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[ { "title": "e6026_p63", "sents": [ "Moody's ``Ba2'' rating, also two notches below investment grade, has a ``positive'' outlook, meaning it may be raised.", "Growing Debt Fitch cut India's long-term sovereign rating outlook to ``negative'' from ``stable'' on May 31. Fitch, which rates India ``BB+,'' one notch below investment grade, cited ``concerns about fiscal policy, privatization and a deterioration in the investment climate.''", "``Any downward change in the country's rating or outlook will adversely impact investments in India,'' said Kalpana Morparia, executive director of lender ICICI Ltd., which borrowed about $100 million in international markets last year.", "Years of budget deficits have saddled India with 14 trillion rupees ($297 billion) of debt, equal to about 63 percent of GDP.", "Servicing the debt leaves little money to invest in schools, hospitals or other projects that could improve the well-being of Indians and raise the rate of economic growth in the world's second most-populous country.", "The economy expanded 3.8 percent in the quarter ended March 31 from a year earlier, down from 5 percent growth the previous quarter and the slowest pace in nearly three years, as a two-year drought pruned rural incomes." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 2 ] }, { "title": "Kalpana Morparia", "sents": [ "Kalpana Morparia is an Indian banker.", "She was associated with ICICI Bank for thirty three years.", "Presently she is the Chief Executive Officer of JP Morgan India, the Indian extension of a 2.1 trillion dollar American company.", "Kalpana serves as an independent Director on the Boards of several leading Indian companies.", "A graduate in law from Bombay University, Morparia has served on several committees constituted by the Government of India.", "She is ranked by Fortune magazine as one of the fifty most powerful women in international business." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 5 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e20385_p30", "sents": [ "The situation was compounded five years later by fede ral deregulation of the pipeline business.", "So it happened that a gentlemanl y gas pipeline company, Houston Natural Gas (HNG) found itself under attack from Coastal Corporation, Oscar Wyatt's less than gentlemanly firm.", "HNG wa s then run by Lay, a sturdy, taciturn former economics professor and Transc o chief operating officer who had a passion for military strategy.", "(His doc toral thesis at the University of Houston was on supply and demand in the V ietnam War.)", "Lay, who was from Missouri and never succumbed-at least outwar dly-to Texas brashness, had done well enough: Thanks to canny expansions, H NG's pipelines stretched from Florida to California and throughout the stat e of Texas.", "HNG fended off Coastal, but to protect the company from other takeover atte mpts, Lay nimbly engineered the sale of HNG in 1985 to a friendly Nebraska pipeline concern called InterNorth, one of the largest pipeline companies in the country at the time." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 2, 3 ] }, { "title": "University of Houston", "sents": [ "The University of Houston (UH) is a Carnegie Tier One state research university and the flagship institution of the University of Houston System.", "Founded in 1927, UH is the third-largest university in Texas with nearly 43,000 students.", "Its campus spans 667 acres in southeast Houston, and was known as University of Houston–University Park from 1983 to 1991.", "The Carnegie Foundation classifies UH as a doctoral degree-granting institution with \"highest research activity.\"", "The \"U.S. News & World Report\" ranks the university No.", "194 in its National University Rankings, and No.", "103 among top public universities." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e4853_p1", "sents": [ "OFFSITE MEETING OCTOBER 16TH THROUGH OCTOBER 17TH - MONDAY TUESDAY -- AGENDA ATTACHED Hi everyone!", "Attached is the final agenda for Vancouver -- also is the final rooming list with confirmation numbers.", "The Hotel Waterfront is located at 900 Canada Place Way, Vancouver, B.C.", "(604) 691-1991 (phone) and fax is (604) 691-1999. The hotel is approximately half an hour (cab ride) from the airport.", "Cabs are the recommended mode of transportation because the hotel shuttle bus does not run very frequently and it often takes an hour to get to the hotel.", "The meetings will take place in Ballroom A on both days (see ppt presentation for meeting times) there will be signs in the lobby which indicate where the Ballroom is located.", "We will be serving breakfast and lunch Monday and only breakfast on Tuesday.", "Attached are a few web sites if you are interested in any extracurricular activities.", "The Canucks are Vancouver's hockey team and they are playing the Toronto Maple Leafs Monday, October 16th." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 8 ] }, { "title": "Vancouver", "sents": [ "Vancouver ( , ) is a coastal seaport city in Canada, located in the Lower Mainland region of British Columbia.", "As the most populous city in the province, the 2016 census recorded 631,486 people in the city, up from 603,502 in 2011.", "The Greater Vancouver area had a population of 2,463,431 in 2016, making it the third-largest metropolitan area in Canada.", "Vancouver has the highest population density in Canada with over 5,400 people per square kilometre.", "With over 250,000 residents, Vancouver is the fourth-most densely populated city in North America behind New York City, San Francisco, and Mexico City according to the 2011 census.", "Vancouver is one of the most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities in Canada according to that census; 52% of its residents have a first language other than English.", "Vancouver is classed as a Beta global city." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 3 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "Dynegy", "sents": [ "Dynegy Inc. is an electric company based in Houston, Texas, in the United States.", "It owns and operates a number of power stations in the U.S., all of which are natural gas-fueled or coal-fueled.", "The company is located at 601 Travis Street in Downtown Houston.", "The company was founded in 1984 as Natural Gas Clearinghouse.", "It was originally an energy brokerage, buying and selling natural gas supplies.", "It changed its name to NGC Corporation in 1995 after entering the electrical power generation business." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 5 ] }, { "title": "e1368_p18", "sents": [ "* Reliant Energy, another Houston energy conglomerate, said Monday that operating profit for the first quarter rose 35%, to $460 million from $341 million in the year-ago quarter.", "Carol Coale, an analyst with Prudential Securities Inc. in Houston, said increased demand for electricity and natural gas in California and the rest of the country fueled the earnings increases.", "\"Clearly, the California energy crisis has raised the bar on those power and gas trading and marketing profits,\" Coale said.", "\"Opportunities have existed outside California as well.\"", "But the companies all took great pains to note that California operations were only a small part of their businesses.", "Dynegy President Steve Bergstrom said the company has been \"unfairly and inaccurately accused of withholding power from the California market\" to drive up prices and profit.", "When asked about big profits at electricity suppliers, Edison Chief Financial Officer Ted Craver quipped: \"We're envious.\"", "But he quickly turned serious, declining to comment on whether the generators were profiting at the utility's expense." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 5 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e6692_p19", "sents": [ "Harvey Rosenfield, president of the Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights, said the utilities commission's draft agreement would allow a \"secretive agency of dubious competence controlled by the governor and completely unaccountable to the public\" to unilaterally order rate increases.", "\"It was deregulation which g ot us into the mess we are in today,\" Rosenfield said.", "\"Now Wall Street is demanding that the (utilities commission) be forced to surrender its authority and legal responsibility.\"", "He urged the commission to reject the draft proposal.", "Carl Wood, one of five members of the Public Utilities Commission, said the draft agreement was driven largely by legislation empowering the water department as an electricity purchaser.", "With a state department buying power, Wood said, oversight shifts to the governor and th e Legislature.", "Commissioner Richard Bilas said he saw the agreement as empowering the water department as \"prosecutor, judge and jury\" in matters of electricity purchasing." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 6 ] }, { "title": "e894_p195", "sents": [ "Despite PG&E's bankruptcy action, \"the fundamentals haven't changed,\" said California Public Utilities Commissioner Richard Bilas Saturday.", "\"We haven't enough supply and too much demand .It's not good.", "It really isn't.\"", "The market's vulnerability to manipulation That dearth of power is primarily responsible for driving up the price of power, which heavily contributed to PG&E's financial troubles, since the rate it has been permitted by law to charge its customers doesn't cover all its power costs.", "But California officials accuse electricity suppliers of also manipulating the energy market to help those prices rise.", "Among other things, the companies have been accused of switching off some of their plants just before demand for power soars, to earn top dollar for the electricity they produce from other plants.", "That charge has been vehemently denied by suppliers.", "But state officials are suspicious, because in recent months more than a fourth of the state's entire generating capacity has been out of commission for what their operators claim was necessary maintenance." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e659_p16", "sents": [ "The Haas School was mentioned in a BusinessWeek article on March 26 about part-time MBA programs.", "Laura Tyson's Economic Viewpoint column in the March 26 issue of BusinessWeek was about President Bush's tax cut plan.", "David Vogel, the George Quist Professor of Business Ethics, was quoted in the Los Angeles Times on March 25 in an article titled, \"Groups Gear Up to Battle Hemispheric Pact.\"", "Vogel commented that as free trade encourages economic growth in Latin America, environmental activism would follow.", "Russ Winer, the J. Gary Shansby Professor of Marketing Strategy and the chair of the Marketing Group, was quoted on the use of census data by marketing firms in the San Francisco Chronicle on March 25. Read the full text of \"Marketers See Treasure Trove In Census Data\" http: www.sfgate.com cgi-bin article.cgi?file chronicle archive 2001 03 25 M N157059.DTL.", "Dean Tyson was quoted in the New York Times on March 24 on the difficulties of finding a political solution to the California energy crisis." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 4 ] }, { "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 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e2985_p12", "sents": [ "Lawyers representing the generators did not return phone calls.", "Politicians try to stay plugged in: Fear that the power crisis will short-circuit their jobs pushes leaders to foster an active image.", "By Emily Bazar Bee Capitol Bureau (Published May 18, 2001) Rising unemployment is one of the many dire predictions spawned by the state's worsening energy crisis.", "Among those worried about losing their jobs: California politicians.", "Fearing for their hides, state leaders are moving forcefully into the energ y fray, hoping both to fend off irritated voters and emerge from their typically low-profile posts.", "Lt. Gov.", "Cruz Bustamante recently filed suit against five energy generators Attorney General Bill Lockyer offered rewards of at least $50 million to informants who could help prove market manipulation by power sellers.", "And state Treasurer Phil Angelides has aggressively pushed for a state-run powe r authority.", "\"We're seeing among a range of officeholders on the Democratic and Republic an side that they want to be seen as being out front of this issue,\" said Mark Baldassare, a senior fellow at the Public Policy Institute of California." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 8 ] }, { "title": "e586_p4", "sents": [ "As for the potential political fallout, South said the governor and Democrats remain in a strong position.", "After all, he said, the deregulation plan was pushed through by a Republican governor and Republicans in Washington are blocking efforts to cap prices.", "Jack Pitney, government professor at Claremont McKenna College, predicted Davis could weather the electricity crisis.", "\"People who are following it know it's roots run deeper than the Davis administration and the Republicans don't have any plausible alternatives,\" he said.", "\"My read of public opinion is people don't think there's a simple and easy solution and they're not expecting one.", "They may be impatient but they won't necessarily take it out on (Davis).\"", "It's too early to predict the political outcome, said Mark Baldassare, pollster at the Public Policy Institute of California.", "\"The impacts won't be clear until people have gone through a few billing cycles and we've gone through the summer blackouts, until we see what the personal impacts are so we know what the political impacts are,\" he said." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 6 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e20385_p21", "sents": [ "How Enron Blew It Texas Monthly November 2001 Less than a year ago, the Houston-based energy behemoth had everything: mon ey, power, glitz, smarts, new ideas, and a CEO who wanted to make it the mo st important company in the world.", "Now its stock is down, wall street is be arish, and the CEO is gone.", "What went wrong?", "by Mimi Swartz <http: www.texasmonthly.com mag issues authors mimiswartz.p hp THE ENRON SKYSCRAPER NEAR THE SOUTH END OF HOUSTON'S DOWNTOWN feels like th e international headquarters of the best and the brightest.", "The lobby in no way resembles the hushed, understated entryways of the old-fashioned oil c ompanies, like Shell and Texaco nearby.", "Enron, in contrast, throbs with mod ernity.", "The people hustling in and out of the elevators are black, white, b rown; Asian, Middle Eastern, European, African, as well as American-born.", "T hey are young, mostly under 35, and dressed in the aggressively casual unif orm of the tech industry-the guys wear khakis, polo shirts, and Banana Repu blic button-downs." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 3, 4 ] }, { "title": "Texaco", "sents": [ "Texaco, Inc. (\"\"The Texas Company\"\") is an American oil subsidiary of Chevron Corporation.", "Its flagship product is its fuel \"Texaco with Techron\".", "It also owns the Havoline motor oil brand.", "Texaco was an independent company until its refining operations merged into Chevron Corporation in 2001, at which time most of its station franchises were divested to the Shell Oil Company.", "It began as the Texas Fuel Company, founded in 1901 in Beaumont, Texas, by Joseph S. Cullinan, Thomas J. Donoghue, Walter Benona Sharp, and Arnold Schlaet upon the discovery of oil at Spindletop." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 3 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "San Diego", "sents": [ "San Diego ( , Spanish for \"Saint Didacus\"; Spanish: ] ) is a major city in California, United States.", "It is in San Diego County, on the coast of the Pacific Ocean in Southern California, approximately 120 mi south of Los Angeles and immediately adjacent to the border with Mexico." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] }, { "title": "e4381_p6", "sents": [ "Unfortunately, in the two states where prices have been fully deregulated, the evidence is not encouraging.", "In San Diego, the first place in California to have its state-mandated cap on utility rates lifted under deregulation, electricity bills for many consumers this summer doubled, while power blackouts also rolled through Northern California.", "New York's experience wasn't quite as bad.", "But in the few counties there that were exposed to fully deregulated electricity rates this summer, the average residential bill rose 22 percent.", "Investigations are under way in California and New York to determine what happened.", "Nonetheless, the problems in both states have been largely blamed on an insufficient supply of power plants to meet their demand for electricity, which has forced consumers to pay just about whatever power-producing firms want to charge.", "``It's the piece that the economists missed'' when deregulation was touted several years ago, said Mike Donovan, a spokesman for Orange and Rockland Utilities, Inc., which supplies power to Susan Peckman's Pearl River liquor store, among other parts of New York." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 1 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e6231_p27", "sents": [ "React.com shut down in June and retained no staff members.", "Along with Yahoo!, JP Kids is jointly developing Yahooligans!", "as a multiple media franchise for television, film, books and the Internet.", "JP Kids is backed by outside individual investors.", "http: www.jpkids.com http: www.react.com Online Chemical Exchange ChemConnect Buys Chem Brokerage UCB SAN FRANCISCO -- ChemConnect, an Internet exchange for chemicals, plastics, and industrial gases, said it has acquired United States petrochemical broker Universal Chemical Brokerage (UCB).", "UCB brokers may now provide online and offline brokering services through ChemConnect's exchange, while UCB clients will have the option of posting their own buy and sell offers.", "ChemConnect is funded by Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley Dean Witter, Institutional Venture Partners (IVP), Weiss, Peck & Greer, CMEA Ventures, Highland Capital Partners, and Vulcan Ventures.", "UCB is self-financed.", "http: www.chemconnect.com PentaSafe Acquires Security Policy Firm Baseline Software HOUSTON -- PentaSafe Security Technologies, which provides software for IT auditing and security management companies, said it will acquire Baseline Software, publisher of an information security policy guide, for an undisclosed sum." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 6 ] }, { "title": "Institutional Venture Partners", "sents": [ "Institutional Venture Partners (IVP) is a US-based private equity investment firm focusing on later-stage venture capital and growth equity investments.", "IVP is one of the oldest venture capital firms on Sand Hill Road founded in 1980." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e3558_p31", "sents": [ "Russell H. Jeans San Pedro LOAD-DATE: May 31, 2001 12 of 114 DOCUMENTS Copyright 2001 Los Angeles Times Los Angeles Times May 31, 2001 Thursday Home Edition SECTION: California; Part 2; Page 8; Metro Desk LENGTH: 759 words HEADLINE: The State; Bush Blunders Into Equal Footing With Davis BYLINE: GEORGE SKELTON DATELINE: SACRAMENTO BODY: When the president holds a \"summit\" with a governor, you can figure one of three things: this president--politically--is weak, desperate or inept.", "With President Bush, we've just seen indications of all three.", "Presidents of the United States simply do not hold summits with governors--of any state.", "Presidents hold summits with leaders of equal stature: other heads of state or prime ministers.", "A governor is not a head of state.", "Sacramento is not a little Washington.", "It's a big Carson City.", "Ronald Reagan never held a summit with Jerry Brown.", "Bill Clinton barely acknowledged the existence of Pete Wilson." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 8 ] }, { "title": "Bill Clinton", "sents": [ "William Jefferson Clinton (born William Jefferson Blythe III; August 19, 1946) is an American politician who served as the 42nd President of the United States from 1993 to 2001.", "Prior to the presidency, he was the Governor of Arkansas during two separate terms, from 1979 to 1981, and again from 1983 to 1992.", "Before that, he served as Arkansas attorney general, from 1977 to 1979.", "A member of the Democratic Party, Clinton was ideologically a New Democrat and many of his policies reflected a centrist \"Third Way\" political philosophy." