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[ { "title": "San Francisco", "sents": [ "San Francisco (initials SF) ( , Spanish for Saint Francis; Spanish: ] ), officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the cultural, commercial, and financial center of Northern California.", "The consolidated city-county covers an area of about 47.9 sqmi at the north end of the San Francisco Peninsula in the San Francisco Bay Area.", "It is the fourth-most populous city in California, and the 13th-most populous in the United States, with a 2016 census-estimated population of 870,887.", "The population is projected to reach 1 million by 2033." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 2 ] }, { "title": "e6779_p2", "sents": [ "While the region grew much faster than the rest of the state in the '90s, most of the symbols of that growth -- full employment, exploding property values, shrinking commercial vacancy rates -- are already history.", "Workers who just a short time ago were getting BMWs as a signing bonus are now being laid off.", "Statewide unemployment -- 5.1 percent last month -- is likely to increase another percentage point or more as layoffs continue in high tech and aerospace.", "Still -- and here's some good news -- Bay Area unemployment, even in Santa Clara County, which took a major hit in June, is still below the statewide rate.", "In per capita income, the San Francisco and San Jose metropolitan areas are ranked first and second nationwide, 75 percent above the national average.", "What of the longer term?", "California faces serious problems, not the least of which is the energy mess, which has exacerbated the current slowdown." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 4 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "Alex Curran", "sents": [ "Alexandra \"Alex\" Gerrard (née Curran; born 23 September 1982) is an English model, fashion columnist for the \"Daily Mirror\", and the wife of former Liverpool and England captain Steven Gerrard.", "She is described as a leading \"WAG\" of the England national football team, along with women such as Victoria Beckham and Coleen Rooney.", "In 2007, the \"Times\" referred to her, then Steven Gerrard's fiancée, as an \"\"über\"-WAG\".", "On 29 October 2007, she launched her own fragrance, named \"Alex\", which was one of the top sellers of 2007." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] }, { "title": "Daily Mirror", "sents": [ "The Daily Mirror is a British national daily tabloid newspaper founded in 1903.", "It is owned by parent company Trinity Mirror.", "From 1985 to 1987, and from 1997 to 2002, the title on its masthead was simply \"The Mirror\".", "It had an average daily print circulation of 716,923 in December 2016.", "Its Sunday sister paper is the \"Sunday Mirror\".", "Unlike other major British tabloids such as \"The Sun\" and the \"Daily Mail\", the \"Mirror\" has no separate Scottish edition - this function is performed by the \"Daily Record\" and \"Sunday Mail\" which incorporate certain stories from the \"Mirror\" that are of Scottish significance." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "Winnie-the-Pooh: The Best Bear in All the World", "sents": [ "Winnie-the-Pooh: The Best Bear in All the World is the second authorised sequel to A.", "A. Milne's original \"Winnie-the-Pooh\" stories.", "It was published on 6 October 2016 to mark the 90th anniversary of the publication of the first \"Winnie-the-Pooh\" book.", "The sequel is an anthology of four short stories, each written by a leading children's author.", "The four contributors are Paul Bright, Jeanne Willis, Kate Saunders, and Brian Sibley.", "The illustrations, in the style of the originals by E. H. Shepard, are by Mark Burgess.", "The book attracted national press coverage because of the introduction of a new character, Penguin." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 5 ] }, { "title": "E. H. Shepard", "sents": [ "Ernest Howard Shepard (10 December 1879 – 24 March 1976) was an English artist and book illustrator.", "He is known especially for illustrations of the anthropomorphic soft toy and animal characters in \"The Wind in the Willows\" by Kenneth Grahame and \"Winnie-the-Pooh\" by A.", "A. Milne." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "2016 Americas Rugby Championship squads", "sents": [ "This is a list of the complete squads for the 2016 Americas Rugby Championship, an annual rugby union tournament contested by Argentina XV, Brazil, Canada, Chile, United States and Uruguay.", "Argentina XV are the defending champions." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] }, { "title": "2016 Americas Rugby Championship", "sents": [ "The 2016 Americas Rugby Championship was the first series of the Americas Rugby Championship (sometimes informally called the \"Americas Six Nations\", a reference to Europe's Six Nations Championship), a new annual western hemisphere rugby union championship.", "It was contested by Argentina XV (Argentina's secondary national team), Canada, United States, Uruguay, Brazil, and Chile.", "All matches will be full international test matches with caps awarded, including for Argentina XV players and their opponents, but Argentina XV matches will not count to World Rankings for either team." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "Kern River", "sents": [ "The Kern River is a river in the U.S. state of California, approximately 165 mi long.", "It drains an area of the southern Sierra Nevada mountains northeast of Bakersfield.", "Fed by snowmelt near Mount Whitney, the river passes through scenic canyons in the mountains and is a popular destination for whitewater rafting and kayaking.", "It is the only major river in the Sierra Nevada mountain range that drains in a southerly direction." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] }, { "title": "e5467_p4", "sents": [ "As in their request for rehearing of the Californ ia Action order, the Customers cited evidence of &significant 8 schedulin g cuts at Wheeler Ridge.", "&Kern River should not be allowed to reserve (or sell) capacity at the Wheeler Ridge point until there is excess primary delivery point capacity at that point and sufficient downstream take-away capacity such that existing firm shippers scheduling nominations for primary poi nts are not cut, 8 they said.", "Accordingly, they urged the Commission to rejec t the tariff filing to the extent that it allows reservation or interim sale of capacity at Wheeler Ridge; and to clarify that Kern River is not allowed to withhold excess capacity at any point on its system &when there are ship pers that are willing to pay maximum tariff rates for such capacity under long-term contracts. 8 The Firm Customers failed to seek rehearing expre ssly on FERC ,s directive about Wheeler Ridge, shot back Kern River." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 1 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e11306_p10", "sents": [ "The funding will be used for marketing and acquisitions, including the acquisition of Ryan Instruments, a provider of in-transit monitoring systems.", "The round was led by Citizens Capital, with participation from GE Equity, Landmark Co-Investment Partners, Penske Company, Ascent Venture Partners, Massachusetts Technology Development, Prism Venture Partners, and Tredegar Investments.", "The purchase price of the Ryan acquisition was not disclosed.", "http: www.sensitech.com Net Ad Firm AdFlight Raises $20 Million in Second Round BELMONT, Calif. -- AdFlight, an online advertising services company, said it has secured $20 million in its second round of funding led by WorldView Technology Partners.", "Previous investors Sierra Ventures and Sienna Holdings also participated in the round.", "Ajit Shah, a partner at WorldView, will join AdFlight's board of directors as a result of this round.", "The company said the funds will be used for expansion into Europe and Asia and technology development.", "AdFlight has also received funding from Cooley Godward, Synergy, and other individual investors." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] }, { "title": "e5916_p19", "sents": [ "The company is backed by Mr. DuCoin and is currently seeking Series A venture financing.", "http: www.avidlearn.com New People o Integral Access Appoints Former Lucent Manager As CEO CHELMSFORD, Mass.", "-- Integral Access, which provides intellgient IP-based systems for integrated communications service providers, said it named Jack Cicon as president and CEO.", "Mr. Cicon most recently served as manager for Lucent Technology's multi-service access products business unit.", "Integral Access is backed by investors including Star Capital Group, Ascent Venture Partners, BancBoston Ventures, Canaan, Coral, Prism Venture Partners, St. Paul Venture Capital, and Singapore-based Ssang Yong and Technology Fund.", "http: www.integralaccess.com NotifyMe Networks Names Former Microsoft Executive as CEO SUNNYVALE, Calif. -- NotifyMe Networks, a developer of interactive alerting platforms, said it named Chuck Dietrick as chief executive officer.", "Mr. Dietrick previously served as a general manager for Microsoft and is chairman of the board at Cerebellum Software." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 4 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e5855_p65", "sents": [ "\"There is no legal requirement for notification, but we sent the letters out as a courtesy to keep the property owners informed.\"", "SAN CLEMENTE, Calif. (AP) -- A transformer explosion at the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station caused a fire outside its twin reactors but no o ne was injured, said a plant spokesman.", "Sunday's explosion posed no radiation danger to people, according to plant spokesman Ray Golden, but it did scare a few motorists who were driving by the reactors and saw a fireball rise 50 feet into the air.", "\"You don't actually know how things are hooked up, so you don't want to han g around,\" said Burt Engel, who was driving from San Diego to Los Angeles County.", "\"We moved north pretty quickly.\"", "The explosion occurred shortly after 11 a.m. and was followed by a fire tha t lasted about 40 minutes.", "The transformer was destroyed but no other equipme nt was damaged, Golden said." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 1, 2, 3 ] }, { "title": "San Diego", "sents": [ "San Diego ( , Spanish for \"Saint Didacus\"; Spanish: ] ) is a major city in California, United States.", "It is in San Diego County, on the coast of the Pacific Ocean in Southern California, approximately 120 mi south of Los Angeles and immediately adjacent to the border with Mexico." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 1 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "Tata Power", "sents": [ "The Tata Power Company Limited is an Indian electric utility company based in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India and is part of the Tata Group.", "The core business of the company is to generate, transmit and distribute electricity.", "With an installed electricity generation capacity of 10,577MW, it is India's largest integrated power company.", "At the end of August 2013, its market capitalisation was $2.74 billion (INR 182 billion)." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] }, { "title": "e19579_p72", "sents": [ "Senior bureaucrats from the Union Ministries of Finance and Power are also expected to attend, apart from State and MSEB officials.", "According to sources, Tata Power will ask for a complete debt and equity restructuring for it to buy a stake in DPC.", "This also includes asking Enron Corporation to take a 50 per cent hit on its equity in DPC.", "Enron had earlier quoted a price of $1.2 billion for its stake.", "\"The Tatas are looking at a figure of $600 million,\" sources said.", "Another matter of contention in the price quoted by Enron includes the $0.22-billion which account for \"retained earnings\" which have been added to the cost.", "According to the Tatas, they are willing to pay only $0.8 billion of these \"retained earnings\" which include Enron's much-talked about 'education charges'.", "The company will push for separate negotiations for the LNG terminal and the power plant.", "Enron had earlier said that it would not consider selling the project piecemeal and that the company picking up a stake in the project would have to buy the power plant along with LNG terminal." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 1 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e894_p118", "sents": [ "It's not unlike the telephone business that has changed so much in the last 30 years, starting from, say, the rise of MCI in the 1970s or the breakup of AT&T Corp. in 1984. Yet those years also saw the rise of whole new technologies and new companies, even as giants of another age faded and failed.", "California and California companies may yet find success in this new age of opportunity--and peril--for electricity.", "* James Flanigan can be reached at http: [email protected].", "Bright Lights Despite the severe troubles of Pacific Gas & Electric and Southern California Edison, investors have been keeping some utility stocks at or near their highs lately.", "Analysts also favor a few companies directly involved in California, such as San Diego-based Sempra Energy and AES, which owns and is upgrading power plants in the state.", "52-week Company Stock Price* High Low EPS Amer.", "Electric Power $47.34 $48.94 $29.44 $2.82 AES 43.97 72.81 35.59 1.46 Cinergy 34.05 35.25 22.06 2.56 NiSource 30.56 31.80 16.13 1.80 Sempra Energy 22.30 24.88 16.81 2.21 UniSource Energy 21.20 22.18 14.13 1.32 Utilicorp United 31.70 33.00 18.06 2.20 * Friday close Earnings per share Sources: Edward Jones & Co.; Crowell, Weedon & Co.; Bloomberg News." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 4 ] }, { "title": "Sempra Energy", "sents": [ "Sempra Energy is an American natural gas utilities holding company based in San Diego, California.", "It divides its interests into two broad categories: California utilities, including Southern California Gas Company (SoCalGas) and San Diego Gas & Electric (SDG&E); and businesses not subject to California utilities regulation, chiefly Sempra International and Sempra U.S. Gas & Power." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e2110_p38", "sents": [ "Visit the Register on the World Wide Web at http: www.ocregister.com JOURNAL-CODE: OC LOAD-DATE: May 1, 2001 14 of 58 DOCUMENTS Copyright 2001 Knight Ridder Tribune News Service Knight Ridder Tribune News Service San Jose Mercury News May 1, 2001, Tuesday SECTION: STATE AND REGIONAL NEWS KR-ACC-NO: K4846 LENGTH: 814 words HEADLINE: Williams Energy agrees to return $8 million to state BYLINE: By Brandon Bailey BODY: SAN JOSE, Calif. _ For the first time in California's current energy crisis, a power supplier accused of gouging the state's wholesale electricity market has agreed to return a slice of its profits.", "Under a consent agreement with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, Oklahoma-based Williams Energy has agreed to refund $8 million that the company earned by selling replacement power at top dollar after two generating plants in Southern California went offline for several days last spring.", "But Williams admitted no wrongdoing and FERC specifically stated that it was not finding any violation of its rules." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 1 ] }, { "title": "Southern California", "sents": [ "Southern California (colloquially known as SoCal) is a geographic and cultural region that generally comprises California's 10 southernmost counties.", "The region is traditionally described as eight counties, based on demographics and economic ties: Imperial, Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, San Diego, Santa Barbara, and Ventura.", "The more extensive 10-county definition, which includes Kern and San Luis Obispo counties, is also used and is based on historical political divisions." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e20106_p28", "sents": [ "Discussions on the sale of the equity would directly take place between Tata Power and Enron, the sources said.", "Tata Power managing director Adi Engineer confirmed his meeting with the Enron India managing director K Wade Cline in the presence of IDBI chairman PP Vora on Thursday.", "\"We have had a preliminary meeting where both the parties were apprised of the situation.", "We will have to wait for further developments,\" he added.", "According to sources, a time-bound agreement between Enron and Tata Power would provide an easy access to the various deals which Enron had struck at the time of commencment of work on the 2,184 mw Dabhol project.", "Tata Power would have to look into over 500 documents related to the Dabhol project and do the due deligence before giving a concrete offer to Enron.", "Tata Power, in a bid to expand its presence across the state, is also keen to hold hard, bargaining over the \"acceptable\" tariff of the project which would have to be restructured." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] }, { "title": "Tata Power", "sents": [ "The Tata Power Company Limited is an Indian electric utility company based in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India and is part of the Tata Group.", "The core business of the company is to generate, transmit and distribute electricity.", "With an installed electricity generation capacity of 10,577MW, it is India's largest integrated power company.", "At the end of August 2013, its market capitalisation was $2.74 billion (INR 182 billion)." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e3700_p48", "sents": [ "\"The Indian lenders will make a common cause at the lenders' meeting to prevent Enron from pulling out.", "The Indians have lent US$1.4 billion out of the project's total projected cost of US$2.9 billion.", "As IDBI's own exposure is in the excess of 20 billion rupees (US$1=INR47.01), the bank runs the risk of going deep into the red if this project goes bust,\" he said.", "Indian lenders have mutually decided to block further loans to Dabhol's second phase until an agreement was reached, Ganatra added.", "Dispute Has Unnerved Foreign Lenders The Dabhol Power project, situated in the western state of Maharashtra, will generate 2,184 megawatts of electricity when the second phase is scheduled to be completed later this year.", "Texas-based Enron has a 65% stake in DPC and is the project's largest shareholder.", "Other shareholders include the Maharashtra State Electricity Board, or MSEB, with 15%, General Electric Co. (GE) and Bechtel (X.BTL) with 10% each." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 4, 6 ] }, { "title": "Maharashtra State Electricity Board", "sents": [ "Maharashtra State Electricity Board (or MSEB) ( Marathi:महाराष्ट्र राज्य विद्युत मंडळ) is a state-owned electricity regulation board operating within the state of Maharashtra in India.", "The MSEB was formed on 20 June 1960 under Section 5 of the Electricity (Supply) Act, 1948.", "In 1998 it was the second largest electricity generating utility in India after National Thermal Power Corporation." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "Colin Powell", "sents": [ "Colin Luther Powell ( ; born April 5, 1937) is an American statesman and a retired four-star general in the United States Army.", "Powell was born in Harlem as the son of Jamaican immigrants.", "During his military career, Powell also served as National Security Advisor (1987–1989), as Commander of the U.S. Army Forces Command (1989) and as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (1989–1993), holding the latter position during the Persian Gulf War.", "Powell was the first, and so far the only, African American to serve on the Joint Chiefs of Staff.", "He was the 65th United States Secretary of State, serving under U.S. President George W. Bush from 2001 to 2005, the first African American to serve in that position." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] }, { "title": "e27368_p9", "sents": [ "A visit by America's secretary of state, Colin Powell, did nothing to resolve tensions.< font p <p <font FACE=\"verdana,geneva,arial,sans serif\" size=\"-1\" <a href=\"http: TheEconomist.s.maildart.net link_31023_6511231_2_80010922_60368779_1_3d\" See article: Remember Kashmir< a <img src=\"http: www.economist.com images dingbats e5.gif\" hspace=\"2\" width=\"17\" height=\"10\" alt=\"E+\" font p <p <font FACE=\"verdana,geneva,arial,sans serif\" size=\"-1\" <b Singapore's< b government called a general election for November 3rd.", "It could have waited until August next year.< font p <p <font FACE=\"verdana,geneva,arial,sans serif\" size=\"-1\" The prime minister of <b Japan< b Junichiro Koizumi, offered a &#8220;heartfelt apology&#8221; to South Korea for his country's actions during the occupation of the peninsula and the second world war.< font p <p <font FACE=\"verdana,geneva,arial,sans serif\" size=\"-1\" font p <br clear=\"all\" <TABLE WIDTH=\"100%\" BORDER=\"0\" CELLSPACING=\"0\" CELLPADDING=\"0\" <TR <TD BGCOLOR=\"000000\" <TABLE WIDTH=\"100%\" BORDER=\"0\" CELLSPACING=\"1\" CELLPADDING=\"3\" <TR <TD BGCOLOR=\"D6E9FF\" <FONT face=\"Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\" FONT <font color=\"cc0033\" face=\"verdana,geneva,arial,sans serif\" size=-1 <b Customer service b font <br <p <font color=\"000000\" face=\"Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"-2\" As a registered user of Economist.com, you can sign up for or cancel the text and HTML versions of this newsletter or change your e-mail address by <a href=\"http: TheEconomist.s.maildart.net link_15501_6511231_2_80010922_60368779_1_40\" amending your details< a font <p <font color=\"000000\" face=\"Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"-2\" To stop receiving this newsletter, please visit <a href=\"http: TheEconomist.s.maildart.net link_15502_6511231_2_80010922_60368779_1_41\" http: economist.com <br members email.cfm< a log in and complete the form." