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[ { "title": "Tufan Özbozkurt", "sents": [ "Tufan Özbozkurt (Utrecht, 20 March 1993) is a Turkish-Dutch professional football player who currently plays for Polatlı Bugsaşspor.", "He made his professional debut as Jong PSV player in the second division on 3 August 2013 against Sparta Rotterdam." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] }, { "title": "Jong PSV", "sents": [ "Jong PSV is a Dutch football team, based in Eindhoven.", "It is the reserve team of PSV Eindhoven and plays in the Eerste Divisie since the 2013–14 season." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e2985_p153", "sents": [ "Critics say that although the report seems designed to suggest a balanced approach, it minimizes the potential role of alternative sources of energy and the possibility of reducing future demand through efficiency and conservation.", "''America must embrace the promise offered by new technologies,'' said Senator Joseph I. Lieberman, Democrat of Connecticut.", "''The energy crisis is not an excuse for creating an environmental crisis.''", "Republicans offered far more support for the president.", "Senator Frank H. Murkowski of Alaska, chairman of the Senate Energy Committee, said he plann ed hearings next week to begin consideration of 25 recommendations in the Bush report that require legislative action.", "''Not everyone is going to like this plan,'' Mr. Murkowski said, ''but at least now we have a plan to kick around.''", "He said the previous administration had failed to grapple with the nation's energy sources through a comprehensive plan.", "Clinton administration officia ls disputed the assertion and blamed Congress for failing to enact energy legislation." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 1 ] }, { "title": "e3420_p34", "sents": [ "''Despite evidence of manipulation and price gouging in both the electricity and natural gas markets in California and the West, and a finding by FERC last November of 'unjust and unreasonable' rates,'' the senator said, ''the commission has failed to take the actions necessary to bring reliability and stability to the marketplace.''", "Ms. Feinstein made the request in a letter to Senator Joseph I. Lieberman, who is poised to take over the Committee on Governmental Affairs once the Democrats regain control of the Senate.", "Mr. Lieberman, who has already asked the General Accounting Office to investigate price gouging, could not be reached for comment today.", "In her letter, Ms. Feinstein cited an article in The New York Times today reporting that Kenneth L. Lay, chairman of the Enron Corporation, had told the commission's chairman, Curtis Hebert Jr., that he would support his continuation in the job if the commissioner endorsed the company's views on energy deregulation." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 1, 2 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e1960_p23", "sents": [ "BuildNet is backed by BancBoston Ventures, Barnard, Encore Venture Partners, GE Appliances, GE Capital, Global Technology Investors Fund at Bessemer Trust, Halifax BuildNet Investors, John Hancock Global Technology Fund, J. & W. Seligman, Piedmont Venture Partners, SG Capital Partners, South East Interactive Technology Fund, and The CIT Group Equity Investments.", "The company is in a quiet period prior to filing for an IPO.", "http: www.homestyles.com http: www.buildnet.com American Greetings Buys Information-by-e-mail Service Firm CLEVELAND -- Personalized content delivery firm AmericanGreetings.com, a subsidiary of publicly traded American Greetings, said it has acquired eAgents, a firm that delivers consolidated information and entertainment from Web media brands in a single, daily e-mail.", "As part of the agreement, Charles Fink, the company's founder, president and CEO of eAgents.com, will become president of AmericanGreetings.com, reporting to Josef Mandelbaum, the CEO.", "Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.", "eAgents is backed by Draper Atlantic, Lazard Technology Partners, I-Hatch, and Shamrock Holdings." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] }, { "title": "e2933_p10", "sents": [ "The company plans to use the new funds f or marketing and research and development.", "Post-money, the company is valued at $18 million.", "As a result of this financing, Ned Carlson, senior vice president of Wit SoundView Ventures, joined as the third member of the Xora board of directors, which still has two seats open.", "Xora plans to seek a second round between $15 million and $20 million by the end of this year an d expects it to close in the first quarter of 2002. http: www.xora.com E.Intelligence Caps $8M Round Two Led by Commonwealth mail?", "top MINNEAPOLIS (VENTUREWIRE) -- e.Iintelligence, which provides softwar e for demand chain management, said it has closed an $8 million second round led by new investor Commonwealth Capital Ventures with participation from other ne w investors Brightstone Capital, Barnard, and Discovery.", "Existing investor JMI Equity Fund, which had held a majority of the company after round one, participated in this round but did not maintain its share." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 4 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "Angelus Exuro pro Eternus", "sents": [ "Angelus Exuro pro Eternus (grammatically incorrect Latin intended to mean \"Angels Burned for Eternity\") is the fifth studio album by Swedish black metal band Dark Funeral.", "The album was officially released on November 18, 2009, via Regain Records.", "It was recorded at The Abyss Studio in Grangärde, Sweden, with engineer and producer Peter Tägtgren, who also produced Dark Funeral's earlier studio albums (with the exception of \"Attera Totus Sanctus\").", "The record was then mastered by Jonas Kjellgren at the Black Lodge Studios.", "\"Angelus Exuro pro Eternus\" is the last album to feature vocalist Emperor Magus Caligula, the only album to feature bassist B-Force and the first to feature Dominator on drums." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] }, { "title": "Regain Records", "sents": [ "Regain Records was a Swedish-based independent record label.", "The label predominantly released death metal and black metal albums.", "Regain Records was founded from what remained of the former label, Wrong Again Records, by Per Gyllenbäck in 1997.", "Wrong Again Records had such bands as In Flames, Cryptopsy, Arch Enemy, and Naglfar among its ranks." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 2 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "Karl Koch (botanist)", "sents": [ "Karl Heinrich Emil Koch (6 June 1809 – 25 May 1879) was a German botanist.", "He is best known for his botanical explorations in the Caucasus region, including northeast Turkey.", "Most of his collections have today been lost.", "He is also known as the first professional horticultural officer in Germany." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] }, { "title": "Caucasus", "sents": [ "The Caucasus or Caucasia is a region situated at the border of Eastern Europe and Western Asia, situated between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea.", "It is home to the Caucasus Mountains, which contain Europe's highest mountain, Mount Elbrus, 5642 m , located on the west of the Greater Caucasus mountain range.", "The Greater Caucasus acts as a natural barrier separating Europe from Southwest Asia, the latter including the Transcaucasus and Anatolia regions." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "With Their New Face On", "sents": [ "With Their New Face On is the fourth studio album by the Spencer Davis Group, the first to be released after the departure of Steve Winwood (to form the group Traffic), and his brother Muff Winwood.", "The album was released in 1968 in both the UK and the U.S. on the United Artists label." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] }, { "title": "United Artists", "sents": [ "United Artists (UA) is an American film and television entertainment studio.", "Founded in 1919 by D. W. Griffith, Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, and Douglas Fairbanks, the studio was premised on allowing actors to control their own interests, rather than being dependent upon commercial studios.", "UA was repeatedly bought, sold and restructured over the ensuing century.", "The current United Artists company is a successor to the original in name only: the studio was acquired by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1981." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e6756_p0", "sents": [ "'FYI.", "Fairly accurate account of the activities in California.", "Assembly released new version of Hertzberg's bill late last night.", "Another update to follow shortly.", "Best, Jeff State Senate OKs bailing out Edison from bankruptcy Assembly plans own version for utility Lynda Gledhill and Robert Salladay, Chronicle Sacramento Bureau Saturday, July 21, 2001 ,2001 San Francisco Chronicle: http: www.sfgate.com cgi-bin article.cgi?f ca 2001 07 21 MN133267.DTL Sacramento -- The state Senate approved a plan yesterday to keep Southern California Edison from falling into bankruptcy, but the bill crafted as an alternative to the pact between the utility and Gov.", "Gray Davis faces an uncertain future.", "The bill by Democratic Sens.", "Richard Polanco of Los Angeles and Byron Sher of Palo Alto would give the state a five-year option to buy the utility's transmission lines and would have the state guarantee no more than $2.5 billion of the utility's debt." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 4 ] }, { "title": "e93_p0", "sents": [ "'State's Power Purchases Costlier Than Projected Tab is $6 million a day over Davis' requests Lynda Gledhill, Chronicle Sacramento Bureau Friday, March 16, 2001 ,2001 San Francisco Chronicle Sacramento -- California has spent about $6 million more a day buying electrical power than originally projected, according to a confidential document obtained yesterday by The Chronicle.", "State power buyers spent $2.7 billion between Jan. 17 and March 11, averaging $49 million a day.", "That amounts to about $6 million a day more than lawmakers figured using Gov.", "Gray Davis' appropriations requests.", "The confidential document was prepared by the Department of Water Resources, which purchases power on behalf of the state.", "It was handed to a group of lawmakers in a subcommittee hearing Wednesday by Water Resources Director Tom Hannigan.", "To the public, the document presents the first day-by-day look at how much California is spending on power purchases.", "Although the document shows more money being spent than originally believed, it didn't startle any of the handful of senators and Assembly members who saw it." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e2958_p5", "sents": [ "NTT DoCoMo ran into similar problems and recently announced the delay of its service on a slightly bigger island: Japan.", "Cable & Wireless, a previously dormant British telecoms company made inroads into its o6 billion ($8.6 billion) mountain of cash.", "It bought Digital Island, a struggling American Internet company, for $340m and promised to inject up to $700m more as part of a strategy to become a leading Internet-services firm.", "Sony, a Japanese electronics giant, gained allies to play along side with against rivals, Nintendo and Microsoft, which is soon to launch its Xbox gaming system.", "The creators of the PlayStation 2 unveiled several alliances including ones with America Online, to provide Internet services through it s console and RealNetworks, a streaming media firm.", "See article: Video-game warsE+ Gun culture Tomkins, a British conglomerate hit last year by accusations of corporate excess, is to get shot of Smith & Wesson, an American handgun maker, to Saf-T-Hammer, an American gun-parts company, for $15m." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 3 ] }, { "title": "Nintendo", "sents": [ "Nintendo Co., Ltd. is a Japanese multinational consumer electronics and video game company headquartered in Kyoto.", "Nintendo is one of the world's largest video game companies by market capitalization, creating some of the best-known and top-selling video game franchises, such as \"Mario\", \"The Legend of Zelda\", and \"Pokémon\".", "Founded on 23 September 1889 by Fusajiro Yamauchi, it originally produced handmade hanafuda playing cards.", "By 1963, the company had tried several small niche businesses, such as cab services and love hotels.", "Abandoning previous ventures in favor of toys in the 1960s, Nintendo then developed into a video game company in the 1970s, ultimately becoming one of the most influential in the industry and Japan's third most-valuable company with a market value of over $85 billion.", "From 1992 until 2016, Nintendo was also the majority shareholder of Major League Baseball's Seattle Mariners." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 2 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e4073_p39", "sents": [ "The addition brings the total number of board members to seven.", "Looking Glass Networks is backed by Madison Dearborn Partners and Battery Ventures.", "http: www.lglass.net o CEO of Stockton Equities Named to TeamLinux Board AUSTIN, Texas -- TeamLinux, which provides consulting, design, integration, migration, training, and support services for open source and Linux enabled technologies, said Jonathan D. Doneson, chief executive officer of the Stockton Equities Group, was added to the company's board of directors.", "The company's backers include Miami Valley, The Stockton Group, and individual investors from abroad.", "http: www.team-linux.com Plumbing, HVAC Site SupplySpot Names Nomaco Exec To Board BOCA RATON, Fla -- SupplySpot.com, an online commerce site for the plumbing, HVAC, and mechanical industries, said it has appointed Scott Edwards to its board of directors.", "Mr. Edwards currently serves as executive vice president of sales and marketing at Nomaco, a manufacturer of foamed plastics and decorative architectural products." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 1 ] }, { "title": "Battery Ventures", "sents": [ "Battery Ventures is a global, technology-focused investment firm.", "Founded in 1983, the firm makes venture-capital and private-equity investments from offices in Boston, Silicon Valley, San Francisco and Israel.", "Since inception, the firm has raised over $5.6 billion and is now investing its eleventh funds, Battery Ventures XI and Battery Ventures XI Side Fund, with a combined capitalization of $950 million." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e659_p10", "sents": [ "The Business and Public Policy group offered one course, \"Law and Strategy of E-Commerce,\" in fall 2000 with Boalt.", "Pablo Spiller, the Joe Shoong Professor of International Business and Public Policy and the chair of the Business and Public Policy Group, taught the course along with Robert P. Merges, the Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati Distinguished Professor of Law and Technology and a director of the Berkeley Center for Law & Technology.", "In the fall 2001, Rui de Figueiredo, assistant professor in the Business and Public Policy Group, will teach \"Deals\" with Howard Shelanski, acting professor of law, to both business and law students.", "The Management of Technology (MOT) Program is sponsoring two evening conferences at Haas this spring organized with Peter Menell, professor of law.", "The first on \"Television-Internet Convergence\" took place on March 14 in Arthur Andersen Auditorium.", "On April 18 the second annual Boalt Hall MOT Conference on Digital Music takes place in the Arthur Andersen Auditorium beginning at 4:00 pm." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 5 ] }, { "title": "e1312_p3", "sents": [ "All teams were judg ed by a group of 17 leading social venture investors, venture capitalists, and social venture practitioners.", "Several participants in last year's competition have made great strides toward becoming sustainable businesses.", "Ripple Effects and Xtracycle, who shared last year's second prize, are in business.", "Ripple Effects develops award-winning learning software, while Xtracycle sells super-cargo size sport-utility bicycles.", "WILLIAM HAMBRECHT TO RECEIVE LESTER CENTER LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD William Hambrecht, the legendary investment banker who brought us Apple Computer, Genentech, and the OpenIPO, is the 2001 recipient of the Lester Center Lifetime Achievement Award at UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business.", "The award will be presented by the Lester Center for Entrepreneurship & Innovation at the UC Berkeley Entrepreneurs Forum on Thursday, April 26, in Arthur Andersen Auditorium.", "Hambrecht is best known as the co-founder of the firm Hambrecht & Quist who se west-coast style investment banking helped launch some of Silicon Valley's greatest success stories." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 5 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e4615_p3", "sents": [ "The Cal-ISO wants forward contracting authority because the grid operator needs to buy increasing amounts of power at the last minute to balance supply and load on the grid.", "The ISO has been scrambling through real-time and ancillary services markets to find this balancing power.", "Originally, the California market system was set up so that utilities would buy most of the state's power needs through the California Power Exchange's (Cal-PX) day-ahead market.", "State regulators have not given utilities authority to do extensive forward contracting outside the Cal-PX, and utilities have been increasingly inclined to under schedule their actual needs in the Cal-PX and lean on the ISO to provide the balance of the power for their customers.", "Saying that underscheduling of load continues to be a problem and cautioning that unseasonably warm days occur in the fall, the ISO asked FERC to waive the typical 60-day notice required for tariff amendments and allow the changes to take effect immediately." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 2 ] }, { "title": "e619_p33", "sents": [ "Finally, deregulation created a power market so fragmented that it was ludicrously easy to manipulate when the thin surplus of power supply in the West began evaporating in the summer of 2000, although the evidence is masked by the effects of a drought in the Northwest (which has reduced hydropower) and an unlucky combination of plant maintenance, air pollution limits idling older plants and higher than expected costs for natural gas.", "The price of bad luck, bad weather and the cunning of power suppliers was staggering.", "At one point in December, electricity that cost $250 a megawatt-hour to produce was priced by the power brokers of the California Independent System Operator at $1,500 a megawatt-hour.", "That was the negotiated price; the suppliers had asked for $2,000. Deregulation had set up a divided marketplace, more irrational than any Paul W. MacAvoy picks apart in his analysis of natural gas, in which the California Power Exchange was a clearinghouse where buyers and sellers set the price of electricity and the California Independent System Operator was the \"buyer of last resort\" if occasional gaps between production and distribution unexpectedly failed to meet daily demand." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 3 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e7938_p15", "sents": [ "MobilEye's services include lane-departure and col lision warnings, obstacle, pedestrian, and drowsy-driver detection.", "ht tp: www.mobileye.com?", "Pharmaceutical Informatics Firm Arradial Secur es $3 Million?", "BOSTON (VENTUREWIRE) -- Arradial, an informatics and instrumentation com pany that provides technology the pharmaceutical industry, said it secured $3 million in funding led by Oxford Bioscience Partners, and included Boston University's Community Technology Fund.", "The company said it will use the proceeds to complete the development and commercialization of its personal desktop laboratory microarray screening system, which was jointly created by researchers and engineers at Boston University and Alexion Pharmaceuticals.", "Stella M. Sung, a partner at Oxford Bioscience Partners, will take a seat on Arradial's board of directors.", "http: www.arradial.com bad news Job Cuts, Uncertain Future for Leisure Market Whiplash CHICAGO (VENTUREWIRE) -- Whiplash, developer of an online market place for leisure travel professionals, said it is exploring seeking a buy er or selling its assets." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 3 ] }, { "title": "e3248_p11", "sents": [ "RedSiren is backed by Redleaf Grou p. http: www.redsiren.com Zone Labs Adds Srinivasa Venkataraman as VP of Development mail?", "top SAN FRANCISCO (VENTUREWIRE) -- Zone Labs, which develops Internet security software, said it named Srinivasa Venkataraman as vice president of researc h and development.", "Prior to joining the company, Mr. Venkataraman was vice president of development at Senterprise.", "Zone Labs is backed by EastWest VentureGroup, EastWest Ventures, Intel Capital, Oxford Bioscience Partners, and Pacific Venture Group.", "http: www.zonelabs.com Egenera Names Richard Fichera Product Strategy VP mail?", "top MARLBORO, Mass.", "(VENTUREWIRE) -- Egenera, an Internet infrastructure compa ny that develops new server architecture for corporate data centers, said it appointed Richard Fichera vice president of product strategy, responsible f or driving the company's long-range product planning.", "Prior to joining the company, Mr. Fichera was vice president and senior research fellow at Giga Information Group, where he led the practice in enterprise technology infrastructure and counseled customers on strategy, planning, and architecture." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 3 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e6686_p14", "sents": [ "He continues to own four blocks of Edison stock, each valued at $10,000 to $100,000, which he bought in January and February.", "\"I have had no dealings with Edison and have not had a conflict of interest,\" Skowronski said in his attached note.", "Ronald O. Nichols, another consultant, reported that in April that he bought $10,000 to $100,000 worth of stock in Enron and General Electric.", "In a statement filed Monday, consultant Sumner W. White reported that he owns $2,000 to $10,000 in stock in TXU Corp., a Dallas-based energy holding company.", "White also reported that he had income of $10,000 to $100,000 as a part-owner, executive vice president and director of SRW Group, a Texas independent power developer.", "Companies: European Companies 07 19 2001 The Wall Street Journal Europe 5 (Copyright (c) 2001, Dow Jones & Company, Inc.) Enel Narrows the Field To 3 Bidders for Elettrogen ROME -- Italian utility Enel SpA said that after a first round of offers there were three groups left in the race for its electricity-generating company Elettrogen, which experts say is valued at least 5.5 trillion lire (2.84 billion euros)." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 2 ] }, { "title": "General Electric", "sents": [ "General Electric (GE) is an American multinational conglomerate corporation incorporated in New York and headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.", "As of 2016, the company operates through the following segments: Aviation, Current, Digital, Energy Connections, Global Research, Healthcare, Lighting, Oil and Gas, Power, Renewable Energy, Transportation, and Capital which cater to the needs of Financial services, Medical devices, Life Sciences, Pharmaceutical, Automotive, Software Development and Engineering industries." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "Farhan Akhtar", "sents": [ "Farhan Akhtar (born 9 January 1974) is an Indian film director, screenwriter, producer, actor, playback singer and television host.", "Born in Mumbai to screenwriters Javed Akhtar and Honey Irani, he grew up under the influence of the Hindi film industry.", "He began his career in Bollywood by working as an assistant director in \"Lamhe\" (1991) and \"Himalay Putra\" (1997)." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1, 2 ] }, { "title": "Himalay Putra", "sents": [ "Himalay Putra is a 1997 Hindi-language Indian romance film directed by Pankaj Parashar, starring Vinod Khanna, Hema Malini, Johnny Lever, Satish Shah, Danny Denzongpa, Amrish Puri and Rocky Grover.", "It introduced Akshaye Khanna, Anjala Zaveri and Shazia Malik.", "It was the only time Vinod Khanna and his son Akshaye Khanna appeared in a film together." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e8209_p36", "sents": [ "Belle Systems Promotes President to CEO, Founder Now Ch air?", "ROSKILDE, Denmark (VENTUREWIRE) -- Belle Systems, a provider of service management, billing, and customer care services for telecoms and next-generation service providers, said it promoted Erik Froberg from president and COO to CEO.", "Company founder Hasse Rasmussen will now serve as chairman of the board and chief technology officer.", "The company is backed Cisco Systems, Index Ventures, Vertex Management, and General Atlantic Partners.", "http: www.bellesystems.com iD2 Tech Exec Named CEO of Wireless Platform Provider Room33 NEW YORK (VENTUREWIRE) -- Room33, a Stockholm-based firm that pr ovides wireless platforms and applications for businesses and individuals, said it named a new chief executive officer.", "Current iD2 Technologies exe cutive vice president Huw Hampson-Jones will become its new CEO as of Janu ary 1 2001. Mr. Hampson-Jones has served in management positions with Siem ens and McDonnell Douglas Information Systems in Europe.", "Mr. Hampson-Jones will take the place of company founder and current CEO Zaheed Haque, who will now serve as the company's board chairman and chief strategist." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 1, 3 ] }, { "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": "e3149_p0", "sents": [ "'The Commission's Energy Division held a workshop yesterday (May 21st) with the stated objective of \"developing a viable program for real time pricing options which will attract sufficient customer participation to have a meaningful impact starting July 1, 2001.\"", "In short, the workshop provided the California Energy Commission (CEC) a forum to push the proposal it advanced in the SCE PG&E rate design proceeding (which has now been fleshed out more through proposed tariff language, attached).", "The Energy Division is taking the view that the CEC proposal is the \"point of departure.\"", "In other words, that's what's going to be adopted unless changes are made in this workshop process.", "The UDCs are taking the view that there is no way they can implement the CEC's proposal by July 1. The hang up, from the UDCs' end, appears to be the \"two part\" nature of the proposal.", "Basically, the CEC has proposed (based on the program currently being used by Georgia Power) that a customer pays for baseline level of usage at standard tariff prices and differences in usage from the baseline are billed at RTP prices." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1, 5 ] }, { "title": "Georgia Power", "sents": [ "Georgia Power is an electric utility headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, United States.", "It was established as the Georgia Railway and Power Company and began operations in 1902 running streetcars in Atlanta as a successor to the Atlanta Consolidated Street Railway Company." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e6631_p8", "sents": [ "Savings from Pacific Gas & Electric's 20 20 rebate program total $7.6 million so far, a spokesman said.", "The program, an initiative by Gov.", "Gray Davis to promote conservation, shaves 20 percent off customers' bills for using 20 percent less energy this summer than last summer.", "PG&E has processed one-third of its July power bills, and the results show that 29 percent of customers sliced enough electricity use last month to earn the reward.", "Out of about 1.3 million bills processed, 394,000 customers qualified for the credits.", "Thousands more still stand to gain as the company sifts through remaining bills.", "PG&E serves 4.7 million customers in Northern California, from Baker to the Oregon border.", "\"Twenty-nine percent are meeting the qualifications, which is good,\" said PG&E spokesman Jon Tremayne.", "\"That's a significant chunk.\"", "The results also are significant compared to previous expectations.", "Davis administration officials estimated that 10 percent to 20 percent of customers would earn the rebate." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 ] }, { "title": "e4173_p5", "sents": [ "So tinkering with the rate freeze could be politically hazardous.", "\"The pain we saw in San Diego this summer is something we want to avoid for our customers in Northern and Central California,\" said PG&E spokesman Jon Tremayne.", "PG&E is expected soon to formally petition the state Public Utilities Commission to lift its rate freeze.", "The San Francisco-based utility argues that the $2.8-billion value of its Northern California hydroelectric properties, which under deregulation it is required to divest, would erase its stranded costs and make it eligible to pass along wholesale costs to consumers.", "Southern California Edison's chief financial officer, Jim Scilacci, said the utility could possibly be eligible to lift the rate freeze later this year if planned asset sales bring high enough prices.", "But with the legally mandated rate freeze in effect in San Diego, observers doubt that the state would let PG&E and Edison revert to market prices." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 1, 2, 3 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "Highland Capital Partners", "sents": [ "Highland Capital Partners is a global venture capital firm with offices in Silicon Valley, Boston and Shanghai.", "Highland has raised over $3 billion in committed capital and invested in more than 225 companies.", "Investments include 2U, Ask Jeeves, Bromium, Gigamon, Handy, Lululemon Athletica, Lycos, Malwarebytes, MapQuest, Qihoo 360, Quattro Wireless, Rent the Runway, Starent Networks, Sybase, VistaPrint, Turbonomic, and WePay.", "Highland also serves as a mentor for future entrepreneurs through Summer@Highland, a program that provides students and university-affiliated startups with the environment and resources to take their initiative to the next level.", "They also help run a program for early stage security companies to explore their ideas and obtain customers called Cybersecurity Factory." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 3 ] }, { "title": "e2933_p27", "sents": [ "President and CEO Raymond Gu nn is also a member of the seven-person board.", "Mr. Duerden was introduced to t he company through Robert Frost, a partner of Investor Access and a member of Clarity's advisory board.", "http: www.clarityco.com new people SmartBargains Appoints Former Barnes&Noble.com Exec to CEO mail?", "top BOSTON (VENTUREWIRE) -- SmartBargains.com, an online retailer of bar gain and closeout merchandise, said it appointed Carl S. Rosendorf as its new CEO an d board member.", "He replaces interim CEO and current board member Malcolm L. Sherman, the chairman of the board at Gordon Brothers.", "Mr. Rosendorf spent the last four years with Barnes&Noble.com as an executive vice-president fo r e-commerce.", "He was introduced to the company through Ossining, N.Y.-based executive search firm Ramsey Beirne Associates.", "Founded in September 2000, SmartBargains raised $33 million in one round of funding from Highland Capital Partners, America Online, Dorset, General Catalyst, Berkshi re Partners, Madison Dearborn, and Gordon Brothers Group." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 7 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "1989 New Zealand NBL season", "sents": [ "The 1989 New Zealand National Basketball League season was the eighth running of the competition.", "Following Ponsonby's last place finish in 1988, they were dropped from the league and replaced by 1988 Conference Basketball League (CBL) champions Palmerston North, a team dropped from the NBL in 1988 after finishing last in 1987.", "Palmerston North went on to have their best season in team history, finishing the regular season in first place with a 15–3 win/loss record.", "However, the Canterbury Rams won the championship in 1989 to claim their second league title.", "Canterbury came from fourth place at the finals weekend to claim the championship, knocking over the top-seeded Palmerston North 92–84 in the semi-final to book a spot in the final against Auckland.", "The Rams went on to defeat Auckland 91–83 in the final, farewelling the retiring John Rademakers in style." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] }, { "title": "Palmerston North", "sents": [ "Palmerston North ( ; Māori: \"Te Papa-i-Oea\" ) is a city in the North Island of New Zealand and the seat of the Manawatu-Wanganui region.", "Located in the eastern Manawatu Plains, the city is near the north bank of the Manawatu River, 35 km from the river's mouth, and 12 km from the end of the Manawatu Gorge.", "It is about 140 km north of the capital, Wellington." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 2 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e4328_p0", "sents": [ "'Capitalists and environmentalists - now on a converging path Don't miss Bill Coors and David Brower, both in their 80s Weyerhaeuser with Rainforest Action Network Shell Oil with Global Exchange The Haas School of Business is pleased to announce Industrial Ecology 2000: Maximizing Shareholder Value, Lessons from the Natural World October 5 - 8 here at Haas Industrial Ecology 200 will explore business as a living ecosystem in the rapidly changing new economy of information.?", "Industrial Ecology uses principles of biology, ecology and systems thinking to maximize business performance and profits by all measures?", "economic, social and environmental .?", "By adapting nature ,s principles to business, companies such as Nike, Coo rs Brewing, Hewlett-Packard, Xerox, Mitsubishi Electric and Pitney Bowes are increasing efficiency, boosting innovation and brand loyalty and promoting long-term sustainability in today ,s rapidly changing economic landscape.", "YOU'LL HEAR FROM EXECUTIVES AND EXPERTS: William Coors, President & Chairman, Coors Brewing Company Tachi Kiuchi, CEO & Chairman Emeritus, Mitsubishi Electric America Mac Bridger, CEO, Collins & Aikman Janine Benyus, author, Biomimicry Ervin Laszlo, founder & President, Club of Budapest Jane Pratt, President, Mountain Institute Bill Shireman, founder & President, Global Futures Anita Burke, global industrial ecologist, Royal Dutch Shell Noel Brown, former Director, United Nations Environmental Program Lynn Scarlett, Executive Director, RPPI Craig Newmark, founder, Craigslist.org Joe Romm, Executive Director ,Center for Energy & Climate Solutions Winston Hickox, Secretary of Environmental Protection, Cal EPA Linda Coady, Vice President, MacMillan Bloedel Duane Elgin, author, Promise Ahead Gil Friend, CEO, Natural Logic Nevin Cohen, Senior Analyst, eMarketer Tom Hurley, Executive Director, Chaordic Alliance Ab Stevels, Philips Consumer Electronics, the Netherlands YOU'LL LEARN ABOUT: Business As a Living System Product Stewardship: Computer & Electronics EPR Environmental Mgt." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 4 ] }, { "title": "Royal Dutch Shell", "sents": [ "Royal Dutch Shell plc (, ), commonly known as Shell, is a British–Dutch multinational oil and gas company headquartered in the Netherlands and incorporated in the United Kingdom.", "It is one of the six oil and gas \"supermajors\" and the sixth-largest company in the world measured by 2016 revenues (and the largest based in Europe).", "Shell was first in the 2013 Fortune Global 500 list of the world's largest companies; in that year its revenues were equivalent to 84% of the Netherlands' $556 billion GDP." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 2 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "Boston", "sents": [ "Boston (pronounced ) is the capital city and most populous municipality of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the United States.", "It is also the seat of Suffolk County, although the county government was disbanded on July 1, 1999.", "The city proper covers 48 mi2 with an estimated population of 673,184 in 2016, making it the largest city in New England and the 22nd most populous city in the United States.", "The city is the economic and cultural anchor of a substantially larger metropolitan area known as Greater Boston, a metropolitan statistical area (MSA) home to a census-estimated 4.8 million people in 2016 and ranking as the tenth-largest such area in the country.", "Alternately, as a combined statistical area (CSA), this wider commuting region is home to some 8.2 million people, making it the sixth-largest in the United States." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] }, { "title": "e3787_p7", "sents": [ "Mr. Lisbonne will work on the new fund, concentrating on e-business software.", "Matrix portfolio companies include Blue Martini Software, Sonus Networks, a nd Sycamore Networks.", "Prior to joining Crosspoint, Mr. Lisbonne served as seni or vice president and general manager of browser products at Netscape.", "Matrix Partners, founded in 1977 with a headquarters in Boston, focuses on softwar e, networking equipment, semiconductor, computing, storage, and Internet sectors, with emphasis on e-commerce, e-business services, and communicatio ns infrastructure.", "http: www.matrixpartners.com new money Business Accelerator Blue Slate Gets First-Round Funds ALBANY, N.Y. (VENTUREWIRE) -- Blue Slate Solutions, a provider of bu siness strategy and technology consulting services, said it received an undisclose d amount of first-round funding from Exponential, which provides venture capital funding for businesses in upstate New York.", "Unnamed individuals als o participated.", "The company said it plans to use the new capital for product development and general expansion.", "With this round, Blue Slate Solutions ha s granted one seat on five-member board to Exponential." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 3 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e1120_p70", "sents": [ "Critics say the loose restrictions on some of Mr. Capellas's shares give him less incentive to make good.", "Mr. Capellas won't \"have to work as long or as hard\" as do most holders of restricted shares, says Judith Fischer, managing director of consultants Executive Compensation Advisory Services in Alexandria, Va. Kenneth Roman, a Compaq outside director, strongly disagrees.", "\"Whatever Michael is getting, Michael is worth,\" Mr. Roman says.", "\"We really needed him.\"", "And restricted stock, which Compaq never offered top executives until it elevated Mr. Capellas to president and chief executive in July 1999, makes sense, maintains Compaq spokesman Arch Currid.", "It \"provides a greater equity interest in the company sooner than do options,\" he says.", "Mr. Capellas was unavailable to comment.", "Under Mr. Capellas, the Houston company initially experienced an upturn.", "Compaq's operating income last year more than tripled to $1.7 billion, including a $1.8 billion charge for writedown of investments." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 1 ] }, { "title": "Kenneth Roman", "sents": [ "Kenneth Roman (born September 6, 1930, in Boston, Massachusetts) is a former CEO of Ogilvy & Mather Worldwide, the advertising agency founded by David Ogilvy.", "He joined the firm in 1963 and served as Chairman from 1985 to 1989.", "After 26 years with the firm, he joined American Express in a senior communications role before becoming a consultant, board director and author.", "He graduated from Dartmouth College in 1952, where he was Editor-in-Chief of the undergraduate daily newspaper." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "Bursadella grammozona", "sents": [ "Bursadella grammozona is a moth in the Immidae family.", "It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1925.", "It is found in New Guinea." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 2 ] }, { "title": "New Guinea", "sents": [ "New Guinea (Tok Pisin: \"Niugini\" ; Dutch: \"Nieuw-Guinea\" ; German: \"Neuguinea\" ; Indonesian: \"Papua\" or, historically, \"Irian \") is a large island in Oceania.", "It is the world's second-largest island, after Greenland, covering a land area of , and the largest wholly or partly within the Southern Hemisphere and Oceania (if excluding Australia as an island)." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e3698_p35", "sents": [ "Connecte d has made $25 million in annualized revenues and expects revenues to continu e doubling each year as it has done for the past three years, Mr. Brennan sai d. Connected's products and services are geared toward reducing computer downtime by improving backup and recovery of data, migration, and applicati on self-healing.", "Connected said that Intel, a previous investor, was \"not encouraged\" to invest in this round, and following a mutual agreement, also declined investments from Softbank, another previous investor.", "http: www.connected.com Qpass Clears $15 Million in Series F mail?", "top SEATTLE (VENTUREWIRE) -- Qpass, a provider of commerce services infrastructure, said it raised $15 million in its Series F round from Accenture Technology Ventures, American Express, Hook Partners, J&W Seligma n & Company, Oak Investment Partners, Partech International, RRE Ventures, SeaPoint Ventures, Venrock Associates, and individuals.", "All the investors in this round were previous investors.", "The company said the funding would be used for continuing product development and for client services infrastructure." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 3 ] }, { "title": "e3049_p12", "sents": [ "To date, the company raised $29 millio n in three rounds.", "http: www.dooyoo.de Mindsense Biosystems Gets $2M from Future mail?", "top REHOVOT, Israel (VENTUREWIRE) -- Mindsense Biosystems, which develop s blood tests to diagnose mental disorders using proteomics and functional genomics technology, announced it has secured a $2 million investment from new investor Future (a German life sciences fund) as part of a $12 million Series C round.", "Investment bank Mesiro Financial is managing the round.", "Rainer Henning of Future will join the board of directors.", "Mindsense has raised a total of $7.5 million from Biomedical Investments, Comsor Investment Fund, Mazam Capital Funds Management, and Shamrock Holdin gs of California.", "http: www.mindsense.com Rivio Connects with $12 Million in Fourth Round mail?", "top SANTA CLARA, Calif. (VENTUREWIRE) -- Rivio, which provides an onlin e platform for small businesses, said it closed its fourth round at $12 milli on from previous investors Accenture Technology Ventures, Bank of America, Opportunity Capital Partners, and Softbank Venture Capital." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 7 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "Ghosts Will Come and Kiss Our Eyes", "sents": [ "Ghosts Will Come and Kiss Our Eyes is the third album by Canadian band Hrsta.", "It was released on September 10, 2007, by Constellation Records.", "Its catalogue number is CST048." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] }, { "title": "Hrsta", "sents": [ "Hrsta (stylized as HṚṢṬA) ( ; Sanskrit हृष्ट ] ) is a Montreal post-rock band that records on Constellation Records.", "The band's leader, Mike Moya (guitar and voice), was also one of the founding members of Godspeed You!", "Black Emperor.", "Hrsta's sound has been compared to that of Godspeed You!", "Black Emperor, Thee Silver Mt.", "Zion Memorial Orchestra and Set Fire to Flames, owing to Mike Moya's unique contributions to each.", "Hrsta, however, differs from these previous projects in that it features Moya as a vocalist." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "Frank G. Mahady", "sents": [ "Frank G. Mahady (March 31, 1939 - August 18, 1992) was a Vermont attorney and judge.", "He was appointed to the Vermont Supreme Court in 1987, but never confirmed by the Senate; he withdrew his confirmation request on April 3, 1988." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] }, { "title": "Vermont Supreme Court", "sents": [ "The Vermont Supreme Court is the highest judicial authority of the U.S. state of Vermont.", "Unlike most other states, the Vermont Supreme Court hears appeals directly from the trial courts, as Vermont has no intermediate appeals court." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 1 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e5494_p1", "sents": [ "The comments must be filed at FERC by Friday, June 15. If you have issues or comments, please contact Leslie Lawner or me as soon as you can.", "Leslie is at 505-623-6778 and my extension in Houston is 35840. If possible, e-mail us since we will both be traveling or at an off-site meeting beginning mid-day Wednesday." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] }, { "title": "Houston", "sents": [ "Houston ( ) is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Texas and the fourth-most populous city in the United States.", "With a census-estimated 2016 population of 2.303 million within an area of 667 sqmi , it is also the largest city in the southern United States and the seat of Harris County.", "Located in Southeast Texas near the Gulf of Mexico, it is the principal city of the Greater Houston metro area, which is the fifth-most populated MSA in the United States." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e10578_p24", "sents": [ "Mr. Phillips most recently served as the chief financial officer for Ganymede Software.", "Founder Flint O'Brien will be assume the role of chief technology officer.", "CalendarCentral is backed by individual investors.", "http: www.calendarcentral.com Former Prodigy Head Joins Gilat-To-Home as President MCLEAN, Va. -- Gilat-To-Home (GTH), which provides consumer focused two-way satellite broadband Internet service, said it has appointed David Trachtenberg as president and chief marketing officer to oversee the day-to-day operations of sales, marketing, product marketing, business development and content.", "Mr. Trachtenberg, who will work with co-chairman and CEO Zur Feldman, was most recently the president and chief operating officer at Prodigy Communications.", "Gilat Satellite Networks, Microsoft, EchoStar Communications and ING Furman Selz Investments back Gilat-To-Home.", "http: www.gilat2home.com Smart Warrior Names President and Chief Executive MANCHESTER, N.H. -- Smart Warrior, a provider of Internet business and marketing strategy services, said it named Brian Brady its president and chief executive." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 5 ] }, { "title": "Gilat Satellite Networks", "sents": [ "Gilat Satellite Networks is a public company headquartered in Israel that develops and sells VSAT satellite ground stations and related equipment.", "Its shares are traded on the NASDAQ Global Select Market and on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "Spencer Abraham", "sents": [ "Edward Spencer Abraham (born June 12, 1952) is an American author and politician who was a United States Senator from Michigan from 1995 to 2001 and the tenth United States Secretary of Energy, serving under President George W. Bush, from 2001 to 2005.", "Abraham, a Republican, is one of the founders of the Federalist Society and a co-founder of the \"Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy\".", "To date, Abraham is the last Republican to serve as a U.S.", "Senator from Michigan." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] }, { "title": "e3430_p47", "sents": [ "\"The problems in California shows that you cannot conserve your way to energy independence,\" Mr. Bush said then.", "At the same time, his aides were pointing to polls showing Mr. Davis's approval ratings plunging.", "They did not mention that Mr. Bush's ratings in the state were hardly any better.", "A series of recent polls show that roughly two-thirds of Californians believe Mr. Bush should be doing far more to help the state, though it is unclear exactly what kind of help they have in mind.", "So Mr. Bush's aides have been struggling for days to choreograph the two-day visit here, trying to find ways to differ with Mr. Davis without seeming callous about the problem or in conflict with the state.", "The betting is that Mr. Bush will focus on long-term solutions, in contrast to Mr. Davis's call for the quicker fix of price caps.", "The effort started today.", "Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham issued an order of chiefly symbolic importance, saying his department would move quickly to determine whether investors were interested in financing and co-owning a new transmission line that could bring more power to the state." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1, 4, 7 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "Maharashtra State Electricity Board", "sents": [ "Maharashtra State Electricity Board (or MSEB) ( Marathi:महाराष्ट्र राज्य विद्युत मंडळ) is a state-owned electricity regulation board operating within the state of Maharashtra in India.", "The MSEB was formed on 20 June 1960 under Section 5 of the Electricity (Supply) Act, 1948.", "In 1998 it was the second largest electricity generating utility in India after National Thermal Power Corporation." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1, 2 ] }, { "title": "e27540_p33", "sents": [ "Enron Corp., the world's top energy trader, last week told the Indian government to buy out its 65 percent stake in Dabhol.", "It's been fighting with the Maharashtra State Electricity Board, its sole customer, for seven months to recover $64 million in unpaid bills.", "``Reliance Industries is not interested in Dabhol Power Co.'' Enron's India unit that owns the 2,144-megawatt power plant.", "``Our intention is to focus on our existing businesses and the ones we have on hand.", "We have a presence in power and oil and gas.''", "Reliance owns 30 percent of BSES Ltd., a power generator in Mumbai, and gets three percent of its sales from oil exploration.", "It runs the world's seventh-biggest refinery and has won 25 oil sites the past two years.", "Reliance Not Interested in Enron India Project, Official Says 2001-08-01 02:50 (New York) Reliance Not Interested in Enron India Project, Official Says Mumbai, August 1 (Bloomberg) -- Reliance Industries Ltd., India's biggest private company, doesn't plan to buy out Enron Corp.'s local unit, Dabhol Power Co., managing director Anil Ambani said." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "Andrew Fastow", "sents": [ "Andrew Stuart Fastow (born December 22, 1961) is a convicted criminal and businessman who was the chief financial officer of Enron Corporation, an energy trading company based in Houston, Texas, until he was fired shortly before the company declared bankruptcy.", "Fastow was one of the key figures behind the complex web of off-balance-sheet special purpose entities (limited partnerships which Enron controlled) used to conceal Enron's massive losses in their quarterly balance sheets.", "By unlawfully maintaining personal stakes in these ostensibly independent ghost-entities, he was able to defraud Enron out of tens of millions of dollars.", "The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission subsequently opened an investigation into his and the company's conduct in 2001.", "Fastow served a six-year prison sentence for charges related to these acts.", "His wife, Lea Weingarten, also worked at Enron, where she was an assistant treasurer; she pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud, money laundering conspiracy and filing fraudulent income tax returns, and served jail time before early release to a halfway house." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 4 ] }, { "title": "e19594_p9", "sents": [ "Enron ousted CFO Andrew Fastow last month.", "Rating Downgraded Standard & Poor's today reduced its rating on Enron's credit- linked notes, just six days after the ratings company downgraded Enron's senior unsecured bonds.", "S&P cut four Enron credit-linked issues valued at about $1.36 billion combined to ``BBB'' from ``BBB+'' and indicated it may lower the grades again.", "Fearing that an Enron collapse might cripple the natural gas- derivatives market, oil and gas producer Apache Corp. said it backed out of most of its gas hedges, realizing a $70 million gain so far.", "``We have been unwinding our hedge positions because of uncertainty created by Enron's credit problems,'' Apache spokesman Bill Mintz said.", "The company now has only one position with Enron that it's trying to unwind.", "The Apache news was reported earlier by the Times.", "`Fragile Business' ``Their trading business is a very fragile business,'' Egan said.", "``If partners on either side get concerned, trading volumes decline, which is what is happening now.''" ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 2 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "Metropolitan Playhouse", "sents": [ "The Metropolitan Playhouse of New York is a producing theater in New York City.", "Founded in 1992, the theater is devoted to presenting plays that explore American culture, including seldom-produced American classics and new plays about American history and literature.", "Included among its best known revivals are George L. Aiken's adaptation of \"Uncle Tom's Cabin\", \"The Great Divide\" by William Vaughn Moody, \"The Drunkard\" by W. H. Smith, \"Inheritors\" by Susan Glaspell, \"The Melting Pot\" by Israel Zangwill, \"The City\" by Clyde Fitch, \"Metamora\" by John Augustus Stone, \"Sun-Up\" by Lula Vollmer, and \"The New York Idea\" by Langdon Mitchell.", "The company has also staged two 'Living Newspapers' from the Federal Theater Project: Arthur Arent's \"Power\" in 2007 and \"One-Third of a Nation\" in 2011." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] }, { "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": [ 1 ] } ]

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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, 1 ] }, { "title": "e4897_p4", "sents": [ "This new service enables you to submit instructions for both one-time and recurring distributions, as well as view any pending IRA distributions to your account.", "Take control of your IRA distributions today.", "Log into your IRA account, go to the Move Money tab, and click on \"IRA Distribution on the web.\"", "CEO Speaker Series Tuesday, October 31, 2000 4pm ET Mr. Craig Barrett President and CEO Intel Corporation Intel supplies chips, boards, systems, software, networking, communications equipment, and services that compose the \"ingredients\" of computer architecture and the Internet.", "Join Craig Barrett as he discusses the strategy in making Intel the pre-eminent supplier to the Internet Economy.", "To find out how to participate in this live webcast event, click here: http: schwab.ed4.net go t9 oct sigserv service speaker Argus Roundtable Topic: Outlook for Technology Stocks Date: Wednesday, October 25, 7pm ET Technology continues to drive the market and the economy.", "During this live video Roundtable, the Argus panel will focus on some of the highest growth opportunities in technology, including communications equipment, optical networking and Internet software." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 3 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "Central Scranton Expressway", "sents": [ "The Central Scranton Expressway is a short freeway southeast of downtown Scranton, Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania, United States.", "It runs from U.S. Route 11 (US 11) and Pennsylvania Route 307 (PA 307) at the Spruce Street Bridge over Roaring Brook near downtown east to Interstate 81 (I-81).", "It carries unsigned State Route 3022." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] }, { "title": "Interstate 81", "sents": [ "Interstate 81 (I-81) is a north–south (physically northeast–southwest) Interstate Highway in the eastern part of the United States.", "Its southern terminus is at I-40 in Dandridge, Tennessee; its northern terminus is on Wellesley Island (near Fishers Landing, New York) at the Canadian border, where the Thousand Islands Bridge connects it to Highway 401, the main Ontario freeway connecting Detroit via Toronto to Montreal.", "The major metropolitan areas that I-81 connects to include Harrisburg in Pennsylvania and Syracuse in New York." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e25200_p1", "sents": [ "Swezey works at National Renewable Energy Laboratory, which conducted the study along with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.", "Both organizations are United States Department of Energy national laboratories.", "The study does not advocate competitive markets over regulated markets, but suggests utilities in states without competition should offer their customers green products.", "\"If competitive retail markets fail to materialize, utility programs must pick up the slack,\" said Ryan Wiser of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, another co-author of the study.", "CALIFORNIA CAVEAT Green power marketing had seen success in states with retail market competition, such as in California But in the wake of California 's heavily publicized deregulation crisis, the state seems to have backed away from deregulation, and green power has been one of the victims.", "\"The California experience shows that the transition to competitive retail power markets will not be smooth,\" Wiser added, noting that at least until California makes up its mind regarding the fate of deregulation, green power programs will remain on the back-burner." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] }, { "title": "National Renewable Energy Laboratory", "sents": [ "The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), located in Golden, Colorado, specializes in renewable energy and energy efficiency research and development.", "NREL is a government-owned, contractor-operated facility, and is funded through the United States Department of Energy.", "This arrangement allows a private entity to operate the lab on behalf of the federal government.", "NREL receives funding from Congress to be applied toward research and development projects.", "NREL also performs research on photovoltaics (PV) under the National Center for Photovoltaics.", "NREL has a number of PV research capabilities including research and development, testing, and deployment.", "NREL's campus houses several facilities dedicated to PV research." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "Stephen R. Donaldson", "sents": [ "Stephen Reeder Donaldson (born May 13, 1947) is an American fantasy, science fiction and mystery novelist, most famous for \"The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant\", his ten-novel fantasy series.", "His work is characterized by psychological complexity, conceptual abstractness, moral bleakness, and the use of an arcane vocabulary, and has attracted critical praise for its \"imagination, vivid characterizations, and fast pace\".", "He earned his bachelor's degree from The College of Wooster and a Master's degree from Kent State University.", "He currently resides in New Mexico." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 3 ] }, { "title": "Albuquerque, New Mexico", "sents": [ "Albuquerque ( ; Navajo: \"Beeʼeldííl Dahsinil\" /pèːʔèltíːl tɑ̀xsɪ̀nɪ̀l/) is the most populous city in the U.S. state of New Mexico.", "The high-elevation city serves as the county seat of Bernalillo County, and it is situated in the north central part of the state, straddling the Rio Grande.", "The city population is 559,277 as of the July 1, 2016 population estimate from the United States Census Bureau, and ranks as the 32nd-largest city in the U.S.", "The Albuquerque metropolitan statistical area (or MSA) has a population of 909,906 according to the United States Census Bureau's most recently available estimate for 2015.", "Albuquerque is the 60th-largest United States metropolitan area.", "The Albuquerque MSA population includes the city of Rio Rancho, Bernalillo, Placitas, Corrales, Los Lunas, Belen, Bosque Farms, and forms part of the larger Albuquerque–Santa Fe–Las Vegas combined statistical area, with a total population of 1,171,991 as of the July 1, 2016, Census Bureau estimates." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e5486_p7", "sents": [ "Superior Court Judge George H. Wu said he would take the case under submission and issue a written ruling in less than 90 days.", "Reliant, Dynegy Inc. (DYN) and Mirant Corp. (MIR) agreed May 22 to turn over confidential documents to California Attorney General Bill Lockyer, who is investigating allegations of manipulation and criminal behavior in the state's wholesale power market.", "Reliant agreed to turn over the information, which includes bid data, as long as Lockyer's office agreed not to share it with third parties.", "Lockyer said last month that he wouldn't share the information pending a court hearing on the issue.", "-By Jason Leopold, Dow Jones Newswires; 323-658-3874; [email protected] Copyright 2000 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 1, 2, 4 ] }, { "title": "Jason Leopold", "sents": [ "Jason Leopold is an American senior investigative reporter for \"BuzzFeed\".", "He used to be an investigative reporter for \"Al Jazeera America\" and \"Vice News\".", "He worked at \"Truthout\" as a senior editor and reporter, a position he left after three years on February 19, 2008, to co-found the web-based political magazine \"The Public Record\", Leopold's profile page on \"The Public Record\" now says he is Editor-at-Large.", "Leopold returned to \"Truthout\" as Deputy Managing Editor in October 2009 and was made lead investigative reporter in 2012." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 3 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e3049_p20", "sents": [ "http: www.wellogix.com EXP Systems Names New CEO mail?", "top MENLO PARK, Calif. (VENTUREWIRE) -- EXP Systems, a provider of enter prise software, said it named Mark Wright as president and CEO.", "Mr. Wright replac es company founder, Mark Benning, in the role of CEO.", "Mr. Wright comes to the company from IBM, where he served as VP of software sales and marketing.", "He also served as executive vice president of worldwide sales for OneChem, an application service provider in the chemical industry.", "Mr. Benning will continue to serve as chairman of the company.", "EXP's product enables custome rs to connect in real time with company agents or industry professionals who c an answer questions and deliver services.", "In March, the company laid off about 25% of its staff, or about 24 employees.", "Before this most recent round of cuts, it laid off 17 people.", "The company is backed by Ask Jeeves, Bessmer Venture Partners, Bowman Capital, CMGI@Ventures, J. & W. Seligman, Maveron, meVC Draper Fisher Jurvetson, and Oracle." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 1, 3 ] }, { "title": "IBM", "sents": [ "IBM (International Business Machines Corporation) is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Armonk, New York, United States, with operations in over 170 countries.", "The company originated in 1911 as the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company (CTR) and was renamed \"International Business Machines\" in 1924." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e5289_p23", "sents": [ "Mr. Bourque will also participate in promotional appearances and charity work with the company.", "Rollingsford, New Hampshire-based 180 aceOff.com is backed by United Investors Group and has raised a Series A round of funding.", "http: www.1800faceoff.com PrintCafe Adds G4 Managing Partner to Board of Directors PITTSBURGH -- PrintCafe, a provider of Internet-based, business-to-business products and services for the printing and publishing industry, said it will add the managing partner of G4 Partners, Thomas Gill, to its board of directors.", "PrintCafe is backed by Mellon Ventures, Menlo Ventures, Olympic Venture Partners, Key Principal Partners, BancBoston Capital, and CreoScitex.", "http: www.printcafe.com Broadband Firm Cambridge Adds Analysys Founder to Board CAMBRIDGE, U.K. -- Cambridge Broadband, a developer of broadband wireless technology, said David Cleevely joined the five-member board of directors.", "Mr. Cleevely is founder of Analysys, a U.K.-based telecom and new media advising firm, and managing director of Analysys Group, the venture capital arm of Analysys." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 3 ] }, { "title": "e2933_p21", "sents": [ "ABC has raised $77 million to date from backers Ironwood, Red Rock Ventures, and Technology Crossover Ventures.", "ABC was founded in October 1997. http: www.allcovered.com Princeton eCom Buys Venture Finance Software from Intuit mail?", "top PRINCETON, N.J. (VENTUREWIRE) -- Princeton eCom, which provides ele ctronic billing and payment services to corporations and banks, said it acquired Intuit's online bill and payment service, Quicken Bill Manager, and all the outstanding shares of Venture Finance Software, a wholly owned subsidiary of publicly traded Intuit.", "Financial details of the deal were undisclosed.", "As part of the deal Intuit has the option to take a 20% equity stake in Princeton or the cash equivalent in February 2002. Princeton also said it made employment offers to the 25 employees from Intuit's Quicken division a nd plans to open an office in the vicinity of Intuit's Quicken offices in Mountain View, Calif. Princeton eCom raised $20 million in convertible debt in April from existing investors Mellon Ventures and New Century Equity Holdings." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 4 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e4740_p4", "sents": [ "NetZero, which also provides free Internet services, said it signed a non-binding agreement to acquire certain assets of Freei Networks, including its users who will be transferred to NetZero's service.", "Last week Freei said it laid off about 90 workers.", "The company is backed by Sequoia Capital and AXP Strategy Agressive Fund, an American Express fund.", "http: www.netzero.com http: www.freeinternet.com E-Commerce Firm Impresse Loses its CEO, Lays Off Workers SUNNYVALE, Calif. -- Impresse, a provider of Internet commerce services focused on commercial printing procurement, said it laid off workers following the resignation of former chief executive officer Nimish Mehta.", "Chairman Siva Kumar said he was now acting CEO and that the company had laid off an undisclosed number of workers, bringing its total number of employees back down to 150. He said the company has enough capital to last until the third quarter of 2001. Impresse is backed by Adobe, Amerindo Investment Advisors, Atlas, BancBoston Ventures, Benchmark Capital, Comdisco, Gilbert Global Equity Partners, Hambrecht & Quist Ventures, JW Seligman & Co., Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Palantir Capital, and Van Wagoner Capital Management." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 2 ] }, { "title": "Sequoia Capital", "sents": [ "Sequoia Capital is an American venture capital firm.", "The firm is located in Menlo Park, California and mainly focuses on the technology industry.", "It has backed companies that now control $1.4 trillion of the combined stock market value.", "Sequoia manages multiple investment funds including funds specific to India, Israel, and China." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "Secundus the Silent", "sents": [ "Secundus the Silent (2nd century AD) was a Cynic or Neopythagorean philosopher who lived in Athens in the early 2nd century, who had taken a vow of silence.", "An anonymous text entitled \"Life of Secundus\" (Latin: \"Vita Secundi Philosophi\" ) purports to give details of his life as well as answers to philosophical questions posed to him by the emperor Hadrian.", "The work enjoyed great popularity in the Middle Ages." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] }, { "title": "Hadrian", "sents": [ "Hadrian ( ; Latin: \"Publius Aelius Hadrianus Augustus\" ; 24 January 76 – 10 July 138) was Roman emperor from 117 to 138.", "He is known for building Hadrian's Wall, which marked the northern limit of Britannia.", "He also rebuilt the Pantheon and constructed the Temple of Venus and Roma.", "Philhellene in most of his tastes, he is considered by some to have been a humanist, and he is regarded as the third of the Five Good Emperors." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "Royal Dutch Shell", "sents": [ "Royal Dutch Shell plc (, ), commonly known as Shell, is a British–Dutch multinational oil and gas company headquartered in the Netherlands and incorporated in the United Kingdom.", "It is one of the six oil and gas \"supermajors\" and the sixth-largest company in the world measured by 2016 revenues (and the largest based in Europe).", "Shell was first in the 2013 Fortune Global 500 list of the world's largest companies; in that year its revenues were equivalent to 84% of the Netherlands' $556 billion GDP." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] }, { "title": "e11038_p13", "sents": [ "Others who have received state certification or are awaiting approval are Reliant Energy Retail Services LLC and Reliant Energy Solutions, associated with Houston-based utility Reliant; Shell Energy; AES NewEnergy Inc.; Enter gy Solutions Ltd.; Sempra Energy Solutions; and Xcel Energy.", "Oil Majors Seek Details on Saudi Gas Projects 02 15 2001 LONDON, Feb 15 (Reuters) - Western oil companies head to Saudi Arabia this weekend to meet Saudi leaders in a bid to seek reassurances about Riyadh's plans for foreign investment in the kingdom's multi-billion dollar gas sect or.", "Influential foreign minister Prince Saud al-Faisal has issued an invitation to chief executives from ExxonMobil (XOM.N), BP (BP.L), Royal Dutch Shell (RD.AS)(SHEL.L), and TotalFinaElf (TOTF.PA), industry sources said.", "The companies are keen to get more details about three huge gas projects th at could provide a foothold in the Saudi upstream sector for the first time since nationalisation in the 1970s.", "Some of the oil majors are worried about the scope of the projects and abou t some apparent resistance from state firm Saudi Aramco to their involvement in areas which the national company feels remains its territory." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 2 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "Mike Crumb", "sents": [ "Mike Crumb (born November 24, 1970) is a former Canadian football safety who played eight seasons in the Canadian Football League with the BC Lions and Toronto Argonauts.", "He played CIS football at University of Saskatchewan.", "Crumb is the older brother of former CFL player Jason Crumb.", "He was a member of the Toronto Argonauts team that won the 92nd Grey Cup." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] }, { "title": "University of Saskatchewan", "sents": [ "The University of Saskatchewan (U of S) is a Canadian public research university, founded in 1907, and located on the east side of the South Saskatchewan River in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada.", "An \"Act to establish and incorporate a University for the Province of Saskatchewan\" was passed by the provincial legislature in 1907.", "It established the provincial university on April 3, 1907 \"for the purpose of providing facilities for higher education in all its branches and enabling all persons without regard to race, creed or religion to take the fullest advantage\".", "The University of Saskatchewan is the largest education institution in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan.", "The University of Saskatchewan is one of Canada’s top research universities (based on the number of Canada Research Chairs) and is a member of the U15 Group of Canadian Research Universities (the 15 most research-intensive universities in Canada)." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "Własna", "sents": [ "Własna is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Starcza, within Częstochowa County, Silesian Voivodeship, in southern Poland.", "It lies approximately 2 km east of Starcza, 16 km south of Częstochowa, and 47 km north of the regional capital Katowice." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] }, { "title": "Gmina Starcza", "sents": [ "Gmina Starcza is a rural gmina (administrative district) in Częstochowa County, Silesian Voivodeship, in southern Poland.", "Its seat is the village of Starcza, which lies approximately 16 km south of Częstochowa and 47 km north of the regional capital Katowice." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "Entrust", "sents": [ "Entrust Inc. is a $130 million privately owned software company with 350 employees.", "Originally a spin-off from Nortel's Secure Networks division, it provides identity management security software and services in the areas of public key infrastructure (PKI), multifactor authentication, Secure Socket Layer certificates, fraud detection, digital certificates and mobile authentication.", "Headquartered in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex, the company’s largest office is in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.", "It also has offices in London, Tokyo, Washington, D.C. and other cities internationally." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1, 2 ] }, { "title": "e9986_p25", "sents": [ "http: www.aveo.com Deustche Bank Director Joins Phyve's Board of Directors NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Phyve, an Internet security and infrastructure company for the healthcare industry, said it has appointed Deutsche Bank director Thomas J. Gahan to its board of directors.", "Before joining Deutsche Bank Securities, Mr. Gahan served as a managing director at Merrill Lynch.", "Recently, Phyve, formerly Digital Medical Systems, closed a $12 million financing round that included Entrust, Innova Solutions, and individual investors.", "http: www.phyve.com ITF Optical Names Former Nortel Executive to Board MONTREAL -- ITF Optical Technologies, which develops passive photonic components, said it named Michael Unger to its board.", "Mr. Unger is the former president of Nortel's optical network business.", "The company's backers include WITSoundview Ventures, Essex Investment, Galen Investment Advisors, HRLD Venture Partners, Oppenheimer, Tyco Ventures, GTI Capital, Celtic House, Ontario Teachers Pension Plan Board, and Newbridge Networks.", "http: www.itfoptical.com Network ICE Elects Former 3Com CFO Chris Paisley to Board SAN MATEO, Calif. -- Network ICE, a provider of corporate and consumer security, said that Chris Paisley has joined its board of directors." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 2 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e1536_p2", "sents": [ "Dabhol Holders May Review India Project Shareholders of Dabhol Power, a unit of Enron of the U.S., will meet Wednesday in London to possibly discuss the future of Dabhol's 2,184-megawatt power project in India's Maharashtra state, an Enron India spokesman said Saturday.", "Enron has a 65% stake in the $3 billion project; the Maharashtra State Electricity Board owns 15%, and General Electric and Bechtel of the United States each hold a 10% stake in Dabhol.", "BRIEFLY: -- Citing market weakness, Taiwan's Chunghwa Telecom again postponed a planned United States share offering, the latest setback in efforts to privatize the company.", "The decision likely means Chunghwa will have to reapply to Taiwan's security regulator for the United States share offering.", "-- Pakistan plans to sell a further 26% stake in Pakistan Telecommunications to a private investor; bids will be due by June 30. The government will keep a 62% stake.", "-- Taiwan's central bank cut the discount and secured-loans rates by 0.125 percentage point to 4.0% and 4.375%, respectively, its fifth rate reduction in as many months." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 2, 3 ] }, { "title": "Chunghwa Telecom", "sents": [ "Chunghwa Telecom () (, ) is the largest telecommunications company in Taiwan and the incumbent mobile, PSTN and broadband carrier there.", "It has its headquarters in Zhongzheng District, Taipei on the remains of the old Taipei Prison." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e6027_p31", "sents": [ "Despite the problems, some representatives of the renewable energy industry are optimistic about its potential for growth in the future.", "\"A lot of the market is being served by rapidly aging power plants that should be replaced,\" said Jan Smutny-Jones of the Independent Energy Producers.", "\"I think we also are going to see additional demand.\"", "Moreover, state government may take more steps to encourage the renewable industry.", "The Energy Commission is proposing a goal for the incentive program that would increase the amount of power coming from renewable sources to 17 percent of the total by 2006, up from 12 percent.", "State Sen. Byron Sher, D-Stanford, has introduced a bill, SB 531, that woul d set a goal of increasing the renewable share of state power to 20 percent by 2010. SDG&E spreads word of looming blackouts By Jeff McDonald UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER July 4, 2001 While power supplies dwindled and the likelihood of blackouts loomed, San Diego Gas & Electric Co. for the first time yesterday was able to warn customers in advance that they might go dark." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 1 ] }, { "title": "e399_p0", "sents": [ "'Greetings: IEP has been responding all day to pres questions on the ISO report and filing at FERC.", "We issued the below statement and are also holding a press availability tomorrow at 1:00 p.m. Today ,s television interviews have included, Fox, ABC and NBC.?", "Thank you to those of you who have forwarded your company positions to IEP and if you would like to include anything els e additional please let me know and we will incorporate it into Jan ,s responses.?", "In addition to the below points we have been indicating that people have been playing by the rules, timing is rather coincidental, economics don ,t keep the lights on, and the alleged cost calculation the ISO has historically used do not include many fixed costs or real costs associated with running the units.?", "Once again if you have any other thoughts please forward them to me.", "Thanks!", "FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March22, 2001 Statement by Jan Smutny-Jones, Executive Director of Independent Energy Producers, In Response to Report Issued by the Independent System Operator \"More than ever, we?re looking forward to a fair and impartial hearing before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to deal with the ISO?s late st round of unsubstantiated charges." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 6 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e27540_p16", "sents": [ "Mirant does not report California results separately.", "Mirant also announced a major power plant deal in Puerto Rico, a joint venture for the Southeast and a plant construction project in Washington state.", "Mirant said it has agreed to acquire a natural gas-fueled 540- megawatt power plant in Penuelas, Puerto Rico, for $586 million from Edison Mission Energy and Enron Corp., both Texas based.", "Mirant has other holdings in the Caribbean.", "A newly acquired Jamaican utility added 2 cents per diluted share during the second quarter.", "A new power plant development could put Mirant on track to compete with its former parent, Southern Co. Mirant and Cleco Corp., a Louisiana-based power company, have announced a joint venture to develop up to 2,000 megawatts of electric generating capacity across 11 Southern states.", "The partners are already developing a power plant in Pineville, La., and Fuller announced that development of two more Southeastern plants is in the works." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 2 ] }, { "title": "Edison Mission Energy", "sents": [ "Edison Mission Energy (EME) was an independent power producer based in California, United States.", "It was owned by Edison International.", "On December 17, 2012, EME filed for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy with a proposal to transfer control of the company to holders of $3.7 billion in unsecured bonds.", "The reorganization plan was approved in March 2014 by the U.S. Bankruptcy Court.", "Under the reorganization plan, Edison Mission Energy would remain a subsidiary of Edison International, but a new trust, under the control of the former bond-holders, would contain almost all of the former assets and liabilities of EME." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 2 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "Peter Jennings Reporting", "sents": [ "Peter Jennings Reporting was a continuing series of documentaries produced and hosted by ABC News anchor Peter Jennings that aired on ABC.", "Many of these documentaries were produced by Jennings's production company, PJ Productions, and are currently distributed in DVD format by Koch Vision.", "The series debuted in 1990." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] }, { "title": "ABC News", "sents": [ "ABC News is the news division of the American Broadcasting Company (ABC), owned by the Disney Media Networks division of The Walt Disney Company.", "Its flagship program is the daily evening newscast \"ABC World News Tonight\"; other programs include morning news-talk show \"Good Morning America\", newsmagazine series \"Nightline\", \"Primetime\" and \"20/20\", and Sunday morning political affairs program \"This Week with George Stephanopolous\"." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e19731_p46", "sents": [ "SBC has already received permission to compete in the long-distance market in Texas, Kansas and Oklahoma.", "While the FCC's decision was unanimous, there was discussion on whether SBC has made its DSL high-speed Internet access service available for resale a nd if the federal law requires such resale.", "The commission will address the issue in another proceeding.", "Airline canceling 200 layoffs of pilots FORT WORTH - American Airlines Friday canceled the planned Dec. 2 layoffs of 200 pilots because military duty was extended for pilots called up on res erve and other employees took leaves.", "American laid off 386 American pilots Sept. 28 and 200 more Nov. 1, as well as 120 at TWA Airlines.", "Those were among 20,000 jobs AMR eliminated as pas senger demand fell.", "The company said it will bring employees back as demand improves.", "Southwest drops suit against Orbitz site DALLAS - Southwest Airlines Co. has agreed to drop a lawsuit that claimed O rbitz, an Internet travel site owned by five rival airlines, displayed inco rrect information about Southwest's flights and fares." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 3, 4 ] }, { "title": "American Airlines", "sents": [ "American Airlines, Inc. (AA) is an American airline headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas, within the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex.", "It is the world's largest airline when measured by fleet size, revenue, scheduled passenger-kilometers flown, and number of destinations served.", "American together with its regional partners operates an extensive international and domestic network with an average of nearly 6,700 flights per day to nearly 350 destinations in more than 50 countries." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "Loretta (album)", "sents": [ "Loretta is the thirty-first studio album by American country music singer-songwriter Loretta Lynn.", "The album was released on March 17, 1980, by MCA Records." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] }, { "title": "MCA Records", "sents": [ "MCA Records was an American-based record company owned by MCA Inc., which later gave way to the larger MCA Music Entertainment Group (now Universal Music Group), of which MCA Records was still part.", "MCA's country division, MCA Nashville, is a still active imprint of Universal Music Group Nashville." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "List of Superfund sites in New Mexico", "sents": [ "This is a list of Superfund sites in New Mexico designated under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) environmental law.", "The CERCLA federal law of 1980 authorized the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to create a list of polluted locations requiring a long-term response to clean up hazardous material contaminations.", "These locations are known as Superfund sites, and are placed on the National Priorities List (NPL).", "The NPL guides the EPA in \"determining which sites warrant further investigation\" for environmental remediation.", "As of May 16, 2017, there were sixteen Superfund sites on the National Priorities List in New Mexico.", "In addition, four other sites have been cleaned up and removed from the list." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 4 ] }, { "title": "Superfund", "sents": [ "Superfund is a United States federal government program designed to fund the cleanup of sites contaminated with hazardous substances and pollutants.", "It was established as the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 (CERCLA).", "It authorizes federal natural resource agencies, primarily the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), states and Native American tribes to recover natural resource damages caused by hazardous substances, though most states have and most often use their own versions of CERCLA.", "CERCLA created the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR).", "The EPA may identify parties responsible for hazardous substances releases to the environment (polluters) and either compel them to clean up the sites, or it may undertake the cleanup on its own using the Superfund (a trust fund) and costs recovered from polluters by referring to the U.S. Department of Justice." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "Rangan Style", "sents": [ "Rangan Style is a Kannada \"Romantic Comedy Drama\" film written and directed by Prashanth S starring Pradeep and Kannika Tiwari in the lead roles.", "This film also starring Sudeep in an important guest role and also starring Rekha Das, Sadhu Kokila, Gurukiran, Sharath Lohitashwa, Tabla Nani and others.", "Film produced by Orange brothers under the banner Orange cinemas." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] }, { "title": "Sadhu Kokila", "sents": [ "Sahaya Sheelan Shadrach (born 24 March 1966) known by his screen name Sadhu Kokila, is an Indian musician, actor, film director and producer, and an occasional screenwriter and lyricist who works in Kannada cinema.", "Having trained in music at a young age, he is today considered one of India's fastest musical keyboard players.", "He began his career as a composer before taking to acting in films, appearing mostly in comic roles.", "He has also directed ten Kannada films, the notable one being \"Raktha Kanneeru\" (2003)." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 3 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "List of Kyō no Go no Ni episodes", "sents": [ "\"Kyō no Go no Ni\", Koharu Sakuraba's debut manga, has been adapted into an OVA and an anime and has been adapted into another OVA in 2009.", "In 2006, Shinkūkan animated the OVA that was directed by Makoto Sokuza.", "Each episode of the OVA is presented in five distinct chapters except for the special.", "In 2008, the manga was readapted into an anime that was animated by Xebec, produced by Starchild Records, directed by Tsuyoshi Nagasawa, and written by Takamitsu Kouno.", "Each episode of the anime is presented in four distinct chapters except for the thirteenth episode.", "In April 2009, Kodansha announced that Xebec will produce an OVA adaptation of \"Kyō no Go no Ni\", directed again by Tsuyoshi Nagasawa and written by Takamitsu Kouno.", "The plot focuses around everyday life of students of class 5-2 and more specifically around Ryōta and his group of friends over the course of their fifth grade." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 5 ] }, { "title": "Kyō no Go no Ni", "sents": [ "Kyō no Go no Ni (今日の5の2 , Kyō no Go no Ni , lit.", "\"\"Today's 5-2\"\" or \"\"Today, in Class 5-2\"\") is the debut Japanese \"seinen\" manga series created by Koharu Sakuraba, the author of Minami-ke.", "It was originally serialized in Kodansha's Bessatsu Young Magazine from 2002 to 2003, and the twenty-two chapters were later collected together in a single bound volume along with two extra chapters and published on November 11, 2003 by Kodansha.", "The main premise of \"Kyō no Go no Ni\" is the school life of the fifth year class 5-2 (age 11-12(, focusing on an elementary-school boy named Ryōta Satō." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 2 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "Interlisp", "sents": [ "Interlisp (also seen with a variety of capitalizations) is a programming environment built around a version of the Lisp programming language.", "Interlisp development began in 1966 at Bolt, Beranek and Newman in Cambridge, Massachusetts with Lisp implemented for the DEC PDP-1 by Danny Bobrow and D. L. Murphy.", "In 1970 BBN LISP was designed, which ran on PDP-10 machines running the TENEX operating system.", "In 1973, when Danny Bobrow, Warren Teitelman and Ronald Kaplan moved from BBN to Xerox PARC, it was renamed Interlisp.", "Interlisp became a popular Lisp development tool for AI researchers at Stanford University and elsewhere in the DARPA community.", "Interlisp was notable for the integration of interactive development tools into the environment, such as a debugger, an automatic correction tool for simple errors (DWIM – \"do what I mean\"), and analysis tools." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 1, 2, 3 ] }, { "title": "BBN LISP", "sents": [ "BBN LISP (also stylized BBN-Lisp) was a dialect of the Lisp programming language by Bolt, Beranek and Newman Inc. in Cambridge, Massachusetts.", "It was based on L. Peter Deutsch's implementation of Lisp for the PDP-1 (called Basic PDP-1 LISP), which was developed from 1960 to 1964.", "Over time the language was expanded until it became its own separate dialect in 1966." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "The Happiest Girl in the World", "sents": [ "The Happiest Girl in the World is a musical with a book by Fred Saidy and Henry Mayers, lyrics by E.Y.", "Harburg, and music taken from the works of Jacques Offenbach." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] }, { "title": "Jacques Offenbach", "sents": [ "Jacques Offenbach (] ; ] ; 20 June 1819 – 5 October 1880) was a German-born French composer, cellist and impresario of the romantic period.", "He is remembered for his nearly 100 operettas of the 1850s–1870s and his uncompleted opera \"The Tales of Hoffmann\".", "He was a powerful influence on later composers of the operetta genre, particularly Johann Strauss, Jr. and Arthur Sullivan.", "His best-known works were continually revived during the 20th century, and many of his operettas continue to be staged in the 21st.", "\"The Tales of Hoffman\" remains part of the standard opera repertory." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e1420_p9", "sents": [ "- Edison International's stock closes at $11.40, down 48 cents, while stock in PG&E's parent closes up 14 cents at $9.04. - The state remains free of power alerts as reserves stay above 7 percent.", "WHAT'S NEXT: - The Assembly's Energy Oversight Subcommittee plans to resume hearings Thursday in its inquiry into California's highest-in-the-nation natural gas prices with testimony from gas companies.", "- Davis' representatives continue negotiating with Sempra, the parent company of San Diego Gas and Electric Co., to buy the utility's transmission lines.", "Davis says he expects to have an agreement within two weeks.", "- The state Public Utilities Commission will decide Thursday whether to investigate why a key block of power generators is staying off-line despite regulators' order last month that they start getting paid by the state's utilities.", "Independent Energy Producers Executive Director Jan Smutny-Jones says the generators can't afford to operate because they are still owed more than a billion dollars, and because the PUC's rates don't cover their operating costs." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 5 ] }, { "title": "e399_p0", "sents": [ "'Greetings: IEP has been responding all day to pres questions on the ISO report and filing at FERC.", "We issued the below statement and are also holding a press availability tomorrow at 1:00 p.m. Today ,s television interviews have included, Fox, ABC and NBC.?", "Thank you to those of you who have forwarded your company positions to IEP and if you would like to include anything els e additional please let me know and we will incorporate it into Jan ,s responses.?", "In addition to the below points we have been indicating that people have been playing by the rules, timing is rather coincidental, economics don ,t keep the lights on, and the alleged cost calculation the ISO has historically used do not include many fixed costs or real costs associated with running the units.?", "Once again if you have any other thoughts please forward them to me.", "Thanks!", "FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March22, 2001 Statement by Jan Smutny-Jones, Executive Director of Independent Energy Producers, In Response to Report Issued by the Independent System Operator \"More than ever, we?re looking forward to a fair and impartial hearing before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to deal with the ISO?s late st round of unsubstantiated charges." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 6 ] } ]

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[ { "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": [ 3, 4 ] }, { "title": "e10178_p30", "sents": [ "The Bush transition team staff member responsible for NTIA, James Derderian a former Republican staff director of the House Commerce Committee, couldn 't be reached for comment.", "But at his confirmation hearing for Commerce secretary earlier this month, Donald L. Evans said the Bush administration was committed to finding 3G spectrum (TR, Jan. 8).", "Industry Expresses Frustration At last week 's meeting, several industry representatives expressed frustration that they didn 't have access to data they said they needed to make recommendations on use of the 1755 -1850 MHz and 2500 -2690 MHz ba nds in time for NTIA and the FCC to consider.", "Industry representatives in NTIA-established working groups are reviewing the bands.", "The 3G initiative calls for final reports on the two bands to be released in March, with the FCC issuing an order allocating the selected spectrum in Ju ly.", "Rick Kemper, director-wireless technology and security for the Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association, said determining the cost of relocating incumbents or whether band sharing or segmentation was feasible requires information on how many systems operate in the frequencies and how they are being used." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 5 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "Dubai", "sents": [ "Dubai ( ; Arabic: دبي‎ ‎ \"Dubayy \", ] ) is the largest and most populous city in the United Arab Emirates (UAE).", "It is located on the southeast coast of the Persian Gulf and is the capital of the Emirate of Dubai, one of the seven emirates that make up the country.", "Abu Dhabi and Dubai are the only two emirates to have veto power over critical matters of national importance in the country's Federal Supreme Council.", "The city of Dubai is located on the emirate's northern coastline and heads the Dubai-Sharjah-Ajman metropolitan area.", "Dubai will host World Expo 2020." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] }, { "title": "e3052_p13", "sents": [ "The two sides aim to sign a production sharing agreement by the end of the third quarter 2001. Sayegh said they would stick to that deadline.", "\"The latest date is mid-September,\" he added.", "Qatar, which sits on the world's third largest gas reserves, is seeking to boost its natural gas exports to the Gulf region after investing billions of dollars to tap its vast gas riches.", "The gas deal would entitle DEL to develop a tract of Qatar's giant North Field and produce up to two billion cubic feet per day (cfd) of gas.", "UOG is to invest $2 billion in developing the tract, drilling and setting up production facilities.", "The remaining $1.5 billion would be invested to lay a pipeline and set up receiving terminals at Dubai's Jebel Ali and Taweelah in Abu Dhabi.", "First gas is targeted to reach the UAE capital Abu Dhabi by late 2004 or early 2005. About one billion to 1.5 billion cfd of Qatari gas would be used by utilities in Abu Dhabi and the remainder supplied to Dubai." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 4, 5 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e3052_p42", "sents": [ "State Bank of India, India's biggest commercial bank, fell 2.7 rupees, or 1.1 percent, to 233.5 rupees after earlier falling as much as 2 percent.", "ICICI Ltd., India's second-largest lender, fell as much as 7.1 percent.", "ICICI declined 4.35 rupees, or 4.9 percent, to 85.05 in recent trading on the Mumbai Stock Exchange.", "Industrial Development Bank of India Ltd., India's biggest lender, fell as much as 2.75 rupees, or 10 percent, to 24.4 rupees.", "IDBI shares dropped 2 rupees, or 7.4 percent, to 25.15 in recent trading.", "ANZ Investment's Rangnekar on Loans to Power Companies: Comment 2001-05-21 05:36 (New York) ANZ Investment's Rangnekar on Loans to Power Companies: Comment New Delhi, May 21 (Bloomberg) -- Abhay Rangnekar, director and head of project finance and corporate advisory services at ANZ Investment Bank in India, speaks on the impact on lending to power companies after Enron's Dabhol Power Co. served notice it may cancel its power supply contract with the Maharashtra State Electricity Board." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 1 ] }, { "title": "State Bank of India", "sents": [ "State Bank of India (SBI) is an Indian multinational, public sector banking and financial services company.", "It is a government-owned corporation with its headquarters in Mumbai, Maharashtra.", "On 1st April, 2017, State Bank of India, which is India's largest Bank merged with five of its Associate Banks (State Bank of Bikaner & Jaipur, State Bank of Hyderabad, State Bank of Mysore, State Bank of Patiala and State Bank of Travancore) and Bharatiya Mahila Bank with itself.", "This is the first ever large scale consolidation in the Indian Banking Industry.", "With the merger, State Bank of India will enter the league of top 50 global banks with a balance sheet size of ₹33 trillion, 278,000 employees, 420 million customers, and more than 24,000 branches and 59,000 ATMs.", "SBI's market share will increase to 22 percent from 17 per cent.", "It has 198 offices in 37 countries; 301 correspondents in 72 countries.", "The company is ranked 232nd on the \"Fortune Global 500\" list of the world's biggest corporations as of 2016." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 2 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "Patrick Mullen (ice hockey)", "sents": [ "Patrick Mullen (born May 6, 1986) is an American professional ice hockey player, currently under contract with Linköpings HC in the Swedish Hockey League (SHL).", "Mullen played one season for the Sioux Falls Stampede in the United States Hockey League (USHL) before attending the University of Denver (DU).", "He was a four-year student-athlete at DU, twice being named to the All-WCHA Academic Team and as a senior was awarded the Lowe's Senior CLASS Award.", "Following his college career he signed with the Los Angeles Kings as a free agent.", "Mullen played three season for the Kings minor league affiliate the Manchester Monarchs, before leaving as a free agent and signing with the Vancouver Canucks.", "Mullen has played both forward and defense throughout his career.", "He is the son of Hockey Hall of Famer Joe Mullen." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] }, { "title": "United States Hockey League", "sents": [ "The United States Hockey League (USHL) is the top junior ice hockey league in the United States.", "The USHL has 17 member teams located in the Midwestern United States, consisting of players who are 20 years of age and younger.", "The USHL is strictly amateur, allowing former players to compete in NCAA college hockey." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e5463_p0", "sents": [ "\"========================= VENTUREWIRE Friday, October 27, 2000 ========================= Private Company Business News Published Daily by Technologic Partners - http: technologicpartners.com ========================= Top Stories: o Broadband Provider Altrio Holds First Round for $125 Million o European Strategic Partners Raises $718.2 Million New Fund o Reports: Modo Service Closes Weeks After Launch o Commerx Co-founders Resign, Remain on Board; COO Interim CEO Advertisement DODADS, GADGETS, AND GIZMOS, OH MY!", "Our pockets are overflowing with mobile phones, PDAs, and two-way pagers, and more products -- from Web pads to picture frames -- come with Internet connections.", "Consumer Devices, one of five expert panels at Technology Outlook 2000, will sort through the clutter to determine which devices have the best chances of finding mass-market audiences: Safi Qureshy, Chairman, AudioRamp Daniel H. Rimer, Partner, The Barksdale Group Kent Savage, President & CEO, Netpliance Michael Slater, President, PhotoTablet Technology Outlook 2000: The future of pervasive computing December 4 and 5, San Francisco http: www.tpsite.com tp conf to2000 vw 001026 A VentureWire investment conference." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 2 ] }, { "title": "e3127_p20", "sents": [ "Gary Enos, executive vice president of State Street, will take a seat on the MiFund board of directors as a result of the investment.", "The company has operation s in Dublin and Paris as well as in San Francisco, the site of the firm's corporate headquarters.", "http: www.mifund.com Mobile Applications Provider ViAir Gets $15M Round Two mail?", "top SEATTLE (VENTUREWIRE) -- ViAir, a provider of mobile applications ma nagement and delivery platforms, said it raised over $15 million in its second round of financing led by Spectrum Equity Investors with participation from 3i, Mercury Interactive, and return investor The Barksdale Group.", "The company plans to spend the new funds for expansion into the European and Asian markets, as well as on product development.", "As a result of this financing, the company has appointed Victor E. Parker, a general partner at Spectrum, to its six-member board of directors, which also includes Peter Currie, the founder and partner of The Barksdale Group." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 3 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "Phil Angelides", "sents": [ "Phillip Nicholas \"Phil\" Angelides ( ; born June 12, 1953) is an American politician who was California State Treasurer and the unsuccessful Democratic nominee for Governor of California in the 2006 elections.", "Angelides served as the Chair of the Apollo Alliance and of the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] }, { "title": "e382_p4", "sents": [ "The state's idea was to sign lots of long-term deals, thus locking in supplies and bringing down spot-market prices by reducing the level of pani c buying at the last minute.", "The hope was also that by spreading out the cost of power over several years, the state could secure the electricity it need s without raising consumers' rates.", "Those hopes are unlikely to be realized.", "As reported, California state Treasurer Phil Angelides has said a planned $10 billion municipal bond issu e - the largest in United States history - will only cover the state's power purchases through September if prices stay where they are.", "The California Department of Water Resources, which is handling the state's power purchases, has already spent about $3 billion on power, a total that is growing by about $45 milli on a day.", "California lawmakers and regulators are increasingly saying consumers' rate s will have to rise to cover the cost of power bought on their behalf." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 3 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "Muhammad bin Hasan al-Baghdadi", "sents": [ "Muḥammad bin al-Ḥasan bin Muḥammad bin al-Karīm al-Baghdadi, usually called al-Baghdadi (d. 1239 AD) was the compiler of an early Arabic language cookbook of the Abbasid period, كتاب الطبيخ \"Kitab al-Ṭabīḫ\" (\"The Book of Dishes\"), written in 1226." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] }, { "title": "Arabic", "sents": [ "Arabic (Arabic: العَرَبِيَّة‎ ‎ , \"al-ʻarabiyyah \" ] or Arabic: عَرَبِيّ‎ ‎ \"ʻarabī \" ] or ] ) is a Central Semitic language complex that first emerged in Iron Age northwestern Arabia and is now the \"lingua franca\" of the Arab world.", "It is named after the Arabs, a term initially used to describe peoples living from Mesopotamia in the east to the Anti-Lebanon mountains in the west, in northwestern Arabia, and in the Sinai peninsula." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "Własna", "sents": [ "Własna is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Starcza, within Częstochowa County, Silesian Voivodeship, in southern Poland.", "It lies approximately 2 km east of Starcza, 16 km south of Częstochowa, and 47 km north of the regional capital Katowice." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] }, { "title": "Starcza", "sents": [ "Starcza is a village in Częstochowa County, Silesian Voivodeship, in southern Poland.", "It is the seat of the gmina (administrative district) called Gmina Starcza.", "It lies approximately 18 km south of Częstochowa and 45 km north of the regional capital Katowice." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e3514_p27", "sents": [ "http: www.netdelivery.com Systems Design Firm Nallatech Names Pentair Exec As Chair mail?", "top GLASGOW, Scotland (VENTUREWIRE) -- Nallatech, an electronic systems design and supply company, said it appointed Ken Lewandowski as chairman of its board of directors.", "Mr. Lewandowski currently serves as president of Pentai r Enclosures Group Europe, a division of publicly traded Pentair, a manufacturer with core businesses in the tools, water technologies, and enclosures markets.", "In December 2000 Nallatech raised $2.9 million in its first round of funding from 3i and Scottish Equity Partners.", "http: www.nallatech.com new people Converged Switching Firm Gluon Names President & CEO mail?", "top PETALUMA, Calif. (VENTUREWIRE) -- Gluon Networks, a developer of con verged switching and management systems for local service providers, said it has appointed Jo Anne Heywood Miller as president and CEO.", "Ms. Miller, who officially joins the company on June 26, replaces George Hawley, who will continue with the company as chairman of the board and will also serve as a senior advisor to the company." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 5, 6 ] }, { "title": "e3514_p28", "sents": [ "Prior to joining Gluon Networks, Ms. Miller was founding vice president of engineering for wireless and voice-over-IP firm JetCell, which was acquired by Cisco Systems in May 2000. Gluon Networ ks has a seven-member board which includes investor representatives David Brit ts of J.P. Morgan and Tom McConnell of New Enterprise Associates.", "The company is also backed by the Texas Pacific Group.", "http: www.gluonnetworks.com Enterprise Security Firm Solsoft Names New Chairman and CEO mail?", "top MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (VENTUREWIRE) -- Solsoft, a provider of a mana gement system for enterprise security, said it named Robert de Monts as chairman a nd CEO.", "Mr. de Monts previously served as president and COO of BoostWorks, an Internet infrastructure software company.", "He replaces Victor C. Langford, w ho was promoted from president and chief operating officer last October.", "A company spokesperson said Mr. Langford has joined Avaya, a Lucent spinoff, but remains a large shareholder of Solsoft." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e6252_p1", "sents": [ "The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission authorizes the ISO to set price caps but that authority is set to expire on November 15. Smutny-Jones said FERC may take a dim view of such decisions, threatening its renewal of the ISO's cap authority.", "FERC is due to issue a report on California's troubled power market on Nov. 1 and may come out with some orders aimed at rectifying some of the problems on Nov. 9. Prices skyrocketed this summer as loads continued to grow aided by a strong economy and demand struggled to keep pace.", "There have been almost no power plants built in the state during the past decade.", "Smutny-Jones, who is also executive director of the Independent Energy Producers Association, said he believes the FERC report would clear generators from any wrongdoing.", "Some have claimed there was price gouging by generators during this summer's price spikes.", "\"I think the idea that this market was raided by Texas vikings is a silly notion,\" he said, referring to the participation by some Houston-based power companies in California this year." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 3 ] }, { "title": "e97_p0", "sents": [ "'We have set up a conference call for today's meeting for those of you interested in calling in.", "It is 1-800-486-2460 The pass code is 120895 Thanks!", "Katie Kaplan Manager of State Policy Affairs Independent Energy Producers Association (916) 448-9499 --Original Message -- From: Julee Malinowski-Ball [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2001 3:26 PM To: Susan McCabe; Scott Govenar; Ron Tom; Robert Ross; Rina Venturini; Phil Isenberg; Mike Monagan; Maureen OHaren; Marie Moretti; Kassandra Gough; Jamie Parker; Hedy Govenar; DJ Smith; Delany Hunter; Chuck Cole; Bev Hansen; Anne Kelly; Fred Pownall; Mark Nobili Cc: Jean Munoz; Greg Blue; Jack Pigott; Jeff Dasovich; Joe Ronan; John Stout; Kassandra Gough; kent Palmerton; Larrea, John; Lynn Lednicky; Paula Soos; Richard Hyde; Roger Pelote; Sandi McCubbin; Stephanie Newell; Steve Ponder; Sue Mara; Jan Smutny Jones; Steven Kelley; Katie Kaplan; Chris Ellison; Doug Kerner; Andy Brown; Nam Nguyen Subject: Action Items from Today's Lobbyist Call ACTION ITEMS from today's IEP member company lobbyist conference call: AB 60x (Hertzberg) - Calpine will attempt to get a meeting with the Speaker on Monday regarding his interest in other \"California First\" avenues, and report the results to IEP." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 2 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "Waiting For My Chance to Come", "sents": [ "\"Waiting For My Chance to Come\" is a song by English folk band Noah and the Whale.", "The single served as the fourth single from the band's third studio album, \"Last Night on Earth\".", "The single was released in the United Kingdom on 12 September 2011.", "It has so far peaked to number 185 on the UK Singles Chart." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] }, { "title": "Noah and the Whale", "sents": [ "Noah and the Whale were a British indie rock & folk band from Twickenham, formed in 2006.", "The band's last line-up consisted of Charlie Fink (vocals, guitar), Tom Hobden (violin/keyboards), Matt \"Urby Whale\" Owens (bass guitar), Fred Abbott (guitar/keys), and Michael Petulla (drums).", "Doug Fink (drums), the brother of lead singer Charlie, and Laura Marling (backing vocals) were also past members of the band." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "Cruz Bustamante", "sents": [ "Cruz Miguel Bustamante (born January 4, 1953) is an American retired politician.", "He was the 45th Lieutenant Governor of California, a former Speaker of the State Assembly and a member of the Democratic Party.", "He served with Governors Gray Davis and Arnold Schwarzenegger and was succeeded by John Garamendi in 2007." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] }, { "title": "e2868_p130", "sents": [ "\"The less money in the surplus, the less money for local government.", "So local government does have an interest in state energy policy.\"", "A civil lawsuit by Lt. Gov.", "Cruz Bustamante against five out-of-state power generators accuses them of conspiring to fix prices in California's energy market.", "The companies named are Dynegy Inc., Duke Energy, Mirant Inc., Reliant Ener gy Inc. and Williams Energy Services.", "A federal lawsuit by the California Legislature against the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission accuses it of refusing to prevent price-gouging by power generators.", "It says the regulatory commission has abdicated its responsibility to assur e that power generators charge just and reasonable rates for electricity.", "The suit attempts to require energy regulators to limit the prices charged by generators, and it also calls for establishing a refund program to recover what it says are excess profits that generators have already received becau se of the commission's inaction." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 2, 3 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "Catapilla", "sents": [ "Catapilla was an English progressive rock band active in the late 1960s to early 1970s.", "They released two albums on the major record label Vertigo Records." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] }, { "title": "Vertigo Records", "sents": [ "Vertigo Records is a record company, which originated in the United Kingdom.", "It was a subsidiary of the Philips/Phonogram record label, launched in 1969 to specialise in progressive rock and other non-mainstream musical styles.", "Today it is operated by Universal Music UK." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e11016_p84", "sents": [ "Anti-Enron activists have strongly opposed the induction of Kirit Parikh an d R.K. Pachauri on the committee.", "But Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh today firmly indicated that there would be no change in the choice of members appointed on the panel.", "Kirit Parikh and Pachauri would stay on the committee, he said.", "``We have appointed the committee.", "Let it take the decision now,''he said.", "On the absence of members, Deshmukh said Parikh had told him that he would be unable to attend all meetings of the committee.", "He also said that the letter handed over to him by PWP leader N.D. Patil on amending the terms of reference of the committee had been passed on to the review committee.", "Sources said Godbole and VM Lal were briefed by MSEB chairman Vinay Bansal, secretary N Sainath and other officials today at the review meeting on the electricity board's stand on the controversy.", "Godbole refused to speak to reporters waiting for him outside the hall after the meeting." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1, 2 ] }, { "title": "Kirit Parikh", "sents": [ "Kirit S. Parikh is Emeritus Professor (on retirement as Director) and Founder Director of Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research (IGIDR), Mumbai, India.", "He has also served as Senior Economic Advisor to United Nations Development Programme from October 1997 to September 1998.", "He has been a member of the Economic Advisory Council (EAC) of the Prime Minister of India, Atal Bihari Vajpayee, and had been a member of EAC of Prime Ministers Rajiv Gandhi, V.P.Singh, Chandra Shekhar and P.V.", "Narasimha Rao." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e5899_p15", "sents": [ "The Bombay High Court gave the Maharashtra Electricity Regulatory Commission, the regulatory agency, six weeks to decide whether it has jurisdiction to settle a dispute on termination of the 7-year-old power-purchase agreement.", "Enron called the ruling positive.", "Enron owns Dabhol Power Co., which has a $3 billion power plant in Maharashtra state.", "The project's sole customer is the Maharashtra State Electricity Board, which said May 24 that it is canceling an agreement to buy power from the Dabhol plant.", "Dabhol: Lessons for FDI Swaminathan S Anklesaria Aiyar 06 27 2001 The Economic Times Copyright (C) 2001 The Economic Times; Source: World Reporter (TM) IT WILL be hard for foreign investors to look seriously at India until this (Dabhol) dispute is resolved in a satisfactory way.", "So said Alan Larson, US Under-secretary of State for business and agriculture, at the meeting of the Indo-US Business Council last week.", "Many other observers of the foreign investment scene, including Indian diplomats in Washington, say the same." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 2, 3 ] }, { "title": "Maharashtra State Electricity Board", "sents": [ "Maharashtra State Electricity Board (or MSEB) ( Marathi:महाराष्ट्र राज्य विद्युत मंडळ) is a state-owned electricity regulation board operating within the state of Maharashtra in India.", "The MSEB was formed on 20 June 1960 under Section 5 of the Electricity (Supply) Act, 1948.", "In 1998 it was the second largest electricity generating utility in India after National Thermal Power Corporation." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "Mortimer M. Lee", "sents": [ "Mortimer Montgomery Lee (May 28, 1846–) was a two-term Republican mayor of South Norwalk, Connecticut from 1894 to 1896 and from 1901 to 1902.", "He also served in the Connecticut House of Representatives from 1905 to 1907." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] }, { "title": "South Norwalk", "sents": [ "South Norwalk is a neighborhood and the Second \"Taxing District\" in Norwalk, Connecticut.", "The neighborhood was originally a settlement called 'Old Well' which became chartered as the city of 'South Norwalk' on August 18, 1870.", "The cities of Norwalk and South Norwalk were incorporated on June 6, 1913." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 2 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e553_p28", "sents": [ "Last week, SDGE formally applied to the California Public Utilities Commission for permission to tap into Southern California Edison's grid by building a 31-mile, 500,000-volt transmission line through Riverside County to Rainbow, just south of Temecula.", "The opinion of the board carries weight with the PUC.", "The proposed route for SDGE's Valley Rainbow Interconnect slices through French Valley horse ranches and crosses Temecula's scenic wine country, drawing fire from the area's vintners, residents and some politicians.", "\"I'm definitely opposed to that route,\" said Temecula City Councilman Ron Roberts.", "\"It affects everybody.\"", "The city and others opposed to the route have until April 22 to lodge protests with the PUC, which ultimately will decide whether SDGE can build the line.", "Last year, after intense lobbying by Save Southwest Riverside County, the grass-roots group opposed to the Valley Rainbow project, the Independent System Operator board required SDGE to look for alternatives to the power line, including new generating plants." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] }, { "title": "California Public Utilities Commission", "sents": [ "The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC or PUC) is a regulatory agency that regulates privately owned public utilities in the state of California, including electric power, telecommunications, natural gas and water companies.", "In addition, the CPUC regulates common carriers, including household goods movers, passenger transportation companies (like limousine services) and rail crossing safety.", "The CPUC's headquarters are located in the Civic Center district of San Francisco, and the agency has field offices in Los Angeles and Sacramento." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 2 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e2250_p0", "sents": [ "'Utilities Make Own Plans for CO2 Curbs Entergy Sets Emissions Cap As Bush Climate Policy Remains to Be Resolved Wall Street Journal, 05 04 01 California and the West Secretary of Energy, Davis Meet on United States Plan to Boost Conservation Crisis: Federal buildings and military bases, accounting for 1.5% of state's usage, will cut back.", "Los Angeles Times, 05 04 01 Calif Gov Asks 12 Generators To May 9 Energy Crisis Mtg Dow Jones, 05 04 01 Enron agrees to meet with India committee Houston Chronicle, 05 04 01 INTERVIEW:Early Resolution Seen On India Dabhol Pwr Spat Dow Jones, 05 04 01 India: Enron wants renegotiation meet rescheduled Business Line (The Hindu), 05 04 01 ENRON'S HOUSTON TEAM TO MEET RENEGOTIATING COMMITTEE Asia Pulse, 05 04 01 SALVE MAY REPRESENT FEDERAL GOVT ON ENRON NEGOTIATING COMMITTEE Asia Pulse, 05 04 01 Enron ready to take part in PPA talk The Times of India, 05 04 01 Godbole terms of reference not acceptable: DPC Business Standard, 05 04 01 Outlook: Power failure The Independent - London, 05 04 01 ScottishPower survives the blackout The Guardian, 05 04 01 April rough for merger mavens The Daily Deal, 05 04 01 Companies: European Companies The Wall Street Journal Europe, 05 04 01 Purchase should boost Ansoft Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 05 04 01 Enron's Dabhol to Meet Indian Panel Over $64 Mln Debt (Update1) Bloomberg, 05 04 01 India Gets $450 Million From World Bank to Push Power Market Bloomberg, 05 03 01 Senate special counsel said power sellers broke law Associated Press, 05 03 01 Economy Utilities Make Own Plans for CO2 Curbs Entergy Sets Emissions Cap As Bush Climate Policy Remains to Be Resolved By John J. Fialka Staff Reporter of The Wall Street Journal 05 04 2001 The Wall Street Journal A2 (Copyright (c) 2001, Dow Jones & Company, Inc.) WASHINGTON -- Some major United States utilities are beginning to step out ahead of the Bush administration on the climate-change issue, developing their own plans for curbing emissions of carbon dioxide, the man-made gas thought to be contributing to global warming." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 1 ] }, { "title": "The Times of India", "sents": [ "The Times of India (TOI) is an Indian English-language daily newspaper owned by The Times Group.", "It is the third-largest newspaper in India by circulation and largest selling English-language daily in the world according to Audit Bureau of Circulations (India).", "It is the oldest English-language newspaper in India still in circulation, with its first edition published in 1838.It is the second oldest Indian newspaper still in circulation after the Bombay Samachar.Lord Curzon the then Viceroy of India called The Times of India \"the leading paper in Asia\".", "In 1991, the BBC ranked \"The Times of India\" among the world's six best newspapers." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 2 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e3248_p1", "sents": [ "Dev.", "VP", "Zone Labs Adds Srinivasa Venkataraman as VP of Development", "Egenera Names Richard Fichera Product Strategy VP FINANCE", "Apogee Networks Names Bluestone Software Exec Craig Huke CFO", "Poindexter Systems Names Larry Levine Chief Revenue Officer", "Yodlee Adds Karen Camp as CFO, Geralyn Volk as Sales VP TECHNOLOGY", "Pixo Names Noosh Exec Larry Slotnick as Senior Eng.", "VP", "Kasenna Names ON24 Exec Rajiv Puranik Eng.", "VP OPERATIONS", "Albert-Inc Adds Execs in New York, London, and Paris", "Sphera Networks Promotes Rich Van Leeuwen to Sr. VP", "BancBoston Adds William Gemmell as Mng.", "Dir.", "of Operations", "Ensim Appoints Effendy Shahul-Hamid as Managing Director VC PERSONNEL", "Jordan Edmiston Appoints New Managing Director", "HOLD Lloyds TSB Development Capital Adds Two to Staff EXECUTIVE SEARCHES CFO-SAN DIEGO, CA SENIOR VP SALES-NY OR CALIFORNIA CFO-SILICON VALLEY AND ELSEWHERE EVP SALES AND SERVICE-SEATTLE, WA GENERAL PARTNER-SF OR NYC DIRECTOR OF PACKAGING-NEWTON, MASS DIRECTOR, PROJECT MANAGEMENT-DALLAS,TX VP SALES, COMPUTER SYSTEMS-SILICON VALLEY VP OF BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT -ENGLEWOOD, COLORADO CHIEF DEVELOPMENT OFFICER-ENGLEWOOD, COLORADO DIRECTOR OF OSS BSS SOLUTIONS-ENGLEWOOD, COLORADO EXECUTIVE VP OF SALES-ENGLEWOOD, COLORADO TOP MANAGEMENT Asera Names Former Tivoli Chief as New President & CEO mail?" ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 ] }, { "title": "e3248_p18", "sents": [ "The company recently established its Asia-Pacific headquarters in Singapore Ensim is backed by 3i Group, Amerindo Technology Advisors, Charter Growth Capital, CMEA Ventures, Epoch Partners, New Enterprise Associates, Newton Technology Partners, Onset Ventures, Presidio Venture Partners, Sumitomo, a nd Worldview Technology Partners.", "http: www.ensim.com http: www.ensim.com VC PERSONNEL Jordan Edmiston Appoints New Managing Director mail?", "top NEW YORK (VENTUREWIRE) -- The Jordan Edmiston Group, a media investment bank, announced that Roger L. Krakoff has joined the company and its affiliated venture capital fund, JEGI Capital, as managing director.", "Prior to joining Jordan Edmiston, Mr. Krakoff served as a managing director of Veron is Suhler, responsible for directing their business information and new media group.", "JEGI Capital invests in early-stage Internet, digital communications and e-commerce companies.", "http: www.jegi.com HOLD Lloyds TSB Development Capital Adds Two to Staff mail?", "top LONDON (VENTUREWIRE) -- Lloyds TSB Development Capital, the venture capita l branch of the Lloyds TSB group, said it added Candida Morley and Jonathan Caswell to its team." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 2 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e2658_p33", "sents": [ "About 60 percent of Star Fleet's business is repeat and referral.", "The recent corporate party featuring the Mae West look-alike was the fifth the company has chosen to have with Star Fleet.", "Part of Lober's initial marketing problem - which continues today - is that Houstonians just don't realize how close to the water they are.", "\"It's not like Fort Lauderdale, where water is part of the landscape,\" he said.", "\"In Houston, there's no high-visibility location to see the water, just one spot on Loop 610 that overlooks the Port of Houston.", "Even in Clear Lake, there are only one or two places when you drive around the lake that you can actually see the water.", "We don't have a San Francisco Bay or New York Harbor.", "So people have to be reminded.\"", "He also has to deal with the misconception that only the very rich can afford cruises, Lober said." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 2, 6 ] }, { "title": "New York Harbor", "sents": [ "New York Harbor, part of the Port of New York and New Jersey, is at the mouth of the Hudson River where it empties into New York Bay and into the Atlantic Ocean at the East Coast of the United States.", "It is one of the largest natural harbors in the world.", "Although the United States Board on Geographic Names does not use the term, \"New York Harbor\" has important historical, governmental, commercial, and ecological usages." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e894_p82", "sents": [ "* Davis has come to a fork in the road.", "And to quote the great Yogi Berra, \"When you come to a fork in the road, take it.\"", "One fork could lead to conciliation appeasement--maybe tripling electricity rates or borrowing tens of billions on the credit card.", "The other fork could lead to confrontation leadership.", "Mild-mannered Assemblyman Fred Keeley (D-Boulder Creek), chairman of the Energy Committee, has a bold idea: If FERC won't cap exorbitant wholesale prices, the governor should consider using his emergency power to seize contracts between electricity generators and marketers.", "He'd have to pay reasonable value,\" but it would be substantially less than the wholesale prices being inflicted on California by greedy marketers.", "This governor has immense power if he'll use it.", "So far, the public has not quit on Davis.", "But faith in him is waning.", "Recent private polls have found only 23% to 36% of people saying they'd vote today to reelect him." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 1 ] }, { "title": "Yogi Berra", "sents": [ "Lawrence Peter \"Yogi\" Berra (May 12, 1925 – September 22, 2015) was an American professional baseball catcher, who later took on the roles of manager, and coach.", "He played 19 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) (1946–63, 1965), all but the last for the New York Yankees.", "He was an 18-time All-Star, and won 10 World Series championships as a player—more than any other player in MLB history.", "Berra had a career batting average of .285, while hitting 358 home runs and 1,430 runs batted in.", "He is one of only five players to win the American League Most Valuable Player Award three times.", "He is widely regarded as one of the greatest catchers in baseball history, and was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1972." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "Nuestra Belleza Yucatán 2010", "sents": [ "Nuestra Belleza Yucatán 2010, was held at the Club Libanés in Mérida, Yucatán on July 17, 2010.", "At the conclusion of the final night of competition María Fernanda López of Mérida was crowned the winner.", "López was crowned by outgoing Nuestra Belleza Yucatán titleholder and Nuestra Belleza Mundo México 2009 Anabel Solis.", "Seven contestants competed for the title." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] }, { "title": "Mérida, Yucatán", "sents": [ "Mérida (] ) is the capital and largest city of the Mexican state of Yucatán as well as the largest city of the Yucatán Peninsula.", "It is located in the northwest part of the state, about 35 km from the Gulf of Mexico coast.", "The city is also the municipal seat of the Municipality of Mérida, which includes the city and the areas around it." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "Green Mountain Energy", "sents": [ "Green Mountain Energy Company is a United States company that offers electricity products, carbon offsets, and \"sustainable solutions\" to residential and commercial customers.", "Competitors of Green Mountain include Reliant Energy, Champion Energy, Texas Power, TXU Energy, Gexa Energy, and Direct Energy." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] }, { "title": "e19851_p17", "sents": [ "However, the threat eased after many residents followed recommendations to conserve, wholesale prices dropped and the state enjoyed an unseasonably cool summer.", "The last rolling blackouts were ordered May 8. Since January, the state has spent almost $9 billion to buy electricity and has signed at least $43 billion worth of long-term contracts that last until 2021. It also created a Consumer Power and Conservation Financing Authority, which can float $5 billion to build, buy or lease power plants.", "By creating the authority, consumer advocates said, the state moved even further from deregulation and created a government-run system that encourages renewable energy and stable rates.", "Unlike businesses, it doesn't have to answer to Wall Street.", "The state's decision to sign long-term contracts included an order that the PUC restrict direct access so the state wouldn't be stuck with a shrinking pool of people to pay for the energy it ordered.", "But by voting not to allow consumers to choose their power provider, the PUC may discourage the energy retailers that benefited from it from ever returning to the California market, said Rick Counihan, Green Mountain Energy's general manager." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 5 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e27513_p0", "sents": [ "'Enron's India Unit Says Pleased With Supreme Court Ruling Dow Jones International News, 08 06 01 INDIA: Indian top court rules in Enron's favour-companies.", "Reuters English News Service, 08 06 01 Enron Wins Indian Court Decision Over Power Dispute Arbitration Bloomberg, 08 06 01 INDIAN FM ADMITS MISTAKES OVER UNIT TRUST OF INDIA Asia Pulse, 08 06 01 India: Uncertain fate of LNG carrier Business Line (The Hindu), 08 06 01 Too Much Power?", "The utility industry's in a building boom.", "Why skeptics fear a bust.", "Barron's, 08 06 01 Software companies face uphill battle in bid to shift from one-time sales fees to monthly subscriptions Associated Press Newswires, 08 06 01 Enron's India Unit Says Pleased With Supreme Court Ruling 08 06 2001 Dow Jones International News (Copyright (c) 2001, Dow Jones & Company, Inc.) NEW DELHI -(Dow Jones)- Dabhol Power Co. said Monday it was \"extremely pleased\" with the Indian Supreme Court's ruling that asked the Bombay High Court to decide on Maharashtra Electricity Regulatory Commission's jurisdiction in settling DPC's $48 million payment dispute with Maharashtra State Electricity Board." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 4 ] }, { "title": "Maharashtra State Electricity Board", "sents": [ "Maharashtra State Electricity Board (or MSEB) ( Marathi:महाराष्ट्र राज्य विद्युत मंडळ) is a state-owned electricity regulation board operating within the state of Maharashtra in India.", "The MSEB was formed on 20 June 1960 under Section 5 of the Electricity (Supply) Act, 1948.", "In 1998 it was the second largest electricity generating utility in India after National Thermal Power Corporation." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "Kul Badam-e Nurmorad", "sents": [ "Kul Badam-e Nurmorad (Persian: كول بادام نورمراد‎ ‎ , also Romanized as Kūl Bādām-e Nūrmorād; also known as Kūl Bādām) is a village in Tarhan-e Gharbi Rural District, Tarhan District, Kuhdasht County, Lorestan Province, Iran.", "At the 2006 census, its population was 46, in 10 families." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] }, { "title": "Tarhan-e Gharbi Rural District", "sents": [ "Tarhan-e Gharbi Rural District (Persian: دهستان طرهان غربي‎ ‎ ) is a rural district (\"dehestan\") in Tarhan District, Kuhdasht County, Lorestan Province, Iran.", "At the 2006 census, its population was 8,847, in 1,703 families.", "The rural district has 22 villages." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e19579_p5", "sents": [ "On Tuesday, officials with the Milken Institute said Jeffrey K. Skilling, Enron's former chief executive officer who resigned in August, had to cancel a seminar appearance because he had to go to Washington.", "A spokesman for Mr. Skilling said he was not in Washington today, but that he was planning to answer questions from the S.E.C.", "According to a person close to the company, Enron hopes within the next week to outline publicly the various off-balance-sheet debts and related-party transactions that have drawn the attention of the S.E.C.", "Officials with other large energy companies, including Duke Energy, Dynegy Inc. and Reliant, declined comment Tuesday on whether they have had discussions about making an investment in Enron.", "A senior executive at the El Paso Corporation, the Houston natural gas giant with a market capitalization that is now three times that of Enron, said the company might be interested in acquiring assets from Enron but was unlikely to do a large transaction." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 4 ] }, { "title": "Houston", "sents": [ "Houston ( ) is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Texas and the fourth-most populous city in the United States.", "With a census-estimated 2016 population of 2.303 million within an area of 667 sqmi , it is also the largest city in the southern United States and the seat of Harris County.", "Located in Southeast Texas near the Gulf of Mexico, it is the principal city of the Greater Houston metro area, which is the fifth-most populated MSA in the United States." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e27518_p51", "sents": [ "They say they will emphasize conserving energy over drilling and mining.", "Senator John Kerry, a Massachusetts Democrat, has vowed to filibuster any energy package that includes Arctic drilling.", "``It will never pass the Senate,'' Kerry said.", "Kerry was joined in his threat by Democratic senators Joe Lieberman of Connecticut and Ron Wyden of Oregon who said they too will use procedural tactics to force advocates of drilling on Alaska's North Slope to find 60 votes in the Senate.", "``Drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is the acid test for whether there is going to be a balanced energy bill coming out of this Congress,'' Wyden said.", "The House provision would be ``kryptonite'' for any final legislation in the Senate, he said.", "Global Warming Senate Democrats, with support from some Republicans, are already advancing legislation on several fronts that would pressure the Bush administration to begin taking steps to cut greenhouse gas emissions in the United States The Senate Energy Committee approved a research and development bill that provides $4 billion over 10 years and ties future funding for science to reductions in carbon dioxide emissions." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 1, 3 ] }, { "title": "Joe Lieberman", "sents": [ "Joseph Isadore Lieberman (born February 24, 1942) is a retired American politician and attorney who was a United States Senator from Connecticut from 1989 to 2013.", "A former member of the Democratic Party, he was the party's nominee for Vice President in the 2000 election.", "Currently he is an Independent." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e10961_p45", "sents": [ "The land is part of the 410 acres held by the Navy in the area, parliamentary affairs minister Pramod Mahajan said after the Cabinet meeting.", "The land will be used by the Andaman and Nicobar administration to re-settle tribals from Car-Nicobar, Mahajan said.", "The transfer of the land is subject to the condition that the Andaman and Nicobar administration acquire 70 acres of private land co-located with the Port Blair air field for expansion of the run-way and transfer it to the Navy on a no-profit, no-loss basis.", "The 410 acres of land was given to the Indian Navy by the Andaman and Nicobar Islands free of cost and part of it at Hutbay was being used for a high frequency direction finder (hf df) station and radar station.", "The Cabinet also approved the signing of an aviation safety promotion agreement with Russia, under which both sides would conduct technical assessments to understand their standards and systems in areas such as air-worthiness, environmental testing, maintenance facilities, approval of flight operations and approval of aviation training establishments." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] }, { "title": "Pramod Mahajan", "sents": [ "Pramod Vyankatesh Mahajan (30 October 1949 – 3 May 2006) was an Indian politician from Maharashtra.", "A second-generation leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), he belonged to a group of relatively young \"technocratic\" leaders who lack a grassroots political base, although he was fairly popular in his home state.", "At the time of his death he was in a power struggle for the leadership of the BJP given the imminent retirement of its aging top brass." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "Marrying Buddha", "sents": [ "Marrying Buddha is the second novel by Chinese author Wei Hui and is a sequel to her first published novel, \"Shanghai Baby\".", "The English translation was made in 2005." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] }, { "title": "Shanghai Baby", "sents": [ "Shanghai Baby is a semi-autobiographical novel written by Chinese author Wei Hui.", "It was originally published in China in 1999.", "The English translation was published in 2001." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "Susan Banks", "sents": [ "Susan Banks is a fictional character on NBC's daytime drama \"Days of Our Lives\".", "She was played by Eileen Davidson from November 4, 1996 to April 8, 1998, and again in 2014.", "Susan is the mother of Elvis \"EJ\" DiMera, and once acted as Kristen Blake's doppelganger.", "In November 2011, it was announced that Brynn Thayer would take over the role of Susan, since Davidson was committed to \"The Young and the Restless\".", "Thayer made her appearance on December 7, 2011." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] }, { "title": "Days of Our Lives", "sents": [ "Days of Our Lives (also stylized as Days of our Lives; often abbreviated to DOOL or Days) is an American daytime soap opera broadcast on the NBC television network.", "It is one of the longest-running scripted television programs in the world, airing nearly every weekday since November 8, 1965.", "It has since been syndicated to many countries around the world.", "Until the network's closure in 2013, Soapnet rebroadcast episodes of \"Days\" on a same-day basis each weeknight at 8:00 and 10:00 p.m. (Eastern and Pacific Time).", "The series was created by husband-and-wife team Ted Corday and Betty Corday.", "Irna Phillips was a story editor for \"Days of Our Lives\" and many of the show's earliest storylines were written by William J.", "Bell.", "In February 2016, the soap received a one-year renewal through 2017, with the option of an additional year by NBC." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 4 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "Singapore", "sents": [ "Singapore ( ), officially the Republic of Singapore, sometimes referred to as the \"Lion City\", the \"Garden City\" or the \"Little Red Dot\", is a sovereign city-state in Southeast Asia.", "It lies one degree (137 km) north of the equator, at the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, with Indonesia's Riau Islands to the south.", "Singapore's territory consists of one main island along with 62 other islets.", "Since independence, extensive land reclamation has increased its total size by 23% (130 km) and its greening policy has covered the densely populated island with tropical flora, parks and gardens." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] }, { "title": "e3677_p21", "sents": [ "Burgeoning fiscal deficits have persisted for a decade and public debt at 60 percent of GDP is high, but at six percent annual growth, India is one of the fastest expanding economies in Asia.", "\"In terms of external liquidity, India is much stronger than its BB+ rating while even its public debt to GDP ratio is lower than that of some Asian nations,\" said P.K.", "Basu, chief economist for South East Asia at Credit Suisse First Boston, Singapore.", "Foreign investment has been pouring in - portfolio flows at $2.2 billion so far in 2001 are at record levels and compare with $1.56 billion for the whole of 2000 - and foreign exchange reserves are strong at $42.8 billion.", "Interest rates and yields have also dropped, with the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) adopting an aggressive easing stance this year to prop the slowing economy, and inflation is benign.", "\"The hardest initial steps are being taken and there is still a lot of inertia, but soon there will be a willing audience and reforms can progress faster,\" CARE's Nagarajan said." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 1, 2 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e8721_p32", "sents": [ "top IRVINE, Calif. (VENTUREWIRE) -- Buyproduce, a provider of IT tools and services to the perishable foods industry, said it named Kenneth R. Lally, former exxecutive vice president of worldwide sales and services at Epicor Software Corp., president and CEO.", "Mr. Lally will immediately assume the duties of interim CEO Dave Schaefer, who will resume his previous role as CFO.", "Buyproduce shifted its business model in order to offer the perishable foods industry Internet business tools and professional services.", "Buyproduce is backed by Sequoia Capital, Charter Growth Capital, Lehman Brothers, and Nassau Capital.", "http: www.buyproduce.com Online Investment Facilitation Firm Go4Equity Names CEO mail this story?", "top ZURICH, Switzerland (VENTUREWIRE) -- Go4Equity, an online platform for expansion-to-late-stage private equity transactions designed to help investors evaluate ddeals, invest, and follow the progress of their investments, said it named Paul Choffat, a board member at Go4Equity since it was founded in February 2000, as chief executive officer." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 3 ] }, { "title": "Sequoia Capital", "sents": [ "Sequoia Capital is an American venture capital firm.", "The firm is located in Menlo Park, California and mainly focuses on the technology industry.", "It has backed companies that now control $1.4 trillion of the combined stock market value.", "Sequoia manages multiple investment funds including funds specific to India, Israel, and China." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e27354_p0", "sents": [ "'The Player; Blockbuster plays hardball with Hollywood.", "Forbes Magazine, 09 03 01 INDIA: AES exit would not affect India's Orissa-official.", "Reuters English News Service, 08 21 01 India: 'Dishonouring energy contract is the main issue in India' Business Line (The Hindu), 08 21 01 Canada takes close look at business, rights code The Globe and Mail, 08 21 01 Florida's Governor Outlines New Energy-Conservation Policy KRTBN Knight-Ridder Tribune Business News: The Orlando Sentinel - Florida, 08 21 01 USA: Pacific N.W.", "states press FERC for power refunds.", "Reuters English News Service, 08 20 01 On the Cover The Player; Blockbuster plays hardball with Hollywood.", "John Gorham 09 03 2001 Forbes Magazine 60 Copyright 2001 Forbes Inc. Blockbuster is giving Hollywood a taste of its own hardball tactics.", "It was the shot heard around Hollywood: In an otherwise routine earnings conference call in July, Blockbuster ChiefExecutive Officer John Antioco casually mentioned that the 7,781-store video chain might end some of its rental revenue-sharing programs so popular with the studios." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 6 ] }, { "title": "Hollywood", "sents": [ "Hollywood ( ) is a neighborhood in the central region of Los Angeles, California.", "This ethnically diverse, densely populated neighborhood is notable as the home of the U.S. film industry, including several of its historic studios, and its name has come to be a shorthand reference for the industry and the people in it." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "George W. Bush", "sents": [ "George Walker Bush (born July 6, 1946) is an American politician who served as the 43rd President of the United States from 2001 to 2009.", "He was also the 46th Governor of Texas from 1995 to 2000.", "After graduating from Yale University in 1968 and Harvard Business School in 1975, he worked in the oil industry.", "Bush married Laura Welch in 1977 and ran unsuccessfully for the House of Representatives shortly thereafter.", "He later co-owned the Texas Rangers baseball team before defeating Ann Richards in the 1994 Texas gubernatorial election.", "Bush was elected president in 2000 after a close and controversial win over Democratic rival Al Gore, becoming the fourth president to be elected while receiving fewer popular votes than his opponent." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] }, { "title": "e3052_p8", "sents": [ "Corrections & Amplifications 05 21 2001 The Wall Street Journal A2 (Copyright (c) 2001, Dow Jones & Company, Inc.) ENRON Corp. and its employees contributed a total of $1.3 million during the 2000 presidential campaign to George W. Bush's presidential effort, the Republican Party and the presidential inauguration.", "A chart accompanying a page-one article Friday on Enron's political connections mislabeled the total amount as $1.3 billion.", "(See accompanying illustration -- WSJ May 18, 2001) Copyright 2000 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved.", "California; Letters Desk Power: Bush Plan, Davis Reactions 05 21 2001 Los Angeles Times Home Edition B-10 Copyright 2001 The Times Mirror Company Davis is spouting pure hypocrisy as he takes on Reliant Energy (May 17).", "He mentions no word of Enron, another \"gouger.\"", "Why?", "Because the state public employees' retirement system is heavily invested in Enron, and, in fact, CalPERS has a billion-dollar business deal with Enron aside from stock." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e19933_p0", "sents": [ "Please remember that we will have our regulatory global issues conference call tomorrow, 9 27, at 8:00am (CST).", "For those of you in Houston, we will be in room 4793. Dialing details are listed below: Dial-in No.", "(888) 422-7141 Host Participant Code: 203099 International Dial-in No.", "(334)832-4208 Mona Petrochko Director Government Affairs - The Americas" ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 3 ] }, { "title": "e623_p0", "sents": [ "'Western Government Affairs WEEKLY SCHEDULES For the Week of April 2 - 6, 2001 Paul Kaufman Mon 4 2 Portland OR office Tue 4 3 Portland OR office Wed 4 4 Portland OR office Thur 4 5 Portland OR office Fri 4 6 Portland OR office Sue Mara Mon 4 2 San Francisco CA office; 11 AM: IEP Regulatory Meeting (via phon e) Tue 4 3 San Francisco CA office Wed 4 4 San Francisco CA office Thur 4 5 10 AM - 12 Noon: Oversight Board meeting (may not attend); 6 - 8 PM: ISO Board Teleconference Fri 4 6 San Francisco CA office; 9 - 11 AM: ARM Meeting (via phone) Jeff Dasovich Mon 4 2 San Francisco CA office Tue 4 3 San Francisco CA office Wed 4 4 San Francisco CA office Thur 4 5 San Francisco CA office Fri 4 6 San Francisco CA office Sandi McCubbin Mon 4 2 Sacramento CA Tue 4 3 Sacramento CA Wed 4 4 Sacramento CA Thur 4 5 Sacramento CA or San Francisco CA office (TBD) Fri 4 6 Sacramento CA or San Francisco CA office (TBD) Mona Petrochko Mon 4 2 Travel to Denver CO Tue 4 3 Meet w Holland & Hart Denver CO Wed 4 4 San Francisco CA office Thur 4 5 San Francisco CA office Fri 4 6 San Francisco CA office" ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e19748_p17", "sents": [ "Enron initially said Mr. Lay would keep one-third of the planned payout and take it in shares of the combined company.", "He later decided against any severance payment after criticism by influential energy traders, who produce most of Enron's profits.", "\"In this environment, we're seeing producers putting pressure on managers and managers putting pressure on producers to ensure that their pay is in line with their performance,\" says Ira Kay, executive-compensation practice leader of pay-and-benefits consultants Watson Wyatt Worldwide in New York.", "Alan Johnson, managing director of New York pay consultants Johnson Associates, says Mr. Lay's initial intention to accept a portion of his severance represents \"the continuing trend of executives being clueless.\"", "(For the 12 months ended Aug. 31, Mr. Lay received about $70 million from exercising Enron stock options, according to disclosure reports tracked by Thomson Financial.)", "Three top executives of US Airways Group Inc., including Chief Executive Rakesh Gangwal and Chairman Stephen Wolf, passed up severance after deciding to stay at the company when a planned merger fell through." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 2 ] }, { "title": "Watson Wyatt Worldwide", "sents": [ "Watson Wyatt Worldwide, Inc. was a global consulting firm that merged in January 2010 with Towers Perrin to form Towers Watson.", "The firm's services included managing the cost and effectiveness of employee benefit programs; developing attraction, retention and reward strategies; advising pension plan sponsors and other institutions on optimal investment strategies; providing strategic and financial advice to insurance and financial service companies; and delivering related technology, outsourcing and data services.", "Its principal operating subsidiary, Watson Wyatt & Company, was a human capital consulting firm with operations in the Americas, Europe and Asia Pacific.", "Its corporate offices were in Arlington, Virginia." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 3 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "Possum Woods Conservation Area", "sents": [ "Possum Woods Conservation Area consists of 15 acre in St. Louis County, Missouri.", "It is located in the city of Kirkwood at the intersection of Interstates 44 and 270.", "It is adjacent to Emmenegger Nature Park along the Meramec River and part of the Meramec Greenway and Henry Shaw Ozark Corridor." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] }, { "title": "Emmenegger Nature Park", "sents": [ "Emmenegger Nature Park (ENP) consists of 93 acre in southwestern St. Louis County, Missouri.", "It is located in the city of Kirkwood and bordered to the west by the Meramec River, to the south by Interstate 44 and the Possum Woods Conservation Area, and to the east by Interstate 270.", "The ENP is part of the Henry Shaw Ozark Corridor.", "The Powder Valley Nature Center is directed the east of ENP across Interstate 270." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e6886_p61", "sents": [ "Many now routinely shut off lights an d computers at night, and ration air-conditioning and heating use.", "Rhonda Farber, superintendent of Campbell Union High School District, said her district may change swimming season from fall to spring to save on pool-heating costs.", "``We are doing things to try to conserve,'' Farber said ``If we use eight light bulbs, can't we use six?''", "Joe Hamilton, superintendent of the Fremont Union High School District, sai d his schools now set thermostats at 75 degrees and have installed lower-wattage fluorescent light bulbs.", "To the dismay of his staff, he said, the district has even asked teachers to remove mini-refrigerators from classrooms.", "In the San Jose Unified School District, facilities manager Carl Cimino sai d the district will try to hold the expected increase in its power bills to $700,000 this year through aggressive conservation.", "``This school district is committed to pursuing these avenues so we are les s beholden to the energy market,'' Cimino said." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 3 ] }, { "title": "Fremont Union High School District", "sents": [ "Fremont Union High School District (commonly abbreviated FUHSD) is a school district in Northern California, serving Cupertino, most of Sunnyvale and parts of San Jose, Los Altos, Saratoga, and Santa Clara.", "As of the 2013-2014 school year, it serves 10,667 students.", "The district superintendent is Polly Bove as of August 22, 2006." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1, 2 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "Teodolinda Barolini", "sents": [ "Teodolinda Barolini is the Lorenzo Da Ponte Professor of Italian at Columbia University, and has twice served as Chair of the Department of Italian (1992–2004 and 2011–2014).", "She has written on the poetry of Dante, Petrarch and Boccaccio.", "In 1998, she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for the study of Italian literature.", "From 1997 to 2003, she served as president of the Dante Society of America.", "She is the daughter of Antonio Barolini and Helen Barolini.", "In 2007, she won a Flaiano Prize in Italian Studies.", "Barolini was born December, 19, 1951 in Syracuse, NY.", "She is married to James J. Valentini, professor of Chemistry at Columbia and the sixteenth and current Dean of Columbia College." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 4 ] }, { "title": "Helen Barolini", "sents": [ "Helen Barolini (maiden name Mollica) (November 18, 1925) is an American author, born in Syracuse, New York.", "She has been included in Best American Essays for 1998.", "Her first book, the novel \"Umbertina\" (1979), was assisted by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, and in 2008 won the Premio Acerbi, a coveted Italian literary prize.", "Her anthology \"The Dream Book: An Anthology of Writings by Italian American Women\" received the American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation (1986) and the Susan Koppelman Award from the American Culture Association (1987)." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 2 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "Anointed One (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)", "sents": [ "The Anointed One is a fictional character in the television series \"Buffy the Vampire Slayer\".", "The character is played by Andrew J. Ferchland.", "His title may be a reference to Jesus, whose title \"Christ\" derives from the Greek \"christos\" meaning \"the anointed one.\"", "This could refer to his position as the \"messiah\" (another word meaning anointed) of the vampire the Master." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 2 ] }, { "title": "Jesus", "sents": [ "Jesus ( ; c. 4 BC – c. 30/33 AD), also referred to as Jesus of Nazareth and Jesus Christ, was a Jewish preacher and religious leader.", "He is the central figure of Christianity.", "Christians believe him to be the Son of God and the awaited Messiah (Christ) prophesied in the Old Testament." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e6999_p101", "sents": [ "These high prices helped saddle its own SDG&E, PG&E and Edison with billions of dollars in debt.", "PG&E and Edison also have energy-trading businesses, though they are not as lucrative as Sempra's.", "California 's 1996 deregulation law created a competitive marketplace where more than 100 energy traders now buy and sell electricity Energy traders serve as middlemen, buying power from generators and reselling them to utilities and commercial power users.", "Some middlemen are connected to firms that own power plants, but others are speculators, such as Morgan Stanley Capital Group.", "Traders may buy a block of electricity a day, month or year ahead of time a nd resell it to another broker, a city or a utility.", "In California 's energy crisis, a single electron might be traded a dozen times before it reaches a ratepayer's home.", "Sempra acquired a trading unit when it bought American International Group for $190 million in 1997. Sempra Energy Trading earned $13 million in 1998 and $19 million the next year." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 6 ] }, { "title": "e864_p9", "sents": [ "Additionally, the Sempra Energy companies have no significant credit exposure to PG&E.", "\"Sempra Energy and SDG&E have long advocated that the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission institute temporary regional wholesale price caps to help stem the financial problems such as those experienced by PG&E,\" Baum added.", "\"We are also committed to promoting and instituting comprehensive energy conservation programs for all customers to help control bills and decrease the chances of rotating outages this summer.\"", "Sempra Energy (NYSE: SRE), based in San Diego, is a Fortune 500 energy services holding company with 12,000 employees and annual revenues of $5.4 billion.", "Through its eight principal subsidiaries -- SoCalGas, SDG&E, Sempra Energy Solutions, Sempra Energy Trading, Sempra Energy International, Sempra Energy Resources, Sempra Communications and Sempra Energy Financial -- Sempra Energy serves more than 9 million customers in the United States, Europe, Canada, Mexico and South America.", "CONTACT: Sempra Energy Laura Farmer Art Larson, 877 866-2066 (Media) www.sempra.com or Karen Sedgwick, 877 736-7727 (Investors) Fitch Cuts Pacific Gas and Electric, So Cal Edison Ratings Business Wire 04 06 01, 4:57p (Copyright 2001, Business Wire) NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 6, 2001--Fitch has lowered its ratings for Pacific Gas and Electric Company (Pac Gas) senior secured and preferred securities into the default category based on the utility's voluntary filing today of a petition under Chapter 11 of the United States Bankruptcy Code." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 3, 4 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e57_p3", "sents": [ "This was coupled with a requirement that the utilities dives t themselves of their generating capacity and buy most of their electricity on the spot market, where prices have escalated dramatically.", "In hindsight all of this came together in a catastrophic scenario, so that today, California buys electricity at astronomical prices.", "We believe that FERC needs to act to help restore reasonable costs and stability to this marketplace. 8 &Additionally, this agreement addresses the escalation of natural gas transportation costs.", "Last February, FERC began a two-year experiment to li ft the cap on these costs and since that time we have seen the price of natura l gas climb 400 percent higher in Southern California. 8 Senator Feinstein added.", "Specifically, the compromise legislation would accomplish the following goa ls: Directs FERC to impose a just and reasonable wholesale rate cap, which can be load-differentiated based on supply and demand, or cost-of-service-based rates in the Western energy market (Western Systems Coordinating Council, including Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico Oregon, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming.)" ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 4 ] }, { "title": "e894_p198", "sents": [ "\"We're big boys and we should be able to handle it ourselves.\"", "But the commission's president, Loretta Lynch, disagrees.", "In a statement she issued in response to PG&E's bankruptcy announcement, she pointed out that \"neither the commission nor the governor has the power alone to change these prices because the FERC has authority over California's wholesale energy markets.\"", "The fickleness of Mother Nature Because of its razor thin electricity reserves, California is particularly at the mercy of the weather, which hasn't been kind lately.", "A drought across the Pacific Northwest has severely reduced the amount of water gushing through the hydro-electric dams that this state relies on for power in emergencies.", "And that problem could be aggravated by hot weather this summer.", "Last June, record temperatures were partly responsible for knocking out power to about 100,000 Bay Area customers.", "This summer, that could be repeated.", "Citing data from the National Weather Service, an organization that monitors power supplies throughout the region _ the Western Systems Coordinating Council _ issued a report Friday that predicted \"above-normal warmth\" across the West." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 8 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "Bain Capital", "sents": [ "Bain Capital is a global alternative investment firm based in Boston, Massachusetts.", "It specializes in private equity, venture capital and credit products.", "Bain Capital invests across a range of industry sectors and geographic regions.", "As of June 2014, the firm managed more than $75 billion of investor capital across its various investment platforms." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] }, { "title": "e1217_p14", "sents": [ "An official of 3i is expected take a seat on Brainshark's board.", "http: www.brainshark.com Evant Solutions Raises $12 Million in Second Round SAN FRANCISCO -- Evant Solutions, a provider of supply-chain services to online companies, said it raised $12 million in its second round of funding.", "Softbank Venture Capital led the round, with participation from Kline Hawkes & Co. and Bain Capital.", "Scott Russell from Softbank and Jay Ferguson from Kline Hawkes & Co. will join Evant's board.", "http: www.evant.net o French Mobile Location Service Provider Raises $15.1 Million SOPHIA-ANTIPOLIS, France -- Opteway, a multi-access mobile location service provider, raised $15.1 million in its most recent funding round.", "The round included investments from Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley Dean Witter, Part'Com, and previous investor 3i.", "The company said the funding will be used to support product launches in the last half of the year and global expansion through marketing and partnerships." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 1, 2 ] } ]