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e9389_p30", "sents": [ "Harmony Software is backed by investors including Chevron Technology Ventures, Commonwealth Associates, Dain Rauscher Wessels, HCL Technologies, APV Technology Partners, Greenfield Technology Ventures, KMPG, NIF Ventures, and Red Rock Ventures.", "http: www.harmony.com Telezoo.com Names Newbridge Networks Exec as President, CEO ARLINGTON, Va. -- Telezoo.com, a business-to-business telecommunications marketplace, said it named Giulio Gianturco as president and CEO.", "Mr. Gianturco previously served as the executive vice president and general manager of Newbridge Networks.", "Investors for telezoo.com include Lazard Technology.", "http: www.telezoo.com Former MCI Exec Becomes First SecureWorks President, CEO ATLANTA -- SecureWorks, a provider of Internet security monitoring and response services, named Jardon T. Bouska as its first president and CEO.", "Prior to joining SecureWorks, Mr. Bouska worked with MCI and MCI WorldCom.", "SecureWorks had a $9 million first round and is currently in the process of raising its second round of funding.", "SecureWorks is backed by Noro-Moseley Partners, Alliance Technology Ventures, and ITC Holding Company." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 2 ] }, { "title": "Newbridge Networks", "sents": [ "Newbridge Networks was an Ottawa, Ontario, Canada company founded by Welsh-Canadian entrepreneur Sir Terry Matthews.", "It was founded in 1986 to create data and voice networking products after Matthews was forced out of his original company Mitel.", "According to Matthews, he saw that data networking would grow far faster than voice networking, and he had wanted to take Mitel in much the same direction, but the 'risk-averse' British Telecom dominated Mitel board refused and effectively ousted him.", "The name Newbridge Networks comes from Sir Terry Matthews' home town of Newbridge in south Wales." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "Rehana Khatoon", "sents": [ "Rehana Khatoon (Born: 30 August 1948) is an Indian scholar, teacher of Persian language, former Head of the Department of Persian, University of Delhi and the author of \"Encyclopaedia of Persian Language and Literature (India and Pakistan)\".", "She was honoured by the Government of India, in 2014, by bestowing on her the Padma Shri, the fourth highest civilian award, for her contributions to the propagation of Persian language and literature.", "Rehana Khatoon is the first woman alumni of the Aligarh Muslim University to be awarded the Padma Shri." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 2 ] }, { "title": "Aligarh Muslim University", "sents": [ "Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) is a public central university.", "It was originally established by Sir Syed Ahmad Khan as Mohammedan Anglo-Oriental College in 1875.", "The Mohammedan Anglo-Oriental College became Aligarh Muslim University in 1920.", "The main campus of AMU is located in the city of Aligarh.", "Spread over 467.6 hectares, AMU offers more than 300 courses in both traditional and modern branches of education.", "In addition to this it has its three off-campus centres at Malappuram (Kerala), Murshidabad (West Bengal) and Kishanganj (Bihar).", "The university comprises all castes, creeds, religions and genders, and is an Institute of National Importance provided under the Seventh Schedule of the Constitution at its commencement." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 3 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "Neodactria cochisensis", "sents": [ "Neodactria cochisensis is a moth in the Crambidae family.", "It was described by Landry and Albu in 2012.", "It is found in North America, where it has been recorded from the Huachuca Mountains and Chiricahua Mountains in Arizona." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 2 ] }, { "title": "Chiricahua Mountains", "sents": [ "The Chiricahua Mountains massif is a large mountain range in southeastern Arizona which is part of the Basin and Range province of the west and southwest USA and northwest Mexico; the range is part of the Coronado National Forest.", "The highest point, Chiricahua Peak, rises 9759 ft above sea level, approximately 6000 ft above the surrounding valleys." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "McIntosh College", "sents": [ "McIntosh College, founded in 1896, was an educational institution located in Dover, New Hampshire.", "It granted Associate's degrees and Bachelor's degrees in a variety of vocational areas, including business management, criminal justice, culinary arts, graphic design and massage therapy.", "The college closed in 2009." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] }, { "title": "Dover, New Hampshire", "sents": [ "Dover is a city in Strafford County, New Hampshire, United States.", "The population was 29,987 at the 2010 census, the largest in the New Hampshire Seacoast region.", "The population was estimated at 31,153 in 2016.", "It is the county seat of Strafford County, and home to Wentworth-Douglass Hospital, the Woodman Institute Museum, and the Children's Museum of New Hampshire." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 3 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "San Diego", "sents": [ "San Diego ( , Spanish for \"Saint Didacus\"; Spanish: ] ) is a major city in California, United States.", "It is in San Diego County, on the coast of the Pacific Ocean in Southern California, approximately 120 mi south of Los Angeles and immediately adjacent to the border with Mexico." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] }, { "title": "e8671_p2", "sents": [ "''This will only get tougher.''", "Mr. Dorinson said the shortfall was the result of several factors, including the fact that a number of power plants were not running because of maintenance or would have violated air quality standards if they had.", "Additionally, power imports from the Northwest were cut in half because of a cold snap there, he said.", "Californians have been plagued since last May by both an electricity supply shortage as well as high prices, the result of deregulation.", "Consumers in San Diego revolted last summer when electricity bills nearly tripled and when officials said the state had severe energy shortfalls 23 times.", "But emergencies like the one this week are almost unheard of in late fall when usage is usually low compared with summer.", "''If you have rolling blackouts, that shows that the system is failing,'' said Paul Jaskow, a professor of economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who has studied the deregulation of California's electricity market." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 4 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e20427_p11", "sents": [ "The board changed that so that the state now assesses the plant, spreading the money out across the county.", "That means big losses for a city such as Pittsburg, which has been fighting the plan.", "The city -- which has two new power plants -- expected $10 million in property tax revenue.", "With the changes, that will be reduced to just $400,000, said John Knox, an attorney hired by the city.", "Pittsburg Vice Mayor Frank Aiello said the property tax revenue was one reason the city agreed to have the plants built in its community.", "\"You'll see more and more power plants not being sited,\" he told the board.", "\"There will be an even bigger energy crisis.\"", "He said the move will have a \"devastating effect\" on the city's redevelopment agency.", "Supporters of the plan believe power generators have gotten off too easy under local assessors.", "That is because counties are barred from increasing assessments more than 2 percent a year under Proposition 13. Ontario Electricity Market Inches Closer To Deregulation CALGARY -(Dow Jones)- The province of Ontario opened another door to electric deregulation Wednesday, issuing tough new emission standards for industry and lifting a two-year moratorium on the sale of provincially owned coal-fired generation plants." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 3, 4 ] }, { "title": "John Knox", "sents": [ "John Knox (  1513 – 24 November 1572) was a Scottish minister, theologian, and writer who was a leader of the country's Reformation.", "He is the founder of the Presbyterian Church of Scotland.", "He is believed to have been educated at the University of St Andrews and worked as a notary-priest.", "Influenced by early church reformers such as George Wishart, he joined the movement to reform the Scottish church.", "He was caught up in the ecclesiastical and political events that involved the murder of Cardinal David Beaton in 1546 and the intervention of the regent of Scotland Mary of Guise, a French noblewoman.", "He was taken prisoner by French forces the following year and exiled to England on his release in 1549." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e19703_p33", "sents": [ "``They'd have hurt their credibility if they'd said otherwise,'' Vuchetich said.", "$1.5 Billion Enron said it received $1.5 billion in cash yesterday from ChevronTexaco as part of the Dynegy buyout agreement.", "In return, Dynegy will acquire preferred stock and other rights in an Enron unit that owns the Northern Natural Gas pipeline.", "If the merger isn't completed, Dynegy will have the right to acquire Northern Natural Gas, Enron said today in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.", "ChevronTexaco, the second- largest based United States oil company, will provide Dynegy with another $1 billion after the merger closes.", "McMahon also said the company is in talks with several private investors.", "The company expects to receive $500 million to $1 billion from these sources, McMahon said.", "``Our debt balance is too high, and we need to raise equity capital,'' McMahon said.", "``In this environment we can't raise public equity capital very efficiently so we need to go to other sources.''" ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 1 ] }, { "title": "Dynegy", "sents": [ "Dynegy Inc. is an electric company based in Houston, Texas, in the United States.", "It owns and operates a number of power stations in the U.S., all of which are natural gas-fueled or coal-fueled.", "The company is located at 601 Travis Street in Downtown Houston.", "The company was founded in 1984 as Natural Gas Clearinghouse.", "It was originally an energy brokerage, buying and selling natural gas supplies.", "It changed its name to NGC Corporation in 1995 after entering the electrical power generation business." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "Alexis de Tocqueville", "sents": [ "Alexis Charles Henri Clérel, Viscount de Tocqueville ( ; ] ; 29 July 180516 April 1859) was a French diplomat, political scientist, and historian.", "He was best known for his works \"Democracy in America\" (appearing in two volumes: 1835 and 1840) and \"The Old Regime and the Revolution\" (1856).", "In both he analyzed the improved living standards and social conditions of individuals, as well as their relationship to the market and state in Western societies.", "\"Democracy in America\" was published after Tocqueville's travels in the United States and is today considered an early work of sociology and political science." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] }, { "title": "e11165_p3", "sents": [ "But once the first wave of selling is over, a standard guess is that the capital gains tax cut will cost about $20 billion a year.", "When the government decides to spend $20 billion a year on a tax incentive, shouldn't it choose one likely to boost economic growth for everyone?", "And shouldn't it be part of a package that avoids further tilting our distribution of income in an unhealthy direction?", "The overall effect of the Republican tax proposals on the distribution of income gives the impression that the congressional majority is waging a onesided class war: the cuts in the Earned Income Tax Credit and the details of how the child credit is paid add up to roughly $2.2 billion a year in tax increases on families with annual incomes less than $30,000, and tax decreases of some $2.8 billion$7,000 or so per familyon those with incomes of more than $200,000. Early in the nineteenth century, Alexis de Tocqueville wrote in the introduction to Democracy in America of \"equality of conditions as the creative element\" that made America great." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 3 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e2985_p15", "sents": [ "\"They're not interested in all the complexity.\"", "Republican political consultant Wayne Johnson recommends that all politicia ns who want to be re-elected engage themselves and get to know the power issue \"backward and forward.\"", "Consultants say pollsters are busier than usual, as politicians rush to determine their standing -- and that of their opponents -- with voters.", "So far, those who have seen the results say Republicans and Democrats are taking an equal beating.", "\"Every politician in the state's popularity rating is lower than it once was,\" said Davis pollster Paul Maslin.", "Though lawmakers like to say they inherited the crisis from the previous administration and Legislature, that explanation doesn't resonate with Californians, who are more interested in solutions.", "Many voters are saying they don't care who was in power at the time deregulation was conceived and they don't care who is in power now, South said.", "They just want it to be over." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 4, 5 ] }, { "title": "e3075_p34", "sents": [ "\"And there is no better example of that than the fact he does nothing to control runaway prices in California.\"", "In addition to portraying Bush as ignoring the plight of California--t he nation's largest electoral prize--Democrats see Bush's energy response as a way of confirming their broader assertion that he is captive to oil interes ts.", "\"This is a way for us to show how they are really an administration an da party that is bought and paid for by special interests,\" said Jenny Backu s, a spokeswoman for the Democratic National Committee.", "To press the case, the party has created a snide Web site--www.grandoldpetroleum--and will soon start running TV ads attacking G OP lawmakers over the energy issue, including in California.", "Paul Maslin, the governor's pollster, said Davis had given the preside nt a grace period after he took office in January to see how Bush would addres s the energy problem." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 4 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e2250_p38", "sents": [ "He remains president and chief executive officer of the company Allegheny Energy said it completed the acquisition of three gas- fired electricity generating plants in the Midwest from Enron Corp. Allegheny Energy also said it sold 14.26 million shares in a public offering at a price of $48.25 a share IT Group Inc. won a services contract valued at more than $100 million from Brooks Air Force Base in Texas H.J.", "Heinz Co. will launch a line of frozen single-serving pizza under the Smart Ones Bistro banner and a line of barbecue grilling sauces under the Jack Daniel's label.", "Both products are being shipped to stores this month.", "Enron's Dabhol to Meet Indian Panel Over $64 Mln Debt (Update1) 2001-05-04 02:40 (New York) Enron's Dabhol to Meet Indian Panel Over $64 Mln Debt (Update1) (Adds the meeting date in the fifth paragraph.)", "Mumbai, May 4 (Bloomberg) -- Enron Corp.'s Dabhol Power Co. agreed to meet with a negotiating committee from India's Maharashtra state regarding a dispute over 3 billion rupees ($64 million) in unpaid bills." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 4 ] }, { "title": "Mumbai", "sents": [ "Mumbai ( ; also known as Bombay, the official name until 1995) is the capital city of the Indian state of Maharashtra.", "It is the most populous city in India with an estimated city population of 18.4 million.", "Along with the neighbouring regions of the Mumbai Metropolitan Region, it is second most populous metropolitan area in India, with a population of 21.3 million as of 2016 .", "Mumbai lies on the Konkan on the west coast of India and has a deep natural harbour." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "Nortel", "sents": [ "Nortel Networks Corporation, formerly known as Northern Telecom Limited, Northern Electric and sometimes known simply as Nortel, was a multinational telecommunications and data networking equipment manufacturer headquartered in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada.", "It was founded in Montreal, Quebec in 1895 as the Northern Electric and Manufacturing Company.", "At its height, Nortel accounted for more than a third of the total valuation of all the companies listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX), employing 94,500 people worldwide." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] }, { "title": "e3331_p0", "sents": [ "VentureWire Thursday, May 24, 2001 CONTENTS COMPANIES INVESTORS ADVERTISE TELL A FRIEND VentureW ire Index 'VentureWire today: 736.0 -0.03% top stories Online Financial Technology Firm Xigo Closes Down Auxyn Bioscience Ventures Raising $200 Million Fund SpaceVest III Makes First Closing at $82M, Targets $150M BlueLight.com to Make Layoffs; Will Use More Kmart Staff TODAY'S FEATURES Concord Ventures Begins Raising Fourth Fund By Jonathan Shieber Concord Ventures, an Israeli venture capital investor, has begun rais ing its fourth fund, Concord Ventures III, according to partner Batsheva Elran.", "more UPCOMING EVENTS June 5-6: San Francisco Mobile Outlook 2001 Anthony Alles, formerly of Shasta Networks (acquired by Nortel for $3 40 million) is back with a new venture called Tahoe Networks.", "Mobile Outlook will showcase for the first time their plans to merge the worlds of data an d mobility.", "With industry leaders such as Anthony Alles planning to be at Mobile Outlook, you should be too." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 1 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "2014 SEABA Under-18 Championship", "sents": [ "The 2014 SEABA Under-18 Championship was the qualifying tournament for Southeast Asia Basketball Association at the 2014 FIBA Asia Under-18 Championship.", "The tournament was the ninth edition and was held in Tawau, in Sabah, Malaysia from May 5 to 7.", "The top two teams represented SEABA in the 2014 FIBA Asia Under-18 Championship." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] }, { "title": "Tawau", "sents": [ "Tawau (] , Jawi: تاواو‎ , ) formerly known as Tawao, is a town and administrative centre of Tawau Division, Sabah, Malaysia.", "It is the third-largest town in Sabah, after Kota Kinabalu and Sandakan.", "It is bordered by the Sulu Sea to the east, the Celebes Sea to the south at Cowie Bay and shares a border with North Kalimantan.", "The town had an estimated population as of 2010 of 113,809, while the whole municipality area had a population of 397,673." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 3 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "Maharashtra State Electricity Board", "sents": [ "Maharashtra State Electricity Board (or MSEB) ( Marathi:महाराष्ट्र राज्य विद्युत मंडळ) is a state-owned electricity regulation board operating within the state of Maharashtra in India.", "The MSEB was formed on 20 June 1960 under Section 5 of the Electricity (Supply) Act, 1948.", "In 1998 it was the second largest electricity generating utility in India after National Thermal Power Corporation." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] }, { "title": "e5876_p15", "sents": [ "\"There is an efficient overlap (with the EFET group) and no efforts are being duplicated,\" Spicker said.", "-By Germana Canzi, Dow Jones Newswires; 44 20 78429283; [email protected] Copyright 2000 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved.", "Enron Direct Cda Enters Alta.", "Retail Electric, Gas Mkts 06 26 2001 Dow Jones News Service (Copyright (c) 2001, Dow Jones & Company, Inc.) CALGARY -(Dow Jones)- Enron Corp.'s (ENE) Enron Direct Canada Corp. unit has entered the retail electricity and natural gas markets in Alberta, targeting all commercial and light industrial businesses.", "In a press release, Enron Direct said it will provide large and small businesses in Alberta with \"predictable term pricing\" for electricy and natural gas.", "Company Web Site: http: www.enrondirect.com -Stephanie Thomas, Dow Jones Newswires; 416-306-2100 Copyright 2000 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved.", "India Court Dismisses Enron Petition On MERC - Report 06 26 2001 Dow Jones International News (Copyright (c) 2001, Dow Jones & Company, Inc.) BOMBAY -(Dow Jones)- India's provincial High Court in Bombay Tuesday dismissed Dabhol Power Co.'s petition challenging the jurisdiction of Maharashtra State Electricity Regulatory Commission, or MERC, to adjudicate on the payment dispute between Maharashtra State Electricity Board and the company, the Press Trust of India reported." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 6 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e3679_p12", "sents": [ "In their zeal for free-market competition and their ideological commitment to shifting authority away from Washington to the states, FERC's commissioners brushed aside their qualms and let the process roll forward.", "\"There were a lot of issues that got swept under the rug,\" said economist Carolyn A. Berry, who headed FERC's analysis of the California plan.", "\"We were trying to point out the ugly warts, but it wasn't our job to set policy.