attention as the controversy over FERC's actions.", "According to analysts at Platts Electric Utility Week, which monitors the industry, forward-looking prices for August delivery of electricity in Southern California have fallen 69% since April.", "Prices for August electricity stood at $220 per megawatt-hour on Wednesday, down from $700 in April.", "The figures are significant because they apply to purchases made under long-term fixed contracts, not just the emergency purchases made by Cal-ISO and subject to the FERC order.", "Market watchers at Natural Gas Week reported that gas prices at a key pipeline junction on the California -Arizona border had dropped precipitously." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 4, 5 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e7938_p0", "sents": [ "'VentureWire' Monday, November 20, 2000 CONTENTS COMPANIES INVESTORS top stories * E-Business Services Firm Asia Online Lays Off 56 Employees * PR Firm in Deal With Crosspoint, Becomes Limited Partner * Unexplored Acquires Travel Firm Adventureseek in Stock Deal * European Firm Net Partners Closes $161.4 Million Fund CONNECTED COFFEE?", "It's no longer a pipe dream.", "Lavazza and eDevice have unveiled the world's first Internet-enabled espresso maker.", "Further, Web tablets, Internet radios, and other connected appliances are popping up everywhere.", "But business models and revenue streams have proven elusive.", "The consumer devices panel at Technology Outlook 2000, will explore some of the difficulties of this emerging market with: * Safi Qureshy, Chairman, AudioRamp * Daniel H. Rimer, Partner, The Barksdale Group * Kent Savage, President & CEO, Netpliance * Michael Slater, President, PhotoTablet Technology Outlook 2000: The Future of Pervasive Computing December 4 and 5, San Franciscohttp: technologicpartners.com tp conf to 2000 new money * Israeli Optical Firm BroadLight Raises $5 Million Seed Round * Web Site Navigation Firm Navixo Adds $250,000 to Series A * B2B Platform for African Market Gets $300,000 Seed Round * Broadband Firm SwitchPoint Lands $20 Million Series B * CRM Firm Click2Community Raises $1 Million First Round * Mitusubishi Leads $25 Million to Imaging Firm LizardTech * Wireless Chip Firm Systemonic Gets $30 Million Round Two * Wireless Software Firm RadioCosm Receives Series A Funds * Workflow App Firm Pivotry Raises $1 Million Seed Round * Mobile Web App Firm iMedeon Gets $15.5 Million Round Two * Net Infrastructure Firm Zama Secures $17.4 Million Round Two * Oil & Gas ASP GeoNetServices.com Gets Round Two Funding * 3i Invests $9.9 Million in Battery Developer Ion Energy * British Underwear Retailer Figleaves.com Raises $5.1 Million * IT Service Firm All Bases Covered Gets $40 Million Series D * Web Firm CitySoft Raises Money From Sustainable Jobs Fund * Staffing App Firm VCG Receives $7.5 Million Investment * Btobfactory Invests in E-Commerce Technology Firm iSoco * Israeli Auto Tech Firm MobilEye Lands Funding from Motorola * Pharmaceutical Informatics Firm Arradial Secures $3 Million bad news * Job Cuts, Uncertain Future for Leisure Market Whiplash * Network Services Firm Onsite Access Pulls IPO new products * YourEmarket Changes Name to TownHound, Launches Product * Job Site Decision Point Systems Changes Name to Unicru m&a * Offroad Capital To Acquire Investment Bank SPP Capital * Funeral Industry Firm Funeral Exchange Acquires MortDepot * Tenet Healthcare Acquires E-Learning Firm e-vitro * Web Healthcare Services Firm Salu Acquires Medsprout.com * eHotHouse Acquires Content Strategy Firm Rand Interactive new directors * Network Infrastructure Firm Kamoon Adds to Board new people * Language Translation Firm WordStream Names New Pres, CEO * Convenience Store App Firm C-Store Matrix Names Top Exec * Voice Infrastructure Firm IP Unity Names Ex-ADC Exec As CEO vc personnel * Two Berkeley International Partners Join SunAmerica Ventures TOP STORIES NEW MONEY BAD NEWS NEW PRODUCTS M&A NEW DIRECTORS NEW PEOPLE VC PERSONNEL The elite of the burgeoning optical communications industry will be in one place, under one roof Feb 11-14: Optix2001 in Pasadena, CA." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 5 ] }, { "title": "e3127_p20", "sents": [ "Gary Enos, executive vice president of State Street, will take a seat on the MiFund board of directors as a result of the investment.", "The company has operation s in Dublin and Paris as well as in San Francisco, the site of the firm's corporate headquarters.", "http: www.mifund.com Mobile Applications Provider ViAir Gets $15M Round Two mail?", "top SEATTLE (VENTUREWIRE) -- ViAir, a provider of mobile applications ma nagement and delivery platforms, said it raised over $15 million in its second round of financing led by Spectrum Equity Investors with participation from 3i, Mercury Interactive, and return investor The Barksdale Group.", "The company plans to spend the new funds for expansion into the European and Asian markets, as well as on product development.", "As a result of this financing, the company has appointed Victor E. Parker, a general partner at Spectrum, to its six-member board of directors, which also includes Peter Currie, the founder and partner of The Barksdale Group." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 3 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "Boon Tat Street", "sents": [ "Boon Tat Street () is a street located within the Downtown Core in the Central Area of Singapore.", "The street extends from Amoy Street at its western end to the junction of Shenton Way and Raffles Quay." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] }, { "title": "Singapore", "sents": [ "Singapore ( ), officially the Republic of Singapore, sometimes referred to as the \"Lion City\", the \"Garden City\" or the \"Little Red Dot\", is a sovereign city-state in Southeast Asia.", "It lies one degree (137 km) north of the equator, at the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, with Indonesia's Riau Islands to the south.", "Singapore's territory consists of one main island along with 62 other islets.", "Since independence, extensive land reclamation has increased its total size by 23% (130 km) and its greening policy has covered the densely populated island with tropical flora, parks and gardens." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "Blue Hills Parkway", "sents": [ "Blue Hills Parkway is a historic parkway that runs in a straight line from a crossing of the Neponset River, at the south border of Boston to the north edge of the Blue Hills Reservation in Milton, Massachusetts.", "It was built in 1893 to a design by the noted landscape architect, Charles Eliot, who is perhaps best known for the esplanades along the Charles River.", "The parkway is a connecting road between the Blue Hills Reservation and the Neponset River Reservation, and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] }, { "title": "Neponset River", "sents": [ "The Neponset River is a river in eastern Massachusetts in the United States.", "Its headwaters are at the Neponset Reservoir in Foxborough, near Gillette Stadium.", "From there, the Neponset meanders generally northeast for about 29 mi to its mouth at Dorchester Bay between Quincy and the Dorchester section of Boston, near the painted gas tank." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "Edmonton Oil Kings", "sents": [ "The Edmonton Oil Kings are a major junior ice hockey team based in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada that play in the Western Hockey League.", "As of July 2008, they are owned by Daryl Katz's Oilers Entertainment Group, who also own the Edmonton Oilers.", "The 2007–08 season was the newest incarnation of the Oil Kings' inaugural season in the Western Hockey League.", "To date NHL alumni are Tomas Vincour, Mark Pysyk, Curtis Lazar, Keegan Lowe, Griffin Reinhart, Henrik Samuelsson, Laurent Brossoit, and David Musil.", "As the 2012 WHL champions, the Oil Kings played in the 2012 Memorial Cup, losing 6-1 against the eventual winning team, the Shawinigan Cataractes, in the playoff tie-breaker.", "The Oil Kings won the 2014 Memorial Cup, defeating the Guelph Storm in the 2014 Memorial Cup final game." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 1 ] }, { "title": "Edmonton Oilers", "sents": [ "The Edmonton Oilers are a professional ice hockey team based in Edmonton, Alberta.", "They are members of the Pacific Division of the Western Conference of the National Hockey League (NHL)." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "Kenneth Lay", "sents": [ "Kenneth Lee \"Ken\" Lay (April 15, 1942 – July 5, 2006) was an American businessman.", "He was the CEO and chairman of Enron Corporation for most of its existence and is a central figure in the Enron scandal.", "Lay was indicted by a grand jury and was found guilty of 10 counts of securities fraud.", "Lay died while vacationing, three months before his October 23 sentencing.", "A preliminary autopsy reported Lay had died of a heart attack caused by coronary artery disease and his conviction was vacated." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] }, { "title": "e27391_p10", "sents": [ "Admiration for Enron went beyond the trading floors and research departments of Wall Street.", "As recently as a year ago, top financial executives admitted privately to envy of the former pipeline company's elevated stock rating and to frustration that their more traditional employers would not support pioneering experiments in new markets.", "The last year has seen a more sober assessment of those prospects, even though many analysts still believe Enron's push into different areas will be rewarded.", "Mr Lay repeated yesterday that he believed the company was fundamentally strong.", "The irony is that having been punished by the markets as the technology sector declined, Enron may not benefit if the economic cycle turns because it is now associated with its peers in the energy sector.", "As one analyst put it yesterday: \"You don't buy energy stocks at the beginning of a new cycle - you buy tech stocks.\"", "Copyright: The Financial Times Limited COMPANIES & FINANCE THE AMERICAS: Enron chief takes back key positions ENERGY LAY VOWS THAT NOTHING WILL CHANGE AFTER SURPRISE DEPARTURE OF SKILLING: Financial Times; Aug 16, 2001 By Sheila McNulty in Houston Kenneth Lay, Enron chairman, yesterday reassumed the positions of chief executive officer and president of the Texas energy giant following the surprise departure of Jeff Skilling." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 6 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "Puzzle Fighter (2017 video game)", "sents": [ "Puzzle Fighter is an upcoming, free-to-play puzzle video game for Android and iOS devices.", "It is a sequel to 1997's Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo, and features playable characters from various Capcom franchises." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] }, { "title": "Capcom", "sents": [ "Capcom Co., Ltd. (Japanese: 株式会社カプコン , Hepburn: Kabushiki-gaisha Kapukon ) , or Capcom, is a Japanese video game developer and publisher known for creating multi-million-selling franchises such as \"Mega Man\", \"Street Fighter\", \"Resident Evil\", \"Devil May Cry\", \"Ace Attorney\", and \"Monster Hunter\" as well as games based on the Disney animated properties.", "Established in 1979, it has become an international enterprise with subsidiaries in North America, Europe, and East Asia." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e5975_p23", "sents": [ "Moreover, with the $100-billion state budget and other major matters demanding the attention of Democrats and Republicans alike, there is little effort being made in the Capitol to craft a solution before the mid-August deadline the utility had given state leaders.", "In fact, with lawmakers set to take their annual summer break next month after the end of partisan budget theatrics, it is almost certain that no SCE rescue would be approved before fall, if at all.", "Senate President Pro Tem John Burton (D-San Francisco) bluntly stated at a recent news conference that he feels no pressure to approve a deal with so many consequences for the people of California in so little time.", "Assembly Speaker Bob Hertzberg (D-Sherman Oaks), meanwhile, continues to lead efforts to craft an alternative plan that would place much of the burden of financing an SCE rescue on big business.", "In exchange, companies would be allowed to bypass the traditional utilities and contract directly with energy marketers for power." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 3 ] }, { "title": "e1060_p36", "sents": [ "After just four hours of sleep before the last-minute trip, Assembly Speaker Robert Hertzberg, D-Sherman Oaks, was in no mood to be confrontational.", "He figured that since FERC-bashing had gained little, the state might be better off showing what it had done to try to solve its own problem.", "\"We didn't want to go and be Khrushchev banging his shoe on the table,\" he said.", "\"We are telling FERC we're in this together.", "We have a role, and you have a role.\"", "So Hertzberg opened his five-minute remarks by acknowledging that California had created some of its own problems.", "But he pleaded with the three commissioners to pay attention to what was happening in the Golden State.", "'ECONOMIC PRECIPICE' \"California is poised on the edge of an economic precipice that threatens not only our economy, but the economy of the entire country,\" Hertzberg said, adding that the state anticipated paying $65 billion for electricity this year, almost 10 times its power bill in 1999. Two of the three board members seemed to hear the request." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1, 2, 3, 6 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "Bessemer Venture Partners", "sents": [ "Bessemer Venture Partners (BVP) is an American global venture capital firm founded in 1911.", "The firm has $4.5 billion under management and operates offices in Menlo Park, San Francisco, New York City, Boston, Israel, and India." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] }, { "title": "e8814_p5", "sents": [ "SingleSourceIT's other investors included McCown De Leeuw, which has an ownership stake in Sarcom.", "http: www.singlesourceit.com new money Catena, DSL Infrastructure Provider, Gets $60 Million Round mail this story?", "top REDWOOD SHORES, Calif. (VENTUREWIRE) -- Catena Networks, which provides DSL network infrastructure for residential customers, said it raised $60 million in its thiird round of funding.", "The round was led by Goldman Sachs and Berkeley International Capital.", "Additional investors in the round included Attractor Investment Management, Morgenthaler Ventures, Menlo Vewntures, Chase Capital Partners, Worldview Technology Partners, Bessemer Venture Partners, and BCE Capital.", "The company said it will use the funding to continue to develop technologies for a converged, packet-based public network integrating voice and DSL data operations.", "The company raised $45 million in its two previous rounds of funding.", "http: www.catena.com Search Firm BigSoftE Raises $1.2 Million in Series A Funding mail this story?", "top GERMANTOWN, Md.", "(VENTUREWIRE) -- BigSoftE, which provides an online software search engine that allows users to locate and evaluate business applications, ssaid it has raised $1.2 million in Series A funding from undisclosed software industry executives, technology professionals, institutional investors, and individuals." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 2, 4 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "Pelhřimov", "sents": [ "Pelhřimov (German: \"Pilgrams\" ) is a town located approximately halfway between Prague and Brno.", "It is known as “the Gateway to the Highlands“ because of its location in the westernmost tip of the Bohemian-Moravian Highlands.", "The altitude is 498.63 meters above sea level at the foot of the tower of the Church of St. Bartholomew, and 509.7 meters at the railway station." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] }, { "title": "Brno", "sents": [ "Brno ( ; ] , German: \"Brünn\") is the second largest city in the Czech Republic by population and area, the largest Moravian city, and the historical capital city of the Margraviate of Moravia.", "Brno is the administrative center of the South Moravian Region in which it forms a separate district (Brno-City District).", "The city lies at the confluence of the Svitava and Svratka rivers and has about 400,000 inhabitants; its greater metropolitan area is home to more than 800,000 people while its larger urban zone had a population of about 730,000 in 2004." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 2 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "George Lemuel Woods", "sents": [ "George Lemuel Woods (July 30, 1832 – January 7, 1890) was an American lawyer, judge, and politician.", "A member of the Republican Party, Woods served as the third Governor of Oregon from 1866–1870.", "Failing to win renomination, Woods was then appointed Territorial Governor of Utah by President Ulysses S. Grant, serving in that position from 1871–1875." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 2 ] }, { "title": "Ulysses S. Grant", "sents": [ "Ulysses S. Grant, born Hiram Ulysses Grant , (April 27, 1822 – July 23, 1885) was the Commanding General of the United States Army at the end of the American Civil War and later the 18th President of the United States from 1869 to 1877.", "As Commanding General, Grant worked closely with President Abraham Lincoln to lead the Union Army to victory over the Confederacy in the Civil War.", "Supported by Congress, Grant implemented Reconstruction, often at odds with President Andrew Johnson.", "Twice elected president, Grant led the Republicans in their effort to remove the vestiges of Confederate nationalism and slavery, protect African-American citizenship, and support economic prosperity.", "Although his presidency has often been criticized for multiple administration scandals and for his failure to alleviate the economic depression following the Panic of 1873, he is regarded as a President who performed relatively well in the context of his time and pursued justice for all." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "Rough...", "sents": [ "\"Rough...\" is the final single from Queen Latifah's 1993 album \"Black Reign\".", "The song features rappers KRS-One, Treach and Heavy D. Although the song was released as a Cassette single, Promo CD Single and 12\" Promo vinyl single, a video was never shot, nor did the song get radio play.", "Due to the lyrical content, the single received a Parental Advisory sticker.", "The 12\" Promo vinyl single is a double single, including another Black Reign Single, \"I can't understand\"" ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] }, { "title": "KRS-One", "sents": [ "Lawrence \"Kris\" Parker (born August 20, 1965), better known by his stage names KRS-One, and Teacha, is an American rapper and occasional producer from The Bronx, New York City, New York.", "KRS-One rose to prominence as part of the group Boogie Down Productions, which he formed with DJ Scott La Rock in the mid 1980s.", "Following the release of the group's debut album, \"Criminal Minded\", La Rock was shot dead, but KRS-One continued the group, effectively as a solo project.", "He began releasing records under his own name in 1993.", "KRS-One is politically active, having started the Stop the Violence Movement, after the death of Scott La Rock." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e5771_p68", "sents": [ "``We're making more money than we ever thought possible,'' Johnson quoted t he plant's manager as saying.", "Mercury News staff writer John Woolfolk contributed to this report.", "Contact Dion Nissenbaum at [email protected] or (916) 441-4603. Enron chief: Gov.", "Davis not to blame for energy crisis BY KAREN GAUDETTE Associated Press Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- California Gov.", "Gray Davis isn't to blame for California's power crisis, and neither are electricity wholesalers, a Texas energy executive told a crowd at the Commonwealth Club of California.", "Jeffrey Skilling, CEO and president of Houston-based Enron Corp., wiped awa y the remnants of a pie hurled by a protester Thursday and placed the blame squarely on California's energy regulators.", "The state Public Utilities Commission in the early 1990s put together a broken market by preventing utilities to pass along the full cost of power and discouraging power contracts that would have lowered dependence on buyi ng last-minute power, Skilling said." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 3, 5 ] }, { "title": "Jeffrey Skilling", "sents": [ "Jeffrey Keith \"Jeff\" Skilling (born November 25, 1953) is the former CEO of Enron Corporation.", "In 2006, he was convicted of federal felony charges relating to Enron's collapse and is currently serving 14 years of a 24-year, four-month prison sentence at the Federal Prison Camp (FPC) – Montgomery in Montgomery, Alabama.", "The Supreme Court of the United States heard arguments in the appeal of the case March 1, 2010.", "On June 24, 2010, the Supreme Court vacated part of Skilling's conviction and transferred the case back to the lower court for resentencing.", "During April 2011, a three-judge 5th Circuit Court of Appeals panel ruled that the verdict would have been the same despite the legal issues being discussed, and Skilling's conviction was confirmed; however, the court ruled Skilling should be resentenced.", "Skilling appealed this new decision to the Supreme Court, but the appeal was denied.", "In 2013, the United States Department of Justice reached a deal with Skilling, which resulted in ten years being cut from his sentence." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1, 4 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "2014 Currie Cup qualification", "sents": [ "The 2014 Currie Cup qualification was a tournament organised by the South African Rugby Union.", "It featured seven teams and was played in June and July 2014, with the winner qualifying for the 2014 Currie Cup Premier Division.", "The remaining six teams played in the 2014 Currie Cup First Division." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1, 2 ] }, { "title": "2014 Currie Cup First Division", "sents": [ "The 2014 Currie Cup First Division was contested between 29 August and 17 October 2014.", "The tournament (also known as the Absa Currie Cup First Division for sponsorship reasons) was the second tier of South Africa's premier domestic rugby union competition, featuring teams representing either entire provinces or substantial regions within provinces." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "San Diego", "sents": [ "San Diego ( , Spanish for \"Saint Didacus\"; Spanish: ] ) is a major city in California, United States.", "It is in San Diego County, on the coast of the Pacific Ocean in Southern California, approximately 120 mi south of Los Angeles and immediately adjacent to the border with Mexico." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] }, { "title": "e5472_p6", "sents": [ "Speakers at public hearings in San Diego and El Cajon alternately demanded and implored the California Public Utilities Commission to reject an average 19 percent rate hike that the commission says it is obligated by state law to pass along to SDG&E electricity customers.", "Perhaps the loudest applause from an audience that approached 100 at the downtown San Diego hearing yesterday afternoon came in response to calls for the state to exercise its power of eminent domain and seize power plants.", "Guy Mock, a Navy enlisted man who was among those calling for such takeovers, said many in military service are finding rising utility costs a significant burden, pushing some to use food stamps.", "''Remember, people in the military have no choice about being here,'' Mock said.", "Waving computer printouts from research he said he conducted on the Internet, Mock said generators were charging outrageous prices, noting in particular the recent revelation that at one point Duke Energy had charged nearly $3,900 a megawatt-hour for its electricity." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "Sempra Energy", "sents": [ "Sempra Energy is an American natural gas utilities holding company based in San Diego, California.", "It divides its interests into two broad categories: California utilities, including Southern California Gas Company (SoCalGas) and San Diego Gas & Electric (SDG&E); and businesses not subject to California utilities regulation, chiefly Sempra International and Sempra U.S. Gas & Power." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] }, { "title": "e19632_p20", "sents": [ "The postponement of bond-related votes Thursday will also affect items dealing with the suspension of retail choice of electricity providers, and servicing agreements between the utilities and the DWR.", "A vote on a 12% rate hike for customers of Sempra Energy (SRE) unit San Diego Gas & Electric is also postponed.", "Calif Lawmakers Call For Federal Probe Of State Pwr Mkt By Jason Leopold 09 12 2001 Dow Jones Energy Service (Copyright (c) 2001, Dow Jones & Company, Inc.) OF DOW JONES NEWSWIRES LOS ANGELES -(Dow Jones)- A dozen California Republican state senators called for a federal investigation into the state's grid operator and power buying arm, claiming the agencies may be manipulating the wholesale electricity market by understating the state's power needs in order to obtain a higher price out-of-market for its excess supply, according to a letter sent to the chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.", "The letter signed by Senate Republican Minority Leader Jim Brulte, R-Rancho Cucamonga, Sen. Ray Haynes, R-Riverside, and others in the minority leadership, alleges the California Independent System Operator has understated the state's daily power needs in order to allow the Department of Water Resources to get a higher price for its excess electricity through \"out-of-market\" calls." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 1 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "Conservative Students' Association (Oslo)", "sents": [ "The Conservative Students' Association (Norwegian: \"Den Konservative Studenterforening\" ) is a Norwegian students' association of the University of Oslo, located at Majorstuen, Slemdalsveien 7 together with the Norwegian Students' Society.", "It is politically conservative and is associated with the Conservative Party and the European Democrat Students.", "It was founded by Vilhelm Aubert on March 16, 1891, and is Norway's oldest students' association." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 2 ] }, { "title": "Vilhelm Aubert", "sents": [ "Johan Vilhelm Aubert (7 June 1922 – 19 July 1988) was an influential Norwegian sociologist.", "He was a professor at the Faculty of Law, University of Oslo from 1963 to 1971 and at the Department of Sociology from 1971 to 1988.", "He co-founded the Norwegian Institute for Social Research already in 1950, and has been labelled the \"father of Norwegian sociology\".", "In his early life he was a member of the anti-Nazi resistance group XU, and while later involved on the radical wing of the Labour Party, he edited the newspaper \"Orientering\"." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "Joe Simitian", "sents": [ "Saren Joseph Simitian (born February 1, 1953) is a California Democratic politician.", "From 2004 to 2012, he was the State Senator representing California's 11th State Senate district, which encompasses all or part of 13 cities in San Mateo, Santa Clara, and Santa Cruz counties.", "Approaching his term limit at the end of 2012, he ran for and was elected as a Santa Clara County Supervisor, to begin serving in 2013." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] }, { "title": "e3597_p0", "sents": [ "\"ENERGY COMMITTEE MEMBERS: (Please pass on as appropriate) Congresswoman Anna Eshoo has organized a town hall meeting to bring everyone together to talk about what residential and commercial customers can do during the current energy crisis, and to promote energy efficiency and conservation.", "The event will be held 9:00 - 11:00am, on Saturday, June 2, 2001, at the Menlo Park campus of the USGS at 345 Middlefield Road, Menlo Park.", "Directions are attached below.", "Panel speakers will focus on recent Federal and State action and energy efficiancy and conservation.", "Speakers include Ambassador Dick Sklar, Assemblyman Joe Simitian, Ralph Cavanagh of NRDC and local business owner Larry Hassett.", "Please join us on Saturday for Congresswoman Anna Eshoo's Town Hall Meeting.", "If you have questions, please call the Congresswoman's Palo Alto office at 650-323-2984 DIRECTIONS: The USGS campus is actually on Survey Lane, a short road (1 block long) south of Middlefield Road between Marsh Rd and Willow Rd in Menlo Park." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 1, 4, 5 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "The Center of the World", "sents": [ "The Center of the World is an American film directed by Wayne Wang, which was digitally shot and released in 2001.", "It stars Peter Sarsgaard as a Dot-com millionaire who hires a drummer/stripper (Molly Parker) to stay with him in Las Vegas for three days for US$10,000.", "The film was screened out of competition at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] }, { "title": "Peter Sarsgaard", "sents": [ "John Peter Sarsgaard ( ; born March 7, 1971) is an American character actor.", "His first feature role was in \"Dead Man Walking\" in 1995.", "He then appeared in the 1998 independent films \"Another Day in Paradise\" and \"Desert Blue\".", "That same year, Sarsgaard received a substantial role in \"The Man in the Iron Mask\" (1998), playing Raoul, the ill-fated son of Athos.", "Sarsgaard later achieved critical recognition when he was cast in \"Boys Don't Cry\" (1999) as John Lotter.", "He landed his first leading role in the 2001 film \"The Center of the World\".", "The following year, he played supporting roles in \"Empire\", \"The Salton Sea\", and \"\"." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 3 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e20261_p17", "sents": [ "The loss was 84 cents a share after payment of preferred dividends, Enron said.", "Net income a year earlier was $292 million, or 34 cents.", "Revenue rose 59 percent to $47.6 billion.", "Investors have sent Enron stock down 60 percent this year on concern about investments outside energy trading and natural-gas pipelines.", "Some investors praised Kenneth Lay, Enron's chairman and chief executive officer, for acknowledging the failure of the new businesses.", "Others said they're not confident all the bad news is out.", "``What is disconcerting is that they didn't do this sooner,'' said Donald Coxe, manager of the $352 million Harris Insight Equity Fund.", "``If you kill one cockroach in the kitchen, it doesn't mean there aren't more.''", "Investors have questioned Enron's financial reporting in the past year, especially after Jeffrey Skilling's resignation as CEO in August.", "Skilling, who helped Lay transform Enron from a gas- pipeline company into the top competitor in energy trading, said he left for personal reasons." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 3, 4, 6 ] }, { "title": "e19496_p36", "sents": [ "Using the pipelines as collateral signals Enron's desperation to reassure shareholders and trading partners that it is creditworthy, investors said.", "``Its not reassuring, it's worrisome,'' said Donald Coxe, manager of the Harris Insight Equity Fund, which owns about 78,000 Enron shares.", "``If they had to secure the loan, obviously the lenders don't think they can rely on Enron's financial statements.''", "Shares of Enron fell $1.35, or 9.7 percent, to $12.55 in late morning trading.", "Earlier, they dropped to $11.47. Before today, the shares had fallen 83 percent this year.", "Enron's shares fell 52 percent last month amid an SEC inquiry into partnerships headed by Andrew Fastow, Enron's former chief financial officer, that cost $35 million and $1.2 billion in lost shareholder equity.", "A formal SEC investigation began yesterday.", "``It seems until we know more about the SEC investigation, it's going to be a difficult time for the stock,'' said Tara Gately, an energy analyst at Loomis Sayles & Co., which sold most of its Enron shares early last year." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 1 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e5899_p31", "sents": [ "The company plans to focus on expanding the Asian market besides introducing risk management and financial hedging products in the steel industry.", "At the same time, to facilitate online business, a network platform is being put in place.", "However, the Enron spokesperson was unavailable for comment.", "The energy giant has put most of its India plans on the backburner except the 2184 mw Dabhol power project.", "The continuance of the project is under cloud, too, as the Maharashtra government has set up a committee headed by former Union home secretary, Madhav Godbole, to renegotiate the 1,444 mw second phase of the project.", "The future of another company, Metropolitan Gas, which laying gas pipelines for transporting liquefied natural gas (LNG), too, is in doubt.", "Earlier, Enron had pulled out of its joint venture with the Maharashtra State Electricity Board (MSEB) and Global Tele-Systems to lay an optic fibre network across the board's transmission lines." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 6 ] }, { "title": "Maharashtra State Electricity Board", "sents": [ "Maharashtra State Electricity Board (or MSEB) ( Marathi:महाराष्ट्र राज्य विद्युत मंडळ) is a state-owned electricity regulation board operating within the state of Maharashtra in India.", "The MSEB was formed on 20 June 1960 under Section 5 of the Electricity (Supply) Act, 1948.", "In 1998 it was the second largest electricity generating utility in India after National Thermal Power Corporation." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "Richard Kingston (priest)", "sents": [ "Richard Kingston (d. November 1418) was a Canon of Windsor from 1400 to 1402 and the Dean of Windsor from 1402 to 1418." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] }, { "title": "Dean of Windsor", "sents": [ "The Dean of Windsor is the spiritual head of the Canons of St George's Chapel at Windsor Castle, England.", "The Dean chairs meetings of the Chapter of Canons as \"primus inter pares\".", "The post of dean of Wolverhampton was assimilated to the deanery of Windsor, around 1480." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "USS Tacoma (CL-20)", "sents": [ "USS \"Tacoma\" (C-18/PG-32/CL-20) was a \"Denver\"-class protected cruiser in the United States Navy during World War I.", "She was the second Navy ship named for the city of Tacoma, Washington." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] }, { "title": "Tacoma, Washington", "sents": [ "Tacoma ( ) is a mid-sized urban port city in and the county seat of Pierce County, Washington, United States.", "The city is on Washington's Puget Sound, 32 mi southwest of Seattle, 31 mi northeast of the state capital, Olympia, and 58 mi northwest of Mount Rainier National Park.", "The population was 198,397, according to the 2010 census.", "Tacoma is the second-largest city in the Puget Sound area and the third largest in the state.", "Tacoma also serves as the center of business activity for the South Sound region, which has a population of around 1 million." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 2 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "Fred Keeley", "sents": [ "Fred Keeley (born May 9, 1950) is a politician in California, U.S. Keeley was a member of the California State Assembly, representing District 27 which included parts of Santa Cruz County and Monterey County from 1996 to 2002.", "He retired in January 2015 after 10 years as the Treasurer of Santa Cruz County ." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] }, { "title": "e3430_p4", "sents": [ "Rhapsodic Lawmakers; Legislature: Speaking frankly, officials have used the wiener as an easily digestible metaphor for the state's energy crisis.", "BYLINE: JULIE TAMAKI, MIGUEL BUSTILLO, TIMES STAFF WRITERS DATELINE: SACRAMENTO BODY: Every crisis has its symbol.", "Watergate had Deep Throat.", "The S&L scandal had Charles Keating.", "O.J.", "did--or didn't--have a bloody glove.", "Here in the Capitol, the hot dog has become an unlikely metaphor for the state's energy crisis.", "In packed news conferences and heated Assembly floor debates, lawmakers from both parties have evoked images of the ordinary dog to help explain an extraordinary mess.", "The genesis of this statehouse trend is difficult to determine.", "Assemblyman Fred Keeley appears to be the first to have tossed the hot dog into the political fire.", "During a crucial Assembly discussion in January, the Boulder Creek Democrat recited the lyrics to a familiar Oscar Mayer jingle as a way of admitting that a controversial bill to have the state buy electricity to avoid blackouts was unpalatable, but necessary." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 9, 10 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "Pavel Zhiburtovich", "sents": [ "Pavel Zhiburtovich (September 8, 1925, Samara, Russia – February 21, 2006, Moscow) was an ice hockey player who played in the Soviet Hockey League.", "He played for HC CSKA Moscow.", "He was inducted into the Russian and Soviet Hockey Hall of Fame in 1953." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] }, { "title": "Samara", "sents": [ "Samara (Russian: Сама́ра ; ] ), known from 1935 to 1991 as Kuybyshev (Куйбышев ; ] ), is the sixth largest city in Russia and the administrative center of Samara Oblast.", "It is situated in the southeastern part of European Russia at the confluence of the Volga and Samara Rivers on the east bank of the Volga.", "The Volga acts as the city's western boundary; across the river are the Zhiguli Mountains, after which the local beer (\"Zhigulyovskoye\") is named.", "The northern boundary is formed by the Sokolyi Hills and by the steppes in the south and east.", "The land within the city boundaries covers 46,597 ha .", "Population:  (2010 Census) ;  (2002 Census) ;  (1989 Census) The metropolitan area of Samara-Tolyatti-Syzran within Samara Oblast contains a population of over three million." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "Górki, Płock County", "sents": [ "Górki is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Gąbin, within Płock County, Masovian Voivodeship, in east-central Poland.", "It lies approximately 8 km north of Gąbin, 10 km south of Płock, and 92 km west of Warsaw." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] }, { "title": "Warsaw", "sents": [ "Warsaw (Polish: \"Warszawa\" ; see also other names) is the capital and largest city of Poland.", "It stands on the Vistula River in east-central Poland, roughly 260 km from the Baltic Sea and 300 km from the Carpathian Mountains.", "Its population is officially estimated at 1.750 million residents within a greater metropolitan area of 3.101 million residents, which makes Warsaw the 9th most-populous capital city in the European Union.", "The city limits cover 516.9 km2 , while the metropolitan area covers 6100.43 km2 ." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e19748_p69", "sents": [ "The company also had $326.3 million in short-term debt as of Sept. 30. The loans are Azurix's ``primary sources of liquidity,'' the filing said.", "If the company can't raise the funds, it might have to use the proceeds from planned asset sales to refinance debt and get cash, the filing said.", "If those asset sales don't generate enough money, ``Azurix may need to sell other assets, which could result in Azurix incurring losses in future periods,'' the company said.", "Azurix, though it still must file with the SEC, no longer trades as a separate stock.", "The shares of Houston-based Enron fell 8 cents to $8.92 in early afternoon trading.", "Enron agreed earlier this month to be acquired by rival Dynegy Inc. in a transaction currently valued at $24.9 billion.", "The buyout came after Enron's shares plunged amid an SEC investigation of the company's dealings with affiliated partnerships.", "U.S.'s Dingell Seeks Probe of Arthur Andersen, Dow Jones Says 2001-11-19 15:24 (New York) Washington, Nov. 19 (Bloomberg) -- United States Representative John Dingell, a Michigan Democrat, has requested a special investigation of Arthur Andersen LLP's audits of Enron Corp. and Waste Management Inc., Dow Jones Newswires reported." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 7 ] }, { "title": "Arthur Andersen", "sents": [ "Arthur Andersen LLP, based in Chicago, is an American holding company and formerly one of the \"Big Five\" accounting firms among PricewaterhouseCoopers, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, Ernst & Young and KPMG, providing auditing, tax, and consulting services to large corporations.", "In 2002, the firm voluntarily surrendered its licenses to practice as Certified Public Accountants in the United States after being found guilty of criminal charges relating to the firm's handling of the auditing of Enron, an energy corporation based in Texas, which had filed for bankruptcy in 2001." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e11238_p1", "sents": [ "To kick off the Enabling Ebusiness project, CITM held a major conference Dec. 6, 2000 with experts from industry and academia who focussed on the opportunities presented by Ebusiness, strategies for achieving them and for overcoming legacies (technologies, processes, people and organizations).?", "The keynote speaker was George Surdu, Director of Information Technology Services for the Ford Motor Company, one of the sponsors of CITM.", "The conference was very well received and it is apparent that these issues are of interest to many companies.?", "Therefore, CITM is offering another conference on May 22, from 9 - 5 with a reception following in the early evening.?", "Our keynote speaker will be Steve Ellis, EVP of Wells Fargo's Wholesale Internet Solutions Group.?", "Also on the agenda: J_rgen Lutz, eProcurement, Bayer AG Leverkusen, and Mark V. Klopp, Managing Director, Digital Business Ventures, Eastman Chemical Company.?", "We expect other interesting speakers making for an absorbing and rewarding day." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] }, { "title": "Ford Motor Company", "sents": [ "The Ford Motor Company (commonly referred to simply as \"Ford\") is an American multinational automaker headquartered in Dearborn, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit.", "It was founded by Henry Ford and incorporated on June 16, 1903.", "The company sells automobiles and commercial vehicles under the Ford brand and most luxury cars under the Lincoln brand.", "Ford also owns Brazilian SUV manufacturer, Troller, and Australian performance car manufacturer FPV.", "In the past, it has also produced tractors and automotive components.", "Ford owns an 8% stake in Aston Martin of the United Kingdom, and a 49% stake in Jiangling of China.", "It also has a number of joint-ventures, one in China (Changan Ford), one in Taiwan (Ford Lio Ho), one in Thailand (AutoAlliance Thailand), one in Turkey (Ford Otosan), and one in Russia (Ford Sollers).", "It is listed on the New York Stock Exchange and is controlled by the Ford family, although they have minority ownership (but majority of the voting power)." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e5812_p90", "sents": [ "\"We're going back to Washington with one goal, and that's to bring back $9 billion,\" Gov.", "Gray Davis told reporters Sunday in a conference call from S an Diego.", "Davis stuck to that figure despite comments last week from the FERC' s chief judge to the Register that he anticipates only a couple of billion dollars in refunds.", "At issue is whether and how much power companies owe the state for wholesal e electricity rates that exceeded the \"reasonable and customary\" standard federal law establishes.", "The more money the state gets back, the less taxpayer money goes toward paying the bill for state-purchased power.", "The FERC ordered this conference as part of its price-cap decision last wee k. It has given the parties until July 9 to come to an agreement.", "If one isn't reached, Chief Administrative Law Judge Curtis L. Wagner says he can either ask for more time, ask the FERC itself to rule on the refunds, or suggest to the FERC that it schedule a formal hearing on the matter, something resembling a trial." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1, 2 ] }, { "title": "Gray Davis", "sents": [ "Joseph Graham \"Gray\" Davis Jr. (born December 26, 1942) is a retired American politician and attorney who served as the 37th Governor of California from 1999 to 2003.", "A member of the Democratic Party, only a few months into his second term, in 2003 Davis was recalled and removed from office, the second state governor successfully recalled in U.S. history.", "Prior to serving as governor, Davis was chief of staff to Governor Jerry Brown (1975–81), a California State Assemblyman (1983–87), California State Controller (1987–95) and the 44th Lieutenant Governor of California (1995–99).", "Davis holds a B.A.", "in history from Stanford University and a J.D.", "from Columbia Law School.", "He was awarded a Bronze Star for his service as a Captain in the Vietnam War." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 3, 4 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e7205_p13", "sents": [ "http: www.cantametrix.com Telephony Firm eStara Raises $15 million in Round Two RESTON, Va. -- eStara, which develops Internet telephony products and services for Web-based businesses, said it raised $15 million in its second round of funding, led by Banc One Venture Partners.", "Acon, a Texas Pacific Group affiliate, and J Net Venture Partners also invested in this round.", "The company will use the funds for technology development, to expand its marketing and sales team, and for product roll-out.", "Burt McGillivray, a partner at Banc One Venture Partners, David Coxe, a special limited partner at Banc One, and Keith Meister, co-president of J Net Enterprises, joined the board of directors.", "http: www.estara.com BuyNow Has $15 Million in Series B, Changes Name To Aqueduct ALISO VIEJO, Calif. -- Aqueduct, which provides a platform service that offers brand name product manufacturers online store planning and design, hosting infrastructure, store management, and electronic marketing, among other services, said it has secured $15 million in its second round of funding from United States Venture Partners and Softbank Technology Ventures." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 4 ] }, { "title": "e3127_p26", "sents": [ "NewMarkets said it is currently in discussions with six to 12 international and United States investors to participate in the round.", "The company said the funding would be used as operating and security capital.", "Prior to the Series F round, NewMarkets raised $28.8 million from Accel Partners, Bay Partners, Charter Growth Capital, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Jafco, Menlo Ventures, Softbank, Softbank Technology Ventures, and Technology Crossover Ventures.", "http: www.sonnet-financial.com bad news AgWeb Discloses Staff Cuts mail?", "top KING OF PRUSSIA, Pa. (VENTUREWIRE) -- AgWeb.com, a business-to-busi ness commerce and content site serving the agricultural market, told VentureWire that it cut 20 employees, or 36% of its staff due to a lack of commercial revenue from its satellite information service, which is being eliminated.", "The cuts, which took place in March, occurred in AgWeb.com's Des Moines, Io wa office and were concentrated in customer service, IT, and administrative positions related to the satellite division." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 2 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "Baylor St. Luke's Medical Center", "sents": [ "Baylor St. Luke's Medical Center is the private adult hospital of the Baylor College of Medicine jointly owned with CHI St. Luke’s Health.", "The medical staff at the hospital includes full-time Baylor faculty, as well as community physicians.", "The hospital is currently located at the former St. Luke’s Medical Center, located on Bertner Street in the Texas Medical Center in Houston.", "The hospital is an 850-bed institution that is also a clinical partner of the Texas Heart Institute." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 2 ] }, { "title": "Houston", "sents": [ "Houston ( ) is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Texas and the fourth-most populous city in the United States.", "With a census-estimated 2016 population of 2.303 million within an area of 667 sqmi , it is also the largest city in the southern United States and the seat of Harris County.", "Located in Southeast Texas near the Gulf of Mexico, it is the principal city of the Greater Houston metro area, which is the fifth-most populated MSA in the United States." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "Stalemate (song)", "sents": [ "\"Stalemate\" is a song by the English band Ben's Brother from their second studio album, \"Battling Giants\" (2009).", "Released as the album's third single on October 26, 2009, the album version of the song features Joss Stone, while the single version features Anastacia.", "\"Stalemate\" had its official premiere on BBC Radio 2 on 21 September 2009." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] }, { "title": "Ben's Brother", "sents": [ "Ben's Brother are a five-piece English band, headed by founder Jamie Hartman.", "The band was named after Jamie's big brother Ben, whose shadow he lived in as a teenager." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "Al Palladini", "sents": [ "Al Palladini (December 24, 1943 – March 7, 2001) was a politician in Ontario, Canada.", "He was a Progressive Conservative member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1995 until his death in 2001 and was a cabinet minister in the government of Mike Harris." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] }, { "title": "Mike Harris", "sents": [ "Michael Deane \"Mike\" Harris (born January 23, 1945) was the 22nd Premier of Ontario from June 26, 1995 to April 14, 2002.", "He is most noted for the \"Common Sense Revolution\", his Progressive Conservative government's program of deficit reduction in combination with lower taxes and cuts to government spending." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "Seattle", "sents": [ "Seattle ( ) is a seaport city on the west coast of the United States.", "It is the seat of King County, Washington.", "With an estimated 704,352 residents as of 2016 , Seattle is the largest city in both the state of Washington and the Pacific Northwest region of North America.", "In July 2013, it was the fastest-growing major city in the United States and remained in the Top 5 in May 2015 with an annual growth rate of 2.1%.", "In July 2016, Seattle was again the fastest-growing major U.S. city, with a 3.1% annual growth rate.", "The city is situated on an isthmus between Puget Sound (an inlet of the Pacific Ocean) and Lake Washington, about 100 mi south of the Canada–United States border.", "A major gateway for trade with Asia, Seattle is the fourth-largest port in North America in terms of container handling as of 2015 ." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] }, { "title": "e9457_p4", "sents": [ "The new office will announce its first deal, an infrastructure comapany, next month.", "In March, Mohr, Davidow Ventures opened an office in Seattle.", "http: www.mdv.com Onvia Picks up Hardware.com For Under $5 Million SEATTLE -- Onvia, a business-to-business exchange for small business buyers and sellers, said it will acquire Hardware.com, an online provider of home-improvement products, for \"less than $5 million.\"", "Under the deal, Hardware.com will cease to operate as an individual entity, and its management team and employees will be integrated into Onvia.", "The companies expect to complete the transaction by early September 2000. Hardware.com raised $14 million in first-round financing last November from Reader's Digest, Bedrock Capital, Dawntreader, and Onset Ventures.", "http: www.onvia.com http: www.hardware.com Former Avis and Hertz CEO Named Chairman of eRide SAN FRANCISCO -- eRide, a developer of a ground-transportation service at major United States airports that will use wireless-enabled logistics systems, said it named Joe Vittoria as chairman." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 1 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "Jodaqayah", "sents": [ "Jodaqayah (Persian: جداقايه‎ ‎ , also Romanized as Jodāqāyah, Jodāqayah, Jodā Qāyeh, and Jedāqayeh; also known as Jidāqiyeh, Joda Ghayeh, and Jodā Qeyeh) is a village in Chaharduli-ye Sharqi Rural District, Chaharduli District, Qorveh County, Kurdistan Province, Iran.", "At the 2006 census, its population was 207, in 51 families." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] }, { "title": "Chaharduli-ye Sharqi Rural District", "sents": [ "Chaharduli-ye Sharqi Rural District (Persian: دهستان چهاردولي شرقي‎ ‎ ) is a rural district (\"dehestan\") in Chaharduli District, Qorveh County, Kurdistan Province, Iran.", "At the 2006 census, its population was 8,193, in 1,987 families.", "The rural district has 14 villages." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "Pennzoil Place", "sents": [ "Pennzoil Place is a set of two 36-story towers in downtown Houston, Texas, United States.", "Designed by Philip Johnson and John Burgee and built in 1975, Pennzoil Place is Houston's most award-winning skyscraper and is widely known for its innovative design." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] }, { "title": "Philip Johnson", "sents": [ "Philip Cortelyou Johnson (July 8, 1906 – January 25, 2005) was an American architect, best known for his works of Modern architecture, including the Glass House in New Canaan, Connecticut, and his works of postmodern architecture, particularly 550 Madison Avenue which was designed for AT&T, and 190 South La Salle Street in Chicago.", "In 1978 he was awarded an American Institute of Architects Gold Medal and in 1979 the first Pritzker Architecture Prize." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "KKLS-FM", "sents": [ "KKLS-FM (104.7 FM, \"Hot 104.7\") is a radio station broadcasting a Top 40 (CHR) format.", "The station serves the Sioux Falls, South Dakota area.", "KKLS competes with 99.7 KKCK from Marshall, MN.", "KKLS and its sister stations were owned by Southern Minnesota Broadcasting until 2003 when they were sold to Cumulus Media, and sold again in 2012 to Townsquare Media." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 3 ] }, { "title": "Cumulus Media", "sents": [ "Cumulus Media, Inc. (and its subsidiaries, Cumulus Broadcasting LLC, Cumulus Licensing LLC and Broadcast Software International Inc) is an American broadcasting company and is the second largest owner and operator of AM and FM radio stations in the United States behind iHeartMedia, Inc. Cumulus lists ownership of 447 stations in 90 markets, as of July 1, 2017.", "It also owns Westwood One.", "Its headquarters are located in Atlanta, Georgia." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 2 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "William Hickox", "sents": [ "William Holmes Hickox was an American pair skater who competed with his sister Laurie Hickox.", "They won the bronze medal at the U.S. Championships, earning them the right to compete a month later at the World Championships in Prague.", "They also finished sixth at the North American Figure Skating Championships that year.", "They died along with their teammates on February 15, 1961 when Sabena Flight 548 crashed en route to the World Championships.", "He was 19 years old." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1, 2 ] }, { "title": "North American Figure Skating Championships", "sents": [ "The North American Figure Skating Championships were a former elite figure skating competition for skaters from the United States and Canada.", "It was a biennial (every two years) competition held between 1923 and 1971, with locations alternating between the two countries." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "Sevendys", "sents": [ "Sevendys is a collaborative musical project featuring rock musicians of several generations.", "The quintet of Jed Davis (keyboards/vocals), Avi Zahner-Isenberg (guitars/vocals), Sheridan Riley (drums/vocals), Chuck Rainey (bass) and Jerry Marotta (percussion/vocals) has recorded a dozen songs over three recording sessions since forming in 2010." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 1 ] }, { "title": "Jed Davis", "sents": [ "Jed Davis (born July 7, 1975 in Farmingdale, New York) is an American musician based in New York City.", "He sings and plays keyboards as a solo artist and with Sevendys, The Hanslick Rebellion, Skyscape, Space Toilets, and Jeebus, and occasionally with Avi Buffalo." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "Fuse Present: Linkin Park Live at MSG", "sents": [ "Linkin Park Live at Madison Square Garden, also styled as \"Linkin Park Live at MSG\", is a TV film which was broadcast by Fuse TV on February 18, 2011.", "The concert was played at Madison Square Garden.", "The concert was sponsored by Coca-Cola.", "The concert was included in the band's tour \"A Thousand Suns World Tour\".", "There were 15,170 tickets available for the concert and 15,170 tickets were sold.", "Hence the profit from the concert was 100%.", "The concert was heavily advertised because it was the third time that the band was performing a show in New York.", "Before this he band had performed in the same venue with Jay-Z and alone in Webster Hall for the promotion of the band's third studio album Minutes to Midnight.", "The whole tour of the band had Gross Revenue of $17,486,240.", "This show made the tour a huge success." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 3 ] }, { "title": "A Thousand Suns World Tour", "sents": [ "A Thousand Suns World Tour was a worldwide sixth concert tour by American rock band Linkin Park.", "The tour supported the band's fourth studio album \"A Thousand Suns\".", "The tour ranked 35th in Pollstar's \"Top 50 Worldwide Tour (Mid-Year)\", earning over 20 million dollars." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 2 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e1698_p41", "sents": [ "He and other analysts also said the profit taking had little to do with a report by the Conference Board that consumer confidence dropped significantly in April.", "Investors believe the decline should give the Federal Reserve greater incentive to lower interest rates for the fifth time this year when its policymaking Open Market Committee meets in mid-May.", "Wall Street, which last week ended its two best weeks of the year on positive earnings news and an unexpected rate cut by the Fed, is having conflicted emotions about the economy--while hoping that business and earnings will turn around soon, investors also are fearful that a recovery could take much longer.", "\"Fed rate cuts are pluses for the economy, but they take time to work their way through the system,\" said Alan Ackerman, executive vice president of Fahnestock & Co. Investors sold companies that posted disappointing profits.", "Consumer products maker Kimberly-Clark plunged $6.17 to close at $56.61 on news it missed earnings expectations by a penny a share." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 3 ] }, { "title": "e490_p35", "sents": [ "\"The market still appears to lack confidence and conviction,\" said Alan Ackerman, market strategist for Fahnestock & Co., a brokerage firm.", "\"Corporate earnings visibility keeps getting pushed further and further back.\"", "Meanwhile, the technology-heavy Nasdaq composite index rose 30.98 points, or 1.6 percent, to 1,928.68, bringing its gain for the week to 2 percent.", "And the Standard & Poor's 500-stock index gained 22.25 points, or 1.99 percent, to 1,139.83, leaving it down 1 percent for the week.", "In part, the stock market's newfound strength seemed to reflect a sort of afterglow following the Dow's rally Thursday afternoon.", "The confidence spread to the technology sector, where stocks have been battered more than 60 percent from levels of a year ago.", "\"Eventually you just say these things are just too cheap to sell,\" said James Crawford, a portfolio manager at Trevor Stewart Burton & Jacobsen.", "\"We could be looking at a half-decent rally." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e1537_p40", "sents": [ "With Nevada canceling its electricity deregulation plan and putting a moratorium on power plant divestitures April 18, analysts think Sierra Pacific may not be able to raise enough money to pay for the acquisition.", "So Enron will have to look for another buyer.", "Potential candidates include ScottishPower of Glasgow, Scotland; Northwest Natural Gas Co., also of Portland, and Duke Energy Corp. of Charlotte, N.C.", "Given the difficulties Enron has had with the Dabhol project, a pullout would not be surprising.", "On Sept. 9, Enron Chairman Kenneth Lay said at an energy conference in Houston the company planned to sell off its assets outside North America and Europe and reinvest the proceeds into its $1.3 billion expansion into broadband telecommunications in the United States A sale of Enron's interest in the Dabhol power project would go a long way toward reaching that goal.", "http: www.thedeal.com Copyright 2000 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 4 ] }, { "title": "Kenneth Lay", "sents": [ "Kenneth Lee \"Ken\" Lay (April 15, 1942 – July 5, 2006) was an American businessman.", "He was the CEO and chairman of Enron Corporation for most of its existence and is a central figure in the Enron scandal.", "Lay was indicted by a grand jury and was found guilty of 10 counts of securities fraud.", "Lay died while vacationing, three months before his October 23 sentencing.", "A preliminary autopsy reported Lay had died of a heart attack caused by coronary artery disease and his conviction was vacated." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "The Lucky Star (1997 film)", "sents": [ "La Buena Estrella (English: The Lucky Star ) is a 1997 Spanish drama film directed by Ricardo Franco and starring Antonio Resines, Jordi Mollá and Maribel Verdú.", "Critically acclaimed, the film won five Goya Awards: Best Film, Best Director, Best Actor (Antonio Resines), Best Original script and Best Original Music.", "Ricardo Franco made just one more film; he died of a heart attack in 1998." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] }, { "title": "Maribel Verdú", "sents": [ "María Isabel Verdú Rollán (] ; born 2 October 1970) better known as Maribel Verdú is a Spanish actress.", "She is known to English-speaking audiences for playing Luisa in Alfonso Cuarón's 2001 film \"Y tu mamá también\" and Mercedes in Guillermo del Toro's 2006 film \"Pan's Labyrinth\".", "In Spain she is known for films such as \"Lovers\" (\"Amantes\"), \"Belle Époque\", \"The Blind Sunflowers\" (\"Los girasoles ciegos\") and \"Blancanieves\"." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e2942_p12", "sents": [ "http: www.crossaccess.com Voyan Names Ex-Broadxent VP Namraj Johal Sales, Bus.", "Dev.", "VP mail?", "top SANTA CLARA, Calif. (VENTUREWIRE) -- Voyan Technology, a broadband communications company, said it named Namraj Johal as vice president of sal es and business development.", "Prior to joining the company, Mr. Johal was vice president of sales and marketing at Broadxent, formerly known as Digicom.", "Voyan is backed by Crosslink Capital, Fuji Bank, Redwood Venture Partners, Sony Computer Entertainment America, Spring Creek Partners, and Venture Law Group.", "http: www.voyan.com FINANCE Unicru Adds Former E*Trade Exec Christopher Marsh as CFO mail?", "top PORTLAND, Ore. (VENTUREWIRE) -- Unicru, a provider of recruiting technolog y and services to companies, said it named Christopher Marsh as senior vice president of business development and chief financial officer.", "Mr. Marsh wa s formerly chief financial officer of E*Trade Access.", "Unicru is backed by Benchmark Capital, Greylock Management, and Venrock Associates.", "http: www.unicru.com Vivocom Names Medimpact Healthcare Systems Exec as CFO mail?" ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 3, 5 ] }, { "title": "Fuji Bank", "sents": [ "The Fuji Bank, Limited (株式会社富士銀行 , Kabushiki-gaisha Fuji Ginkō ) was one of Japan's major banks during the post–World War II era.", "It combined with Dai-Ichi Kangyo Bank and the Industrial Bank of Japan in 2000 to form Mizuho Financial Group, and changed its name to Mizuho Corporate Bank in 2002 after transferring its retail banking operations to Mizuho Bank." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "Robert Hertzberg", "sents": [ "Robert Myles \"Bob\" Hertzberg (born November 19, 1954) is an American politician currently serving in the California State Senate.", "He is a Democrat representing the 18th Senate District, encompassing parts of the San Fernando Valley." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] }, { "title": "e1060_p11", "sents": [ "Assembly Speaker Robert Hertzberg, D-Van Nuys, the delegation leader, urged the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission not to turn its back on the Golden State.", "\"California is poised on the edge of an economic precipice that threatens not only our economy but the economy of the entire country,\" he said.", "But Commission Chairman Curt Hebert chided California for not doing enough to solve its own problems.", "Still, he professed his willingness to help.", "\"It is in everyone's interest to keep the lights on at all costs,\" he said.", "But Hebert, a protege of Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott, R-Miss., is a vocal opponent of price caps and didn't offer the California delegation the promise it was looking for.", "That didn't surprise Assemblyman Fred Keely, D-Santa Cruz, a member of the delegation.", "Such a move would be \"a dramatic and unprecedented departure\" from past actions of the commission, Keely said as he left the meeting." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "Snake River", "sents": [ "The Snake River is a major river of the greater Pacific Northwest in the United States.", "At 1078 mi long, it is the largest tributary of the Columbia River, the largest North American river that empties into the Pacific Ocean.", "Rising in western Wyoming, the river flows through the Snake River Plain of southern Idaho, then through the rugged Hells Canyon area via northeastern Oregon and the rolling Palouse Hills, to reach its mouth near the Washington Tri-Cities area, where it enters the Columbia.", "Its drainage basin encompasses parts of six U.S. states, and its average discharge is over 54000 cuft/s ." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] }, { "title": "e10584_p84", "sents": [ "If the worst-case scenarios come true, and shortages reach 5,000 megawatts, blackouts could last six hours at a time, affecting more than 20 million people, Perkins said.", "A drought in the Pacific Northwest is compounding California's electricity shortages and the failure of its four-year-old deregulation program.", "The Columbia River and Snake River regions are facing the fourth driest year on record, said Sen. Gordon H. Smith (R-Ore.).", "The reservoir behind the Grand Coulee Dam, largest in the Northwest, is at its lowest level in 25 years, and water power from Columbia River dams that normally would be used this summer is being tapped now to help California through its current shortage, Smith noted.", "The Northwest Power Planning Council recently warned that the Northwest faces a 1-in-4 chance of power shortages.", "\"There is a very high probability that the West Coast will face blackouts,\" said Judi Johansen, executive vice president of PacifiCorp, an electricity utility serving six western states." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 2 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e8473_p1", "sents": [ "He alleges that Daimler-Benz bosses were fraudulent in claiming that their takeover of Chrysler in 1998 was a &merger of equals 8, and is demanding $9 billio n in compensation.", "See article: Kerkorian v DaimlerE+ A planned restructuring at Mitsubishi Motors, a Japanese car co mpany that is 34% owned by DaimlerChrysler, appeared to go on hold after Mitsubishi agree d to bail out its loss-making Australian subsidiary to the tune of A$172m ($90m).", "General Electric named Jeffrey Immelt as its next chairman and chief executive.", "He will take over from &Neutron Jack 8 Welch, who has postp oned his retirement until the end of 2001 in order to oversee a potentially tricky takeover of Honeywell.", "See article: Face value: Jeffrey Immelt, GE ,s boss-in-waitin g Qantas, Australia ,s leading airline, is to spend $4.6 billio n on 31 new aircraft over the next ten years, including 12 new A3XX &superjumbos 8 from Airbus.", "This gives the European consortium enough orders for a formal launc h of its new aricraft." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] }, { "title": "Chrysler", "sents": [ "FCA US LLC (also called Fiat Chrysler or Chrysler) ( ) is the American subsidiary of Fiat Chrysler Automobiles N.V., an Italian controlled automobile manufacturer registered in the Netherlands with headquarters in London, U.K., for tax purposes.", "FCA US is one of the \"Big Three\" American automobile manufacturers.", "FCA US has its headquarters in Auburn Hills, Michigan and sells vehicles worldwide under its flagship Chrysler brand, as well as the Dodge, Jeep, and Ram Trucks.", "Other major divisions include Mopar, its automotive parts and accessories division, and SRT, its performance automobile division." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 2 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "Josef Bradl", "sents": [ "Josef \"Sepp\" / \"Bubi\" Bradl (8 January 1918 – 3 March 1982) was an Austrian ski jumper who competed during the 1930s and 1950s.", "He was born in Wasserburg am Inn, Bavaria.", "He won the ski jumping gold medal at the 1939 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in Zakopane while competing under Nazi Germany in the wake of Austria being annexed in late 1938.", "He was the first man to perform a \"flight\" of more than 100 meters, on 5 March 1936 in Planica, Slovenia." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 3 ] }, { "title": "Planica", "sents": [ "Planica (] ) is an Alpine valley in northwestern Slovenia, extending south from the border village of Rateče, not far from another well-known ski resort, Kranjska Gora.", "Further south, the valley extends into the Tamar Valley, a popular hiking destination in Triglav National Park." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e3246_p25", "sents": [ "\"It's a huge bond issue and I think the sheer size of it is dragging it dow n some,\" DiCamillo said.", "\"I think the cynicism that the public has about the causes of this and why this whole crisis has come to be really prevents the public from supporting this kind of money for this purpose.\"", "Burton, Hertzberg demand FERC puts price caps on electricity DAVID KRAVETS, Associated Press Writer Wednesday, May 23, 2001 ,2001 Associated Press: http: www.sfgate.com cgi-bin article.cgi?file=3D news archive 2001 05 23 s tate0 344EDT0119.DTL&type=3Dnews (05-23) 00:44 PDT SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- California's Democratic legislative leaders asked a federal appeals panel Tuesday to order federal regulators to cap wholesale electricity prices.", "\"The people of California need some protection from these outrageous prices ,\" said Assembly Speaker Robert Hertzberg.", "The move by Hertzberg of Van Nuys and Senate President John Burton of San Francisco came after unsuccessful lobbying by Gov." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 3 ] }, { "title": "Robert Hertzberg", "sents": [ "Robert Myles \"Bob\" Hertzberg (born November 19, 1954) is an American politician currently serving in the California State Senate.", "He is a Democrat representing the 18th Senate District, encompassing parts of the San Fernando Valley." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "Goshen College", "sents": [ "Goshen College is a private liberal arts college in Goshen, Indiana.", "The institution was founded in 1894 as the Elkhart Institute of Science, Industry and the Arts, and is affiliated with Mennonite Church USA.", "The college is accredited by the Higher Learning Commission.", "\"U.S. News and World Reports\" ranks Goshen as a top-tier regional college in the Midwest." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 3 ] }, { "title": "Midwestern United States", "sents": [ "The Midwestern United States, also referred to as the American Midwest, Middle West, or simply the Midwest, is one of four geographic regions defined by the United States Census Bureau.", "It occupies the northern central part of the United States of America.", "It was officially named the North Central region by the Census Bureau until 1984.", "It is located between the Northeastern U.S. and the Western U.S., with Canada to its north and the Southern U.S. to its south." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "White Palace (film)", "sents": [ "White Palace is a 1990 American romantic drama film directed by Luis Mandoki and starring Susan Sarandon, James Spader, Jason Alexander, Kathy Bates, Steven Hill, Jeremy Piven, and Renee Taylor.", "It was written by Ted Tally and Alvin Sargent, based on an homonymous novel (i.e.", "same title) by Glenn Savan (who appears in the film as an extra with a small speaking part)." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] }, { "title": "Jeremy Piven", "sents": [ "Jeremy Samuel Piven (born July 26, 1965) is an American actor and producer.", "He is known for his roles as Ari Gold in the comedy series \"Entourage\", for which he won a Golden Globe Award and three consecutive Emmy Awards, and as Spence Kovak on Ellen DeGeneres's sitcom \"Ellen\".", "He also starred in the British period drama \"Mr Selfridge\", which tells the story of the man who created the luxury English department store chain Selfridges." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "Fred Keeley", "sents": [ "Fred Keeley (born May 9, 1950) is a politician in California, U.S. Keeley was a member of the California State Assembly, representing District 27 which included parts of Santa Cruz County and Monterey County from 1996 to 2002.", "He retired in January 2015 after 10 years as the Treasurer of Santa Cruz County ." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] }, { "title": "e10580_p0", "sents": [ "'Thursday, February 1, 2001 Bill to Rescue Utilities With Rate Hikes Stalls in Assembly Crisis: Plan that would have authorized state to issue $10 billion in bonds to buy electricity is rejected by Republicans as a \"bailout\" after the measure barely passes the Senate.", "By JENIFER WARREN, MIGUEL BUSTILLO and CARL INGRAM, Times Staff Writers Assemblymen wait for late session on the rescue plan for the state's utilities to resume.", "From left, Bill Leonard, Bill Campbell, David Kelley, Robert Pacheco and Fred Keeley, the measure's author.CAROLYN COLE Los Angeles Times SACRAMENTO--Efforts to resolve the state's power crisis hit a serious snag late Wednesday as the state Assembly appeared unable to pass a bill that would have authorized up to $10 billion in bonds to purchase power and raised electric rates for millions of residents.", "The bill, which required a two-thirds vote, fell just short, and legislative leaders scrambled around midnight to see if they could convince three Republicans to change their minds." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 2, 3 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "Dick Armey", "sents": [ "Richard Keith Armey ( ; born July 7, 1940) is an American politician.", "He was a U.S. Representative from Texas' (1985–2003) and House Majority Leader (1995–2003).", "He was one of the engineers of the \"Republican Revolution\" of the 1990s, in which Republicans were elected to majorities of both houses of Congress for the first time in four decades.", "Armey was one of the chief authors of the Contract with America.", "Armey is also an author and former economics professor.", "After his retirement from Congress, he has worked as a consultant, advisor, and lobbyist." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] }, { "title": "e5942_p19", "sents": [ "Leaders of both parties still promise passage of energy legislation later this year, but it seems increasingly likely to be far less sweeping than the bold action sought by Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney.", "Many Republicans, for example, have broken ranks with the White House on oil and gas exploration in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.", "Last week, the House voted to ban drilling off the Florida coast and in national monuments.", "And Thursday, a sizable contingent of House Republicans teamed with Democrats to ban drilling under the Great Lakes.", "\"We're worried about it,\" acknowledged Majority Leader Dick Armey (R-Texas).", "\"Those votes were disturbing.\"", "\"Of course, we're discouraged,\" added Rep. W.J.", "\"Billy\" Tauzin (R-La.)", "chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee.", "Democrats aren't getting their way either.", "Their proposals to impose rigid price caps on electricity in the West are going nowhere in the House, and Senate sponsors are holding off on pursuing the issue." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 2, 3, 4 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e5470_p16", "sents": [ "\"It's a big deal to take over a person's property,\" said Vargas.", "\"But this is reasonable.", "It's rational.", "They forced us into it and it's time to fight back.\"", "Some believe the state, by seizing power plants, could obtain electricity f or less than it pays in the existing market, which is widely deemed to be overpriced.", "But Gary Ackerman, executive director of the Western Power Trading Forum, a group of power generating companies, said the Vargas plan would hurt the state's efforts to build enough plants to ease the crisis.", "\"I don't think there is such a thing as seizure lite,\" he said.", "\"Any discussion of plant seizures for a day or a lifetime has a devastating effe ct on the business climate.\"", "Even a temporary state takeover would discourage investors who want to buil d new generating plants to increase the supply of electricity, he said.", "It would also discourage bond investors whom the state wants to tap to repay state taxpayers for buying high-priced electricity on the spot market." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 5 ] }, { "title": "Gary Ackerman", "sents": [ "Gary Leonard Ackerman (born November 19, 1942) is a former U.S. Representative from New York, serving from 1983 to 2013.", "He is a member of the Democratic Party.", "On March 15, 2012, Ackerman announced that he would retire at the end of the 112th Congress on January 3, 2013 after fifteen terms, and would not seek re-election in November 2012." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 2 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e7985_p10", "sents": [ "http: www.tisworldwide.com?", "E-Learning System Firm WebCT Closes $70 Million Sixth Round?", "LYNNFIELD, Mass.", "(VENTUREWIRE) -- WebCT, a provider of integrated Inter net learning systems for the higher education market, said it completed a $70 million sixth round of financing with a new undisclosed amount of funding from the Munder NetNet Fund.", "WebCT opened the round earlier this year.", "SCT, a provider of software and services to support the business processes of high er education, made a strategic investment in WebCT in June.", "Thomson Learning, a division of the publicly traded Thomson Corporation, also made a strategic investment in September.", "The company has raised a total of $125 million to date.", "Previous investors include CMGI @Ventures, the venture capital affiliate of CMGI; Chase Capital Partners; BancBoston Ventures; NetInvest; Boston Millennia Partners; Welch & Forbes; Duke Management, the investment arm of the Duke University Endowment Fund; Kestrel Venture Management; and MTDC.", "http: www.webct.com HyperTrust, Hosted Security Firm, Has $1 Million Funding LEUVEN, Belgium (VENTUREWIRE) -- HyperTrust, which is developing a hosted platform for secure communications and transactions based on dig ital signatures, said it raised EUR 1.24 million ($1 million) in its first funding." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 3, 5, 6, 8 ] }, { "title": "e4576_p26", "sents": [ "K2 will acquire a majority equity stake in SilverCube in a stock exchange; Unwired will take a minority equity stake in the company with a cash investment.", "The previous SilverCube shareholders will also hold equity in the joint venture.", "http: www.silvercube.com http: www.k2design.com Mobile Services Provider Visto Acquires Netdrive.com SAN FRANCISCO -- Visto, a provider of mobile communications services for wireless and wired networks, said it acquired netdrive.com, a provider of online Internet storage, for an undisclosed amount.", "Visto is backed by Bessemer Venture Partners, CMGI @Ventures, Compaq Computer, Enterprise Associates, GE Investments, Network Associates, and Trinity Ventures.", "Netdrive.com is backed by outside individual investors.", "http: www.vistocorp.com http: www.netdrive.com Dental E-Commerce Firm Dentalxchange.com Buys eDentalStore IRVINE, Calif. -- Dentalxchange.com, a provider of Internet tools and electronic commerce services for the dental community, said it is acquiring eDentalStore, an electronic commerce site for dental supplies.", "eDentalStore customers will become full members of dentalxchange.com, and visitors to eDentalStore.com will be redirected to Dentalxchange.com." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 3 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "Brody Małe, Lublin Voivodeship", "sents": [ "Brody Małe is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Szczebrzeszyn, within Zamość County, Lublin Voivodeship, in eastern Poland.", "It lies approximately 2 km east of Szczebrzeszyn, 20 km west of Zamość, and 70 km south-east of the regional capital Lublin." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] }, { "title": "Zamość", "sents": [ "Zamość ] (Yiddish: זאמאשטש Zamoshtsh) is a city in southeastern Poland, situated in the southern part of Lublin Voivodeship (since 1999), about 90 km from Lublin, 247 km from Warsaw and 60 km from the border with Ukraine.", "In 2014, the population was 65,149." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "Measure of a Man (Jack Ingram song)", "sents": [ "\"Measure of a Man\" is a song recorded by American country music artist Jack Ingram.", "It was released in April 2007 as the second single from his album \"This Is It\".", "The song was written by Radney Foster and Gordie Sampson." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 2 ] }, { "title": "Radney Foster", "sents": [ "Radney Foster (born July 20, 1959) is an American country music singer-songwriter, musician and music producer.", "Initially a songwriter in Nashville, Tennessee, Foster made his recording debut as part of the Foster & Lloyd duo, recording three studio albums and with nine singles on the country charts." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "Honest to God", "sents": [ "Honest to God is a book written by the Anglican Bishop of Woolwich John A.T. Robinson, criticising traditional Christian theology.", "It aroused a storm of controversy on its original publication by SCM Press in 1963.", "Robinson had already achieved notoriety by his defence of the publication of \"Lady Chatterley's Lover\"." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 2 ] }, { "title": "Lady Chatterley's Lover", "sents": [ "Lady Chatterley's Lover is a novel by D. H. Lawrence, first published privately in 1928 in Italy, and in 1929 in France and Australia.", "An unexpurgated edition was not published openly in the United Kingdom until 1960, when it was the subject of a watershed obscenity trial against the publisher Penguin Books.", "Penguin won the case, and quickly sold 3 million copies.", "The book soon became notorious for its story of the physical (and emotional) relationship between a working class man and an upper class woman, its explicit descriptions of sex, and its use of then-unprintable words." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "Cassidy (surname)", "sents": [ "Cassidy (Irish: \"Ó Caiside / Ó Casaide\" ) is a common Irish surname and is sometimes used as a given name.", "The surname translates to \"descendent of Caiside\".", "Variations include: Cassady, Cassiday, Cassedy and Cassedey.", "The family was originally a Munster sept called Uí Chaisín but in the 12th century a branch moved to Devenish Island in County Fermanagh, where they became a medical and poetic family, hereditary physicians to the Maguires." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 3 ] }, { "title": "Devenish Island", "sents": [ "Devenish or Devinish (from Irish: \"Daimhinis\" , meaning \"ox island\" ) is an island in Lower Lough Erne, County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland.", "Aligned roughly north–south, it is about one and a quarter miles long and two-thirds of a mile wide.", "The main place to catch a ferry to the island is at Trory Point, just outside Enniskillen." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e7595_p10", "sents": [ "Telephone +44-207-702-5544. o Fiber Optics Firm Bandwidth9 Has $80 Million Series F FREMONT, Calif. -- Bandwidth9, a designer and manufacturer of tunable fiber-optic components and modules for telecommunications, said it closed an $80 million Series F round of financing led by new investors Van Wagoner Capital Management and BlueStream Ventures.", "Other new investors participating include American Express, Merrill Lynch, Munder Technology Fund, and Sands Brother Venture Capital.", "Previous investors including Accel Partners, Institutional Venture Partners, Oak Investment Partners, Lucent, Hook Partners also participated this round.", "Bandwidth9 has created aa vertical cavity surface emitting laser (VCSEL) technology, which incorporates broad tuning and direct modulation.", "The company is developing optical transmission products that will allow remote, dynamic provisioning of bandwidth to businesses and consumers.", "The company said it will use the funding to prepare for its launch of new products, as well as continue its expansion of production capacity.", "Bandwidth9 has raised $111 million to date." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 2 ] }, { "title": "Institutional Venture Partners", "sents": [ "Institutional Venture Partners (IVP) is a US-based private equity investment firm focusing on later-stage venture capital and growth equity investments.", "IVP is one of the oldest venture capital firms on Sand Hill Road founded in 1980." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "Stenoptilia veronicae", "sents": [ "Stenoptilia veronicae is a moth of the family Pterophoridae.", "It is found in Fennoscandia, Poland, Latvia, Estonia and northern Russia." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] }, { "title": "Fennoscandia", "sents": [ "Fennoscandia (Finnish: \"Fennoskandia\" ; Swedish: \"Fennoskandien\" ; Norwegian: \"Fennoskandia\" ; Russian: Фенноскандия \"Fennoskandiya\" ), Fenno-Scandinavia, or the Fennoscandian Peninsula, is the geographical peninsula of the Nordic region comprising the Scandinavian Peninsula, Finland, Karelia, and the Kola Peninsula.", "It encompasses Finland, Norway and Sweden, as well as Murmansk Oblast, much of the Republic of Karelia, and parts of northern Leningrad Oblast in Russia.", "Its name comes from the Latin words \"Fennia\" (Finland) and \"Scandia\" (Scandinavian).", "The term was first used by the Finnish geologist Wilhelm Ramsay in 1898.", "Geologically, the area is distinct because its bedrock is Archaean granite and gneiss with very little limestone, in contrast to adjacent areas in Europe." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "C. M. van den Heever", "sents": [ "Christiaan Maurits van den Heever, almost universally known C.M.", "van den Heever (27 February 1902 in the concentration camp near Norvalspont in Cape Province, now Northern Cape Province, South Africa – 8 July 1957), was an Afrikaans-language novelist, poet, essayist, and biographer." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] }, { "title": "Afrikaans", "sents": [ "Afrikaans ( ) is a West Germanic language spoken in South Africa, Namibia and, to a lesser extent, Botswana and Zimbabwe.", "It evolved from the Dutch vernacular of South Holland (Hollandic dialect) spoken by the mainly Dutch settlers of what is now South Africa, where it gradually began to develop distinguishing characteristics in the course of the 18th century.", "Hence, it is a daughter language of Dutch, and was previously referred to as \"Cape Dutch\" (a term also used to refer collectively to the early Cape settlers) or \"kitchen Dutch\" (a derogatory term used to refer to Afrikaans in its earlier days).", "However, it is also variously described as a creole or as a partially creolised language.", "The term is ultimately derived from Dutch \"Afrikaans-Hollands \" meaning \"African Dutch\".", "It is the first language of most of the Afrikaners and Coloureds of Southern Africa." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 2 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "Warburg Pincus", "sents": [ "Warburg Pincus, LLC is an American private equity firm with offices in the United States, Europe, Brazil, China and India.", "It has been a private equity investor since 1966.The firm currently has approximately $40 billion in assets under management and invests in a range of sectors including retail, industrial manufacturing, energy, financial services, health care, technology, media, and real estate.", "Warburg Pincus is a growth investor.", "Warburg Pincus has raised 15 private equity funds which have invested $58 billion in over 760 companies in 40 countries." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] }, { "title": "e3331_p11", "sents": [ "The funding came from Warburg Pincus, which contributed $200 million; Singapore Telecommunications, which provided $200 million; AIF Funds Management, whic h invested $35 million; International Finance, which provided $20 million; an d New York Life, with a $5 million investment.", "Bharti previously received $10 0 million from Warburg Pincus and $400 million from Singapore Telecommunications.", "http: www.bhartibt.com IpSEAL Wants $8 Million in Second Round mail?", "top WESTMINSTER, Col. (VENTUREWIRE) -- IpSEAL, a Westminster, Colo. star tup developing a software platform for coordinating activity within a service provider's network, is raising a second institutional round of funding for between $6 million and $8 million, president and CEO Marvin L. Hutchens tol d VentureWire.", "Mr. Hutchens plans to bring in a new lead investor as well as the company's previous investors, iVention Group, Oak Hill Venture Partners and Rock Mountain.", "Mr. Hutchens said he planned to close the round by the end of August." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 1 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "Loretta Lynch", "sents": [ "Loretta Elizabeth Lynch (born May 21, 1959) is an American attorney who served as the 83rd Attorney General of the United States, appointed by President Barack Obama in 2015 to succeed Eric Holder.", "Previously, she held the position for United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York under both the Clinton (1999–2001) and Obama administrations (2010–15).", "As U.S. Attorney, Lynch oversaw federal prosecutions in Brooklyn, Queens, Staten Island and Long Island." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] }, { "title": "e480_p5", "sents": [ "Since April 1999, the California Energy Commission has licensed nine major new power plants.", "Six are under construction.", "This is part of a streamlined, fast-track plant licensing process that aims to put an additional 20,000 megawatts on line by the summer of 2004, a nearly 50 percent increase in generation.", "And the apologists refuse to recognize that California is building the right sort of power plants - efficient, clean and environmentally friendly, with a strong bent toward renewable power sources.", "In fact, while some would go Texas' route and build plants that meet only the bare minimum of environmental requirements, California is continuing the effort that has made it the nation's leader in the use of clean, renewable power sources.", "Instead, the apologists engage in name calling, such as the charge leveled by former Wilson communications director Dan Schnur on this page that Loretta Lynch, the Davis appointee as PUC chair, is inexperienced and has failed to deal effectively with the energy emergency." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 5 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e3705_p7", "sents": [ "Those stereotypes pit the languid, Birkenstock-wearing Californian against the respectable Texas corporate man; the gluttonous executive against the rabid environmentalist; John Wayne against out-of-towners in black hats.", "Ju st as when many in this country maligned Arabs during the 1970s oil embargo, attempts to create victims and villains in the current energy crisis easily appeal to public emotion.", "Davis, a Democrat, recently invoked the image of hand-to-hand combat with a fearsome foreigner: \"We are literally in a war with energy companies, many of which reside in Texas,\" Davis said after Bush, a Texan, released his energy plan.", "The image is straight from an old western.", "\"Gray Davis is playing John Wayne against the guy with the black hat,\" said Mark Petracca, chairman of the political science department at the Universi ty of California Irvine.", "\"You sound like a socialist if you demonize middle-ag ed white guys in suits who own capital." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 2, 3, 4 ] }, { "title": "John Wayne", "sents": [ "Marion Mitchell Morrison (born Marion Robert Morrison; May 26, 1907 – June 11, 1979), known professionally as John Wayne and nicknamed Duke, was an American actor and filmmaker.", "An Academy Award-winner for \"True Grit\" (1969), Wayne was among the top box office draws for three decades." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e3228_p11", "sents": [ "\"I'm optimistic that the market is going to recover in a reasonable amount of ti!", "me,\" she said.", "http: www.atreus-systems.com JavaBeans App Firm Compoze Gets $1.2 Million Series A mail?", "top PHILADELPHIA (VENTUREWIRE) -- Compoze Software, which provides serve r-side enterprise JavaBeans software for business applications, announced it has closed $1.2 million in Series A financing.", "Robin Hood Ventures led the roun d, with participation from SeaCap Ventures, bHive, and individuals.", "Post-money Compoze has a valuation of about $5 million.", "As a result of the round, Larr y Brotzge of Robin Hood Ventures and Allen Paik of SeaCap Ventures join the board, bringing total number of directors to four.", "The company said it will use the funds for sales and marketing.", "The company said the funds are expected to last a year, at which point it expects to raise another round of financing.", "The company employs 14 now and anticipates expanding to 20 by th e end of the year." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 3, 4 ] }, { "title": "Robin Hood Ventures", "sents": [ "Robin Hood Ventures is a group of angel investors, focused on early-stage, high-growth companies in the Greater Philadelphia region.", "Its office is at the University City Science Center.", "Since 1999, Robin Hood has invested in industries including software, medical devices, biotech, internet and financial technology." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "San Francisco", "sents": [ "San Francisco (initials SF) ( , Spanish for Saint Francis; Spanish: ] ), officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the cultural, commercial, and financial center of Northern California.", "The consolidated city-county covers an area of about 47.9 sqmi at the north end of the San Francisco Peninsula in the San Francisco Bay Area.", "It is the fourth-most populous city in California, and the 13th-most populous in the United States, with a 2016 census-estimated population of 870,887.", "The population is projected to reach 1 million by 2033." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 2 ] }, { "title": "e3552_p37", "sents": [ "CableNet, now in the process of raising a $10 million second round, is back ed by Amadeus Capital Partners, Pino Venture Partners, Veritas Venture Partner s and individuals.", "http: www.cablenet.com Catenas Acquires Minority Stake in Endero mail?", "top COPENHAGEN, Denmark (VENTUREWIRE) -- Catenas, a network of professio nal services firms based in San Francisco, said it acquired a 25% stake in publicly traded Swedish software and consulting firm Endero.", "Though Endero remains public, it will join Catenas' network of professional services companies.", "The deal strengthens Catenas' position in the Scandinavian regio n. Catenas is majority-owned by 2M Invest, a venture capital and management firm, which invested $10 million in Catenas in January.", "Also in January, Catenas raised $54.7 million from Danish, Asian, and American investors at a post-money valuation of $188 million and was advised by the London office of McDermott Will & Emery in the deal.", "Gray Cary Ware & Freidenrich is the company's law firm in the United States Catenas is a network of professional service s companies that provides management consulting, brand consulting, systems integration, relationship marketing, and data mining." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 2 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e27919_p19", "sents": [ "<http: www.safe-reuse.com * Digital Content Services Firm Simulacra Media Raises $615K top mail <http: venturewire.com o_mailer.asp?sid=INONQNHNII LONDON -- Simulacra Media, a consultancy that provides services to assist organizations in managing and distributing digital content, said it raised GBP 430,000 ($615,000) in funding.", "Investors included FirstStage Capital.", "Simulcara said it will use the new capital to implement its strategy for growth over the next three years, invest further in its technology, and expand staff.", "<http: www.simulacramedia.com * PR Platform Provider Vocus Gets $2.5M Credit Facility top mail <http: venturewire.com o_mailer.asp?sid=HHLNLLINII LANHAM, MD.", "-- Vocus, a provider of a Web-based public relations automation platform for the public relations industry, said it has closed a $2.5 million revolving credit facility.", "VentureBank@PNC underwrote the facility, which will provide working capital to assist Vocus in pursuing its growth strategy and expanding customer base.", "In June the company raised a $13.4-million Series B round from Carmel Associaties, Edison Venture Fund, Lazard Technology Partners, and Sterling Venture Partners." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 4, 6 ] }, { "title": "e4329_p9", "sents": [ "http: www.productpop.com Billing, Customer Care Firm Raises $6 Million in First Round LAUREL, Md.", "-- ASC Billing Solutions, a provider of convergent billing and customer care services and products for the communications industry, said it has raised $6 million in its first round of funding.", "Edison Venture Fund led the round, with Mid-Atlantic Venture Funds and STI Ventures participating as co-investors.", "The company said it will use the funds for marketing, sales, and engineering activities to enhance its products.", "http: www.ascglobe.com Israeli Security Firm Safewww Launches with $3.5 Million UNIONDALE, N.Y. -- Safewww, which provides identity protection and authorization technologies, said it launched its service and established a new office in Uniondale, N.Y.", "The company has raised $3.5 million in capital through seed and Series A fundings.", "Investors in these rounds included a subsidiary of Cohen, as well as individuals from New York and Argentina.", "The money was used to establish the company's New York headquarters." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 1, 2 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "Big Quilcene River", "sents": [ "The Big Quilcene River is a river on the Olympic Peninsula in the U.S. state of Washington.", "It rises in the Buckhorn Wilderness near Marmot Pass, south of Buckhorn Mountain, and near Mount Constance.", "It flows generally east through the Olympic Mountains and the Olympic National Forest.", "After flowing south briefly the river is joined by Tunnel Creek and again flows east.", "It cuts through the Quilcene Range of the Olympic Mountains in which it collects a number of tributaries, including Mile And A Half Creek.", "Near Rainbow Campground the river turns north and is paralleled by U.S. Route 101.", "In its last few miles the river turns east and flows by the south side of Quilcene before emptying into Quilcene Bay, part of Hood Canal.", "The Little Quilcene River enters Quilcene Bay less than a mile to the north." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 5 ] }, { "title": "U.S. Route 101", "sents": [ "U.S. Route 101, or U.S. Highway 101 (US 101) is a north–south United States Numbered Highway that runs through the states of California, Oregon, and Washington, on the West Coast of the United States.", "It is also known as El Camino Real (The Royal Road) where its route along the southern and central California coast approximates the old trail which linked the Spanish missions, pueblos, and presidios.", "It merges at some points with California State Route 1 (SR 1)." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "Lowell Bergman", "sents": [ "Lowell Bergman (born July 24, 1945) is the Reva and David Logan Distinguished Chair in Investigative Reporting at the Graduate School of Journalism at UC Berkeley and director of the Investigative Reporting Program, where he has taught a seminar dedicated to investigative reporting for over 20 years.", "He is also a producer/correspondent for the PBS documentary series \"Frontline\".", "Bergman’s career spans nearly five decades, most notably as a producer, a reporter and then the director of investigative reporting at ABC News and as CBS News producer for \"60 Minutes\"." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] }, { "title": "e3705_p43", "sents": [ "She said consideration should be delayed until the next evening council meeting June 18 to give residents time to review the document.", "But Gonzales said he's not inclined to defer the item.", "He said today's meeting is already filled with difficult land-use decisions.", "``We have already heard from the neighborhood,'' he said.", "``It was their concerns we negotiated.''", "Contact Mike Zapler at [email protected] or at (408) 275-0140. PBS documentary shines light on energy crisis LOS ANGELES (AP) -- As California's energy crisis casts a widening shadow, PBS' ``Frontline'' helps illuminate the issue with a high-wattage documentary.", "``Blackout'' is both a comprehensive report and a warning: California's pow er deregulation woes represent a national problem not destined for a quick or painless solution.", "The hourlong film, with reporting by ``Frontline'' correspondent Lowell Bergman done in conjunction with The New York Times, airs 10 p.m. EDT Tuesd ay on PBS stations (check local listings)." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 6, 7 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e3579_p23", "sents": [ "CEOExpress now has four directors, including Patricia Pomerleau, founder and president of the company, Ladd Christensen, chairman of CEOExpress and chairman and CEO of IncuHub, and Peter J. Solomon, chairman of Peter Solomon Company Limited, a Wall Street investment banking firm.", "CEOExpress launched in January 1999 with funds from individual investor Mr. Solomon.", "http: www.ceoexpress.com Comergent Technologies Appoints Ariba Co-Founder to Board REDWOOD CITY, Calif. -- Comergent Technologies, which provides collaborative commerce services for enterprises with complex selling modules, said it has appointed Ariba co-founder and CFO Edward P. Kinsey to its board of directors.", "Mr. Kinsey Before Ariba, he was vice president of finance and CFO for CenterView Software, an Internet development tools company.", "Comergent is backed by CrossPoint Ventures, Softbank, Morgan Stanley and Cisco.", "http: www.comergent.com E-Procurement Aps Firm RFQ4 Adds Kozmo.com COO to Board NEW YORK -- RFQ4, an electronic procurement applications company for higher education, said it will add Kozmo.com?" ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 4 ] }, { "title": "Morgan Stanley", "sents": [ "Morgan Stanley (NYSE: [ MS] ) is a leading global financial services firm providing investment banking, securities, wealth management and investment management services.", "It is headquartered at 1585 Broadway in the Morgan Stanley Building, Midtown Manhattan, New York City.", "With offices in more than 42 countries and more than 55,000 employees, the firm's clients include corporations, governments, institutions and individuals." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e3331_p34", "sents": [ "Mr. Legmann recently served as vice president of business development and marketing at Elron TeleSoft.", "Beacon Telco, which currently employs four investment professionals, said it will add another partner in the next quarter.", "Tech holding company Beacon Photonics formed Beacon Telco and has contributed $14 million to the venture capital management company's first fund.", "Beacon Telco is currently raising an additional $30 million to $50 million for the same fund, which maintains a carried interest of 20% an d 5% management fee.", "The fund will invest between $1 million and $2 million in seed financing for $4 million to $5 million in total investment.", "Beacon Tel co expects to invest in three to five companies each year in the optical component, optical system, and storag!", "e sectors of broadband communication s. So far it has two portfolio companies.", "Beacon Photonics, which owns Beacon Telco, is backed by Boston University, GlobalVest Management Company, and consulting company PRTM." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 7 ] }, { "title": "Boston University", "sents": [ "Boston University (commonly referred to as BU) is a private research university located in Boston, Massachusetts.", "The university is nonsectarian, and is historically affiliated with the United Methodist Church." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e10961_p1", "sents": [ "Business Times (Singapore), 02 14 2001 FEDERAL POWER MIN GIVES PRESENTATION TO INDIAN CABINET Asia Pulse, 02 14 2001 ASIA-PACIFIC: No let-up for Indian electricity Financial Times, 02 14 2001 Cabinet okays Navy land transfer to Andamans The Times of India, 02 14 2001 Equity dilution, not divestment in Maruti The Times of India, 02 14 2001 Power reforms and regulations Business Standard, 02 14 2001 DPC not to invoke central guarantee Business Standard, 02 14 2001 Enron saga: Powered by govt generosity The Times of India, 02 14 2001 Centre signs power sector reforms MoU with Haryana Business Standard, 02 14 2001 India: Enron review panel to begin sittings today The Hindu, 02 14 2001 Macerich Announces Year-End Results PR Newswire, 02 14 2001 Racing friend of the Queen to be US ambassador The Daily Telegraph, 02 14 2001 USA: INTERVIEW - Enron business model almost limitless-Skilling.", "Reuters English News Service, 02 13 2001 Contracts save electricity costs, but college natural gas bills soar Associated Press Newswires, 02 13 2001 Edison Says Banks Mulling Request to Delay Remedies (Update1) Bloomberg News, 02 13 2001 Acegas listed on February 28 and aims for telecoms market Il Sole 24 Ore - Italy, 02 13 2001 Metro Desk California and the West Panel OKs Bills on State Purchase of Power Grid Energy: Senate measures would authorize takeover of transmission lines and construction of generating plants." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] }, { "title": "The Times of India", "sents": [ "The Times of India (TOI) is an Indian English-language daily newspaper owned by The Times Group.", "It is the third-largest newspaper in India by circulation and largest selling English-language daily in the world according to Audit Bureau of Circulations (India).", "It is the oldest English-language newspaper in India still in circulation, with its first edition published in 1838.It is the second oldest Indian newspaper still in circulation after the Bombay Samachar.Lord Curzon the then Viceroy of India called The Times of India \"the leading paper in Asia\".", "In 1991, the BBC ranked \"The Times of India\" among the world's six best newspapers." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 2 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "Hollyn", "sents": [ "Holly Marie Miller (born January 3, 1997), known by her stage name Hollyn, is a singer and songwriter of Christian music.", "Hollyn sings a mixture of pop, R&B, and Christian music.", "She was a contestant on \"American Idol\" during season 12, where she made it to the Hollywood rounds.", "She has released the extended play \"Hollyn\" in 2015, and the album \"One-Way Conversations\" in 2017, both with Gotee Records." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 3 ] }, { "title": "Gotee Records", "sents": [ "Gotee Records (established 1994) is a record label founded by Christian hip hop performer Toby McKeehan (professionally known as \"TobyMac\"), Todd Collins, and Joey Elwood.", "The label began as a production company.", "At the time of the label's founding, McKeehan was a member of dc Talk." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "Progressive Democratic Autonomists", "sents": [ "The Progressive Democratic Autonomists (French: \"Autonomistes démocrates progressistes\" , ADP) was a social-liberal and Christian-leftist Italian political party active in Aosta Valley.", "Its leading members included Cesare Dujany, Maurizio Martin, Angelo Pollicini, Ilario Lanivi, Giuseppe Maquignaz and Giorgio Lavoyer." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] }, { "title": "Ilario Lanivi", "sents": [ "Ilario Lanivi is an Italian politician from the Aosta Valley who has been highly involved in the formation of a number of political parties.", "He started his political career with the Christian Democrats.", "Lanivi parted ways with them in 1970 when a faction broke off to form the left-wing Popular Democrats, which merged with the Progressive Valdostan Union in 1984 to become Progressive Democratic Autonomists, of which Lanivi was a leading member.", "On 9 March 1991 Lanivi and Amato Maquignaz founded a new political party, the Independent Autonomists.", "In April 1992, Lanivi was elected president of the Aosta Valley region, heading a coalition composed by the Valdostan Union, the Democratic Party of the Left, the Italian Socialist Party, the Progressive Democratic Autonomists and the Italian Republican Party.", "In 1993, Lanivi founded For Aosta Valley together with Cesare Dujany, former leader of the Popular Democrats.", "In 2007, Lanivi and Augusto Rollandin were found guilty of mismanaging public transportation funds in the valley and fined EUR 300,000 and EUR 480,000 respectively" ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1, 2 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "Raj Reddy", "sents": [ "Dabbala Rajagopal \"Raj\" Reddy (born June 13, 1937) is an Indian-American computer scientist and a winner of the Turing Award.", "He is one of the early pioneers of Artificial Intelligence and has served on the faculty of Stanford and Carnegie Mellon University for over 40 years.", "He was the founding director of the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University.", "He was instrumental in helping to create Rajiv Gandhi University of Knowledge Technologies in India, to cater to the educational needs of the low-income, gifted, rural youth.", "He is also the chairman of International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad.", "He is the first person of Asian origin to receive the ACM Turing Award, in 1994, the highest award in Computer Science, for his work in the field of Artificial Intelligence." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 2 ] }, { "title": "e7985_p6", "sents": [ "eMedia club also participated in the round.", "The company said it will use the funds to develop its management team, ex pand its network-operating center, and for sales and marketing.", "Members fr om MCG and eMedia will join the board of directors.?", "http: www.netplexu s.com?", "Software Firm PowerLoom Raises $1.1 Million Seed Round?", "PITTSBURGH (VENTUREWIRE) -- PowerLoom, which makes software for Internet trading marketplaces, said it has raised $1.1 million in a seed round of funding from institutional investor Topps, a sports collectibles firm, and from individuals including Raj Reddy, ex-dean of the computer science department at Carnegie Mellon and co-chair of the President's IT Committee; Jaime Carbonell, director of language technologies at Carnegie Melon; and Venkat Srinivasan, CEO of eCredit, a financial services Web site.", "PowerLoom said it will build an online exchange site for Topps for an additional $500,000, which will count as revenue.", "Steve Katz and Warren Friss, co-directors of Topps' Internet unit, will share a seat on PowerLoom's board." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 5 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "Notoglanidium depierrei", "sents": [ "Notoglanidium depierrei is a species of catfish (order Siluriformes) family Claroteidae.", "This species is endemic to Cameroon where it is known only from its type locality of the Sanaga River Basin.", "It reaches a length of about 17.2 centimetres (6.8 in) SL.", "It was formerly considered to be the sole member of the monotypic genus \"Platyglanis\" but this has now been synonymised with \"Notoglanidium\"." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] }, { "title": "Notoglanidium", "sents": [ "Notoglanidium is a genus of claroteid catfishes native to Africa.", "The genus has now been merged with \"Anaspidoglanis\", \"Liauchenoglanis\" and \"Platyglanis\"." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "Dolichometra", "sents": [ "Dolichometra is a monotypic genus of flowering plants in the Rubiaceae family.", "The genus contains only one species, viz.", "Dolichometra leucantha, which is endemic to the East Usambara Mountains in Tanzania." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] }, { "title": "Rubiaceae", "sents": [ "The Rubiaceae are a family of flowering plants, commonly known as the coffee, madder, or bedstraw family.", "It consists of terrestrial trees, shrubs, lianas, or herbs that are recognizable by simple, opposite leaves with interpetiolar stipules.", "The family contains about 13,500 species in 611 genera, which makes it the fourth-largest angiosperm family.", "Rubiaceae has a cosmopolitan distribution; however, the largest species diversity is concentrated in the (sub)tropics.", "Economic importance includes \"Coffea\", the source of coffee, \"Cinchona\", the source of the antimalarial alkaloid quinine, some dye plants (e.g.", "\"Rubia\"), and ornamental cultivars (e.g.", "\"Gardenia\", \"Ixora\", \"Pentas\")." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 2 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "Claude Bonin-Pissarro", "sents": [ "Claude Bonin-Pissarro (born 11 July 1921) is a French painter and graphic designer.", "He is the son of Jeanne Pissarro (1881–1948) and the grandson of painter Camille Pissarro (1830–1903).", "He is the father of French painter Frédéric Bonin-Pissarro, who was born in 1964." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 2 ] }, { "title": "Frédéric Bonin-Pissarro", "sents": [ "Frédéric Bonin-Pissarro or Frédéric Pissarro (born in 1964 in Paris) is a French painter.", "He is since 2002 a citizen of the United States." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (film)", "sents": [ "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is a 2005 musical fantasy film directed by Tim Burton and written by John August, based on the 1964 British novel of the same name by Roald Dahl.", "The film stars Johnny Depp as Willy Wonka and Freddie Highmore as Charlie Bucket.", "The storyline follows Charlie, who wins a contest and is along with four other contest winners, subsequently led by Wonka on a tour of his chocolate factory, the most magnificent in the world." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] }, { "title": "Missi Pyle", "sents": [ "Andrea Kay \"Missi\" Pyle (born November 16, 1972) is an American actress and singer.", "She has appeared in several films, including the award-winning films \"The Artist\", \"Galaxy Quest\", \"\", \"Big Fish\", \"50 First Dates\", \"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory\", \"Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay\" and \"Gone Girl\"." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "Winter Wonderland (Point of Grace album)", "sents": [ "Winter Wonderland is the eleventh album by Contemporary Christian group Point of Grace and their second Christmas album, after 1999's \"A Christmas Story\".", "It was released in 2005 by Word Records." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] }, { "title": "Word Records", "sents": [ "Word Records is a Christian faith-based entertainment company based in Nashville, Tennessee.", "It is owned by Curb Records and is a part of Word Entertainment." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "Tricky Towers", "sents": [ "Tricky Towers is a physics based tower building game puzzle video game that uses a form of block-stacking problem as the central game mechanic.", "It was released on digital distribution service Steam for Windows, OS X, and Linux, and for the Playstation Plus service in August 2016, before being released on PlayStation 4 a month later.", "It was released on Xbox One on September 18 2017.", "The game runs on the Unity engine and was created by independent studio WeirdBeard.", "The game received favourable reviews." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 2 ] }, { "title": "Nintendo Switch", "sents": [ "The Nintendo Switch is the seventh major video game console developed by Nintendo.", "Known in development by its codename NX, it was unveiled in October 2016 and was released worldwide on March 3, 2017.", "Nintendo considers the Switch a \"hybrid\" console; it is designed primarily as a home console, with the main unit inserted onto a docking station to connect to a television.", "Alternatively, it can be removed from the dock and used similarly to a tablet computer through its LCD touchscreen, or placed in a standalone tabletop mode visible to several players.", "The Switch uses Joy-Con wireless controllers, which include standard buttons and a directional joystick for user input, motion sensing, and high-definition tactile feedback.", "The Joy-Con can attach to both sides of the console to support handheld-style play, connect to a Grip accessory to provide a traditional home console gamepad form, or be used individually in the hand like the Wii Remote, supporting local multiplayer modes.", "The Switch's software supports online gaming through standard Internet connectivity, as well as local wireless ad hoc connectivity with other Switch consoles.", "Switch games and software are available on both physical flash ROM cartridges and digital distribution, and does not use region locking.", "The Switch competes on the console gaming market with contemporaries Sony PlayStation 4 and Microsoft Xbox One." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 8 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e25619_p0", "sents": [ "\"no.", "what's your phone number.", "need to fill you in on some stuff.", "best, Jeff --Original Message -- From: Ken Smith [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2001 12:48 PM To: Scott Govenar; Susan J Mara; Jeff Dasovich Subject: Is there a call today Is there a conference call today?", "I couldn't get into yesterday's call; the code didn't work and the operator had no other record of a call.\"" ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 3 ] }, { "title": "e2677_p0", "sents": [ "\"We better run this one up the Enron Washington flagpole.", "It conflicts with what we are doing to a certain extent as it establishes a schedule for allowing customers to switch when we are advocating allowing all customers to switch at the same time.", "There probably needs to be some merging of this concept and the DA coalition langauge (without all the detail and simply affirming customers' right to switch).", "I can put it together if asked to do so.", "Mike --Original Message -- From: Scott Govenar [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, May 14, 2001 9:26 AM To: Jeff Dasovich; Sandra McCubbin; Susan J Mara; Mike Day Subject: [Fwd: FW: DIRECT ACCESS AMENDMENT] What do we think?\"" ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 4 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e3514_p24", "sents": [ "The spokesperson said while there have been no more layoffs, the company is \"constantly evaluating.\"", "NetSales' backers include Advanta Partners, Chase Manhattan, HarbourVest Partners, and Kansas City Equity Partners, Norwest Equity Partners, Time Warner, and Wells Fargo.", "http: www.netsales.com Sonik Acquires Broadbank Assets of RadioConnect mail?", "top VISTA, Calif. (VENTUREWIRE) -- Sonik Technologies, which develops a nd manufactures radio frequency-based systems for wireless networks, said it acquired the Broadband Wireless Spread Spectrum product line of RadioConnec t, and that RadioConnect's founder and employees have joined Sonik.", "Financial details were not disclosed.", "RadioConnect's founder H. Maurice France is now vice president of RadioConnect products at Sonik.", "All of RadioConnect's employees, which numbered less than ten, have relocated from their Torrance Calif. location to Sonik's headquarters in Vista, Calif. Sonik Technologies is a subsidiary of Vytek Wireless, a wireless data firm.", "Sonik Technologies is profitable and was acquired by Vytek in October 2000. Vytek Wireless is backed by CIBC World Markets, Charterhouse Group International, and Softban k. http: www.sonik.com http: www.vytek.com Chordiant Software Acquires Assests of ASP Outfitter mail?" ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 1 ] }, { "title": "HarbourVest Partners", "sents": [ "Founded in 1982 as Hancock Venture Partners, a subsidiary of John Hancock Insurance, HarbourVest is based in Boston, Massachusetts with offices in London and Hong Kong.", "HarbourVest has approximately 80 investment professionals globally and manages approximately $18 billion of investor commitments." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "Didn't We (Lee Greenwood song)", "sents": [ "\"Didn't We\" is a song written by Troy Seals and Graham Lyle, and recorded by American country music artist Lee Greenwood.", "It was released in August 1986 as the first single from the album \"Love Will Find Its Way to You\".", "The song reached number 10 on the \"Billboard\" Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] }, { "title": "Lee Greenwood", "sents": [ "Melvin Lee Greenwood (born October 27, 1942) is an American country music artist.", "Active since 1962, he has released more than 20 major-label albums and has charted more than 35 singles on the \"Billboard\" country music charts." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "Luxembourg Fed Cup team", "sents": [ "The Luxembourg Fed Cup team represents Luxembourg in Fed Cup tennis competition and are governed by the Fédération Luxembourgeoise de Tennis.", "They currently compete in the Europe/Africa Zone of Group II." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] }, { "title": "Fed Cup", "sents": [ "Fed Cup is the premier international team competition in women's tennis, launched in 1963 to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the International Tennis Federation (ITF).", "The competition was known as the Federation Cup until 1995.", "The Fed Cup is the world's largest annual women's international team sports competition, in terms of the number of nations that compete." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e7205_p5", "sents": [ "Regarding the lawsuit Hillary Rosen, president and CEO of the Recording Industry Association of America, released a statement saying \"I have been assured by Listen.com's management that prior to the acquisition of Scour.com the file exchange service will be shut down and any resolution of the lawsuit will depend upon Scour and Listen.com following through on this commitment.\"", "Scour is backed by the Yucaipa Companies and Michael Ovitz, founder of Creative Artists Agency.", "Listen.com is backed by Altos Ventures, Attractor, August Capital, Austin Ventures, the Barksdale Group, BMG Entertainment, EMI Recorded Music, Hambrecht & Quist, Index Ventures, Sony Music, Trans Cosmos, Universal Music Group, Warner Music Group, and individual investors.", "http: www.listen.com http: www.scour.com New Money o Web Appliance Firm Qubit Has $16 Million in First Two Rounds DENVER -- Qubit Technology, a provider of Internet appliance technology, said it raised a combined total of $16 million in its first and second rounds." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 1 ] }, { "title": "Yucaipa Companies", "sents": [ "The Yucaipa Companies, LLC is an American private equity firm founded in 1986 by Ronald Burkle.", "It specializes in private equity and venture capital, with a focus on middle-market companies, growth capital, industry consolidation, leveraged buyouts, and turnaround investments.", "It generally invests $25–$300 million in companies with $300–$500 million in revenues." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e2232_p26", "sents": [ "While both companies have five-year euro-denominated bonds, British Telecom's offer 55 basis points more yield.", "The rivals also both have bonds maturing in 2004, and Vodafone's yield about 23 basis points fewer.", "``If BT retains their rating, their spreads should be probably 20 to 30 basis points narrower,'' said Brian Venables, head of credit strategy at WestLB.", "``Even though it has performed extremely well this year, there is much greater potential for BT's debt.''", "Debt Reduction Target Both Moody's Investors Service, which rates British Telecom ``A2'', and Standard & Poor's, which rates it ``A'', have those ratings on watch for further cuts after trimming them four rungs last year.", "The company's asset sales to Vodafone are ``definitely positive in terms of the rating assessment,'' said Aidan Fisher, who rates British Telecom for Moody's.", "In combination with the proceeds of a rights sale, ``that would meet the target they set themselves this year -- that's quite a lot to achieve in a 12 month period.''" ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] }, { "title": "Vodafone", "sents": [ "Vodafone Group plc is a British multinational telecommunications company, with headquarters in London.", "It predominantly operates services in the regions of Asia, Africa, Europe, and Oceania." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "I See the Light", "sents": [ "\"I See the Light\" is a song written by composer Alan Menken and lyricist Glenn Slater for Walt Disney Animation Studios' 50th animated feature film \"Tangled\" (2010).", "A duet originally recorded by American recording artist and actress Mandy Moore and American actor Zachary Levi in their respective film roles as main characters Rapunzel and Flynn Rider, the folk-inspired pop ballad serves as both the film's love and theme song.", "Lyrically, \"I See the Light\" describes the developing romantic relationship between Rapunzel and Flynn, and is featured as the seventh track on the film's soundtrack album." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] }, { "title": "Alan Menken", "sents": [ "Alan Irwin Menken (born July 22, 1949) is an American musical theatre and film score composer and pianist.", "Menken is best known for his scores for films produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios.", "His scores for \"The Little Mermaid\" (1989), \"Beauty and the Beast\" (1991), \"Aladdin\" (1992), and \"Pocahontas\" (1995) have each won him two Academy Awards.", "He also composed the scores for \"Little Shop of Horrors\" (1986), \"Newsies\" (1992), \"The Hunchback of Notre Dame\" (1996), \"Hercules\" (1997), \"Home on the Range\" (2004), \"Enchanted\" (2007), \"Tangled\" (2010) and \"Sausage Party\" (2016), among others.", "He is also known for his work on musical theatre works for Broadway and elsewhere.", "Some of these are based on his Disney films, but other stage hits include \"Little Shop of Horrors\" (1982), \"A Christmas Carol\" (1994) and \"Sister Act\" (2009)." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e6615_p11", "sents": [ "Waxman said during the Clinton administration the White House counsel's office referred to the Justice Department \"matters involving conduct simila r to Mr. Rove's\" and that Gonzales should now do the same.", "Last month, shortly after Waxman first inquired about Rove's dealings, Sena te Majority Leader Tom Daschle, a South Dakota Democrat, said his chamber planned to seek no examination of Rove's activities.", "\"We're not going to engage in payback,\" Daschle said.", "Waxman, in his letter, complained that a June 29 correspondence he received from Gonzales about Rove's dealings \"raises more questions than it answers.", "ROVE'S MEETINGS Waxman said he wanted to specifically know what transpired during Rove's meetings in March and April with officials from Intel, General Electric and Enron an energy company.", "According to a Waxman aide, Rove sold more than $250,000 in stock in the three companies in June.", "Waxman wrote to Gonzales: \"Unfortunately, your letter fails to respond to my request for specific information about whom Mr. Rove met and talked with, what Mr. Rove said, and whether Mr. Rove participated in other meetings or discussion regarding these companies.\"" ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] }, { "title": "Tom Daschle", "sents": [ "Thomas Andrew Daschle ( born December 9, 1947) is an American policy advisor, lobbyist, former U.S.", "Senator from South Dakota, and former U.S. Senate Majority Leader.", "He is a member of the Democratic Party." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] } ]