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e3384_p38", "sents": [ "That's more than the 40 percent of respondents who rated the utilities performance as poor in January.", "The same negative feelings held true for out-of-state energy providers.", "Fifty-five percent of respondents this month rated their performance as poo r, a noticeable increase from the 44 percent of respondents who gave them a po or rating in January.", "Specifically, those surveyed were asked to rate the job being done by officials and groups working to improve the energy situation in the state.", "The poll found that: The percentage of those surveyed who gave the state Public Utilities Commission a poor rating rose from 42 percent in January to 52 percent in May.", "41 percent of those surveyed gave the state legislature a poor rating in May, as opposed 36 percent in January.", "38 percent gave Gov.", "Gray Davis a poor rating in May for his handling of the state's energy woes, a sharp increase from 22 percent who gave him a po or rating in January." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 4, 6, 7 ] }, { "title": "Gray Davis", "sents": [ "Joseph Graham \"Gray\" Davis Jr. (born December 26, 1942) is a retired American politician and attorney who served as the 37th Governor of California from 1999 to 2003.", "A member of the Democratic Party, only a few months into his second term, in 2003 Davis was recalled and removed from office, the second state governor successfully recalled in U.S. history.", "Prior to serving as governor, Davis was chief of staff to Governor Jerry Brown (1975–81), a California State Assemblyman (1983–87), California State Controller (1987–95) and the 44th Lieutenant Governor of California (1995–99).", "Davis holds a B.A.", "in history from Stanford University and a J.D.", "from Columbia Law School.", "He was awarded a Bronze Star for his service as a Captain in the Vietnam War." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 6 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e5091_p28", "sents": [ "Cenetec plans to use the space to incubate Internet infrastructure and technology startups.", "Cenetec also operates accelerators in Boca Raton and Miami.", "Initiated by the city of Gainesville, TEC is supported by Alachua County, and was funded by grants from the U. S. Department of Commerce, Economic Development Administration, and by the private sector.", "Cenetec is backed by Rock Creek Capital, HIG Ventures, Interprise Technology Partners, and Sun Capital Partners.", "http: www.cenetec.com Discovery Capital Acquires VC Fund For $40.6 Million VANCOUVER, B.C.", "-- Discovery Capital, a Canadian provider of venture acceleration services, said it acquired private venture capital fund ExFund Technologies for $40.6 million.", "Discovery Capital already manages and holds a 12.7% equity stake in the fund.The company said the acquisition will provide new capital for growth of its investment and acceleration services.", "ExFund Technologies' portfolio includes ten public and ten private companies.", "http: www.discoverycapital.com VC Personnel o Onset Ventures Promotes Susan Mason to General Partner MENLO PARK, CA, -- Onset Ventures, which specializes in early stage investments in the information and technonolgy markets, said it promoted Susan Mason to general partner." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 8 ] }, { "title": "e3415_p15", "sents": [ "The round was led by new investor Pequot Capital Management, with participation from new investors Amerindo Investments and Woodside Fund.", "Previous investors CMEA Ventures and Onset Ventures also participated in th is round.", "The company said it plans to dedicate the new funds to product development, as well as for expansion of its engineering, marketing and sal es teams.", "Although a specific amount was not stated, CPlane's resident and CEO Nelu Mihai said that the post-money valuation for this round was \"in the $1 00 million range,\" an up round.", "As a result of this financing, Sun Micosystems has been granted a non-voting observer seat on the five-member CPlane board that includes Susan Mason, general manager of ONSET Ventures; Gordon Hull, general partner, CMEA Ventures; and Michael Karfopoulous, senior vice president, Pequot Capital Management Private Equity.", "The company has raised approximately $38 million to date from investors including CMEA Ventures, Onset Ventures, Pequot Capital Management, and Woodside Fund." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 4 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e1325_p7", "sents": [ "Thus, many of their plants are called \"peakers.\"", "On the other side are old-line utilities, represented here by the federally owned Tennessee Valley Authority.", "They operate the power lines and warn that the system could become overloaded, leading to blackouts from the imbalance.", "Near Nutbush here in Tennessee's southwest corner, natural-gas pipelines run from the Gulf Coast and intersect with some of the TVA's 17,000 miles of transmission lines, which are spread over seven Southern states.", "That is what is making Nutbush boom: It is an attractive place to connect to the grid.", "By 2003, at least 13 new merchant plants altogether will be hooked up across the TVA's system.", "There will be dozens more on neighboring systems that will also use TVA lines, says W. Terry Boston, a TVA executive vice president.", "This year, TVA expects 300,000 requests for wholesale power deals on its system, up from 250,000 last year and just 25,000 in 1996. Mr. Boston foresees a congestion problem that will make it more difficult for the utility to maintain its record of 99% reliability." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 1, 2, 3 ] }, { "title": "Tennessee Valley Authority", "sents": [ "The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) is a federally owned corporation in the United States created by congressional charter on May 18, 1933 to provide navigation, flood control, electricity generation, fertilizer manufacturing, and economic development to the Tennessee Valley, a region particularly affected by the Great Depression.", "The enterprise was a result of the efforts of Senator George W. Norris of Nebraska.", "TVA was envisioned not only as a provider, but also as a regional economic development agency that would use federal experts and electricity to rapidly modernize the region's economy and society." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "Alan Patricof", "sents": [ "Alan Patricof (born 1934) is an American investor and one of the early pioneers of the venture capital and private equity industries.", "Patricof founded Apax Partners (based on a play on Patricof's name: Alan Patricof Associates Cross (x) Border), which is today one of the largest private equity firms globally." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] }, { "title": "e7954_p0", "sents": [ "\"Dear Haas Student: New York Venture Capitalist Alan J. Patricof will be at the Haas School on Wednesday November 29, 2000 to participate in the 2000-2001 Haas Business Faculty Research Dialogue: Shakeout in Cyberspace--What's Next for the Dot Coms?", "The Business Faculty Research Dialogues are sponsored by the Clausen Center for International Business and Policy and California Management Review.", "Founded in 1969 by Alan Patricof, Patricof & Co. has helped start a number of major companies, including Apple Computer, AOL, Office Depot and bigchalk.com The firm manages over $7.0 billion on behalf of institutional investors in the US and abroad.", "Mr. Patricof will speak in the Haas School's Wells Fargo Room at 12:30 p.m. on Wednesday November 29, 2000. Refreshments will be available in the Wells Fargo Room starting at 12:00 p.m.", "Please contact Ms. Meredith LaCorte in the dean's office if you will be able to join us for the program." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e20077_p0", "sents": [ "Ray Alvarez brought to my attention today a news item indicating that the Congressional Budget Office released a report earlier this week entitled \"Causes and Lessons of the California Electricity Crisis.\"", "The 30+ page report is available on the home page of the CBO's web site at www.cbo.gov.", "I have quickly read through the summary and it is largely favorable.", "For example, the summary says: \"Much of the blame for California's electricity crisis attaches to the state's restructuring plan -- but not to its objective, electricity deregulation.", "But deregulation itself did not fail; rather, it was never achieved.\"", "\"The restructuring plan did not remove sufficient barriers on both the supply and demand sides of the market to allow competition to work -- in part because it was not designed to.\"", "\"Even without restructuring, California's electric utilities would have faced a difficult challenge in meeting the demand for power and holding down prices in 2000.\"" ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] }, { "title": "e1242_p0", "sents": [ "\"Confidential: Atty-Client Work Product.", "Here's an update on EPMI's response to the above-referenced data request.", "EPMI did enter into a multi-week contract with CDWR and I have forwarded that contract to Ron Carroll.", "EPMI may have done other trades separate from that contract.", "I am having those transactions researched.", "I expect to take up our response to FERC on a Monday morning call with Ron Carroll, Bracewell & Patterson.", "I will be asking him to prepare our response.", "Sue Mara and Ray Alvarez are scheduled to be on that call.", "If anyone else wants to participate in this response, please contact me.", "Alan Comnes\"" ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 5, 7 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "Pacific Northwest", "sents": [ "The Pacific Northwest (in the United States, commonly abbreviated as PNW), sometimes referred to as Cascadia, is a geographic region in western North America bounded by the Pacific Ocean to the west and (loosely) by the Cascade Mountain Range on the east.", "Though no agreed boundary exists, a common conception includes the U.S. states of Oregon and Washington and the Canadian province of British Columbia.", "Broader conceptions reach north into Alaska and Yukon, south into northern California and east to the Continental Divide, thus including Idaho, Western Montana, and western Wyoming.", "Idaho, Wyoming, and Montana are more accurately termed the Inland Northwest (INW), as the climate, folia, fauna, and politics are different than in the Pacific Northwest, as well as a different time zone in all but North Idaho.", "Narrower conceptions may be limited to the northwestern US or to the coastal areas west of the Cascade and Coast mountains.", "The variety of definitions can be attributed to partially overlapping commonalities of the region's history, geography, society, and other factors." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] }, { "title": "e3558_p16", "sents": [ "His sense of humor has come in handy, he said, since taking the helm of the bedeviled Department of Energy and becoming the point man in the middle of a national energy crisis.", "He has hoped for rain in the drought-stricken Pacific Northwest to power hydrogenerators, but the region remains dry.", "He has been barraged with complaints from Michigan and other Midwestern states where gasoline prices are skyrocketing.", "He has called for conservation to curb blackouts in California _ but the state faces a summer of more blackouts than ever before.", "New Yorkers haven't weighed in yet _ but Abraham is sure he'll hear from them, too, because New York City is facing possible power outages this summer.", "\"We can't create new generating machines for them,\" Abraham said, only half-joking, in an interview last week.", "\"We don't have a big generator in the basement that I can turn on and point towards California.\"" ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 1 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "La Push, Washington", "sents": [ "La Push is a small unincorporated community situated at the mouth of the Quillayute River in Clallam County, Washington, United States.", "La Push is the largest community within the Quileute Indian Reservation, which is home to the federally recognized Quileute tribe.", "La Push is known for its whale-watching and natural environment." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] }, { "title": "Quillayute River", "sents": [ "The Quillayute River (also spelled Quileute River) is a river situated on the Olympic Peninsula in Washington.", "It empties to the Pacific Ocean at La Push, Washington.", "The Quillayute River is formed by the confluence of the Bogachiel River, Calawah and the Sol Duc River.", "The Dickey River joins the Quillayute just above the river's mouth on the Pacific Ocean." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "FuelCell Energy", "sents": [ "Fuel Cell Energy, Inc. is a global fuel cell power company.", "It designs, manufactures, operates and services Direct Fuel Cell power plants (a type of molten carbonate fuel cell), to electrochemically produce electricity and heat from a range of basic fuels including natural gas and biogas.", "As the biggest publicly traded fuel cell manufacturer in the U.S., the company operates over 50 plants all over the world.", "It operates the world’s largest fuel cell park, Gyeonggi Green Energy Fuel cell park, which is located in South Korea.", "The park consists of 21 power plants providing 59 Megawatt of electricity plus district heating to a number of customers in South Korea.", "It also operates the largest fuel cell park in North America consisting of five 2.8MW power plants and a rankine cycle turbine bottoming cycle in Bridgeport, Connecticut.", "The company has two markets including ultra-clean power, based on clean natural gas, and renewable power operating on renewable biogas.", "Its customer base covers a wide range of commercial and industrial enterprises worldwide including utility companies, municipalities, universities, etc." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 3 ] }, { "title": "e3370_p0", "sents": [ "\"PROJECTS CONN. FUEL CELL PROJECT MAY FALTER ON DETAILS OF STATE FUNDING RULES May.", "24, 2001 Utility Environment Report Page 11 (Copyright 2001 McGraw-Hill, Inc.) Enron Corp., FuelCell Energy and a state agency are seeking to convince Connecticut regulators to devote about $124-million over five years to a 26-MW fuel cell project.", "But some observers doubt the project will win approval because the proposal does not meet state funding requirements and was not filed properly.", "Under a proposal to the Connecticut Department of Public Utility Control, the Connecticut Resource Recovery Authority, a quasi-public waste agency, would tap the state's conservation fund, set up under electric restructuring, to buy 12 fuel cell units from Enron North America, which distributes FuelCell Energy's equipment.", "CRRA would schedule the output from the fuel cell farms into the NEPOOL power grid and make the power available to market participants.", "If funding is granted, the project could be finished by the end of 2004, the proposal states." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 1, 4 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e8478_p3", "sents": [ "Outside Magazine Takes Equity Stake in Away.com?", "WASHINGTON (VENTUREWIRE) -- Outside Magazine, a magazine for outdoor-tra vel, said it has signed a partnership agreement with adventure travel provider Away.com, which gives Away.com exclusive rights to its editorial content.", "A sa result of the agreement, Outside's parent company, Mariah Media, will tak e an equity stake in Away.com.", "Lawrence J. Burke, Mariah's chairman and editor-in-chief, will join Away.com's board of directors.", "Away.com is backe d by Gannett, Circle T Partners, National Leisure Group, New World Ventures, and Potomac Ventures.", "http: www.away.comhttp: www.outsidemag.com Banderacom Taps Ex-Motorola, Compaq Exec as CEO AUSTIN, Texas (VENTUREWIRE) -- Banderacom, a fabless semiconduct or firm, said it has appointed Les Crudele as CEO.", "He replaces founding CE O Eric Johnson, who will remain with the company during the transition pe riod.", "Mr. Crudele held executive positions at Quantum Effect Devices, a se miconductor firm that focuses on MIPS microprocessors; Motorola's Semicond uctor Product Sector; and at Compaq Computer's Workstation Division." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 5 ] }, { "title": "Compaq", "sents": [ "Compaq (a portmanteau of Compatibility And Quality; occasionally referred to as CQ prior to its final logo) was a company founded in 1982 that developed, sold, and supported computers and related products and services.", "Compaq produced some of the first IBM PC compatible computers, being the first company to legally reverse engineer the IBM Personal Computer.", "It rose to become the largest supplier of PC systems during the 1990s before being overtaken by HP in 2001.", "Struggling to keep up in the price wars against Dell, as well as with a risky acquisition of DEC, Compaq was acquired for US$25 billion by HP in 2002.", "The Compaq brand remained in use by HP for lower-end systems until 2013 when it was discontinued." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "Aberdovey railway station", "sents": [ "Aberdovey railway station (Welsh: \"Aberdyfi\" ) serves the seaside resort of Aberdyfi in Gwynedd, Wales.", "The station is on the Cambrian Coast Railway with passenger services every 2 hours (weekday daytimes) calling at all stations between Machynlleth and Pwllheli, including Tywyn, Barmouth, Harlech and Porthmadog.", "Passengers can connect at Machynlleth for trains to Aberystwyth or Shrewsbury, Wolverhampton and Birmingham New Street." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 2 ] }, { "title": "Machynlleth", "sents": [ "Machynlleth (] ), sometimes referred to colloquially as \"Mach\", is a market town and community in Powys, Wales and within the historic boundaries of Montgomeryshire (Welsh: \"Sir Drefaldwyn\" ).", "It is in the Dyfi Valley at the intersection of the A487 and the A489 roads.", "At the 2001 Census it had a population of 2,147, rising to 2,235 in 2011." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 2 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "San Francisco Chronicle", "sents": [ "The San Francisco Chronicle is a newspaper serving primarily the San Francisco Bay Area of the U.S. state of California.", "It was founded in 1865 as \"The Daily Dramatic Chronicle\" by teenage brothers Charles de Young and Michael H. de Young.", "The paper is currently owned by the Hearst Corporation, which bought it from the de Young family in 2000.", "It is the only major daily paper covering the city and county of San Francisco." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] }, { "title": "e6559_p10", "sents": [ "Read the article here: http: www.cnn.com 2001 TECH science 06 18 wired.waves.ap index.html.", "A story on Misha Cornes, MBA 01, and Sea Power & Associates appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle on June 17. Read the article, \"Oceans of Energy Await Harnessing,\" here: http: www.sfgate.com cgibin article.cgi?file chronicle archive 2001 06 17 MN 101195.DTL.", "Sea Power & Associates is also mentioned in the Tulsa World newspaper in the story, \"Harnessing the Sea's Power\" on June17. The Haas School was featured on ABC news on June 12 in the story \"Congrats Grads, Now What?\"?", "Read the full story here: http: abcnews.go.com sections business DailyNews commencement_advice_010512.h tml.", "Reuven Lehavy was featured in the June 11 issue of Forbes magazine.?", "Read the article here: http: haas.berkeley.edu ~lehavy ForbesJune-6-2001BLMT2.pdf.", "The study co-authored by Brett Trueman and Reuven Lehavy was mentioned in the following publications: The Denver Post on June 17: http: www.denverpost.com Stories 0,1002,33%257E47425,00.html The Industry Standard on June 18: http: www.thestandard.com article 0,1902,27208,00.html The Financial News on June 18 The Sydney Morning Herald on June 19: http: www.smh.com.au news 0106 19 text biztech12.html The San Francisco Business Times on July 3: http: sanfrancisco.bcentral.com sanfrancisco stories 2001 07 02 newscolumn7.h tml?t=printable The New York Times on July 1 Severin Borenstein, the E.T." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 1 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "The Economic Times", "sents": [ "The Economic Times is an English-language, Indian daily newspaper published by the Bennett, Coleman & Co. Ltd.. First published in 1961, it is the world's second-most widely read English-language business newspaper, after the \"Wall Street Journal\", with a readership of over 800,000.", "\"The Economic Times\" is published simultaneously from 12 cities—Mumbai, Bangalore, Delhi, Chennai, Kolkata, Lucknow, Hyderabad, Jaipur, Ahmedabad, Nagpur, Chandigarh, and Pune." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] }, { "title": "e6080_p0", "sents": [ "'LME Base Metals:Aluminum Ends Officials Dn On Fresh Sales Dow Jones Commodities Service, 07 06 01 ENTERPRISE INTERVIEW: India's salesman to the investing world AsiaWeek, 07 06 01 India: Dabhol delay: RCF turns to BG Business Line (The Hindu), 7 06 01 `Reduce government debt by Rs 2000 crore The Economic Times, 07 06 01 RCF plans to ink supply pact with British Gas Business Standard, 07 06 01 Economics fuels power solution in California Price relief gains political support Chicago Tribune, 07 06 01 COMPANY NEWS ENERGY PROVIDER IS PLANNING TWO ACQUISITIONS The New York Times, 07 06 01 Business Brief -- NewPower Holdings Inc.: Division to Acquire Assets Of AES's Power Direct Unit The Wall Street Journal, 07 06 01 Regional: Enron in talks with Gulf LNG producers Middle East Economic Digest, 07 06 2001 News Highlights: Chang Hwa Bk 1H Pretax Pft NT$1.46B Dow Jones International News, 07 06 01 Dabhol Project Vexes Foreign Firms If Enron's Dispute in India Isn't Resolved, Other Investments Could Suffer Regulators and Courts Throw in a New Twist The Asian Wall Street Journal, 07 06 01 Enron May Spin Off Enron Wind Unit This Year, Reuters Reports Bloomberg, 07 06 01 Davis Appeals Order to Release Calif. Power Contracts (Update2) Bloomberg, 07 06 01 NewPower to Acquire Customers From AES and DTE Energy (Update2) Bloomberg, 07 06 01 LME Base Metals:Aluminum Ends Officials Dn On Fresh Sales 07 06 2001 Dow Jones Commodities Service (Copyright (c) 2001, Dow Jones & Company, Inc.) LONDON -(Dow Jones)- London Metal Exchange three-month aluminum ended officials lower Friday from Thursday's late kerb, on heavy fresh speculator selling in Asian trade and an unexpected stock build, dealers said." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e2041_p2", "sents": [ "Bradford Brooks, director, Digital Content Services, participated on a panel titled,\"Broadband Super Session -The Dawning of a New Era in Communications.\"", "Bradford discussed EBS' EOD activities and our views on the critical factors for success.", "The EBS boot h was appropriately themed Entertainment On-Demand: We Jumped First.", "And Delivered.", "TEXAS CYCLING TRADITION CONTINUES The Texas MS 150 is a two-day, noncompetitive cycling event from Houston to Austin that raises funds to fight the devastating effects of multiple sclerosis.", "This challenging ride took place last weekend and attracted more that 9,000 cyclists and 2,000 volunteers.", "Since 1998, Enron has been the nation's top fundraiser.", "This year, the team expects to exceed its goa l of $550,000. Hats off to EBS cyclists and volunteers!", "Rene Bosono Greg Branan Shalesh Ganjoo Brian Haufrect Brian Hoskins Jan Johnson Robert Kolosvary Scott Manuel Michele Nezi Marvin Zachary McCarroll Kellie Metcalf Nicole Palczer Tracy Pursifull Mark Santikos Eddie Sera Mike Sheedy Kenneth Shulklapper Erik Simpson Felicia Solis Davis Thames Matthew Thorn Jason Wade Rebecca Watkins Ron Williams Russell Woody THE 2001 MS WALK & ROLL While some EBS employees were biking their way from Houston to Austin for multiple sclerosis, co-workers in Portland were pounding the pavement for the same cause." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 8 ] }, { "title": "Brian Hoskins", "sents": [ "Sir Brian John Hoskins CBE FRS, (born 17 May 1945) is a British dynamical meteorologist and climatologist based at the Imperial College London and the University of Reading.", "A mathematician by training, his research has focused on understanding atmospheric motion from the scale of fronts to that of the Earth, using a range of theoretical and numerical models.", "He is perhaps best known for his work on the mathematical theory of extratropical cyclones and frontogenesis, particularly through the use of potential vorticity.", "He has also produced research across many areas of meteorology, including the Indian monsoon and global warming, recently contributing to the Stern review and the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e20247_p40", "sents": [ "Energy is shifted around the state through a high-voltage transmission system.", "The upshot would be that PG&E customers would pay the department 14 cents a kilowatt hour for electricity By contrast, customers of No.", "2 utility Southern California Edison Co., a unit of Edison International, Rosemead, Calif., would pay 10 cents a kilowatt hour.", "SoCal Edison also has been financially weakened by California 's energy crisis, and is awaiting passage of a bill in the state legislature that would give it cash in exchange for its transmission and other assets.", "Copyright (c) 2001 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved.", "California 's PUC Approves Some Agreements, But All is Not Go on Power Sale By Deborah Finestone 09 07 2001 The Bond Buyer Page 48 Copyright (c) 2001 Thomson Financial, Inc. All Rights Reserved.", "SAN FRANCISCO -- The California Public Utilities Commission yesterday narrowly approved three utility servicing agreements that need to be in place before the state Department of Water Resources can begin its planned October sale of $12.5 billion in power purchase revenue bonds." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 1, 2 ] }, { "title": "e529_p31", "sents": [ "In San Francisco on Tuesday, the California Public Utilities Commission unanimously approved electricity rate increases of up to 46 percent to try to head off blackouts this summer by keeping the state's two biggest utilities from going under.", "When California officials set up deregulation they allowed the price of wholesale electricity to rise but capped the amount companies could charge customers, Skilling said.", "SoCal Edison and Pacific Gas & Electric say they have lost more than $13 billion since last summer because they haven't been able to pass on the high cost of wholesale electricity.", "Skilling said Texans are in a much better position and shouldn't worry that their state's deregulation would be like the California experience.", "\"California, they just put together a crazy system,\" Skilling said in his first public comments since becoming the Houston-based company's chief executive officer in February.", "\"The markets in California are the most regulated markets in North America today." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 2 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "Gary Weiss", "sents": [ "Gary Weiss is an American investigative journalist, columnist and author of two books that critically examine the ethics and morality of Wall Street.", "He was also a contributing editor for \"Condé Nast Portfolio\".", "His \"Businessweek\" articles exposed organized crime on Wall Street and the Salomon Brothers bond trading scandal in the 1990s, and more recently he has covered the 2008 financial crisis and its aftermath.", "Weiss is co-founder of The Mideast Reporter." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1, 3 ] }, { "title": "e1728_p0", "sents": [ "\"A team of folks (see attendee list below) will be conducting a California planning session next Tuesday and Wednesday.", "We would like for you to come and spend about 30 to 45 minutes giving them your view of what you think the potential is for your area for the California market for the next 0 - 6 months and opportunities you think would be worth pursuing there.", "Assistants could get back to me with times when your manager is available to address the group.", "I'll build an agenda based on everyone's feedback.", "Mark Bernstein and Jeff Golden Cogeneration and distributed generation Don Black (and yr invitee) Power and gas positions and products going forward David Gilleland California DSM and DG monies made available by SB 5X and AB 29X Eric Melvin Power quality Jim Steffes (w Dasovich and McCubbin) Regulatory update (rules, regulations, risks, plans) Gary Weiss and Mark Dobler IAM book Jim Wood Commodity products Richard Zdunkewicz DSM or labor-related products Here are the meeting details: Date: Tuesday and Wednesday - May 1 and 2, 2001 Place: Conference Room 872 Attendees: Dennis Benevides Lamar Frazier Doug Huth Tom Riley Mike Smith and Andy Wu (pls attend as much as you can) Marty Sunde Dirk vanUlden Jim Wright Thank you.\"" ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 4 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e3554_p12", "sents": [ "They regularly bus students from across Spain to their wind parks, some of which have become tourist attractions.", "Compare this with the haphazard patchwork of windmills cropping up down south in Andalusia, home to one of the country's first wind parks -- the sprawling installation of low-power windmills planted in Tarifa in 1992. In 1997, wind-power developers presented some 65 projects to the regional government.", "But Andalusia had no overall plan for exploiting the region's wind-swept coasts and inland hilltops.", "The region had no plan to oversee wind-power development, and no uniform criteria for installing or removing windmills.", "In the end, about 20 wind parks were approved with little thought to how much total energy they would generate for the region or how they would cumulatively affect the environment.", "The result: Trucks and cranes have chewed up many pristine areas, leaving behind 45-meter-high towers and concrete-block substations.", "Yet wind power still generates less than 1% of Andalusia's electricity." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 1 ] }, { "title": "Tarifa", "sents": [ "Tarifa is a small town in the province of Cádiz, Andalusia, on the southernmost coast of mainland Spain.", "It is primarily known as one of the world's most popular destinations for wind sports.", "The town is located on the Costa de la Luz (\"coast of light\") and across the Straits of Gibraltar facing Morocco." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 2 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "Kinlock, Mississippi", "sents": [ "Kinlock is an unincorporated community located in Sunflower County, Mississippi, near the Sunflower County/Washington County border.", "Kinlock is approximately 12 mi south of Indianola and 8 mi southwest of Inverness." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] }, { "title": "Inverness", "sents": [ "Inverness ( ; from the Scottish Gaelic: \"Inbhir Nis\" ] , meaning \"Mouth of the River Ness\") is a city in the Scottish Highlands.", "It is the administrative centre for the Highland council area, and is regarded as the capital of the Highlands.", "Inverness lies near two important battle sites: the 11th-century battle of Blàr nam Fèinne against Norway which took place on The Aird and the 18th-century Battle of Culloden which took place on Culloden Moor.", "It is the northernmost city in the United Kingdom and lies within the Great Glen (Gleann Mòr) at its north-eastern extremity where the River Ness enters the Moray Firth.", "At the latest, a settlement was established by the 6th century with the first royal charter being granted by Dabíd mac Maíl Choluim (King David I) in the 12th century.", "The Gaelic king Mac Bethad Mac Findláich (MacBeth) whose 11th-century killing of King Duncan was immortalised in Shakespeare's largely fictionalized play \"Macbeth\", held a castle within the city where he ruled as Mormaer of Moray and Ross." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 3 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "Scottish Power", "sents": [ "ScottishPower Ltd. is a vertically integrated energy company with its headquarters in Glasgow, Scotland.", "It was once a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index but, in 2006, it became a subsidiary of the Spanish utility Iberdrola." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] }, { "title": "e2381_p13", "sents": [ "Yet analysts and investors say they are looking for more details of the company's overall growth strategy from Mr. Russell, who took over as chief executive last month, and other managers.", "The toll from months of drift, is evident, they said.", "Indeed, despite its efforts to chart a new road, Scottish Power appears to be reluctant to acknowledge the failure of some of its noncore ventures.", "Mr. Russell said his company remains \"supportive\" of Thus, which reported an annual loss of GBP 21.4 million this week, and has no plans to unload its remaining 50% stake in the company.", "Similarly, he said, Scottish Power hasn't yet made a final decision to dispose of Southern Water -- which has cut costs under its Scottish parent but is increasingly unable to cover its capital expenditure -- although he said the company had received \"a number of offers\" from potential buyers.", "Although he declined to identify any of the bidders, Italian energy company Enel SpA has confirmed its interest." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 3 ] } ]

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[ { "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 ] }, { "title": "e2933_p22", "sents": [ "The company has raised over $104 million from BT Investment Partners; Bottomline Technologies; Mellon Ventures; New Century Equity Holdings, which owns 42.5% of the firm; SG Capital P!", "artners; and Terra Lycos Ventures.", "http: www.princetonecom.com Net Printing Products Firm PrintCafe Buys Assets of Impresse mail?", "top PITTSBURGH (VENTUREWIRE) -- printCafe, which provides Internet-based business-to-business products and services for the printing and publishing industry, announced it has acquired all of the intellectual property assets of Impresse, a provider of Internet commerce services focused on commercial printing procurement that has gone bankrupt, for an undisclosed amount.", "printCafe purchased the assets from Sherwood Partners, a technology busines s advisory firm, that is the assignee of Impresse's assets for the benefit of its creditors.", "Last October, following the resignation of its CEO Nimish Mehta, Impresse laid of an undisclosed number of employees.", "Impresse, which has since shut down, was funded 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 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e1463_p0", "sents": [ "'Edison Won't Accept Changes To Calif Rescue Deal -Exec Updated: Thursday, April 19, 2001 05:40 PM?ET By Jason Leopold Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES NEW YORK (Dow Jones)--Edison International (EIX, news, msgs) unit Southern California Edison isn't willing to modify the rescue agreement it reached last week with the state in order to convince lawmakers to support the plan, a senior Edison International executive told Dow Jones Newswires Thursday.", "On Wednesday, Gov.", "Gray Davis, in a meeting with Senate Democrats, said he was willing to consider amendments to the proposal, which has been criticized by Republicans and Democrats as a utility bailout at consumers' expense.", "The Edison executive, however, warned against tinkering.", "\"This has been negotiated to the hilt,\" the executive said.", "\"The MOU, as negotiated is a balanced deal.", "The negotiated agreement we entered into with the governor is no different than the agreement in principle\" reached in late February.", "The terms of the deal, signed last week by Davis and Edison International Chief Executive John Bryson, call for the state to buy Southern California Edison's 12,000 miles of transmission lines for $2.76 billion and allow the utility to issue bonds backed by ratepayers so it can recoup $5.5 billion in unrecovered power costs." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] }, { "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": "e3153_p153", "sents": [ "They are now engaging somewhat, because they're so concerned about the situation out there, Judy.", "WOODRUFF: David, the report, the Mitchell report, suggesting that the Israelis more responsible here, or at least that they have more to do in order to get things back on the peace track than the Palestinians?", "ENSOR: The report is very even-handed.", "It doesn't blame either side for the situation.", "It, for example, does not blame Ariel Sharon's visit to the Temple Mount for the following Intifada, Intifada II it's been called.", "But it says that there needs to be a series of actions by both sides to bring down the tensions, and if you look at the list of what it's asking for, there are more steps that the Israelis would have to take than the Palestinians.", "WOODRUFF: And David, why is it that the administration is saying at this point that it is not prepared to get back in -- in a -- in a day-to-day way, in an energetically involved way the way the Clinton administration was?" ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 1, 2, 3, 4 ] }, { "title": "Temple Mount", "sents": [ "The Temple Mount (Hebrew: הַר הַבַּיִת‎ ‎ , \"Har HaBáyit\", \"Mount of the House [of God, i.e.", "the Temple]\"), known to Muslims as the Haram esh-Sharif (Arabic: الحرم الشريف‎ ‎ , \"al-Ḥaram al-Šarīf\", \"the Noble Sanctuary\", or الحرم القدسي الشريف , \"al-Ḥaram al-Qudsī al-Šarīf\", \"the Noble Sanctuary of Jerusalem\"), a hill located in the Old City of Jerusalem, is one of the most important religious sites in the world.", "It has been venerated as a holy site for thousands of years by Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.", "The present site is dominated by three monumental structures from the early Umayyad period: the al-Aqsa Mosque, the Dome of the Rock and the Dome of the Chain, as well as four minarets.", "Herodian walls and gates with additions dating back to the late Byzantine and early Islamic periods cut through the flanks of the Mount.", "Currently it can be reached through eleven gates, ten reserved for Muslims and one for non-Muslims, with guard posts of Israeli police in the vicinity of each." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 3 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e19748_p27", "sents": [ "\"Houston already was the energy capital of the world.", "This just proves it,\" said Mark Baxter, director of the Maguire Energy Institute at Southern Methodist University in Dallas.", "\"All the major players are in Houston and Houston can accommodate the employee growth base,\" he said.", "\"It is easier to conduct the business in the Houston market because not only are all the major companies there, all the support is in Houston as well.\"", "The dlrs 15.6 billion deal announced Sunday that would create the nation's third largest oil producer may mean more prestige for Houston, even though the nation's two largest oil companies - Irving-based ExxonMobil and San Francisco-based ChevronTexaco - have their headquarters located elsewhere, each has thousands of employees working in the nation's fourth-largest city.", "It all began with the 1901 Spindletop strike in southeast Texas when oilmen discovered that much of the continental United States' vast oil resources lay beneath Texas soil." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 1 ] }, { "title": "Southern Methodist University", "sents": [ "Southern Methodist University (SMU) is a private research university in Dallas, University Park, and Highland Park, Texas.", "Founded in 1911 by the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, SMU operates satellite campuses in Plano, Texas, and Taos, New Mexico.", "SMU is owned by the South Central Jurisdiction of the United Methodist Church.", "Of the university's 11,643 students, 6,411 are undergraduates." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e5036_p6", "sents": [ "At the conference in Portland, most of the panelists did not openly criticize McCullough's analysis, but implicitly disputed his conclusions by attributing higher prices and the presumed exercise of market power to a very real shortage of electricity generating capacity among the Western states.", "Low hydroelectric production in the Pacific Northwest and high temperatures in the Southwest were blamed for limiting California's ability to import electricity.", "Others said state and federal regulators, along with market participants themselves, won't really know what happened until more experts look at hard market information that is in short supply.", "Ron Eachus, the chairman of the Oregon Public Utilities Commission, said market information is routinely withheld from regulators, the public and buyers of electricity, but is shared among power generators and trading companies.", "\"If the market is sharing it with themselves, but not us, I don't buy that,\" Eachus said.", "Tim Belden is the vice president of West Trading for Enron North America, the largest marketer and trader of electricity in the world." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 1 ] }, { "title": "Pacific Northwest", "sents": [ "The Pacific Northwest (in the United States, commonly abbreviated as PNW), sometimes referred to as Cascadia, is a geographic region in western North America bounded by the Pacific Ocean to the west and (loosely) by the Cascade Mountain Range on the east.", "Though no agreed boundary exists, a common conception includes the U.S. states of Oregon and Washington and the Canadian province of British Columbia.", "Broader conceptions reach north into Alaska and Yukon, south into northern California and east to the Continental Divide, thus including Idaho, Western Montana, and western Wyoming.", "Idaho, Wyoming, and Montana are more accurately termed the Inland Northwest (INW), as the climate, folia, fauna, and politics are different than in the Pacific Northwest, as well as a different time zone in all but North Idaho.", "Narrower conceptions may be limited to the northwestern US or to the coastal areas west of the Cascade and Coast mountains.", "The variety of definitions can be attributed to partially overlapping commonalities of the region's history, geography, society, and other factors." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e2204_p33", "sents": [ "Mitsui O.S.K.Lines-NYKK Line-KKK Line-SCI consortium which recently bagged the shipping contract from Petronet LNG Ltd also, has placed an order with Daewoo Shipbuilding Yard to construct two LNG tankers of 1,38,000 cubic metre capacity each at $ 185 million per vessel.", "This phase witnessed LNG building prices go down substantially, but has since started picking up.", "Our Bureau India: Bank of America to invest $50 m more in India 05 03 2001 Business Line (The Hindu) Copyright (C) 2001 Kasturi & Sons Ltd (KSL); Source: World Reporter (TM) - Asia Intelligence Wire MUMBAI, May 2. BANK of America plans to invest around $50 million (Rs 235 crore) to expand its business in India in the next two years, according to Mr Viswavir Ahuja, who took over as Country Manager of the bank in India from May 1. \"We have already obtained FIPB and RBI clearance and the first installment of $10.5 million will be brought in shortly,\" Mr Ahuja said." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 2 ] }, { "title": "Bank of America", "sents": [ "Bank of America Corporation (abbreviated as BofA) is a multinational banking and financial services corporation headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina.", "It is ranked 2nd on the list of largest banks in the United States by assets.", "As of 2016, Bank of America was the 26th largest company in the United States by total revenue.", "In 2016, it was ranked #11 on the Forbes Magazine Global 2000 list of largest companies in the world." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 2 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "Uncommon Friends of the 20th Century", "sents": [ "Uncommon Friends of the 20th Century is a 1999 documentary film on Florida businessman James D. Newton and the relationships he enjoyed with five key historic figures: Thomas A. Edison, Charles Lindbergh, Henry Ford, Harvey Firestone and Alexis Carrel.", "The film, which was directed by first-time filmmaker John Biffar and narrated by Walter Cronkite, included interviews with Newton (who was 94 years old at the time of production), archival footage and dramatic re-enactments." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] }, { "title": "Alexis Carrel", "sents": [ "Alexis Carrel (] ; 28 June 1873 – 5 November 1944) was a French surgeon and biologist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1912 for pioneering vascular suturing techniques.", "He invented the first perfusion pump with Charles A. Lindbergh opening the way to organ transplantation.", "Like many intellectuals of his time, he promoted eugenics." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e2750_p115", "sents": [ "State legislators seeking alternate ways to save SCE Sacramento - California legislators are proposing alternatives to Gov.", "Gray Davis' plan to save Southern California Edison from bankruptcy.", "\"If we want Edison to continue as a utility serving Southern California, someone has to step in,\" said Paul Smith, chief of staff to Democratic Assemblyman John Dutra.", "\"There's no way the current agreement gets through this place.\"", "Edison is nearly insolvent because of soaring wholesale-power rates and a deregulated market that temporarily froze consumer prices.", "Edison agreed to sell power lines to the state for $2.7 billion and the right to issue $2 billion in bonds in a rescue pact negotiated by Davis's advisers.", "Reuters, Bloomberg News and Associated Press contributed to this report.", "Gas supplier faces charges of price fixing Hearings explore allegations that El Paso Corp. inflated rates for gas sold in California.", "May 15, 2001 By KATE BERRY The Orange County Register California's largest natural gas supplier, El Paso Corp., faced allegations Monday in Washington and Sacramento that it wielded its market power to manipulate natural gas prices in California." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1, 6 ] }, { "title": "Associated Press", "sents": [ "The Associated Press (AP) is an American multinational nonprofit news agency headquartered in New York City that operates as a cooperative, unincorporated association.", "The AP is owned by its contributing newspapers and radio and television stations in the United States, all of which contribute stories to the AP and use material written by its staff journalists." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "University of California", "sents": [ "The University of California (UC) is a public university system in the U.S. state of California.", "Under the California Master Plan for Higher Education, the University of California is a part of the state's three-system public higher education plan, which also include the California State University system and the California Community Colleges System." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] }, { "title": "e4386_p2", "sents": [ "Similarly, should you wish to purchase 5 conference tickets and make a charitable contribution of $4000, we will designate you as a Conference Sponsor.", "You are very welcome to purchase as many additional tickets as you wish.", "The Summit Conference on Electricity: Deregulation, Reregulation, or What?", "University of California's Goldman School of Public Policy, Competition Policy Center, and Energy Institute are hosting an energy summit on policy options to remedy problems with electricity de-regulation.", "The summit will take place this November 13, from 12:30-6PM, on the UC Berkeley Clark Kerr campus in Berkeley, CA.", "The focus, and the audience, will be national but heavily informed and influenced by the California crisis.", "The conference will evaluate at a high level (1) the wisdom of deregulation and (2) how the many pitfalls encountered so far can be avoided and remedied.", "The university will convene an open, honest and reasoned exchange between high level decision-makers from various perspectives: industry, regulators, consumers, legislators, academics, and market and system operators." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 3 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e3049_p7", "sents": [ "The company announced last we ek it laid off 158 employees from its 240 member staff, attributed to a lack of available capital rather than problems with the company's business model.Th e spokesperson said the company will continue offering its services to its current customers' services and has not made any additional layoffs.", "An OnSite spokesperson said the bankruptcy and layoffs did not affect the company's Canadian unit, OnSite Access Canada Holdings, a joint venture wit h Oxford Properties.", "OnSite Access' b!", "ackers include AT&T Ventures, Crosspoi nt Venture Partners, Frontline Capital Group, J.P. Morgan Capital, Microsoft, Spectrum Equity Investors.", "http: www.onsiteaccess.com InnovationsKapital Closes Fund 3 at $116 Million mail?", "top STOCKHOLM (VENTUREWIRE) -- Swedish venture capital firm InnovationsK apital said it closed new fund InnKap 3 at EUR 132 million ($116 million), exceedi ng the original target of $105.6 million.", "Previous limited partners in InnovationsKapital, including Bure Equity, European Investment Fund, Merita and SEB, subscribed to more than half of the fund." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 6 ] }, { "title": "Bure Equity", "sents": [ "Bure Equity was established in 1992 as a result of the decision to dismantle the Swedish government owned Employees Fund, a socialist version of a SWF.", "The fund was listed on the local stock market in 1993 and subsequently sold to the private sector." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "Nam Nguyen", "sents": [ "Nam Nguyen (born May 20, 1998) is a Canadian figure skater.", "He is the 2014 World Junior champion, 2014 Skate America bronze medalist and 2015 Canadian national champion." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] }, { "title": "e25835_p0", "sents": [ "--Original Message -- From: Dan Douglass [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2001 10:30 PM To: Vicki Sandler; Tamara Johnson; Mara, Susan; Steve Huhman; Roger Pelote; Rob Nichol; Randy Hickok; Nam Nguyen; Jim Crossen; Dasovich, Jeff; Janie Mollon; Jack Pigott; Greg Blue; George Vaughn; Gary Ackerman; Ed Cazalet; Denice Cazalet Purdum; Curtis Kebler; Curt Hatton; Corby Gardiner; Charles Miessner; Carolyn Baker; Bill Ross; Karen Shea; Max Bulk; ARM Subject: TURN Comments on DWR Decision As you know, a draft decision was issued a few days ago by ALJ Pulsiver regarding the DWR revenue requirement.", "Attached are TURN's comments.", "The introduction gives a cogent summary of the consumer group's view of DWR's demands: \"TURN continues to believe that CDWR has grossly inflated its revenue requirement by billions of dollars through the use of extremely high gas prices and ridiculously high ancillary service costs that are unrelated to current market conditions.", "We understand that CDWR has the right under the Water Code to completely ignore consumer interests, recognize that it has done so in this case, and have come to expect that the Department will continue to do so." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1, 2 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "San Francisco", "sents": [ "San Francisco (initials SF) ( , Spanish for Saint Francis; Spanish: ] ), officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the cultural, commercial, and financial center of Northern California.", "The consolidated city-county covers an area of about 47.9 sqmi at the north end of the San Francisco Peninsula in the San Francisco Bay Area.", "It is the fourth-most populous city in California, and the 13th-most populous in the United States, with a 2016 census-estimated population of 870,887.", "The population is projected to reach 1 million by 2033." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 2 ] }, { "title": "e1060_p33", "sents": [ "\"We've stabilized one of the utilities and are negotiating with another one,\" said Steve Maviglio, a spokesman for the governor.", "\"This puts us in a strong position to buy the rest.\"", "In Edison's case, the lines will be leased back to the utility for a nominal fee.", "Maviglio said the state will file a petition with Bankruptcy Judge Dennis Montali informing him of California's interest in purchasing PG&E's transmission network, should Montali begin selling the utility's assets to pay off creditors.", "\"Since it's one of their largest assets, we think it's a likely candidate,\" Maviglio said.", "But even if Davis succeeds in acquiring the thousands of miles of power lines of all three utilities, what then?", "\"There is a notion that the state will control a government-owned power grid and somehow we will all be better off,\" said Harry Snyder, senior advocate at Consumers Union in San Francisco.", "However, he said the power lines may end up being little more than \"a hard asset that makes it look like we weren't just giving cash away for nothing.\"" ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 6 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e213_p2", "sents": [ "\"This hesitancy in a crisis will cost California's economy tens of billions of dollars during the next 20 years.\"", "The state has spent more than $3 billion since January buying power in the spot market.", "Davis has asked lawmakers for another $500 million from the general fund to continue buying power.", "If the $500 million is granted, the state's commitment to power purchases will surpass $4 billion.", "State Sen. Steve Peace, D-El Cajon, however, said last week that the Senate Budget Committee will deny further requests for funding unless the PUC carves out a revenue stream for the state's Department of Water Resources, the agency that is now buying the bulk of the state's power on behalf of the cash-strapped utilities.", "The PUC was expected to release guidelines last week on rates the DWR can receive from utilities to pay back the general fund and to issue revenue bonds to pay for long-term contracts." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 3, 4 ] }, { "title": "e293_p0", "sents": [ "'Tim -- This is the only article our \"research department\" could find.", "Hope it's the one you were looking for.", "kd - Forwarded by Karen Denne Corp Enron on 03 21 2001 08:55 AM From: Ann M Schmidt 03 20 2001 04:14 PM To: Karen Denne Corp Enron@ENRON cc: Subject: San Diego Union-Tribune Karen, I have combed carefully through past San Diego Union-Tribune articles for the article Tim Belden is looking for and below are the only two articles that I can find that remotely address Steve Peace and the stranded cost issue.", "I have a feeling it may not be what they are exactly looking for but then again it may be.", "I even had Miyung Buster and Lynette Barnes take a stab at finding it and they had no luck.", "Please let me know if this is it and if not I can combed through again.", "Thanks, Ann NEWS ELECTION '98 PROPOSITION 9 Sparks fly over utilities measure Consumer groups vs. broad coalition Ed Mendel STAFF WRITER 10 11 1998 The San Diego Union-Tribune 1 2 A-1 (Copyright 1998) SACRAMENTO -- It looked like a triumph of legislative deal-making when, after a year and a half of talks, a sweeping plan to deregulate electricity in California came together in the final hours of the legislative session two years ago." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 2 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e2582_p140", "sents": [ "The Los Angeles city utility, which serves 3.8 million people in Los Angele s, has been offering customers cash rebates of as much as $10,000 a home to convert to solar energy.", "''We took our cue from the Water Department, which added a million new customers but its overall water use has stayed the same,'' said Angelina Galiteva, an executive director with the Los Angeles utility.", "''Why not try to do the same thing with power?''", "Photo: Avista Utilities in Spokane, Wash., has several plans for promoting conservation, including discount coupons for low-energy-use lights.", "(Avista)(pg.", "A30) PG&E Files Opposition to Ratepayers' Committee SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 9, 2001 via NewsEdge Corporation - Pacific Gas and Electric Company today filed a motion with the United States Bankruptcy Court asking the court to vacate the United States Trustee's (UST) appointment of the Ratepayers' Committee.", "The filing indicates that the creation of a Ratepayers' Committee exceeded the authority of the UST because it was inconsistent with express provisions of the federal Bankruptcy Code." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 1 ] }, { "title": "e2868_p82", "sents": [ "The Japanese, Germans and Danes, among others, have vastly increased their use of renewable energy by heavily subsidizing solar and wind energy production, and by taxing fossil fuel plants on the theory that the polluti on they emit carries a cost to society.", "Americans tend to view such policies as heavy-handed--even antithetica l to a free market economy.", "But some also argue that there has been a bias within the utility industry against small, clean energy systems.", "\"I think engineers like to build big, complicated power plants,\" said Angelina Galiteva, director of strategic planning for the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power.", "It's also true that even as the prices of alternative forms of electricity dropped, they remained well above the cost of burning natural g as.", "Until last year.", "In January 2000, wholesale electricity was averaging about 3 cents a kilowatt-hour.", "By January 2001, soaring natural gas costs had sent those prices up to more than 30 cents a kilowatt-hour." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 3 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e2092_p13", "sents": [ "Brett Trueman, the Donald and Ruth Seiler Professor of Public Accounting, was quoted in the San Francisco Chronicle on April 29, in an article titled, \"Millionaires for a Minute.\"", "Trueman commented that while the economic boom was real, people were deluding themselves into thinking it would continue indefinitely.", "Read the full text at http: www.sfgate.com cgi-bin article.cgi?file chronicle archive 2001 04 29 M N160971.DTL.", "Trueman also appeared on the Channel 2 News on April 29. Andrew Rose, the Bernard T. Rocca Jr.", "Professor of International Trade and the director of the Clausen Center for International Business and Policy, was quoted in the Contra Costa Times on April 29. In \"Gas Prices, Utility Woes Contribute to Economic Downturn in California,\" Rose commented that increases in the price of oil often lead to an economic downturn, James Wilcox, the Kruttschnitt Professor of Financial Institutions, was quoted in the East Bay Business Times on April 27 in an article titled, \"In Depth: Banking & Finance.\"" ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] }, { "title": "e3841_p0", "sents": [ "'Hi Everyone, For those of you who are in the Tuesday night E202B course (section 2) in the Spring semester, I would like to explain why the schedule had to be modified in the way it was.", "At the last minute just before the schedule came out, the original instructor called to tell us that he would be unable to teach that section.", "Brett Trueman, the Accounting Group Chair, worked very hard and very quickly to find a replacement.", "Professor Sunil Udpa agreed to teach the course but needed to adjust the class meeting dates due to prior commitments.", "I apologize that the schedule for this course is less than ideal - however, the tradeoff was quality of instruction versus convenience of class meetings.", "Brett and I chose quality.", "At this point, we are unable to make any changes to the schedule.", "Once again, I apologize for the less than ideal class schedule." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 2 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "The New York Times", "sents": [ "The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated NYT and The Times) is an American daily newspaper, founded and continuously published in New York City since September 18, 1851, by The New York Times Company.", "\"The New York Times\" has won 122 Pulitzer Prizes, more than any other newspaper.", "The paper's print version in 2013 had the second-largest circulation, behind \"The Wall Street Journal\", and the largest circulation among the metropolitan newspapers in the United States.", "\"The New York Times\" is ranked 18th in the world by circulation.", "Following industry trends, its weekday circulation had fallen in 2009 to fewer than one million." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] }, { "title": "e20144_p0", "sents": [ "'Northwest Natural Buys Enron Unit For $1.9 Billion in Cash and Stock The Wall Street Journal, 10 09 01 NORTHWEST NATURAL GAS ANNOUNCES DEAL WITH ENRON The New York Times, 10 09 01 COMPANIES & FINANCE THE AMERICAS - Enron to sell utility - NEWS DIGEST.", "Financial Times (U.K. edition), 10 09 01 COMPANIES & FINANCE UK: Budge digs deep and saves Hatfield Colliery Financial Times; Oct 9, 2001 Enron Sells Oregon Utility The Washington Post, 10 09 01 Enron Seals deal to sell Portland General utility Houston Chronicle, 10 09 01 United States The Globe and Mail, 10 09 01 CoalPower buy The Independent - London, 10 09 01 NW Natural Gas Chmn & CEO CNNfn: Street Sweep, 10 08 01 CHINA: PetroChina to boost gas output in southwest.", "Reuters English News Service, 10 09 01 Northwest Natural Buys Enron Unit For $1.9 Billion in Cash and Stock By Robin Sidel Staff Reporter of The Wall Street Journal 10 09 2001 The Wall Street Journal A4 (Copyright (c) 2001, Dow Jones & Company, Inc.) Enron Corp., as expected, agreed to sell its Portland General Electric utility to Northwest Natural Gas Co. for nearly $1.9 billion in cash and stock in a transaction that will unite the largest gas and electric utilities in Oregon." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e1312_p19", "sents": [ "He will talk about how corporations can employ advanced resource productivity strategies to move toward becoming ecologically sustainable, reduce environmental impact, and improve the bott om line.", "Net Impact at Haas sponsors this event.", "For more information, contact Eric Strand at [email protected].", "Corporate Social Responsibility ERG Energy Forum and Annual Lecture Thursday, April 19, 2001 Sibley Auditorium, Bechtel Engineering Center Energy Forum, 3:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. \"Re-Deregulation: Planning, Learning, Blundering and the Future of Electricity in California,\" by Dr. Severin Borenstein, UC Energy Institute & Professor Richard Norgaard, Energy and Resources Group Ninth Annual Lecture on Energy, 6:00 p.m. Dr. Arthur Rosenfield, California Energy Commission The Haas Biotech Speaker Series Martha Amram, Managing Director of the Rea l Options Center for Excellence, Navigant Consulting Tuesday, April 24, 2001 6:30 p.m. Wells Fargo Room For more information, see http: groups.haas.berkeley.edu haasbio Management of Technology Spring Lecture \"Corporate Technology Ventures,\" by Max Schroech, Managing Director, Agilent Ventures Wednesday, April 25, 200 1 3:45 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. Wells Fargo Room NINTH ANNUAL YOUTH VENTURE CAPITAL COMPETITION AT HAAS Saturday, April 28, 2001 8:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. Wells Fargo Room For more information on YEA H, visit www.haas.berkeley.edu yeah." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 3 ] }, { "title": "e659_p20", "sents": [ "The Bank of America Forum FREE to companies and attendees Please contact John Morel to reserve a table.", "510-642-7731or [email protected].", "Management of Technology Spring Lecture \"The Wireless Future,\" by Jan Rabaey, Prof. of Electrical Engineering, UC Berkeley; Doug Leone, Sequioa Capital Wednesday, April 11, 2001 3:45 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. Wells Fargo Room State of the School Address Dean Tyson will be giving the address twice: first, on April 12 at 7:30 p.m. in the Arthur Andersen Auditorium, then again on April 13 at 12:30 p.m. in the Haas courtyard.", "Corporate Social Responsibility \"Global Sustainable Development: The Role of Business,\" by Ray Anderson, CEO, Interface Thursday, April 12, 2001 4:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. Room C330, Cheit Hall Haas Biotech Speaker Series Joyce Lonergan, VP Investor Relations and Corporate Development, Chiron Monday, April 16, 2001 7:30 p.m. Wells Fargo Room For more information, see http: groups.haas.berkeley.edu haasbio Energy, Business and the Environment Day at UC Berkeley: Second Annual Haas Earth Day Lecture on Business and the Environment \"Natural Capitalism: The Next Industrial Revolution\" by Amory Lovins, CEO (Research), Rocky Mountain Institute April 19 12:45 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. Wells Fargo Room Amory Lovins, co-author of Natural Capitalism, will discuss how changes in natural capital (the natural environment and ecosystems that support all human and economic activity) are already affecting the way we do business, and how leading corporations are gaining competitive advantage through superior environmental performance." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 2 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "R724 road (Ireland)", "sents": [ "The R724 road is a regional road in County Carlow, Ireland.", "From its junction with the R448 at Royal Oak on the western edge of Muine Bheag Town it takes an easterly route crossing the River Barrow, the R705 regional road and the Dublin – Kilkenny railway line in the town." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] }, { "title": "River Barrow", "sents": [ "The Barrow (Irish: \"An Bhearú\" ) is a river in Ireland.", "It is one of The Three Sisters; the other two being the River Suir and the River Nore.", "The Barrow is the longest of the three rivers.", "At 192 km (120 mi), it is the second-longest river in Ireland, behind the River Shannon.", "The catchment area of the River Barrow is 3,067 km." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 3 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "Microsoft", "sents": [ "Microsoft Corporation ( , abbreviated as MS) is an American multinational technology company with headquarters in Redmond, Washington.", "It develops, manufactures, licenses, supports and sells computer software, consumer electronics, personal computers, and services.", "Its best known software products are the Microsoft Windows line of operating systems, the Microsoft Office suite, and the Internet Explorer and Edge web browsers.", "Its flagship hardware products are the Xbox video game consoles and the Microsoft Surface tablet lineup.", "As of 2016, it is the world's largest software maker by revenue, and one of the world's most valuable companies.", "The word \"Microsoft\" is a portmanteau of \"microcomputer\" and \"software\"." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 5 ] }, { "title": "e2963_p5", "sents": [ "This horse-trading process can be frustrating and time-consuming, one Microsoft middle manager says.", "While Bill Zolna, a Microsoft spokesperson, denies that the company requires managers to assign a certain percentage of employees to each level, the middle manager says that there is unspoken pressure to do so.", "Another area of contention is the ranking criteria.", "In a manufacturing-based economy, it was easy to figure out who was up to snuff: Just see whether Joe is pumping out (or selling) more widgets than Bob.", "But today organizations use a slew of fuzzy qualitative criteria to evaluate employees.", "And while there's no doubt that teamwork and communication skills are vital, they are tough to gauge.", "After all, one manager's team player is another's sycophant.", "Enron's ranking criteria are \"very subjective,\" admits Mark Palmer, a company spokesman, adding, \"There aren't easy labels for what type of person someone is.\"", "There's also the danger that forced rankings can become a crutch for poor management." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 1 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "List of schools in Crawley, West Sussex", "sents": [ "Education in Crawley, West Sussex is co-ordinated by West Sussex County Council.", "Since 2004, provision for compulsory education has been made wholly through primary and secondary schools, following the closure of the town's Middle schools earlier that year.", "Each neighbourhood in the town has at least one Primary school, while Secondary schools are distributed around the town on larger campuses." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] }, { "title": "Middle school", "sents": [ "A middle school (also known as intermediate school or junior high school) is an educational stage which exists in some countries, providing education between primary school and high school (secondary school).", "The concept, regulation and classification of middle schools, as well as the ages covered, vary between, and sometimes within, countries.", "In most countries it covers the early adolescent ages of 12-15." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "Tom Ammiano", "sents": [ "Tom Ammiano (born December 15, 1941) is an American politician and LGBT rights activist from San Francisco, California.", "Ammiano, a member of the California Legislative LGBT Caucus, served as a member of the California State Assembly from 2008 to November 30, 2014.", "He had previously been a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors and had mounted an unsuccessful bid for mayor of San Francisco in 1999.", "He was succeeded as California's Assemblyman for District 17 by San Francisco Board of Supervisors President David Chiu on December 1, 2014." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] }, { "title": "e3246_p44", "sents": [ "Chronicle Graphic ,2001 San Francisco Chronicle Page?A - 13 Supervisor sees energy up on S.F.", "rooftops Sunniest areas would have solar panels Rachel Gordon, Chronicle Staff Writer Wednesday, May 23, 2001 ,2001 San Francisco Chronicle: http: www.sfgate.com cgi-bin article.cgi?file=3D chronicle archive 2001 05 23 M N193839.DTL&type=3Dnews San Francisco -- Rooftops in San Francisco's sunniest neighborhoods would be covered with power-generating solar panels to help ease the city's energy crunch under an ambitious plan proposed by Supervisor Tom Ammiano.", "It is envisioned that at full capacity the project would generate 50 megawatts of electricity -- enough to power 50,000 homes -- which would mak e it the largest such solar program in the nation.", "The project, as conceived by Ammiano, would be a public-private partnership The city would help with financing and private contractors would build and maintain the equipment, which would be installed on commercial and residential buildings.", "Ammiano hopes to ask voters in November to approve a Charter amendment that would allow the Board of Supervisors to issue revenue bonds to pay for the project." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 1 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e3127_p25", "sents": [ "New investor iVisionar y Fund lead the round, with participation from other new investors Mitsubishi and Matsushita, and all existing investors -- Brentwood Venture Capital, Goldman Sachs, and the Intel 64 Fund.", "A representative from the round will be appointed to the sixth seat on the board of directors.", "Post-money valuation increased from that of the previous round.", "Funds will be used primarily for research and development.", "The company expects to become cash flow positive by the third or fourth quarter this year.", "To date Antrim has raised $72 millio n. http: www.antrim.com NewMarkets Raises $7.5M in Series F Funds mail?", "top SAN MATEO, Calif. (VENTUREWIRE) -- NewMarkets International, which d evelops technology for international e-payments through its foreign currency exchan ge Web site FXWeb, said it has received commitments of approximately $7.5 million in its Series F round of funding from Quantam Venture Partners and individual investors.", "NewMarkets said it plans on closing the Series F roun d by the end of June with $15 million to $25 million." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 5 ] }, { "title": "e3517_p13", "sents": [ "top SAN JOSE, Calif. (VENTUREWIRE) -- OptiMight Communications, which develops coherence division multiplexing optical transport systems for sale to carriers, said it added Josephine Yuen and P. 'Ramki' Ramakrishnan to its operations division.", "Ms. Yuen joins the company as chief operations officer Previously, she worked at Lucent Technologies as director of product management.", "Mr. Ramakrishnan joins the company as vice president of operations.", "He recently served as vice president of operations at Campio Communications.", "OptiMight is backed by Brentwood Venture Capital, Hook Partners, Lucent Venture Partners, Meritech Capital Partners, Thomas Weisel Partners, Venrock Associates, Vertex Management, and Worldview Technology Partners.", "http: www.optimight.com World Wide Packets Adds David Allen as VP for Europe mail?", "top LONDON (VENTUREWIRE) -- World Wide Packets, which provides hardware and software for optical broadband connectivity, said it has appointed David Allen vice president for Europe.", "The company is establishing a sales office in London that will oversee operations in the U.K. and Europe." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 4 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "Madrona Venture Group", "sents": [ "Madrona Venture Group is an American venture capital firm, founded in 1995 and is based in Seattle, Washington.", "Madrona specializes in seed, startup, Series A and early stage investments.", "Madrona has made 143 investments in 75 companies." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 2 ] }, { "title": "e4946_p5", "sents": [ "Miadora.com announced that it was ceasing operations last month.", "Gear.com has been struggling, losing its president and laying off employees.", "Overstock.com did not disclose how much it was acquiring Gear.com for, but put the Miadora.com deal at over $2.5 million.", "Inventories of Miadora.com, as well as Jewelry.com, which Miadora acquired earlier this year, are being relocated to Overstock.com's warehouse in Salt Lake City and will be available on its Web site by November 1. Miadora was funded by Freeman Spogli, Aesop Capital, Capital Research and Management, HarbourVest, Oracle Venture Fund, Pivotal Partners, and Sequoia Capital.", "Amazon owned almost half of Gear.com, which was also backed by Elliott Associates, Kellett Investment, Madrona Venture Group, Sugar Mountain Capital, and Westgate International.", "Overstock is backed by individual investors.", "http: www.gear.com http: www.overstock.com New Money o Bioinformatics Incubator LaunchCyte Secures $2 Million Seed PITTSBURGH -- LaunchCyte, a newly formed bioinformatics incubator that supports the convergence of life sciences and information sciences, said it completed a $2 million round of funding." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 2, 4 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "Laksian", "sents": [ "Laksian is a village in Shahkot in Jalandhar district of Punjab State, India.", "It is located 4 km from Shahkot, 14 km from Nakodar, 38 km from district headquarter Jalandhar and 169 km from state capital Chandigarh.", "The village is administrated by a sarpanch who is an elected representative of village as per Panchayati raj (India)." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] }, { "title": "Punjab", "sents": [ "The Punjab ( , , , ), also spelled Panjab (\"land of \"five rivers\"\"; Punjabi: ਪੰਜਾਬ ), is a geographical and cultural region in the northern part of the Indian subcontinent, comprising areas of eastern Pakistan and northern India.", "Not being a political unit, the boundaries of the region are ill-defined and focus on historical accounts." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "San Francisco Book Review", "sents": [ "San Francisco Book Review is owned by City Book Review based in Sacramento, California and is one of four book review newspapers.", "The company also publishes the \"Manhattan Book Review\", \"Seattle Book Review\" and \"Kids' BookBuzz\" on a monthly basis, and licenses three other publications - \"Portland Book Review\", \"San Diego Book Review\" and the Tulsa Book Review.", "The different publications publish about 300 reviews a month from more than 40 genres." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] }, { "title": "Tulsa Book Review", "sents": [ "Tulsa Book Review is a monthly Book review newspaper published in Tulsa, Oklahoma.", "It serves the city, the Tulsa metropolitan area, and Tulsa County.", "It is licensed from City Book Review and publishes 60-70 book reviews each month and a local library event guide.", "Copies of the publication are distributed in the community and through the library system." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 2 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "Byron Sher", "sents": [ "Byron D. Sher (born February 7, 1928) is an American Democratic politician.", "He served in the California State Senate from 1996 to 2004, prior to which, he served in the California State Assembly between 1980 and 1996.", "Sher was also a longtime professor at Stanford Law School.", "He currently serves as the California Senate Rules Committee appointee to the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] }, { "title": "e5677_p56", "sents": [ "Davis sent assurances to the Senate Energy Committee through his top attorney, Barry Goode, who helped negotiate the controversial proposal with the utility.", "Senate Republicans have taken a wait-and-see attitude on the plan.", "But they generally contend that the business of utilities belongs in the hands of private enterprise.", "But Democrats in both houses have charged that the deal between Democr at Davis and Edison represents a state bailout of the nearly bankrupt Rosemead-based utility.", "The analysis is shared by leading consumer activist s. At the first in a series of Senate hearings on the package, which is considered all but dead in its current form, Sen. Byron Sher (D-Palo Alto) voiced concerns about political problems with the plan.", "He asked Goode, who was flanked at a witness table by Edison executive s, whether monthly bills of the utility's customers would increase as a consequence of approval of the governor's package." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 4 ] } ]

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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": "e3688_p141", "sents": [ "Fortunately, price caps won't be needed very long because enough power plants are under construction to ease the shortage in 18 months or so.", "Then, the lessons of Econ 101 might start making sense again.", "http: www.nytimes.com GRAPHIC: Photo: President Bush looking at the grid in California.", "(Agence France-Presse) LOAD-DATE: June 3, 2001 36 of 143 DOCUMENTS Copyright 2001 The New York Times Company The New York Times June 3, 2001, Sunday, Late Edition - Final SECTION: Section 4; Page 17; Column 1; Editorial Desk LENGTH: 739 words HEADLINE: Reckonings; Watt Price Ideology?", "BYLINE: By PAUL KRUGMAN BODY: I once had a math teacher who responded to student errors by saying \"Save that answer -- I may ask that question someday.\"", "I thought of him after George W. Bush's apparently pointless trip to California.", "During that trip, Gov.", "Gray Davis asked for a temporary cap on wholesale electricity prices -- a request that gained extra force because it was backed by economists with strong pro-market credentials, including Alfred Kahn, who oversaw the deregulation of airlines, trucking and other industries in the 1970's." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 3, 4, 5 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e6937_p27", "sents": [ "\"We are not required to accept what they say about their meeting not having anything of substance to it.\"", "Gonzales said Rove sought no waivers because he \"took care to avoid\" any direct participation in matters that would have required one.", "Gonzales did not address the question of an appearance of impropriety, but White House spokesman Bartlett said Rove rejects the notion that he had created one.", "In addition to the Intel meeting, the White House has also acknowledged that Rove attended meetings that helped shape the administration's energy policy at a time when he owned a substantial amount of energy company stock, including Enron Corp., the Houston-based natural gas and electricity trader embroiled in energy disputes in California, and General Electric Co., which has a nuclear power division.", "He also reported holdings of up to $50,000 each in Royal Dutch Shell Group and BP Amoco.", "Rove spoke with Enron Chief Executive Officer Kenneth Lay on subjects ranging from energy policy and global warming to appointment of an Enron-favored candidate to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 3, 4 ] }, { "title": "e646_p2", "sents": [ "Associate program off the ground.", "After recruiting at business schools such as the University of Chicago, UCLA and Tulane University, the company made job offers to 17 M.B.A.s last fall and so far has received eight acceptances.", "Phillips Petroleum Co., an integrated oil and gas company in Bartlesville, Okla., also has stepped up its M.B.A. recruitment efforts.", "Officials visited the business schools at Rice, Purdue and the University of Texas last fall, mainly in search of business-development specialists and finance associates.", "It hired two M.B.A.s last year and will add at least three more this year.", "Another oil giant, BP Amoco, hired six students from Indiana University's Kelley School of Business in Bloomington last year.", "Starting compensation packages range from $88,000 to $110,000 -- lower than those that investment banks and consulting companies offer new M.B.A. hires, which can run as high as $145,000. But energy companies are luring M.B.A.s with growth potential." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 5 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e3049_p21", "sents": [ "http: www.exp.com vc fund news Eagle One Launches to Invest with Newbury in Canada mail?", "top OTTAWA, Canada (VENTUREWIRE) -- Eagle One Ventures, a newly formed v enture firm, announced the company's launch to assist local networking and telecom infrastructure equipment companies in raising venture financing.", "Eagle One will not have a specific fund, but will represent the Orinda, Calif.-based Newbury Ventures in Canada and will also work with Ventures Coaches, an Ottawa-based firm funding idea-stage photonics and wireless companies.", "Eagl e One will be fielding investments for Newbury's $250 million third fund that closed in April, and Newbury will invest up to $25 million in seed and earl y stage companies through Eagle One.", "Ken Wigglesworth and Conrad Lewis, both former executives at Newbridge Networks, are the founding partners at Eagle One Ventures and are also new venture partners at Newbury Ventures, which h as $600 million in assets under management and offices in the Silicon Valley a nd Paris." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 4 ] }, { "title": "e3720_p45", "sents": [ "http: www.globalmetro.com vc personnel Conning Capital Names Ex-Progressive Exec as Partner mail?", "top HARTFORD, Conn. (VENTUREWIRE) -- Conning Capital Partners, a private equity group that invests in financial services companies, said David W. Young has joined as partner.", "Mr. Young was chief investment officer for Progressive Corporation, an auto insurer, before joining Conning.", "He has also worked at Salom on Brothers, where he started the bank asset liability management group and co-founded the financial institutions capital markets group.", "Mr. Young co-invested with Conning in a few transactions while he was at Progressive.", "Conning Capital Partners, a unit of Conning & Company, has close to $600 million under management.", "The company focuses on financial services and technology companies, including software, brokerage, banking, insurance, an d managed-care companies.", "http: www.conning.com Newbury Ventures Adds Two Venture Partners mail?", "top SAN FRANCISCO (VENTUREWIRE) -- Newbury Ventures, which provides fina ncing for emerging communication and information technology companies, said Conra d Lewis and Ken Wigglesworth, co-founders of Eagle One Ventures, will compri se Newbury's recently opened Ottawa office as venture partners." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 8 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "Bakal, Russia", "sents": [ "Bakal (Russian: Бака́л ) is a town in Satkinsky District of Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia, located on the western slopes of the Ural Mountains on the Chelyabinsk–Ufa railway branch, 264 km west from Chelyabinsk, the administrative center of the oblast.", "Population:  (2010 Census) ;  (2002 Census) ;  (1989 Census)" ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] }, { "title": "Ufa", "sents": [ "Ufa (Russian: Уфа́ , \"Ufá\"; ] ; Bashkir: Өфө , \"Öfö\"; ] , ) is the capital city of the Republic of Bashkortostan, Russia, and the industrial, economic, scientific and cultural center of the republic.", "As of the 2010 Census, its population was 1,062,319, making it the eleventh most populous city in Russia." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "Tom Daschle", "sents": [ "Thomas Andrew Daschle ( born December 9, 1947) is an American policy advisor, lobbyist, former U.S.", "Senator from South Dakota, and former U.S. Senate Majority Leader.", "He is a member of the Democratic Party." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] }, { "title": "e6099_p0", "sents": [ "'Senate Majority Leader Eager to Push Energy, Environmental Issues James Kuhnhenn 07 06 2001 KRTBN Knight-Ridder Tribune Business News: Knight Ridder's Washington Bureau Copyright (C) 2001 KRTBN Knight Ridder Tribune Business News; Source: World Reporter (TM) WASHINGTON--Eager to exploit public dissatisfaction with President Bush's approach to energy and the environment, Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle wants to place those issues next on the Democratic agenda, before other initiatives popular with Democrats.", "Daschle's aides and party strategists say the Senate's top Democrat wants to keep the White House on the defensive, draw attention to popular Democratic goals such as promoting conservation and alternate power sources, and inoculate his party against Republicans' charges that it has ignored the country's energy needs.", "Activists on both sides see potential for compromises that would lead to legislation Bush can sign.", "\"With summer, and gas prices, and air conditioning -- this is what you go with,\" said Democratic pollster Fred Yang." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "Miami", "sents": [ "Miami ( ; ] ) is a major port city on the Atlantic coast of south Florida in the southeastern United States.", "As the seat of Miami-Dade County, the municipality is the principal, central, and the most populous city of the Miami metropolitan area and part of the second-most populous metropolis in the southeastern United States.", "According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Miami's metro area is the eighth-most populous and fourth-largest urban area in the U.S., with a population of around 5.5 million." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 2 ] }, { "title": "e10011_p2", "sents": [ "Thanks, Wayne, Arshak and I have been working to reach an agreement with Impsat FIber Networks.", "Impsat has an extensive network in 8 countries in Latin America as well as a pop in Miami.", "We have been discussing a peering transit agreement whereby one of our customers could connect to an Impsat port in Latin America for IP transit to the EIN.", "As we envision this now, we would swap Impsat a dedicated 45mbps port to our network for one into their network.", "The connection between the two networks will take place in Miami.", "If an EBS customer wanted IP capacity back to the US they could connect to any Impsat port in Latin America.", "The customer would pay Impsat a port connection fee at every point where they connected to Impsat in Latin America.", "EBS's customer would pay EBS USA for the capacity (e.g.", "8 mbps).", "The reverse would be true for an Impsat customer in the US." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 1 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "The New York Times", "sents": [ "The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated NYT and The Times) is an American daily newspaper, founded and continuously published in New York City since September 18, 1851, by The New York Times Company.", "\"The New York Times\" has won 122 Pulitzer Prizes, more than any other newspaper.", "The paper's print version in 2013 had the second-largest circulation, behind \"The Wall Street Journal\", and the largest circulation among the metropolitan newspapers in the United States.", "\"The New York Times\" is ranked 18th in the world by circulation.", "Following industry trends, its weekday circulation had fallen in 2009 to fewer than one million." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] }, { "title": "e5850_p0", "sents": [ "'California and Energy Providers in Talks Over Electric Fees The New York Times, 06 26 01 Taking No Chances; Disaster-Conscious Firms Treat Global Warming as a Reality The Washington Post, 06 26 01 Conflict of Interest Los Angeles Times, 06 26 01 India Flagging Asset Sales Risk Lower Moody's Outlook (Update2) Bloomberg, 06 26 01 SMARTMONEY.COM: California Dreamin' Dow Jones News Service, 06 25 01 Much Calif Power Price Gouging Beyond FERC's Reach -ISO Dow Jones Energy Service, 06 25 01 Oregon House May Vote Monday On Electricity Deregulation Dow Jones Energy Service, 06 25 01 USA: Fresh look at wind energy blows to US from Europe.", "Reuters English News Service, 06 25 01 USA: UPDATE 3-Some $15 billion at stake in US power refund talks.", "Reuters English News Service, 06 25 01 USA: FPL starts wind farm to power 10,500 Wisc.", "homes.", "Reuters English News Service, 06 25 01 USA: Calif says power refund demand will top $9 billion." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "Dragon Tiger Gate", "sents": [ "Dragon Tiger Gate is a 2006 Hong Kong martial arts action film directed by Wilson Yip and featuring fight choreography by Donnie Yen, who also stars in the film.", "The film is based on the manhua \"Oriental Heroes\", which bears the same Chinese title as the film.", "The film's release in all English-speaking territories is handled by The Weinstein Company." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] }, { "title": "Wilson Yip", "sents": [ "Wilson Yip or Yip Wai-Shun (; born 1963) is a Hong Kong actor, filmmaker and screenwriter.", "His films include \"Bio Zombie\", \"The White Dragon\", \"\", \"Dragon Tiger Gate\", \"Flash Point\" and the \"Ip Man\" trilogy." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "Los Angeles", "sents": [ "Los Angeles ( ; Spanish for \"The Angels\"; ] ), officially the City of Los Angeles and often known by its initials L.A., is the cultural, financial, and commercial center of Southern California.", "With a U.S. Census-estimated 2016 population of 3,976,322, it is the second most populous city in the United States (after New York City) and the most populous city in the state of California.", "Located in a large coastal basin surrounded on three sides by mountains reaching up to and over 10000 ft , Los Angeles covers an area of about 469 sqmi .", "The city is also the seat of Los Angeles County, the most populated county in the country.", "Los Angeles is the center of the Los Angeles metropolitan area, with 13,131,431 residents, and is part of the larger designated Los Angeles-Long Beach combined statistical area (CSA), the second most populous in the nation with a 2015 estimated population of 18.7 million." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 2 ] }, { "title": "e4594_p9", "sents": [ "The new company will be called Quivox Systems, and will have its headquarters in Los Angeles.", "Quivox also announced it raised an undisclosed first round of funding through private equity investors led by Blue.", "Additional investors in this round include Fenway Partners and Chase Capital Partners (CCP).", "The company said the financing will be used to for technology development and marketing.", "Joe Gonzalez, a limited partner at CCP, will join Robert Taylor and Rick Beckett, both managing directors of Blue, on Quivox's board.", "http: www.quivox.com Edge Technologies Receives $3.8 Million Private Placement WEST CONSHOHOCKEN, Pa. -- Edge Technologies, develops technologies for enterprise network management applications and services, said it raised $3.8 million in a private placement from PMG Capital Corp.", "The company plans to use the proceeds as working capital, marketing, and to establish a sales channel support infrastructure and product customization.", "Edge Technologies was founded in 1993. http: www.edge-technology.com Entertainment App Firm Starlight Gets $750,000 in Series A NEW YORK -- Starlight Runner Entertainment, which develops personalized entertainment software, said it raised its Series A funding for $750,000 from Arcturus." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1, 2 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "Gu'an Town", "sents": [ "Gu'an Town () is the seat of Gu'an County in central Hebei province, located just south of the border with Beijing.", ", it has 8 residential communities (居委会 ) and 103 villages under its administration.", "Access to central parts of Beijing is provided by G45 Daqing–Guangzhou Expressway and China National Highway 106." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] }, { "title": "Gu'an County", "sents": [ "Gu'an () is a county of Hebei province, China, bordering Beijing to the north.", "It is under the jurisdiction of Langfang City, with direct access to central Beijing via both G45 Daqing–Guangzhou Expressway and China National Highway 106." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e3523_p55", "sents": [ "There was even a time not so long ago that Davis could have slowed his angry blame-game rhetoric and gotten to work on the problem.", "He could have engaged the new administration rather than heating up the rhetoric.", "He could have looked for ways to increase power generation, rather than threaten power generators.", "On Tuesday a Davis spokesman deflected attention from the governor's falling poll numbers by pointing to Bush's flagging numbers in the state.", "Both men aren't doing well in California, but the issue should be a bigger concern to the governor of the state, rather than to a president who won office without California support.", "Polls aren't what matter now.", "In Los Angeles, Bush said: \"Energy debates sometimes throw off some sparks, but this is not time for harsh rhetoric.", "It's certainly no time for name-calling.", "It's time for leadership.\"", "Was Davis listening?", "KRT CALIFORNIA is a premium service of Knight Ridder Tribune (c) 2001, The Orange County Register (Santa Ana, Calif.)." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 6 ] }, { "title": "Los Angeles", "sents": [ "Los Angeles ( ; Spanish for \"The Angels\"; ] ), officially the City of Los Angeles and often known by its initials L.A., is the cultural, financial, and commercial center of Southern California.", "With a U.S. Census-estimated 2016 population of 3,976,322, it is the second most populous city in the United States (after New York City) and the most populous city in the state of California.", "Located in a large coastal basin surrounded on three sides by mountains reaching up to and over 10000 ft , Los Angeles covers an area of about 469 sqmi .", "The city is also the seat of Los Angeles County, the most populated county in the country.", "Los Angeles is the center of the Los Angeles metropolitan area, with 13,131,431 residents, and is part of the larger designated Los Angeles-Long Beach combined statistical area (CSA), the second most populous in the nation with a 2015 estimated population of 18.7 million." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "Mansi language", "sents": [ "The Mansi language (previously, \"Vogul\" and also \"Maansi\") is spoken by the Mansi people in Russia along the Ob River and its tributaries, in the Khanty–Mansi Autonomous Okrug and Sverdlovsk Oblast.", "According to the 1989 census, there were 3,184 Mansi-speaking people in Russia." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] }, { "title": "Khanty", "sents": [ "The Khanty (in older literature: Ostyaks) are an indigenous people calling themselves \"Khanti, Khande, Kantek\" (Khanty), living in Khanty–Mansi Autonomous Okrug, a region historically known as \"Yugra\" in Russia, together with the Mansi.", "In the autonomous okrug, the Khanty and Mansi languages are given co-official status with Russian.", "In the 2010 Census, 30,943 persons identified themselves as Khanty.", "Of those, 26,694 were resident in Tyumen Oblast, of which 17,128 were living in Khanty–Mansi Autonomous Okrug and 8,760—in Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug.", "873 were residents of neighbouring Tomsk Oblast, and 88 lived in the Komi Republic." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 2, 3 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e3384_p57", "sents": [ "Gen. Bill Lockyer when he suggested that Enron Corp. Chairman Kenneth Lay deserved to be locked in a jail cell with an amorous inmate.", "Lockyer's comment reflects an all-too-common belief that people who are incarcerated deserve to be raped as part of their punishment.", "California deserves an attorney general who understands the difference between legal incarceration and state-sanctioned torture.", "Lockyer should resign.", "Robert Shannon South Pasadena * Lockyer's comment to the energy robber barons, \"If we catch them, they're going to be prosecuted,\" is nothing but an empty threat.", "Despite al l the evidence that the energy moguls are guilty, we all know what will happe n. Essentially, nothing.", "Or at most, they'll admit to no wrongdoing, pay a sma ll fine and make some innocuous statement about putting this all behind us.", "Trent D. Sanders La Canada * Peter H. King writes about an energy problem in 1948 (May 20)." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] }, { "title": "Bill Lockyer", "sents": [ "William Westwood Lockyer (born May 8, 1941) is a veteran California politician, who held elective office from 1973 to 2015, as State Treasurer of California, California Attorney General, and President Pro Tempore of the California State Senate.", "Described by journalistic observers as one of the state's most \"colorful\" and \"shrewdest\" public officials, he has long been known to speak his mind with an uncommon frankness that occasionally caused him political embarrassment." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "Feldberg (band)", "sents": [ "Feldberg is an Icelandic musical duo formed by Eberg (Einar Tönsberg) and Rósa Birgitta Ísfeld from Reykjavík.", "Their debut album, \"Don't Be a Stranger\", was first released in Iceland in 2009 on Cod Music.", "At the Icelandic Music Awards (IMA) in 2010, they were nominated for three awards and won for Best Song for their track \"Dreamin'\", which was subsequently featured on the \"Kitsune Compilation 9\".", "Their music has been extensively used for advertising in Iceland; the airline Icelandair use \"Dreamin'\" as their in-flight music choice.", "The new Feldberg album will be released in 2012 and the band have featured some of the new songs at their latest concerts in Tokyo supporting Casio Kids and Le Corps Mince De Francois." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 2, 3 ] }, { "title": "Icelandair", "sents": [ "Icelandair is the main airline of Iceland, headquartered at Keflavík International Airport in Iceland.", "It is part of the Icelandair Group and, in the middle of 2015, operated scheduled services to 39 cities in 16 countries on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean out of its hub at Keflavík International Airport.", "The geographical position of Iceland allows one-stop transatlantic flights, which are one pillar of the airline's business strategy, along with traffic to and from the country." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e6814_p1", "sents": [ "SDG&E filed a motion on July 13, 2001 in A.00-10-045 and A.01-01-044 for implementation of the memorandum of understanding (MOU) that was signed by the California Department of Water Resources and by SDG&E Sempra Energy.", "SDG&E's motion set forth a proposed roadmap for the implementation of the MOU.", "The attached Chief ALJ ruling shortens the time for interested parties to respond to SDG&E's July 13, 2001 motion, and requests responding parties to comment on certain MOU issues.", "Interested parties may file a response to this motion on or before July 27, 2001. In A.00-11-038 et.", "al, SDG&E has proposed to settle all issues related to SDG&E's pending petition for writ of review of Decision (D.) 01-01-061 and D.01-05-035. On July 2, 2001, Commissioner Lynch issued an ACR inviting parties to file comments on this proposed settlement agreement.", "In a letter from the CPUC's General Counsel dated July 13, 2001 to Sempra Energy, the letter stated that another ACR would issue setting a comment period on the proposed settlement of the pending petition once the materials about the MOU were filed with the Commission." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] }, { "title": "Sempra Energy", "sents": [ "Sempra Energy is an American natural gas utilities holding company based in San Diego, California.", "It divides its interests into two broad categories: California utilities, including Southern California Gas Company (SoCalGas) and San Diego Gas & Electric (SDG&E); and businesses not subject to California utilities regulation, chiefly Sempra International and Sempra U.S. Gas & Power." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "Napster", "sents": [ "Napster was the name given to two music-focused online services.", "It was founded as a pioneering peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing Internet service that emphasized sharing digital audio files, typically audio songs, encoded in MP3 format.", "The company ran into legal difficulties over copyright infringement.", "It ceased operations and was eventually acquired by Roxio.", "In its second incarnation, Napster became an online music store until it was acquired by Rhapsody from Best Buy on December 1, 2011." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 4 ] }, { "title": "e27952_p3", "sents": [ "We've chosen them for their years of experience and for their ability to share it as coaches, mentors, board members, and friends.", "Join us for an intense day of guidance an inspiration from those who've been through boom and bust and boom again.", "Managing in the Downturn: Survival Strategies for 2002 A VentureWire Executive Summit Fairmont Hotel, San Jose November 6, 2001 http: events.venturewire.com summit default.asp <http: venturewire.com ads ad.asp?id=1448 advertise <http: alert.venturewire.com adv.asp tell a friend <http: venturewire.gazooba.com cid1201 tellafriend.html VENTUREWIRE INDEX <http: venturewire.com index.asp VentureWire Index <http: venturewire.com index.asp 495.1 -0.18% NOTABLE DEALS Optical Processor Firm Chorum Lands $54.7M Round Four mail <http: alert.venturewire.com o_mailer.asp?sid=NIQLONQMII RICHARDSON, TEXAS -- Chorum Technologies, a provider of all-optical processors and subsystems for optical networks, said it raised $54.7 million in its fourth round of funding.", "more.. <http: professional.venturewire.com prostory.asp ] <http: www.chorumtech.com Napster Cuts 15% of Staff, Prepares for New Service mail <http: alert.venturewire.com o_mailer.asp?sid=NIIHKIQMII REDWOOD CITY, CALIF. -- Napster, the embattled online song-swapping service, has cut 16 employees, approximately 15% of its staff, in an effort to strengthen resources in other areas as it prepares for the launch of its new membership-based service, the company said in a written statement." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 3 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e6509_p1", "sents": [ "A1, 1935 words, Municipal power firms cleaned up; Public producers charged state far more than private, Mark Martin, Lynda Gledhill, Sacramento Contra Costa Times, July 15, 2001, Sunday, CC-ENERGY-RATES, 906 words, California Faces Possible Third Power Rate Hike Contra Costa Times, July 15, 2001, Sunday, CC-UTILITY, 530 words, Many California Energy Consumers Cash In on Conservation, By Katie Oyan Copley News Service, July 15, 2001, Sunday, State and regional, 1228 words, Controller Connell keeps heat on Davis, but could it cost her?", "By Bill Ainsworth, SACRAMENTO Los Angeles Times, July 15, 2001 Sunday, Home Edition, Page 1, 1899 words, The Bashers Are Back; The electricity crisis has given critics of California ?a new opening to predict catastrophe., JOEL KOTKIN Sacramento Bee, July 15, 2001, Sunday, Pg.", "D3;, 174 words, Save energy, save cash, Loretta Kalb Copyright 2001 Associated Press AP Online July 13, 2001; Friday SECTION: Domestic, non-Washington, general news item LENGTH: 248 words HEADLINE: Judge: Calif Power Cos." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 2 ] }, { "title": "Associated Press", "sents": [ "The Associated Press (AP) is an American multinational nonprofit news agency headquartered in New York City that operates as a cooperative, unincorporated association.", "The AP is owned by its contributing newspapers and radio and television stations in the United States, all of which contribute stories to the AP and use material written by its staff journalists." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "Prue Leith", "sents": [ "Prudence Margaret \"Prue\" Leith, CBE, DL (born 18 February 1940) has been a restaurateur, caterer, television presenter/broadcaster, businesswoman, journalist, cookery writer and novelist.", "She was born in South Africa, but her working life has been spent mostly in London.", "She is Chancellor of Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh.", "In March 2017, she was confirmed as a judge for \"The Great British Bake Off\" after Mary Berry had left the show." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 3 ] }, { "title": "Mary Berry", "sents": [ "Mary-Rosa Alleyne Berry, CBE (born 24 March 1935) is a British food writer and television presenter.", "After being encouraged in domestic science classes at school, she studied catering and institutional management at college.", "She then moved to France at the age of 21 to study at Le Cordon Bleu school, before working in a number of cooking-related jobs." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e10142_p5", "sents": [ "Ameritech's average response to answer phone calls in 2000 ranged from a low of 62.5 seconds in January to a high of 222.7 seconds in August, it said.", "INTERNET MISSOURI Bill targets Web sites that force computers to dial long distance numbers Sen. John Loudon (R., District 7) has proposed a bill to prohibit Web site operators from causing users' computers to dial long distance numbers without informing the users.", "SB 70 would add a new section to Chapter 570, RSMo.", "Web site operators who violated the new section could be charged with a \"class A\" misdemeanor if related long distance charges were $150 or less.", "If the charges totaled more than $150, the Web site operator could be charged with a \"class C\" felony.", "SB 70 has been referred to the Civil and Criminal Jurisprudence Committee.", "Its text is available at http: www.senate.state.mo.us 01info billtext intro SB070.htm.", "INTERNET MONTANA Committee OKs Uniform Electronic Transactions Act The state House Business and Labor Committee has approved a Uniform Electronic Transaction Act to prohibit anyone from denying legal effect or enforceability to a record or signature solely because it's in electronic form." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] }, { "title": "Ameritech", "sents": [ "AT&T Teleholdings, Inc., formerly known as Ameritech Corporation (and before that American Information Technologies Corporation), was a U.S. telecommunications company that arose out of the 1984 AT&T divestiture.", "Ameritech was one of the seven Regional Bell Operating Companies that was created following the breakup of the Bell System.", "Ameritech was acquired by SBC Communications in 1999 which subsequently acquired AT&T Corporation in 2006, becoming the present-day AT&T Inc." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "Louise Cochrane", "sents": [ "Louise Cochrane (22 December 1918 – 13 February 2012) was an American-born writer and television producer best known for creating the BBC Children's TV programme \"Rag, Tag and Bobtail\" in the early 1950s.", "She also wrote a series of career guidance books for young people and a biography of the 12th-century philosopher Adelard of Bath." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] }, { "title": "Rag, Tag and Bobtail", "sents": [ "Rag, Tag and Bobtail was a BBC children's television programme that ran from 1953 to 1965 as the Thursday programme in the weekly cycle of \"Watch With Mother\".", "The scripts were written by Louise Cochrane, and the series was produced by Freda Lingstrom and David Boisseau.", "Narration was by Charles E. Stidwell, David Enders, and James Urquhart." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e7800_p0", "sents": [ "'This is why the CPUC has opened its recent OII.", "The problem now receives national attention.", "Nov 16,2000 California Power Plants Get Jolt As Natural-Gas Supplies Are Cut By Rebecca Smith Staff Reporter of The Wall Street Journal LOS ANGELES -- Southern California power plants, already stressed to their limits last summer, got another jolt this week as a cold snap caused a sharp curtailment of supplies of natural gas used to generate electricity.", "The power plants were able to switch to burning oil and continue to produce electricity.", "But the unusual curtailment of natural gas underlines concerns that an increased reliance on gas for power generation across the United States is putting the reliability of the nation's electricity supply at risk.", "That's because virtually all power plants now under construction in the United States burn gas and only gas.", "The units affected this week in San Diego were able to shift to oil only because they were older plants that originally were constructed to burn oil." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 2, 6 ] }, { "title": "San Diego", "sents": [ "San Diego ( , Spanish for \"Saint Didacus\"; Spanish: ] ) is a major city in California, United States.", "It is in San Diego County, on the coast of the Pacific Ocean in Southern California, approximately 120 mi south of Los Angeles and immediately adjacent to the border with Mexico." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e19796_p4", "sents": [ "DPC, 65-percent owned by Houston-based Enron Corp is engaged in a bitter payments dispute with its sole buyer, the Maharashtra State Electricity Board (MSEB).", "MSEB stopped buying power from Dabhol's 740-MW first phase in May and said it would not take electricity from the second 2,144-MW phase, which was 97-percent complete when further construction was halted due to the dispute.", "DPC spokesman Jimmy Mogal said the company invoked payment guarantees given by the Maharashtra state and New Delhi to protect the company, its sponsors, lenders and fuel suppliers.", "\"I confirm that with MSEB's failure to meet their contractual obligations towards monthly bills of April, May and June 2001, DPC had drawn upon the government of Maharashtra (GOM) guarantee on August 29 ,\" he said in a statement.", "\"As GOM also failed to honour their contractual obligations, DPC was forced to draw upon (New Delhi's) guarantee towards these dues on September 7,\" he said." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 2, 3, 4 ] }, { "title": "New Delhi", "sents": [ "New Delhi ( ) is the capital of India and one of Delhi city's 11 districts.", "Although colloquially \"Delhi\" and \"New Delhi\" are used interchangeably to refer to the National Capital Territory of Delhi, these are two distinct entities, with New Delhi forming a small part of Delhi.", "The National Capital Region is a much larger entity comprising the entire National Capital Territory of Delhi along with adjoining districts.", "It is surrounded by Haryana on three sides and Uttar Pradesh on the east." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e3426_p80", "sents": [ "\"I would have rather had Woody Allen in the White House.\"", "Copyright 2001 Los Angeles Times Power Firm Chief Lists Solutions for Crisis By KURT STREETER, Times Staff Writer A Texas business executive whose company has profited enormously from California's energy crisis says California needs more deregulation, not les s. Kenneth Lay, the head of Houston-based Enron Corp., handed out a four-page plan detailing his solution to California's energy crisis at a meeting with Los Angeles Mayor Richard Riordan and other state business and political leaders at a Beverly Hills hotel May 17. The report details several ways to solve California's energy crisis.", "\"Get deregulation right in California,\" it reads.", "\"California never deregulated.", "There is more regulation than ever.\"", "Among the document's other points are calls for consumers to pay the billions of dollars in debt the state's public utilities have incurred, and an assertion that federal investigations into price gouging by private firm s such as Enron are contributing to the problems." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 1 ] }, { "title": "Richard Riordan", "sents": [ "Richard Joseph \"Dick\" Riordan (born May 1, 1930) is an American investment banker, businessman, investor, and politician who served as the 39th Mayor of Los Angeles, California serving from 1993 to 2001.", "He is a member of the Republican Party.", "To date, Riordan remains the most recent Republican to serve as Mayor of Los Angeles." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e4676_p1", "sents": [ "Also in This Issue: New Money: o Service Management Firm Opticom Gets $10 Million First Round o ASP Software Firm Flatrock Raises $3.4 Million First Round o Customer Service Firm Alpine Access Has $3 Million Round One o Swedish Software Firm Raises $3.5 Million First Round Funds o Web Customer Service Firm Askit Has $2.45 Million Series A o Digital Bridges Gets $22 Million in Second Round of Funding o Food Site Agribuys Secures $32 Million in Round Two o German Web Logistics Firm TradeNetOne.com Raises Round Two o Global Switch Raises $66 Million For High-Tech Warehousing o Net Personalizer NeoButler Closes $5 Million Second Round o Doctors' Wireless Device Firm ParkStone Raises $31 Million o GE Capital Invests in Integrated Communications Firm @Link o Newtek Capital Takes 37.5% Stake in NicheDirectories o Online Art Forum Eyestorm Lands $14.2 Million in Third Round o Peregrine Semiconductor Raises $21 Million Series G o DISX Takes 15% Stake of Internship Resource Myinternship.com Ashton's eMC Takes Minority Stake in 401(k) Firm TeamVest o Oxford Technologies Invests in UK Software Company Acumen o Bure Equity Invests in Wireless Firm Newmad Technologies New Products: o Mobile Digital Security Firm Blueice Research Launches o Online Contract Management Firm eHealthContracts Launches M&A: o Allegiance Telecom Buys Small Business ASP Virtualis New Directors: o Harvard Business School Professors Join SmartMouth Board o Telephony Firm COM2001 Adds Safeskin Co-founder to Board o Online Workplace Infrastructure Project.net Names Chairman o Open Prairie Ventures CEO Joins Board of GlobalView Software o Employee Management Firm HRPath Names Two to Board New People: o Clothes Visualization Firm enFashion Names President & CEO o DemandVideo Promotes Richard Hercules to President and CEO VC Fund News: o International Investment Group Launches Romanian Incubator o Canadian Merchant Bank RoyNat Launches Venture Capital Unit o Digital Partners Close Third Venture Fund for $36 Million VW Corrections: o Activ-e o Hypercosm Advertisement Healthcare Outlook: Where Medicine Meets the Internet Will e-health complement traditional healthcare systems or create new markets?" ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] }, { "title": "e1217_p1", "sents": [ "Newspaper Software Firm Raises $3 Million First Round o Waste Management ASP Envectra Has $4.9 Million Seed Round o B2B Wireless ASP Terion Announces $50 Million Funding o Open-Source Firm Wasabi Systems Closes $500,000 Round One o Science Communications Secures Pre-Series A Funding o Airslide Systems Closes $35 Million Second Round of Funding o B2B Service Firm SupplySolutions Has $20 Million Round Two o Behavioral Technology Firm Gets $11.2 Million in Series B o Communications Firm Brainshark Has $14 Million Second Round o Evant Solutions Raises $12 Million in Second Round o French Mobile Location Service Provider Raises $15.1 Million o Image Sensor Tech Firm Y Media Gets $7.5 Million Series B o Net Advertising Tech Firm iWeb Closes $8.6 Million Series B o SpinCircuit and Avet Form Partnership, Avnet Takes Stake o TimesTen Performance Software Closes $21.5 Million Mezzanine o Advent Leads $4 Million Round for Shipping Site NETlogistiK o ArrayComm Raises $34 Million in Series F Funding Round o B2B Software Firm Sienna Secures $4 Million in Second Round o Deutsche Bank Takes Stake in Securities Software Firm Lewtan o Mobile Platform Firm Synchrologic Gets $22 Million D Round o ASP Reasoning Gets $15 Million Series D New Products: o Online College Student Advisor PureAdvice.com Launches o Universal Wireless Infrastructure Firm Sentica Launches o Christianity.com Launches, Ex-Pepperdine President Named CEO o Incubator Brainspark Launches Digital Design Firm EC1 Media New Deals: o Failure of Investment Talks Leads to Clickmango.com Closure o Scour Lays Off 52 Following Dissolution of Investment Talks o Ad Firms OneMediaPlace and iMediaPoint Enter Alliance o E-Security Firm iDefense in $10 Million Venture with Itochu o Silicon Peak Takes Stake in Information Firm for Physicians M&A: o Intersil Buys Wireless Component Firm SiCOM for $196 Million o ICG Increases Stake in PaperExchange.com from 20% to 83% o Network Appliance to Acquire WebManage for $75 Million o Heyde Group Acquires European VC Firm Value Partner New Directors: o Acta Technology Adds Network Appliance CFO to Board o DMR Consulting Exec Joins Software Firm infoShark's Board o incuVest Names Merck Division Senior VP to Board o Irish XML App Firm Vordel Adds Corporate Financier to Board o RedEnvelope Names Prophet Brand CEO to Its Board New People: o Net Video Firm Vividon Makes Ex-Vignette VP President, CEO o Former Motorola Executive is New CEO for Foxcom Wireless o MEI Software Systems Promotes VP to President and Acting CEO VC Fund News: o Brazil's Banco Pactual Launches BRR $75 Million Tech Fund o KPN and VNU Launch $30 Million Fund For European Tech Firms o Draper Laboratory Launches $15 Million Venture Subsidiary VC Personnel: o High Tech Venture Firm YankeeTek Ventures Gets New Partner o NIF Ventures Promotes Partner to Run Silicon Valley Office VW Corrections: o Rtime Advertisement Healthcare Outlook: Where Medicine Meets the Internet Will e-health complement traditional healthcare systems or create new markets?" ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "Gray Davis", "sents": [ "Joseph Graham \"Gray\" Davis Jr. (born December 26, 1942) is a retired American politician and attorney who served as the 37th Governor of California from 1999 to 2003.", "A member of the Democratic Party, only a few months into his second term, in 2003 Davis was recalled and removed from office, the second state governor successfully recalled in U.S. history.", "Prior to serving as governor, Davis was chief of staff to Governor Jerry Brown (1975–81), a California State Assemblyman (1983–87), California State Controller (1987–95) and the 44th Lieutenant Governor of California (1995–99).", "Davis holds a B.A.", "in history from Stanford University and a J.D.", "from Columbia Law School.", "He was awarded a Bronze Star for his service as a Captain in the Vietnam War." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] }, { "title": "e810_p0", "sents": [ "\"FYI on behalf of Sue Mara: Governor Gray Davis to address California energy crisis It is expected he will be speaking for about four minutes and that he will start at about 6:05 p.m. PDT.", "Gov.", "Davis is expected to deliver a five-minute speech to Californians Thursday night From CNN.com: April 5, 2001 Web posted at: 4:38 p.m. EDT (2038 GMT) Hena Cuevas is a CNN Correspondent based out of California.", "Q: What do we expect to be the main points of Governor Gray Davis' address this evening?", "CUEVAS: His office has said that the basic theme will be conservation.", "Basically, he is trying to motivate everyone to conserve.", "Also, we are expected to hear a stern warning involving the power situation this summer.", "It is expected to be a warmer than average summer.", "Davis e is also going to address that.", "We have also been told that he will make some sort of announcement and that the announcement is being kept under tight wraps; it is top secret." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 1, 2 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e3700_p23", "sents": [ "Frontline passes its golden opportunity to lay out, clearly and concisely, both sides -- what critics say are the self-inflicted origins of California's energy crisis, and California's charges of price-gouging and pleas for price caps.", "Instead, that information comes piecemeal, over the course of contentious and often-confusing exchanges.", "To avoid retreat on deregulation, now in progress in 24 states, companies have begun to raise the possibility of settlement with California, Frontline reports.", "In Lay's opinion, \"It's still going to take a comprehensive settlement of the whole issue, all the issues\" -- including money.", "Give Frontline full credit for stepping in where no other TV news outlet has dared to tread in such depth.", "Something is surely better than nothing.", "But this Frontline New York Times team coverage effort does not cool the blame game.", "It sheds more heat than light.", "Frontline: Blackout, 10 tonight, 9 p.m. June 12 on Channel 8. Grade: B. June 5, 2001, 1:17AM Houston Chronicle PBS pledge drive alters schedule By MIKE McDANIEL Copyright 2001 Houston Chronicle TV Editor Paul Hope, like many theater fans, tuned to Channel 8 Sunday night in anticipation of the first hour of the joint PBS CBS telecast of the 55th Annual Tony Awards." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 8 ] }, { "title": "Houston Chronicle", "sents": [ "The Houston Chronicle is the largest daily newspaper in Houston, Texas, United States.", "s of 2016 , it is the third-largest newspaper by Sunday circulation in the United States.", "With its 1995 buy-out of long-time rival the \"Houston Post\", the \"Chronicle\" became Houston's primary newspaper." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 2 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "Bean River", "sents": [ "The Bean River is a 7.4 mi long river located in southeastern New Hampshire in the United States.", "It is a tributary of the North River, part of the Lamprey River/Great Bay/Piscataqua River watershed leading to the Atlantic Ocean." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] }, { "title": "Piscataqua River", "sents": [ "The Piscataqua River ( ) is a 12 mi tidal river forming the boundary of the U.S. states of New Hampshire and Maine from its origin at the confluence of the Salmon Falls River and Cocheco River.", "The drainage basin of the river is approximately 1495 sqmi , including the subwatersheds of the Great Works River and the five rivers flowing into Great Bay: the Bellamy, Oyster, Lamprey, Squamscott, and Winnicut." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e4892_p30", "sents": [ "Mr. Heacox is former president and general manager of KNBC-TV in Los Angeles.", "Eric Hinkle, formerly president and COO of Radiant Systems, was recently named MediaOcean's chief execuitve officer.", "The company is funded by NeoCarta Ventures, Mellon Ventures, Gray Ventures, and iXL Ventures.", "http: www.mediaocean.com Gem and Jewelry B2B Marketplace GemKey Announces New CEO NEW YORK -- GemKey, a provider of e-commerce technology to the jewelry and gem industry, announced that Dennis G. Dracup was appointed chief executive officer, replacing Michael Cunningham who will become president and COO.", "Mr. Dracup formerly served as president of Pitney Bowes Software Solutions.", "GemKey is backed by Highland Capital Partners and Audax.", "http: www.gemkey.com Net Audience Measurement Firm MeasureCast Names New CEO PORTLAND, Ore. -- MeasureCast, a company which provides streaming audience measurement services for Internet broadcasters and advertisers, said it named Edward T. Hardy as chief executive officer.", "Mr. Hardy replaces Randy Hill, MeasureCast's founder, who will become chief technology officer." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 1, 2 ] }, { "title": "e2942_p10", "sents": [ "Mr. Sidana most recently held a similar position at WindRiver.", "In September 2000, Lineo secured $22.5 milli on in funding from Motorola through its subsidiary Metrowerks.", "Before then, th e company received funding from the Canopy Group and Egan Managed Capital Group.", "http: www.lineo.com Netkey Adds Mercator Software Exec Keith Feingold as VP mail?", "top BRANFORD, Conn. (VENTUREWIRE) -- Netkey, a provider of enterprise software for Internet self-service systems such as kiosks, said it appointed Keith H Feingold as executive vice president of worldwide sales.", "Mr. Feingold was formerly vice president, channel sales at Mercator Software, a publicly traded provider of enterprise application integration software.", "Christian & Timbers, a Netkey investor and executive search firm, was involved in the search.", "Netkey is also backed by Connecticut Innovations, Fleet Development Ventures, Hudson Venture Partners, iXL Ventures, and Zero Stage Capital.", "http: www.netkey.com YottaYotta Promotes Sr. Dir.", "Prod.", "Marketing to Marketing VP mail?" ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 7 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "Dead Man", "sents": [ "Dead Man is a 1995 American Western film written and directed by Jim Jarmusch.", "It stars Johnny Depp, Gary Farmer, Billy Bob Thornton, Iggy Pop, Crispin Glover, John Hurt, Michael Wincott, Lance Henriksen, Gabriel Byrne and Robert Mitchum (in his final film role).", "The film, dubbed a \"Psychedelic Western\" by its director, includes twisted and surreal elements of the Western genre.", "The film is shot entirely in monochrome.", "Neil Young composed the guitar-dominated soundtrack with portions he improvised while watching the movie footage.", "It has been considered by many to be a premier postmodern Western.", "It has been compared to postmodern literature such as Cormac McCarthy's novel \"Blood Meridian\".", "Like much of Jarmusch's work, it has acquired status as a cult film." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] }, { "title": "Lance Henriksen", "sents": [ "Lance James Henriksen (born May 5, 1940) is an American actor and artist, best known for his roles in science fiction, action, and horror films such as Bishop in the \"Alien\" film franchise, and Frank Black in Fox television series \"Millennium\".", "Henriksen is also notable for his voice acting, having voiced Kerchak the gorilla in Walt Disney Animation Studios' \"Tarzan\" and Fleet Admiral Steven Hackett in BioWare's \"Mass Effect\" video game trilogy." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e28008_p4", "sents": [ "Do not use the elevator.", "+ Proceed to the designated Emergency Assembly Area (EAA): +From the faculty building, evacuate to Gayley Plaza located directly in front of the Haas School.", "+From the student services building, evacuate to the Boalt Hall parking lot.", "+From Cheit Hall, evacuate west of Cheit Hall between Minor Hall (the optometry building) and the Women's Faculty Club.", "+ Wait for any instructions from emergency responders.", "+ Do not re-enter the building or work area until you have been instructed to do so by the emergency responders.", "+ If you are told to leave the area and later on want information on the status of the Haas School, visit the Haas web page at <http: haas.berkeley.edu For the latest instructions campus-wide emergency preparedness visit the UC Berkeley Office of Emergency Preparedness site at <http: public-safety.berkeley.edu oepweb This site also has information on mail handling procedures.", "__ HAAS STUDENT TUTOR AT SKYLINE HIGH SCHOOL Lending a hand to high school students, even in a small way, can make a world of difference." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 3 ] }, { "title": "Minor Hall", "sents": [ "Minor Hall (March 2, 1897 – October 16, 1959), better known as Ram Hall, was an American jazz drummer active on the New Orleans jazz scene.", "He was the younger brother of Tubby Hall." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "Gray Davis", "sents": [ "Joseph Graham \"Gray\" Davis Jr. (born December 26, 1942) is a retired American politician and attorney who served as the 37th Governor of California from 1999 to 2003.", "A member of the Democratic Party, only a few months into his second term, in 2003 Davis was recalled and removed from office, the second state governor successfully recalled in U.S. history.", "Prior to serving as governor, Davis was chief of staff to Governor Jerry Brown (1975–81), a California State Assemblyman (1983–87), California State Controller (1987–95) and the 44th Lieutenant Governor of California (1995–99).", "Davis holds a B.A.", "in history from Stanford University and a J.D.", "from Columbia Law School.", "He was awarded a Bronze Star for his service as a Captain in the Vietnam War." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] }, { "title": "e6093_p0", "sents": [ "'FYI.", "From today's Post.", "Davis seems to continue to put distance between himself and the contracts.", "Best, Jeff * Financial California Changes Stance on Refunds; Two Sides Far Apart In Energy Talks Peter Behr 07 06 2001 The Washington Post FINAL Page E01 Copyright 2001, The Washington Post Co. All Rights Reserved California officials have abruptly shifted tactics in their attempt to recover billions of dollars in alleged overcharges for electricity saying they may reduce their demands for huge refunds if generators renegotiate $43 billion in long-term electricity contracts that the state signed this year.", "Gov.", "Gray Davis (D) said part of the $8.9 billion in refunds the state is seeking could be offset by reductions in energy prices in the long-term contracts, whose costs have become a growing political embarrassment for Davis.", "\"We've made suggestions, we've offered various ways in which people could get us $8.9 billion,\" Davis told the San Jose Mercury News in a report yesterday." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 5 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "Łatanice", "sents": [ "Łatanice is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Wiślica, within Busko County, Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship, in south-central Poland.", "It lies approximately 8 km north of Wiślica, 6 km south of Busko-Zdrój, and 53 km south of the regional capital Kielce." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] }, { "title": "Busko-Zdrój", "sents": [ "Busko-Zdrój ( ) is a spa town in Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship, Poland.", "It is the capital of Busko County.", "In 2010, its population was 32,274." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "New York City", "sents": [ "The City of New York, often called New York City or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States.", "With an estimated 2016 population of 8,537,673 distributed over a land area of about 302.6 sqmi , New York City is also the most densely populated major city in the United States.", "Located at the southern tip of the state of New York, the city is the center of the New York metropolitan area, one of the most populous urban agglomerations in the world.", "A global power city, New York City exerts a significant impact upon commerce, finance, media and entertainment, art, fashion, research, technology, education, politics, and sports, its fast pace defining the term \"New York minute\".", "Home to the headquarters of the United Nations, New York is an important center for international diplomacy and has been described as the cultural, financial, and media capital of the world." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] }, { "title": "e2943_p167", "sents": [ "But high demand for power means this capacity is unlikely to leave service anytime soon.", "Consolidated Edison, New York City' s utility, said in early May it planned to restart its 50-year-old Hudson Avenue generating station.", "Environmentalists objected, telling the New York Times the plant would create more pollution per pound of fuel consumed than any other in the city.", "Worm in the Big Apple But those responsible for regulating the state's power supplies point to a dilemma facing New York City.", "In testimony before a state oversight panel in March, Public Utility Commission Chair Maureen O. Helmer said at least 80% of New York City's projected peak load must be met by generation located within the city.", "She said the New York Independent System Operator (ISO) projected peak load for the city of 10,535 MW, meaning roughly 8,428 MW would have to be generated in the city, due to its import constraints." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 1 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e11741_p0", "sents": [ "'Feds Hint at Power Bill Refunds Firms ordered to justify high rates David Lazarus and Lynda Gledhill, Chronicle Staff Writers Saturday, March 10, 2001 ,2001 San Francisco Chronicle: http: www.sfgate.com cgi-bin article.cgi?file chronicle archive 2001 03 10 M N144141.DTL Federal regulators warned power companies yesterday that they may have to refund $69 million to California ratepayers for charging unreasonable prices during recent electricity shortages.", "However, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission left the door wide open for the unnamed 13 generators to avoid refund payments if they could offer \"further justification\" for why their rates should be considered fair.", "Consumer activists were quick to note that the commission's order was significant.", "\"They have acknowledged for the first time that there has been abuse of the marketplace,\" said Doug Heller, assistant organizing director for the Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights in Santa Monica.", "\"It's an acknowledgment that the power companies have been ripping us off.\"" ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 3 ] }, { "title": "e894_p131", "sents": [ "Some power companies, however, may find their claims for the fair market value of their plants undercut by their own tax filings.", "Energy firms, including Duke, told county assessors last year that the utility plants they bought were worth hundreds of millions of dollars less than they paid for them.", "Private companies including Duke, Dynegy, Southern Energy, AES Corp and Calpine spent a total of $3.2 billion to buy divested utility power plants that can produce as much as 20,000 megawatts.", "UNDERLYING PROBLEM UNSOLVED Williams said taking over the property of private companies would not solve the underlying problem behind California's high energy prices: rising demand and an inadequate supply of energy to fill it.", "Even if Davis seized only one plant, the move might spur other power generators to drop their prices, said Doug Heller of the Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights.", "\"As soon as the generators recognize we're ready to go to a public power system and take their plants, they may start selling power at reasonable rates, and we won't have to go down that road,\" Heller said.Chronicle staff writers Tyche Hendricks, Patrick Hoge and Greg Lucas contributed to this report." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 3, 4 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "Washed by the Water", "sents": [ "\"Washed by the Water\" is a 2007 song by the Christian rock band Needtobreathe from their second studio album \"The Heat\".", "It was released as a radio single at the end of 2007, becoming a #1 hit in the spring of 2008.", "It was the sixth most-played song on \"R&R\"'s Christian CHR chart for 2008." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] }, { "title": "Needtobreathe", "sents": [ "Needtobreathe (stylized as NEEDTOBREATHE) is an American Christian rock band from Seneca, South Carolina, United States.", "The band is composed of Bear Rinehart (lead vocals, guitar, piano), Bo Rinehart (backing vocals, guitar), Seth Bolt (backing vocals, bass) and Josh Lovelace (backing vocals, keys).", "To date they have released six studio albums: \"Daylight\" (2006), \"The Heat\" (2007), \"The Outsiders\" (2009), \"The Reckoning\" (2011), \"Rivers in the Wasteland\" (2014), and \"Hard Love\" (2016)." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e19847_p10", "sents": [ "For more information on the conference or to register, please visit www.theleadingedge.org.", "- THE FIRST OF SIX NEW FACULTY PROFILES: TERRENCE HENDERSHOTT JOINS THE MANUFACTURING AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY GROUP Terrence Hendershott has joined the Haas faculty as an assistant professor of manufacturing and information technology.", "Hendershott researches the information technology behind electronic stock markets.", "His previous position was as the Xerox Assistant Professor of Computers & Information Systems at the William E. Simon School of Business Administration at the University of Rochester.", "Hendershott earned his bachelors in mathematics and statistics at Miami University.", "He spent several years in industry, first as a senior analyst at Andersen Consulting then as an associate at Cornerstone Research.", "He went on to earn his Ph.D. in operations, information, and technology at the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University in 1999. In his dissertation at Stanford, Hendershott created a theoretical model of how electronic trading systems compete with stock exchanges." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 1, 2, 3 ] }, { "title": "University of Rochester", "sents": [ "The University of Rochester ( U of R or UR) frequently referred to simply as Rochester, is a private, nonsectarian, research university in Rochester, New York.", "The university grants undergraduate and graduate degrees, including doctoral and professional degrees.", "The university has six schools and various interdisciplinary programs." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 2 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "United Airlines", "sents": [ "United Airlines, Inc., commonly referred to as United, is a major U.S. airline headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.", "It is the world's third-largest airline when measured by revenue, after American Airlines and Delta Air Lines.", "United operates a large domestic and international route network, with an extensive presence in the Asia-Pacific region.", "United is a founding member of Star Alliance, the world's largest airline alliance.", "Regional service is operated by independent carriers under the brand name United Express.", "Its main competitors are American Airlines, Delta Air Lines, and Southwest Airlines." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] }, { "title": "e20451_p47", "sents": [ "1 in CEO school: Never say that your company may soon collapse.", "Seems kind of obvious, but that rule was flouted by United Airlines chief J ames Goodwin, who warned in a letter to employees that the company \"will pe rish\" next year unless it can stanch its tremendous losses, which have wors ened since the terrorist attacks.", "\"Today, we are literally hemorrhaging mon ey,\" he wrote.", "In raising concerns about the financial viability of United, a unit of UAL (UAL:NYSE - news - commentary) Goodwin only put into words what outsiders have speculated about.", "Since Sept. 11, the airline has laid off about 20,0 00 of its 100,000 employees and cut flights by as much as 25%.", "It's expecte d to announce massive losses when it reports third-quarter earnings.", "But in response to the disclosure, Goodwin has been roundly attacked.", "Feeli ng that he had been all too honest, investors have knocked an additional 24 % off the stock's value." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 1 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "Shin-Ochanomizu Station", "sents": [ "Shin-ochanomizu Station (新御茶ノ水駅 , Shin-ochanomizu-eki ) is a subway station on the Tokyo Metro Chiyoda Line in Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan, operated by Tokyo Metro.", "Its station number is C-12." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] }, { "title": "East Japan Railway Company", "sents": [ "East Japan Railway Company (東日本旅客鉄道株式会社 , Higashi-Nihon Ryokaku Tetsudo Kabushiki-gaisha ) is a major passenger railway company in Japan and one of the seven Japan Railways Group companies.", "The company name is officially abbreviated as JR-EAST or JR East in English, and as JR Higashi-Nihon (JR東日本 , Jeiāru Higashi-Nihon ) in Japanese.", "The company's headquarters are in Yoyogi, Shibuya, Tokyo." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "Ohio State Route 4", "sents": [ "State Route 4 (SR 4), formerly known as Inter-county Highway 4 until 1921 and State Highway 4 in 1922, is a major north–south state highway in Ohio.", "It is the fifth longest state route in Ohio.", "Its southern terminus is at U.S. Route 42 in Cincinnati, Ohio, and its northern terminus is at U.S. Route 6 in Sandusky, Ohio.", "Its path is nearly ruler-straight for many miles.", "Some portions of the route are still marked as Dixie Highway.", "The northern portion was constructed by the Columbus and Sandusky Turnpike Company, see Turnpike Lands." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1, 2 ] }, { "title": "U.S. Route 42", "sents": [ "U.S. Route 42 (US 42) is an east–west United States highway that runs southwest-northeast for 355 mi from Louisville, Kentucky to Cleveland, Ohio.", "The route has several names including Pearl Road from Cleveland to Medina in Northeast Ohio, Reading Road in Cincinnati, Cincinnati and Lebanon Pike in southwestern Ohio and Brownsboro Road in Louisville.", "Traveling east, the highway ends in downtown Cleveland, Ohio; and traveling west it ends in Louisville." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "Gas House Kids Go West", "sents": [ "Gas House Kids Go West is a 1947 American comedy film directed by William Beaudine and starring Emory Parnell, Chili Williams and Vince Barnett.", "It was a sequel to the 1946 film \"Gas House Kids\" and followed by a third \"Gas House Kids in Hollywood\"." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] }, { "title": "Emory Parnell", "sents": [ "Emory Parnell (December 29, 1892 – June 22, 1979) was an American vaudeville and actor who appeared in over 250 films in his 36-year career.", "He was nicknamed \"The Big Swede\" and was sometimes credited as \"Emery\" or \"Parnel\"." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e2933_p19", "sents": [ "MobileOne is backed by Keppel Group, Singapore Press Holdings, and Greater Eastern Telecommunications.", "http: www.edgematrix.com http: www.m1.com.sg Sightward Launches and Introduces First Product mail?", "top BELLEVUE, Wash. (VENTUREWIRE) -- Sightward, a predictive analytics c ompany, said it launched and will begin offering products.", "The company recently changed its name from Applied Inference, but has not changed its direction as a result of the new name, a company spokeswoman said.", "In 1999, CTO Rod Cook founded Sightward and is a member of the six person board.", "Kevin Klustner is the company's president and CEO.", "The company has raised $5 million to date from Northwest Venture, Fluke Venture Partners, Timberline Venture Partners eFund, and an undisclosed individual.", "http: www.sightward.com Terrace Mountain Changes Name to Impart Technology mail?", "top AUSTIN (VENTUREWIRE) -- Terrace Mountain Systems, a provider of soft ware for embedded wireless services, said it has changed its name to Impart Technology." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 2, 6 ] }, { "title": "e3556_p12", "sents": [ "http: www.advantage-capital.com e-business technology Names Diem Le as VP, Int'l Relations mail?", "top COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (VENTUREWIRE) -- e-business technology, a security services and product development firm, said it added Diem Le as vice president of international relations.", "Mr.", "Le will be responsible for creati ng and maintaining strategic partnerships and distribution channels for the company's software and services.", "Initial international expansion will focus on the Asia-Pacific region.", "Mr.", "Le most recently served as vice president a nd general manager, Asia operations at MedChannel, a business-to-business healthcare software and services firm.", "e-business technology is backed by Crimson.", "http: www.ebiz-tech.com Howard Diamond Gets Promoted to GetPlugged.com's VP mail?", "top WESTLAKE VILLAGE, Calif. (VENTUREWIRE) -- KnowledgeLinks, parent company to GetPlugged.com, said it promoted Howard Diamond to vice president and gener al manager of GetPlugged.com.", "Mr. Diamond most recently served as director of sales and joined the company in April 1999. KnowledgeLinks is backed by Hewlett-Packard, Mission Ventures, M Group, and Timberline Venture Partners http: www.getplugged.com Metreo Adds Peter Wong as VP of Professional Services mail?" ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 9, 10 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "Thomson Road Grand Prix circuit", "sents": [ "The Thomson Road Grand Prix circuit was a former street circuit on Thomson Road in Singapore.", "It hosted races from 1961 to 1973 under Formula Libre and Australian Formula 2 rules; races until 1965 are now considered part of the lineage of the Malaysian Grand Prix, and races after Singapore's independence in 1966 are considered part of the lineage of the Singapore Grand Prix.", "During the initial years, the main Motorcycle and Car Grand Prix lasted 60 laps, although this was eventually refined into two separate races - a preliminary 20 lap event followed by a 40 lap event.", "The first Singapore Grand Prix of 1961 was won by Ian Barnwell in an Aston Martin DB3S while the first Singapore Grand Prix of post-independence Singapore in 1966 (also run to Formula Libre rules) saw Lee Han Seng win in a Lotus 22 Lotus-Ford.", "The final victory went to Vern Schuppan in a March-Ford in 1973." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 3 ] }, { "title": "Singapore Grand Prix", "sents": [ "The Singapore Grand Prix is a motor race on the calendar of the FIA Formula One World Championship.", "The event takes place on the Marina Bay Street Circuit and was the inaugural night race and first street circuit in Asia for F1 races." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e4432_p12", "sents": [ "The round was led by a consortium of investors including ECI Ventures; Dilmun Investments, a subsidiary of Bahrain International Bank; and Bank Austria Creditanstalt International.", "The company said it will use the financing for increased recruiting and development in its branch offices, including the recently opened Munich office.", "Tim Raffle, director of ECI Ventures, will take a seat on the board of directors as a result of the investment.", "http: www.amaze.co.uk o Internet Services Firm Maptuit Secures $5 Million in Funding TORONTO -- Maptuit, which provides Internet location-based wireline and wireless services, said it raised $5 million in funding.", "Internet operating firm itemus, traded on the Toronto exchange, invested $2.5 million in cash.", "Descartes Systems Group, a provider of Internet logistics services that has a dual listing on the Nasdaq and Toronto exchanges, invested $500,000 in cash and $2 million in common stock.", "The company will use the funding for further technology development and to launch services in Europe and the United States." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 5 ] }, { "title": "Toronto", "sents": [ "Toronto ( , ] ) is the most populous city in Canada and the provincial capital of Ontario.", "With a population in 2016 of 2,731,571, it is the fourth most populous city in North America after Mexico City, New York City, and Los Angeles.", "Toronto is the centre of the Greater Toronto Area (GTA), the most populous metropolitan area in Canada, and anchors the Golden Horseshoe, an urbanized region that is home to 9.2 million people, or over 26% of the population of Canada.", "A global city, Toronto is an international centre of business, finance, arts, and culture." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] } ]