\"", "Former FERC Chairman James J. Hoecker, who presided over the approval, said the agency \"should have been far less deferential.\"", "John Rozsa, a state legislative analyst who played a key role in the deregulation law, laughed when he heard that.", "\"FERC wanted it badly,\" he said.", "Today, FERC stands accused of failing to exercise its oversight, enforcement and political muscle just when they were needed most.", "The agency, critics on the inside and outside agree, helped launch a radical economics experiment without sufficient preparation, adequate staff or a clear sense of how to carry out its mission." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 3 ] }, { "title": "e3880_p4", "sents": [ "\"It's not that simple.\"", "The most heated discussion came when Michael Shames, executive director of UCAN, Utility Consumers Action Network, said FERC was \"on trial\" and could lose its case for deregulation.", "FERC Chairman James J. Hoecker, said it was natural to look for blame on the part of power generators.", "But he added that \"making a lot of money gets a bad rap when individual electricity consumers are hurting.\"", "He also asked a panel of power producers directly to ask why they were \"gaming the system.\"", "\"We feel we've conducted business not only legally, but ethically,\" said Bill Hall, managing director of commercial affairs at Duke Energy, which owns 4 percent of power generation in the state.", "\"We don't anticipate to make profits like this as soon as supply keeps up with demand.\"", "John Stout, vice president of the Southwest region for Reliant Energy, said he was certainly in business \"to make a profit.\"" ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 2 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e2074_p29", "sents": [ "Petrobras said it will buy the 25.38% stake Enron owns in CEG as well as the 33.75% stake the United States energy company has in local unit CEG-Rio.", "The company didn't disclose the value of the deal.", "Market observers have said Enron's interest in CEG carries a price tag of about $200 million.", "The deal will likely be sealed in 90 days, Petrobras said.", "Petrobras officials had already voiced interest in a stake in CEG, which serves the metropolitan Rio de Janeiro area, and CEG-Rio, which supplies industrial towns in the greater Rio de Janeiro region and the interior of the state.", "Delcidio do Amaral Gomez, Petrobras' energy and gas director, said earlier this year the interest in CEG is part of the group's strategy to participate in gas distribution companies serving Brazil's most-industrialized states of Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro and Minas Gerais, thus finding buyers for its natural-gas output." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 5 ] }, { "title": "Rio de Janeiro", "sents": [ "Rio de Janeiro ( ; ] ; \"River of January\"), or simply Rio, is the second-most populous municipality in Brazil and the sixth-most populous in the Americas.", "The metropolis is anchor to the Rio de Janeiro metropolitan area, the second-most populous metropolitan area in Brazil and sixth-most populous in the Americas.", "Rio de Janeiro the capital of the state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil's third-most populous state.", "Part of the city has been designated as a World Heritage Site, named \"\"Rio de Janeiro: Carioca Landscapes between the Mountain and the Sea\"\", by UNESCO on 1 July 2012 as a Cultural Landscape." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1, 2 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e3579_p15", "sents": [ "The funding follows a recent announcement that NewMonics had expanded its management team.", "http: www.newmonics.com Online Marketer Dynamic Trade Raises $7 Million Round Two CHICAGO -- Dynamic Trade, a provider of performance-based online marketing, said it has raised $7 million in its second round funding from lead investor Tribune, along with KB Partners, Portage Venture's Greystone Venture Fund and Nelson Capital Corporation.", "Dynamic Trade plans to use the new funding to support the sales and marketing of its services, expand its current suite of performance marketing services and for new product development.", "Dynamic Trade raised its previous round of funding from KB Partners, Potage Venture's Greystone Venture Fund, and Blumenstein Thorne Information Partners.", "http: www.dynamictrade.com Pharmaceutical Firm OnSite Rx Secures $12 Million Round Two LA JOLLA, Calf.", "-- OnSite Rx, which provides pharmaceutical electronic commerce management and automated medication dispensing systems, said it received $12 million in its second round of funding." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 1 ] }, { "title": "e4854_p25", "sents": [ "The companies did not disclose financial terms of the deal, but said Sierra Digital will become a division of Active.com.", "Both companies have retained all of their employees.", "Active.com, formally ActiveUSA.com, merged with RaceGate.com in November of last year.", "Active.com is backed by Austin Ventures, Enterprise Partners, KB Partners, Kettle Partners, New World Ventures, Ticketmaster Online-CitySearch, and individual investors, including Tour de France cycling champion Lance Armstrong.", "http: www.active.com Vsource to Buy Net Exchange Firm OTT for $7 Million in Stock LOS ANGELES -- Online Transaction Technologies (OTT), an application service provider and an online marketplace enabler, said it has signed a preliminary agreement to be acquired by Vsource, a provider of end-to-end Internet procurement services for $7 million stock.", "OTT's largest shareholder, Cumetrix Data Systems, said that its board of directors has voted in favor of the transaction.", "Cumetrix particpated in a second round of financing for OTT in March." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 3 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "Krishna Raja Sagara", "sents": [ "Krishna Raja Sagara, also popularly known as KRS, is the name of both a lake and the dam that creates it.", "It is located close to the settlement of Krishnarajasagara in the Indian State of Karnataka.", "The gravity dam made of \"surki\" mortar is situated below the confluence of river Kaveri with its tributaries Hemavati and Lakshmana Tirtha, in the district of Mandya." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 2 ] }, { "title": "Lakshmana Tirtha", "sents": [ "The Lakshmana Tirtha (Lakshmantīrtha River) is a river of Karnataka, India.", "It rises in Kodagu district and flows eastward.", "It joins the Kaveri in the Krishna Raja Sagara lake." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e7287_p20", "sents": [ "Bryan Finkel and Jon Kane founded the fund in June.", "http: www.advanta.com VC Personnel o Bessemer Venture Partners Names Two New West Coast Partners MENLO PARK, Calif -- Bessemer Venture Partners, an early-stage venture capital firm which invests in communications technology and Internet infrastructure, said it has added Rob Chandra and Saurabh Srivastava as partners in its Menlo Park office.", "Mr. Chandra previously served as a partner at Commonwealth, where he frequently co-invested with Bessemer.", "He also held managerial positions at McKinsey & Company and Andersen Consulting.", "Mr. Srivastava previously served as a director of Cisco Systems' acquisitions group, where he managed all of Cisco's acquisitions in the voice and wireless communications areas.", "He also held postions at Digital Equipment, Kaleida Labs, and Silicon Graphics.", "http: www.bvp.com VW Corrections o drkoop.com NEW YORK -- An item in Friday's VentureWire incorrectly identified Cramer Rosenthal McGlynn as a drkoop.com investor." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 1 ] }, { "title": "Bessemer Venture Partners", "sents": [ "Bessemer Venture Partners (BVP) is an American global venture capital firm founded in 1911.", "The firm has $4.5 billion under management and operates offices in Menlo Park, San Francisco, New York City, Boston, Israel, and India." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "Chesapeake Bay", "sents": [ "The Chesapeake Bay ( ) is an estuary in the U.S. states of Maryland and Virginia, lying inland from the Atlantic Ocean and surrounded to the west by the North American mainland and to the east by the Delmarva Peninsula.", "It is the largest estuary in North America.", "With its northern portion in Maryland and the southern part in Virginia, the Chesapeake Bay is a very important feature for the ecology and economy of those two states, as well as others.", "More than 150 major rivers and streams flow into the Bay's 64299 sqmi drainage basin, which covers parts of six states (New York, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia and West Virginia) and all of Washington, D.C." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] }, { "title": "e1060_p46", "sents": [ "Critics say that's the very reason federal regulators need to give the plan a hard look.", "Those voicing concerns are not just neighbors of the plant.", "The list of official interveners in the federal review includes the Maryland Department of Natural Resources, which wants time to assess the plan.", "While the department does not oppose the project, it is against a request by Williams that the federal commission expedite the review, said Richard McLean, a department manager of nuclear programs.", "McLean has maintained that an expedited review would not allow enough time to assess concerns such as the effect of the tankers on the Chesapeake Bay or potential risks the renewed operation might pose to nearby Calvert Cliffs, which won relicensing from the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission last year.", "A three-decade-old environmental assessment is not valid today, McLean said, referring to the last time such issues were fully examined for the gas plant." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 4 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e619_p48", "sents": [ "Similarly, Bharti has also announced its plans to enter the NLD service segment.", "Through Spectranet, Bharti would be able to offer basic services in Delhi and Bangalore, much ahead of the other players like Reliance and Essar.", "Bharti, which has itself laid about 100 km of optic fibre in Delhi, has applied for basic telephony licences in eight states, including Delhi and Karnataka.", "Great Expectations Despite the hype, worldwide broadband penetration is presently very low.", "And India is no exception.", "Take, for example, the United States where only 1.8 per cent of homes have broadband access, while 27 per cent have narrowband access.", "However, most analysts say that in the next five years, at least 50 per cent of online homes in the US will have broadband access via modems.", "However, the Asia-Pacific region is moving faster than the West as far as broadband connectivity is concerned.", "For instance, Singapore is fully broadband-wired." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 1 ] }, { "title": "Spectranet", "sents": [ "Spectra (formerly Spectranet) is a Gurgaon-based internet service provider which offers fiber optic broadband services to residential, business, and enterprise customers across India.", "It has persistent downtimes.", "The customer support doesn’t help at all.", "ACT Fibernet is way better.", "It is headquartered in Gurugram, and currently provides its services in Delhi/NCR, Mumbai, Chennai, Bengaluru, and Pune.", "It is licensed to provide broadband, internet, national long distance, and international long distance services pan India.", "It has been operating since 2000.", "In September 2017, Spectranet did a re-branding to be called as 'Spectra'.", "The motive behind the re-branding was to build more brand awareness and to showcase the greater motive behind the company's mission - to fix the broken Indian broadband market." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 4, 6 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "Police, Lower Silesian Voivodeship", "sents": [ "Police (German: \"Politz\" ) is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Krośnice, within Milicz County, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, in south-western Poland.", "Prior to 1945 it was in Germany." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] }, { "title": "Gmina Krośnice", "sents": [ "Gmina Krośnice is a rural gmina (administrative district) in Milicz County, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, in south-western Poland.", "Its seat is the village of Krośnice, which lies approximately 10 km south-east of Milicz and 45 km north-east of the regional capital Wrocław." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e1332_p53", "sents": [ "\"Things could dramatically change this week or the following week.\"", "LOAD-DATE: April 17, 2001 12 of 66 DOCUMENTS Copyright 2001 Los Angeles Times Los Angeles Times April 17, 2001, Tuesday, Home Edition SECTION: Part A; Part 1; Page 3; Metro Desk LENGTH: 1099 words HEADLINE: CALIFORNIA AND THE WEST; THE CALIFORNIA ENERGY CRISIS; DEAL TO BUY EDISON GRID RAISES DOUBTS IN CAPITOL BYLINE: MIGUEL BUSTILLO and CARL INGRAM, TIMES STAFF WRITERS DATELINE: SACRAMENTO BODY: Gov.", "Gray Davis may face a bigger challenge selling legislators on his deal to keep Southern California Edison out of bankruptcy than he did in forging the agreement with the utility.", "Legislators returning to Sacramento on Monday after their spring break openly voiced objections to and concerns about the deal to purchase Edison's power lines in exchange for $ 2.76 billion and a variety of state guarantees.", "Some Republicans and Democrats called Davis' deal too generous.", "Others questioned whether a state-financed rescue of Edison still makes sense after the bankruptcy of Pacific Gas & Electric Co., California's largest private utility." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 5 ] }, { "title": "e894_p6", "sents": [ "A1, 1471 words, Davis' Pledges Come Back To Haunt Him, Carla Marinucci, Patrick Hoge San Francisco Chronicle, APRIL 8, 2001, SUNDAY, FINAL EDITION, BUSINESS;, Pg.", "B7, 3592 words, Nuclear Warning; Watchdogs eye Duke's salvage operation, Scott Winokur, Christian Berthelsen Los Angeles Times April 9, 2001, Monday, Home Edition SECTION: Part A; Part 1; Page 3; Metro Desk LENGTH: 1081 words HEADLINE: THE CALIFORNIA ENERGY CRISIS; CALIFORNIA AND THE WEST; GENERATORS SCRAMBLED TO END PACTS WITH UTILITIES; ENERGY: EVEN BEFORE PG&E FILED FOR BANKRUPTCY, ALTERNATIVE PLANT OWNERS WHO HADN'T BEEN PAID IN MONTHS PURSUED COURT ACTIONS.", "BYLINE: JULIE TAMAKI, TIMES STAFF WRITER DATELINE: SACRAMENTO BODY: In filing for federal bankruptcy protection last week, Pacific Gas & Electric Co. determined what other power producers had already concluded: The state had failed to solve their payment problems and the time had come for the courts to step in.", "In the days leading up to PG&E's Bankruptcy Court petition, a growing number of alternative energy producers had also been filing lawsuits, seeking to be freed from their contracts with PG&E and Southern California Edison." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 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 ] }, { "title": "e10070_p4", "sents": [ "This phenomenon is on lavish display at the annual ZAP tasting, a boisterous party that traditionally takes place on the Saturday before the Super Bowl.", "Certified in the Guinness Book of World Records as the world's biggest one-varietal wine tasting, the event attracted more than 200 wineries and 6,000 wine lovers last year.", "This time, for its 10th anniversary, it's being conducted in two different buildings at San Francisco's Fort Mason Center.", "Advance tickets cost $35 for ZAP members and $45 for non-members, with a limited amount available at the door for $50 on the day of the event.", "If you can't make it to the tasting, another easy way to sample the state of Zin is wine.com's selection of Zinfandel in all its forms and guises.", "Wine Team Picks: Lisa Doenecke on Splashy Sparklers and Other Spritzy Delights This is probably one of my favorite categories, so my list came quickly and easily." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1, 2 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e27921_p12", "sents": [ "The level of cultural ineptitude, the failure to understand what months of relentless hunger and grinding poverty really mean, the US government1s attempt to use even this abject misery to boost its self-image, beggars description.", "Reverse the scenario for a moment.", "Imagine if the Taliban government was to bomb New York City, saying all the while that its real target was the US government and its policies.", "And suppose, during breaks between the bombing, the Taliban dropped a few thousand packets containing nan and kebabs impaled on an Afghan flag.", "Would the good people of New York ever find it in themselves to forgive the Afghan government?", "Even if they were hungry, even if they needed the food, even if they ate it, how would they ever forget the insult, the condescension?", "Rudi Guiliani, Mayor of New York City, returned a gift of $10m from a Saudi prince because it came with a few words of friendly advice about American policy in the Middle East." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 6 ] }, { "title": "Middle East", "sents": [ "The Middle East is a transcontinental region centered on Western Asia and Egypt in North Africa.", "The corresponding adjective is \"Middle-Eastern\" and the derived noun is \"Middle-Easterner\".", "The term has come into wider usage as a replacement of the term Near East (as opposed to the Far East) beginning in the early 20th century." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e8721_p27", "sents": [ "General Cooney is currently chairman and CEO of the Cooney Group, a customer relationship management firm, and CEO of the Forces Group, a U.K.-based firm that provides financial and insurance services to the British Armed Forces.", "InsuranceNoodle received $10 million in a Series A round in September of this year from sole investor Argonaut Private Equity Management.", "http: www.insurancenoodle.com Market Forecasting Firm Opion Names Board Members mail this story?", "top HERNDON, Va. (VENTUREWIRE) -- Opion, which provides real-time market information, said it named Arthur J. Marks, a general partner at New Enterprise Assoociates; Andrew J. Nash, founder, chairman and CEO of Collaborex; Michael A. Daniels, former chairman of Network Solutions; and Jack L. Lewis, co-chair of the corporate technology group of Shaw, Pittman, Potts and Trowbridge's northern Virginia office, to the company's board of directors.", "Opion president and CEO David Holtzman was named chairman of the board.", "Opion's backers include New Enterprise Associates, Capital Investors Group, Avatar Capital Partners, Avansis Ventures, Science Applications International, and Schoffstall Ventures." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 5 ] }, { "title": "e3049_p10", "sents": [ "http: www.thebigword.com Personal Communications Portal aTelo Raises $5M Series B mail?", "top ARLINGTON, Va. (VENTUREWIRE) -- aTelo, an enhanced communications se rvice platform vendor, said it raised $5 million in a Series B financing led by Lazard Technology Partners, with participation from Schoffstall Ventures an d previous investor Draper Atlantic Management.", "The company will use the fund s for international sales and marketing, as well as for the expansion of its services platform and the development of new applications.", "In April 2000, aTelo raised $2 million in its first round of funding from Draper Atlantic Management.", "http: www.ateloinc.com Elan Invests in Biopharmaceutical Firm Milkhaus Laboratory mail?", "top PROVIDENCE, R.I. (VENTUREWIRE) -- Milkhaus Laboratory, a private cli nical stage biopharmaceutical company, said Elan, a pharmaceutical company, has made an undisclosed equity investment in the company.", "The two companies formed a partnership in January of 1999, which allowed Milkhaus to license its broad patent estate on the use of beta amyloid to treat central nervous system disorders to Elan." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 1 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e3430_p27", "sents": [ "BYLINE: DAN MORAIN, JAMES GERSTENZANG, TIMES STAFF WRITERS BODY: Gov.", "Gray Davis will present a letter to President Bush today from top economists advocating wholesale electricity price controls, warning Monday that a failure by Bush to help California solve its energy crisis could signal to other regions that he may ignore their pleas.", "Bush, making his first trip to California, has set aside 20 minutes this afternoon to meet with Davis in Century City.", "In an interview with The Times, the Democratic governor vowed to repeat his request that the federal government move to cap wholesale power prices.", "Failure to act swiftly threatens the state and national economy, Davis said.", "\"I want him to understand,\" Davis said, \"that if California has to pay 700 times more for electricity in 2001 than it did just two years ago, it could well drag our economy into a recession and could conceivably trigger a national recession." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 1, 5 ] }, { "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 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "Boletus amyloideus", "sents": [ "Boletus amyloideus is a rare species of bolete fungus in the family Boletaceae.", "It was described as new to science in 1975 by mycologist Harry D. Thiers, from collections made in California.", "It fruit bodies have a convex to somewhat flattened reddish-brown cap measuring 3 – in diameter.", "The pore surface on the cap underside is bright yellow, with small angular pores and tubes measuring 4–8 mm long.", "The spore print is olive-brown; basidiospores are smooth, amyloid, spindle shaped to ellipsoid, and have dimensions of 13–16 by 4.5–5.5 µm.", "The bolete is known only from coastal California, where it grows on the ground in mixed forests.", "Its edibility is unknown." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] }, { "title": "Boletaceae", "sents": [ "The Boletaceae are a family of mushrooms, primarily characterized by developing their spores in small pores on the underside of the mushroom, instead of gills, as are found in agarics.", "Nearly as widely distributed as agarics, they include the Cep or King Bolete (\"Boletus edulis\"), much sought after by mushroom hunters.", "As a whole, the typical members of the family are commonly known as boletes." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "Myrmecia inquilina", "sents": [ "Myrmecia inquilina is a species of ant endemic to Australia in the subfamily Myrmeciinae, first discovered in 1955 and described by Athol Douglas and William Brown Jr. in 1959.", "These ants are large, measuring 21.4 mm .", "During the time of its discovery, Douglas and Brown announced \"M. inquilina\" as the first social parasite among the primitive subfamilies, and today it is one of the two known \"Myrmecia\" species to have no worker caste.", "Two host species are known, \"Myrmecia nigriceps\" and \"Myrmecia vindex\".", "Aggression between \"M. inquilina\" and its host species does not occur, and colonies may only produce \"M. inquilina\" brood months after the inquiline queens begin to lay their eggs.", "Queens eat the colony brood or trophic eggs, and other \"Myrmecia\" species may kill \"M. inquilina\" queens if they reject them.", "Due to its restricted distribution and threats to its habitat, the ant is \"vulnerable\" according to the IUCN Red List." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] }, { "title": "Myrmecia nigriceps", "sents": [ "Myrmecia nigriceps, also known as the black-headed bull ant, is a species of ant endemic to Australia.", "A member of the genus \"Myrmecia\" in the subfamily Myrmeciinae, it was first described by Austrian entomologist Gustav Mayr in 1862.", "These ants are large, varying from 19 to in length.", "However, colonies contain workers that are much smaller, usually half the size of normal workers.", "The queens are the largest while the males are the smallest, which can be easily identified due to their small mandibles." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 2 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e2250_p12", "sents": [ "PHOTOGRAPHER: BOB CAREY Los Angeles Times Calif Gov Asks 12 Generators To May 9 Energy Crisis Mtg 05 04 2001 Dow Jones Energy Service (Copyright (c) 2001, Dow Jones & Company, Inc.) (This article was originally published Thursday.)", "LOS ANGELES -(Dow Jones)- California Gov.", "Gray Davis has invited 12 electricity and natural-gas generators and marketers to meet with him in Sacramento May 9 to discuss the state's energy crisis, according to a press release Thursday.", "The agenda will include \"unpaid debts, credit and the supply of power,\" the release said.", "The governor invited the chief executives of Enron Corp. (ENE), AES Corp. (AES), Reliant Energy Inc. (REI), Dynegy Inc. (DYN), Duke Energy Corp. (DUK), Mirant Corp. (MIR), Williams Cos. (WMB), Calpine Corp. (CPN), National Energy Group Inc. (NEGI), Edison Mission Energy (EIX), Sempra Energy (SRE) and El Paso Corp.'s (EPG) Natural Gas unit, the release said.", "\"There will be no discussion about curtailling state investigations or litigation,\" Davis said." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 4 ] }, { "title": "e1770_p4", "sents": [ "\"We believe a rational course of action that seeks new sources of supply must be combined with public policy that ensures confidence that services provided in the past and future will be paid in full,\" Bailey said.", "\"The combination of short-term, regional price controls during emergency periods along with the elimination of credit risk, should provide the market a respite while creating incentive for the private sector to invest with confidence,\" he said.", "Williams Cos said that as of March 31, it was owed $252 million for power sold to the California Independent System Operator (ISO) and the now defunct California Power Exchange.", "Since April 1, Williams' power sales to California have been through the state's Department of Water Resources, which enjoys a far better credit rating than the financially strapped ISO.", "The ISO, which oversees most of the California power grid, has been paying millions of dollars daily for most of the year to ensure there is enough power available to avoid blackouts." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 2 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "Tanya Branning", "sents": [ "Tanya Lauren Branning (also Cross and Jessop) is a fictional character from the BBC soap opera \"EastEnders\", played by Jo Joyner.", "She made her first appearance on 27 June 2006.", "She left the show temporarily on 25 December 2009 for maternity leave and returned for one episode on 23 June 2010.", "She made her full-time return on 27 September 2010.", "Tanya's storylines have included opening her own salon, giving birth to her third child, divorcing and then burying Max Branning (Jake Wood) alive, marrying Greg Jessop (Stefan Booth), starting an affair with Max, dealing with her cervical cancer and discovering that Max has a secret wife, Kirsty Branning (Kierston Wareing).", "On 1 May 2012, it was announced Joyner would take another break from the series in 2013, however, on 1 April 2013, it was announced her departure would be indefinite.", "On 15 May 2013, Joyner filmed her final scenes and departed on 28 June 2013.", "Tanya returned in February 2015 for two episodes as part of the show's 30th anniversary celebrations." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] }, { "title": "Stacey Slater", "sents": [ "Stacey Fowler (also Slater and Branning) is a fictional character from the BBC soap opera \"EastEnders\", played by Lacey Turner.", "She made her first appearance on 1 November 2004.", "The character was introduced as a feisty and troublesome teenager, an extension of the already established Slater clan.", "She has featured in numerous high-profile storylines, including abortion, drug abuse, a troubled relationship with her mother Jean (Gillian Wright), discovering she has bipolar disorder, an affair with her father-in-law Max (Jake Wood) and murdering her rapist Archie Mitchell (Larry Lamb).", "The love triangle between Stacey, Janine Butcher (Charlie Brooks) and Ryan Malloy (Neil McDermott), the father of her daughter Lily Branning and the discovery that she murdered Archie and her being framed for attempted murder by Janine, forced her to flee the country on 25 December 2010." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e894_p63", "sents": [ "So far only 11 of these deals have been issued, and of those deals, seven have been underwritten by two leading asset-backed players-Salomon Smith Barney and Lehman Brothers.", "\"There is a tendency for ourselves, and someone like Salomon, to be first with unique, more heavily structured products,\" said Lehman's Sweely.", "\"These deals fall into that category.\"", "The league table situation is unlikely to change while the future of the sector remains in question.", "Meanwhile, the pipeline is still brimming with potential deals from states that have already ruled in favor of passing on such costs to consumers.", "There remains a limit to the market's potential.", "Typically, a visit to the stranded cost securitization market is a one-time event.", "But in a few cases, utilities make the trip more than once.", "Illinois Power and Commonwealth Edison may return to market as did PECO Energy Co., in order to raise the remainder of the desired funds." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 8 ] }, { "title": "Commonwealth Edison", "sents": [ "Commonwealth Edison, commonly known as ComEd, is the largest electric utility in Illinois, serving the Chicago and Northern Illinois area.", "The service territory roughly borders in Iroquois County to the south, the Wisconsin border to the north, the Iowa border to the west, and the Indiana border to the east.", "The company's name is a portmanteau of Commonwealth and Thomas" ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 2 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "White Palace (film)", "sents": [ "White Palace is a 1990 American romantic drama film directed by Luis Mandoki and starring Susan Sarandon, James Spader, Jason Alexander, Kathy Bates, Steven Hill, Jeremy Piven, and Renee Taylor.", "It was written by Ted Tally and Alvin Sargent, based on an homonymous novel (i.e.", "same title) by Glenn Savan (who appears in the film as an extra with a small speaking part)." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] }, { "title": "Ted Tally", "sents": [ "Ted Tally (born April 9, 1952) is an American playwright and screenwriter.", "He adapted the Thomas Harris novel \"The Silence of the Lambs\" into the Best Picture-winning film of the same name.", "A graduate of Yale, he has received awards including the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, the Writers Guild of America Award, the Chicago Film Critics Award, and the Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 2 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e2852_p35", "sents": [ "Mr. Solomon, who is also the founder of Parago, will remain on its nine-member board.", "Although a replacement chairman has not yet been named, Parago's operating duties will be assumed by the company's president and CEO Ken Johnsen.", "Investors in Parago include Dain Rauscher Wessels Investors, Seaboard, TH Lee.Putnam Internet Partners, and Watershed Capital.", "http: www.ct-holdings.com http: www.parago.com Infrastructure Provider Eternal Systems Names New Director mail?", "top SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (VENTUREWIRE) -- Eternal Systems, a provider of software infrastructure technology for the embedded and enterprise markets, announced the appointment of Charles Perrell to its board of directors.", "Mr. Perrell, a co-founder of Network Appliance, will be granted the fourth seat on the board, which also includes Joseph Marks and Joel Balbien of Smart Technlogy Ventures.", "In May 2000 Eternal Systems raised $7 million in Series A financing from Smart Technlogy Ventures.", "http: www.eternal-systems.com Concellera Adds Two New Board Members mail?" ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 2 ] }, { "title": "e2990_p7", "sents": [ "Mollie Schell O'Hara was named alliance manager, working with the company's alliance partners to build execution and support strategies and implement joint marketing and sales activities.", "Ms. O'Hara most recently served as project management and merchandise manager at J. Baker.", "MarketMAX is backed by Axxon Capital, Brid ge East Capital, BV Group Ventures, Palladin Capital Group, TH Lee, Putnam Internet Partners, and TSG Ventures.", "http: www.marketmax.com 'Mobile Noetix Adds David Langston as VP of Sales, Promotes Sr. Dir.", "mail?", "top BELLEVUE, Wash. (VENTUREWIRE) -- Noetix, a software provider for data acces s management across multiple platforms, said it named David Langston as senio r vice president of sales.", "Prior to joining the company, Mr. Langston was vic e president of sales at Pivotal, a provider of XML-based demand chain network s. The company also announced the promotion of Ann Markley to vice president of product marketing.", "Ms. Markley previously served as the company's senior director of marketing, joining the company in November 2000. Noetix is back ed by Polaris Venture Partners and Sigma Partners." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 2 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e10578_p23", "sents": [ "Investors for InCert include Bessemer Venture Partners, Commonwealth, Fidelity Ventures, Ascent Venture Partners, and the Still River Fund.", "http: www.incert.com Web Graphics Software Maker Electrifier Hires New CEO RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. -- Electrifier, a maker of software for enhancing Web pages and marketing materials, said it has hired Brad Winney as its new CEO.", "Prior to joining Electrifier, Mr. Winney was a senior vices president of business development at Personify, and Internet data mining and marketing consulting company.", "Electrifier is backed by individual investors including Gene Gabbard, CEO of Telecom*USA; Robert Genieser, vice president of investments at Hambrecht & Quist; Anthony Harrington, senior partner at Hogan & Hartson and co-founder of Telecom*USA; and Sig Mosley and John P. Imlay of Imlay Investments.", "Tristate Investment Group also backs the company.", "http: www.electrifier.com CalendarCentral Names New President and CEO RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. -- CalendarCentral, which uses filtering technology to provide event information based on the user's point of view, said it appointed Dennis Phillips to the newly created position of CEO and president." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] }, { "title": "e2933_p11", "sents": [ "First round investor SPSS did not reinvest.", "Post-money, the company garnere da valuation of about $20 million in this up round.", "Justin Perreault, genera l partner at Commonwealth, and Arnold Silverman, principal of Discove ry Ventures, join the board, bringing the total number of directors to six.", "Funds will be used for marketing and sales and are expected to last for at least a year.", "e.Intelligence expects to become cash flow positive in 2002. http: www.eintelligence-inc.com Foundstone Closes Series B at $9 Million mail?", "top IRVINE, Calif. (VENTUREWIRE) -- Foundstone, which provides managed a nd professional security assessment services and education, said it closed its Series B at $9 million with funding from new investors Riordan, Lewis & Haden, and Wilson; Sonsini, Goodrich, & Rosati; and return investor OVP Venture Partners, which invested $2.7 million.", "The company said that the money will be used for business development, sales and marketing, and research and development." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 2 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "Joe Lieberman", "sents": [ "Joseph Isadore Lieberman (born February 24, 1942) is a retired American politician and attorney who was a United States Senator from Connecticut from 1989 to 2013.", "A former member of the Democratic Party, he was the party's nominee for Vice President in the 2000 election.", "Currently he is an Independent." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] }, { "title": "e5677_p102", "sents": [ "Murkowski said many of the alleged overcharges are by public power entities not under FERC jurisdiction Sen. Joe Lieberman, D-Conn., chairman of the Governmental Affairs Committee said the FERC, which regulates wholesale electricity sales, has been slow to respond and \"surprisingly reluctant\" to assure that electricity prices are just and reasonable, as required by the 1934 Federal Power Act.", "The agency's response to the Western power problem \"raises serious question s about whether (FERC) has or will oversee the newly deregulated energy markets\" not only in the West but across the rest of the country.", "The federal agency, whose commissioners were to testify later in the day, imposed limited, market-based price caps on Monday in California and 10 oth er Western states from Washington to Arizona.", "The agency also ordered the parties to attend a conference next week to try to work out agreements on overcharges and other issues.", "Months ago, the FERC singled out $124 million in alleged overcharges by pow er generators." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "1996 U.S. Cup", "sents": [ "The 1996 U.S. Cup was a United States Soccer Federation (USSF) organized international football tournament in June 1996.", "The USSF had hosted the annual U.S. Cup since 1992, except for the World Cup years of 1994 and 1998.", "The four teams in 1996 were the United States, Mexico, Bolivia, and Ireland.", "Staged as a six-game, round robin tournament, the team with the best win-loss record took the title.", "Bolivia was playing its first while both Ireland and Mexico were playing their second.", "Mexico won the competition, a result it repeated in 1997 and 1999." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] }, { "title": "United States Soccer Federation", "sents": [ "The United States Soccer Federation (USSF), commonly referred to as U.S. Soccer, is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization and the official governing body of the sport of soccer in the United States.", "With headquarters in Chicago, Illinois, the FIFA member governs U.S. amateur and professional soccer, including the men's, women's, youth, beach soccer, futsal, and Paralympic national teams.", "U.S. Soccer sanctions referees and soccer tournaments for most soccer leagues in the United States.", "The U.S. Soccer Federation also administers and operates the Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup, which was first held in 1914." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "Dhowa rock temple", "sents": [ "Dhowa Rock Temple (Sinhala :දෝව රජ මහා විහාරය) is a protected heritage site in Sri Lanka, situated in the central mountains of the Uva province.", "Dhowa is a small, ancient village situated on the Badulla - Bandarawela main road.", "This temple is situated 210 km east of Colombo and 120 km south of Kandy." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 1 ] }, { "title": "Badulla", "sents": [ "Badulla (Sinhalese: බදුල්ල , Tamil: பதுளை ) is the main city of Uva Province situated in the lower central hills of Sri Lanka.", "It is the capital city of Uva Province and the Badulla District." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "Fautaua Valley", "sents": [ "Fautaua Valley is a river valley on the island of Tahiti, in French Polynesia.", "It is located near the capital of Papeete.", "The Fautaua River flows through it, eventually cascading down the mountainside as the Fautaua Falls almost 300 m into a shallow bathing pool called Loti Bain.", "The pool is named for the French writer Pierre Loti, who lived in the area for some time.", "It is the 28th-highest waterfall in the world.", "The falls are also known as Fachoda Falls, after Fort Fachoda, a ruined fort found at the top of the falls." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] }, { "title": "Tahiti", "sents": [ "Tahiti ( ; ] ; previously also known as Otaheite (obsolete) is the largest island in the Windward group of French Polynesia; this overseas collectivity of the French Republic is sometimes referred to as a French overseas country.", "The island is located in the archipelago of the Society Islands in the central Southern Pacific Ocean, and is divided into two parts: the bigger, northwestern part \"Tahiti Nui\" and the smaller, southeastern part \"Tahiti Iti\".", "The island was formed from volcanic activity and is high and mountainous with surrounding coral reefs.", "The population is 183,645 inhabitants (2012 census), making it the most populous island of French Polynesia and accounting for 68.5 percent of its total population." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "Water from the Wells of Home", "sents": [ "Water from the Wells of Home is the 75th album by American country singer Johnny Cash, released on Mercury Records in 1988 (see 1988 in music).", "It features several collaborations with other artists, including \"New Moon Over Jamaica\" with Paul McCartney.", "Other guests include Waylon Jennings, Hank Williams Jr., Glen Campbell, Emmylou Harris and family members Rosanne Cash, John Carter Cash, June Carter Cash and members of the Carter Family.", "\"Call Me the Breeze\" is a J. J. Cale song that had been previously covered by Lynyrd Skynyrd.", "\"Ballad of a Teenage Queen\" is a new recording of a song that had appeared on Cash's Sun era album \"Sings the Songs That Made Him Famous\".", "The album did not fare well on the charts, peaking at No.", "48; the two singles, \"Ballad of a Teenage Queen\" and \"That Old Wheel\", reached No.", "45 and No.", "21, respectively.", "A 2003 re-release of the album contained a bonus track, consisting of Johnny Cash discussing various songs on the album." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1, 2 ] }, { "title": "Waylon Jennings", "sents": [ "Waylon Arnold Jennings (pronounced ; June 15, 1937 – February 13, 2002) was an American singer, songwriter, and musician.", "Jennings began playing guitar at eight and began performing at 14 on KVOW radio.", "His first band was The Texas Longhorns.", "Jennings worked as a DJ on KVOW, KDAV, KYTI, and KLLL.", "In 1958, Buddy Holly arranged Jennings's first recording session, of \"Jole Blon\" and \"When Sin Stops (Love Begins)\".", "Holly hired him to play bass.", "In Clear Lake, Iowa, Jennings gave up his seat on the ill-fated flight that crashed and killed Holly, J. P. Richardson, Ritchie Valens, and pilot Roger Peterson." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 2 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e7794_p23", "sents": [ "CustomerLink raised $2 million from undisclosed outside investors in September.", "http: www.customerlink.com E-business Integrator Emerging Names New CEO, Board Member HOUSTON -- Emerging, a creator of e-business systems, said Gary Meshell will join the company as chief executive officer and a member of the board of directors.", "Mr. Meshell was previously a partner at Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC).", "He replaces Robert Shaw, founder of the company, who will remain president and chairman of the board.", "Emerging is backed by Austin Ventures and Benchmark Capital.", "http: www.emerging.com HomeGain COO, John Baker, Named Company President EMERYVILLE, Calif. -- John Baker, chief operating officer for online home sales Web site HomeGain, now also holds the position of president, according to the company.", "Mr. Baker joined HomeGain as chief operating officer after serving as the general manager and senior vice president of the Business Payroll Division at Wells Fargo.", "HomeGain is backed by investors including BancBoston Ventures, Comdisco Ventures, Intuit, Mindful Partners, Technology Crossover Ventures, TMCT Ventures, and Brett Bullinron, executive vice president of Excite@Home." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 7 ] }, { "title": "e1217_p28", "sents": [ "Mr. Allen is CFO and vice president of finance and operations for Network Appliance.", "Investors for Acta include Colman Partners, Comdisco Ventures, Greylock, Norwest Venture Partners, Sycamore Venture Capital, United States Venture Partners, and Van Wagoner Fund.", "http: www.acta.com DMR Consulting Exec Joins Software Firm infoShark's Board CHANTILLY, Va. -- InfoShark, a provider of software products that enable enterprises to build a business-to-business infrastructure for accessing, exchanging and transmitting XML data, said it elected Michael J. Poehner, president and chief executive officer of DMR Consulting, to its board of directors.", "Investors include JMI Equity Fund, Lazard Technology Partners, and 21st Century Ventures.", "http: www.infoshark.com incuVest Names Merck Division Senior VP to Board NEW YORK -- incuVest, a venture capital incubator and accelerator, said it appointed Margaret G. McGlynn of Merck to its board of directors.", "Ms. McGlynn serves as senior vice president of Merck's human health marketing division." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 1 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "Delio Gamboa", "sents": [ "Delio \"Maravilla\" Gamboa Rentería, is a former Colombian football player, born January 28, 1936 in Buenaventura (Valle del Cauca), Colombia.", "Gamboa's career ran from 1955 to 1974 in which time he played for Atlético Nacional Millonarios, Independiente Santa Fe, Once Caldas, and Deportes Tolima, \"Maravilla\" translates directly to \"wonder\"." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] }, { "title": "Atlético Nacional", "sents": [ "Club Atlético Nacional S. A., also known as Atlético Nacional, is a Colombian professional football team based in Medellín.", "The club is one of only three teams to have played in every first division tournament in the country's history, the other two teams being Millonarios and Santa Fe." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "Lee Chung-ah", "sents": [ "Lee Chung-ah (born October 29, 1984) is a South Korean actress.", "She is best known for her leading roles in the movies \"Temptation of Wolves\" (2004) and \"My Tutor Friend 2\" (2007), as well as the cable drama \"Flower Boy Ramen Shop\" (2011)." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] }, { "title": "Temptation of Wolves", "sents": [ "Temptation of Wolves (; also known as Romance of Their Own or True Romance) is a 2004 South Korean film directed by Kim Tae-kyun, and based on a novel of the same name by Internet author Guiyeoni.", "Starring Jo Han-sun, Kang Dong-won and Lee Chung-ah, the film is about an average high school girl who moves from the countryside to Seoul after her father's death only to become involved in a love triangle with the two most handsome and popular guys in town." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e2274_p1", "sents": [ "The framework for RTO West, which will span eight Western states, also was approved by FERC.", "Under the proposal approved by FERC, TransConnect could initially own or lease the high voltage transmission facilities currently held by Avista Corp., Montana Power Company, Portland General Electric, Puget Sound Energy, Nevada Power Company, and Sierra Pacific Power Company.", "Combining transmission resources into one independent company may create new opportunities to attract capital and improve the transmission infrastructure.", "Among other things, the FERC order approved TransConnect's governance structure and found that TransConnect met the Commission's independence requirements.", "The order also determined that TransConnect would qualify to file for innovative and incentive rates.", "Additionally, the order finds that the proposed structure for sharing planning and expansion functions is consistent with FERC's basic requirements, but reserves final approval pending further clarification by TransConnect and RTO West regarding the details and decision process for such sharing.", "\"The TransConnect companies are pleased with the FERC order on the TransConnect filing and gratified that the Commission supports a for-profit business model that has the potential to provide very significant benefits,\" said Paul Mohler, a representative for the six TransConnect companies." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 1 ] }, { "title": "Nevada Power Company", "sents": [ "Nevada Power Company was a Las Vegas-based company that produced, distributed, and sold electricity in the southern part of the state of Nevada.", "In 2005, it had over 700,000 electric customers in parts of three Nevada counties — a service area of more than 4000 sqmi .", "In 1998, Nevada Power merged with Nevada's other major utility, Sierra Pacific Resources.", "It continued as a subsidiary of Sierra Pacific until 2005, when the company changed its name to NV Energy." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e7366_p15", "sents": [ "The financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.", "Dean Schmidt, founder and president of ChannelTECH, will join RealPage as senior vice president of product management.", "http: www.realpage.com Times N Systems Raises $11.5 Million in Series B Funding AUSTIN, Texas -- Times N Systems, a computer systems developer specializing in multi-processor services, said it completed a $11.5 million Series B financing round led by Convergent Investors with additional funding from Sternhill Partners and previous investor Austin Ventures.", "Times N Systems said it will use the funds to further develop and bring to market its technology.", "The company's flagship technology, Teaming, allows multiple computers running Microsoft NT or Linux to share available processing power, memory, and disk input output bandwidth.", "Times N Systems raised $4.1 million in its first round of funding in June 1999. http: www.timesn.com Web Brand Protection Firm GenuOne Has $4.2 Million Round Two BOSTON -- GenuOne, which provides intellectual property and brand protection services, said it closed its second round with $4.2 million." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 2 ] }, { "title": "e27248_p2", "sents": [ "Mr. Jenks, former president of Uniphase Lasers and Fiber Optics, has been on the board of directors since May 1998.<br <br Mr. Jenks replaces Malcolm Thompson, who will step down from the board of directors but remain on the company&#39;s technical advisory board.", "An adviser to the company since its inception, Mr. Jenks recently served as chairman of Oplink Communications.<br <br The company is backed by $135 million from investors including Crescendo Ventures, Cisco Systems, Credit Suisse First Boston, Crown Advisors, DynaFund, Intel Capital, Lamoreaux Partners, MSD Capital, NorthEast Ventures, Morgan Stanley Dean Witter Venture Partners, RWI, Salomon Smith Barney, Sternhill Partners, Telesoft Partners, Tredegar Investments, United States Bancorp Piper Jaffray, and Vanguard Venture Partners.< font <br <br <a href=\"http: www.novalux.com\" target=\"_new\" <font face='arial,helvetica' size='2' http: www.novalux.com< font a td tr table <br <table border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 <tr <td &#8226; <a name=\"vwNIJQPJPIJI\" <b <font face='arial,helvetica' size=\"2\" Healthcare Info Firm Resolution Names New President< font ba td <td align=\"right\" <a href=\"#vwNIJQPJPIJIx\" <img src=\"http: venturewire.com images arrow.gif\" border=\"0\" height=\"11\" width=\"11\" alt=\"top\" a &nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=\"http: people.venturewire.com o_mailer.asp?sid=NIJQPJPIJI\" target=NEW <img src=\"http: venturewire.com images mail2.gif\" border=\"0\" height=\"10\" width=\"15\" alt=\"mail\" a &nbsp;< td tr <tr <td colspan=2 <font face=\"verdana, arial, geneva, helvetica\" size=\"2\" SAN JOSE, CALIF. -- Resolution Health, a healthcare information technology company, said it named Earl Steinberg president." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 1 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e3753_p9", "sents": [ "Put simply, in the past month the focus of the California energy crisis, an d maybe the onus as well, has moved east: from the state's (and Davis') handling of the mess to the generating companies, energy marketers and gas pipeline companies that have richly profited from it, and thus to FERC, the do-next-to-nothing Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, and the Bush administration.", "That wasn't all Davis' doing -- far from it -- though it's been at the hear t of his message about energy industry \"pirates\" and \"profiteers.\"", "Bush's misbegotten energy plan and the administration's political clumsiness also contributed mightily, not least by inadvertently giving Davis the chance to get media exposure he could only have dreamed about.", "More important, there's the defection of Sen. James Jeffords from the Republican Party and the resulting shift of control in the United States Senate, whe re the next chair of the Energy Committee will be Sen. Jeff Bingaman of New Mexico, a co-sponsor of Sen. Dianne Feinstein's bill capping wholesale electric rates for the next two years." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 3 ] }, { "title": "Dianne Feinstein", "sents": [ "Dianne Goldman Berman Feinstein ( ; born Dianne Emiel Goldman; June 22, 1933) is the senior United States Senator from California.", "A member of the Democratic Party, she has served in the Senate since 1992.", "She also served as the 38th Mayor of San Francisco from 1978 to 1988." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 2 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e2110_p12", "sents": [ "The bill's 19 provisions would, among other things, provide federal aid to relieve a bottleneck in the state's transmission system, permit governors to obtain temporary waivers of environmental rules to boost power supplies, and direct federal disaster officials to help California prepare for blackouts.", "A spokesman for Davis said the Republican-drafted legislation offers \"a lot of things we don't need, and fails to address the one thing we do need,\" namely firm price controls on wholesale electricity sales.", "Democrats and Republicans have strong, fundamental disagreements about how best to solve the crisis, with Democrats supporting price controls, if only temporarily, and many Republicans, including President Bush, opposed to tampering with the market.", "Several Democrats who attended a White House ceremony Monday to mark Bush's first 100 days in office spoke briefly to the president about the energy situation.", "\"He was not very sympathetic,\" said Rep. Bob Filner (D-San Diego), an advocate of price controls." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 4 ] }, { "title": "Bob Filner", "sents": [ "Robert Earl Filner (born September 4, 1942) is a former American politician who was the 35th Mayor of San Diego from December 2012 through August 2013, when he resigned amid multiple allegations of sexual harassment.", "He later pleaded guilty to state charges of false imprisonment and battery." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "Anton Byström", "sents": [ "Anton Byström (born August 4, 1992) is a Swedish professional ice hockey player.", "He played with Modo Hockey in the Elitserien during the 2010–11 Elitserien season." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] }, { "title": "Modo Hockey", "sents": [ "Modo Hockey (or MODO with uppercase letters) is a professional ice hockey club in Örnsköldsvik, Sweden.", "The team plays in Sweden's second-tier league HockeyAllsvenskan.", "The club was founded in 1921 and has won two SHL championships; in 1979 and 2007.", "The team's home arena is the Fjällräven Center (previously known as \"Swedbank Arena\") since 2006.", "Before then, the team played at Kempehallen, beginning in 1964." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e8209_p40", "sents": [ "According to Mr. Goldman, Walker Digital has cut about 100 of its headquarters staff but remains in business with about 25 employees.", "VentureWire also reported that Walker Digital has stopped funding four startups, including Retail DNA.", "Mr. Goldman said Walker Digital has not stopped funding Retail DNA and is focusing on commercializing and licensing other technologies under development.", "Promptu NEW YORK (VENTUREWIRE) -- An item in the November 21 edition of Venture Wire about Promptu's appointment of a chief executive officer inco rrectly listed company's Web address.", "The correct URL is http: www.prompt u.com.", "The item also stated incorrectly that Promptu raised $3.3 million f rom Swander Pace Capital in its Series B round, which closed in August of this year.", "The company raised $25.4 million in that round, with $3.3 milli on of the total coming from Swander Pace.", "SoftWatch?", "NEW YORK (VENTUREWIRE) -- An item in yesterday's Venture Wire about lay- offs at SoftWatch incorrectly stated that SoftWatch expects a 2.5% increase over last year's revenues." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 3, 4 ] }, { "title": "e4676_p21", "sents": [ "RoyNat Capital has invested in wireless, telecommunications, software, and Internet commerce companies.", "http: www.roynatcapital.com Digital Partners Close Third Venture Fund for $36 Million SEATTLE -- Digital Partners, an early-stage venture capital firm focused on funding companies in the Pacific Northwest, said it closed a new fund, Digital Partners III, with $36 million.", "The fund's investors include institutional and individual investors.", "The new fund will make initial investments between $500,000 and $1.5 million and lifetime investments of between $1 million and $3 million in 15 to 20 start-ups.", "The fund will focus on companies involved in Internet and wireless infrastructure, mobile and remote computing, software, telecommunications, and bioinformatics.", "The fund's portfolio companies include @Campus, Elaho Wireless, Fios, and Picture IQ.", "Digital Partners portfolio firms include Avenue A, HomeGrocer.com, and Loudeye Technologies.", "http: www.digitalpartnersvc.com VW Corrections o Activ-e NEW YORK -- An item in yesterday's Venture Wire incorrectly listed Activ-e's URL as http: www.active-e.com." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 7 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "Lovana Jones", "sents": [ "Lovana S. 'Lou' Jones (March 28, 1938 – May 8, 2006) served as an Illinois State Representative for nearly 20 years, and was known for speaking up for abused and neglected children.", "Born in Mansfield, Ohio, Jones went to Ohio State University.", "On April 3, 2011, a new Metra train station was opened at 35th Street on the Rock Island District line that is named after her, called 35th Street/Lovana S. 'Lou' Jones/Bronzeville station." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] }, { "title": "Ohio State University", "sents": [ "The Ohio State University, commonly referred to as Ohio State or OSU, is a large, primarily residential, public university in Columbus, Ohio.", "Founded in 1870 as a land-grant university and ninth university in Ohio with the Morrill Act of 1862, the university was originally known as the Ohio Agricultural and Mechanical College (Mech).", "The college began with a focus on training students in various agricultural and mechanical disciplines but was developed into a comprehensive university under the direction of then Governor (later, President) Rutherford B. Hayes, and in 1878 the Ohio General Assembly passed a law changing the name to \"The Ohio State University\".", "It has since grown into the third-largest university campus in the United States.", "Along with its main campus in Columbus, Ohio State also operates a regional campus system with regional campuses in Lima, Mansfield, Marion, Newark, and Wooster." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 3 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e1057_p15", "sents": [ "2000 Resigned May 2000 18 months of compensation due to fiscal year change * Resigned July 2000 Retired Sept. 2000 * Includes exercised options, restricted shares, and long-term incen- tive payments; does not include the value of unexercised option grants Data: Execucomp, provided by Standard & Poor's Institutional Market Services, a division of The McGraw-Hill Companies Business Financial Desk; Section W WORLD BUSINESS BRIEFING: ASIA ENRON PAYMENT DISPUTE By Celia W. Dugger 04 11 2001 The New York Times Page 1, Column 1 c. 2001 New York Times Company The financial woes of the Dabhol Power Company in India, 65 percent owned by the Enron Corporation, have deepened with the government of India's refusal to pay the $22 million that the company says it is owed under its contract with the Maharashtra State Electricity Board.", "Both the state and central governments had guaranteed that they would pay the bills for the huge power plant if the electricity board failed to do so, but are refusing on the ground that the company owes a penalty for a technical failure to meet other contractual terms." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] }, { "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": "e2232_p24", "sents": [ "Deutsche Telekom will sell assets such as cable television, and a stake in Global One and Wind SpA, Chief Financial Officer Karl-Gerhard Eick said last week.", "KPN, the biggest Dutch phone company, said on March 26 it plans to raise at least 5 billion euros from asset sales to lower debt.", "Those plans have helped shift investors' perceptions of the companies' creditworthiness, money managers said.", "`Drastic Measures' ``At the beginning of the year the market was assuming telecoms companies would be downgraded from single-A to triple- B,'' said Peter Harvey, who helps run about $8.6 billion at F&C Management.", "``Drastic measures such as deeply-discounted rights issues led investors to believe they will maintain their single-A status.''", "The gap, or spread, between British Telecom's sterling denominated bonds maturing in 2006, and U.K. five-year government bonds has narrowed 50 basis points to 109 basis points in the past month.", "Spreads between Deutsche Telekom's 6.125 percent five- year euro bonds and German government debt narrowed 35 basis points to 107 in April." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 3 ] }, { "title": "Peter Harvey", "sents": [ "Peter Michael St Clair Harvey (16 September 19442 March 2013) was an Australian journalist and broadcaster.", "Harvey was a long-serving correspondent and contributor with the Nine Network from 1975 to 2013." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e3898_p1", "sents": [ "Governor Davis noted that he and state lawmakers have taken dramatic action in recent weeks to provide rate relief.", "\"While these actions should provide short-term rate predictability and longer-term benefits to customers in terms of improved supplies, the fundamental problem of exorbitant wholesale prices still exists and remains the responsibility of FERC to address,\" said the governor.", "\"No combination of state actions can substitute for federal action to ameliorate the problems of California's wholesale markets.\"", "Governor Davis has taken the following actions in reaction to rising electricity prices in San Diego: On June 14, he called for emergency reduction of electricity use by all state facilities in the San Francisco Bay area in response to electricity emergency and rolling blackouts.", "On June 15, he called on chairpersons of the Public Utilities Commission (PUC) to analyze the conditions that led to electricity shortages in the San Francisco Bay area the previous day, including a statewide perspective on the price and delivery of electricity." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 3, 4 ] }, { "title": "San Francisco Bay", "sents": [ "San Francisco Bay is a shallow estuary in the U.S. state of California.", "It is surrounded by a contiguous region known as the San Francisco Bay Area (often simply \"the Bay Area\"), and is dominated by the large cities San Francisco, Oakland, and San Jose." ], "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": "e1060_p29", "sents": [ "Edison, meanwhile, agreed Monday to a sweeping bailout accord with Gov.", "Gray Davis that, if given final approval, would instantly restore the utility to creditworthiness but force it to sell off valuable assets and commit to bargain-basement power contracts.", "\"One has a deal and the other doesn't, so today it looks like Edison made the right choice,\" said Michael Worms, an energy-industry analyst at Gerard Klauer Mattison in New York.", "\"But we won't really know for sure until PG&E's bankruptcy thing plays out,\" he said.", "\"It could be that they did this correctly.\"", "If nothing else, both PG&E and Edison are convinced that they have chosen wisely.", "\"A negotiated, practical, comprehensive resolution is far preferable to bankruptcy,\" said John Bryson, chairman of Edison International, parent of the Southern California utility.", "That's fine for Edison, \"given its set of facts,\" PG&E said in a brief statement.", "\"Given our set of facts, we continue to believe that a Chapter 11 reorganization is the most feasible means to reach a solution.\"" ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "Intel", "sents": [ "Intel Corporation (also known as Intel, stylized as intel) is an American multinational corporation and technology company headquartered in Santa Clara, California (colloquially referred to as \"Silicon Valley\") that was founded by Gordon Moore (of Moore's law fame) and Robert Noyce.", "It is the world's second largest and second highest valued semiconductor chip makers based on revenue after being overtaken by Samsung, and is the inventor of the x86 series of microprocessors, the processors found in most personal computers (PCs).", "Intel supplies processors for computer system manufacturers such as Apple, Lenovo, HP, and Dell.", "Intel also manufactures motherboard chipsets, network interface controllers and integrated circuits, flash memory, graphics chips, embedded processors and other devices related to communications and computing." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] }, { "title": "e6937_p26", "sents": [ "Rove's March 12 meeting with Intel executives and associates has generated the most controversy because they brought up a merger application that they hoped the government would approve.", "Gonzales said Rove was \"noncommittal and offered no substantive response.\"", "The White House counsel said the matter was in the hands of an interagency review panel \"on which Mr. Rove did not sit and in which he played no part.\"", "New York University law professor Stephen Gillers said he did not think Rove could be called to account for saying, \"The people handling this are Joe and Harry.'", "I realize they may then go to Joe and Harry and say, 'Karl sent me,' but I don't think this violates the rule.\"", "Another ethics specialist, Monroe Freedman, disagreed, saying Rove created \"an appearance of impropriety\" simply by meeting with Intel when he held more than $100,000 worth of stock in the company.", "\"The problem you have is that a reasonable person would question the propriety of what went on,\" Freedman said." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 5 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "Wispers School", "sents": [ "Wispers School was a British independent boarding school for girls aged between 11 and 18 which was founded in 1947 and which closed in 2008 after 61 years' operation.", "For the first part of its life it was based at Wispers, a large country house in Midhurst, West Sussex, UK; it was also briefly based at West Dean House, also in West Sussex, and for the last 40 years of its existence at Oak Hall, Haslemere in Surrey." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] }, { "title": "West Dean House", "sents": [ "West Dean House is a large flint-faced manor house situated in West Dean, West Sussex, near the historic City of Chichester.", "This country estate has approximately 6350 acre of land and dates back to 1086, with various royal connections throughout the years.", "In 1971 the Estate became the home of West Dean College, a centre of study of conservation, arts, crafts, writing, gardening and music." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e5589_p122", "sents": [ "This month, energy prices dropped to their lowest in nearly a year.", "Critics of the long-term contracts say they believe generators took advantage of th e state, and they say other factors -- including milder weather and changing political winds that may force federal regulators to rein in wholesale pric es -- led to price drops.", "\"The problem with the contracts is that the governor adopted a long-run strategy for a short-term crisis,\" said Peter Navarro, a University of California at Irvine economics professor.", "\"The generators wanted these -- they locked in lucrative long-term contracts knowing full well that the pri ce will drop.\"", "Davis -- who released portions of the 38 contracts only after Republican lawmakers and media organizations, including The Chronicle, sued to make th em public -- defended his energy-buying strategy.", "\"What matters is the total price of power, and on May 10 the state had to p ay $110 million for power." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 2 ] }, { "title": "Peter Navarro", "sents": [ "Peter Navarro (born July 15, 1949) is an American economist who currently serves as the Assistant to the President, Director of Trade and Industrial Policy, and the Director of the White House National Trade Council, a newly created entity in the executive branch of the U.S. federal government.", "A former professor of economics and public policy at the Paul Merage School of Business, University of California, Irvine, Navarro is the author of over a dozen books, including \"Death by China\"." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e9431_p24", "sents": [ "Auctiva is a privately held corporation financed by a group of individual investors.", "http: www.auctiva.com VC Fund News o InterWest Partners Closes $750 Million IT, Medical Tech Fund MENLO PARK, Calif. -- InterWest Partners said it has officially closed a $750 million venture capital fund that will focus three core areas: Internet infrastructure, e-commerce, and medical technologies.", "The fund's imminent close was originally reported last week.", "The fund will seek to make initial investments of $3 million to $7 million and lifetime investments between $12 million and $15 million.", "The fund received investments from most of the limited partners that participated in the firm's prior fund.", "With the closing of this fund, its largest to date, InterWest Partners will have a total of $1.6 billion of capital under management.", "http: www.interwest.com VC Personnel o WR Hambrecht & Co. Names Private Equity Managing Director SAN FRANCISCO -- WR Hambrecht & Co., an online investment bank that provides underwriting and advisory services for technology and emerging growth companies, said it hired Michael W. Szeto as senior managing director and head of its private equity group division." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 6 ] }, { "title": "e4073_p18", "sents": [ "NEThave partner Pieter Bolhuis will sit on the company's board of directors.", "The company will use the funding for marketing and launching new products.", "http: www.everdream.com Web Storage Site StorageWay Raises $36 Million in Round B FREMONT, Calif. -- StorageWay, a data storage provider targeting Internet-related businesses, said it raised $36 million in its B round of funding.", "Worldview Technology Partners led the round, which also included Matrix Partners, Montreux Equity Partners, and Redpoint Ventures.", "The company plans to use the funds for product development and infrastructure expansion.", "http: www.storageway.com B2B Currency Exchange Site Currenex Raises $16 Million LONDON -- Currenex, which provides businesses with real-time online access to the international foreign currency exchange market, said it has received $16 million in the first close of its second round funding, led by Amerindo Investment Advisors.", "New investor Barclays Capital joined previous investors TH Lee.", "Putnam Internet Partners and WR Hambrecht & Co. in this round." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 7 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "BellSouth", "sents": [ "BellSouth Corporation (stylized as \"BELLSOUTH\") was an American telecommunications holding company based in Atlanta, Georgia.", "BellSouth was one of the seven original Regional Bell Operating Companies after the U.S. Department of Justice forced the American Telephone & Telegraph Company to divest itself of its regional telephone companies on January 1, 1984." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] }, { "title": "e10123_p2", "sents": [ "The retroactive refunds, which include the accrued interest of 6% of individual refund totals, would give non-LEC pay phone owners $6.5 million from BellSouth alone.", "(Docket No.", "97-00409, Tariff Filings By Local Exchange Companies to Comply with FCC Order 96-439 Concerning the Reclassification of Pay Telephones) CONNECTICUT DPUC may tell WorldCom to change collect call notification policy The Department of Public Utility Control has released an initial draft of an order that would require WorldCom, Inc., to provide advance notice before the company imposes a collect call block on a customer's number.", "The DPUC launched an investigation into WorldCom's blocking procedures in March 1999 after receiving complaints that the company had prevented the completion of collect calls from prison facilities.", "(3 30 99 p.m.) Families of inmates complained that WorldCom didn't notify them that collect calls would be blocked even though collect call charges were always paid in full.", "Under the company's current tariffs, WorldCom can block collect calls from correctional facilities without notice." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "James John Miles", "sents": [ "Miles graduated with a first class honours degree in Physics from the University of Liverpool in 1980.", "Following this he completed a Master of Science in Computational physics from the University of Salford in 1987 and PhD in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the University of Manchester in 1990." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] }, { "title": "University of Manchester", "sents": [ "The University of Manchester is a public research university in Manchester, England, formed in 2004 by the merger of the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology and the Victoria University of Manchester.", "The University of Manchester is a red brick university, a product of the civic university movement of the late-19th century." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e5289_p10", "sents": [ "The company previously received seed funding of $800,000. http: www.angelengineers.com Wireless Services Firm Incurrent Has $3 Million Round One PARSIPPANY, N.J. -- Incurrent Solutions, a provider of Internet and wireless services to card-issuing banks and transaction processors, said it received $3 million in its first round of financing from the Edison Venture Fund and individual investors.", "Bruce Luehrs, a general partner at Edison, will be taking a seat on Incurrent's board.", "Incurrent said the funds will allow it to accelerate its acquisitions and expand product development.", "http: www.incurrent.com Critical Care Tech Firm Visicu Lands $15 Million Round Two BALTIMORE -- Visicu, provider of a network monitoring system that aims to give hospitals constant physician oversight of critical care, completed its second round of financing for a total of $15 million.", "The second round, led by Pacific Venture Group, included Series A investors Abell Foundation and Cardinal Health Partners and also included Partech International, Sterling Venture Partners, Pacific Life, and Envest Ventures." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 3, 4 ] }, { "title": "e7238_p16", "sents": [ "http: www.commtouch.com http: www.wingra.com Prescription Processing Application Firm TechRx Buys Flux PITTSBURGH -- TechRx, which provides prescription fulfillment software applications for the pharmacy industry, said it has acquired Flux Technology Solutions, the developer of an Internet enabled application for mail service prescription processing.", "The financial terms of the agreement were not disclosed.", "In May, DCH Health, a vertical application service provider serving pharmacies, announced it was acquiring Flux Technology.", "TechRx officials said that the DCH agreement fell through and was never consummated.", "TechRx is backed by Cardinal Health Partners.", "http: www.techrx.com BtoBfactory Acquires Latin American Investment Firm BtoBen BUENOS AIRES -- Btobfactory, a unit of Spain's Banco Santander Central Hispano (BSCH), said it bought Internet incubator BtoBen.com, which focuses on business-to-business companies in Latin America, for an undisclosed amount.", "BtoBfactory also plans to invest $30 million in the company within the next year.", "BtoBen.com is backed by Next International." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 4 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e3514_p10", "sents": [ "top STAMFORD, Conn. (VENTUREWIRE) -- vSimplify, which hosts corporate in tranets, online benefit enrollment, and voluntary benefits for small to midsize companies, said it closed its Series B at $2.75 million with funding from strategic lead investor Skandia Innovation U.S., previous investor Connecticut Innovations, and Lexam Capital.", "The company said it will use th e money for infrastructure development and sales and marketing.", "America Skandia, a subsidiary of Sweden-based Skandia Insurance, will co-market vSimplify's products.", "Connecticut Innovations will provide marketing and business development for the company.", "vSimplify closed its Series A round in June 2000, led by Connecticut Innovations, at $4.5 million with participati on from American Skandia and individual investors.", "Founded in 1999, the compan y reports a $300,000 monthly burn rate.", "The company also announced the additi on of three board members: Anders O. Soderstrom, president of Skandia Innovation, US; Peter Longo, managing director of Connecticut Innovations; and David W. Mullins Jr., former vice chairman of the Federal Reserve Board under Alan Greenspan, and assistant secretary of the treasury for domestic affairs in the first Bush administration." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 6 ] }, { "title": "e3558_p46", "sents": [ "DATELINE: SACRAMENTO BODY: I hope President Bush understands how perilous a course he is setting for both California and the national economy with his opposition to caps on the outrageously high wholesale price of electricity -- opposition he reiterated to me when we met Tuesday.", "California is experiencing an energy shock like that perpetrated by the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries in the 1970's.", "That episode plunged the United States into deep recession and gave rise to a long period of stagflation -- rising prices in a no-growth economy.", "The size of the energy shock to California this year is likely to be in the range of $40 billion to $50 billion, according to Alan Blinder, the former vice chairman of the Federal Reserve Board.", "It is enough to threaten the still solid California economy with recession and to knock the nation's gross domestic product down by at least half a percent -- enough to counter the stimulative effects that the Bush tax cut is intended to have on the stumbling national economy." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 3 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "California Public Utilities Commission", "sents": [ "The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC or PUC) is a regulatory agency that regulates privately owned public utilities in the state of California, including electric power, telecommunications, natural gas and water companies.", "In addition, the CPUC regulates common carriers, including household goods movers, passenger transportation companies (like limousine services) and rail crossing safety.", "The CPUC's headquarters are located in the Civic Center district of San Francisco, and the agency has field offices in Los Angeles and Sacramento." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] }, { "title": "e26592_p0", "sents": [ "'Apparently the link to the Senate website which contains information on today's Senate Energy Committee hearing does not work.", "Therefore, I have cut and paste the document and attached it to my e-mail.", "INFORMATIONAL HEARING Proposed Rate Agreement Between The California Department Of Water Resources And The California Public Utilities Commission State Capitol, Room 2040 August 21, 2001 1:30 p.m. - - I. Opening Comments Senator Debra Bowen, Chairwoman Senate Energy, Utilities & Communications Committee Senator Bill Morrow, Vice-Chairman Senate Energy, Utilities & Communications Committee II.", "Panelists Stan Dirks California Department of Water Resources Chris Warner Pacific Gas & Electric Gary Schoonyan Southern California Edison Jim Hay San Diego Gas & Electric Mike Florio The Utility Reform Network Dave Morse Office of Ratepayer Advocates Dan Carroll California Industrial Users Douglas Heller Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights Bill Julian California Public Utilities Commission * * BACKGROUND At the peak of California's electricity crisis, two of California's investor-owned utilities were financially unable to purchase electricity on behalf of their customers." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 2 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "Truth Today", "sents": [ "Truth Today (Thai: ความจริงวันนี้, \"Kwamjing Wannee\" ) is a Thai political talk show hosted by Veera Musikapong, Jatuporn Prompan and Nattawut Sai-kua.", "The talkshow began in 2008 during the Samak Sundaravej government on the National Broadcasting Services of Thailand TV station.", "After Abhisit Vejjajiva was appointed Prime Minister, the talkshow was cancelled by the Abhisit government due to its pro-Thaksin leanings .", "In 2009 the talkshow began airing again by \"D-Station\"." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] }, { "title": "Veera Musikapong", "sents": [ "Veera Musikapong, with full name Veerakarn Musikapong (Thai: วีระกานต์ มุสิกพงศ์ , rtgs: \"Wirakan Musikaphong\" , born 24 May 1948 in Ranot, Songkhla Province) is a Thai politician.", "Veera was government spokesman of Prime Minister Seni Pramoj, Deputy Minister of Agriculture, of Communications, and of Interior in the governments of Prem Tinsulanonda, secretary general of the Democrat Party, executive member of the Thai Rak Thai Party and longstanding Member of Parliament.", "Since 2006, he has been one of the leaders of the United Front for Democracy Against Dictatorship (\"Red Shirts\")." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "VerticalNet", "sents": [ "Verticalnet Inc. was a host of 43 business-to-business (B2B) procurement portals headquartered in Horsham, Pennsylvania.", "It was famous for its market capitalization of $10.89 billion on March 10, 2000, during the dot-com bubble, despite sales of $112.5 million in 2000.", "Verticalnet was acquired by Bravo Solutions in 2008 for $15.2 million." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] }, { "title": "e7526_p15", "sents": [ "Keith Rinne, president and founder of West-Net, also based in Vancouver, Washington, will become president of the newly created WAN services group for New Edge Networks.", "New Edge Networks investors include Goldman Sachs partnership GS Capital Partners III, Accel Partners, Crosspoint Venture Partners, Greylock, Intel, Meritech Capital Partners, Comdisco Ventures, Morgan Stanley Dean Witter, and the company's management.", "http: www.newedgenetworks.com http: www.wni.net New Directors o B2B Firm Day Interactive Appoints Former AOL Exec to Board LOS ANGELES -- Day Interactive, a publicly traded Swiss firm that creates and manages business-to-business Web sites and Internet marketplaces, said it has appointed Mark Walsh, former senior vice president and corporate officer at America Online and founder and director of America Online's business-to-business division, AOL Enterprise, as the sixth member of its board.", "Mark Walsh is currently chairman and chief strategy officer at VerticalNet, a network of Web sites for the business-to-business community, and also serves on several corporate, non-profit, and advisory boards including the President's Advisory Group of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce, the Software and Information Industry Association, and the Standard for Internet Commerce group." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 2, 3 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e5223_p3", "sents": [ "Other backers in the company include El Dorado and Nokia, which also participated in the firm's third round.", "http: www.fusionone.com Vanguard Venture Partners Closes New Fund with $240 Million PALO ALTO, Calif. -- Vanguard Venture Partners said it closed its latest fund, Vanguard VII, with $240 million.", "The firm will use the fund to invest in early-stage companies in the sectors of Internet infrastructure, life sciences, and software.", "Investors in the new fund include AXA, Bank of America, Bell Canada, the City of Boston, CIT, Erie Insurance, Johnson & Johnson, Massachusetts Transportation Authority, Minnesota Mutual, Vulcan Ventures, and individual investors.", "The firm expects to invest between $5 million and $10 million in approximately 25 companies, with investments of between $1 million and $10 million per round.", "So far the fund has invested in SkyGo, a wireless marketing platform provider.", "http: www.vanguardventures.com Hotmail Founders Start Web Server Performance Firm Akamba LOS GATOS, Calif. -- Web site developers Jack Smith, co-founder of Hotmail, and Richard Burright, who previously worked in the portable computer division at Apple Computer and was Hotmail's first employee, said they have co-founded Akamba, a company focused on improving Web server performance." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 1 ] }, { "title": "e5916_p10", "sents": [ "http: www.imagictv.com Latintech, GP Fund Tech Services Firm Solvo, United States Subsidiary RIO DE JANEIRO -- Brazilian firms Latintech Capital and GP Investimentos said they invested in Solvo, which provides mission-critical technology services to businesses.", "The company will use the funds for development of its Boston-based subsidiary Automatos, which will provide Internet-based technical support and remote management services.", "http: www.gpinvestimentos.com http: www.solvo.com.br http: www.automatos.com http: www.latintechcapital.com.br Sylantro Systems Raises $55 Million Series C Round CAMPBELL, Calif. -- Sylantro Systems, which develops a applications-enabled software for voice services over the Internet, said it raised $55 million in its Series C round.", "The round was led by Bowman Capital and included investments from Bank of America, JP Morgan, Azure Capital Partners, the CIT Group, Pyramid Technology, and Stanford University.", "Sylantro's initial backers, including Mayfield Fund, Accel Partners, Vanguard Venture Partners, and Hook Partners, also participated.", "The company has raised more than $75 million since its founding." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 2, 4 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e894_p99", "sents": [ "Many others, however, are viewed as permanent.", "In the West, especially, there is simply no reason to believe that costs will drop any time soon.", "The bankruptcy move Friday by PG&E only solidified that widely held opinion.", "Among its other worries, Bonneville has been holding a $ 100-million IOU from California utilities--half of it owed by PG&E--and hoping that money would help to mitigate its rate hikes to other customers.", "When PG&E became the biggest utility in United States history to seek bankruptcy protection, BPA became just another creditor likely to lose money.", "* Times staff writer Julie Tamaki in Sacramento contributed to this story.", "The Price of Electricity Here is a look at the average retail price per kilowatt hour in each state as of October.", "California's rates ranked ninth highest.", "Source: Energy Information Administration GRAPHIC: GRAPHIC: The Price of Electricity, AP Los Angeles Times LOAD-DATE: April 9, 2001 25 of 305 DOCUMENTS Copyright 2001 Los Angeles Times Los Angeles Times April 9, 2001, Monday, Home Edition SECTION: Part A; Part 1; Page 1; Metro Desk LENGTH: 1386 words HEADLINE: JUDGE IN PG&E BANKRUPTCY CASE SEEN AS A PROBLEM SOLVER; COURTS: DENNIS MONTALI WILL FACE UNPRECEDENTED LEGAL COMPLEXITIES." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 2, 4, 5 ] }, { "title": "e1120_p5", "sents": [ "Dunn said Wednesday's report \"just reinforces\" the need for the review.", "Hearings will begin next week with an examination of recent studies, including the Cal-ISO report, of alleged efforts to inflate prices in the electricity market.", "In other developments Wednesday, a United States District Court judge ruled that Enron Energy Services Inc., a unit of Houston-based energy giant Enron Corp., must continue to sell electricity to California universities under the terms of its existing contract.", "The UC and Cal State systems signed a four-year contract with Enron in 1998, locking in discounted fixed rates.", "In February, Enron notified its commercial and industrial customers in California, including the universities, that their power would be supplied by Pacific Gas & Electric and Southern California Edison.", "Enron said it will appeal the ruling to the United States 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco.", "Times staff writers Julie Tamaki in Sacramento and Rich Connell in Los Angeles contributed to this report." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 2, 6 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "Brett Clark (ice hockey)", "sents": [ "Brett Barry Clark (born December 23, 1976) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey defenceman.", "He previously played in the National Hockey League with the Montreal Canadiens, Atlanta Thrashers, Colorado Avalanche, Tampa Bay Lightning and the Minnesota Wild." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] }, { "title": "Atlanta Thrashers", "sents": [ "The Atlanta Thrashers were an American professional ice hockey team based in Atlanta, Georgia.", "Atlanta was granted a franchise in the National Hockey League (NHL) on June 25, 1997, and became the League's 28th franchise when it began play in the 1999–2000 NHL season.", "They were members of the Southeast Division of the NHL's Eastern Conference, and played their home games at Philips Arena in downtown Atlanta.", "The Thrashers qualified for the Stanley Cup playoffs only once, during the 2006–07 season in which they won the Southeast Division, but were swept in the first round by the New York Rangers." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "Explocity", "sents": [ "Explocity Pvt Ltd is a media and publishing company headquartered in Bangalore.", "The company was formed by Ramjee Chandran.", "Explocity has city based publications across six cities in India, namely, Bangalore, Chennai, Hyderabad, Mumbai, Delhi and Kolkata." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] }, { "title": "Ramjee Chandran", "sents": [ "Ramjee Chandran is an award-winning journalist and author.", "Chandran has been the Editor of Explocity a fortnightly magazine since 1998." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "Harvey Rosenfield", "sents": [ "Harvey Rosenfield (born 1952) is an American lawyer, author and consumer advocate.", "In 1985, he founded Consumer Watchdog, a nationally recognized, nonpartisan nonprofit public interest group.", "He serves as the group's counsel." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] }, { "title": "e6736_p31", "sents": [ "So reads a proposal between the DWR and the state Public Utilities Commission released earlier this week that could go into effect next month and has both PUC members and public advocacy groups worried.", "\"This gives an unelected unaccountable state agency the unilateral right to order rate increases for the next 15 years,\" Harvey Rosenfield, President of the Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer rights said earlier this week.", "\"Every mistake they could possibly make will also be passed along to ratepayers.\"", "The numbers that will indicate whether the state will need to try out the proposed process are scheduled to be released by the DWR on Friday.", "Loretta Lynch, PUC president, and Oscar Hidalgo, a DWR spokesman, both said they believe current electric rates cover the state's power buying costs for now.", "But the thought of a state agency potentially hitting residents and businesses in the pocketbook without any oversight so troubles Sen. John Burton, D-San Francisco, that he is pushing legislation that would retain the PUC's authority to say no." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e10147_p2", "sents": [ "Based on AirTouch Cellular's own admission, the PUC found that the company violated the provisions of the commission's orders in docket nos.", "84-944 and 89-563. The commission found that AirTouch Cellular failed to capture all billable minutes that should have been charged to AirTouch Cellular's retail arm, while charging Cellnet for all of its minutes.", "The PUC found that imposing statutory penalties against the companies isn't warranted in this case because it's a \"case of first impression.\"", "The commission's order is available at http: www.puc.state.oh.us docket ORDERS 2001 0114 93-1758.pdf.", "(Docket no.", "93-1758-RC-CSS) SECTION 251 252 MINNESOTA Qwest to refile controversial SGAT Qwest Corp. asked the Public Utilities Commission to pull off the agenda for yesterday's commission meeting its proposed statement of generally available terms and conditions (SGAT), the PUC staff told TR.", "The company filed its original SGAT in November 2000, but the proposal generated a lot of discussion because its prices differed from those set by the PUC." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] }, { "title": "e2868_p105", "sents": [ "\"It is the secret geography of power in downtown San Francisco,\" said Gray Brechin, an adjunct professor at UC-Berkeley who published a book on the subject two years ago.", "\"These networks of power are like the roots of a forest that you walk over every day.", "They are tangled together.", "That's just how the financial institutions work.", "And central to that is water and power,\" he said.", "So it's not unusual to see overlap in executives or directors, he said.", "According to PG&E records, lucrative contracts or money were given in 1996 and 1997 to Kaiser Permanente, $45.3 million; AirTouch Cellular, $2.5 million; Bank of America, $3.1 million; and Joint Venture: Silicon Valley Network, which promotes South Bay businesses, $200,000. PG&E director David Lawrence is chairman and chief executive officer of Kaiser, while director C. Lee Cox was an executive at AirTouch at the time.", "Director David Coulter was chairman and CEO of BofA." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 6 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "DeAnna Bennett", "sents": [ "DeAnna Bennett (born 18 November 1984) in Fremont, California, is an American mixed martial artist who competes in the Strawweight division.", "She signed with Invicta FC in June 2014." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] }, { "title": "Fremont, California", "sents": [ "Fremont ( ) is a city in Alameda County, California, United States.", "It was incorporated on January 23, 1956, from the merger of five smaller communities: Centerville, Niles, Irvington, Mission San Jose, and Warm Springs.", "The city is named after American explorer John Charles Frémont." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e2868_p50", "sents": [ "The additional 6 percent of capacity would allow the company to deliver an additional 200 million cubic feet of natural gas per day.", "Natural gas fuels most of the plants that generate electricity in the state and demand increased dramatically as the electricity crisis worsened.", "The g as company said the expansion is enough to fuel three 500-megawatt power plant s. The pipeline is expected to cost $40 million and to be completed by the end of the year.", "It will extend from a company compressor station in Adelanto to the Kern-Mojave Pipeline near Kramer Junction.", "El Paso Corp. and the Willia ms Cos. own the Kern-Mojave Pipeline.", "The power crunch this summer may be worse than earlier estimates, with California suffering blackouts on an average of 20 hours a week and possibl e power disruptions in the Northeast if hot weather persists, an industry-sponsored group reported yesterday.", "The North American Electric Reliability Council said there may be as many as 260 hours of rolling blackouts in California during the summer months." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 6 ] }, { "title": "e2868_p124", "sents": [ "Under pressure from Democrats and many Republicans to offer voters a quick fix, White House press secretary Ari Fleischer told reporters Wednesday, \"T he president's proposal will help in the short term.\"", "Fleischer, who previously had maintained that there are no short-term answe rs to the nation's energy woes, said the promise of future supplies would driv e down prices among investors who speculate on short-term oil price trends.", "Among the recommendations that will be made by the president's energy task force is a call for more transmission lines and power plants to address future electricity needs and changes in air pollution rules to improve the production and distribution of gasoline, according to government sources.", "But none of these proposals will help this summer, officials acknowledge.", "The North American Electric Reliability Council, an industry-sponsored watchdog organization, said in a report Tuesday that California's power problems this summer are likely to be worse than even state officials have predicted, with 260 hours of rolling blackouts -- an average of 20 hours a week -- likely because of a power shortfall that could be as much as 5,000 megawatts during peak demand periods." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 4 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e10970_p2", "sents": [ "Pacific G&E and its parent are also in default of various credit lines.", "Creditors including independent power suppliers Dynegy Inc. (NYSE:DYN - news), Mirant Corp. (NYSE:MIR - news) and Reliant Energy Inc. (NYSE:REI - news), meanwhile, are threatening to send both utilities into bankruptcy if they don't pay their debts.", "Gov.", "Gray Davis and the state legislature are expected soon to create a plan that could allow the utilities to pay down some of their debt.", "Craver said ``we're not betting the farm on getting a proposal'' by Friday.", "Shares of Edison International, which is based in Rosemead, Calif., closed Tuesday on the New York Stock Exchange at $12.10, down 43 cents.", "PG&E shares closed on the Big Board at $12.30, down 25 cents.", "Several bank lenders declined on Tuesday to discuss how they plan to address the utilities' defaults.", "Bank One Corporation (NYSE:ONE - news), Citigroup Inc. (NYSE:C - news) and J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. (NYSE:JPM - news) are among PG&E's lenders, while Bank of America Corp. (NYSE:BAC - news), Citigroup and J.P. Morgan Chase are among the lenders to SoCal Edison and its parent." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 2, 3 ] }, { "title": "Gray Davis", "sents": [ "Joseph Graham \"Gray\" Davis Jr. (born December 26, 1942) is a retired American politician and attorney who served as the 37th Governor of California from 1999 to 2003.", "A member of the Democratic Party, only a few months into his second term, in 2003 Davis was recalled and removed from office, the second state governor successfully recalled in U.S. history.", "Prior to serving as governor, Davis was chief of staff to Governor Jerry Brown (1975–81), a California State Assemblyman (1983–87), California State Controller (1987–95) and the 44th Lieutenant Governor of California (1995–99).", "Davis holds a B.A.", "in history from Stanford University and a J.D.", "from Columbia Law School.", "He was awarded a Bronze Star for his service as a Captain in the Vietnam War." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 3, 4 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e20460_p7", "sents": [ "\"Banks are not very quick to pull out of a relationship like that,\" the fixed income official said.", "-By Joe Niedzielski, Dow Jones Newswires, 201-938-2039; [email protected] Copyright 2000 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved.", "Enron Sues Microsoft Over Failed Broadband Services Deal By Michael Rieke Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES 10 26 2001 Dow Jones Energy Service (Copyright (c) 2001, Dow Jones & Company, Inc.) HOUSTON -(Dow Jones)- In a July conference call with analysts when Jeff Skilling was still chief executive of Enron Corp. (ENE), he threw out a ray of hope for his company's foundering broadband business.", "Enron Broadband Services had just signed a long-term deal to provide bandwidth for MSN, Microsoft Corp.'s (MSFT) online Internet service, Skilling said.", "Enron would give more details on the deal later.", "After three months without farther word on the deal, Enron has broken its silence by suing Microsoft.", "In a suit filed Thursday in the district court of Harris County, Texas, Enron claimed Microsoft has failed to live up to terms of the deal." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 2 ] }, { "title": "e1301_p0", "sents": [ "'BANDWIDTH BEAT: Master Trading Agreement 3.0 Dow Jones Energy Service, 04 16 01 Sierra Pacific Shares Slump After Utility Suspends Dividend Dow Jones Business News, 04 16 01 Energy Traders Raise Ante In Power-hungry California Dow Jones Energy Service, 04 16 01 Independent Power Producers Expect to Meet or Exceed Forecasts Dow Jones Business News, 04 16 01 Seattle City Utility Racks Up $92 Million in Power Purchases in March KRTBN Knight-Ridder Tribune Business News: The Seattle Times - Washington, 04 16 01 Sierra Pacific Shares Fall After Dividend Canceled (Update2) Bloomberg, 04 16 01 BANDWIDTH BEAT: Master Trading Agreement 3.0 04 16 2001 Dow Jones Energy Service (Copyright (c) 2001, Dow Jones & Company, Inc.) By Michael Rieke A Dow Jones Newswires Column HOUSTON -(Dow Jones)- Carriers and trading companies worked for more than nine months last year, missed four deadlines and couldn't produce a master bandwidth trading agreement.", "Now they seem to be coming out with something new every other month or so." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e3246_p4", "sents": [ "The governor said he plans to meet in the next few days with managers at ISO to explore the idea of a system like Chicago's.", "The grid operator announced Monday that it will try to give the public at least a half-hour notice of outages, but many officials said Tuesday the public needs even more warning.", "Davis aides said the governor's plan will go beyond ISO's.", "There are potential pitfalls.", "Criminals might make their own plans, taking advantage of deactivated alarms.", "And some say that a schedule of blackouts might increase the number of outages.", "If people have been warned that a blackout is coming, and a last-minute supply of electricity makes it unnecessary, grid managers would have to decide whether to call it off, said Dorothy Rothrock, vice president of the California Manufacturers & Technology Association.", "If they did, it would add uncertainty to future warnings, she said, possibl y leading them to order unnecessary blackouts." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 6 ] }, { "title": "e1048_p2", "sents": [ "Yet, the more power DWR doesn't need to buy because large users have done it for themselves, the less financial exposure the state incurs.?", "Last week, for the first time, Governor Davis suggested that he may be supportive of letting businesses shop for their own power, but it is unclear at this time how solid his support may be.?", "Meanwhile, the Legislature continues to run in circles and do everything it can to avoid meaningful action on this issue.?", "Direct access was one issue at the center of the fissure between Assembly Republicans when they replaced their leadership two weeks ago.?", "Senator Bowen's much-awaited \"clean-up\" bill, SB 27x, has been more than a disappointment-in fact it's perceived as ensuring there will be no customer choice.", "But don't take my word.", "Edelman can arrange interviews with the California Chamber of Commerce, California Retailers Association, California Manufacturers & Technology Association, Calpine and other organizations fighting to preserve direct access as well as individual businesses organizations who have chosen to bypass their local utilities and cut their own power deals in order to reap huge savings and or gain certainty about their energy budgets.?" ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 6 ] } ]

