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[ { "title": "Intel", "sents": [ "Intel Corporation (also known as Intel, stylized as intel) is an American multinational corporation and technology company headquartered in Santa Clara, California (colloquially referred to as \"Silicon Valley\") that was founded by Gordon Moore (of Moore's law fame) and Robert Noyce.", "It is the world's second largest and second highest valued semiconductor chip makers based on revenue after being overtaken by Samsung, and is the inventor of the x86 series of microprocessors, the processors found in most personal computers (PCs).", "Intel supplies processors for computer system manufacturers such as Apple, Lenovo, HP, and Dell.", "Intel also manufactures motherboard chipsets, network interface controllers and integrated circuits, flash memory, graphics chips, embedded processors and other devices related to communications and computing." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] }, { "title": "e5974_p78", "sents": [ "\"The formulation of national energy policy is a classic example of the sort of broad policy discussion that is expressly excluded from regulatory coverage,\" wrote the White House counsel.", "Providing no specifics, Gonzales stated that Rove \"did participate in a number of meetings at which the contours of the administration's energy policy were discussed.\"", "Gonzales said Rove was not a member of Vice President Cheney's energy task force, which formulated energy policy, and that Rove did not attend any of the task force meetings.", "On a separate issue, the White House counsel said Rove had only \"passing contact\" with a proposed high-tech merger that Intel Corp.'s chief executive and two Intel lobbyists pushed for in a March 12 meeting with Rove.", "\"Mr. Rove was noncommittal and offered no substantive response\" to the Intel executive's remarks, Gonzales wrote.", "An interagency government panel with which Gonzales said Rove \"played no part\" approved the merger less than two months after Rove met with the Intel executives." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 3, 5 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e1547_p2", "sents": [ "FERC officials declined to testify at the Assembly hearing.", "El Paso executives say gas prices have been affected by weather, storage levels and other factors beyond their control, primarily extraordinary demand for natural gas needed by power plants to generate electricity.", "\"We're not withholding capacity -- no one is,\" Ralph Eads, president of El Paso Merchant Energy, told the oversight panel Thursday.", "\"With these prices, you want to sell every molecule.\"", "The controversy is fueled by records showing that natural gas prices at the Southern California border skyrocketed -- far exceeding national averages -- soon after El Paso Merchant assumed control of 1.2 billion cubic feet of daily pipeline capacity from its corporate parent.", "The El Paso pipeline, one of two key arteries to the state line in Southern California, stretches from Texas through New Mexico to the border town of Topock in Arizona.", "Prices more than quadrupled at Topock during the one-year period ending in March of this year, records show." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 4, 5 ] }, { "title": "e571_p2", "sents": [ "Transwestern Pipeline's total capacity to the California border will increase to 1.24 billion cubic feet per day.", "Transwestern Pipeline consists of about 2,500 miles of pipeline with 1.7 Bcf d of peak capacity.", "Shares of Enron closed at $55.31, down $2.79, or 4.8% on Nasdaq volume of 5.7 million shares.", "Average daily volume is 4.2 million shares.", "Enron, which had 2000 revenue of $101 billion, markets electricity and natural gas.", "Company Web site http: www.enron.com -Karen M. Chow; Dow Jones Newswires; 201-938-5400 Copyright 2000 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved.", "El Paso's Calif Gas Play Was Smart,Not Crooked -Analysts By John Edmiston 03 29 2001 Dow Jones Energy Service (Copyright (c) 2001, Dow Jones & Company, Inc.) OF DOW JONES NEWSWIRES HOUSTON -(Dow Jones)- When El Paso Merchant Energy bought up most of the capacity on a key natural gas pipeline to California, it was taking a \"gamble\" on higher profits, not trying to corner a market, analysts said." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 6 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "General Motors", "sents": [ "General Motors Company, commonly known as GM, is an American multinational corporation headquartered in Detroit, Michigan, that designs, manufactures, markets, and distributes vehicles and vehicle parts, and sells financial services.", "With global headquarters at the Renaissance Center in Detroit, Michigan, United States, GM manufactures cars and trucks in 35 countries.", "In 2008, 8.35 million GM cars and trucks were sold globally under various brands.", "GM reached the milestone of selling 10 million vehicles in 2016.", "Current auto brands are Buick, Cadillac, Chevrolet, GMC, Holden, and Wuling.", "Former GM automotive brands include McLaughlin, Oakland, Oldsmobile, Pontiac, Hummer, Saab, Saturn, as well as Vauxhall, and Opel, which were bought by Groupe PSA in 2017." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] }, { "title": "e9389_p6", "sents": [ "The company cited unfavorable market conditions.", "ReplayTV also said it has elected Larry Kenswil, president and founder of eLabs, to its board of directors.", "Mr. Kenwil becomes the company's eighth board member.", "Investors in ReplayTV include Adelphia Communications, Comcast, EchoStar Communications, Excite@Home, Grey Advertising, the Interpublic Group of Companies, Matsushita Kotobuki Electronics Industries, Motorola's broadband communications sector, News Corp., Omnicom Group, Rogers Communications, Scientific-Atlanta, Sega Enterprises, Sharp Electronics, Shaw Communications, Universal Music Group, and Vulcan Ventures.", "http: www.replaytv.com XMLSolutions Names GM Tech Guru Chief Executive Officer MCLEAN, Va. -- XMLSolutions, which provides software for the development and deployment of XML-based applications, said it named Ron Shelby as its new chief executive officer.", "Mr. Shelby, formerly chief technology officer of the General Motors information systems and services, most recently served as CIO of e-GM, where he was responsible for General Motors' Web development efforts.", "Mr. Shelby held a seat on the XMLSolutions board of directors for two months prior to his appointment as chief executive officer." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 4, 5 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e3331_p32", "sents": [ "top SEATTLE (VENTUREWIRE) -- Sur La Table, an online, traditional retail and catalog kitchenware company, said it has named Tim Hopkins as chief executi ve officer.", "Prior to his appointment, the company was headed by Carl Behnke, w ho will remain with the company as chairman.", "Most recently, Mr. Hopkins served as president and CEO for kitchenware retailer Le Gourmet Chef.", "He will also serve on Sur La Table's nine-member board of directors that includes Jon Ralph and Charles Rullman, both of Freeman Spogli & Co, Thomas Simpson of Northwest Venture Associates, and Dennis Weston of Fluke Venture Partners.", "In March 2000, Sur La Table raised $20 million in second round financing from Fluke Venture Partners, Freeman Spogli & Co., Northwest Venture Associates, Pacific NW Partners SBIC, TWB Investment Partners, as well as individual investors including the members of the Behnke family, Arthur and Eva Wahl, and Peter Starrett.", "http: www.surlatable.com vc fund news Irish Investment Firm Crucible to Open New Office in Belfast mail?" ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 3 ] }, { "title": "e7595_p14", "sents": [ "Existing investors Angels' Forum, Sierra Ventures, and Al Shugart International also participated in the financing.", "The company's product is called e-mail Specialist.", "http: www.yy.com Electronics Manufacturer Integrex Raises $3 Million Series C BOTHELL, Wash. -- Integrex, an electronic products contract manufacturer for the networking, telecommunications, instrumentation, and medical industries, said it has raised $3 million in its Series C round of financing from previous investors, including the lead in this round, Fluke Venture Partners.", "Benaroya Capital, Harvey N. Gillis, Cedar Grove, Sugar Mountain, and a group from Bear Stearns also participated in the round.", "Integrex said there will be no changes to its board and that it will use the funds to purchase inventory and to improve company facilities.", "http: www.integrexusa.com Metropolitan Venture Buys 20% Stake in Media Firm Interocity NEW YORK -- Metropolitan Venture Partners, a New York and London-based venture firm, said it purchased a 20% stake in rich media developer Interocity." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 2 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e1143_p2", "sents": [ "During the 1998-1999 academic year he served as a Senior Economist to the President's Council of Economic Advisers.", "2) E259-1 Leadership & Change CANCELLED Due to unforeseen circumstances, Leadership & Change has been cancelled for Fall 2001. The course may be offered again in Spring 2002 -- we'll let you know.", "3) BA215 Economics of the Nonprofit and Public Sector OPEN TO EVENING MBA STUDENTS Day Course (TuTh 11:00-12:30 p.m.) Instructor: Frances Van Loo This course explains, from an economic point of view, why all countries in the world have not just for-profit businesses, but also governmental and nonprofit organizations.", "It examines the tasks performed by governments and how nonprofits supplement, and sometimes replace, government in accomplishing these objectives.", "Because government and nonprofit organizations differ from business in not having a profit motive, ways of making them efficient are discussed.", "Examples include vouchers, contracting out, and cost-benefit analysis.", "Also explored are recent developments where alliances are formed between government and business (e.g." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] }, { "title": "Council of Economic Advisers", "sents": [ "The Council of Economic Advisers (CEA) is a United States agency within the Executive Office of the President established in 1946, which advises the President of the United States on economic policy.", "The CEA provides much of the objective empirical research for the White House and prepares the annual Economic Report of the President." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "Atlanta", "sents": [ "Atlanta is the capital of and the most populous city in the U.S. state of Georgia, with an estimated 2016 population of 472,522.", "Atlanta is the cultural and economic center of the Atlanta metropolitan area, home to 5,710,795 people and the ninth-largest metropolitan area in the United States.", "Atlanta is the county seat of Fulton County, and a small portion of the city extends eastward into DeKalb County." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] }, { "title": "e10876_p8", "sents": [ "They asked lawmakers to put an end to \"abusive\" cable TV pricing practices, require telcos to provide nondiscriminatory access to their high-speed networks, enforce media ownership limits that promote diversity, and block further consolidation that undermines potential competition.", "* MOBILE PHONE INDUSTRY FACES LATEST HEALTH-RELATED LAWSUIT The wireless phone industry is facing another lawsuit, this one filed on behalf of a 38-year-old Georgia man who says his cellphone caused his brain tumor.", "It's the latest in a growing number of such lawsuits alleging that the industry manufactured and marketed the devices despite knowing their potential adverse health effects.", "The lawsuit, \"Brian Lane Barrett and Diana Barrett v. Nokia Corp. et al.\"", "(case no.2001CV33385), was filed in Fulton County Superior Court in Atlanta Jan. 29. In addition to Nokia, the lawsuit names BellSouth Mobility, Inc., and the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association (now the Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association) as defendants.", "It seeks compensatory and punitive damages but doesn't list an amount." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 1, 3, 4 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "Cincinnati", "sents": [ "Cincinnati ( ) is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio that serves as county seat of Hamilton County.", "Settled in 1788, the city is located on the north side of the confluence of the Licking with the Ohio River.", "With a population of 298,800, Cincinnati is the third-largest city in Ohio and the 65th-largest city in the United States.", "Its metropolitan statistical area is the 28th-largest in the United States and the largest centered in Ohio.", "The city is also part of the larger Cincinnati–Middletown–Wilmington combined statistical area, which had a population of 2,172,191 in the 2010 census." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] }, { "title": "e27108_p4", "sents": [ "The euro, after trending lower against the dollar this morning amid a worse-than-expected 1.0% drop in October German retail sales, firmed to trade higher as traders booked profits in the greenback.", "Jeffrey Reeve, Market Analyst =================================== LOGIN to access your account: https: investing.schwab.com trading start - To unsubscribe or modify your Email Alert customization options, log in using the link below or copy and paste it into your browser's address window: https: investing.schwab.com trading start?SANC=EAMyAlerts - Notice: All email sent to or from the Charles Schwab corporate email system may be retained, monitored and or reviewed by Schwab personnel.", "(0801-11478) Information provided by Bridge Information Systems.", "Copyright 2001 Bridge Information Systems.", "Charles Schwab & Co., Inc. (\"Schwab\") is a member of the NYSE, other major United States Securities Exchanges, and SIPC.", "Schwab is a specialist in various securities on the Pacific, Boston and Cincinnati Stock Exchanges and is subsidiary of The Charles Schwab Corporation, which is listed on the NYSE and trades under the symbol \"SCH\"." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 5 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "Talia in the Kitchen", "sents": [ "Talia in the Kitchen is an American telenovela-formatted teen sitcom that premiered on Nickelodeon on July 6, 2015.", "It was an adaptation of the Nickelodeon Latin American telenovela, \"Toni, la Chef\", and was created by Mariela Romero & Catharina Ledeboer, the same writers who made \"Every Witch Way\" & \"WITS Academy\"." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] }, { "title": "Toni, la Chef", "sents": [ "Toni, la Chef, is a Colombian telenovela produced by Nickelodeon Latin America.", "On April 29, 2015, ClaroVideo published three chapters before the premiere of the series." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e2105_p75", "sents": [ "\"We did not know how good baseball could be until everybody could play,\" civil rights activist Jesse Jackson said Monday in Houston, comparing the corporate world to the great American pastime.", "Jackson was in town to mark the opening of the Texas bureau of the Wall Street Project, at 1600 Smith, as part of a national Rainbow PUSH Coalition initiative to increase minority involvement in the corporate world.", "The Wall Street Project, which has 10 offices nationwide, lobbies corporations to hire more minorities, name more minorities to corporate boards and award more business to minority companies.", "In a matter of days, Jackson said, the project intends to purchase $2,000 worth of stock in each of the 50 major energy companies, including Exxon Mobil Corp., Texaco, Enron Corp., Reliant Energy and Dynegy Corp. Begun in 1997, the Wall Street Project has offices in Chicago, Atlanta, Washington, D.C, Los Angeles, Detroit and New York." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 3 ] }, { "title": "Los Angeles", "sents": [ "Los Angeles ( ; Spanish for \"The Angels\"; ] ), officially the City of Los Angeles and often known by its initials L.A., is the cultural, financial, and commercial center of Southern California.", "With a U.S. Census-estimated 2016 population of 3,976,322, it is the second most populous city in the United States (after New York City) and the most populous city in the state of California.", "Located in a large coastal basin surrounded on three sides by mountains reaching up to and over 10000 ft , Los Angeles covers an area of about 469 sqmi .", "The city is also the seat of Los Angeles County, the most populated county in the country.", "Los Angeles is the center of the Los Angeles metropolitan area, with 13,131,431 residents, and is part of the larger designated Los Angeles-Long Beach combined statistical area (CSA), the second most populous in the nation with a 2015 estimated population of 18.7 million." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "Fourth Corps, Army of Northern Virginia", "sents": [ "The Fourth Corps was a military unit formed in October 1864 within the Army of Northern Virginia of the Confederate Army.", "It fought for the Confederate States of America during the late stages of the American Civil War.", "The corps was commanded by Richard H. Anderson during its short life and was combined with the Second Corps shortly before Lee's surrender on April 9, 1865." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1, 2 ] }, { "title": "Confederate States of America", "sents": [ "The Confederate States of America (CSA or C.S.", "), commonly referred to as the Confederacy, was an unrecognized country in North America that existed from 1861 to 1865.", "The Confederacy was originally formed by seven secessionist slave-holding states – South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas – in the Lower South region of the United States whose regional economy was mostly dependent upon agriculture, particularly cotton, and a plantation system that relied upon the labor of African-American slaves." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 2 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "Yashwant Sinha", "sents": [ "Yashwant Sinha, (retired) IAS (born 6 November 1937) is an Indian administrator, politician and a former Minister of Finance (1990–1991 under Prime Minister Chandra Shekhar and March 1998 – July 2002 under Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee and Minister of External Affairs July 2002 – May 2004).", "He is a senior leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party.", "His son Jayant Sinha, a consultant and investor, won the 2014 elections for the Hazaribagh constituency and his son is currently serving as Minister of State for Railways in Narendra Modi's cabinet." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] }, { "title": "e1612_p13", "sents": [ "This proposal came up at a meeting today between the Union Finance Minister, Mr Yashwant Sinha, the Power Minister, Mr Suresh Prabhu, and the Maharashtra Chief Minister, Mr Vilasrao Deshmukh.", "The Centre has mooted a committee consisting of itself, the State Government and Enron to defuse the crisis.", "The move comes two days ahead of the DPC board meeting in London besides a meeting with the project lenders.", "Given the company's recent move to change gear and adopt legal recourse by way of seeking arbitration to resolve its issues, it is not clear whether DPC will become party to this committee.", "The committee, if formed with the three constituents, will look into issues such as DPC's offer of 15 per cent stake to National Thermal Power Corporation.", "Our Bureau Copyright 2000 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved.", "Enron PPA to be renegotiated Our Bureau 04 24 2001 The Economic Times Copyright (C) 2001 The Economic Times; Source: World Reporter (TM) NEW DELHI THE MAHARASHTRA government has decided to form a high-level committee with central representation to renegotiate the power purchase agreement of Dabhol Power Company." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 2 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "Robert Bruner", "sents": [ "Robert F. Bruner is University Professor at the University of Virginia, Distinguished Professor of Business Administration, and Dean Emeritus of the Darden School of Business.", "He was the eighth dean of Darden and has been a faculty member there since 1982.", "He teaches and conducts research in finance and management at the University of Virginia and has won numerous teaching awards." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] }, { "title": "e1267_p11", "sents": [ "If not, other people would.