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[ { "title": "e8721_p21", "sents": [ "IFILM will receive a preferred equity position in Filmtrust for its contributions to the co-venture, which will be branded under the Filmtrust name.", "Filmtrust was formed in February 1999 as a joint venture with Digital Commerce Corporation (DCC), a creator of e-commerce services for government and industry.", "The venture was launched through an alliance between Filmtrust and Entertainment Partners (EP), a developer and marketer of entertainment industry production accounting software and services.", "IFILM's backers include Eastman Kodak, Liberty Digital, Shamrock Capital Advisors, Sony, and Vulcan Ventures.", "http: www.filmtrust.com http: www.ifilm.com Inustry B2B Dairy.com and INC2inc Merge to Form Momentx mail this story?", "top DALLAS (VENTUREWIRE) -- Dairy.com, a business-to-business exchange for the dairy industry, and INC2inc Technologies, an online market and supply chhain service for the food and beverage industry, announced their merger and the formation of a parent company, Momentx.", "Momentx will be headquartered in Dallas.", "Gregg Engles, chairman of the board and CEO of Suiza Foods, will serve as chairman of the board." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 5, 6 ] }, { "title": "Dallas", "sents": [ "Dallas ( ) is a city in the U.S. state of Texas.", "It is the most populous city in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex, which is the fourth most populous metropolitan area in the United States.", "The city's population ranks ninth in the U.S. and third in Texas after Houston and San Antonio.", "The city's prominence arose from its historical importance as a center for the oil and cotton industries, and its position along numerous railroad lines.", "The bulk of the city is in Dallas County, of which it is the county seat; however, sections of the city are located in Collin, Denton, Kaufman, and Rockwall counties.", "According to the 2010 United States Census, the city had a population of 1,197,816.", "The United States Census Bureau's estimate for the city's population increased to 1,317,929 as of July 1, 2016." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e20450_p0", "sents": [ "FYI.", "Please keep me posted as we hear from clients.", "Jim, Sue and Jeff, please distribute any and all updates on this topic to: Angela, Michael, Lamar, David and Greg as they each own clients effected any actions.", "Thanks, Jeremy Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2001 1:35 PM To: Blachman, Jeremy; Frazier, Lamar; Mara, Susan; Dasovich, Jeff; Sharp, Vicki; Smith, Mike Cc: Leff, Dan; Dietrich, Janet; Delainey, David Subject: CPUC Questions on DA Suspension Jeremy -- To let you know where we stand on the CPUC's Investigation on DA Suspension.", "1. Sue Mara is leading the effort to respond to the CPUC for Enron.", "2. We knew that the CPUC was at a minimum going to investigate how and or whether to allow extensions of contracts and the application of other surcharge $$ to DA load given their earlier statements.", "The issue on retroactivity is open primarily because they can ask these questions and (I believe) as leverage for other issues." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 4 ] }, { "title": "e97_p0", "sents": [ "'We have set up a conference call for today's meeting for those of you interested in calling in.", "It is 1-800-486-2460 The pass code is 120895 Thanks!", "Katie Kaplan Manager of State Policy Affairs Independent Energy Producers Association (916) 448-9499 --Original Message -- From: Julee Malinowski-Ball [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2001 3:26 PM To: Susan McCabe; Scott Govenar; Ron Tom; Robert Ross; Rina Venturini; Phil Isenberg; Mike Monagan; Maureen OHaren; Marie Moretti; Kassandra Gough; Jamie Parker; Hedy Govenar; DJ Smith; Delany Hunter; Chuck Cole; Bev Hansen; Anne Kelly; Fred Pownall; Mark Nobili Cc: Jean Munoz; Greg Blue; Jack Pigott; Jeff Dasovich; Joe Ronan; John Stout; Kassandra Gough; kent Palmerton; Larrea, John; Lynn Lednicky; Paula Soos; Richard Hyde; Roger Pelote; Sandi McCubbin; Stephanie Newell; Steve Ponder; Sue Mara; Jan Smutny Jones; Steven Kelley; Katie Kaplan; Chris Ellison; Doug Kerner; Andy Brown; Nam Nguyen Subject: Action Items from Today's Lobbyist Call ACTION ITEMS from today's IEP member company lobbyist conference call: AB 60x (Hertzberg) - Calpine will attempt to get a meeting with the Speaker on Monday regarding his interest in other \"California First\" avenues, and report the results to IEP." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 2 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e28115_p25", "sents": [ "Earlier, state-owned Indian Oil Corporation and Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd also expressed interest in stepping in Enron's shoes, but their bids were rejected by the Houston-based company during the preliminary round itself, sources said.", "ONGC had the required experience and expertise of operating the fields, Raha said, adding, \"I am hopeful the government would decide in our favour.\"", "Enron Oil and Gas India Ltd (EOGIL), the operator of the joint venture, had in October last year sought government permission to withdraw from the Panna-Mukta and Tapti fields as part of its asset rebalancing exercise.", "It had recently mandated Credit Suisse First Boston to derive current value of its stake in the joint venture and evaluate the bids.", "As per JV agreement, EOGIL would need government nod on the prospective buyer though production sharing contract did not provide for first right of refusal to other partners.", "ONGC officials said the corporation had hired merchant banker N M Rothschild India as its consultant for the two-stage bidding process comprising of non-binding expression of interest (EoI) and a detailed financial bid." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 2 ] }, { "title": "Indian Oil Corporation", "sents": [ "Indian Oil Corporation Limited (IOCL) (, ), commonly known as IndianOil is an Indian oil and gas company headquartered in Mumbai.", "It is the largest commercial enterprise in the country, with a net profit of INR 19,106 crore (USD 2,848 million) for the financial year 2016–17.", "It is ranked 1st in Fortune India 500 list for year 2016 and 168th in Fortune's ‘Global 500’ list of world's largest companies in the year 2017.", "As of 31st March, 2017 IndianOil's employee strength is 33,135, out of which 16,545 are in the officer cadre." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 2 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e7455_p17", "sents": [ "As part of the strategic relationship IBM has acquired an undisclosed minority stake in Kymata.", "Through the agreement IBM is licensing its siliconoxynitride process technology and pump laser to Kymata for the manufacture of new chip designs.", "Kymata is backed by investors including 3i Group, ACT Venture Capital, Bowman Capital, BT, ComVentures, European Venture Partners, GATX European Technology Ventures, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, RBS Mezzanine, Telesoft Partners, and the University of Southampton.", "The company has raised $162 million in equity funding to date.", "http: www.ibm.com http: www.kymata.com M&A o Amateur Sports Site Myteam Aquires Soccer Market ASP Zvia WOBURN, Mass.", "-- Myteam.com, an amateur sports site, said it acquired the assets of Zvia, an ASP for the amateur soccer market for an undisclosed amount.", "Zvia's employees will move into the Myteam's offices and Zvia CEO Ian Davison has become general manager of Myteam's soccer division.", "The Myteam site will now offer soccer information, including instruction, skills and drills, coaching tips, and soccer application tools." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 2 ] }, { "title": "e3415_p13", "sents": [ "The company said its current valuation is over $20 million and also that it plans to reach profitability sometime in 2002. In October 2000 MINEit raised $1.4 million from ACT Venture Capital and the University Challenge Fund.", "MINEit also has offices in Chicago, London, and Stuttgart, Germany.", "http: www.mineit.com RealTime Media Closes $2.2 M in Series B, Names New Head mail?", "top WYNNEWOOD, Pa. (VENTUREWIRE) -- RealTime Media, an online promotiona l agency, said that it has raised $2.2 million in Series B financing led by previous investor NewSpring Ventures, with participation from new investors Covenent Partners, and Lancaster Investment Partners.", "Unamed individuals ha ve also re-invested in this round.", "Additionally, RealTime announced the appointment of John Hopper as president, CEO, and board member.", "The company plans to dedicate the new funds to product development as well as for marke t expansion.", "As a result of this financing, there were two appointments to th e company's five-member board of directors: Janet Paroo of NewSpring ventures has been appointed as the company's chairman, and Neil Contess, who was formerly a principal with marketing agency Dugan Valva Contess." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e8270_p1", "sents": [ "\"I believe [the] legislation is consistent with the view that while the 1996 Act is generally working, additional incentives to serve certain rural or urban communities are appropriate,\" he said in letters to President Clinton, Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott (R., Miss.", "), Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee Chairman John McCain (R., Ariz.), and Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan (D., N.Y.), the author of S 2698.'" ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 1 ] }, { "title": "John McCain", "sents": [ "John Sidney McCain III (born August 29, 1936) is an American politician who currently serves as the senior United States Senator from Arizona, in that office since 1987.", "He was the Republican nominee for President of the United States in the 2008 election, which he lost to Barack Obama." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e27220_p6", "sents": [ "-- MPM Capital, a global asset management firm focused solely on healthcare investing, said it made several new additions to its investment team.", "<br <br Carl Weissman will join MPM Capital&#39;s BioVentures as venture partner while Dr. Kazumi Shiosaki will join as entrepreneur in residence.", "Skip Klein has been named as a venture partner with both MPM BioVentures and MPM BioEquities, which invests primarily in public healthcare companies.", "Mr. Klein will focus on late stage private and public market venture capital opportunities.", "Prior to joining MPM, Mr. Klein was an investment analyst, portfolio manager, and founder of the T. Rowe Price Health Sciences Fund.<br <br Mr. Wesimann previously served as the founding chief operating officer for Centagenetix, an MPM portfolio company, while Dr. Kazumi served as senior vice president of drug discovery at Millennium Pharmaceuticals and at Abbott Laboratories.", "font <br <a href=\"http: www.mpmcapital.com\" target=\"_new\" <font face='arial,helvetica' size='2' http: www.mpmcapital.com< font a td tr table <br <font face='arial,helvetica' color=\"#006699\" size=\"3\" <b BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT< b font <br <br <table border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 <tr <td &#8226; <a name=\"vwHHINIIKLII\" <b <font face='arial,helvetica' size=\"2\" Genomics Firm DGT Names Kevin Skol VP Business Development< font ba td <td align=\"right\" <a href=\"#vwHHINIIKLIIx\" <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=HHINIIKLII\" 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\" LA JOLLA, CALIF. -- Digital Gene Technologies said it named Kevin T. Skol vice president of business development." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 1, 4 ] }, { "title": "Abbott Laboratories", "sents": [ "Abbott Laboratories is an American worldwide health care company.", "It has 94,000 employees and operates in more than 150 countries.", "The company headquarters are in Lake Bluff, Illinois.", "The company was founded by Chicago physician Wallace Calvin Abbott in 1888 to formulate known drugs; it eventually grew to also sell research-based drugs, medical devices, diagnostics, and nutritional products.", "It split off the research-based pharmaceuticals into Abbvie in 2013.", "In 2015, revenues were $20.4 billion." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 3 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e6026_p42", "sents": [ "-By Germana Canzi, Dow Jones Newswires; 44 20 78429283; [email protected] JAPAN: Korea Aluminium-Imports seen cheaper than govt stock sales.", "By Jae Hur 07 04 2001 Reuters English News Service (C) Reuters Limited 2001. TOKYO, July 4 (Reuters) - South Korean demand for spot aluminium is expected to inch up this week as stock sales by the government agency became less attractive after recent declines in London metal prices, traders said on Wednesday.", "\"It might be the first time since the begining of this year that imported aluminium prices appear to be lower than those of the government stock sales,\" said a trader with a leading trading house in Seoul.", "This would drive domestic endusers to seek more imported metal held by trading houses rather than metal held by the Supply Administration (SAROK), alleviating domestic aluminium stocks, he said.", "Aluminium stocks in major South Korean ports, excluding inventories held by SAROK, were estimated at about 40,000 tonnes, against 50,000 tonnes in mid-June, traders said." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 1 ] }, { "title": "e68_p1", "sents": [ "By C. Bryson Hull 03 15 2001 Reuters English News Service (C) Reuters Limited 2001. HOUSTON, March 15 (Reuters) - Wall Street took a hard look at Enron Corp.'s content delivery plans this week after it ended its video-on-demand deal with Blockbuster Inc. but remained largely unfazed by the failure of the flagship deal, analysts said on Thursday.", "On balance, most analysts viewed the busted 20-year exclusive agreement as disappointing, but by no means a fatal blow to Enron Broadband Services' (EBS) budding content delivery segment.", "Most reiterated buy or strong buy ratings for the Houston company and maintained bullish earnings targets for the Enron Broadband Services division.", "But all are awaiting an indication of how Enron will reconfigure the content delivery initiative.", "\"I think Blockbuster represented kind of an anchor tenant for the broadband business, so they have lost a contract that was important,\" said Jeff Dietert, an analyst with Houston investment house Simmons and Co. Now EBS will have to pursue smaller contracts to make up the loss, which could mean a longer road to create as big a book of business, Dietert said." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e6816_p6", "sents": [ "Dunn, a prominent trial attorney himself, insists that confidentiality will be protected and that the information being sought is only for legislative purposes.", "But Enron and the other companies have some reason to be wary of turning over confidential information to politicians.", "Similar information w as leaked -- without penalty -- in last year's investigation of former state Insurance Commissioner Chuck Quackenbush.", "And there are indications that private lawyers are working closely with investigators.", "Mike Aguirre, the San Diego attorney seeking a \"smoking gun\" to prove collusion among energy companies, supplied Dunn's committee with a few dissident Duke Energy workers who alleged, in highly publicized hearings, that the firm had manipulated production at its San Diego plant to create artificial shortages and drive up spot market power prices.", "Duke then refut ed the charges by releasing some excerpts from the records of the Independent System Operator, the controller of California's power grid, indicating that ISO had ordered the plant operational changes." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 1, 2 ] }, { "title": "Chuck Quackenbush", "sents": [ "Charles \"Chuck\" Quackenbush (born 1954) is a Florida law enforcement officer and former California Republican politician.", "He served as Insurance Commissioner of California from 1995–2000 and as a California State Assemblyman representing the 22nd District, from 1986–1994." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e8043_p0", "sents": [ "'Western Government Affairs WEEKLY SCHEDULES November 20 - 24, 2000 Paul Kaufman Mon 11 20 Portland Tue 11 21 Portland Salem Wed 11 22 Portland Thur 11 23 Thanksgiving Day Fri 11 24 Holiday Sue Mara Mon 11 20 In Office; Leave at 3:30 for appointment w Accountant Tue 11 21 In Office Wed 11 22 In Office Thur 11 23 Thanksgiving Day Fri 11 24 Holiday Sandi McCubbin Mon 11 20 South Africa CFEE trip Tue 11 21 South Africa CFEE trip Wed 11 22 South Africa CFEE trip Thur 11 23 Thanksgiving Day Fri 11 24 Holiday Jeff Dasovich Mon 11 20 In Office Tue 11 21 In Office Wed 11 22 In Office Thur 11 23 Thanksgiving Day Fri 11 24 Holiday Mona Petrochko Mon 11 20 Vacation Tue 11 21 Vacation Wed 11 22 Vacation Thur 11 23 Thanksgiving Day Fri 11 24 Holiday Marcie Milner Mon 11 20 Phoenix Tue 11 21 Phoenix Wed 11 22 Phoenix + Travel to Ohio Thur 11 23 Thanksgiving Day Fri 11 24 Holiday'" ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] }, { "title": "e1311_p0", "sents": [ "'Western Government Affairs WEEKLY SCHEDULES For the Week of April 16 20, 2001 Paul Kaufman Mon 4 16 Portland OR office Tue 4 17 Sacramento CA for Extraordinary Session Wed 4 18 Sacramento CA for Extraordinary Session Thur 4 19 Sacramento CA for Extraordinary Session or Phoenix or Salt Lake City Fri 4 20 TBD Sue Mara Mon 4 16 San Francisco CA office Tue 4 17 WPTF Board meeting at San Francisco CA office Wed 4 18 Work @ home Thur 4 19 ISO Meeting, Folsom CA re: Market Issues Forum meeting Fri 4 20 San Francisco CA office Jeff Dasovich Mon 4 16 San Francisco CA office Tue 4 17 San Francisco CA office Wed 4 18 San Francisco CA office Thur 4 19 San Francisco CA office Fri 4 20 San Francisco CA office Sandi McCubbin Mon 4 16 Sacramento CA for Extraordinary Session Tue 4 17 Sacramento CA for Extraordinary Session Wed 4 18 Sacramento CA for Extraordinary Session Thur 4 19 Sacramento CA San Francisco CA office [TBD] Fri 4 20 Sacramento CA San Francisco CA office [TBD] Alan Comnes Mon 4 16 Portland OR office Tue 4 17 Portland OR office Wed 4 18 Portland OR office Thur 4 19 Portland OR office Fri 4 20 Portland OR office Mona Petrochko Mon 4 16 San Francisco CA office Tue 4 17 San Francisco CA office, a.m.; Travel to Houston TX, p.m." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e26987_p0", "sents": [ "'This ought to be very interesting!!", "NGI's Daily Gas Price Index published August 24, 2001 FERC's Wood Looking for a Few Good Executives Chairman designate Pat Wood III is looking for a few good energy executives to teach him and his FERC colleagues the ins and outs of the natural gas and electricity markets, specifically how to detect when something \"smelly\" is taking place.", "He's willing to pay a maximum salary of $133,700 -- which is what he'll be making as chairman -- for up to 10 executives who are interested in the task.", "That's the \"top payment\" that Congress will allow, Wood noted.", "He's also looking to hire an unspecified number of executives at a salary in the $115,000 range.", "Potential applicants should call him directly at (202) 208-0388, Wood said during an interview with NGI Thursday.", "\"We've tried like crazy to get people.", "We can't compete on dollars Government never competes on dollars." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 1 ] }, { "title": "e804_p6", "sents": [ "\"We'll continue to justify our operations and we'll take the uproar for what it is.", "Will it get worse?", "It's hard to speculate,\" Reliant spokesman Richard Wheatley said.", "FEDERAL REGULATORY ENVIRONS FAVORABLE The saving grace for the generators may be the Bush Administration's clear hands-off approach to the California crisis, which it has declared a state issue.", "Bush and FERC Chairman Curtis Hebert both opposes price caps.", "And power producers could soon have two familiar and friendly faces on the FERC.", "Bush last week appointed former Texas Public Utility Commission chair Pat Wood III and Pennsylvania Public Utility Commissioner Nora Mead Brownell, both of whom oversaw their states' power deregulation efforts.", "\"With the new appointments to FERC, I think it's pretty clear they are not going to interfere with California,\" said John Herrington, a former energy secretary in the Reagan administration who lives in California.", "But if fears of a summer power shortfall come true in California and west as expected, the Bush administration's stance could change, said former FERC chairman and Clinton administration deputy Energy Secretary Charles Curtis." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 6, 7 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e4432_p18", "sents": [ "The new company will be called Netpulse E-Zone Media Networks, which will target users in health and fitness facilities.", "E-Zone Media Networks will provide users with a multimedia platform that combines television, video on-demand, radio, and the Internet.", "Andrew Wiswell, formerly a senior vice president at E-Zone, is chief executive officer.", "Tom Proulx, former CEO of Netpulse and cofounder of Intuit, and Robert McKenzie, former CEO of E-Zone, will serve as co-executive chairmen.", "Xystos president Nat Findlay will lead the company's international expansion, operating the Netpulse E-Zone Media Networks International division from Quebec City.", "Netpulse E-Zone Media Networks' headquarters will be in San Francisco.", "Netpulse Communications' backers include Crown Ventures, Mercantile Capital, PPM America, SpaceNet-Gilat Satellite Networks, and individual investors.", "http: www.netpulse.com UConnections.com Buys College Nightlife Site NightFunk.com NEW YORK -- UConnections.com, an Internet provider of e-commerce and information for college students, said it has acquired student nightlife site, NightFunk.com, for an undisclosed amount." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 3 ] }, { "title": "Tom Proulx", "sents": [ "Thomas Proulx, better known as Tom Proulx, is an American computer programmer and entrepreneur.", "He was a co-founder and first programmer of Intuit and a pioneer of usability testing in the 1980s.", "He was the main programmer of the first version of Quicken and prime mover of its successful merger with TurboTax." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 2 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e19866_p4", "sents": [ "Dynegy will fill its network by going after wholesale customers, Stubbe said.", "But that field will be wider than traditional telecoms might have thought.", "Big banks in New York need considerable capacity, he said.", "\"They almost look like a small city.", "So (we) would go after those types of enterprises.\"", "-By Michael Rieke, Dow Jones Newswires; 713-547-9207; [email protected] Copyright 2000 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved.", "INDIA: Enron Indian unit defaults on interest dues-source.", "By Sriram Ramakrishnan 09 21 2001 Reuters English News Service (C) Reuters Limited 2001. BOMBAY, Sept 21 (Reuters) - The Indian unit of United States energy major Enron Corp has defaulted on interest payments to international lenders, an industry source said on Friday.", "Citibank, Bank of America, United States Exim Bank and Japan's Overseas Private Investment Corporation are among the international lenders to Dabhol Power Company's $2.9 billion Indian plant.", "\"The default happened early this week,\" the source, who declined to be identified, told Reuters." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 8 ] }, { "title": "Overseas Private Investment Corporation", "sents": [ "The Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) is the United States government's development finance institution.", "It mobilizes private capital to help solve critical development challenges and, in doing so, advances the foreign policy of the United States and national security objectives." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e3375_p8", "sents": [ "http: www.kestrelsolutions.com new money Biotech Firm BioMimetic Raises $6.5 Million in Series A mail?", "top NASHVILLE, Tenn. (VENTUREWIRE) -- BioMimetic Pharmaceuticals, a deve loper of technology products for the healing and restoration of bone and other tissues, said that it raised $6.5 million in a Series A round led by Burril l & Co. with participation from Holden.", "The company plans to dedicate the new funds to product development and clinical trials.", "As a result of th is financing, John Kim and Ann Hanham of Burrill & Co., Michael Block from Holden, and Arnold Caplan of the Skeletal Research Center at Case Western Reserve University have been granted seats on the company's seven-member board.", "Telephone 615-844-1280 Israeli Routers Maker HyWire Gets $5 Million First Round mail?", "top NETANYA, Israel (VENTUREWIRE) -- Munich, Germany-based Infineon Technologies, formerly Siemens Semiconductor Group, announced it participat ed in a $5 million first round for HyWire, an Israeli-startup that develops chips and subsystems for Internet and communication infrastructure routers." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 1, 2, 3 ] }, { "title": "Case Western Reserve University", "sents": [ "Case Western Reserve University (also known as Case Western Reserve, Case Western, Case, and CWRU) is a private doctorate-granting university in Cleveland, Ohio.", "The university was created in 1967 by the federation of Case Institute of Technology (founded in 1881 by Leonard Case Jr.) and Western Reserve University (founded in 1826 in the area that was once the Connecticut Western Reserve).", "\"Time\" magazine described the merger as the creation of \"Cleveland's Big-Leaguer\" university." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e7366_p38", "sents": [ "The fund, however, will source its deals internationally.", "Investors in the fund include Goldman Sachs, SUN Technology, Capital Z Investments, Merrill Lynch, Fidelity, Reuters, and Tibco.", "Subhash Arora, the co-founder of the HCL Group of Companies, is an operating director of the fund.", "Telephone +22-2020607 o Dresdner Kleinwort Benson Acquires British VC Fund LONDON -- Dresdner Kleinwort Benson's private equity business said it acquired Elderstreet Investments, a UK venture capital fund focused on early stage technology investing.", "The company, which took an initial 18% interest in Elderstreet in 1999, is acquiring the remainder in an \"eight-figure acquisition, pounds sterling,\" according to a Anthony Cowley, Head of Investment Strategy, Dresdener Kleinwort Benson Private Equity.", "Dresdner said that under its ownership Elderstreet will develop a pan-European platform for information technology investments and launch a successor fund next year.", "Dresdner said it will committ EUR 75 million ($64.6 million) to the new fund.", "As part of the international expansion Elderstreet is building an investment team to operate in Germany." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 3, 4 ] }, { "title": "e4576_p18", "sents": [ "The company will use the funds toward expansion into Asia and to market its product Verbal Wap, voice-enabled wireless search engine technology.", "http: www.verbaltek.com Analyst Rating Firm Starmine Raises $7 Million in Series C SAN FRANCISCO -- Starmine, which rates Wall Street analysts and provides research tools, said it raised $7 million in Series C from American Century and Hummer Winblad.", "The company will use the funds for United States expansion and for staffing.", "http: www.starmine.com Broadband Site Silicon.com Raises $22 Million Third Round LONDON -- Silicon.com, a broadband business news and recruitment service for information technology professionals, said it raised $22 million in its third round of funding.", "The round was led by Banc of America Equity Partners Europe.", "Additional investors in the round include Amadeus Capital Partners, Schroder Ventures, Dresdner Kleinwort Benson, Gilde IT, and T-Venture.", "The company said it will use the funding to expand across Germany and France." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 3, 5, 6 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e19703_p34", "sents": [ "The company said it is accelerating attempts to sell ``non- core assets'' such as its investment in an Indian power plant and its broadband telecommunications network.", "Enron has about $8 billion invested in these businesses, and it may take as long as a year to get rid of the broadband business, Whalley said.", "``In hindsight, we made some very bad investments,'' Lay said.", "``These have turned out far worse than we ever imagined.''", "Lay, Enron's chairman since February 1986, was entitled to receive a severance package of more than $60 million after Dynegy took over Enron.", "Lay decided yesterday to waive the payment.", "Cauley Geller Bowman & Coates, LLP Expands Class Period in Class Action Lawsuit Against Enron Corp. 11 14 2001 Business Wire (Copyright (c) 2001, Business Wire) LITTLE ROCK, Ark.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 14, 2001--The Law Firm of Cauley Geller Bowman & Coates, LLP announced today that a class action has been filed in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, Texarkana Division on behalf of purchasers of Enron Corp. (\"Enron\" or the \"Company\") (NYSE:ENE) common stock during the period between January 18, 1999 and November 8, 2001, inclusive (the \"Class Period\")." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 6 ] }, { "title": "e19680_p94", "sents": [ "Earnings for the first two quarters of 2001 also were restated.", "Enron has garnered investor ire since it unexpectedly reduced shareholder equity by $1.2 billion in mid-October, saying off-balance sheet transactions had contributed to that and to $1 billion in charges.", "The company's stock plunged as almost daily developments sullied investors.", "It lost almost 80 percent of value from the day the company reported its first quarterly loss in more than four years on Oct. 16, to the announcement last week that rival Dynegy Inc. would buy Enron for about $9 billion in stock and the assumption of about $13 billion in debt.", "Enron shares closed Tuesday 75 cents higher at $9.99 on the New York Stock Exchange, far off its August 2000 high of $90.56. INCREASED TIME FRAME In the latest lawsuit to be filed against Enron since it was rocked by a United States regulatory probe in October, the law firm of Cauley Geller Bowman & Coates said misrepresentations and omissions by the defendants violated their duty to release accurate and truthful information on the company's finances." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 4 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e3342_p23", "sents": [ "Maviglio predicted that the effects of Jeffords' expected party defection would be felt immediately.", "The chairmanship of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee would be taken away from Frank H. Murkowski (R-Alaska), who has been \"openly hostile to California's plight,\" and handed to Jeff Bingaman (D-N.M.), who supports Davis' request for electricity price controls, according to Maviglio.", "Democrats have assailed Bush's energy plan for tilting heavily toward the supply side.", "With Democrats in charge of the Senate, the administration would be more likely to compromise, perhaps beefing up funding for Democrat-supported causes such as increased energy assistance to low-income households and more aggressive promotion of conservation and renewable energy sources such as wind and solar power.", "LOAD-DATE: May 24, 2001 5 of 58 DOCUMENTS Copyright 2001 Los Angeles Times Los Angeles Times May 24, 2001 Thursday Home Edition SECTION: Part A; Part 1; Page 16; National Desk LENGTH: 930 words HEADLINE: The Nation; Texas Firm's Chief Denies Driving Up Calif. Natural Gas Prices; Energy: At federal panel hearing, he says his company missed out on making more money from rapid hikes." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 1 ] }, { "title": "e2855_p0", "sents": [ "'Bush Task Force on Energy Worked in Mysterious Ways The New York Times, 05 16 01 Texaco May Build a Facility to Regassify Liquefied Natural Gas Offshore Louisiana The Wall Street Journal, 05 16 01 Enron to drop suit against NGX Houston Chronicle, 05 16 01 Plots & Ploys The Wall Street Journal, 05 16 01 THE AMERICAS: Energy worries throw the spotlight on Chilean policy Financial Times; May 16, 2001 Enron urges more electric power reform The Yomiuri Shimbun Daily Yomiuri, 05 16 01 Enron lawsuit deal to broaden indexes The Globe and Mail, 05 16 01 Saudi Gas Proj MOUs Expected To Be Signed Jun 6 - Sources Dow Jones Energy Service, 05 16 01 INDIA: Lenders to vote Wed on cancelling Enron India deal-paper.", "Reuters English News Service, 05 16 01 India: 2 units of Sharavathy Project commissioned The Hindu, 05 16 01 India: Dabhol power project Business Line (The Hindu), 05 16 01 Three members of Godbole committee quit The Economic Times, 05 16 01 Panel to brief Gokak on Godbole plans on Wed The Economic Times, 05 16 01 Settle Enron issue amiably: Munde The Times of India, 05 16 01 Sharavathi power units inaugurated The Times of India, 05 16 01 Dunham, Lay, Raymond Among Few to Meet With Cheney on Energy Bloomberg, 05 16 01 National Desk; Section A Bush Task Force on Energy Worked in Mysterious Ways By KATHARINE Q. SEELYE 05 16 2001 The New York Times Page 1, Column 4 c. 2001 New York Times Company WASHINGTON, May 15 -- The tiny staff of the Bush administration's Energy Development Task Force is led by two former aides to Senator Frank H. Murkowski, the Alaska Republican who is the chairman of the Senate Energy Committee." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 1 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e3552_p18", "sents": [ "The funding wi ll be used for expansion of research operations, marketing, and sales.", "The company also said it plans to announce a partnership with a publicly listed healthcare services firm in the next few days.", "Atherotech's Vertical Auto Profile test monitors cholesterol through direct measurements as opposed to the current calculation methods used in standard tests.", "The company expects to reach profitability in the fourth quarter of 2001 and is considering an IPO later this year or early next year, depending on market and other conditions.", "http: www.atherotech.com Spirian Technologies Gets Funding from Silver Young Partners mail?", "top CHICAGO (VENTUREWIRE) -- Spirian Technologies, which provides infrastructure management services via the Internet, said it has secured an undisclosed investment from Silver Young Partners, a Chicago-based venture capital firm, as part of its third round of funding.", "Earlier this year Spirian announced it had secured $7 million in the third round from Citadel LP and Ravenswood Capital Venture Fund II." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 5 ] }, { "title": "e3552_p47", "sents": [ "http: www.rbcap.com company index top Advantage Capital Partners, Alacra, Alacra, American Fiber Systems, A ndes Networks, Andes Networks, Ardent Pharmaceuticals, Ardent Pharmaceuticals, Arexis, Arexis, Asera, Assentive Solutions, Astrea Systems, Atherotech, Atherotech, Availant, Aventail, Bertelsmann, Bertelsmann, BF Goodrich, BuildOnline, CableNet International, Cervalis, Commtag, Commtag, CyberBills Digital Media On Demand, E Ink, e-business technology, Enamics, Enanta Pharmaceuticals, Enanta Pharmaceuticals, Enanta Pharmaceuticals, Endero, Entropia, Eqvitec Partners, eRealty.com, FlipDog.com, FlipDog.com, Fractus, Fractus, GetPlugged.com, Iconix Pharmaceuticals, Iconix Pharmaceuticals, Improv Systems, Incyte Pharmaceuticals, Incyte Pharmaceuticals, Insight Capital Partners, Insight Capital Partners, iScraper, IT Factory, IT Provider, Lido, Lumeta, Metavante, Metreo, Mezzia, MidStream Technologies, Millennium Technology Ventures, MMC Capital, Model N, myplay, myplay, Neurotech, Neurotech, OmniSonics Medical Technologies, OptiGlobe Communications, OutTask, PaperExchange.com, PaperExchange.com, Poindexter Systems, Polexis, Polexis, Polexis, Quake Technologies, Quake Technologies, Remedyne, Remedyne, Rho Ventures, Royal Bank of Canada Capital Partners, Seasonticket.com, Sequence Design, SpeedGreetings, SpeedGreetings, Spirian Technologies, Spirian Technologies, TMP Worldwide, TMP Worldwide, Tools for Health, Toppan Printing, Touchpoint, Upright Software, UsherPro, VirtualGiveaway, Whitney & Co., Xtime, Xtime Time is money and time can be saved through effortless, streamlined Web-based enterprise services." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e11016_p9", "sents": [ "ISO managers had worried they might not meet demand because of the forced shutdown of power plants capable of producing 10,400 megawatts -- 400 megawatts more than the day before.", "Officials said the plants were taken of f line for repair work.", "Dorinson said he could not predict how long the state would remain on Stage 3 alert.", "\"It is the same situation.", "I feel like Bill Murray,\" he said, referring to the star of the movie \"Groundhog Day,\" whose character keeps reliving the same day.", "Deals & Deal Makers: First Boston's `Son of Tyco' Deal Goes Sour Underwriter Left Holding A Bagful of Unsold Bonds By Suzanne McGee Staff Reporter of The Wall Street Journal 02 15 2001 The Wall Street Journal C1 (Copyright (c) 2001, Dow Jones & Company, Inc.) Credit Suisse First Boston is finding there may be too much of a good thing The big New York investment bank apparently scored a coup last week when it was chosen as underwriter to sell $2.25 billion of convertible bonds for conglomerate Tyco International, a deal that CSFB might have expected to produce big fees and give the firm a leg up on the widely watched \"league tables\" that rank Wall Street underwriters." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 5 ] }, { "title": "Tyco International", "sents": [ "Tyco International PLC was a security systems company incorporated in the Republic of Ireland, with operational headquarters in Princeton, New Jersey, United States (Tyco International (US) Inc.).", "Tyco International is composed of two major business segments: Security Solutions and Fire Protection." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e9027_p24", "sents": [ "Interlynx provides products for human resources applications.", "ProAct Technologies, formerly CFN, recently acquired MyDailyHealth, a developer of online incentive-based health management tools.", "ProAct raised a $150 million Series D round from Gateway Computers.", "ProAct is also backed by GE Capital and Chase Capital Partners.", "Interlynx is also venture backed.", "http: www.interlynx.com http: www.proactcorp.com eBay Subsidiary Half.com Acquires Deja.com Technology mail this story?", "top AUSTIN (VENTUREWIRE) -- Deja.com, a comparison shopping and consumer review site, said its precision buying service has been acquired by eBay subsidiary Half.com, an online, fixed price person-to-person marketplace, for an undisclosed amount.", "Deja.com withdrew its registration for an IPO in June, laid off employees in September, and announced it would soon be split and sold.", "Deja.com is backed by Austin Ventures, Chase H&Q, Comcast, GE Capital, Internet Capital Group, Prime New Media Ventures, and ZDNet.", "http: www.deja.com http: www.half.com eKiosks Acquires Net Security Tech Firm InterNetStation mail this story?" ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 3 ] }, { "title": "e401_p4", "sents": [ "WebCT will use the financing to expanding the scope of academic resources available on the company's site.", "WebCT has received revious investments from BancBoston Ventures, Boston Millennia Partners, Chase Capital Partners, CMGI @Ventures, Duke Management, Kestrel Venture Management, NetInvest, and SCT.", "http: www.thomson.com http: www.webct.com Recruiting App Firm SkillSet Gets Funding From Microsoft PLEASANTON, Calif. -- SkillSet Software, which develops employment recruiting applications, announced it has secured a multi-million dollar investment from Microsoft.", "Skillset said it has also received funding from undisclosed institutional and individual investors.", "The company said it will use Microsoft's products and the funding to support expansion.", "Microsoft is expected to take a seat on the company's board of directors.", "http: www.skillset.com Sony Computer Entertainment Acquires Interactive Firm RTime FOSTER CITY, Calif. -- Sony Computer Entertainment America said it acquired RTime, a provider of products and services that support real-time interactivity on the Internet and broadband networks, for an undisclosed amount." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 1 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e2756_p14", "sents": [ "French insurance group AGF also participated in the financing.", "OfficeXL's platform makes it possible for small and medium size businesses to order office supplies via the Internet.", "The funds will be used for product development and expansion.", "http: www.officexl.de o New Investors Named in EqualFooting $60 Million Round Two DULLES, Va. -- EqualFooting.com, a business-to-business online marketplace that provides purchasing, financing, and shipping services to small businesses in the manufacturing and construction industries, said Nextel Communications, NationsRent, and Thomas Publishing were also participants in its $60 million second round of funding.", "The company announced in July that Textron, which invested $25 million, led the round.", "Safeguard Scientifics, Women's Growth Capital Fund, and Yahoo!", "all joined in the round, along with New Enterprise Associates, Capital Investors, FBR Technology Venture Partners, Draper Richards, and former Federal Communications Commission chairman Reed Hundt.", "The company, which has raised $70 million to date, said it would use the funds for marketing and to develop its products and infrastructure." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 1, 3, 5, 6 ] }, { "title": "Draper Richards", "sents": [ "Draper Richards is a private equity firm focused on venture capital investments in U.S. technology companies.", "The firm was founded in 1996 by Bill Draper an early venture capitalist, who had previously founded Sutter Hill Ventures in 1964 together with Robin Richards Donohoe.", "The firm invests principally on behalf of the Draper Richards Foundation, a non profit organization." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e4626_p5", "sents": [ "Technology Network Texas corralled a group of high-tech cowboys for another one of its recruitment breakfasts Friday Nov. 12. The event, hosted by Texas Instruments CEO Tom Engibous, drew Sabre General Counsel Andy Steinberg, venture capitalist Steve Papermaster, iSong CEO Guy Hoffman, Austin Ventures principal Brian Goffman, iStation.com CEO George Grayson an d about 30 others to discuss the condition of education in the Lone Star stat e. The final chapter in the Justice Department's antitrust case against Microsoft won't necessarily be Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson's final ruling Publisher McGraw-Hill is prepared to release the premiere book on the case the moment the trial is complete, Publishers Weekly reported.", "In collaboration with The New York Times' book development unit, McGraw-Hill h as commissioned the Times' two chief Microsuit correspondents to pen the account.", "As the trial has unfolded Steve Lohr and Joel Brinkley have been working on the project.", "But for now the publishers and authors will have to exercise patience and see how the story is going to end before the books ar e bound." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] }, { "title": "Guy Hoffman", "sents": [ "Guy Hoffman (born May 20, 1954 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin) is a drummer and vocalist, formerly of such bands as Oil Tasters, BoDeans, Violent Femmes and Absinthe.", "He is a composer for such films as \"Field Day\" and a founding member of Radio Romeo." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e2569_p7", "sents": [ "The consultants have proposed a smart-build strategy for building the OFC backbone.", "According to this, Railtel would auction the contract to lay fibre along packages of specific routes on an exclusive but time-bound basis to private players in return for dark fibre strands to build a low-cost backbone.", "Several players like BPL, Tata, Enron and Bharti are believed to be keen on this arrangement, Mckinsey says.", "Railways USP is its 64,000 km route, 7,000 railway stations of which hundreds are in the commercial business districts.", "Mckinsey says that the last mile success for Railtel would be to establish customized services for corporate clients in these CBDs.", "For instance, Railways can establish links at Nariman Point, Worli, Navi Mumbai or Bandra thanks to the presence of railway stations or terminals.", "Similarly, the commercial districts and software parks in Hyderabad, Bangalore, Pune and Chennai could be targeted for corporate clients with value-added services." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 1, 6 ] }, { "title": "Bangalore", "sents": [ "Bangalore ( ), officially known as Bengaluru (] ), is the capital of the Indian state of Karnataka.", "It has a population of about 8.42 million and a metropolitan population of about 8.52 million , making it the third most populous city and fifth most populous urban agglomeration in India.", "It is located in southern India on the Deccan Plateau.", "Its elevation is over 3000 ft above sea level, the highest of India's major cities." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e10724_p5", "sents": [ "The cost could have been as low as 4.02 rupees per megawatt hour if MSEB had drawn 90 percent of the plant's capacity.", "``There is a case for lowering the Enron's tariff a bit,'' said Parikh.", "``Still, that's no justification for the government to default.''", "Enron was one of the first major companies to enter India after the country's economy opened to foreign investment in 1991. Construction of the power plant was delayed until December 1996 because of legal wrangles.", "--Ravil Shirodkar in the Mumbai newsroom (91-22) 284-3377 or [email protected] sub mmd Brazil Gives BG Plc, Enron More Use of Petrobras Pipeline Rio de Janeiro, Feb. 6 (Bloomberg) -- Brazil gave BG Group Plc and Enron Corp. expanded access to a Bolivia-Brazil gas pipeline managed by Petroleo Brasileiro SA, pressuring the state oil giant to sell more natural gas at lower prices.", "Brazil's petroleum regulator ANP is allowing U.K.-based BG to transport about 2 million cubic meters of gas daily through the pipeline." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 4 ] }, { "title": "e11062_p38", "sents": [ "Construction will take about 20 months, Valor said.", "The 24 million cubic meters a day pipeline will allow the companies to avoi d paying high tolls to Houston-based Enron, which shares with Bolivia's government control of a competing pipeline, known as Yabog, the daily said.", "Petrobras, which only recently lost its monopoly rights to supply Brazil wi th gas, is battling Enron and companies such as U.K.-based BG Plc for gas supp ly contracts in Brazil, hoping its recently constructed 30 million cubic meter a day GasBol pipeline will allow it to undermine competitors.", "Brazil's petrol eum regulator ANP recently dealt Petrobras a blow, allowing Enron and BG to transport gas through GasBol while Petrobras fails to use its full capacity <Valor B3 2 16 http: www.valoronline.com.br --Joshua Schneyer in Rio de Janeiro (5521) 516-1552 through the Sao Paulo newsroom (5511) 3048-4530 bh International Governor of Buenos Aires Shoots for the Presidency, the People's Discontent His Ammunition By Pamela Druckerman Staff Reporter of The Wall Street Journal 02 16 2001 The Wall Street Journal A9 (Copyright (c) 2001, Dow Jones & Company, Inc.) BUENOS AIRES -- While many Argentines were still nursing hangovers on New Year's Day, Buenos Aires Gov." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 2, 3 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e3679_p86", "sents": [ "In addition to stock valued between $100,001 and $250,000 in Enron, Rove, who is Bush's chief political strategist, held similar amounts in American Express, General Electric Co., Pfizer Inc., Boeing Co., Johnson & Johnson, Cisco Systems Inc., Wells Fargo and Intel Corp.", "In an interview, Rove said he had followed the advice of the White House counsel's office \"on recusing ourselves from anything that would specifically or materially affect our financial holdings.\"", "\"I took part in no discussions that would specifically impact my holdings,\" he said, adding that he had avoided such discussions \"on several occasions.\"", "Rove said he plans to sell his shares, as well as his wife's holdings, but was told by the ethics office to take no action until he receives the office's certificate of divestiture.", "\"I have to receive a certificate of divestiture in advance of sale or pay capital gains taxes,\" he said, adding that he has been waiting to receive the paperwork." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1, 2 ] }, { "title": "Wells Fargo", "sents": [ "Wells Fargo & Company is an American international banking and financial services holding company headquartered in San Francisco, California, with \"hubquarters\" throughout the country.", "It is the world's second-largest bank by market capitalization and the third largest bank in the U.S. by assets.", "In July 2015, Wells Fargo became the world's largest bank by market capitalization, edging past ICBC, before slipping behind JP Morgan Chase in September 2016, in the wake of a scandal involving the creation of over 2 million fake bank accounts by Wells Fargo employees.", "Wells Fargo surpassed Citigroup Inc. to become the third-largest U.S. bank by assets at the end of 2015.", "Wells Fargo is the second-largest bank in deposits, home mortgage servicing, and debit cards.", "The firm's primary U.S. operating subsidiary is national bank Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., which designates its main office as Sioux Falls, South Dakota." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e20081_p24", "sents": [ "SCE amassed $3.9 billion in debt over the past year buying power, mostly from merchant energy companies.", "\"I would imagine they are going up on the probability they are going to get paid,\" said Raymond Moore, an analyst with with Weatherly Securities.", "Gainers included Mirant Corp. which was up 8.63 percent or $1.96 to $24.66; Enron Corp. up 6.11 percent or $1.87 to $32.48; and Calpine Corp. up 8.69 percent or $2.15 to $26.90. The fact that energy merchants are trading at historical lows relative to the Standard & Poor's 500 increase their attractiveness to investors, wrote Salomon Smith Barney analyst Raymond Niles in a research note.", "Niles recommends the entire group, which also includes Dynegy Inc. Duke Energy Corp. El Paso Corp. Williams Cos. Inc. and Aquila With the exception of Duke, the group was up between 1 and 4 percent.", "(C) Reuters Limited 2001. Copyright 2000 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 2, 3 ] }, { "title": "e804_p13", "sents": [ "Throw an unexpected heat wave into the mix this summer and the state's crisis could quickly worsen.", "That's where Mike Pass and his colleagues come into play.", "After stints with the National Weather Service and on television in Texas and Louisiana, Pass is now the senior meteorologist for Reliant's Wholesale Group, leaving him the responsibility of briefing traders like Dicciani and others on forecasts stretching as far forward as 15 days.", "At the morning meeting, Pass said, a roomful of energy traders goes silent when he starts talking about the weather.", "\"It starts out noisy, but when we're into that briefing, within seconds everyone is paying attention.\"", "The reason for such attention is not lost on him.", "\"Weather drives the power demand, and therefore weather is a critically important issue to utilities,\" Pass said.", "THE BOTTOM LINE The energy industry's fascination with weather forecasting stretches beyond companies such as Reliant, Enron Corp. and Aquila which have hired their own staffs of meteorologists." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 7 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e3558_p0", "sents": [ "'Following is today's IEP news for more headlines please visit www.rtumble.com.", "Thanks, Jean -- Jean Munoz McNally Temple Associates, Inc. 916-447-8186 916-447-6326 (fx) Copley News Service, May 31, 2001, Thursday, State and regional, 893 words, Amid giant redwoods, Bush stumps for 'new environmentalism', Bill Ainsworth, SEQUOIA NATIONAL PARK, Calif.", "The Dallas Morning News, May 31, 2001, Thursday, WASHINGTON DATELINE, K0440 ?, 1113 words, Legislators push for bill to allow sale of \"negawatts' to California, By Jim Landers Detroit Free Press, May 31, 2001, Thursday, DOMESTIC NEWS, K0477, 1421 words, With energy crisis on nation's collective mind, Abraham faces test of his life, By Ruby L. Bailey Los Angeles Times, May 31, 2001 Thursday, Home Edition, Page 17, 702 words, NATION; FERC Chief Unfazed By Threat of Third Lawsuit, RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR, JUDY PASTERNAK, TIMES STAFF WRITERS, WASHINGTON Los Angeles Times, May 31, 2001 Thursday, Home Edition, Page 14, 523 words, Bush, Davis Clash on Energy Price Caps Los Angeles Times, May 31, 2001 Thursday, Home Edition, Page 8, 759 words, The State; Bush Blunders Into Equal Footing With Davis, GEORGE SKELTON, SACRAMENTO Los Angeles Times, May 31, 2001 Thursday, Home Edition, Page 1, 842 words, See How You Like This Action, Mr. President, PETER H. KING, SACRAMENTO Los Angeles Times, May 31, 2001 Thursday, Home Edition, Page 1, 796 words, Estate Tax Repeal to Hurt State Revenue; Finances: Without a portion of the federal money, California stands to lose $356 million next year as the credit is phased out., LIZ PULLIAM WESTON, TIMES STAFF WRITER The New York Times, May 31, 2001, Thursday, Late Edition - Final, Section A; Page 27; Column 2; Editorial Desk, 687 words, Bush's Mistake in California, By Gray Davis; Gray Davis is the governor of California., SACRAMENTO The New York Times, May 31, 2001, Thursday, Late Edition - Final, Section A; Page 1; Column 5; Business Financial Desk, 1396 words, In California, Blackouts Spur A Search forHome Remedies, By LAURA M. HOLSON, LOS ANGELES, May 30 The New York Times, May 31, 2001, Thursday, Late Edition - Final, Section A; Page 18; Column 4; National Desk, 135 words, National Briefing West: California: Utility Donations, AP San Jose Mercury News, May 31, 2001, Thursday, STATE AND REGIONAL NEWS, K0555, 1171 words, San Jose mayor reverses position, endorses Calpine power plant project, By Mike Zapler San Francisco Chronicle, MAY 31, 2001, THURSDAY, FINAL EDITION, NEWS;, Pg." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 1, 2 ] }, { "title": "The Dallas Morning News", "sents": [ "The Dallas Morning News is a daily newspaper serving the Dallas–Fort Worth area of Texas, with an average of 271,900 daily subscribers.", "It was founded on October 1, 1885, by Alfred Horatio Belo as a satellite publication of the \"Galveston Daily News\", of Galveston, Texas." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e8071_p5", "sents": [ "Mr. Fultz, the former executive vice president and chief sales and marketing officer for Antec, will also take a seat on the board of director s. Backers for Zaffire include Integral Capital Partners, Oppenheimer Funds, J &W Seligman, Carlyle Internet Partners Europe, Azure Capital Partners, JT Venture Partners, Kinetic, Octane Capital Management, Pilgrim Baxt er Hyper Partners, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Bank of America Securitie s, and Morgan Stanley Dean Witter.", "http: www.zaffire.com new money Art Selling Site Artland.com Raises $4.5 Million Seed Round NEW YORK (VENTUREWIRE) -- Artland.com, a company that plans to s ell prints of paintings and photographs from museums, archives, and artist s, said it closed ?a $4.5 million seed round of funding.", "Getty Images and p revious investors Allen & Company and Mousse Partners Limited participated The money will be used for corporate development.?", "http: www.artland.", "com?", "Display Firm Screen Technology Has $3.5 Million Seed Round LONDON (VENTUREWIRE) -- MTI, a U.K. venture capital firm providing seed capital to information technology startups, said it led a GBP 2.5 million ($3.5 million) investment round for Screen Technology, a developer of photo luminescent liquid crystal displays." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] }, { "title": "e2756_p4", "sents": [ "http: www.cmgi.com Fiber Optics Firm Scion Photonics Launches with $25 Million FREMONT, Calif. -- Optical component manufacturer Read-Rite said it has formed Scion Photonics with $25 million in initial funding from Tyco Ventures, the lead investor, and Integral Capital Partners.", "Read-Rite said it is contributing its wafer fabrication facility in Milpitas, Calif., as well as technical and management resources to the new company.", "The company also said it is in discussions with several other interested parties for further technology and capital investment in Scion Photonics.", "http: www.scionphotonics.com DLJ Leads $217.6 Million for Louis Dreyfus Communications LONDON -- Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette said it led a EUR 250 million ($217.6 million) in Louis Dreyfus Communications Networks.", "Louis Dreyfus Communications, a subsidiary of the Louis Dreyfus Group, operates a pan-European broadband network and provides broadband and communications services.", "The company said it will use the investment to expand its long haul network, metropolitan rings, and data centers." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e8721_p4", "sents": [ "Individual investors Nicholas Negroponte and Leonard Kleinrock also invested.", "With this round, the company has raised $140 million to date.", "The company added a board seat and an observer board seat.", "http: www.caspiannetworks.com Technologic Partners Names Top Ten at Technology Outlook mail this story?", "top SAN FRANCISCO (VENTUREWIRE) -- Technologic Partners, which publishes VentureWire, named the top ten Investors' Choice companies at its Technology Outllook conference.", "The winners were chosen by conference attendees and a panel of industry observers that included William Cockayne, director of Kodak Venture Division; William A. Frezza, general partner with Adams Capital Management; Seth Goldstein, principal of Flatirion Partners; and Mark H. Sherman, general partner with Battery Ventures.", "The ten winners, in alphabetical order, are 2Wire, AlterEgo Networks, Atheros Communications, Entropia, MobileAria, PacketVideo, Silicon Wave, Tresidder Networks, United Devices, and ViaFone.", "http: www.technologicpartners.com new money PacketVideo Raising Round for Up to $100 Million mail this story?", "top SAN FRANCISCO (VENTUREWIRE) -- PacketVideo, which provides wireless multimedia software and services for mobile applications, is raising a Series E round of new funding, which it expects to close between $80 million and $100 million by January." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 4 ] }, { "title": "e5091_p0", "sents": [ "'========================= VENTUREWIRE Thursday, October 19, 2000 ========================= Private Company Business News Published Daily by Technologic Partners - http: technologicpartners.com ========================= Top Stories: o St. Paul Venture Capital Closes Sixth Fund with $1.3 Billion o Incubator Idealab!", "Pulls Initial Public Offering o Constellation Ventures Closes New $350 Million Fund o DSL Service Firm New Edge Secures $140 Million Round Three Advertisement Q: What do boo.com, den.net, and violet.com all have in common?", "A: They never called VentureWorx.", "Will your company be the next casualty in the dot-com shakeout?", "Do you have the bandwidth to recruit top talent, create an ef- fective PR campaign, develop a winning business strategy, and secure strategic funding?", "Feeling uneasy yet?", "Don't let your company become another statistic.", "VentureWorx is shaping the future of management consulting.", "Call 704.377.4100 or visit us online at http: www.ventureworx.com Also in This Issue: New Money: o Broadband Tech Firm Alopa Lands $15.1 Million in Round One o Loyalty Program Company MMS Secures $19.2 Million o Net Infrastructure Firm Egenera Raises $20 Million Round One o Secure Streaming Firm Widevine Gets $11 Million in Round One o Heating Oil Firm ClickableOil Raises $1 Million Seed Round o Multilingual ASP Glides Raises $3.5 Million in Series A o Provider of HR Services, EESIS, Gets First Venture Funding o Video ASP Oediv Closes Round One with Softbank Funds o E-Commerce Site Creator Propel Raises $38.3 Million Series B o Porfolio Mgmt Systems Developer SME Closes First Round o Network Processor Firm EZchip Closes $22 Million Round Two o Turnkey Services Provider Incanta Gets $12 Million Round Two o Architecture CAD Firm Revit Closes $30 Million Third Round o GivingCapital Secures $9.1 Million in Round Two o ISP Software Firm Clairvoyant Has $10 Million Round Two o IT Matchmaking Marketplace Ajunto Has $8.5 Million Round Two o Specialty Food Marketer Edgewood Raises $4 Million Series B o ASP Lockstream Raises $15 Million In Third Funding Round o BlueTooth Technology Developer Raises $1.8 Million o Fastrax, GPS Receiver Firm, Raises $1.1 Million Round One o U.K. Software Consultancy Gamma Projects Gets $2.8 Million o American TeleSource Gets $10 Million, Replaces Marshall Fund o Quality Assurance Firm Megaxcess Receives Comco Funds o Utility Company Vectren Invests In Telecom FirstMile o Publishing Marketplace Rightsworld Gets Jump.Net Funds New Products: o Ipingpong Launches Legal Digital Music Distribution Channel o Investment Banking Platform Capital IQ Launches o Accelerator Stonepath Group Launches European Subsidiary o B2B E-Commerce First World E-Commerce Group Launches o eBusiness Systems Provider Vation Announces Launch o Matchmaker for Buyers and Consultants Practice.com Launches New Deals: o EMI Recorded Music Takes Equity Stake in Asian Music Portal M&A: o NetObjects Buys MyComputer for $51 Million in Cash and Stock New Directors: o Wireless Firm Nexterna Names Air2Lan CEO to Board o Envive Names Ariba CIO Hrastinski to Board of Directors o IP Services Firm Quarry Names Ex-PairGrain Exec to Board o Wireless Software Publisher Mobli Names Board of Directors o Web Testing Technology Firm Coast Software Adds to Board New People: o Media and Tech Services Firm BeyondMedia.com Names President VC Fund News: o Hudson Venture Partners Raising New $130 Million Fund o RiverVest Venture Partners Targets $60 Million In First Fund o First World E-Commerce Group Launches Incubator o Cenetec Planning New Incubator in Florida Tech Center o Discovery Capital Acquires VC Fund For $40.6 Million VC Personnel: o Onset Ventures Promotes Susan Mason to General Partner o Former Telecordia Vice President Joins BRM Group VW Corrections: o Velocity Capital Advertisement Announcing: Technology Outlook The Future of Pervasive Computing San Francisco Airport Marriott - December 4 & 5, 2000 At Technology Outlook, we1ll assess the emerging opportunities in the products and technologies that will revolutionize personal networking, electronic books, entertainment appliances, portable and handheld devices, smart phones - and the applications and services that will make them useful." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 8 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e25789_p2", "sents": [ "\"We should not be stuck with these agreements because conditions have changed so dramatically,\" said Bill Ahern, a senior analyst with Consumers Union, the publisher of Consumer Reports magazine.", "\"We did these agreements under duress, and it is better for the generators and us to negotiate what all believe is a good deal.\"", "Ahern also said an investigation of possible conflicts of interest for at least one member of the state team that negotiated the contracts could lead to their invalidation.", "Michael Shames, executive director of the Utility Consumers' Action Network in San Diego, notes that much of the power to be delivered under the agreements will come from new plants yet to be built in California.", "\"The state has the ability through the siting process to modify those contracts,\" Shames said.", "The motivation to do so could grow soon, he added.", "\"Especially in an election year, the question will be whether elected officials and the public will tolerate the (cost) of these contracts,\" Shames said." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] }, { "title": "Consumer Reports", "sents": [ "Consumer Reports is an American magazine published since 1936 by Consumers Union, a nonprofit organization dedicated to unbiased product testing, consumer-oriented research, public education, and advocacy.", "\"Consumer Reports\" publishes reviews and comparisons of consumer products and services based on reporting and results from its in-house testing laboratory and survey research center.", "The magazine accepts no advertising, pays for all the products it tests, and, as a nonprofit organization has no shareholders.", "It also publishes general and targeted product/service buying guides.", "s of April 2016 it had approximately 7 million subscribers (3.8 million print and 3.2 million digital) and an annual testing budget of approximately US$25 million." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e20035_p0", "sents": [ "'Haas NewsWire October 1, 2001 - CONTENTS * The Women in Leadership Conference Brings Heavy Hitters to Haas * Public and West Coast Schools Suffer in Latest Forbes Ranking * Fourth Annual Investment Banking Case Competition Launches Today * Haas Celebrates a Very Successful Homecoming and Reunion Weekend * New Assistant Dean For Development And Alumni Relations Joins Haas * The Evening MBA Program Welcomes a New Director of Marketing and Operations * Staff Service Awards * Haas in the News * Happening at Haas * Haas Celebrations - THE WOMEN IN LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE BRINGS HEAVY HITTERS TO HAAS All faculty, students, staff, and alumni are invited to the 6th annual Women in Leadership Conference, which takes place on Saturday, October 20. This year's theme, \"Explore, Inspire, Excel,\" is embodied by two exceptional keynote speakers: Donna Dubinsky, founder, president, and CEO of Handspring, and Beth Sawi, chief administrative officer and executive vice president of Charles Schwab & Co., Inc." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] }, { "title": "Donna Dubinsky", "sents": [ "Donna Dubinsky is an American businesswoman who played an integral role in the development of personal digital assistants (PDAs) serving as CEO of Palm, Inc. and co-founding Handspring with Jeff Hawkins in 1995.", "Dubinsky co-founded Numenta in 2005 with Hawkins and Dileep George, based in Redwood City, CA.", "Numenta was founded to develop machine intelligence based on the principles of the neocortex.", "Dubinsky currently serves as CEO and board chair of Numenta." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e2852_p45", "sents": [ "The firm said it expects to invest in between 30 to 40 technology and biotechnology companies over a period of two years.", "Friends Ivory & Sime has $53 billion of assets under management.", "Cazenove & Co. acted as the placement agent for raising the capital.", "http: www.friendsis.com vw corrections ProfessorQ mail?", "top NEW YORK (VENTUREWIRE) -- An item in Tuesday's VentureWire incorrect ly spelled the name of ProfessorQ's new director David Seldin.", "Ebrary mail?", "top NEW YORK (VENTUREWIRE) -- A story in Tuesday's VentureWire about Ebr ary adding to its board, incorrectly identified new board member John Warnock's relationship with Ebrary's CEO Christopher Warnock.", "John Warnock is Christopher Warnock's father.", "company index top AuctionMart.com, AxiomLab, Bla-Bla.com, BrainHeart Capital, Buzzsaw.c om, California Public Employees, Callbutton, Capstan Systems, Centient Solution s, Chicory Systems, CI Wireless, Cognitive Arts, Concellera Software, Confer Software, Creditek, CT Holdings, DataPower Technology, Digiplex, eLedger.co m, EMS Technologies, Escalate, Eternal Systems, Europolitan Vodafone, EYP Mission Critical Facilities, Flatiron Partners, Friends Ivory & Sime Privat e Equity, Guru.com, Hi3G, Infineon Technologies, Invesco Private Capital, KeepSmart, KPE, LifeClips.com, Metiom, Mimeo.com, Model N, Motient Satellit e Ventures, MyBiz.com, OnSite Access, Opsys, Parago, Parthus Technologies, PSINet, PSINet Ventures, Qiva, Rare Medium Group, Schneider Electric, Silic on Valley Community Ventures, Starwire, STSN, Summit Partners, The MBA Co., TV Data Technologies, UGO Networks, VDSL Systems, Viator, Working Woman Networ k, XCare.net Mobile Outlook - June 5 & 6 The era of the Dick Tracy-style wrist videophone isn't upon us yet, but if the current generation of entrepreneurs and visionaries has its way, the arrival may not be far off." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 6, 8 ] }, { "title": "e2972_p5", "sents": [ "Other investors include Broadview Associates and ZDNet, which was acquired by CNET Networks!", "last October.", "http: www.redherring.com Vulcan Ventures Buys Small World Media mail?", "top LOS ANGELES (VENTUREWIRE) -- Vulcan Ventures announced it has acquire d New York-based Small World Media, which provides fantasy sports games and operates smallworld.com.", "Small World Media will become part of Sporting News, which was acquired by Vulcan Ventures in February 2000. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but the deal was valued based on Small World Media 's discounted cash flows, cash flow projections, and membership base.", "Private investment advisor Tom Cohen advised Small World in the deal.", "Backed by ove r $20 million in funding from Flatiron Partners, Sports Capital partners, NBC and NBCi, Small World had been in discussions for acquisition for the past year; it also anticipated reaching profitability in the fourth quarter this year.", "Nineteen of the company's 22 former employees will join the approximately 300-person staff at Sporting News." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 3, 6 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e7205_p11", "sents": [ "http: www.agentware.net o VoIP Firm VocalData Holds Series B Round for $32 Million DALLAS -- VocalData, a Richardson, Texas-based company that develops service delivery softswitches and service platforms, said it raised a Series B round of funding for $32 million.", "The funding brings the company's total funds raised to $47.5 million to date.", "New investors Austin Ventures and Trinity Ventures co-led the round, which included previous investors Capital Sourtwest Corp., Chase Capital, Hickory, Science Applications International, and Seed Capital Partners.", "Austin Ventures general partner Ed Olkkola and Trinity Ventures general partner Fred Wang will sit on the company's board of directors.", "The company will use the funding for further product development, and for sales and marketing.", "VocalData hardware enables voice services over IP networks.", "http: www.vocaldata.com ASP iBelong Secures $22.6 Million in Series B Round ROSEMONT, Ill. -- iBelong, an application service provider, said it has secured $22.6 million in its Series B round of funding led by Moore Capital Management." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 6 ] }, { "title": "Moore Capital Management", "sents": [ "Moore Capital Management LLC is an American hedge fund sponsor-owned by its employees.", "It was founded in 1989 by American billionaire Louis Moore Bacon.", "In 2011, MCM's largest funds were the $7.4 billion Moore Global Investment Fund, and the $4.6 billion Moore Macro Managers Fund." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e491_p11", "sents": [ "Under the heading \"Challenges,\" according to the sealed filings, the presentation stated that storage was needed \"to help manipulate physical spreads, adding to the overall transport storage cost.\"", "On April 14, according to the sealed filings, El Paso Merchant's president at the time, Greg G. Jenkins, wrote a memorandum to Mr.", "Wise involving an upda te for directors meeting later that month.", "The memorandum stated: \"We will mak e money two ways: 1) increase the load factor, 2) widen the basis spread.