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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": "e2259_p107", "sents": [ "The electricity fault presented no threat to the plant's safe operation and the radiation level at the site remained normal, Rosenergoatom added.", "Story .12186 Shell Q1 adj profits up 23% at $3.855 bln, beating forecasts London, May 3 (BridgeNews) - Royal Dutch Shell on Thursday reported adjusted earnings on a current cost of supplies (CCS) basis for the first quarter of 2001 of $3.86 billion, up 23% from $3.13 billion for the same quarter last year.", "Net income for the quarter was $3.89 billion, up 17% fro m $3.34 billion in the three months of 2000, the company said.", "The figures we re above the top end of analysts' forecasts, which had pointed to adjusted CCS earnings of between $3.1-3.6 billion.", "Story .12297 FOCUS: Scottish Power rides west United States crisis; no clues on S. Water London, May 3 (BridgeNews) - Scottish Power is focussing on consolidating its position in the United States since its purchase of Pacificorp and amid the ongo ing power crisis in the Western U.S., chief executive Ian Russell told reporter s at a conference Thursday." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 4 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e5941_p31", "sents": [ "State utilities have more than $15 billion in losses and debt from buying power at soaring prices over the last 12 months.", "Enron Objects Enron laid out its objections to the subpoena in a letter to the committee by its attorneys at Post Kirby Noonan & Sweat LLP released by the committee today.", "Enron's lawyers argued that the committee does not have authority to subpoena records from outside the state and said the committee already had access to much of the information from state regulators and the state's electricity grid manager.", "``This is a shakedown.", "It's a witch-hunt.", "It's McCarthyism,'' Enron spokesman Mark Palmer said.", "``We're going to protect our legal rights and say something's wrong when it's wrong, and this is wrong.''", "State Senator Debra Bowen, chairwoman of the Senate's utilities committee, said that if Enron and the other power providers have done nothing illegal, they shouldn't be withholding the documents requested." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 7 ] }, { "title": "Debra Bowen", "sents": [ "Debra Lynn Bowen (born October 27, 1955), a member of the Democratic Party, was the Secretary of State of California from 2007 to 2015.", "Previously, she was a member of the California State Legislature from 1992 to 2006.", "In March 2008, she was given the Profile in Courage Award by the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e4207_p11", "sents": [ "Other investors included EMC, Five Paces Ventures, Brand Equity Ventures, Fleet Banking, Latona Associates, and Scripps Ventures.", "The company said it would use the funds to build its infrastructure and increase its staffing.", "http: www.videoshare.com Toolwire Has $15 Million Series B, New CEO and Board Members SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- Toolwire, which provides online design infrastructure for the electronics industry, said it raised $15 million in its Series B round of funding.", "New investor 3i led the round, which included new investor Horizon Ventures and previous investors Angel Investors, Artemis Ventures, and Barrington Partners.", "Horizon Ventures managing director Jack Carsten and 3i's Paul Rivers-Latham will sit on the company's board of directors.", "The company will use the funding for further designs of its wireless communications, networked systems, and electronics.", "The company also said it named former vice president of business development Mark Gilbreath as its new president and CEO.", "Mr. Gilbreath succeeds former president and CEO Daniel Hodges, who remains with the company as chief strategist." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 2 ] }, { "title": "e4273_p3", "sents": [ "iSyndicate is backed by Hambrecht & Quist, InfoSpace, Labrador Ventures, Microsoft, NBC, News Digital Ventures, Scripps Ventures, and Vignette.", "http: www.isyndicate.com http: www.bertelsmann.com Novalux Holds Third Round of Financing for $109 Million SUNNYVALE, Calif. -- Novalux, a developer of fiber optics components, said it raised its third round of funding for $109 million.", "Morgan Stanley Dean Witter Venture Partners led the round, which included new investors Cisco Systems, Credit Suisse First Boston, Intel Capital, Lamoreaux Partners, MSD Capital, NorthEast Ventures, Salomon Smith Barney, Sternhill Partners, Telesoft Partners, and United States Bancorp Piper Jaffray.", "Previous investors that funded the round include Crescendo Ventures, Crown Advisors, DynaFund, RWI, Tredegar Investments, and Vanguard Venture Partners.", "Morgan Stanley Dean Witter Venture Partners managing director William Harding will join the company's board of directors.", "The company will use the funding to expand its manufacturing capacity and create design teams to develop additional photonic products.", "http: www.novalux.com Online Jewelry Retailer Miadora Closes Down SAN FRANCISCO -- Miadora, an online jewelry retailer, has shut down." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e28042_p12", "sents": [ "Bronze said.", "<http: www.espresso.co.uk * RBC Centura Capital Invests $7M in Two Companies top mail <http: venturewire.com o_mailer.asp?sid=IJKLNLPLII CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Private equity firm RBC Centura Capital announced investments in Southern Assisted Living, which operates 46 assisted living communities, and Security Services of America, a security guard business.", "Southern Assisted Living, based in Chapel Hill, N.C., received $2 million in subordinated debt from RBC and Venture Capital Solutions.", "RBC led the transaction.", "The company will use the funds to open more facilities and as operating capital.", "Security Services of America received $5 million in subordinated debt, led by Mellon Ventures, and including RBC and Argosy Capital.", "The company will use the funds for operational expenses and growth.", "<http: www.centuracapital.com * Human Capital Managment Firm Itiliti Raises $4 Millon top mail <http: venturewire.com o_mailer.asp?sid=IPHHONQKII MINNEAPOLIS -- Itiliti, which develops and sells a Web-based service to help companies procure and manage temporary and contract labor, said it closed a $4 million round of funding." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 5 ] }, { "title": "e2933_p21", "sents": [ "ABC has raised $77 million to date from backers Ironwood, Red Rock Ventures, and Technology Crossover Ventures.", "ABC was founded in October 1997. http: www.allcovered.com Princeton eCom Buys Venture Finance Software from Intuit mail?", "top PRINCETON, N.J. (VENTUREWIRE) -- Princeton eCom, which provides ele ctronic billing and payment services to corporations and banks, said it acquired Intuit's online bill and payment service, Quicken Bill Manager, and all the outstanding shares of Venture Finance Software, a wholly owned subsidiary of publicly traded Intuit.", "Financial details of the deal were undisclosed.", "As part of the deal Intuit has the option to take a 20% equity stake in Princeton or the cash equivalent in February 2002. Princeton also said it made employment offers to the 25 employees from Intuit's Quicken division a nd plans to open an office in the vicinity of Intuit's Quicken offices in Mountain View, Calif. Princeton eCom raised $20 million in convertible debt in April from existing investors Mellon Ventures and New Century Equity Holdings." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 4 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e4676_p19", "sents": [ "HRPath is backed by individuals, including Mr. Burrill.", "http: www.hrpath.com New People o Clothes Visualization Firm enFashion Names President & CEO NEW YORK -- EnFasion, a creator of virtual apparel try-on technology, said it has appointed Sheree Waterson, former vice president of merchandizing at Gymboree subsidiary Zutopia, as its president and chief executive officer.", "Ms. Waterson was also a vice president at Wet Seal.", "enFashion is backed by individual investors.", "http: www.enfashion.com DemandVideo Promotes Richard Hercules to President and CEO MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. -- DemandVideo, a provider of video-on-demand technology, said it promoted Richard Hercules to president and CEO, succeeding Rajiv Jaluria, who has been promoted to Chairman.", "Mr. Hercules, joined DemandVideo last April as executive vice president of engineering and operations.", "DemandVideo completed its second-round financing with venture capital firms ComVentures and Chase Capital Partners earlier this year.", "http: www.demandvideo.com VC Fund News o International Investment Group Launches Romanian Incubator BUCHAREST -- NEST, a Romanian incubator, launched in conjunction with initial funding from the Romanian Post-Privatization Fund." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1, 2 ] }, { "title": "Wet Seal", "sents": [ "Wet Seal was an American teen clothing retailer headquartered in Foothill Ranch, California.", "It carried low, budget or economy priced brand name and company-designed apparel and accessories.", "The company was founded in Newport Beach, California by Lorne Huycke in 1962 as \"Lorne's.\"", "The \"Wet Seal\" name comes from a comment Lorne Huycke made during a fashion show commenting that a model wearing a bathing suit looked like a \"wet seal.\"", "The company was incorporated as Wet Seal in 1990." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 3 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "Unionville, Berks County, Pennsylvania", "sents": [ "Unionville is an unincorporated community in Union Township in Berks County, Pennsylvania, United States.", "Unionville is located at the intersection of Pennsylvania Route 724 and Unionville Road south of the Schuylkill River." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] }, { "title": "Schuylkill River", "sents": [ "The Schuylkill River ( , locally ) is an important river running west to east in eastern Pennsylvania, which was improved by navigations into the Schuylkill Canal.", "Several of its tributaries drain major parts of the center-southern and easternmost Coal Regions in the state.", "Originating from waters in the Anthracite Coal Region, millions of tons of coal enabling the iron and steel based industries of America's largest city of the day made their way down the waterway to make a great dent in the 19th-century's energy needs.", "It flows for 135 mi before joining the Delaware River as one of its largest tributaries in Philadelphia." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 3 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "Jörg Daniel", "sents": [ "Jörg Daniel (born 9 July 1951 in Hagen) is a former German footballer, currently a coach for the German Football Association.", "As a goalkeeper he made 112 Bundesliga appearances for Fortuna Düsseldorf." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] }, { "title": "German Football Association", "sents": [ "The German Football Association (German: \"Deutscher Fußball-Bund\" ] ; DFB ] ) is the governing body of football in Germany.", "A founding member of both FIFA and UEFA, the DFB has jurisdiction for the German football league system and is in charge of the men's and women's national teams.", "The DFB headquarters are in Frankfurt am Main.", "Sole members of the DFB are the German Football League (German: \"Deutsche Fußball Liga\" ; DFL), organising the professional Bundesliga and the 2.", "Bundesliga, along with five regional and 21 state associations, organising the semi-professional and amateur levels.", "The 21 state associations of the DFB have a combined number of more than 25,000 clubs with more than 6.8 million members, making the DFB the single largest sports federation in the world." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 2 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e2386_p4", "sents": [ "One unit at PG&E's Diablo Canyon nuclear plant is closed for refueling, par t of San Onofre nuclear plant is still down for fire-related repairs, and numerous smaller plants are undergoing maintenance or air pollution upgrade s. \"May and June are promising to be the worst months of the year,\" said Gary Ackerman of the Western Power Trading Forum, an association of generators.", "\"This is something we're going to have to get used to.\"", "The ISO and utilities around the state repeated their calls for consumers to raise thermostats, draw blinds, shut off unneeded appliances and do everything possible to put a damper on power usage from about noon through early evening.", "\"We're going to need conservation,\" said the ISO's McIntosh \"As we roll int o summer, that's the only way we're going to avoid large-scale interruptions.", "The ISO has forecast potential blackouts for any day when demand soars abov e 40,000 megawatts, which happened 34 times last summer." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] }, { "title": "Gary Ackerman", "sents": [ "Gary Leonard Ackerman (born November 19, 1942) is a former U.S. Representative from New York, serving from 1983 to 2013.", "He is a member of the Democratic Party.", "On March 15, 2012, Ackerman announced that he would retire at the end of the 112th Congress on January 3, 2013 after fifteen terms, and would not seek re-election in November 2012." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e19632_p29", "sents": [ "\"The thing I care about most,\" she added, \"is ensuring the general fund is repaid.\"", "Earlier this month, Lynch issued a draft decision that would have the PUC essentially rubber-stamp any future revenue requests or rate increases sought by the Department of Water Resources.", "But she also has publicly endorsed a bill by state Sen. John Burton (D-San Francisco) that the Davis administration opposes.", "The bill would ensure that the PUC has the right to scrutinize the revenue needs of the Department of Water Resources and hold public hearings.", "It would not, however, give the PUC the power to disallow department expenses.", "To reassure Wall Street, the bill would dedicate a portion of the money that utilities collect from their customers to repaying the bonds.", "At a PUC meeting last Thursday, PUC commissioners Richard Bilas and Henry Duque, appointees of former Gov.", "Pete Wilson, voiced support for the Burton bill, saying it would let the PUC shed additional light on the Department of Water Resources' power-related expenditures." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 2 ] }, { "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, 3 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e1584_p2", "sents": [ "Capstone MicroTurbines are manufactured in Southern California and have been extensively tested at University of California, Irvine and found to be reliable and durable.", "At this time, they represent one of the cleanest and most readily available options for distributed power generation from MicroTurbines to mitigate the energy crisis in Southern California.''", "One month ago, Capstone California announced a $4-million purchase of 30-kilowatt Capstone MicroTurbines by the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (www.ladwp.com).", "The purchase was part of an unprecedented cooperative agreement between the SCAQMD and the LADWP.", "(c) 1999 Business Wire." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] }, { "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 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "Tréma (record label)", "sents": [ "Tréma was a record and video label founded in 1969 by Jacques Revaux and Régis Talar.", "The word \"tréma\" was an acronym for \"Talar Revaux Éditions Musicales Associées\"." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] }, { "title": "Jacques Revaux", "sents": [ "Jacques Revaux (born Jacques Abel Jules Revaud, 11 July 1940 in Azay-sur-Cher, Indre-et-Loire) is a French songwriter most famous for his 1968 collaboration with singer Claude François on the song \"Comme d'habitude\" that singer-songwriter Paul Anka reworked into the English language as \"My Way\".", "He co-founded Trema Records with Regis Talar.", "Revaux also wrote many hit songs for another French singing star, Michel Sardou." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "The Economist", "sents": [ "The Economist is an English-language weekly magazine-format newspaper owned by the Economist Group and edited at offices in London.", "Continuous publication began under its founder, James Wilson, in September 1843.", "In 2015 its average weekly circulation was a little over 1.5 million, about half of which were sold in the United States." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] }, { "title": "e27936_p7", "sents": [ "Ten people died and more than 80 are still missing.", "Swap or default?", "Domingo Cavallo, Argentina's economy minister, made an unannounced visit to New York, apparently to try to persuade bankers of the virtues of a debt swap that rating agencies say may amount to a default.", "The government held back planned economic measures, after talks with provincial governors over budget cuts dragged on.", "After 30 years of debate, Mexico's transport ministry at last decided on the site for a new international airport for Mexico city.", "It will be built on the dried-up bed of Lake Texcoco.", "The city's mayor said he would challenge the decision in the courts.", "See article: Mexico's overdue new airport <http: TheEconomist.s.maildart.net link_31734_6557507_2_80010922_60368779_1_56 E+ <http: www.economist.com images dingbats e5.gif A leading human-rights lawyer was murdered in Mexico.", "Investigators suspected the army of being behind her death.", "Access all the <http: www.economist.com images dingbats eplusblue.gif articles in this newsletter Subscribe to receive unlimited access to 40 or more premium articles each week from The Economist magazine and full access to our paid archive of over 20,000 Economist articles going back to 1997. To enjoy the complete benefits of a subscription to Economist.com, sign up now <http: TheEconomist.s.maildart.net link_28866_6557507_2_80010922_60368779_1_62 for one full year at US$59, a saving of over 50% on the monthly subscription rate." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 9 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e20247_p32", "sents": [ "When the Senate passed the Edison rescue bill in July, it only authorized the utility to sell $2.5 billion in bonds and gave the state the option during the next five years to buy the power lines at current book value of $1.2 billion.", "The Senate has one week to decide whether it will pass the SoCal Edison rescue bill before the Senate adjourns for the year Sept. 15. A state-mandated rate freeze prohibited SoCal Edison from passing on rising power costs to consumers, leading to the company amassing $3.9 billion in debt since May 2000. Copyright (c) 2001 Dow Jones & Company, Inc.", "Developments In California 's Energy Crisis At A Glance 09 07 2001 Dow Jones Energy Service (Copyright (c) 2001, Dow Jones & Company, Inc.) THURSDAY: --The state Assembly approves a deal to rescue Southern California Edison from bankruptcy by letting the utility issue $2.9 billion in bonds backed by ratepayers." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 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": "Monster Butler", "sents": [ "Monster Butler is an unfinished independent thriller drama film based on the true story of Archibald Hall.", "The film follows his journey into his dark lifestyle and how he is eventually captured.", "It was to be directed by Douglas Rath and star Malcolm McDowell as Archibald Hall, with Gary Oldman, Dominic Monaghan, and Evanna Lynch.", "Production was to be by Dark House Films, with Warner Bros. Pictures set to distribute." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 3 ] }, { "title": "Warner Bros.", "sents": [ "Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. (previously incorporated as Warner Brothers Pictures, Inc. and colloquially known as Warner Bros. and Warner Bros. Pictures) is an American entertainment company that is a division of Time Warner and is headquartered in Burbank, California.", "It is one of the \"Big Six\" major American film studios." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] } ]