\"", "The gravity of the moment was not lost on those present.", "These veterans of the regulated pipeline business were now working for a company that was heading into uncharted territory.", "Many in the room would be gone from the company within months, replaced by younger executives who were more open to change.", "\"They may talk about it casually now, but at the time they were sweating bullets,\" said Robert Bruner, executive director of the Batten Institute at the University of Virginia, who teaches a case study on Enron's evolution to executives.", "The company has made its mark by being in the vanguard of change.", "Since that fateful meeting in the late 1980s, it has shown over and over again that it has a knack for knowing when to exit a declining market and move on to the next one.", "Now the the pipeline business has moved into the background at Enron." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 4 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "Peter Biegen", "sents": [ "Peter Biegen is an award-winning screenwriter, playwright and film maker.", "He co-wrote the screenplay \"The Last Lullaby\" (with Max Allan Collins) and wrote and directed the short film \"Ceremonies of the Horsemen\" (starring Richard Schiff and Josh Zuckerman).", "The short was selected to be part of the permanent archive at the Visual Center of Yad Vashem in Jerusalem.", "Biegen has written for Lifetime television, ghost written on several projects, is a member of both the Writers Guild of America and the Writers Guild of Canada, and a 2014 fellow of the Sundance Institute.", "He has developed film projects with Michael Apted, Eric Stoltz, Don Was and others." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 4 ] }, { "title": "Don Was", "sents": [ "Don Edward Fagenson (born September 13, 1952), known as Don Was, is an American musician, record producer and record executive.", "Primarily a bass player, Was led the 1980s funk rock band Was (Not Was).", "In later years he produced songs and albums for a large number of popular recording artists.", "In 2012, he became president of jazz music label Blue Note Records." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 3 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e5443_p0", "sents": [ "'Please see the following articles: Sac Bee, Mon, 6 11: Who'll pay billions in PG&E debt?", "Consumers, taxpayers and asset sales are among the options Sac Bee, Mon, 6 11: Dan Walters: Record undercuts governor's message on handling energy crisis SD Union, Sun, 6 10: Plan to pay businesses not to use power OK'd SD Union, Sat, 6 9: Sempra may drop project in Escondido LA Times, Sat, 6 9: Hackers Victimize Cal-ISO LA Times, Sat, 6 9: State Asks Pricing Curbs on 4 Firms LA Times, Sat, 6 9: After-School Programs Threatened LA Times, Sat, 6 9: Drop in Gas Price Raises Questions in Probe LA Times, Sat, 6 9: New Power Plant Proposed for Riverside County SD Union, Sat, 6 9: ISO seeks to pull rate authority from 4 firms SD Union, Sat, 6 9: Short-circuited by the `so-called' electricity crisis (Editorial) LA Times, Mon, 6 11: Ventura County Businesses Sweat Out Power Crisis LA Times, Mon, 6 11: The State PG&E Plan to Fell Oaks Fuels Anger Energy: The utility contends the trees pose a fire threat to power lines." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 1 ] }, { "title": "e2326_p0", "sents": [ "'Please see the following articles: Sac Bee, Mon, 5 7: \"It's crunch time on power rates\" SD Union, Sun, 5 6: \"SDG&E shutoff notices increasing\" SD Union, Sun, 5 6: \"State OKs $7 billion contract\" SD Union, Sun, 5 6: \"The energy crisis gives Filner some easy targets\" SD Union, Sat, 5 5: \"Gephardt tells rally here he's pushing price caps\" LA Times, Mon, 5 7: \"Proud Linemen Take a Hit\" LA Times, Sun, 5 6: \"Utility's Workers Watch Helplessly as Company Falls\" LA Times, Mon, 5 7: \"Utility Bills Are Just One Way People Pay for Energy Crisis\" LA Times, Mon, 5 7: \"Questions Remains Who'll Take Brunt of the Rate Hikes LA Times, Sun, 5 6: \"Riordan and Freeman's Feud Erupts in Public\" LA Times, Sat, 5 5: \"Cheney Rejects Price Caps, Aid for Calif. Power Crisi s\" SF Chron, Mon, 5 7: \"Rolling Health Hazards Summer Blackouts May Pose Public Health Risks\" SF Chron, Mon, 5 7: \"Oh, that boom in 2002 SF Chron (AP), Mon, 5 7: \"Developments in California's energy crisis\" SF Chron, Mon, 5 7: \"United States considers withdrawing lawsuits against coal industry Pollution controls affect power plants SF Chron, Mon, 5 7: \"Swimming pool owners get PG&E discounts Operating pumps at night saves energy SF Chron, Sun, 5 6: \"Legislators plan to sue United States panel on energy Top state Democrats want cap on prices\" SF Chron, Sun, 5 6: \"Nevada's winning hand -- power State sees profit in California's crisis\" Mercury News, Mon, 5 7: \"Share prices rise amid news of big energy deals\" Mercury News, Mon, 5 7: \"Florida shrugs off Calif-blackout scenario\" Mercury News, Mon, 5 7: \"Hot days worry energy watchers\" OC Register, Mon, 5 7: \"Unplugged Manking has lived thousands of years without electricity." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e11217_p5", "sents": [ "\"We should probably be making a big deal about this, but we just don't have time,\" said Stephanie McCorkle, a spokeswoman for the California Independent System Operator, which balances supply and demand on the electricity grid serving about 75% of the state.", "The grid controllers have been operating in full crisis mode for months now, using everything short of the Energizer bunny to keep electricity flowing while state leaders looked for solutions to the power market meltdown.", "Economic Uncertainty For more than a month, the state's transmission grid has been operating under either a Stage 2 or Stage 3 emergency, indicating extremely tight reserves.", "At noon Wednesday, the grid bumped down to Stage 1--indicating that the state was maintaining reserves at a relatively cushy 7%.", "That is still below what grid operators consider prudent, but no one was complaining.", "The full effect of the electricity crisis on the state's economy is not yet clear, and independent Legislative Analyst Elizabeth Hill urged state lawmakers Wednesday to take a \"wait-and-see\" approach as they craft a new budget." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] }, { "title": "e763_p7", "sents": [ "The grid operator double-dips when it cites the state's smaller qualifying facilities.", "The ISO's chief operator and spokesman have said repeatedly in press conferences, interviews and press releases that the qualifying facilities that have been turned off due to lack of payment from utilities are separate from the ISO outage list.", "And daily newspaper reports give both the outage total and the qualifying facility total separately.", "But the outage list includes QFs every day.", "On Monday, for example, 1,726 MW of QF generation contributed to the outage total.", "In the meantime, it's the list's inflated total that grabs attention.", "\"We don't get that many questions on it from the media.", "People pretty much take what they need from it - the bottom line,\" said ISO spokeswoman Stephanie McCorkle.", "-By Mark Golden, Dow Jones Newswires; 201-938-4604; [email protected] Copyright 2000 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 6, 7, 8 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e27921_p19", "sents": [ "Perhaps, if only to balance his books, he should develop some cheaper missiles to use on cheaper targets and cheaper lives in the poor countries of the world.", "But then, that may not make good business sense to the coalition1s weapons manufacturers.", "It wouldn't make any sense at all, for example, to the Carlyle Group - described by the Industry Standard as \"the world's largest private equity firm\", with $13bn under management.", "Carlyle invests in the defence sector and makes its money from military conflicts and weapons spending.", "Carlyle is run by men with impeccable credentials.", "Former US defence secretary Frank Carlucci is Carlyle's chairman and managing director (he was a college roommate of Donald Rumsfeld's).", "Carlyle's other partners include former US secretary of state James A Baker III, George Soros and Fred Malek (George Bush Sr's campaign manager).", "An American paper ­ the Baltimore Chronicle and Sentinel - says that former president George Bush Sr is reported to be seeking investments for the Carlyle Group from Asian markets." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 7 ] }, { "title": "Baltimore Chronicle", "sents": [ "The Baltimore Chronicle, founded as The City Dweller, is a small free, independent, monthly alternative newspaper.", "It was founded by Larry Krause in April 1973 and incorporated as Schenley Press, Inc. in 1976, when the paper adopted its present name.", "Its purpose is to air different points of view, with special focus on controversial stories." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e5223_p17", "sents": [ "The company said it wiil also use the funds to execute its business plan and for strategic investments.", "DVCRF Ventures and The Penn SE Mezzanine Fund provided the company with first round funding of $1 million earlier this year.", "http: www.accusearch.com SmartAge.com Closes $24 Million Series D, Names President SAN FRANCISCO -- SmartAge.com, which provides online commerce and promotional services and products for small businesses to create and promote their Web sites, said it closed $24 million in its series D round of financing.", "The round was led by Softbank Capital Partners and Accel Partners.", "Investors included Cramer Rosenthal McGlynn 1999 Enterprise Fund, El Dorado Adventures, Ignite Group, Opportunity Capital Partners IV, Vector Capital, and ZDNet.", "The additional funds will go towards developing a new online services for small businesses, and reinforcing the company's engineering infrastructure.", "SmartAge.com's chief operating officer Scott Garell was promoted to the position of president and will hold a seat on the board of directors." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 2, 3 ] }, { "title": "e3698_p37", "sents": [ "Adaytum expects to make between $55 million to $60 million in revenues this year.", "The company, which has raised over $30 million to date, has filed for an initial public offering.", "Mr. Haddleton said that, in spite of the poor performance of the stock market, he has no plans to pull the S- 1 registration filed last June.", "J.P. Morgan H&Q serves as the lead underwrite r, along with Piper Jaffray and FAC Equity.", "Adaytum is proposing an offering price between $9 and $11, and expects to raise $50 million to $60 million in the offering.", "Adaytum has offices in the U.K., The Netherlands, and Australia, and has 22 distributors worldwide.", "http: www.adaytum.com Naviant, Online Marketing Technology Firm, Gets $15 Million mail?", "top NEWTON SQUARE, Pa. (VENTUREWIRE) -- Naviant, the parent company of N aviant Marketing Solutions, a provider of marketing tools for customer relationshi p management, raised $15 million from Softbank Capital Partners and TL Ventures." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 7 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "Águilas FC", "sents": [ "Águilas Fútbol Club is a Spanish football club based in Águilas, in the autonomous community of Murcia.", "Founded in 2010, holding home games at \"Estadio El Rubial\", with a 3,000 seat capacity." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] }, { "title": "Murcia", "sents": [ "Murcia ( or , ] ) is a city in south-eastern Spain, the capital and most populous city of the Autonomous Community of the Region of Murcia, and the seventh largest city in the country, with a population of 442,573 inhabitants in 2009 (about one third of the total population of the Region).", "The population of the metropolitan area was 689,591 in 2010." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "Avaz Twist Tower", "sents": [ "The Avaz Twist Tower is a 176 m tall skyscraper in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina.", "It is the headquarters for \"Dnevni avaz\", a Bosnian newspaper company.", "The tower is located in the \"Marijin Dvor\" city neighborhood, Sarajevo's central municipality.", "Construction began in 2006 and was finished two years later in 2008.", "The tower is notable for its twisted facade.", "The German company Schüco chose it among the 10 most beautiful buildings in the world.", "It is currently the tallest skyscraper in the former Yugoslavia." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] }, { "title": "Sarajevo", "sents": [ "Sarajevo (Cyrillic: Сарајево , ] , ) is the capital and largest city of Bosnia and Herzegovina, with a population of 275,524 in its current administrative limits.", "The Sarajevo metropolitan area, including Sarajevo Canton and East Sarajevo is home to 643,016 inhabitants.", "Nestled within the greater Sarajevo valley of Bosnia, it is surrounded by the Dinaric Alps and situated along the Miljacka River in the heart of Southeastern Europe and the Balkans." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 2 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "Kwari River", "sents": [ "Kwari River (also spelled as Kuwari or Kunwari River) flows through Morena and Bhind districts of Madhya Pradesh in central India.", "The start or origin place of the river is located at Devpura village." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] }, { "title": "Morena", "sents": [ "Morena is a town in the Morena district, in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh.", "It is governed by a municipality corporation.", "Located there are the administrative headquarters of the Morena district and of the Chambal division.", "It is 39 km from Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh.", "Morena is often mentioned in the popular Indian television series \"Miley Jab Hum Tum\", as the place from where hail the two female protagonists.", "Paan Singh Tomar was born and lived in Bhidausa, Morena, as noted in the Hindi movie \"Paan Singh Tomar\"." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 2 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "Synemon", "sents": [ "Synemon is a genus of moths within the family Castniidae.", "It was described by Edward Doubleday in 1846.", "The genus contains 24 described and 20 undescribed species." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] }, { "title": "Edward Doubleday", "sents": [ "Edward Doubleday (1811, Epping, Essex – 1849, London) was an English entomologist mainly interested in Lepidoptera.", "He is best known for \"The Genera of Diurnal Lepidoptera: comprising their generic characters, a notice of their habits and transformations, and a catalogue of the species of each genus\", co-written with John Obadiah Westwood, and illustrated by William Chapman Hewitson, and \"List of the specimens of lepidopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum\"." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "Disorderly Conduct (film)", "sents": [ "Disorderly Conduct is a 1932 American Pre-Code film, starring Spencer Tracy and Sally Eilers.", "It was the seventh picture Tracy made under his contract with Fox Film Corporation, and the first to make a profit since his debut \"Up the River\"." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] }, { "title": "Up the River", "sents": [ "Up the River (1930) is a pre-Code comedy film about escaped convicts, directed by John Ford and starring Spencer Tracy and Humphrey Bogart in their feature film debuts.", "The movie was remade by 20th Century-Fox in 1938, also entitled \"Up the River\", with Preston Foster and Tony Martin respectively in the Tracy and Bogart roles." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "Joseph Bonnier de la Mosson", "sents": [ "Joseph Bonnier (6 September 1702, Montpellier – 26 July 1744) was a French aristocrat, whose fortune allowed him to have an army career, notably as colonel of the régiment des Dragons-Dauphin and maréchal des logis de la Maison royale.", "On his father's death he left Paris to take over his job as treasurer of Languedoc.", "Made baron of la Mosson, he built a folly, the château de la Mosson near Montpellier.", "A great lover of the arts and sciences, he became famous for the collection he built up in his Parisian hôtel.", "On his death his fortune was squandered and the château sacked." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] }, { "title": "Paris", "sents": [ "Paris (] ) is the capital and most populous city of France, with an administrative-limits area of 105 km2 and a 2015 population of 2,229,621.", "The city is a commune and department, and the capital-heart of the 12,012 km2 Île-de-France \"region\" (colloquially known as the 'Paris Region'), whose 12,142,802 2016 population represents roughly 18 percent of the population of France.", "By the 17th century, Paris had become one of Europe's major centres of finance, commerce, fashion, science, and the arts, a position that it retains still today.", "The Paris Region had a GDP of €649.6 billion (US $763.4 billion) in 2014, accounting for 30.4 percent of the GDP of France.", "According to official estimates, in 2013-14 the Paris Region had the third-highest GDP in the world and the largest regional GDP in the EU." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e7794_p22", "sents": [ "Mr. Bagshaw previously served as chief operating officer at ILOG.", "He replaces Dev Khare, who served as acting CEO since co-founding the company in 1999. Mr. Khare will become vice president of products.", "Covigo is funded by Norwest Venture Partners and Nokia Venture Partners.", "http: www.covigo.com Take-Out Firm Food.com Names MarchFirst Exec.", "as CEO SAN FRANCISCO -- Food.com, an online order processing firm for restaurants on the Web, said it appointed Trevor S. Fagerskog, former executive in the technology division at marchFirst, an Internet consulting and development firm, as president and CEO.", "He replaces former president and CEO Richard Frank, who will retain his position as chairman.", "Food.com raised $80 million in its Series E round in March of this year, with investments from McDonald's, Kraft, Blockbuster, Clear Channel, Liberty Digital, and TV Guide.", "http: www.food.com ASP CustomerLink Systems Taps E-Commerce Exec as Pres, CEO ROSEVILLE, Calif. -- CustomerLink Systems, a customer management and marketing applications firm for the automotive industry, said it has appointed Jeff Cooke, former executive at e-commerce applications company onQuo and vice president of global customer care at Apple, as president and CEO." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 2 ] }, { "title": "e8613_p1", "sents": [ "Headliners include: * Joe Bass, VP & GM, Wavelength Routing Business Unit, Cisco * John Bowers, Director, Multidisciplinary Optical Switching Technology Center, UC Santa Barbara * Patrick Nettles, Chairman & CEO, Ciena * Don Smith, President, Optical Internet, Nortel Networks * Kerry Valhala, Professor, Applied Physics, Caltech Participation at this event is subject to approval and limited to senior executives involved in the optical communications industry.", "For your registration pack:http: www.optix2001.com Optix2001 -- Toward the Photonic Internet February 11 - 14, 2001, Ritz Carlton Huntington Hotel & Spa, Pasadena, CA top stories Nokia Targets Wireless Firms with New $500 Million Fund mail this story?", "top MENLO PARK, Calif. (VENTUREWIRE) -- Nokia Venture Partners said it has formed a new $500 million fund that will invest in startups in the mobile Internet industry.", "The new fund, unlike Nokia's previous funds, includes third party investors: Goldman Sachs, BMC Software, and CDBWebTech and others." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 2, 3 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e804_p19", "sents": [ "European Union officials are hoping to jump-start talks to implement the Kyoto plan ahead of a meeting of world environment ministers in July in Bonn.", "Dutch Environment Minister Jan Pronk, who is mediating the Kyoto talks, plans to issue a proposal on how to restart talks within the next few days.", "He meets with fellow ministers and civil servants in New York on April 21. No Sanctions The EU is holding back from backing any sanctions against the U.S., which spews a quarter of the pollutants that would be restrained under the Kyoto plan.", "It wants to see alternative proposals on fighting global warming.", "``I don't think it's time now to talk about sanctions,'' Margot Wallstroem, the EU environment commissioner, said at a briefing in Brussels.", "``When they come to Bonn and give their view, from then on it's time to decide what to do.''", "Greenpeace is sending a questionnaire to the 100 biggest United States companies, named by Fortune Magazine, about whether they support the Kyoto plan and how they feel about Bush's opposition." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 1 ] }, { "title": "Jan Pronk", "sents": [ "Johannes Pieter \"Jan\" Pronk (] ; born 16 March 1940) is a Dutch politician, diplomat, and professor.", "He has been visiting professor at the United Nations University for Peace in Ciudad Colón, Costa Rica, since 2009." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 1 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "MSC Industrial Direct", "sents": [ "MSC Industrial Direct Co., Inc (MSC), through its subsidiaries, primarily, MSC Industrial Supply Co., is one of the largest industrial equipment distributors in the world.", "MSC is most famous for publishing \"The Big Book\", a catalog totaling over 3,000 pages detailing the company's products, which currently number over 1 million." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] }, { "title": "e5289_p22", "sents": [ "MSC Industrial Direct and VerticalNet have also invested in MROLink.", "http: www.mrolink.com MobileLogic Acquires Wireless Platform Eyeshake with Stock NEW YORK -- MobileLogic, a provider of services that enable secure wireless access to corporate data, said it acquired Eyeshake, a Boston-based developer of a wireless application development and delivery platform for mostly stock and some cash.", "The stock constitutes between 10% and 15% of MoblileLogic, which will completely absorb Eyeshake.", "All of Eyeshake's employees have been retained and will remain in Boston.", "MobileLogic raised $25 million this past March and is backed by Allen & Co., Apollo Management, CMGI @Ventures, Hikari Tsushin, Investcorp, and Odyssey Investment Partners.", "http: www.mobilelogic.com http: www.eyeshake.com New Directors o Hockey 's Bourque Joins Board of Retailer 180 aceOff.com DENVER -- 180 aceOff.com, a consumer and wholesale marketer of hockey equipment, said renowned hockey player Raymond Bourque joined the company as an investor and a board member." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "Sierra Club", "sents": [ "The Sierra Club is an environmental organization in the United States.", "It was founded on May 28, 1892, in San Francisco, California, by the Scottish-American preservationist John Muir, who became its first president." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] }, { "title": "e3345_p90", "sents": [ "\"The public is searching for clean ways to add to the capacity.\"", "The Field poll comes as the Bush administration pushes for a renewed look at nuclear power.", "No utilities have ordered any new nuclear power plants in th e United States since 1978. The poll of 1,015 California adults was taken May 11-20. The margin of erro r was plus or minus 3.2 percent.", "Carl Zichella, the Sierra Club's regional staff director, said Californians have not thought about nuclear energy for about 20 years and do not have as much information as they did around Three Mile Island.", "\"I think this number really reflects a lack of knowledge on the part of the public about the problems that drove nuclear power underground,\" he said.", "\"The more people know about nuclear power, the less they're going to like it.\"", "Getting a new nuclear plant built faces two major problems: financing and siting, said Rich Ferguson, research director for the Sacramento- based Center for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Technology." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 3 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e27528_p0", "sents": [ "'Fort Peck Indians File $3 Million Suit Against Northern Border Pipeline PR Newswire, 08 01 01 USA: Scramble for Caribs tankers forces rates skywards.", "Reuters English News Service, 08 01 01 GERMANY: Frankfurt power bourse admits three new members.", "Reuters English News Service, 08 01 01 US West Daily Power Prices Flat Despite System Hiccups Dow Jones Energy Service, 08 01 01 US Exim set to move SC on Dabhol row The Times of India, 08 01 01 Fort Peck Indians File $3 Million Suit Against Northern Border Pipeline 08 01 2001 PR Newswire (Copyright (c) 2001, PR Newswire) Outcome Could Have National Implications POPLAR, Mont., Aug. 1 PRNewswire -- In a move that could have significant national implications, the Fort Peck Assiniboine and Sioux Tribal Nation has filed suit in the Fort Peck Tribal Court against Northern Border Pipeline Company, a unit of Northern Border Partners, L.P. (NYSE: NBP), to collect more than $3 million in back taxes." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] }, { "title": "e68_p1", "sents": [ "By C. Bryson Hull 03 15 2001 Reuters English News Service (C) Reuters Limited 2001. HOUSTON, March 15 (Reuters) - Wall Street took a hard look at Enron Corp.'s content delivery plans this week after it ended its video-on-demand deal with Blockbuster Inc. but remained largely unfazed by the failure of the flagship deal, analysts said on Thursday.", "On balance, most analysts viewed the busted 20-year exclusive agreement as disappointing, but by no means a fatal blow to Enron Broadband Services' (EBS) budding content delivery segment.", "Most reiterated buy or strong buy ratings for the Houston company and maintained bullish earnings targets for the Enron Broadband Services division.", "But all are awaiting an indication of how Enron will reconfigure the content delivery initiative.", "\"I think Blockbuster represented kind of an anchor tenant for the broadband business, so they have lost a contract that was important,\" said Jeff Dietert, an analyst with Houston investment house Simmons and Co. Now EBS will have to pursue smaller contracts to make up the loss, which could mean a longer road to create as big a book of business, Dietert said." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "Norvinisterone", "sents": [ "Norvinisterone (INN) (marketed as Neoprogestin and Nor-Progestelea by Syntex; former developmental code name SC-4641), also known as 17α-vinyl-19-nortestosterone (or vinylnortestosterone), is a steroidal progestin and anabolic-androgenic steroid (AAS) of the 19-nortestosterone group that is or has been used in Europe.", "It was synthesized in 1953, and was studied in humans by 1960.", "It appears to be quite androgenic, with about one-third and one-fifth of the androgenic and anabolic activity, respectively, of nandrolone (19-nortestosterone) in animal bioassays." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] }, { "title": "Europe", "sents": [ "Europe is a continent located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere.", "Europe is bordered by the Arctic Ocean to the north, the Atlantic Ocean to the west, and the Mediterranean Sea to the south.", "It comprises the westernmost part of Eurasia.", "Europe is generally considered as separated from Asia by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways of the Turkish Straits.", "Yet the non-oceanic borders of Europe—a concept dating back to classical antiquity—are arbitrary and amount to a historical and social construct.", "The primarily physiographic term \"continent\" as applied to Europe also incorporates cultural and political elements whose discontinuities are not always reflected by the continent's current overland boundary with Asia." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e2852_p18", "sents": [ "DeSilva is also exploring the possibility of additional financing for WorkingWoman.com.", "WorkingWoman.com has raised $32 million in funding from two rounds of funding.", "Its investors include BlackDiamond Ventures, Compaq Computer, Jefferies, New York City Investment Fund, Office Depot, PurchasePro.com, RWI Group, Sand Hill Financial, Sycamore, and Telos Venture Partners.", "Carol Bartz, CEO of Autodesk; Larry Ellison, CEO of Oracle; and Clifford Sobel, chairman o!", "f Net2Phone, have also invested in WorkingWoman.com.", "http: www.workingwoman.com Metiom Files for Chapter 11 after Investors Back Out mail?", "top NEW YORK (VENTUREWIRE) -- Metiom, a business-to-business e-commerce infrastructure provider for online purchasing, said that it has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.", "A Metiom spokesperson said that, due to market conditions, the company's investors have decided not to invest the remainin g two tranches of Metiom's $45 million third round announced in January, of which the company had received $15 million.", "Metiom had no comment about layoffs but said it was \"restructuring\" and considering potential buyers." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 1, 2 ] }, { "title": "e7107_p44", "sents": [ "\"Its a good thing for PG&E,\" said Paul Fremont, an energy industry analyst with Jefferies, an investment bank in New York.", "\"But it clearly does not get them to the level where they are able to emerge from bankruptcy and make all of their creditors whole.\"", "The disclosure by PG&E Corp. yesterday adds a modest boost to its quarterly earnings report, set for tomorrow morning.", "The company is expected to repor t an operating profit of 71 cents per share, according to analysts polled by Thomson Financial First Call, an investment research firm.", "PG&E Corp. is the owner of Pacific Gas & Electric Co., which filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in April after electricity prices soared this year.", "The utility had previously estimated that it lost $1.1 billion in the first quarter and $4.1 billion in the fourth because it was prohibited by the state Public Utilities Commission from passing higher costs on to consumers." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "Jerome Whitehead", "sents": [ "Jerome Whitehead (September 30, 1956 – December 20, 2012) was an American professional basketball player.", "He was selected by the San Diego Clippers in the second round (41st overall) of the 1978 NBA draft.", "A 6'10\" center-forward from Marquette University, Whitehead played in 11 National Basketball Association (NBA) seasons from 1978 to 1989.", "He played for the Clippers, Utah Jazz, Dallas Mavericks, Cleveland Cavaliers, Golden State Warriors and San Antonio Spurs." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 3 ] }, { "title": "Golden State Warriors", "sents": [ "The Golden State Warriors are an American professional basketball team based in Oakland, California.", "The Warriors compete in the National Basketball Association (NBA) as a member of the league's Western Conference Pacific Division.", "The Warriors play their home games at the Oracle Arena in Oakland.", "The Warriors have reached nine NBA Finals, winning five NBA championships in 1947, 1956, 1975, 2015 and 2017.", "Golden State's five NBA championships are tied for fourth-most in NBA history with the San Antonio Spurs, and behind only the Boston Celtics (17), Los Angeles Lakers (16) and Chicago Bulls (6).", "As of 2017, the Warriors are the third most valuable NBA franchise according to \"Forbes\", with an estimated value of $2.6 billion." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e2582_p0", "sents": [ "'Please see the following articles: Sac Bee, Fri, 5 11: \"Davis signs bonds-sale bill, blasts GOP Sac Bee, Fri, 5 11: \"Senators push administration for more help on energy crisis Sac Bee, Fri, 5 11: \"Energy Digest: Company will expand plant, sell power to state Sac Bee, Fri, 5 11: \"Spreading the pain\" (Editorial) SD Union, Thurs, 5 10: \"Oceanside seeks ally in building power plant\" SD Union (AP), Thurs, 5 10: \"Davis signs bill authorizing $13.4 in bonds to repay treasury for power buying\" SD Union, Thurs, 5 10: \"GOP defeats first attempt to cap power prices\" SD Union (AP), Thurs, 5 10: \"Energy task force expected to recommend tax breaks\" LA Times, Fri, 5 11: \"Power Rescue Plan Rests on Many 'Ifs' LA Times, Fri, 5 11: \"Bush, Rivals Don't Dare Ask Public to Make Sacrifice s in Energy Crunch\" LA Times, Fri, 5 11: \"House Committe Rejects Electricity Price Controls\" LA Times, Fri, 5 11: \"Nonprofit Shrugs at Pleas to Conserve\" LA Times, Fri, 5 11: \"Restarting of Generators in O.C." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] }, { "title": "e2386_p0", "sents": [ "'Please see the following articles: Sac Bee, Tues, 5 8: \"Hot spell forces blackouts: More outages are probable today in a likely preview of a long, hot summer\" Sac Bee, Tues, 5 8: \"$13.4 billion bond bill clears split Assembly\" Sac Bee, Tues, 5 8: \"Dan Walters: Summer-like heat brings blackouts, partisan fingerpointing\" Sac Bee, Sun, 5 6: \"How Californians got burned\" (Jeff Skilli ng quoted) SD Union, Tues, 5 8: \"Heat wave spawns statewide blackouts\" SD Union, Tues, 5 8: \"Bond clears Assembly with a partisan twist\" (Enron mentioned) SD Union (AP), Tues, 5 8: \"Refinery merger could raise California gas pric es\" SD Union (AP), Tues, 5 8: \"Enron could supply universities with state-subsidized power\" LA Times, Tues, 5 8: \"Edison's agony For CEO, Life in 'Foxhole' Means Little Sleep, Peace\" LA Times, Tues, 5 8: \"Power Cut to Parts of State\" LA Times,Tues, 5 8: \"Landlords, Janitors Join in Plan to Save Energy\" LA Times, Tues, 5 8: \"Effort to Repay State for Power Is Delayed\" LA Times, Tues, 5 8: \"Blackouts Mean More Than Inconvenience for Disabled\" LA Times, Tues, 5 8: \"In 1st Hearing, PUC Urged to Lift Rate Hike\" LA Times, Tues, 5 8: \"An Oilman's Dream\" (Commentary) LA Times, Tues, 5 8: \"Cheney's an Oaf on Conservation\" (Commentary) SF Chron, Tues, 5 8: \"Secret power deals contain hidden costs THE CLAUSE: A link to natural gas prices SF Chron, Tues, 5 8: \"Bush won't budge on fuel prices Despite fears of a $3 gallon, he will oppose controls\" SF Chron, Tues, 5 8: \"Hot weather sparks new round of blackouts SUPPLIES LOW: Usage keeps climbing as temperatures surpass 90 degrees SF Chron (AP), Tues, 5 8: \"Developments in California's energy crisis\" SF Chron (AP), Tues, 5 8: \"Blackouts hit California as spring heat wave se ts in\" Mercury News, Tues, 5 8: \"Scorching heat sparks rolling blackouts\" Mercury News, Tues, 5 8: \"More than 100,000 customers hit by power blackou ts\" Mercury News, Tues, 5 8: \"Carmaker Says Outages Could Damage Equipment, Harm Efficiency\" Mercury News, Tues, 5 8: \"SF Airport plans to run extra generators\" Mercury News, Tues, 5 8: \"EXEMPT FROM BLACKOUTSThe state Public Utilities Commission exempts the following energy users from rolling\" OC Register, Tues, 5 8: \"Blackouts back, businesses cope\" OC Register, Tues, 5 8: \"Shortage somewhat a surprise\" OC Register (AP), Tues, 5 8: \"Energy notebook Gas pipeline expansion OKd to benefit Southwest\" OC Register, Tues, 5 8: \"Energy borrowing OKd Democrats in Assembly support the $13.4 billion bond over GOP opposition\" OC Register, Tues, 5 8: \"Jones has bright ideas on electricity\" (Commentary) Individual.com (Businesswire), Tues, 5 8: \"Power Scramble A Forbes.com Special Report\" Individual.com (Bridgenews), Tues, 5 8: \"[B] Calif. ISO says power blackouts this evening unlikely\" Individual.com (PRnewswire), Tues, 5 8: \"Stage 2 Electrical Emergency Declared; SCE to Curtail 'Load' for Some Customers\" Individual.com (AP), Tues, 5 8: \"Rolling Blackouts Hit California\" Energy Insighty, Tues, 5 8: \"Hearts, minds, & pocketbooks\" - Hot spell forces blackouts: More outages are probable today in a likely preview of a long, hot summer." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e28076_p3", "sents": [ "He would not comment on the amount of money Qusion hopes to raise.", "Mr. Ludlum said the firm has five people on its board at present and will add a couple more after the completion of the second round.", "Qusion has received backing from Wasserstein Ventures, Vantage Point Venture Partners, and WR Hambrecht.", "<http: www.qusiontech.com * Covalent Materials Announces New President & CEO top mail <http: people.venturewire.com o_mailer.asp?sid=LLKIMJKLII EMERYVILLE, CALIF. -- Covalent Materials, a developer of nanotechnology components for electronics and energy storage applications, said it has appointed Charles Janac as president and CEO.", "Mr. Janac replaces interim CEO Andrei Manoliu, who remains on the board.", "Prior to Covalent Materials, Mr. Janac was entrepreneur-in-residence at Infinity, general manager at Brooks Automation, and CEO of Smart Machines.", "The company is backed by Alta Partners and individuals.", "<http: www.covalentmaterials.com * AppGate Appoints Alfred Moresi President and CEO top mail <http: people.venturewire.com o_mailer.asp?sid=NOQJNHLLII DURHAM, N.C. -- AppGate, which provides technology for virtual private networks, said it named Alfred Moresi as its president and CEO." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 3, 5 ] }, { "title": "Brooks Automation", "sents": [ "Brooks Automation was set up in 1978 and is now based in Chelmsford, Massachusetts.", "Brooks Automation is a provider of automation, vacuum and instrumentation equipment for multiple markets, including semiconductor manufacturing, technology device manufacturing and life sciences.", "Brooks Automation operates in four segments: Brooks Product Solutions, Brooks Global Services and Brooks Life Science Systems." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "Sonex Aircraft Sonex", "sents": [ "The Sonex, Waiex and Xenos are a family of lightweight, metal, low-wing, two seat homebuilt aircraft.", "Kits are produced and marketed by Sonex Aircraft, a small manufacturer based in Oshkosh, Wisconsin.", "500 customer built aircraft have been completed by 2014." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] }, { "title": "Sonex Aircraft", "sents": [ "Sonex Aircraft, LLC is an American aircraft kit manufacturer located in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, producing kits for four all-metal homebuilt monoplanes.", "The company is led by John Monnett who has designed the Monnett Sonerai sport aircraft series, Monnett Monerai sailplane, Monnett Moni motorglider, and Monnett Monex racer.", "Monnett designs are displayed in the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center of the National Air and Space Museum near Washington D.C." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "Sacramento Municipal Utility District", "sents": [ "The Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD) provides electricity to Sacramento County, California, and a small portion of adjacent Placer County.", "It is one of the ten largest publicly owned utilities in the United States, generating the bulk of its power through natural gas (estimated 56% of production total in 2009) and large hydroelectric generation plants (22% in 2009).", "SMUD's green power (renewable) energy output was estimated as 19% in 2009." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] }, { "title": "e6166_p20", "sents": [ "\"The TVA and religion were the two biggest things in life,\" recalled Freeman, who went to work for the TVA soon after college.", "In the mid-1960s, he caught the attention of the White House with a major study on energy conservation.", "President Lyndon Johnson made him the nation's first coordinator of energy policy, a role he maintained under presidents Nixon and Carter.", "Since then, Freeman has headed four public power agencies, including the TVA.", "\"David Freeman has an almost religious belief in public power,\" said Jan Smutny-Jones, executive director of the Independent Energy Producers Association, which represents major providers such as Enron, Reliant and Dynegy.", "\"He really believes that can save the day.", "But he's flat wrong for California The generation industry, with government stability, will bring new investment.\"", "In the mid-1990s, while Freeman was heading the Sacramento Municipal Utility District, state officials considering deregulation recruited him to oversee development of the Power Exchange and California Independent System Operator." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 4, 7 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "Jam Factory (band)", "sents": [ "Jam Factory was an American soul group from Syracuse, NY active 1970-1972.", "The six-man band was founded by Howie Wyeth of Syracuse University and featured Steve Marcone and Earl Ford on brass, Mark Hoffmann on guitar, Kent DeFelice on bass, Joe English on drums, and Gene McCormick on keyboards.", "The band played the Schaefer Music Festival in 1970.", "After leaving The Jam Factory, Joe English went on to be the drummer for Paul McCartney and Wings." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 2 ] }, { "title": "Schaefer Music Festival", "sents": [ "The Schaefer Music Festival was a recurring music festival held in the summer between 1967 and 1976 at Wollman Rink in New York City's Central Park.", "It featured a number of notable performances." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e2943_p146", "sents": [ "\"This is a bold proposition, and blackouts need to be managed in a thoughtful, predictable way,'' Keeley said.", "The concept was first proposed by the Utility Consumer Action Network and Peter Navarro, a University of California, Irvine, economics professor.", "Davis said the concept is one of the many options he's considering, but he hasn't made a decision.", "GOP lawmakers proposing a San Diego public utility SACRAMENTO A number of Republican lawmakers from San Diego are proposing th at their county form a municipal utility district that would have the authorit y to condemn San Diego Gas & Electric's facilities.", "The bill is authored by Assemblyman Mark Wyland, R-Del Mar.", "Wyland wants to form a San Diego Municipal Utility District, but the new public utility wou ld not have power plants to generate electricity for its customers.", "The municipal district would have the authority to take over San Diego Gas & Electric's existing plants and transmission lines." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] }, { "title": "e337_p4", "sents": [ "During the Democrats' big show, Ralph Nader went to San Diego to remind boycotters that he was founding father of the Utility Consumer Action Network, the 46,000-member local group leading the anti-corporate uprising.", "Electricity is the first big United States industry formerly under the tight control of states to be opened up to international operators and their free market rules.", "For the first time, Americans feel the bite of real globalization, and we don't like it one bit." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e3230_p42", "sents": [ "Mr. Garten's group acknowledged that without rules in place, companies might tend to skew soft financial results, reporting only those that show the company in a favorable light, or calculating them in a nonstandard way that makes comparisons impossible.", "But the group said there is an easy fix to such problems, asserting \"market forces will penalize companies that provide inadequate information relative to their peers.\"", "The task force includes venture capitalist John Doerr; Rob Glaser, chairman and CEO of RealNetworks (RNWK); Enron Chairman Kenneth Lay; investment banker Peter Peterson; Cisco Systems Inc. (CSCO) controller Dennis Powell; Professor Baruch Lev of New York University; Professor Joseph Stiglitz of Stanford University; and Hal Varian, dean of the University of California-Berkeley's School of Information Management and Systems.", "Write to Judith Burns at [email protected] Copyright (c) 2001 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved Copyright 2000 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 2 ] }, { "title": "e5399_p92", "sents": [ "But his possible presidential ambitions led the other major co-sponsor of the legislation, Sen. Gordon Smith, R-Ore., to threaten to skip the news conference if Lieberman attended.", "Lieberman stayed away.", "``I believe he's running for president,'' Smith told the Hartford Courant t he day of the news conference.", "``If we inject presidential politics into this, we could defeat the passage of needed legislation.''", "Bruce Cain, a political-science professor at the University of California-Berkeley, said Lieberman would get positive exposure in Californ ia from the hearings.", "``California emerged in the '90s as an absolutely essential win for any Democratic presidential candidate,'' Cain said.", "``The high salience of the issue just creates an important political opportunity'' for Lieberman.", "Contact Jim Puzzanghera at [email protected] or (202) 383-6043. Published Friday, June 8, 2001 Davis touts conservation success POWER CRISIS He and businesses say it gives the state leverage in electricity market By Rick Jurgens TIMES STAFF WRITER SAN FRANCISCO -- Gov." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 4 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "AOL", "sents": [ "AOL (formerly a company known as AOL Inc., originally known as America Online, and stylized as Aol) is a web portal and online service provider based in New York.", "It is a brand marketed by Oath, a subsidiary of Verizon Communications.", "AOL was one of the early pioneers of the Internet in the mid-1990s, and the most recognized brand on the web in the U.S.", "It originally provided a dial-up service to millions of Americans, as well as providing a web portal, e-mail, instant messaging and later a web browser following its purchase of Netscape.", "At the height of its popularity, it purchased the media conglomerate Time Warner in the largest merger in U.S. history.", "AOL rapidly declined thereafter, partly due to the decline of dial-up to broadband.", "AOL was eventually spun off from Time Warner in 2009, with Tim Armstrong appointed the new CEO.", "Under his leadership, the company invested in media brands and advertising technologies." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] }, { "title": "e28091_p1", "sents": [ "-- Microsoft offers Passport to all Microsoft said Thursday it would open Passport, its Internet authentication service, to other companies.", "Passport is a service that allows Web users to load personal information into a database so that the data can be used by other Web sites for registration, purchases and other purposes.", "\"The challenge of providing universal single sign-in is larger than any one company,\" said Bob Muglia, group vice president of NET Services at Microsoft.", "Passport will use a free network authentication technology developed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology known as Kerberos.", "This could permit AOL Time Warner and Yahoo to establish similar services that would have access to compatible databases of information maintained by Microsoft.", "A Microsoft executive told Reuters this is \"an invitation to AOL to interoperate.\"", "-- Attacks dominate search requests Web-based inquiries relating to the Sept. 11 attacks have continued to soar, according to a spokesman for the search service at AltaVista." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 3, 4 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "Weldy Young", "sents": [ "Weldon Champness Young (October 4, 1871 – October 27, 1944) was a Canadian businessman and athlete.", "Young was an ice hockey player for the Ottawa Hockey Club, playing in its founding years in the 1880s and in the 1890s.", "Young later became a member of the Dawson City Nuggets which played against Ottawa in the 1905 Stanley Cup challenge.", "His brother George Young was one of the original Ottawa players and the two played together for Ottawa from 1889–1891.", "Young later became an investor and executive in mining in the Cobalt, Ontario area." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 2 ] }, { "title": "Dawson City Nuggets", "sents": [ "The Dawson City Nuggets (also known as the \"Klondikes\") were a hockey team from Dawson City, Yukon Territory, Canada that challenged the reigning champion Ottawa Hockey Club, aka \"The Silver Seven,\" in January 1905, for the Stanley Cup.", "They suffered the most lopsided single-game defeat in the history of Stanley Cup play." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "Albertina", "sents": [ "The Albertina is a museum in the Innere Stadt (First District) of Vienna, Austria.", "It houses one of the largest and most important print rooms in the world with approximately 65,000 drawings and approximately 1 million old master prints, as well as more modern graphic works, photographs and architectural drawings.", "Apart from the graphics collection the museum has recently acquired on permanent loan two significant collections of Impressionist and early 20th-century art, some of which will be on permanent display.", "The museum also houses temporary exhibitions." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] }, { "title": "e3698_p6", "sents": [ "According to presiden t and chief operating officer Judith Cox, Guggenheim.com will be a for-profit entity, completely separate in management and operations from the Guggenhei m Foundation.", "The company will be a collaboration of the Solomon R. Guggenhei m Foundation along with participating museums, including The State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia; The Albertina in Vienna, Austria; Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna; and the Zentrum fur Kunst und Medientechnologie Center for Art and Media in Karlsruhe, Germany.", "The company, which was founded in May 2000, plans to generate revenues from channels including advertising and sponsorship, content subscription, syndication, and e-commerce.", "Ms. Cox joined the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation as general counsel in 1991, and served as its deputy director prior to joining Guggenheim.com.", "Before joining the Guggenheim Foundation, she worked as a lawyer with Bankers Trust.", "Thomas Krens, who is also direct or of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, will serve as chairman and interim CEO of Guggenheim.com." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "Interstate 280 (New Jersey)", "sents": [ "Interstate 280 (abbreviated I-280) is a 17.85 mi Interstate Highway in the U.S. state of New Jersey.", "It provides a spur from I-80 in Parsippany-Troy Hills, Morris County to Newark, and I-95 (the New Jersey Turnpike) in Kearny, Hudson County.", "In Kearny, access is provided toward the Holland Tunnel and Lincoln Tunnel to New York City.", "The western part of the route runs through suburban areas of Morris and Essex counties, crossing the Watchung Mountains.", "Upon reaching The Oranges, the setting becomes more urbanized and I-280 runs along a depressed alignment before ascending again in Newark.", "I-280 includes a lift bridge, the William A. Stickel Memorial Bridge over the Passaic River between Newark and Harrison.", "The highway is sometimes called the Essex Freeway.", "I-280 interchanges with several roads, including the Garden State Parkway in East Orange and Route 21 in Newark." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 2 ] }, { "title": "New York City", "sents": [ "The City of New York, often called New York City or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States.", "With an estimated 2016 population of 8,537,673 distributed over a land area of about 302.6 sqmi , New York City is also the most densely populated major city in the United States.", "Located at the southern tip of the state of New York, the city is the center of the New York metropolitan area, one of the most populous urban agglomerations in the world.", "A global power city, New York City exerts a significant impact upon commerce, finance, media and entertainment, art, fashion, research, technology, education, politics, and sports, its fast pace defining the term \"New York minute\".", "Home to the headquarters of the United Nations, New York is an important center for international diplomacy and has been described as the cultural, financial, and media capital of the world." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e3676_p9", "sents": [ "In July 1998, NuCORE raised $3 million in Series A funding led by TechFund, wi th J.P. Morgan Capital Partners and NTT Lease Ventures participating.", "In March 2000, the company closed an $8.7 million Series B led by VantagePoint Ventures, with Horizon Ventures, J.P. Morgan Capital Partners, and TechFund http: www.nucoretech.com new money Clearswift, Formerly Net-Tel, Raises $9.6 Million A Round mail?", "top HERTFORDSHIRE, England (VENTUREWIRE) -- Clearswift, a provider of e- mail and content security services formerly known as Net-Tel, said it launched with a Series A GBP 6.75 million ($9.6 million) from investors including U.S.-base d investment firm 4C Ventures, the British investor Amadeus Capital, and the Italian venture capital fund Pino Ventures.", "Amadeus led the round, which gives Clearswift a post-money valuation of $15 million, according to Clearswift spokesman, Paul Rutherford.", "The company will use the funding to support the restructuring of Net-Tel into Clearswift and the launch of Clearswift's services in France, Germany, and the United States Richard Anton, a director with Amadeus Capital, will take a seat on the company's board of directors as a result of the funding." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 1 ] }, { "title": "Clearswift", "sents": [ "Clearswift is an information security company based in the UK.", "It offers cyber-security services to protect business's data from internal and external threats." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e20330_p0", "sents": [ "'Jeff--nothing comes close to California!", "By the way, you can't leave since you were off listening to economists and scholars and big thinkers today instead of listening to Rick's conference call you don't get to take a package!", "--Original Message -- From: Dasovich, Jeff Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2001 9:58 PM To: Landwehr, Susan M.; Novosel, Sarah Subject: RE: RTO week Man, makes California look like a second rate circus.", "You two are having all the fun.", "Surprisingly refreshing to hear that Massey put it to them.", "Best, Jeff PS I want you two to be the first to know I'm leaving", "--Original Message -- From: Landwehr, Susan M. Sent: Thu 10 18 2001 6:19 PM To: Novosel, Sarah; Allegretti, Daniel; Alvarez, Ray; Boston, Roy; Comnes, Alan; Connor, Joe; Dasovich, Jeff; Fromer, Howard; Guerrero, Janel; Hemstock, Robert; Hoatson, Tom; Hueter, Barbara A.; Kaufman, Paul; Lassere, Donald; Lindberg, Susan; Mara, Susan; Maurer, Luiz; Migden, Janine; Montovano, Steve; Nicolay, Christi L.; Nord, Sue; Palmer, Mark A. (PR); Perrino, Dave; Philipp, Meredith; Roan, Michael; Robertson, Linda; Robinson, Marchris; Ryall, Jean; Shapiro, Richard; Shortridge, Pat; Staines, Dan; Steffes, James D.; Stroup, Kerry; Sullivan, Kathleen; Twiggs, Thane; Walton, Steve; Kean, Steven J.; Fulton, Donna Cc: Dernehl, Ginger; Thome, Jennifer Subject: RTO week Thursday Morning session -Meeting with State Commissioners This session was generally known to be the occasion for state commissioners to vent their frustrations at FERC taking action without including them in the decision making process." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 2 ] }, { "title": "Landwehr", "sents": [ "Landwehr, or Landeswehr, is a German language term used in referring to certain national armies, or militias found in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Europe.", "In different context it refers to large-scale, low-strength fortifications.", "In German, the word means \"defence of the country\"; but the term as applied to an insurrectional militia is very ancient, and \"lantveri\" are mentioned in \"Baluzii Capitularia\", as quoted in Hallam's \"Middle Ages\", i.", "262, 10th edition." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 2 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "South Cascade Glacier", "sents": [ "South Cascade Glacier is a large alpine glacier in the North Cascades of Washington, USA.", "It is bordered on the east by 8261 ft Sentinel Peak, and is about 17 mi north of Glacier Peak in the Glacier Peak Wilderness.", "Meltwater from the glacier flows directly into South Cascade Lake, which feeds the South Fork Cascade River, which is a tributary of the Skagit River." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] }, { "title": "Glacier Peak", "sents": [ "Glacier Peak or Dakobed (known in the Sauk Indian dialect of Lushootseed as \"Tda-ko-buh-ba\" or \"Takobia\") is the most isolated of the five major stratovolcanoes (composite volcanoes) of the Cascade Volcanic Arc in the U.S state of Washington.", "Located in the Glacier Peak Wilderness, the volcano is visible from the west in Seattle, and from the north in the higher areas of eastern suburbs of Vancouver such as Coquitlam and Port Coquitlam.", "The volcano is the fourth tallest peak in Washington state, and not as much is known about it compared to other volcanoes in the area.", "Local Native Americans have recognized Glacier Peak and other Washington volcanoes in their histories and stories.", "When American explorers reached the region, they learned basic information about surrounding landforms, but did not initially understand that Glacier Peak was a volcano.", "Positioned in Snohomish County, the volcano is only 70 mi northeast of Seattle.", "The only volcano closer to Seattle is Mount Rainier, but as Glacier Peak is set farther into the Cascades and almost 4000 ft shorter, it is less noticeable than Mount Rainier." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "Dianne Feinstein", "sents": [ "Dianne Goldman Berman Feinstein ( ; born Dianne Emiel Goldman; June 22, 1933) is the senior United States Senator from California.", "A member of the Democratic Party, she has served in the Senate since 1992.", "She also served as the 38th Mayor of San Francisco from 1978 to 1988." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] }, { "title": "e3793_p26", "sents": [ "Bingaman is co-sponsor of a bill introduced by Sens.", "Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) and Gordon Smith (R-Ore.) that would direct FERC to limit prices while ensuring that power suppliers recover their costs and still make a reasonable profit.", "The Bush administration has opposed price controls, contending they would discourage power plant construction.", "The Feinstein bill appeared unlikely to come up for a vote in the Ener gy Committee under the former chairman, Sen. Frank Murkowski (R-Alaska).", "Feinstein said she hopes that if FERC doesn't act within a few weeks, the committee will take up her bill.", "\"We intend to keep the pressure up,\" she said.", "Even if such a measure were to pass the Senate, it would face stiff opposition in the GOP-controlled House of Representatives and probably a presidential veto.", "Nor is it clear to what extent Congress can dictate to FERC, an independent body, what actions to take.", "But with their newfound power, the Democrats believe they can, at minimum, increase political and public pressure on the regulators." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 1 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "Dankaro", "sents": [ "Dankaro (8 May 1971 died 30 September 1976) was a French Thoroughbred racehorse and sire.", "One of the last champions bred by Marcel Boussac, he showed promise as a two-year-old in 1973 when he won the Prix de Cabourg.", "In the following spring he established himself as arguably the best three-year-old colt in Europe with successive wins in the Prix Greffulhe, Prix Daru and Prix Lupin.", "He finished second when favourite for the Prix du Jockey Club and was the first male horse to finish when third to Dahlia in the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes.", "His racing career was then ended by injury and he was retired to stud where he had no success as a breeding stallion." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] }, { "title": "Prix de Cabourg", "sents": [ "The Prix de Cabourg is a Group 3 flat horse race in France open to two-year-old thoroughbreds.", "It is run at Deauville over a distance of 1,200 metres (about 6 furlongs), and it is scheduled to take place each year in late July or early August." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "Free Land (film)", "sents": [ "Free Land (German: Freies Land) is a 1946 German drama film directed by Milo Harbich and starring Ursula Voß, Fritz Wagner and Herbert Wilk.", "The film was a work of propaganda made by DEFA in the Soviet occupation zone which later became East Germany.", "It uses a neorealist style to portray the effects of land reforms brought in by the Soviet authorities.", "It proved to be very unsuccessful on its release." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] }, { "title": "Herbert Wilk", "sents": [ "Herbert Wilk (1905–1977) was a German stage, television and film actor.", "He emerged as a screen actor during the Nazi era, appearing in war films such as \"U-Boote westwärts\" (1941).", "However the bulk of his career came after the Second World War.", "After initially appearing in films made by the East German studio DEFA, he largely worked in West German television for the remainder of his career." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "Kopaniny, Gmina Sokolniki", "sents": [ "Kopaniny is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Sokolniki, within Wieruszów County, Łódź Voivodeship, in central Poland.", "It lies approximately 4 km west of Sokolniki, 10 km east of Wieruszów, and 98 km south-west of the regional capital Łódź." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] }, { "title": "Łódź", "sents": [ "Łódź ( ; ] ; Yiddish: לאדזש‎ , \"Lodzh\"; also written as Lodz) is the third-largest city in Poland and a former industrial centre.", "Located in the central part of the country, it has a population of 696,503 (2016).", "It is the capital of Łódź Voivodeship, and is approximately 135 km south-west of Warsaw.", "The city's coat of arms is an example of canting: depicting a boat.", "It alludes to the city's name which translates literally as \"boat.\"" ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 2, 4 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "Khangkhui", "sents": [ "Khangkhui is a Tangkhul Naga village in the North-eastern part of Ukhrul district of Manipur, India.", "The village is about 16 kilometer from Ukhrul District headquarters.", "The village is flanked by Choithar in the west, Nungshong in the south, Pushing in the east and Langdang and Shirui in the north." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 2 ] }, { "title": "Nungshong", "sents": [ "Nungshong is a generic reference to two villages viz.", "Nungshong Khullen and Nungshong Khunou located south of Ukhrul in Ukhrul district, Manipur state, India.", "The village is about 30 kilometers from Ukhrul via the state highway that connects Ukhrul-Kamjong via Shangshak.", "The shorter un-metalled road from Ukhrul to Nungshong is about 15 kilometers.", "Construction of a new road under PMGSY to connect the neighboring villages with Ukhrul is underway for which there were reports of irregularities on the part of the executing agencies.", "Nungshong is flanked by Hungpung in the west, Shangching in the south, Choithar and Khangkhui in the north.", "Locally, the residents speak Nungshong dialect which belongs to the Tibeto-Burman language family." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e19925_p11", "sents": [ "Mr.", "Hood is replacing BeVocal co-founder Mikael Berner, who has taken the title CTO and executive vice president of products.", "Mr.", "Hood was previously a general manager at AT&amp;T, where he was responsible for the AT&amp;T&#39;s WorldNet Internet Access business, and a general manager at Dell Computers.", "font <!--[<a href=\"http: professional.venturewire.com story.asp?sid=QNQQJILLHI\" more..< a ]-- <br <a href=\"http: www.bevocal.com\" target=\"_new\" <font face=\"verdana, arial, geneva, helvetica\" size=\"2\" http: www.bevocal.com< font a td tr table <br <table border=\"0\" width=\"80%\" cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 <tr <td <a name=\"vwQNOKNKOLHI\" <b <font face=\"verdana, arial, geneva, helvetica\" size=\"2\" Capital Z Halts Tech Investments, Founder Departs< font ba td <td align=\"right\" &nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=\"http: alert.venturewire.com o_mailer.asp?sid=QNOKNKOLHI\" target=NEW <img src=\"http: alert.venturewire.com images mail2.gif\" border=\"0\" height=\"10\" width=\"15\" alt=\"mail\" a &nbsp; td tr <tr <td colspan=2 <font face=\"verdana, arial, geneva, helvetica\" size=\"2\" NEW YORK -- Capital Z Partners founding partner Adam Mizel has resigned from the company, according to Brad Cooper, a partner at the private equity firm." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 4 ] }, { "title": "e5133_p2", "sents": [ "The company also said it reached an agreement with America Online to be a main tenant of AOL Bargain Basement, a new domain of Shop@AOL exclusive to members.", "AOL senior vice president Katherine Borsecnik joined the board of directors.", "http: www.smartbargains.com Investment Sites iExchange and InteractiveFunds.com Merge DALLAS -- iExchange.com, an online marketplace for investment advice, and InteractiveFunds.com, an investment site that provides financial research tools, a discussion board, and stock price forecasts, said they will merge.", "Financial terms were undisclosed.", "The combined company will run under the name iExchange.com and plans to launch a new Web site by next year that will include investment products and services.", "The company will be operate from InteractiveFunds' headquarters in Dallas and InteractiveFunds' CEO Randall Bullard will remain as the new company's CEO.", "Heath Schiesser, iExchange's interim CEO and managing director of idealab!", "Capital Partners, will return to idealab!.", "The company's board will include Mr. Bullard, Adam Mizel of Capital Z Partners, AOL co-founder Mark Seriff, idealab!" ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 1, 4, 5, 8 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e9122_p0", "sents": [ "'FYI Good quotes: December 13, 2000 -- Dynegy CEO: Still Supplying Power To Calif ISO NEW YORK -- Dynegy Inc. (DYN) continues to supply the California electricity grid with power - despite some concerns that it won't be paid for the supplies, Dynegy chairman Stephen Bergstrom told Dow Jones Newswires Wednesday.", "California Independent System Operator said Wednesday that it was on the verge of rolling blackouts because about 12 suppliers had stopped selling power to the grid operator due to qualms about the credit of the ISO and the state's utilities.", "Among traders, Dynegy's name quickly came up as one of the companies not selling to the ISO, but Bergstrom said that isn't the case.", "\"We continue to provide all the power that the ISO asks for.", "We did send a letter Friday to the ISO and the Power Exchange asking for assurance of payment for the power we're producing." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 1 ] }, { "title": "e718_p2", "sents": [ "``At best the utility is standing still (in that) it hasn't improved its cash flow or its cash position,'' said Craver.", "``At worst, it is going backwards.", "That's our basic conclusion on the numbers and the mechanisms as we understand them.''", "San Francisco-based PG&E Corp. (NYSE:PCG - news), parent of Pacific G&E, has said it expects to take a $4.1 billion charge for unrecouped electricity costs, while Rosemead, Calif.-based Edison has said it may take a ``substantial'' charge that may total as much as $2.7 billion.", "California Independent System Operator, which runs most of the state's power grid, early on Tuesday called another Stage Two emergency alert because of supply problems.", "Such alerts are declared when power reserves fall to within 5 percent of peak demand.", "The alert was later lifted.", "Edison shares closed Tuesday on the New York Stock Exchange at $12.82, up 27 cents, or 2.2 percent.", "PG&E shares closed on the Big Board at $11.53, down 22 cents, or 1.9 percent." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 4 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e8209_p17", "sents": [ "MarketMile said it will use the money for corpor ate development.", "MarketMile serves companies seeking Internet procurement services for corporate needs, including office supplies, computers, and ?t emporary labor.", "http: www.marketmile.com?", "B2B Marketing Servi ces Firm Magnifi Gets $25 Million?", "LOS GATOS, Calif. (VENTUREWIRE) -- Magnifi, which provides business-to-business marketing extranet services, said it received $25 million in a strategic round of funding.", "Investors in this round include EM C, PSINet, and Madge.web, all of which will provide the company with global infrastructure, networking, storage, and support.", "Previous investors Rustic Canyon Group, Crystal Internet Venture Fund, IDG Ventures, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Gideon Hixon, Batterson Venture Partners, and Triad Media Ventur es also participated in the funding.", "The company will use the funds to expand its client support.", "http: www.magnifi.com Financial Technologies Raises $52.75 Million in Series D New York (VENTUREWIRE) -- Financial Technologies International, which develops software to consolidate, aggregate, and report financial da ta for the financial services industry, said it raised $52.75 million in i ts Series ?D round of financing." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 4, 5, 6 ] }, { "title": "Draper Fisher Jurvetson", "sents": [ "Draper Fisher Jurvetson (DFJ) is an American venture capital firm focused on early- and growth-stage investments in enterprise, consumer and disruptive technologies.", "In 2015, DFJ was identified as one of the top investors of billion-dollar startups." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e27877_p0", "sents": [ "--Original Message -- From: Schultz, Don Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2001 8:13 AM To: Boyd,Kelly; Brown,Jeff; Chinn,Randy; Clark,Woody; Ferrera, Anna; Johannesson,Magnus; Kelly,Brian; Lingbloom, Lawrence; Lipper,Kip; Lyons, Joseph; Phillips,Guy; Sherriff,Rona; Symonds,Toni; Zeps,Gabrielle Cc: Bondonno,Maria; Campbell,Rod; Hartmann,Audra; Julian, Bill Subject: restructuring collection <<restructuring__CA experience revisited_Oct part 2_ 2001.doc" ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] }, { "title": "e27894_p0", "sents": [ "--Original Message -- From: Schultz, Don Sent: Friday, October 26, 2001 4:31 PM To: Boyd,Kelly; Brown,Jeff; Chinn,Randy; Clark,Woody; Ferrera, Anna; Johannesson,Magnus; Kelly,Brian; Lingbloom, Lawrence; Lipper,Kip; Lyons, Joseph; Phillips,Guy; Sherriff,Rona; Symonds,Toni; Zeps,Gabrielle Cc: Bondonno,Maria; Campbell,Rod; Hartmann,Audra; Julian, Bill Subject: NYT Editorial <<restructuring_911_oil dependencies and ee and alternatives_NYTimesEd Oct 2001.doc" ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e10321_p14", "sents": [ "Meanwhile, Dutch regulators have decided to allocate additional third-generation licenses by auction, with the aim of awarding the licenses by October.", "The licenses will cover 3G services in the 1900-1980 MHz, 2010-2025 MHz, and 2110-2170 MHz bands.", "Last year, the Dutch government raised 5.9 million Dutch guilders ($2.5 billion) when it auctioned five 3G licenses (TR, July 31, 2000).", "NEWS IN BRIEF The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers said its board elected M. Stuart Lynn to succeed Michael Roberts as president and chief executive officer of ICANN.", "Mr. Roberts has held the position since October 1998, overseeing ICANN's start-up as an organization and commercial entity.", "Mr. Lynn is a former chief information officer for the University of California system.", "He'll take over the CEO post at the conclusion of ICANN's board meeting in Melbourne, Australia, March 10-13", "Alamosa PCS Holdings, Inc., said President and Chief Operating Officer Jerry Brantley has left the company." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 3, 5 ] }, { "title": "University of California", "sents": [ "The University of California (UC) is a public university system in the U.S. state of California.", "Under the California Master Plan for Higher Education, the University of California is a part of the state's three-system public higher education plan, which also include the California State University system and the California Community Colleges System." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e4576_p20", "sents": [ "The company joins previous investors WPP Group, and earlier round Australian venture capital investors Equity Partners and the Australasian Media & Communications Fund.", "The company said it will use the funds to expand its product offering and continue global expansion with a move to the United States next month.", "http: www.redsheriff.com Videoconferencing Firm iPhysician Lands $36 Million Series E SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- iPhysicianNet, a videoconferencing application provider for pharmaceutical companies and physicians, said it raised $36 million in its Series E round, led by KBL Healthcare Ventures and Patricof Ventures.", "Cardinal Health Partners, Fireman's Fund Insurance, Valley, and previous investor Veron International also participated.", "http: www.iphysiciannet.com Ad Promotions Firm DailyShopper Network Raises $8 Million SEATTLE -- DailyShopper Network, a promotions network for retail advertisers, said it closed on $8 million in its second round of financing.", "The round was co-led by Tribune, the strategic investment unit of Tribune, as well as Voyager Capital and Madrona Venture Group." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 5 ] }, { "title": "e3579_p15", "sents": [ "The funding follows a recent announcement that NewMonics had expanded its management team.", "http: www.newmonics.com Online Marketer Dynamic Trade Raises $7 Million Round Two CHICAGO -- Dynamic Trade, a provider of performance-based online marketing, said it has raised $7 million in its second round funding from lead investor Tribune, along with KB Partners, Portage Venture's Greystone Venture Fund and Nelson Capital Corporation.", "Dynamic Trade plans to use the new funding to support the sales and marketing of its services, expand its current suite of performance marketing services and for new product development.", "Dynamic Trade raised its previous round of funding from KB Partners, Potage Venture's Greystone Venture Fund, and Blumenstein Thorne Information Partners.", "http: www.dynamictrade.com Pharmaceutical Firm OnSite Rx Secures $12 Million Round Two LA JOLLA, Calf.", "-- OnSite Rx, which provides pharmaceutical electronic commerce management and automated medication dispensing systems, said it received $12 million in its second round of funding." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 1 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "St. Louis", "sents": [ "St. Louis ( ) is an independent city and major U.S. port in the state of Missouri, built along the western bank of the Mississippi River, on the border with Illinois.", "The city had an estimated 2016 population of 311,404, and is the cultural and economic center of the Greater St. Louis area (home to 2,916,447 people), making it the largest metropolitan area in Missouri and the 19th-largest in the United States.", "Nine of the ten Fortune 500 companies based in Missouri are located within the St. Louis metropolitan area." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] }, { "title": "e5899_p44", "sents": [ "Although Besten expects the exposure on Nymex will increase the liquidity of the current spot market for coal, he also said it is a natural extension of the trading activity that already exists.", "Besten also expects the exposure on Nymex will introduce financial players into the market, which may increase the volatility of coal prices.", "Although Arch will take advantage of trading opportunities to try to increase its profits, the St. Louis company doesn't think of trading as a separate revenue stream.", "The event may ultimately be more significant for Peabody Energy (BTU), which is a more active trader of coal.", "About 3% of Peabody's revenue, and roughly 3% to 5% of its earnings, come from its trading activities, said Vic Svec, a company spokesman.", "He added that Peabody, the largest private-sector coal company in the world, doesn't provide specific segment detail.", "According to Svec, the St. Louis company began expanding its coal-trading business once it saw the market was moving toward real-time trading." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 5, 6 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e104_p1", "sents": [ "If filed, the utilities would have 20 days to respond, perhaps another 30 days to contest the filing.", "California PUC voted to block Edison and PG&E ,s layoff plans.", "The rul ing requires the companies to halt planned layoffs and to rescind those already made.", "Edison had cut 400 jobs, with plans to cut 1,450 more.", "PGE had laid off 325, with plans to cut a further 675. Proposed QF contract legislation (SB-47X) remains stalled in the State Senate Energy Committee.", "In a perverse and &vicious-circle 8 type twi st, lack of QF payments to date have forced many off line, reducing supply and drivi ng up prices.", "National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ,s spring forecast.", "Th e NOAA reported that the Pacific Northwest has experienced one of the driest winters on record, second only to 1976-77. Reservoir levels continued to be below normal for the end of February and mountain snowpacks in many river basins are less than 70% of normal." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 7 ] }, { "title": "Pacific Northwest", "sents": [ "The Pacific Northwest (in the United States, commonly abbreviated as PNW), sometimes referred to as Cascadia, is a geographic region in western North America bounded by the Pacific Ocean to the west and (loosely) by the Cascade Mountain Range on the east.", "Though no agreed boundary exists, a common conception includes the U.S. states of Oregon and Washington and the Canadian province of British Columbia.", "Broader conceptions reach north into Alaska and Yukon, south into northern California and east to the Continental Divide, thus including Idaho, Western Montana, and western Wyoming.", "Idaho, Wyoming, and Montana are more accurately termed the Inland Northwest (INW), as the climate, folia, fauna, and politics are different than in the Pacific Northwest, as well as a different time zone in all but North Idaho.", "Narrower conceptions may be limited to the northwestern US or to the coastal areas west of the Cascade and Coast mountains.", "The variety of definitions can be attributed to partially overlapping commonalities of the region's history, geography, society, and other factors." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e5399_p125", "sents": [ "By yesterday, the number of megawatts off-line had dropped to 4,800, as generators completed maintenance and brought plants back into service in preparation for the summer.", "According to the California Energy Commission, the state will also have 5,0 00 megawatts from new power plants that will be in operation by this fall, including 2,200 megawatts up and running by next month.", "West Coast consumers are also using less power.", "In California total electricity use fell 2 percent in May compared with the same period last ye ar and it fell 11 percent after factoring in changes in the weather and econom ic growth, according to the state energy commission.", "Demand may fall further once California consumers start receiving bills containing electricity rate increases of 30 percent to 50 percent that go into effect this month, analysts said.", "Reduction in demand from the Pacific Northwest, which competes with California for wholesale power, also appears to be playing a role." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 1 ] }, { "title": "California Energy Commission", "sents": [ "The California Energy Commission, formally the Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission, is California’s primary energy policy and planning agency.", "Created in 1974 and headquartered in Sacramento, the Commission has responsibility for activities that include forecasting future energy needs, promoting energy efficiency through appliance and building standards, and supporting renewable energy technologies.", "The Commission is a division of the California Natural Resources Agency, which is under the direction of Cabinet Secretary John Laird.", "One of its prominent responsibilities is maintenance of the California Energy Code." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "2004 Houston Bowl", "sents": [ "The 2004 EV1.net Houston Bowl was the fifth edition of the college football bowl game, and was played at Reliant Stadium in Houston, Texas.", "The game pitted the Colorado Buffaloes from the Big 12 Conference and the UTEP Miners from the Western Athletic Conference (WAC).", "The game was the final competition of the 2004 football season for each team and resulted in a 33–28 Colorado victory." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 1 ] }, { "title": "Western Athletic Conference", "sents": [ "The Western Athletic Conference (WAC) is an American collegiate athletic conference formed on July 27, 1962 and affiliated with the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I.", "The WAC covers a broad expanse of the western United States, with member institutions located in Arizona, California, New Mexico, Utah, and Washington, along with the \"non-western\" states of Missouri and Illinois (traditionally associated with the Midwest), as well as Texas (traditionally associated with the Southwest)." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e8209_p21", "sents": [ "The round included investments from BBVA, 3 i, Venturepark, and individual investors Adolfo Ibarra, vice president of marketing for SAP, and Jose Monserrate, president of Movierecord Cine and Grupo Diversus.", "The company said it will use the funding to continue its international expansion in Europe, Latin America, and Asia.", "As a result of the investment BBVA, 3i, Venturepark, and Adolfo Ibarra, will take seats on the company's board of directors.", "http: www.moddo.com Sutter Hill Announces New Investments, Management Additions PALO ALTO, Calif. (VENTUREWIRE) -- Sutter Hill Ventures announce d its new third quarter investments and also said it added two new members to its management team.", "The firm said it made a new investments in Collab rys, a provider of Internet marketing personalization services, and biotec h firm Vascular Innovations.", "The firm also said it made follow-on investme nts in Adexa, which provides collaborative planning services to Internet b usinesses; technology buyout firm Golden Gate Capital; JP Kids, a media co mpany that develops educational content; Vivace Networks, a broadband serv ice provider of label switching for optical networks; and biotech firms Am ira Medical and Visionary BioMedical." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] }, { "title": "Latin America", "sents": [ "Latin America is a group of countries and dependencies in the Americas where Spanish and Portuguese are predominant.", "The term originated in 19th century France as \"Amérique latine\" to consider French-speaking territories in the Americas (Haiti, French Guiana, Martinique, Guadeloupe, Saint Martin, Saint Barthélemy) along with the larger group of countries where Spanish and Portuguese languages prevailed.", "It is therefore broader than the terms Ibero-America or Hispanic America—though it usually excludes French Canada and modern French Louisiana." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "5259 Epeigeus", "sents": [ "5259 Epeigeus (1989 BB1) is a Jupiter Trojan discovered on January 30, 1989, by American astronomer Carolyn S. Shoemaker at Palomar Observatory.", "It is named after the Myrmidon Epeigeus." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] }, { "title": "Carolyn", "sents": [ "Carolyn is a female given name, a variant of Caroline.", "Other spellings include Karolyn, Carolyne or Carolynne.", "Caroline itself is one of the feminine forms of Charles." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e8613_p39", "sents": [ "Mr. Winters will oversee St. Paul's direct investments in publicly traded small capitalization companies, the latest extension of the firm's venture capital efforts.", "St. Paul Venture Capital closed a $1.3 billion venture fund in October.", "http: www.stpaulvc.com vw corrections ViaFone mail this story?", "top NEW YORK (VENTUREWIRE) -- An item in Friday's Venture Wire about ViaFone's second round funding incorrectly described the company's business as a consumer-based service.", "ViaFone has changed its focus and now develops enterprise software for mobile applications.", "Datek Online Holdings mail this story?", "top NEW YORK (VENTUREWIRE) -- An item in Monday's Venture Wire about new funding for Datek Online Holdings incorrectly listed Vulcan Ventures as an investor.", "Vulcan has not invested Datek.", "El Dorado mail this story?", "top NEW YORK (VENTUREWIRE) -- An item in last Thursday's VentureWire about El Dorado gave an incorrect URL.", "The correct Web address is http: www.eldorado.com.", "company index top 2Ce, Advanced Data Exchange, aTelo, Atesto Technologies, Athenahealth.com, Avista Advantage, BizProLink, BlueLight.com, Bolero.net, Cidera, CornerDrugStore.com, Creative Planet, DigiScents, Digital Transit, EdgeMatrix Elisar Software, Ellacoya Networks, Enigma, EthicalShopper.com, EZCloser, Fullscope, GreenMarketplace.com, GroupServe, HealtheTech, HighGround Systems, !" ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 6 ] }, { "title": "e4676_p21", "sents": [ "RoyNat Capital has invested in wireless, telecommunications, software, and Internet commerce companies.", "http: www.roynatcapital.com Digital Partners Close Third Venture Fund for $36 Million SEATTLE -- Digital Partners, an early-stage venture capital firm focused on funding companies in the Pacific Northwest, said it closed a new fund, Digital Partners III, with $36 million.", "The fund's investors include institutional and individual investors.", "The new fund will make initial investments between $500,000 and $1.5 million and lifetime investments of between $1 million and $3 million in 15 to 20 start-ups.", "The fund will focus on companies involved in Internet and wireless infrastructure, mobile and remote computing, software, telecommunications, and bioinformatics.", "The fund's portfolio companies include @Campus, Elaho Wireless, Fios, and Picture IQ.", "Digital Partners portfolio firms include Avenue A, HomeGrocer.com, and Loudeye Technologies.", "http: www.digitalpartnersvc.com VW Corrections o Activ-e NEW YORK -- An item in yesterday's Venture Wire incorrectly listed Activ-e's URL as http: www.active-e.com." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 7 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "Paige Lewis", "sents": [ "Paige Lewis is a singer-songwriter and copywriter from Katy, Texas whose work has been featured in the soundtrack of the film Matchstick Men.", "Paige released her first album with Word Records at the age of 16, in addition to two further albums released under her own Greeley Records label.", "She has also collaborated as a co-writer for other CCM artists including Rachael Lampa." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] }, { "title": "Katy, Texas", "sents": [ "Katy is a city in the U.S. state of Texas, within the Houston–Katy-Woodlands–Sugar Land metropolitan area.", "The city is located in Harris, Fort Bend, and Waller counties.", "The population was 14,102 at the 2010 census, up from 11,775 at the 2000 census.", "The population was estimated to be 16,158 in 2015." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 2 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e699_p15", "sents": [ "Yesterday, the companies canceled their plan.", "The failed agreement between the two software companies was the latest acquisition to founder amid the stock market rout.", "The four largest transactions that collapsed this year had a combined announced value of almost $40 billion.", "``The issue is the enormous uncertainty about the economic climate,'' Robert Cotter, United States head of Deutsche Bank AG's investment banking unit.", "``This climate of volatility makes it difficult to close deals.''", "Abandoned purchases including FPL Group Inc.'s $15.8 billion acquisition of Entergy Corp. mean the investment bankers advising the companies may receive partial payment of fees that would have run into the tens of millions of dollars.", "In some cases, the bankers may only get expenses.", "Morgan Stanley Dean Witter & Co., Salomon Smith Barney, Credit Suisse First Boston, Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc., J.P. Morgan Chase & Co., Merrill Lynch & Co. and Thomas Weisel Partners are among advisers coming up short because of recent failed transactions." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 5 ] }, { "title": "e2250_p34", "sents": [ "The high dollar value of deals undone in April came from four big transactions: Ariba Inc.'s $2.5 billion bid for Agile Software Corporation; FPL Group Inc.'s $5.5 billion offer for Entergy Corp.; Sierra Pacific Resources' failed $2.1 billion move for Enron Corp.'s Portland General Electric division and financier Carl Icahn's doomed $650 million grab at Trans World Airlines On the advisory side, the biggest investment banking firms took the biggest hits.", "In April, it was Morgan Stanley's turn.", "The investment bank led with only two deals canceled, but worth $8 billion; the Agile deal and Entergy's $6.4 billion transaction, the full value of which was $12.4 billion, including assumed debt.", "J.P. Morgan came in second with two canceled deals worth $5.5 billion, with nearly all of that value coming from the FPL Entergy deal as well.", "Hall said most of the failed April deals were simply too much of a stretch in a falling market." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e1547_p4", "sents": [ "The PUC says that El Paso's market manipulation will cost California gas and electricity customers more than $100 million annually.", "The Brattle Group consulting firm has placed the figure much higher, estimating that cost increases for electricity customers of Southern California Edison Co. alone totaled about $750 million during the past year.", "El Paso and its affiliates are involved in selling pipeline space to other natural gas companies, selling gas themselves at the California border and generating alternative sources of electricity whose price is tied to natural gas costs.", "Shareholders stood to gain handsomely as gas prices shot upward, according to the PUC.", "El Paso Merchant's earnings before interest and taxes rose from $3 million in 1999 to $563 million in 2000, according to documents filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.", "The report gave no breakdown, however, of profits tied specifically to California.", "A research firm hired by El Paso, the Lukens Consulting Group, concluded that a complex chain reaction of factors -- not manipulation -- has rocked the state's natural gas industry and affected market dynamics and economics." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 1 ] }, { "title": "Brattle Group", "sents": [ "The Brattle Group provides consulting services and expert testimony in economics, finance, and regulation to corporations, law firms, and public agencies.", "As of 2016, the company had offices in Cambridge, Massachusetts, New York City, San Francisco, Washington, DC, Toronto, London, Madrid, Rome and Sydney.", "Its headquarters is located on Brattle Street, in the Harvard Square district of Cambridge." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 2 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "Advanced Technology Ventures", "sents": [ "Advanced Technology Ventures (ATV) is an American venture capital firm with more than $1.8 billion in capital under management.", "The firm was founded in 1979 and invests in IT, healthcare, and cleantech companies.", "ATV has offices in Waltham, Massachusetts and Palo Alto, California." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] }, { "title": "e8917_p17", "sents": [ "(VENTUREWIRE) -- Fact City, an Internet platform that gathers and distributes factual content to Web portals, wireless providers, voice-response services, and corporations, said it raised $10 million in its second round of funding, led by Hudson Ventures.", "Other investors were MDT Advisers, and previous investors Advanced Technology Ventures, Blue Rock Capital, Earlybird Venture Capital, and Collaborative Seed & Growth Partners.", "Richard Glaser, managing director at Hudson Ventures, and Larry Kernan, principal at MDT Advisers, joined the company's board.", "The company will use the funds to expand into new markets and for general operating expenses.", "http: www.factcity.com Management Tools Provider VitaLink Raises $19 Million mail this story?", "top SAN FRANCISCO (VENTUREWIRE) -- VitaLink Business Systems, a provider of Internet-based management tools for small businesses, said it has secured $19 million in its third round of funding led by Riverside Management Group.", "Previous investors Crosspoint Venture Partners and Callisto Capital Management participated in the round, along with Imperial Bank Ventures, Comdisco Ventures and Siebel Systems." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e2407_p11", "sents": [ "Banks in particular, he said, only come into the poorest urban areas after much prodding by his group and others advocating for the urban poor.", "He added that Federal money is being siphoned off to subsidize the big businesses at the expense of local initiatives.", "Michael Porter, a Harvard Business School professor who studies inner-city businesses, said that businesses that enter inner cities find success.", "The average rate of growth at Inner-City 100 firms, a list compiled yearly by inc. magazine, is 54 percent, he said.", "Porter said inner-cities offer companies a central location, a large and underserved market of consumers and businesses looking for commercial services and a large and underutilized workforce.", "Porter also declared the trend of businesses moving to the suburbs is reversing, with many taking a new look back at cities.", "But at the same time, \"lingering perceptions that inner-cities are not a good place to do business persist,\" Porter said." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 2, 3 ] }, { "title": "Michael Porter", "sents": [ "Michael Eugene Porter (born May 23, 1947) is an American academic known for his theories on economics, business strategy, and social causes.", "He is the Bishop William Lawrence University Professor at Harvard Business School, and he was one of the founders of the consulting firm The Monitor Group (now part of Deloitte)." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e27953_p7", "sents": [ "Since last December, the company's staff size has shrunk from 150 employees to 50. This round of layoffs eliminated positions in engineering, content, marketing, and administration, including two vice presidents.", "The layoffs came after Bigstep attracted fewer customers as it became a fee-based service this summer and also from the completion of Bigstep's product development, said Ms. Reid.", "The company, which has raised $72 million in venture capital, closed $6.5 million in Series E funding in September from InterWest Partners, Mayfield, Partech International, Staenberg Venture Partners, United States Venture Partners, VeriSign, The Washington Post, and Worldview Technology Partners.", "Ms. Reid said the layoffs were not related to the funding and that the company still expects to break even in the third quarter of 2002. <http: www.bigstep.com new money * Home Networking Firm 2Wire Closes Fourth Round with $61M By Lizbeth Scordo <mailto:[email protected] top mail <http: venturewire.com o_mailer.asp?sid=QPHMLJPMII SAN JOSE, CALIF. -- 2Wire, a developer of products that provide broadband content and services throughout the home, said it closed its fourth round of funding at $61 million." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 1, 2 ] }, { "title": "e3137_p8", "sents": [ "Ms. Amos formerly served as vice president of strategy and marketing at Reliacast, an Internet infrastructure software company.", "B2eMarkets is backed by Accenture, Ascend Venture Group, Carthage Partners, CIBC Capital Partners, FBR Technology Venture Partners, Syncom, and Syndicated Communications.", "Tenor Networks Appoints Araldo Menegon as Senior VP mail?", "top ACTON, Mass.", "(VENTUREWIRE) -- Tenor Networks, which provides a core servic e switch that enables the convergence of multiple services onto a packet-base d network, said it appointed Araldo Menegon as senior vice president of worldwide sales and field operations, responsible for sales, field support, and professional services.", "Mr. Menegon will report to president and CEO Dav id Tolwinski.", "Prior to joining the company, Mr. Menegon was area director of AT?global operations at Cisco Systems where he was responsible for sales, marketing, and engineering.", "Tenor Networks is funded by Amerindo Investment Advisors, BancBoston Ventures, Charter Growth Capital, Essex Investment Management, Greylock Management, Haebler Capital, Matrix Partners, Morgan Stanley Dean Witter Venture Partners, North Bridge Venture Partners, RS Investment Management, Technology Crossover Ventures, Thomas Weisel Partner s, TyCom, Williams Communications, and Worldview Technology Partners." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 7 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "Adrián Annus", "sents": [ "Adrián Annus (born 28 June 1973 in Szeged) is a Hungarian hammer thrower, who was stripped of his gold medal at the 2004 Summer Olympic Games in Athens for a doping violation in a highly publicized scandal.", "The disqualification received heightened attention, as it came on the heels of several drug scandals at the Athens Games and came as Annus' teammate, discus thrower Róbert Fazekas was also stripped of his Olympic title for a doping violation.", "The incident also received attention, as Annus refused for several months to return his gold medal, relenting only after the International Olympic Committee put pressure on the Hungarian Olympic Committee and threatened sanctions." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 2 ] }, { "title": "International Olympic Committee", "sents": [ "The International Olympic Committee (IOC; French: \"Comité international olympique\", CIO) is the supreme authority of the worldwide Olympic movement.", "It is an international, non-profit, non-governmental organization based in Lausanne, Switzerland.", "Its mission is enshrined in the Olympic Charter: to support the development of competitive sport by ethical and environmentally sustainable means." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "Campbell Hausfeld", "sents": [ "Campbell Hausfeld is a manufacturer of consumer, industrial, and commercial grade, low priced air compressors and related products, based in Harrison, Ohio.", "It is a major subsidiary of the Marmon Group which in turn is part of Berkshire Hathaway.", "It is one of the oldest companies in Ohio." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] }, { "title": "Harrison, Ohio", "sents": [ "Harrison is a city in Hamilton County, Ohio, United States.", "The city is located in the Cincinnati-Northern Kentucky metropolitan area.", "The population was 10,292 as of the 2013 census." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 2 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e27361_p13", "sents": [ "AES's staff have been intimidated by locals each time they tried to recover debts, Nambiar said.", "Two of its senior officers were put in jail after they alleged consumers had tampered with the meters.", "India's state electricity boards that distribute power lost $5.5 billion in the year ended March, mainly due to rising electricity thefts and subsidies, the government estimated.", "Orissa's government alone owes Cesco $10 million in past- dues.", "Arlington, Virginia-based AES owns stakes in 173 power plants generating 59,000 megawatts worldwide, including utilities in the United States and Latin America.", "AES shares were little changed at $34.13 in recent trading." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 4 ] }, { "title": "Latin America", "sents": [ "Latin America is a group of countries and dependencies in the Americas where Spanish and Portuguese are predominant.", "The term originated in 19th century France as \"Amérique latine\" to consider French-speaking territories in the Americas (Haiti, French Guiana, Martinique, Guadeloupe, Saint Martin, Saint Barthélemy) along with the larger group of countries where Spanish and Portuguese languages prevailed.", "It is therefore broader than the terms Ibero-America or Hispanic America—though it usually excludes French Canada and modern French Louisiana." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "Intel", "sents": [ "Intel Corporation (also known as Intel, stylized as intel) is an American multinational corporation and technology company headquartered in Santa Clara, California (colloquially referred to as \"Silicon Valley\") that was founded by Gordon Moore (of Moore's law fame) and Robert Noyce.", "It is the world's second largest and second highest valued semiconductor chip makers based on revenue after being overtaken by Samsung, and is the inventor of the x86 series of microprocessors, the processors found in most personal computers (PCs).", "Intel supplies processors for computer system manufacturers such as Apple, Lenovo, HP, and Dell.", "Intel also manufactures motherboard chipsets, network interface controllers and integrated circuits, flash memory, graphics chips, embedded processors and other devices related to communications and computing." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] }, { "title": "e5974_p82", "sents": [ "Philip M. Schilero, Democratic staff director of the Government Reform Committee, of which Waxman is the ranking Democrat, said Waxman is \"definitely going to pursue\" the matter.", "Waxman has sought a committee hearing from the chairman, Rep. Dan Burton (R-Ind.).", "\"This letter appears to argue that there are no situations that would present a conflict of interest, and that's troubling,\" Schilero said.", "\"If this were a low-level employee of any federal agency, significant questions would be raised.\"", "On another matter that had been questioned by Waxman in a June 15 letter to Rove, Gonzales said Rove did not violate ethics rules by meeting with Intel Corp. executives on March 12 when he held stock in the company.", "The executives raised the matter of a merger in the semiconductor industry that later received federal approval.", "\"When Intel executives raised the subject with Mr. Rove during their meeting, Mr. Rove was noncommittal and offered no substantive response,\" the letter said." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1, 2, 3, 4 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "Singapore at the 1998 Asian Games", "sents": [ "Singapore participated in the 1998 Asian Games held in Bangkok, Thailand from December 6, 1998 to December 20, 1998.", "Athletes from Singapore succeeded in winning two golds, three silvers and nine bronzes, making total fourteen medals.", "Singapore finished seventeenth in a medal table." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1, 2 ] }, { "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": [ 2 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e19622_p27", "sents": [ "RPT Dynergy sharply higher, Enron lower on merger talks 11 08 2001 AFX News (c) 2001 by AFP-Extel News Ltd (Repeating to show in headline, lead that Enron is trading lower) NEW YORK (AFX) - Shares of Dynergy Inc were sharply higher, while Enron Corp lost ground in midsession trading after the two companies confirmed that they are holding merger talks.", "At 12.25 pm, Dynergy was up 3.17 usd, or 9.6 pct, at 36.17, Enron fell 0.34 usd, or 3.7 pct, to 8.71 usd and ChevronTexaco dropped 0.18 usd to 87.10. The DJIA was up 110.22 points at 9,664.59, the S&P 500 index gained 12.88 points to 1,128.68 and the Nasdaq composite rose 34.35 points to 1,871.88. Enron share price today was hurt after the company announced a restatement of its net income from 1997 to the third quarter of 2001. The revisions were, for the most part, reductions in the bottom-line figure." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] }, { "title": "e489_p60", "sents": [ "Sierra Pacific has been unable to sell its interest in certain generating assets, which it needed to do to complete the purchase from the Houston-based energy and trading company, the paper said.", "Sierra Pacific agreed in November 1999 to buy Portland General for $2 billion and the assumption of $1 billion of debt, the paper noted.", "Enron shares finished up $4.31 at $59.40 on the New York Stock Exchange Friday.", "The stock has a 52-week high of $90.56 and a 52-week low of $51.55. Sierra Pacific shares, meanwhile, finished up 4 cents at $12.80, also on the Big Board.", "Sierra Pacific stock has a 52-week high of $19.44 and a 52-week low of $10.57. Copyright 2000 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved.", "Enron's 2 bln usd sale of PGE unit unlikely to go through - CEO 03 26 2001 AFX News (c) 2001 by AFP-Extel News Ltd LONDON (AFX) - Enron Corp's 2 bln usd sale of Portland General Electric unit to Sierra Pacific Resources is unlikely to go through, Enron chief executive Jeffrey Skilling said according to the Wall Street Journal." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 5 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e19830_p0", "sents": [ "\"Dear Jeffrey: As you may know, Congressman Dick Gephardt will be our Keynote Speaker at our Annual Luncheon this year.", "As one of our key community partners, it is my hope that you might consider joining us at this year's Luncheon as a Table Sponsor.", "This year's lunch is scheduled for Friday, October 26, at the San Jose Fairmont Hotel, from 12 noon until 1:40pm.", "As a Table Sponsor, you would receive ten tickets to the lunch, recognition in the program, and an invitation to join SVMG Member Company CEO's for a private, one-hour, closed door conversation with Minority Leader Gephardt immediately preceeding the lunch (11am until 12 noon).", "The cost for a Table Sponsorship is $1,500. It would be an honor to have you join us.", "Thank you for your consideration.", "I look forward to hearing from you soon, and appreciate your support.", "Warm Wishes, Carl Guardino President and CEO Silicon Valley Manufacturing Group\"" ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 7 ] }, { "title": "e1087_p0", "sents": [ "'Dear Silicon Valley Leader: Please plan to join the Silicon Valley Manufacturing Group, San Jose Mayor Ron Gonzales, Santa Clara County Supervisor Jim Beall and other key community leaders for a \"Santa Clara County Energy Summit II.\"", "The goal of the Summit is simple - and critical: What IMMEDIATE steps can each of us individually and collectively take to get California through the summer months, to minimize rolling blackouts.", "With that in mind, we will focus on QUANTIFIABLE deliverables relative to conservation, load management during peak periods, generation and state policies.", "Special thanks to SVMG Member Company, Synopsys, for offering to host the Summit, which will take place On Friday, May 4, from 8 a.m. (sharp) until 12 Noon at their Sunnyvale company site, 455 North Mary Avenue, Building 2. Invitations and registration materials to follow.", "If you have any questions, or require additional information, please call the SVMG offices at 408 501-7864, or simply respond to this e-mail." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "Century Plaza", "sents": [ "Century Plaza was an enclosed shopping mall in Birmingham, Alabama, United States.", "Opened in 1975, the mall originally included four anchor stores and more than one hundred tenants, but lost three of those anchors (JCPenney, Belk and Rich's-Macy's) in the mid-2000s.", "In May 2009, the mall was completely closed as Sears and the rest of the stores in the mall closed.", "The mall was managed by General Growth Properties of Chicago, Illinois at the time of its closure.", "It is now owned by the Howard Hughes Corporation.", "On January 3, 2012 they made the proposal that the mall should be turned into a jail and court facility." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] }, { "title": "e3523_p26", "sents": [ "Card also said Bush told Davis that he had asked Pat Wood, a power utility official in Texas whom he has named to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, to visit with the governor to explore the state's energy problems.", "The day had the feel of two intersecting political campaigns.", "Bush tried to show that he cared about California's woes; Davis surrounded himself with \"real Californians,\" including three young children.", "The group was handpicked by the governor's aides to illustrate the effect of rising electricity bills.", "\"I had hoped [Bush] might have been able to hear the stories directly,\" Davis said before his private meeting with the president.", "He sat on a couch on the 19th floor of the Century Plaza, with three young children, and listened to their parents and others discuss their worries about rising bills and fears about blackouts.", "Linking a thriving economy to a reliable, affordable energy supply, Bush said all his work on energy would be guided by this test: \"Will any action increase supply at fair and reasonable prices?" ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 5 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "Screaming Target", "sents": [ "Screaming Target is the debut album by Jamaican deejay Big Youth.", "It was recorded and originally released in 1972 on the Gussie and Jaguar labels in Jamaica.", "It was issued in the United Kingdom in 1973 by Trojan Records.", "The album was produced by Big Youth's childhood friend Augustus \"Gussie\" Clarke.", "Some of the tracks on the album had previously been hits as singles, including \"Screaming Target\", which used K.C.", "White's \"No, No, No\" rhythm, \"Tippertone Rock\" (though the single version was different), and \"The Killer\".", "Several other tracks employed rhythms from Clarke's other productions, including Leroy Smart's \"Pride & Ambition\" (on \"Pride & Joy Rock\"), Lloyd Parks' \"Slaving\" (\"Honesty\"), Dennis Brown's \"In Their Own Way\" (\"Be Careful\"), and Gregory Isaacs' \"One One Cocoa Fill Basket\" (on \"One of These Fine Days\")." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 2 ] }, { "title": "Trojan Records", "sents": [ "Trojan Records is a British record label founded in 1968.", "It specialises in ska, rocksteady, reggae and dub music.", "The label currently operates under the Sanctuary Records Group.", "The name \"Trojan\" comes from the Croydon-built Trojan truck that was used as Duke Reid's sound system in Jamaica.", "The truck had \"Duke Reid - The Trojan King of Sounds\" painted on the sides, and the music played by Reid became known as the \"Trojan Sound\"." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] } ]

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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": "e3558_p45", "sents": [ "But California isn't the only state that will suffer.", "Florida collected $779 million last year--4.1% of its general revenue--while New York collected $450 million, or 1.3% of its revenue, from the state death tax credit, according to the research group's figures.", "Nevada--which like Florida has no personal income tax--may take the biggest hit.", "Nevada collected $76.7 million from federal estate tax revenue, an amount equal to 4.9% of its general fund revenue.", "\"[Nevada and Florida] don't have a personal income tax, so they're more reliant on other sources of revenue,\" such as the estate tax, said Arturo Perez, senior policy specialist for the National Conference of State Legislatures.", "Unlike most other states, Nevada segregates estate tax money into a special endowment fund to pay for education, including University of Nevada programs, state officials said.", "LOAD-DATE: May 31, 2001 15 of 114 DOCUMENTS Copyright 2001 The New York Times Company The New York Times May 31, 2001, Thursday, Late Edition - Final SECTION: Section A; Page 27; Column 2; Editorial Desk LENGTH: 687 words HEADLINE: Bush's Mistake in California BYLINE: By Gray Davis; Gray Davis is the governor of California." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 6 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "The Times", "sents": [ "The Times is a British daily (Monday to Saturday) national newspaper based in London, England.", "It began in 1785 under the title The Daily Universal Register , adopting its current name on 1 January 1788.", "\"The Times\" and its sister paper \"The Sunday Times\" (founded in 1821) are published by Times Newspapers, since 1981 a subsidiary of News UK, itself wholly owned by News Corp. \"The Times\" and \"The Sunday Times\" do not share editorial staff, were founded independently and have only had common ownership since 1967." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] }, { "title": "e5443_p21", "sents": [ "\"Only ports that are required to be open should be opened; all others should be disabled.\"", "Complicating the investigation, workers at Cal-ISO rebooted their computers when the machines balked, apparently in response to the infiltration.", "\"This action limited our ability to discover all files and activity th at may be related to this compromise,\" the report says.", "Sample, the security engineer who wrote the report, downplayed the potential threat and said the attack was \"something that we've been anticipating.\"", "\"It was a compromise, not really an attack,\" he said.", "State legislators were not comforted by such distinctions.", "\"That's really amazing on two counts: that there were computers not behind a firewall and it took 17 days to discover,\" said state Sen. Debra Bowen (D-Marina del Rey), who chairs her chamber's Energy Committee.", "Bowen, who was informed of the breach by The Times, called it a \"serio us matter\" and said she was \"very concerned to learn about this from the L.A. Times, rather than from the ISO itself.\"" ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 1, 6, 7 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e2386_p146", "sents": [ "Outages hit portions of selected cities Monday afternoon as California slipped off the tightrope of electrical supply and demand for the fifth tim e this year.", "Grid managers said more blackouts were possible Tuesday, although the state was under no power alerts in the early morning.", "Rush-hour traffic jammed in communities where signal lights went dark, and police officers were dispatched to control intersections.", "No major incident s were reported by the time the blackouts ended, however.", "The early onset of high heat came as imported power was scarce and several key plants, including nuclear generating stations, were down for pre-summer maintenance.", "The Independent System Operator managed to stave off a late-morning threat of blackouts Monday by asking for cutbacks by ``interruptible'' customers who get cheaper electricity rates in exchange for scaling back power use during emergencies.", "``We were able to take off the interruptible, but only for so long,'' ISO spokeswoman Lorie O'Donley said." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 5, 6 ] }, { "title": "e2386_p155", "sents": [ "Mercury News reporters Brandon Bailey, Michael Bazeley, Chuck Carroll, Gil Jose Duran, Putsata Reang and Roxane Stites contributed to this report.", "Contact Steve Johnson at [email protected] or (408) 920-5043. More than 100,000 customers hit by power blackouts Posted at 9:47 p.m. PDT Monday, May 7, 2001 BY JENNIFER COLEMAN Associated Press Writer SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) -- Record temperatures in California led the state' s power grid managers to order rolling blackouts Monday for the first time since March, cutting service to slightly more than 100,000 customers.", "California Independent System Operator said high temperatures in California and the West and tight electricity supplies resulted in the blackouts between 5 p.m. and 6 p.m. ``We expected demand to peak between 3 and 4 p.m. and it didn't,'' said ISO spokeswoman Lorie O'Donley.", "``It just continued to climb.''", "Grid managers asked utilities to cut 300 megawatts.", "One megawatt is enough to power about 750 homes." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 1, 2 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "Environmental Protection Administration", "sents": [ "The Environmental Protection Administration of the Republic of China (EPA) is a cabinet-level executive agency responsible for protecting and conserving the environment in the Republic of China.", "This also includes, air quality, noise control, monitoring and inspection of environment, solid waste, recycling, sustainable development and international cooperation." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] }, { "title": "e6568_p48", "sents": [ "Those comments, as well as Cheney's former role as head of a Texas-based oi l supply company, had made the vice president a target for foes of the White House approach.", "And in the last few months, between problems with his heart and the flap over his conservation remarks, the man considered by many to be the most powerful vice president in history had been less visible on the national stage.", "But he was front and center Monday--hoarse voice notwithstanding.", "Elsewhere, Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham, Interior Secretary Gale A. Norton, Transportation Secretary Norman Y. Mineta and Environmental Protection Administration chief Christie Whitman made town hall appearances from Connecticut to South Dakota.", "Democrats on Capitol Hill criticized the public relations blitz, saying the massive tax cut will make it difficult to fund any conservation initiatives An energy bill dealing with nuclear energy, hydropower, clean-coal technolo gy and conservation is scheduled to come before the House Energy and Commerce Committee today." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 3 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e456_p15", "sents": [ "Cost Savings Enron expects to save about $500 million in costs previously set for building its broadband network, said Mark Koenig, executive vice president for investor relations.", "That reduces the company's planned capital spending, as outlined in United States Securities and Exchange Commission filings, to $1 billion in 2001 from about $1.5 billion.", "For the broadband unit, it reduces planned spending to as little as $250 million from a planned $750 million, Enron spokesman Mark Palmer said.", "``We will not have to make as large an investment in our network as we expected because we'll have access to other networks,'' Skilling said.", "Enron remains committed to the video-on-demand business and expects to sign contracts with video-providers in the next few months, Skilling said.", "--Margot Habiby in Dallas, (214) 740-0873 or [email protected], and Jim Polson in Princeton, (609) 279- 4000 slb pjm alp" ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 2, 5 ] }, { "title": "e407_p32", "sents": [ "--Margot Habiby in Dallas, (214) 740-0873 or [email protected], through the Princeton newsroom (609) 279- 4000 slb jmg Enron Corp.'s India Unit Faces $88.2 Mln Penalty, Paper Says 2001-03-22 23:04 (New York) New Delhi, March 23 (Bloomberg) -- Dabhol Power Co., Enron Corp.'s India unit, has been asked by Maharashtra state to pay a fine of 4.12 billion rupees ($88.2 million) for not generating at full capacity within three hours of being asked to do so, the Economic Times reported, without citing sources.", "The move is part of a tussle between the two sides over dues.", "Earlier this month, Dabhol said it had asked the federal government to pay a 1.02 million-rupee power bill run up by the Maharashtra State Electricity Board, or MSEB, for December.", "The government of Maharashtra, the western Indian state where Dabhol is located, last month had to pay $17 million as its November dues after the company invoked a federal government guarantee." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e2204_p49", "sents": [ "ICICI Bank is also exploiting synergies with its parent to the hilt while IDBI Bank seems to be embarrassed about ackowledging its pedigree.", "It's not that everything is great at ICICI.", "Over the past few years, the institution has lost some senior executives: I-Sec managing director Kishore Chaukar left to join the Tata group, ICICI senior general managers Anando Mukherji joined Enron and N J Subaiah took charge at Centurion Bank (which he subsequently left).", "The industry suspects the quality of ICICI's assets and is not comfortable with the scorching pace of growth.", "Even the well-paid ICICI executive cadres find the pace of work is too much to handle and complain of fatigue.", "In private, they hate the mad rush for excellence.", "And yet there is a method in ICICI's madness.", "It has trimmed the flab with two successive voluntary retirement schemes, branched out into consumer loans in a big way and transformed treasury operations into an art." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1, 2 ] }, { "title": "Centurion Bank", "sents": [ "Centurion Bank is a wholly submerged atoll structure in the Southwest of the Chagos Archipelago.", "It is about almost 10 km long northwest-southeast, and more than 3 km .", "The reef area is about 25 km2 .", "The closest land is the Egmont Atoll located 122 km to the NNE.", "The Centurion Bank is the southernmost feature of the Chagos group." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 4 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e1816_p44", "sents": [ "\"I am aware that some believe a single RTO in the Western United States is a better solution than the regional approach proposed,\" Abraham said in the letter to Hebert.", "\"The department supports the development of seamless electricity markets.", "However, we believe the best way to achieve this goal is to take thoughtful first steps that the region can support,\" Abraham said, noting the RTO West plan embodies such a stepwise development.", "\"As a practical matter, this approach may be necessary in the Northwest to maintain support for an RTO, given the fears that California's problems will be imported to a West-wide RTO,\" the letter to Hebert continued.", "\"I believe the best way to achieve the balance between a healthy Western electricity market and regional (power-grid) reliability needs is to create strong regional RTOs and allow them to develop seamless market interfaces.\"", "Commissioner William Massey, who has long advocated creation of a \"West-wide RTO\" encompassing RTO West, California and the Desert Southwest, supported the order." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 5 ] }, { "title": "e1812_p11", "sents": [ "United States regulators and Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham believe RTO West is a step forward in addressing reliability issues in the region.", "The federally owned Bonneville Power Administration is one of the utilities in the RTO design.", "An RTO is an organization that manages a bulk electricity transmission system.", "RTOs are expected to play a greater role in maintaining the nation's power grid as markets deregulate.", "As part of the approval for RTO West, the commission also accepted a proposal from some of the utilities to form a transmission company (TRANSCO) to operate within the broader RTO West.", "The FERC asked the RTO to make a submission to it by December 1 of this year on its plans for including Canadian transmission and widening the scope of its operations in a broader regional system.", "RTO West first submitted its plans to the FERC last October.", "It includes nine electric utilities serving eight western states with some 50,000 miles of transmission lines." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e879_p9", "sents": [ "Dabhol, India's largest private power plant currently under construction, was scheduled for commissioning in two phases.", "The project's first phase, a 740-megawatt power plant, has already been commissioned and phase two is due to be completed later this year.", "-By Himendra Kumar; Dow Jones Newswires; 91-11-461-9427; [email protected] Copyright 2000 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved.", "Enron sends political force majeure notice to Indian electricity board 04 09 2001 AFX News (c) 2001 by AFP-Extel News Ltd BOMBAY (AFX) - Enron Power Corp sent a political \"force majeure\" notice to the state-run electricity board of India's Maharashtra state on Saturday, officials said.", "The move means Enron is putting the state and federal governments on notice that it might be unable to discharge its contractual obligations to the Maharashtra State Electricity Board (MSEB) due to domestic political events beyond its control.", "Enron subsidiary Dabhol Power Co is putting up a 3 bln usd, two-part power plant - the largest United States investment project in India - at the port town of Dabhol some 200 kilometres south of Bombay." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 3 ] }, { "title": "e407_p0", "sents": [ "'Electricity Trading Builds Oh-So Slowly In France Dow Jones Energy Service, 03 23 01 India: Dabhol guarantee: Govt awaiting Law Ministry view Business Line (The Hindu), 03 23 01 India: Foreign companies facing tax harassment: Japanese envoy Business Line (The Hindu), 03 23 01 'Panel to clear Tannir Bhavi project deal' The Times of India, 03 23 01 Enron comfortable with profit projection Houston Chronicle, 03 23 01 USA: Transmission Texas' only dereg hurdle-state grid manager.", "Reuters English News Service, 03 22 01 Despite Talk, Bandwidth-Trading Cos Say They're Hiring Dow Jones Energy Service, 03 22 01 USA: UPDATE 1-Bush accused of protecting oil firms in power crisis.", "Reuters English News Service, 03 22 01 USA: Enron stock slides despite earnings reassurance.", "Reuters English News Service, 03 22 01 STOCKWATCH Enron lower amid market deterioration after reaffirming guidance AFX News, 03 22 01 Enron `comfortable' with earnings estimates, but shares slide Associated Press Newswires, 03 22 01 Energy Researcher Says California Not Fixing Power Problems Bloomberg, 03 22 01 Enron Reaffirms 2001 Forecast After Stock Price Falls (Update1) Bloomberg, 03 22 01 Enron Corp.'s India Unit Faces $88.2 Mln Penalty, Paper Says Bloomberg, 03 22 01 Electricity Trading Builds Oh-So Slowly In France By Sarah Wachter Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES 03 23 2001 Dow Jones Energy Service (Copyright (c) 2001, Dow Jones & Company, Inc.) PARIS -(Dow Jones)- Although electricity trading volumes are creeping higher in France, activity will probably remain subdued and irregular until a satisfactory regulatory regime is put in place." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 3 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "Andrzej Biegalski", "sents": [ "Andrzej Biegalski (5 March 1953 in Gierczyn – 14 March 2017 in Jastrzębie-Zdrój) was a Polish heavyweight amateur boxing champion.", "He reached the quarterfinal round in the World Championships in Havana, 1974." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] }, { "title": "Havana", "sents": [ "Havana ( ; Spanish: \"La Habana\", ] ) is the capital city, largest city, province, major port, and leading commercial center of Cuba.", "The city has a population of 2.1 million inhabitants, and it spans a total of 728.26 km2 – making it the largest city by area, the most populous city, and the fourth largest metropolitan area in the Caribbean region.", "The city extends mostly westward and southward from the bay, which is entered through a narrow inlet and which divides into three main harbors: Marimelena, Guanabacoa and Atarés.", "The sluggish Almendares River traverses the city from south to north, entering the Straits of Florida a few miles west of the bay." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 3 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "Pick Up Your Head", "sents": [ "Pick Up Your Head is the second album by Middle Class Rut, released June 25, 2013 by Bright Antenna Records.", "The album is available as a digital download, CD and 12\" double record.", "Produced by the band, the album was mixed by Dave Sardy." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 2 ] }, { "title": "Dave Sardy", "sents": [ "David Stuart Sardy (born 1967), more commonly known as D. Sardy, is a Brooklyn born-and-raised composer, musician, songwriter, and record producer.", "He came to prominence as the leader of 1990s noise rock band Barkmarket before turning mostly to production work, often with alternative rock, hard rock, metal and related genres." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "Arnaud Gascon-Nadon", "sents": [ "Arnaud Gascon-Nadon (born July 10, 1988) is a Canadian football defensive lineman for the Ottawa RedBlacks of the Canadian Football League (CFL).", "He was selected 17th overall by the Tiger-Cats in the 2012 CFL Draft.", "After the 2011 CIS season, he was ranked as the 13th best player in the Canadian Football League’s Amateur Scouting Bureau January rankings for players eligible in the 2012 CFL Draft, and ninth by players in Canadian Interuniversity Sport.", "Gascon-Nadon played CIS football with the Laval Rouge et Or and for the Rice University Owls in 2008." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] }, { "title": "Canadian Football League", "sents": [ "The Canadian Football League (CFL; French: Ligue canadienne de football , LCF) is a professional sports league in Canada.", "The CFL is the highest level of competition in Canadian football.", "Its nine teams, which are located in nine separate cities, are divided into two divisions: the East Division, with four teams, and the West Division with five teams." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 2 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "The Minx", "sents": [ "The Minx is a 2007 film written and directed by Chicago-based independent filmmaker Michael Glover Smith.", "It is not to be confused with the 1969 film by the same title.", "\"The Minx\" was written in collaboration with Vincent Francone and shot on location in Chicago and Hong Kong in late 2005 and early 2006.", "It was picked up for distribution by Echelon Entertainment of Glendale, California and was released on DVD in the United States on May 15, 2007.", "The film's world premiere, held at Schuba's Tavern in Chicago, was a \"Recommended\" screening by Cine-File, Chicago's guide to independent and alternative cinema." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 4 ] }, { "title": "Chicago", "sents": [ "Chicago ( or ), officially the City of Chicago, is the third-most populous city in the United States.", "With over 2.7 million residents, it is also the most populous city in both the state of Illinois and the Midwestern United States.", "It is the county seat of Cook County.", "The Chicago metropolitan area, often referred to as Chicagoland, has nearly 10 million people and is the third-largest in the U.S. Chicago has often been called a global architecture capital.", "Chicago is considered one of the most important business centers in the world." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 2 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e19454_p0", "sents": [ "SVMG ENERGY COMMITTEE MEMBERS: Stakeholders, This is a reminder that PG&E is hosting its fifth stakeholders meeting for the 2001 PG&E Transmission Expansion Plan on September 17 and 18, 2001 in San Francisco, CA.", "The purpose of this meeting is to present the study group with project proposals and alternatives to be included in the expansion plan.", "The fifth stakeholders meeting has been divided into two days: Sept. 17 to present Bay Area Project Proposals and Sept 18 to present non-Bay Area Project Proposals.", "Date: Monday Sept 17, 2001 Subject: Stakeholders Meeting #5 (Day 1) - \"PG&E 2001 Electric Grid Expansion Plan - Bay Area Project Proposals\" Time: 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.", "Location: 77 Beale Street, Conference Room 308 San Francisco, CA 94177 Date: Monday Sept 18, 2001 Subject: Stakeholders Meeting #5 (Day 2) - \"PG&E 2001 Electric Grid Expansion Plan - Non-Bay Area Project Proposals\" Time: 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] }, { "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": "e8721_p13", "sents": [ "http: www.infomedics.com Stock Quote ASP Money.net Closes Series C Led by Mitsubishi mail this story?", "top NEW YORK (VENTUREWIRE) -- Money.net, a hosted, streaming, real-time market data ASP, said it closed a Series C round of financing led by Mitsubishi aat an undisclosed amount.", "Other investors in the round were not disclosed.", "The company said it would use the funds to enhance its streaming technology and expand its ASP licensing business.", "A member of Mitsubishi will join Money.net's board of directors.", "The company is also backed by C. Blair Asset Management.", "http: www.money.net 3Com Takes Stake in Fitness Tech Firm HealtheTech mail this story?", "top SANTA CLARA, Calif. (VENTUREWIRE) -- 3Com announced that it took an undisclosed stake in HealtheTech, a provider of consumer health monitoring technoloogy.", "HealtheTech will provide a new health channel on 3Com's Internet appliance, Audrey, which will give consumers access to HealtheTech's Web service.", "3Com will receive a revenue share on service subscriptions and the sale of HealtheTech products and devices bought by Audrey users." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 8 ] }, { "title": "3Com", "sents": [ "3Com Corporation was a digital electronics manufacturer best known for its computer network products.", "The company was founded in 1979 by Robert Metcalfe, Howard Charney, Bruce Borden, and Greg Shaw and recruited Bill Krause from Hewlett-Packard to be its president in February 1981 when it raised its first round of venture capital.", "Metcalfe explained the name 3Com was a contraction of \"Computer Communication Compatibility\", with its focus on Ethernet technology that he had co-invented, which enabled the networking of computers." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "1955 Baylor Bears football team", "sents": [ "The 1955 Baylor Bears football team represented Baylor University in the 1955 college football season.", "The team finished with a record of 5-5.", "Henry Gremminger (End) was chosen to the All-Conference team for a second year in a row." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 2 ] }, { "title": "1955 college football season", "sents": [ "The 1955 NCAA football season saw the Oklahoma Sooners win the national championship after going 10-0-0.", "Although the final poll was taken before the postseason bowl games, Oklahoma played against the nation's other unbeaten and untied (10-0-0) team, the Maryland Terrapins, at the Orange Bowl in Miami, and won 20-6." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e3248_p12", "sents": [ "Founded in March 2000, Egenera is backed by Credit Suisse Fir st Boston, Kodiak Venture Partners, Spectrum Equity Investors, The Goldman Sac hs Group, and YankeeTek Ventures.", "http: www.egenera.com FINANCE Apogee Networks Names Bluestone Software Exec Craig Huke CFO mail?", "top SADDLE BROOK, N.J. (VENTUREWIRE) -- Apogee Networks, a provider of advance d content and IP rating, billing, and settlement platforms, said it appointed S. Craig Huke as chief financial officer, responsible for all financial planning, reporting, analysis, and investor relations at the company.", "Mr. Huke will report to president and chief operating officer Tom Goldman.", "Mr. Huke was formerly CFO at Bluestone Software, a publicly traded Internet infrastructure software company that was acquired by Hewlett Packard in Jan 2001. Apogee Networks' investors include Banc of America Securities, BBVA, Cisco Systems, CTC, Fidelity Ventures Limited, Granite Ventures, Intel 64 Fund, Net One Systems, and Oak Investment Partners.", "http: www.apogeenet.co m Poindexter Systems Names Larry Levine Chief Revenue Officer mail?" ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 4 ] }, { "title": "Cisco Systems", "sents": [ "Cisco Systems, Inc. (known as Cisco) is an American multinational technology conglomerate headquartered in San Jose, California, in the center of Silicon Valley, that develops, manufactures and sells networking hardware, telecommunications equipment and other high-technology services and products.", "Through its numerous acquired subsidiaries, such as OpenDNS, WebEx, Jabber and Jasper, Cisco specializes into specific tech markets, such as Internet of Things (IoT), domain security and energy management." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "Jeff Bingaman", "sents": [ "Jesse Francis \"Jeff\" Bingaman Jr. (born October 3, 1943) is a former United States Senator from New Mexico, serving from 1983 to 2013.", "He is a member of the Democratic Party, and he served as Chairman of Committee Outreach for the Senate Democratic Caucus.", "Previously, Bingaman was Attorney General of New Mexico from 1979 to 1983.", "On February 18, 2011, Bingaman announced that he would not seek re-election in 2012.", "He was replaced by fellow Democrat Martin Heinrich.", "After he left the Senate, he returned to his alma mater, Stanford Law School, as a fellow of their Steyer–Taylor Center for Energy Policy and Finance.", "Bingaman is a member of the ReFormers Caucus of Issue One." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 2, 6 ] }, { "title": "e3686_p60", "sents": [ "Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) and Jeff Bingaman (D-N.M.), the incoming head of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee.", "Feinstein has introduced a price cap bill, which is co-sponsored by Sen. Gordon Smith (R-Ore.).", "The bill, which also has the backing of fellow California Democrat Barbara Boxer, would direct FERC to establish rates based on \"cost of service\" when the agency finds that \"unjust and unreasonable\" wholesale prices are being charged.", "Davis spokesman Steve Maviglio cited the support of Democrats Feinstei n and Bingaman and Republican Smith in predicting that support for price controls would multiply.", "\"I think as summer goes on and more and more states are affected in th e Midwest and New England and New York, you'll hear hue and cry for the caps, he said.", "For her part, Feinstein insisted that she would \"go to the wall\" in fighting for price caps.", "After learning of Daschle's comments, she called t he senator and secured a promise that he will make her bill a priority when lawmakers return to Washington next week after their Memorial Day break, sh e said, adding that he even agreed to sign on as a co-sponsor." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e3485_p0", "sents": [ "-- Forwarded by Jeff Dasovich NA Enron on 05 29 2001 04:35 PM -- \"Costigan, Richard\" <[email protected] 05 29 2001 04:32 PM To: cc: Subject: Appeal court ruling on Burton-Hertzberg Appeals court declines to order energy price caps Updated: May 29, 2001 - 12:22 p.m. SAN FRANCISCO -- A federal appeals court declined Tuesday to order federal energy regulators to cap wholesale electricity prices.", "The decision by a three-judge panel of the 9th United States Circuit Court of Appeals came hours before California Gov.", "Gray Davis was to urge President Bush in Century City to cap wholesale power costs, which have been spiraling out of control.", "The panel, in a brief statement, said last week's appeal by state Senate President John Burton and state Assembly Speaker Robert Hertzberg does not warrant \"intervention of this court.\"", "The lawmakers, both Democrats, were joined by the city of Oakland in their appeal to the 9th Circuit." ], "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, 1 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "Rhythm For Sale", "sents": [ "Rhythm For Sale is biography about the life and times of performer, choreographer, director Leonard Harper.", "Rhythm For Sale chronicles Harper rise from an unknown child performer to Broadway's top black theater director.", "In 1921 the Schubert Brothers signed Harper with his partner and future wife Blanks to be the first Black act to tour the all-white Schubert circuit of theaters.", "In 1923 Leonard Harper showcases his Cabaret Floorshows and black musical comedies in Harlem's Cotton Club and his mainstay Connie's Inn and the Lafayette Theater.", "The tome details how Leonard Harper and black filmmaker Oscar Micheaux direct the first all-black talkie motion picture \"The Exile\" in 1931 and all of his works inaugurating the Apollo Theater and the main in-house producer/director.", "\"Rhythm For Sale\" explores Leonard Harper's downfall as his work becomes limited to just small-time Harlem nightclubs.", "His 1943 death from a heart attack while rehearsing his Harperettes chorus line is revealed and his funeral at the Abyssinian Baptist Church is surveyed.", "\"Rhythm For Sale\" was authored by Leonard Harper's grandson Grant Harper Reid.", "The book is in the non-fiction genre and was published by Grant Harper Reid/Createspace.", "The media type is in both print and E-book.", "Rhythm For Sale has a total of 300 pages and the revised edition was published on August 11, 2014.", "ISBN" ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 3 ] }, { "title": "Connie's Inn", "sents": [ "Connie's Inn was a Harlem, New York City nightclub established in 1923 by Connie Immerman \"(né\" Conrad Immerman; 1893–1967) in partnership with two of his brothers, George (1884–1944) and Louie Immerman (1882–1955).", "Having immigrated from Latvia, the Immerman brothers operated a Harlem delicatessen and made their fortune as bootleggers.", "Their club was located at 2221 Seventh Avenue at 131st Street from 1923 until 1934.", "Acts featured there included Louis Armstrong, Fats Waller, Wilbur Sweatman, Peg Leg Bates, Bricktop and Fletcher Henderson.", "Unlike the Cotton Club, Connie's Inn featured African-American performers but did not restrict its audience to whites only.", "Members of the Ziegfeld Follies, heiress Gertrude Vanderbilt, and numerous others poured in from downtown to enjoy the shows at Connie's Inn and were sometimes influential in moving their revues to Broadway." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "Johnny Logan (baseball)", "sents": [ "John Logan, Jr. (March 23, 1927 – August 9, 2013) was a shortstop in Major League Baseball.", "Logan was signed by the Boston Braves in 1947, having been discovered by Braves scout Dewey Briggs.", "He was a four-time All-Star and led the National League in doubles in 1955.", "Logan was the first major league batter Sandy Koufax faced; Logan hit a bloop single." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 3 ] }, { "title": "Sandy Koufax", "sents": [ "Sanford Koufax ( ; born Sanford Braun; December 30, 1935) is a former American Major League Baseball (MLB) left-handed pitcher.", "He pitched 12 seasons for the Brooklyn/Los Angeles Dodgers, from 1955 to 1966.", "Koufax, at age 36 in 1972, became the youngest player ever elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 2 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e8613_p27", "sents": [ "Mysportsguru CEO, Harlan Stone, will become a senior executive of myteam.", "Key MSG investors will make additional investments in myteam.com upon the closing of the transaction.", "The mysportsguru.com Norwalk, Conn. office will operate as a wholly owned subsidiary of myteam.com.", "Myteam is backed by Canaan Partners, BankBoston, Comdisco, Cleveland Pacific Equity, Dominion, Shamrock Capital Advisors, the Quarterback C!", "lub, Charles River Ventures, Creative Technologies, North Bridge Venture Partners, and Trident Capital.", "Individual investors from the sports and media industry including Bobby Orr, M.L.", "Carr, John Smith, Bernie Kosar, and Larry Rawson are also backers.", "Mysportsguru.com's investors include e-COM Partners and Wand Partners.", "http: www.mysportsguru.com http: www.myteam.com E-Commerce Firm BlueLight Acquires Defunct Spinway's Assets mail this story?", "top SAN FRANCISCO (VENTUREWIRE) -- BlueLight.com, an independent e-commerce company majority-owned by Kmart, said it acquired Spinway, an Internet infrastructure provider that closed down last Friday, for an undisclosed amount.", "Spinway provided the Internet infrastructure for BlueLight's Internet service." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 3, 4, 5, 6 ] }, { "title": "e3552_p30", "sents": [ "http: www.itfactory.com TMP Worldwide Acquires Online Career Resource FlipDog.com mail?", "top PROVO, Utah (VENTUREWIRE) -- Publicly traded TMP Worldwide, the pare nt company of Internet career portal Monster.com, announced it has acquired privately held FlipDog.com, a commercial online career resource, from WhizBang!", "Labs.", "The terms of the deal were not released.", "A spokesperson for FlipDog said the acquisition will not affect employees or the management structure of the company.", "TMP will operate FlipDog.com as an independent entity and Web site, serving as a data resource for TMP's other businesses such as its recruitment advertising and creative services business unit.", "As part of this acquisition, WhizBang!", "Labs, the parent company of FlipDog, wi ll provide TMP with additional information-extraction services.", "WhizBang!", "Labs is backed by Dominion, UBS Capital Americas, Hewlett Packard, Bear Stearns, Spiral and Stars, InterVest, and New Media Venture Partners.", "http: www.flipdog.com http: www.tmp.com UsherPro, Season Ticket Networks Merge to Form New Company mail?" ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 8, 9 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e9457_p15", "sents": [ "Additional investments were offered by Financial Technology Ventures and Woodhaven Venture Investments.", "Broadvision CEO Pehong Chen; Robb Wilmot, the chairman of he supervisory board to EuroVentures; and another individual investors also provided funds.", "http: www.freedecision.com Pubxchange.com Raises $2.2 Million in its Second Round DUBLIN -- Pubxchange.com, which operates a business-to-business online exchange for catering businesses and pubs, said it raised $2.2 million in it second round of funding from clients of Merrion.", "The company declined to identify its investors further.", "The company will use the funding for Web site development, staffing, and marketing.", "The company is also backed by institutional investors.", "http: www.pubxchange.com Skiing and Snowboarding Site Iglu Has $4 Million Round Two LONDON -- Iglu.com, a Web site offering skiing and snowboarding resources and information, said it raised its second round of funding for $4 million.", "New investor Barclays led the round, which included previous investor GeoCapital." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 1, 2 ] }, { "title": "Pehong Chen", "sents": [ "Pehong Chen (born 1957) is an American businessman who co-founded Gain Technology with his Ph.D. advisor Michael A. Harrison and went on to found BroadVision.", "He currently serves as Chairman of the Board, President and Chief Executive Officer of BroadVision.", "Bloomberg Businessweek included Chen in a list of the \"World's Most Successful Immigrants.\"" ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] } ]