\"", "The language appears to suggest that El Paso Merchant would profit by increasing the gas flow in the pipeline * the load factor * while inc reasing the difference between what gas could be bought for at one end and what it could be sold for at the other end * the basis spread.", "In an interview, Mr. Smith, the El Paso Merchant executive, said that the unit's prices, and profits, on bulk gas sales in California were locked in months in advance, so that the company could not benefit from rising prices in the spot market." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 1, 2 ] }, { "title": "e489_p6", "sents": [ "''It is now very clear from the business records of El Paso Energy Corporation,'' the utility said in the filing, ''that the business strategy El Paso Merchant was authorized at the highest corporate levels to pursue involved manipulation of price spreads.''", "The agency has not ruled on California's complaint, which asks that the deal between El Paso Natural Gas and El Paso Merchant be invalidated.", "Based on the agency's history of policing energy providers lightly, many industry observers predicted that the complaint would be dismissed, perhaps as soon as the agency's public meeting on Wednesday.", "Nonetheless, El Paso Merchant is feeling some pressure.", "The subsidiary said recently that it planned to relinquish control of all but about 22 percent of the capacity on the pipeline to California, rather than exercise an option that would have allowed it to retain the entire capacity of 1.2 billion cubic feet of gas a day." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 3, 4 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e3975_p2", "sents": [ "PANELISTS INCLUDE: Morgan Harting - Manager, KPMG Consulting Bobby Lent, Co-founder, Ariba - Dave Cardinal, CTO, Calico Commerce Steve Foster, Partner, Crosspoint Venture Partners Mark Holman, President, e2open - Jeff Kleck, Co-founder, Neoforma Charles Duff, Chief Procurement Officer, AMES NASA Mark Klopp, Director Digital Business Ventures, Eastman Chemicals Register at: http: www.tsunami-group.com Top Stories o Baltimore Acquires Content Technologies For $992 Million LONDON -- Baltimore Technologies, a publicly traded online security company, said it acquired Content Technologies Holdings, developer of MIMEsweeper network security products.", "Baltimore is offering 91 million of its shares in the all-stock transaction.", "The acquisition is valued at $992 million.", "Content Technologies products enable organizations to implement policies protecting them against confidentiality breaches, exposure to e-mail legal liability, junk e-mail, e-mail borne viruses, and misuse of e-mail.", "Profitable since its inception, Content Technologies raised a single $13 million round of funding from private investors for expanded sales and marketing." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] }, { "title": "e4946_p10", "sents": [ "New investors in the round include Cisco Systems, KPMG Consulting, and Portal Software.", "Previous investors Prism Venture Partners, Advanced Technology Ventures, and Catalyst Health and Technology Partners also contributed to the funding.", "The company said it will use the funding for marketing and services, expand internationally, and continue to develop its product.", "Xevo's technology enables its users to manage delivery of application services online.", "http: www.xevo.com Home Networking Tech Creator Sage Closes $2 Million Series B ALAMEDA, Calif. -- Sage Systems, an intelligence technologies developer, said it closed a $2 million Series B round of funding led by Cardinal Venture Capital.", "Existing shareholders and principals at Costella Kirsch, which provides lease financing, also participated in the round.", "Sage is the developer of Aladn, a home networking technology that links devices like light switches and thermostats to each other and to the Internet.", "The company said it will use the funds for product development." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 3 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e3523_p52", "sents": [ "C1 Deal for Music Start-Up The Germany-based media giant Bertelsmann was said to have agreed to acquire the two-year-old Internet music service Myplay, based in California, for about $30 million.", "C1 Business Digest C1 World Business W1 OBITUARIES C17-18 ARTS E1-8 DINING F1-12 EDITORIAL A22-23 Editorials: The embassy bombings verdict; chilly encounter in California; a gain, and a loss, on civil rights; opening a crack in Albany's door.", "Columns: Paul Krugman, Maureen Dowd.", "Crossword E6 TV Listings E7 Public Lives B2 Weather C18 http: www.nytimes.com GRAPHIC: Photo LOAD-DATE: May 30, 2001 47 of 224 DOCUMENTS Copyright 2001 Knight Ridder Tribune News Service Knight Ridder Tribune News Service The Orange County Register May 30, 2001, Wednesday SECTION: COMMENTARY KR-ACC-NO: K7955 LENGTH: 584 words HEADLINE: Sparks sizzle as Bush, Davis meet BODY: The following editorial appeared in The Orange County Register Wednesday, May 30, 2001. Give President Bush credit for the strength of his constitution." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 3 ] }, { "title": "e894_p23", "sents": [ "FERC had ruled on the issue in February, and on Friday it reinforced that ruling, saying the ISO misinterpreted its earlier decision and must comply.", "The ruling could increase pressure to find \"creative\" solutions to who will pay for California's power, said Jan Smutny-Jones, head of the Independent Energy Producers Association.", "\"Obviously the ISO doesn't have the money and the utilities don't have the money either.", "The question is, where do we go from here,\" he said.", "\"My hope is that it does not make blackouts more likely.\"", "The state hasn't decided whether it will appeal the decision, said Roger Salazar, a spokesman for Gov.", "Gray Davis.", "But he said the federal ruling appears to make it likely that California will have to buy more electricity on the utilities' behalf.", "The Bee's David Whitney can be reached at (202) 383-0004 or [email protected].", "LOAD-DATE: April 8, 2001 ?4 of 4 DOCUMENTS Copyright 2001 Knight Ridder Tribune News Service Knight Ridder Tribune News Service San Jose Mercury News April 7, 2001, Saturday SECTION: STATE AND REGIONAL NEWS KR-ACC-NO: K3364 LENGTH: 1209 words HEADLINE: Filing for Chapter 11 may help PG&E's debt but it won't solve power crisis BYLINE: By Brandon Bailey BODY: SAN JOSE, Calif. _ Filing for bankruptcy protection may help PG&E with its debts, but it won't solve the state's power crunch." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 9 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e6886_p61", "sents": [ "Many now routinely shut off lights an d computers at night, and ration air-conditioning and heating use.", "Rhonda Farber, superintendent of Campbell Union High School District, said her district may change swimming season from fall to spring to save on pool-heating costs.", "``We are doing things to try to conserve,'' Farber said ``If we use eight light bulbs, can't we use six?''", "Joe Hamilton, superintendent of the Fremont Union High School District, sai d his schools now set thermostats at 75 degrees and have installed lower-wattage fluorescent light bulbs.", "To the dismay of his staff, he said, the district has even asked teachers to remove mini-refrigerators from classrooms.", "In the San Jose Unified School District, facilities manager Carl Cimino sai d the district will try to hold the expected increase in its power bills to $700,000 this year through aggressive conservation.", "``This school district is committed to pursuing these avenues so we are les s beholden to the energy market,'' Cimino said." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 5 ] }, { "title": "San Jose Unified School District", "sents": [ "San José Unified School District is a K-12 school district in Santa Clara County, California.", "It serves a large portion of the city of San Jose, California with a student population of approximately 32,000 in California's Silicon Valley.", "The district has more than 3,000 staff members who serve students in 42 schools that stretch from the Almaden Valley to downtown San José." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e3910_p4", "sents": [ "Venture capital activities within Bertelsmann include Bertelsmann, Venturepark Incubator, and Bertelsmann Valley.", "http: www.bertelsmann.com Algorithmics Closes $60 Million Round Two, Buys Sentry TORONTO -- Algorithmics, a developer of financial risk management software, said it closed a second round of funding worth $60 million.", "The funding was provided by American International Group, Morgan Stanley International, CIBC Capital Partners, and Royal Bank Capital Partners.", "The company said it will use the funds for strategic acquisitions, product development, and debt payment.", "Algorithmics also said it has acquired Sentry Financial Systems, a supplier of collateral management software.", "Terms of the transaction, which was financed through Algorithmics' second round, were not disclosed.", "Algorithmics previously raised $37 million from Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan Board and VenGrowth Investment Fund.", "http: www.sentryfin.com http: www.algorithmics.com Artisan Entertainment Launches $50 Million Venture Unit NEW YORK -- Artisan Entertainment, which produces films and other entertainment, said it launched a new media business unit, Artisan Digital Media, which will include iArtisan, an investment fund." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 1, 2 ] }, { "title": "American International Group", "sents": [ "American International Group, Inc., also known as AIG, is an American multinational insurance corporation with operations in more than 80 countries and jurisdictions.", "As of December 31, 2016, AIG companies employed 56,400 people.", "The company operates through three core businesses: Consumer Insurance (49% of 2016 revenues), Commercial Insurance (43% of 2016 revenues), and Other Operations (8% of 2016 revenues).", "Commercial Insurance includes Liability and Financial Lines and Property and Speciality Risks.", "Consumer Insurance includes Individual Retirement, Group Retirement, Life Insurance, and Personal Insurance.", "Other Operations includes run off insurance lines and legacy investments." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e2312_p0", "sents": [ "'Qatar, UAE Dolphin Proj Gas Price About $1.30 M BTUs-MEES Dow Jones International News, 05 07 01 The `dis-investment' climate Business Standard, 05 07 01 Many find Lanier still making sense Houston Chronicle, 05 07 01 Pay increases for state's top CEOs Associated Press Newswires, 05 06 01 India: Why Dabhol makes sense for Reliance Business Line (The Hindu), 05 06 01 India: Agenda for fresh talks with Enron chalked out Business Line (The Hindu), 05 06 01 Darkness triumphs The Times of India, 05 06 01 Should we persuade Enron to stay on?", "The Times of India, 05 06 01 Irrigators say utility must provide them cheap power Associated Press Newswires, 05 05 01 Professionals' Safer Picks Paid Off Last Quarter International Herald Tribune, 05 05 01 Godbole committee meets sans DPC representation Press Trust of India Limited, 05 05 01 Energy Executives Make Millions Selling to Deregulated Market in California KRTBN Knight-Ridder Tribune Business News: The Orange County Register - California, 05 05 01 Qatar, UAE Dolphin Proj Gas Price About $1.30 M BTUs-MEES 05 07 2001 Dow Jones International News (Copyright (c) 2001, Dow Jones & Company, Inc.) DUBAI -(Dow Jones)- The fiscal price for natural gas from Qatar's North Field to be supplied on a CIF basis under the Dolphin project to Abu Dhabi is around $1.30 per million British Thermal Units, the Middle East Economic Survey reported Monday, citing sources." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 1 ] }, { "title": "e3345_p80", "sents": [ "``It's just so scary watching everything happen.", "Who'd ever think we'd lose power?''", "Electricity notebook FERC may renew price caps May 24, 2001 From Register wire services Federal regulators this week announced that they might reimpose caps on the cost of transporting natural gas into southern California.", "The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission on Tuesday gave the public 20 days to comment on the possibility of reinstating caps, which were temporarily suspended by the commission this year.", "The price controls were lifted in an effort to expand the reach of deregulation.", "This proposed action, said Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., \"could make a real difference.\"", "\"Since FERC engaged in this experimental lifting of the cap, the price of natural gas in Southern California has climbed to three times higher than t he rest of the nation,'' said Feinstein.", "Currently, she said, the price in Southern California is $12.59 per million British Thermal Units and only $3.70 in the rest of the Western region." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 7 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e3430_p20", "sents": [ "Capriati, seeded fourth, overcame seven double faults in defeating France's Emilie Loit 6-2, 7-5. Both Agassi and Capriati won Australian Open titles earlier this year.", "LOAD-DATE: May 29, 2001 26 of 98 DOCUMENTS Copyright 2001 Knight Ridder Tribune News Service Knight Ridder Tribune News Service The Dallas Morning News May 29, 2001, Tuesday SECTION: DOMESTIC NEWS KR-ACC-NO: K7523 LENGTH: 1046 words HEADLINE: Bush begins visit in hostile California BYLINE: By G. Robert Hillman BODY: LOS ANGELES _ President Bush landed in hostile territory Monday night, beginning his first presidential visit to California amid a pressing energy crisis that he says he cannot ease in the short term.", "\"We welcome him to California,\" said California Gov.", "Gray Davis, a Democrat who has waged a long-distance war with the Republican president over the high cost and short supply of electricity in the nation's most populous state.", "\"I hope he has an opportunity to talk firsthand to some of the people who are adversely impacted by the very high rates we're paying for electricity.\"" ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 1 ] }, { "title": "e894_p191", "sents": [ "LOAD-DATE: April 9, 2001 65 of 305 DOCUMENTS Copyright 2001 Knight Ridder Tribune News Service Knight Ridder Tribune News Service San Jose Mercury News April 8, 2001, Sunday SECTION: DOMESTIC NEWS KR-ACC-NO: K3554 LENGTH: 1393 words HEADLINE: In wake of PG&E bankruptcy, California governor, state officials scramble for solution BYLINE: By Steve Johnson BODY: SAN JOSE, Calif. _ The way they lambasted each other for PG&E's plunge into bankruptcy Friday, Gov.", "Gray Davis and the utility's top executives sounded like innocent passengers on the Titanic, seemingly powerless to prevent it from sinking.", "In reality, the governor and officials at Pacific Gas & Electric Co. _ along with state regulators _ were supposed to be at the helm.", "Though PG&E's fortunes are now in the hands of a bankruptcy judge, little has changed for state authorities.", "They still bear much of the responsibility for charting California's course out of its energy crisis." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 2, 3 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e4635_p2", "sents": [ "Element 14 is backed by Bessemer Venture Partners, Atlas Venture, Amadeus Capital Partners, NIF Ventures, TTP Ventures, and Sofinnova Venture Partners.", "http: www.broadcom.com http: www.element-14.com Sony Broadband Launches Incubator 550 Digital Media Ventures NEW YORK -- Sony Broadband Entertainment said it formed a subsidiary, 550 Digital Media Ventures, that will incubate, fund, and acquire digital media companies.", "Sony has contributed several hundred million to the venture.", "Working with Sony Corporation of America (SCA), Sony Music Entertainment (SME), and Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE), 550 Digital Media Ventures will develop and manage a network of digital media companies.", "Initially, the network will consist of about 35 companies.", "550 Digital Media Ventures will focus on broadband services, wireless, personal broadcasting, e-mail and direct marketing, digital asset management, e-commerce facilitation, and professional Internet services.", "550 Digital Media Ventures will target companies based in the United States Howard Stringer, chairman and CEO of SCA and president of SBE, will be chairman of 550 Digital Media Ventures." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] }, { "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 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e1908_p0", "sents": [ "gngr 713-853-7751 -- Forwarded by Ginger Dernehl NA Enron on 04 27 2001 08:43 AM -- Janel Guerrero 04 26 2001 05:31 PM To: Ginger Dernehl NA Enron@Enron cc: Subject: White Paper on Why Price Caps are Bad Ginger:' please email this to everyone in the Govt Affairs Group.", "Thanks!" ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] }, { "title": "e2037_p0", "sents": [ "gngr 713-853-7751 -- Forwarded by Ginger Dernehl NA Enron on 04 30 2001 08:27 AM -- Janel Guerrero 04 27 2001 05:04 PM To: Ginger Dernehl NA Enron@Enron cc: Subject: Final Price Caps Ginger, please send this cleaned-up version of the Reason Institute's paper on Price Caps to everyone in Govt.", "Affairs.", "Thanks!" ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e2852_p32", "sents": [ "BrainHear t said the acquired division would have a new name by next week and that the company was expected to be profitable by the end of the year.", "Linq's founde rs Jan Morath and Mikael Mandahl will continue to work at the acquired divisio n. Linq had raised $36.8 million from Emerging Technology, TekCapital, and six Swedish pension funds.", "BrainHeart has $210 million in assets under management.", "http: www.brainheart.com EMS Technologies Acquires CI Wireless mail?", "top ATLANTA (VENTUREWIRE) -- EMS Technologies, a publicly traded company that designs and manufactures wireless and satellite applications, said that it has acquired CI Wireless, a supplier of repeaters and other wireless signal distribution products.", "Terms of the deal were not disclosed.", "CI Wireless wi ll relocate to EMS's Atlanta facilities, where its 17 employees have been offered positions.", "The transaction gives EMS Wireless, a division of EMS Technologies, two new product areas, which are extended indoor RF coverage and outdoor repeaters." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 4 ] }, { "title": "EMS Technologies", "sents": [ "EMS Technologies, a subsidiary of Honeywell International (since August 22, 2011), was formerly an independent Atlanta-based company with approximately $290 million in annual sales revenue.", "EMS-T specializes in wireless, defense, and space communications systems.", "Founded in 1968 by Dr. John E. Pippin (1928–2007) as Electromagnetic Sciences Inc., the company is located in the Gwinnett Technology Park and employs about 1,100 there and 1,900 internationally.", "In 2007, EMS had its best financial results of its 40-year history, acquiring two companies- DSpace of Australia, and Akerstroms of Sweden, and earning a listing on \"Forbes\" magazine's list of the 200 best small companies.", "Among its products, it offers electronic counter-countermeasures for communications satellites, and airborne communications, for which it holds a 90% stake in military applications, such as Air Force One." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 2 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e3430_p22", "sents": [ "\"The president's focus is going to be on solving problems.", "He's not interested in finger-pointing,\" White House press secretary Ari Fleischer said.", "\"Whether people agree, or disagree, with the specifics of his energy plan, I think most Americans and most Californians are very pleased to see a president who is leading and taking action in addressing the issue head on.\"", "However, recent public opinion polls show the president and the governor taking hits for the energy crisis in California.", "The Field Poll, finished a week ago, found that 54 percent of those surveyed believed Bush had handled the energy problems poorly, with Davis faring somewhat better at 38 percent.", "The margin of error for the 1,015 California interviews was 3.2 percentage points.", "An earlier survey by the Public Policy Institute of California found Davis' job approval rating plummeting, from 63 percent in January to 46 percent in May, as the state's energy troubles escalated." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 1, 2, 4 ] }, { "title": "Ari Fleischer", "sents": [ "Lawrence Ari Fleischer (born October 13, 1960) served as White House press secretary for President George W. Bush, from January 2001 to July 2003.", "Today, he works as a media consultant for the NFL, College Football Playoff, and other various sports organizations and players through his company, Ari Fleischer Sports Communications.", "He was also an international media consultant to former Canadian prime minister, Stephen Harper.", "He helped Mark McGwire in his media strategy for his admission of steroid usage.", "He is also a regular CNN contributor.", "He was also briefly hired by Tiger Woods to help him with a strategy to make his entrance back on the PGA Tour, but was not retained after news stories surfaced promoting his representation of Woods.", "He was hired by the Green Bay Packers as a consultant in August 2008." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 6 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e3333_p42", "sents": [ "They have placed complete faith in me and the committee.", "The Cabinet has asked me to carry on with the complex and onerous task of negotiating with Dabhol Power Company.\"", "Dr Godbole also said he had received calls from different political parties and various other organisations asking him to reconsider the decision to quit.", "He considered it a vote of their confidence in the committee and its working.", "Dr Godbole had quit in reaction to \"derogatory remarks\" made by the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader, Mr Sharad Pawar.", "Last night, Mr Pawar had reportedly made a statement saying he was \"apprehensive of the outcome of discussions with Enron as those leading the talks from the Government's side are working with a negative approach\".", "Dr Godbole submitted his resignation to the Chief Minister saying he was \"hurt\" by Mr Pawar's statement.", "The NCP is one of the leading partners in Maharashtra's Government." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 4, 5, 6 ] }, { "title": "Sharad Pawar", "sents": [ "Sharad Govindrao Pawar (born 12 December 1940) is an Indian politician who serves as the president of the Nationalist Congress Party which he founded in 1999, after separating from the Indian National Congress.", "He previously served as the Chief Minister of Maharashtra on three separate occasions and held the posts of Minister of Defence and Minister of Agriculture in the Government of India.", "Pawar hails from the town of Baramati in the Pune district of Maharashtra.", "He is a member of the Rajya Sabha where he leads the NCP delegation.", "He holds a position of prominence in national politics as well as the regional politics of Maharashtra." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1, 2 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e4740_p8", "sents": [ "The capital will enable the company to complete and launch its first application for business managers and teams in November.", "EDF Ventures, the lead venture investor, participated in this round along with Bill Hambrecht, WR Hambrecht + Co., and The Angels' Forum.", "Tom Porter, general partner of EDF Ventures will be joining the MemeStreams board of directors.", "http: www.memestreams.com Real Estate Market AvicXchange Raises $1.5 Million Round Two CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- AvidXchange, an electronic marketplace for the real estate property operations industry, said it has raised $1.5 million in its second round of funding from an undisclosed institutional investor.", "The company said it will use the funds to build its sales force and develop technology.", "AvidXchange said it intends to raise a total of $5 million in this round.", "The company, which launched in April, secured $600,000 in its first round from individual investors.", "http: www.avidxchange.com Entertainment Marketplace Reelplay Gets Funds From PSINet LOS ANGELES -- Reelplay.com, a business-to-business online marketplace for visual entertainment content, today announced that PSINet Ventures, the corporate ventures unit of PSINet, has agreed to invest in Reelplay." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 1, 2 ] }, { "title": "e659_p7", "sents": [ "Founding sponsors include some of the world's top financial firms, namely AIG Inc., Barclays Global Investors, BARRA Inc., Gifford Fong Associates, Goldman Sachs, First Union Bank, KMV LLC, MBIA, Morgan Stanley Dean Witter, Quantal International Inc., The Dean Witter Foundation, and WR Hambrecht + Co., LLC.", "Sponsoring firms will be accepting interns from the programs.", "\"We're seeing tremendous interest among talented individuals coming from technical backgrounds, such as engineers, mathematicians, and scientists, who are in narrow jobs and are keen to transition to a brand new career where opportunities are abundant and continue to grow,\" says MFE Executive Director John O'Brien.", "For more information on MFE, visit the web site at http: www.haas.berkeley.edu MFE.", "SHARING OUR STRENGTHS: THE HAAS BOALT CONNECTION This is the first in a continuing series of articles in Haas NewsWire chronicling the Haas School's interdisciplinary activities.", "The Haas School has traditionally pursued interdisciplinary partnerships on the Berkeley campus." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e8613_p36", "sents": [ "Mr. Austin is the former vice president and general manager of JDS Uniphase's commercial lasers division.", "Backers for SpectraSwitch include Advanced Technology Ventures, E-Tek Dynamics, CDIB Venture, and NIF Ventures.", "http: www.spectraswitch.com Wireless Infrastructure Firm W-Phone Names CEO and President mail this story?", "top SAN JOSE, Calif. (VENTUREWIRE) -- W-Phone, an infrastructure technology developer for the wireless industry, said that Carleton A. Brown has joined the company as president, CEO, and a member of the board of directors, replacing co-founder Peter Shieh who will now serve as CTO and executive vice president.", "Prior to joining W-Phone, Mr. Brown served as senior vice president of business development at Western Integrated Networks.", "He has also served as president and CEO of American Lightwave Systems, a subsidiary of ADC; and president and CEO of ATx Telecom Systems.", "W-Phone is backed by Acer and WI Harper.", "http: www.w-phone.com GroupServe Names Former P-Com Executive as President mail this story?" ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 1 ] }, { "title": "e1217_p35", "sents": [ "http: www.yankeetek.com NIF Ventures Promotes Partner to Run Silicon Valley Office PALO ALTO, Calif. -- NIF Ventures, the Tokyo-based venture capital unit of Daiwa Securities Group, said it promoted partner Jim Timmins to managing partner of the firm's Silicon Valley office.", "Mr. Timmins served with Redwood Partners and Hambrecht & Quist prior to joining NIF in 1998. NIF Ventures manages approximately $1.2 billion.", "Its portfolio companies include AccessLan, eFinance, SpectraSwitch, and WaveSplitter.", "Telephone 650-461-5000. VW Corrections o Rtime NEW YORK -- An item in yesterday's VentureWire about Sony's acquisition of Rtime incorrectly listed the company's URL.", "Rtime's URL is http: www.rtimeinc.com.", "Advertisement Has patent law gone too far?", "The courts have granted protection to one-click shopping, but is this way of doing business so obvious and trivial that lawmakers should intervene?", "And what about online auctions for selling vacant airline seats?", "Is intellectual property law able to cope in the era of Amazon.com and Priceline.com, or has it become patently absurd?" ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 1 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e2942_p8", "sents": [ "Mr. Goulding will oversee sales in Europe, Middle East, Africa, and Asia-Pacifi c. Mr. Goulding previously served as vice president of worldwide sales at I-Logix.", "The company also announced the promotion of Bob Tenace to vice president of sales for Central and South America, previously serving as the director of North American sales.", "Artisan is backed by 3i Group, Defta Partners, Pi Capital, Pond Venture Partners, Quester, Questor, and Vertex Management.", "http: www.artisansw.com Middle2 Ockham Names Oracle Manager Brent Wells as Sales VP mail?", "top ATLANTA (VENTUREWIRE) -- Ockham Technologies, a provider of sales performance management, said it named Brent Wells as vice president of sale s. Prior to joining the company, Mr. Wells was branch manager for the Southeas t region at Oracle.", "Ockham is backed by Imlay Investments, Mellon Ventures, Monarch Capital Partners, and Noro-Moseley Partners.", "http: www.ockhamtech.com ePartners Adds Former Ernst & Young Exec to Sales Team mail?" ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 4, 5 ] }, { "title": "e2972_p20", "sents": [ "PinPoint signed a deal to provide Verizon Wireless with search and director y engine enabling technology at the end of March.", "PinPoint has received over $5 million in financing from Noro-Moseley Partners, Wakefield Group, and the TriState Investment Group.", "http: www.pinpoint.com Luxlook.com Goes Out of Business mail?", "top NEW YORK (VENTUREWIRE) -- Luxlook.com, an online retailer of fashion accessories, said the company would be shutting down effective May 31, 2001 Luxlook.com said it will shut down its United States and U.K. sites at the end of th is month and its site serving Europe on May 18. In a written statement the company cited slower than expected sales growth and a difficult capital market as the causes of its closing.", "The company could not be reached for comment.", "Luxlook.com had received over $30.8 million from Arca Merchant & Arca Impresa Gestioni, Bulgari Group, Ciaoholding, Holding di Partecipazion i (HdP), and IFIL." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 1 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e932_p2", "sents": [ "The hearings, entitled Assessing the California Crisis: How Did We Get to This Point, and Where Do We Go From Here?y will take place on April 10 in Sacramento, April 11 in San Jose and April 12 in San Diego.", "TUESDAY, APRIL 10, 2001 11 a.m. PST Sacramento Convention Center 1400 J Street - Room #204 Panel One Mr. Ed Yates - Senior Vice President, California League of Food Processors Mr. Lewis K. Uhler - President, The National Tax Limitation Committee Mr. Pete Verboom - Glenn County Dairyman Panel Two Mr. Kevin Madden- General Counsel, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Mrs. Loretta Lynch - President, California Public Utilities Commission Mr. Terry M. Winter - President and Chief Executive Officer, California Independent System Operator Mr. Larry Makovich - Senior Director, Cambridge Energy Research Associates Panel Three The Honorable J. William MacDonald - Acting Commissioner, Bureau of Reclamation Mr. Brian Jobson - Principal Power Contract Specialist, Sacramento Municipa l Utility District Ms. Becky Dell Sheehan - Principal Power Contract Specialist, California Fa rm Bureau Federation Mr. Lewis K. Uhler - President, The National Tax Limitation Committee WEDNESDAY, April 11, 2001 9:30 a.m. PST San Jose State University in Loma Prieta Ballroom One Washington Square Panel One The Honorable Curt Hebert - Chairman, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Panel Two Ms. Dede Hapner - Vice President, Regulatory Relations, Pacific Gas and Electric Company Mr. Robert G. Foster - Senior Vice President of External Affairs, Southern California Edison Dean N. Vanech - President, Delta Power Company Mr. Paul E. Desrochers - Director of Fuel Procurement, Thermo Ecotek THURSDAY, April 12, 2001 10 a.m. PST San Diego Board of Supervisors Room #358 1600 Pacific Highway Panel One Mr. Sam Hardage - President, Woodfin Suite Hotels, LLC Mr. John Wiederkehr - President, Certified Metal Craft, Inc. Mr. Douglas Barnhart - President, Dougles E. Barnhart, Inc. Mark W. Seetin - Vice President Government Affairs, New York Mercantile Exchange Panel Two Kevin Madden- General Counsel, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Stephen L. Baum - Chairman, President & Chief Executive Officer, Sempra Ene rgy Mr. Steve Malcolm - President, Williams Energy Services John Stout - Senior Vice President for Asset Commercialization, Reliant Ene rgy NOTE: Witness List is subject to change" ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 1 ] }, { "title": "e4293_p3", "sents": [ "1. It appears as though early conversations have the same problems that we encountered with other projects.", "There appears to be no internal coordination on the project.", "The estimates for the interconnection study are outrageous.", "There is no evidence of a commitment from PG&E to work with us cooperatively.", "Sandi and David Parquet had met several weeks ago with Dede Hapner about various projects and the desire to work more cooperatively on interconnection issues.", "David indicated at that meeting that if PG&E is not willing to cooperate, we will not abandon some of these projects.", "After the last meeting, David Parquet contacted Jim Randolph, Sr. V.P.", "about the possibility of an MOU between PG&E and Enron.", "This would go toward the intent to work with Enron on interconnection isues.", "It appears as though there has been a committee formed within PG&E, supposedly to provide internal coordination.", "However, it is still not clear whether that committee has been given the internal direction to cooperate with us." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 4 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e1368_p57", "sents": [ "This is a third such international arbitration notice that the State Government and Maharashtra State Electricity Board are facing.", "While the first notice was issued for failure to honour the December 2000 and January 2001 bills along with interest, the two fresh notices are for failures to honour the Maharashtra's 'State support agreement' and the \"Supplemental State Support Agreement.\"", "According to Enron, the State Government has gone back on its commitment to provide clearances and support for \"further development and completion\" of the Dabhol project as per the State support agreement signed in June 1994. The third notice claims the Government has not supplied \"additional support\" needed for completion of DPC as per the supplemental State support agreement signed in 1996. \"They (DPC) have claimed that we have gone back on our word when clearances to their second phase trial runs were denied by the Maharashtra Pollution Control Board hampering completion of their project,\" the official said." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 2 ] }, { "title": "Maharashtra Pollution Control Board", "sents": [ "The Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (Marathi: महाराष्ट्र प्रदूषण नियंत्रण मंडळ ) (established September 7, 1970) implements a range of environmental legislation in the state of Maharashtra, India.", "The MPCB functions under the administrative control of Environment Department of the Government of Maharashtra." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 1 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e19525_p1", "sents": [ "And while the recent slide in Enron's stock price might seem to make it an att ractive target, it's implausible that an Enron competitor would step up to the plate and make an offer to acquire its troubled peer.", "\"We do not belie ve there is a high probability of a bailout offer at a price significantly above the current price, as there is too much uncertainty about the capital structure and shareholder lawsuits,\" says Jeff Dietert, independent power analyst at Simmons & Co., a Houston energy investment firm and a member of the TSC Energy Roundtable.", "Many metrics suggest the stock is inexpensive.", "Merrill Lynch analyst Donato Eassey recently calculated Enron's asset value to be between $16 and $24 per share, which may make Enron's current price of less than $12 look cheap.", "But in nearly the same breath, Eassey downgrad ed Enron stock to neutral from \"accumulate.\"", "Merrill Lynch has provided ban king services for Enron." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 1 ] }, { "title": "e68_p1", "sents": [ "By C. Bryson Hull 03 15 2001 Reuters English News Service (C) Reuters Limited 2001. HOUSTON, March 15 (Reuters) - Wall Street took a hard look at Enron Corp.'s content delivery plans this week after it ended its video-on-demand deal with Blockbuster Inc. but remained largely unfazed by the failure of the flagship deal, analysts said on Thursday.", "On balance, most analysts viewed the busted 20-year exclusive agreement as disappointing, but by no means a fatal blow to Enron Broadband Services' (EBS) budding content delivery segment.", "Most reiterated buy or strong buy ratings for the Houston company and maintained bullish earnings targets for the Enron Broadband Services division.", "But all are awaiting an indication of how Enron will reconfigure the content delivery initiative.", "\"I think Blockbuster represented kind of an anchor tenant for the broadband business, so they have lost a contract that was important,\" said Jeff Dietert, an analyst with Houston investment house Simmons and Co. Now EBS will have to pursue smaller contracts to make up the loss, which could mean a longer road to create as big a book of business, Dietert said." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 4 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e3520_p85", "sents": [ "``They need me to ensure there is fruit and vegetables on their tables.''", "Other industries But other legislators said there was no rational reason to treat agricultur e differently from any other major industry.", "And they complained that the last-minute legislative assault prevented any discussion on the merits of t he issue.", "``If you make a straight-up case about why you should be exempted, it's easier for us to understand,'' said state Sen. Don Perata, D-Oakland.", "``Whe n you sneak around or try to mug someone in the alleyway on the way to the la st committee, it raises the suspicions that they can't get the amendments on their merit.''", "In the end, agriculture lost the cap on blackout hours, but kept millions in subsidies and broad language that they contend will allow them to run diese l engines when their power is turned off.", "Environmentalists dispute that interpretation, but farm interests quickly lined up the state's top environmental official -- Environmental Protection Agency head Winston Hickox -- to write a letter to lawmakers on their behal f. Perata questioned the industry's efforts and said creating special exemptio ns for agriculture is not in the state's interest." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 3, 6 ] }, { "title": "Don Perata", "sents": [ "Don Richard Perata (born April 30, 1945) is a California Democratic politician, who was President pro tempore of the California State Senate from 2004 to 2008.", "He came in second place in the November 2010 ballot for Mayor of Oakland.", "Perata now runs a political consultancy company" ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e20039_p13", "sents": [ "Says Brooker, \"Jung knows what women want and how to sell it to them.", "And that's what has made her one of the most successful CEOs-male or female-in recent years.\"", "Over the past 20 months she has overhauled nearly everything about the way Avon does business: how it advertises, manufactures, packages, and even sells its products, and she has done it not by abandoning the seemingly outdated Avon Lady, but by reviving her.", "The result: growth in revenues, operating profits, and operating margins.", "In addition, FORTUNE includes an international list of the 50 powerful women in business.", "The top ten, featured in the magazine, are Marjorie Scardino, CEO, Pearson (Britain); Anne Lauvergeon, Chairman, Areva (France); Mary Ma, Senior VP & CFO, Legend (Hong Kong); Marianne Nivert, President & CEO, Telia (Sweden); Lien Siaou-Sze, Vice President, Hewlett-Packard (Hong Kong); Patricia Barbizet, CEO, Artemis (France); Eiko Kono, President, Recruit (Japan): Belinda Stronach, CEO, Magna International (Canada); Marina Berlusconi, Vice Chairman, Fininvest (Italy); Christine Tsung, President & CEO, China Airlines (Taiwan)." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 4, 5 ] }, { "title": "Patricia Barbizet", "sents": [ "Patricia Barbizet (born 17 April 1955) is a prominent figure in the French business world.", "She was appointed Chief Executive Officer of Christie’s in 2014, the first female CEO of the company.", "She has been Executive Director of Artemis since 1992 and is Vice-Chairman of the Board ofKering (ex PPR) and Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Christie’s." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e3688_p92", "sents": [ "Meanwhile, he added: \"We're just focused on producing every kilowatt of electricity we can.\"", "KRT CALIFORNIA is a premium service of Knight Ridder Tribune (c) 2001, The Charlotte Observer (Charlotte, N.C.).", "Visit The Charlotte Observer on the World Wide Web at http: www.charlotte.com JOURNAL-CODE: CH LOAD-DATE: June 3, 2001 26 of 143 DOCUMENTS Copyright 2001 Knight Ridder Tribune News Service Knight Ridder Tribune News Service Contra Costa Times June 3, 2001, Sunday SECTION: STATE AND REGIONAL NEWS KR-ACC-NO: K1314 LENGTH: 653 words HEADLINE: Judge refuses to override PUC over PG&E bankruptcy BYLINE: By Matt Sebastian BODY: SAN FRANCISCO _ Fearing \"jurisdictional chaos,\" the federal judge overseeing Pacific Gas & Electric Co.'s bankruptcy has refused to override the California Public Utilities Commission, a decision that could keep the utility's electricity rates capped for another year.", "United States Bankruptcy Judge Dennis Montali, in a 30-page written ruling issued late Friday afternoon, declined to block state regulators from adopting new bookkeeping rules that effectively cap PG&E's consumer rates through March 31. The judge found that the PUC may perform its regulatory duties even while the utility is in the midst of a Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 2 ] }, { "title": "The Charlotte Observer", "sents": [ "The Charlotte Observer is a newspaper serving Charlotte and its metro area.", "It has the largest circulation in North Carolina and South Carolina.", "It is owned by The McClatchy Company." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 2 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e27919_p6", "sents": [ "Ms. Chan, Proficient's vice president of strategy and marketing, was vice president of strategy and business development at Telegis Networks and director of strategy and business planning at Digital Island.", "Mr. Bays, chief scientist, was a senior network engineer at Telegis Networks and at Digital Island.", "<http: www.proficient.net * Netegrity to Acquire DataChannel in $54 Million Deal By Jeffrey Sanders <mailto:[email protected] top mail <http: venturewire.com o_mailer.asp?sid=LHNKONJNII WALTHAM, MASS.", "-- Netegrity, a publicly traded provider of applications for securely managing e-business relationships, said it signed an agreement to acquire Bellevue, Wash.-based DataChannel, a privately held provider of enterprise portal technology in a deal worth about $54 million.", "Netegrity will pay with $15 million in cash and 2.5 million shares of stock worth just under $40 million.", "DataChannel's Bellevue office will remain open, but Netegrity expects to reduce staff at DataChannel in the future.", "DataChannel's current headcount is approximately 120. At least two executives from DataChannel will stay during the transition period: Lucie?J." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] }, { "title": "e27918_p0", "sents": [ "VentureWire Alert <http: alert.venturewire.com For Jeffrey Dasovich, Enron VENTURE MARKET SUMMARY Proficient Networks emerged from stealth mode led by a team of executives looking to regain the winning touch.", "Proficient's four founders worked together at Digital Island and then moved to Telegis Networks, which got hit hard by the collapsing Web-hosting market and went out of business earlier this year.", "At Proficient, the team has built a network management appliance that enables companies to route network traffic based on their access policies.", "The company secured $6 million in Series A funding from Canaan Partners and El Dorado in May and is looking to raise $10 million to $20 million in Series B next year.", "Three mergers also topped the news as Netegrity bought DataChannel in a $54 million deal.", "Online newspaper classifieds firms, PowerAdz and AdOne, also linked up as did Intelliseek and PlanetFeedback.com.", "As the week grinds to a close, 12 companies reported raising $48 million." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 1, 2, 3 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e3558_p83", "sents": [ "A8 LENGTH: 687 words HEADLINE: NEWS ANALYSIS; State awaiting bold act by Davis; Rhetoric buys time but summer's near SOURCE: Chronicle Sacramento Bureau BYLINE: Lynda Gledhill DATELINE: Sacramento BODY: Gov.", "Gray Davis may have scored a victory by publicly clashing with President Bush this week on energy policy, but the governor's tough rhetoric also raises expectations for bold action as a summer of rolling blackouts bears down on California.", "With little hope that federal regulators will adopt broad price controls on wholesale electricity prices, Davis will have to chart his own course to take Californians through the summer without loss of life or bankrupting the state.", "\"If the federal government continues their current policies, and if we have a very bad summer in terms of blackouts and heat waves, then the governor will be forced to take other steps,\" said Tim Hodson, director of the Center for California Studies at California State University at Sacramento." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 3 ] }, { "title": "California State University", "sents": [ "The California State University (Cal State or CSU) is a public university system in California.", "With 23 campuses and eight off-campus centers enrolling 478,638 students with 24,405 faculty and 23,012 staff, CSU describes itself the largest four-year public university system in the United States.", "It is one of three public higher education systems in the state, with the other two being the University of California system and the California Community Colleges System.", "The CSU System is incorporated as The Trustees of the California State University.", "The California State University system headquarters are at 401 Golden Shore in Long Beach, California." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e2194_p2", "sents": [ "The project has the largest single foreign investment in India.", "The Maharashtra state government has asked the committee to try to negotiate a revised agreement within a month.", "The committee's goals are to lower the power tariff and allow the sale of excess power to the federal government or its utilities.", "A restructure of the DPC's stakeholding may also be on the agenda.", "Texas-based Enron has a 65% stake in the DPC, and is the project's largest shareholder.", "Other shareholders include the MSEB with 15%, and General Electric Co. (GE) and Bechtel Enterprises (X.BTL) with 10% each.", "-By Himendra Kumar, Dow Jones Newswires; 91-11-461-9427; [email protected] ATS Announces First Half Results 05 02 2001 PR Newswire (Copyright (c) 2001, PR Newswire) CALGARY, May 2 PRNewswire - Applied Terravision Systems Inc. (ATS) (CDNX: TER) is pleased to announce its first half results for the six-month period ended March 31, 2001. ATS's revenues for the first half increased to $17.868 million, 28.3 percent higher than the $13.925 million recorded for the first half of fiscal 2000. Gross Margin revenues increased 40.1 percent to $17.191 million from $12.214 million during the first half of fiscal year 2000. EBITDA (Earnings Before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation and Amortization and Extraordinary Items) for the six month period-ended March 31, 2001 was $2.204 million or $0.07 per share, an increase of 355.6 percent, compared to EBITDA for the period-ended March 31, 2000, which was $0.484 million or $0.02 per share." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 4, 5 ] }, { "title": "e1420_p77", "sents": [ "\"The governor believes the energy commission should complete its review.\"", "But there have been growing signs that Davis would throw his weight behind Calpine's project.", "A senior energy commission official said aides to the governor have been calling the commission for months to urge quick approval of the Metcalf plant.", "The governor's press secretary said no calls have been made.", "When Davis was looking for a backdrop to hold a press conference earlier this year to announce his plans to speed up approval of new power plants, he chose Calpine's new plant in Sutter.", "The company also has actively campaigned for the governor's support.", "Earlier this year, Calpine offered to sell the state cheaper power from the plant if it is approved.", "When Calpine and its development partner Bechtel Enterprises were looking for a lobbyist in Sacramento, the companies turned to Platinum Advisors, whose president, Darius Anderson, was finance chairman of Davis' 1998 gubernatorial campaign." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 7 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e894_p107", "sents": [ "Montali earned a bachelor's degree in English from Notre Dame University and then entered the Navy to fulfill a Reserve Officer's Training Corps commitment.", "He served in various officer positions on two destroyers and taught briefly at the United States Navy Reserve Officers Candidate School in Newport, R.I., before entering law school.", "He obtained his law degree from UC Berkeley's Boalt Hall School of Law in 1968. Montali has been elected to the National Bankruptcy Conference and the American College of Bankruptcy, both elite bodies reserved for those at the top of their field.", "Last year, he was appointed to hear appeals in bankruptcy cases for the United States 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in addition to his trial duties.", "One of his first cases on the bench ended in disaster.", "Shortly after he became a judge, he ruled in favor of a landlord who was trying to evict a tenant." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 2 ] }, { "title": "e1143_p0", "sents": [ "\"Hi Evening MBA students, For those of you who will be registering next week for Fall 2001, we have a few updates.", "1) We just added E278 Deals on WEDNESDAYS, 6:00-9:30 p.m.", "This 3-unit course is expected to be very popular as it is triple-listed with the Evening MBA Program, Day MBA Program and Boalt Hall School of Law.", "Howard Shelanski from the School of Law is the instructor.", "CCN: #09562 This course will examine why firms engage in certain kinds of transactions and the reasons why governance mechanisms (e.g.", "integration, joint venture formation, long-term contracting, spot-market exchange) vary across transactions.", "Why do firms accomplish some transactions through vertical mergers but accomplish others through contracts?", "What are the attributes of transactions and governance structures that give rise to matches between them?", "What considerations give rise to whether a deal should be done and then, if so, how it should be structured?" ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1, 2, 3 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e6957_p4", "sents": [ "Amendments taken in the Assembly Appropriations Committee on July 19 delete references to petroleum products, coal and coal products, and limit the bil l to apply to electricity and natural gas.?", "While no specific agreement was reached, the staff indicated that the author would consider amending the measure to more narrowly focus the penalty provisions of the bill.", "ABX2 65 passed (11-5) from the Assembly Appropriations Committee on July 11 and will be taken up on the Assembly Floor when the Legislature reconvenes from its Summer Recess.", "OVERPAYMENT REFUNDS TO PAY FOR TRANSMISSION LINE UPGRADES Assemblymember Sarah Reyes (D-Fresno) has amended her ABX2 78 to use any overpayment refunds ordered by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) for payment of principal and interest on bonds, to upgrade electrici ty transmission lines and to reimburse ratepayers.", "CMTA and the California Chamber of Commerce opposed the measure in the Assembly Energy, Costs and Availability Committee on July 17, asserting tha t 100 percent of the refunds should proportionately be returned to the ratepayers who have shouldered the burden of elevated energy prices." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 3 ] }, { "title": "e10004_p4", "sents": [ "Specifically we must, through legislative and regulatory actions, reform the way electricity is bought and sold and the way we contract for power on a long-term basis.\"", "Speaker Hertzberg named the following additional members to the new committee: Assemblymember Anthony Pescetti (R-Rancho Cordova) (Vice-chair) Assembly Speaker pro Tem Fred Keeley (D-Boulder Creek) Assemblymember Darrell Steinberg (D-Sacramento) Assemblymember Juan Vargas (D-National City) Assemblymember Jenny Oropeza (D-Long Beach) Assemblymember Manny Diaz (D-San Jose) Assemblymember Charlete Zettel (R-Poway) Assemblymember Keith Richman (R-Los Angeles) Assemblymember Richard Dickerson (R-Redding) Assemblymember Joe Canciamilla (D-Pittsburg) Assemblymember John Dutra (D-Fremont) Assemblymember Hannah-Beth Jackson (D-Santa Barbara) Assemblymember Carole Migden (D-San Francisco) Assemblymember Sarah Reyes (D-Fresno) Assemblymember Bill Leonard (R-Rancho Cucamonga) Assemblymember John Campbell (R-Orange County) Assemblymember Mike Briggs (R-Clovis) #### ASSEMBLYMEMBER ROBERT HERTZBERG 40TH ASSEMBLY DISTRICT Capitol Office: P.O.", "Box 942849 -- Sacramento, CA 94249-0001 -- (916) 319-2040 District Office: 6150 Van Nuys Boulevard, Suite 305 -- Van Nuys, CA 91401 -- (818) 376-4040 Katie Kaplan Manager of State Policy Affairs Independent Energy Producers Association (916) 448-9499" ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 1 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e27917_p4", "sents": [ "<http: www.relativity.com MARKETING & SALES * NuVox Taps Richard Frizalone as VP of Direct Sales top mail <http: people.venturewire.com o_mailer.asp?sid=HHNKPHHNII ST. LOUIS -- NuVox Communications, a facilities-based integrated communications provider, said it named Richard R. Frizalone as vice president of direct sales for the company.", "Mr. Frizalone joins NuVox from Colo.com, where he served as senior vice president of sales and marketing.", "At NuVox he will be responsible for leading the efforts of more than two dozen direct sales teams.", "Bank of America, Boston Millennia Partners, Brookes Investments, Centennial, CIBC World Markets, Don Investment Group, First Union Capital Partners, Meritage Private Equity Fund, Moore Capital Management, Norwest Equity Partners, OneLiberty Ventures, Richland Ventures, Telecom Partners, Toronto Dominion Capital, and Whitney & Co, have funded the company.", "<http: www.nuvox.com OPERATIONS * Drug Developer BioStratum Names Seymour Mong VP of Research top mail <http: people.venturewire.com o_mailer.asp?sid=LNLLNJJNII RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. -- BioStratum, a development of drugs based on basal lamina research, said it named Seymour Mong vice president of research." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 3 ] }, { "title": "e3514_p24", "sents": [ "The spokesperson said while there have been no more layoffs, the company is \"constantly evaluating.\"", "NetSales' backers include Advanta Partners, Chase Manhattan, HarbourVest Partners, and Kansas City Equity Partners, Norwest Equity Partners, Time Warner, and Wells Fargo.", "http: www.netsales.com Sonik Acquires Broadbank Assets of RadioConnect mail?", "top VISTA, Calif. (VENTUREWIRE) -- Sonik Technologies, which develops a nd manufactures radio frequency-based systems for wireless networks, said it acquired the Broadband Wireless Spread Spectrum product line of RadioConnec t, and that RadioConnect's founder and employees have joined Sonik.", "Financial details were not disclosed.", "RadioConnect's founder H. Maurice France is now vice president of RadioConnect products at Sonik.", "All of RadioConnect's employees, which numbered less than ten, have relocated from their Torrance Calif. location to Sonik's headquarters in Vista, Calif. Sonik Technologies is a subsidiary of Vytek Wireless, a wireless data firm.", "Sonik Technologies is profitable and was acquired by Vytek in October 2000. Vytek Wireless is backed by CIBC World Markets, Charterhouse Group International, and Softban k. http: www.sonik.com http: www.vytek.com Chordiant Software Acquires Assests of ASP Outfitter mail?" ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 1 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e19489_p0", "sents": [ "'This is a reminder for tonight's talk - open to all students, faculty and staff.", "Interested in customer relationship management?", "Curious about how a CEO gets business value from deploying e-Business software applications?", "Want to learn more about the communications and media industry?", "Want a job in alliance management, business development, product management or marketing?", "Interviewing soon with Siebel Systems?", "You are invited to a talk on \"Relationship Management - the Siebel Way\" by Dan Ford, General Manager, Siebel Systems Siebel Communications and Media Business Unit Date: Thursday, November 1st, 2001 Time: 6:00 to 7:00 p.m. with refreshments from 5:30 p.m.", "Location: Cheit 220 Siebel Systems is the worldwide market leader for integrated e-business applications for customer relationship management (CRM), partner relationship management (PRM) and employee relationship management (ERM).", "This talk, organized by the Haas Technology Club, focuses on the business issues associated with the relationship management market.", "There will also be an opportunity to see how the Siebel product is used to deliver value." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 6 ] }, { "title": "Siebel Systems", "sents": [ "Siebel CRM Systems, Inc. was a software company principally engaged in the design, development, marketing, and support of customer relationship management (CRM) applications.", "The company was founded by Thomas Siebel and Patricia House in 1993.", "At first known mainly for its sales force automation products, the company expanded into the broader CRM market.", "By the late 1990s, Siebel Systems was the dominant CRM vendor, peaking at 45% market share in 2002." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 3 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e9027_p5", "sents": [ "http: www.govworks.com News Site LocalBusiness.com Lays Off 27% of Staff mail this story?", "top FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (VENTUREWIRE) -- LocalBusiness.com, an online provider of local news, tools, and research resources for small and medium-sized businesses, said it laid off 34 employees, 27% of its staff.", "The cuts include members of the editorial, marketing, and technology departments.", "The company said the layoffs were intended to bring it closer to profitability.", "The company also announced it is nearing an agreement to sell the majority stake of its wholly owned subsidiary TrueAdvantage, a provider of sales lead services, to a group of current LocalBusiness shareholders.", "LocalBusiness.com is backed by United States Equity Partners, Rustic Canyon Ventures, and Tribune, which invested $16 million in March.", "http: www.localbusiness.com Broadview Holdings Launches $250 Million Kennet II Fund mail this story?", "top LONDON (VENTUREWIRE) -- Broadview Holdings, an international mergers and acquisitions advisor and late stage venture capital investor, said it is launching a new early stage venture capital fund." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 5 ] }, { "title": "e3579_p15", "sents": [ "The funding follows a recent announcement that NewMonics had expanded its management team.", "http: www.newmonics.com Online Marketer Dynamic Trade Raises $7 Million Round Two CHICAGO -- Dynamic Trade, a provider of performance-based online marketing, said it has raised $7 million in its second round funding from lead investor Tribune, along with KB Partners, Portage Venture's Greystone Venture Fund and Nelson Capital Corporation.", "Dynamic Trade plans to use the new funding to support the sales and marketing of its services, expand its current suite of performance marketing services and for new product development.", "Dynamic Trade raised its previous round of funding from KB Partners, Potage Venture's Greystone Venture Fund, and Blumenstein Thorne Information Partners.", "http: www.dynamictrade.com Pharmaceutical Firm OnSite Rx Secures $12 Million Round Two LA JOLLA, Calf.", "-- OnSite Rx, which provides pharmaceutical electronic commerce management and automated medication dispensing systems, said it received $12 million in its second round of funding." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 1 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e2110_p0", "sents": [ "'Today's IEP news: The Associated Press State & Local Wire, May 1, 2001, Tuesday, BC cycle, 9:49 AM Eastern Time, State and Regional, 840 words, Lawmakers offer bills aimed at cutting natural gas prices, By JENNIFER COLEMAN, Associated Press Writer, SACRAMENTO (Quotes Smutny) Los Angeles Times, May 1, 2001 Tuesday, Home Edition, Page 16, 1078 words, Davis Turns to Bankruptcy Court for Help in Plan to Buy Power Grid; Utility: He seeks support from panel representing creditors of PG&E.", "The firm has rebuffed state's offers., DAN MORAIN, RICHARD SIMON, TIMES STAFF WRITERS, SAN FRANCISCO Los Angeles Times, May 1, 2001 Tuesday, Home Edition, Page 3, 429 words, California and the West; THE CALIFORNIA ENERGY CRISIS; Power Marketer Ordered by FERC to Refund $8 Million; Energy: Williams Energy agrees to pay but admits no wrongdoing in taking plants offline., NANCY VOGEL, ROBERT J. LOPEZ, TIMES STAFF WRITERS Los Angeles Times, May 1, 2001 Tuesday, Home Edition, Page 3, 699 words, California and the West; THE CALIFORNIA ENERGY CRISIS; Power Companies Step Up Lobbying, JULIE TAMAKI, MIGUEL BUSTILLO, TIMES STAFF WRITERS, SACRAMENTO The New York Times, May 1, 2001, Tuesday, Late Edition - Final, Section A; Page 1; Column 5; National Desk, 2130 words, River's Power Aids California And Enriches the Northwest, By BLAINE HARDEN, GEORGE, Wash." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 1 ] }, { "title": "e490_p13", "sents": [ "Williams Energy emerged as one of its industry's most profitable companies last year by capitalizing on electricity price swings from its 21,000-square-foot trading floor in Tulsa, Okla.", "The operation includes a 70-foot wall filled with secret data and two 30-foot data walls breaking out the latest information on energy futures.", "Even as its California utility sank deeper into debt with the electricity generators, PG&E Corp. continued to build a 137,000-square-foot trading floor in Rockville, Md., to trade electricity.", "PG&E's worsening financial woes finally forced the company to delay the expansion late last year.", "AES Corp. discovered the increasingly important role that trading floors play in the profit equation last year.", "The Arlington, Va.-based company owns three California power plants, but said it didn't make any money from them last year because of a contract that turns over the electricity sales to Williams.", "The arrangement left AES with an $11 million loss from its California operations last year." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e8173_p6", "sents": [ "The company said it will use the funds to bring to market its service for deploying and managing games across multiple connected platforms, including hand-held devices, PCs, and dedicated game consoles.", "Gina Dubbe, managing director of Walker Ventures, will join the board of directors http: www.butterfly.net Micro-Lab Tech Firm HandyLab Gets $2.4 Million in Round One ANN ARBOR, Mich. (VENTUREWIRE) -- HandyLab, a developer of rapid test, micro-sized lab technology that enables physicians and healthcare practitioners to get diagnostic information at the point of care, said it raised $2.4 million in its first round of funding.", "Investors were EDF Vent ures, Avalon Investments, Wolverine Fund, and XR Ventures.", "The company wil l use the funds to develop its working prototype.?", "http: www.handylab.co m?", "Delivery Optimization Firm BoostWorks Raises $21 Million?", "SAN FRANCISCO (VENTUREWIRE) -- BoostWorks, which provides optimization technologies for content and data delivery online, said it raised $21 milli on in its third round of funding." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 1, 2 ] }, { "title": "e3415_p11", "sents": [ "According to Mr. Handique, the firm has a valuation of \"less than $10 million.\"", "He said HandyLab is burning through less than $1 million per year.", "It raised $2.4 million in Series A funds las t year from EDF Ventures, Avalon Investments, XR Ventures, and The Wolverine Fund, a venture funding organization sponsored by the University of Michiga n. He said the firm still has a substantial amount of that round left.", "HandyL ab now has nine employees, and should have about 20 by the end of the year.", "Th e company has no direct competitors other than large laboratories, Mr. Adox said.", "The company believes it can revolutionize diagnostics, as doctors are typically forced to wait between 36 and 48 hours for test results.", "By contrast, Mr. Adox said, HandyLab's technology can provide test results immediately, thereby saving critical time in addressing illness and avoidin g unnecessary treatment.", "http: www.handylab.com Dental Group JHA Gets $29.8 Million in Second Round mail?" ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 2 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e2972_p32", "sents": [ "Sun focuses on a number of industries, including paper and packaging, filmed entertainment, computer and workstati on peripherals, wireless communications, and building products.", "Founded in 199 5, the company has acquired 21 businesses with combined sales in excess of $1. 3 billion.", "Its portfolio includes Jtech Communications, a developer of hospit al paging systems; broandband Internet firm Eureka; and Genicom, which manufacturers laser printers.", "http: www.suncappart.com vc personnel Goldman Sachs Exec Joins iFormation as Managing Director mail?", "top NEW YORK (VENTUREWIRE) -- iFormation Group, which invests in and oper ates new technology businesses, announced it has appointed Peter Wheeler as a managi ng director of the company.", "Mr. Wheeler has spent 15 years with Goldman Sachs in New York, Hong Kong, and most recently London, where he held a senior clien t relationship role focusing on the company's global clients.", "He will be base d initially in iFormation's London office." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 4 ] }, { "title": "e2972_p33", "sents": [ "iFormation, launched in June of la st year, is a three-way venture between The Boston Consulting Group, General Atlantic Partners, and Goldman Sachs.", "http: www.iformationgroup.com vw corrections EYP Mission Critical mail?", "top NEW YORK (VENTUREWIRE) -- An article in Thursday's VentureWire, regar ding an investment by TA Associates in EYP Mission Critical Facilities, contained an incorrect spelling of the name of a TA Associates principal.", "The TA princip al is Roger Kafker.", "company index top Aeritas, BondClick, BondVision, Breveon, E-train, eMed Technologies, eRealty.com, ERisk, Escalate, Europ@web, eVU, Exus Networks, FierceWireless Graviton, iFormation Group, Infraworks, InterCure, IPWireless, Kangaroo Village, LifeLink MD, Luxlook.com, Manhattan Scientifics, Metabolex, myCFO, Negen Access, NFR Security, Novint Technologies, PDQuick, Pinpoint Networks Porivo Technologies, PureCarbon, Red Herring Communications, Service Resources, SI Automation, Small World Media, Smart Seed Fund, Sporting News Standard Life Investments, Stick Networks, Sun Capital Partners, TechHealth Teneo Computing, Tradeworx, Tradeworx, UltraDNS, Visual Friendly, Vulcan Northwest, WhyRunOut.com When it comes to money, it's evolutionary." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e19418_p0", "sents": [ "'Mike Falarski,PSVC and Carl Guardino,SVMG would like to invite you to \"Philips Electronics & Silicon Valley Mfg.", "Group - 2002 Good Government Luncheon Series\".", "Note from Mike Falarski,PSVC and Carl Guardino,SVMG: CARL GUARDINO, President & CEO, Silicon Valley Manufacturing Group and MIKE FALARSKI, Director, Philips Electronics will be hosting the next Good Government Luncheon Series (GGLS).", "The 10 year series was previously hosted by Amdahl Corporation and is being re-launched in 2002. The first luncheon will be held at the Philips Silicon Valley Center in Sunnyvale at noon, Monday, January 14, 2002. The speaker will be Philip Angelides, Treasurer, State of California.", "We are deeply indebted to Carl Guardino for arranging for Mr. Angelides to speak.", "As the State of California faces serious budget problems in the New Year, Mr. Angelides is California's constitutional chief financial officer.", "Hence, his comments on how our elected officials can work together to solve the State's pressing problems will be very informative and of interest." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 2, 3 ] }, { "title": "Amdahl Corporation", "sents": [ "Amdahl Corporation was an information technology company which specialized in IBM mainframe-compatible computer products, some of which were regarded as supercomputers competing with those from Cray Research.", "Founded in 1970 by Gene Amdahl, a former IBM computer engineer best known as chief architect of System/360, it has been a wholly owned subsidiary of Fujitsu since 1997.", "The company is located in Sunnyvale, California." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e19867_p0", "sents": [ "'As detailed in the attached FERC notice, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has approved FERC's Information Collection Request for \"Reporting of Natural Gas Sales to the California Market\" through the six-month emergency period that will expire on 1 31 02. (Emergency reporting requirements are automatically approved for six months under the OMB regulations.)", "However, it gave FERC several conditions that would have to be met before the reporting requirements could be extended.", "OMB has advised FERC that, if it decides to request renewal of the Information Collection Request after that date, it must address certain issues as part of its supporting statement (more specifically, \"include an explicit discussion\").", "As you may remember, in addition to requesting rehearing of the FERC order, ENA and EES submitted comments to OMB regarding our problems with FERC's estimate of the burden on affected companies of the proposed collection of information.", "We pointed out that we do not manage our business in the manner contemplated by the reporting requirements, much less keep our records in that manner." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] }, { "title": "Office of Management and Budget", "sents": [ "The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is the largest office within the Executive Office of the President of the United States (EOP).", "OMB's most prominent function is to produce the President's Budget, but OMB also measures the quality of agency programs, policies, and procedures to see if they comply with the president's policies and coordinates inter-agency policy initiatives." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e9027_p4", "sents": [ "\"This is the number we believe we need to adequately service clients,\" he said.", "But closing shop, said Mr. Isaza, \"is not the mode we're in.\"", "The company is in post-term sheet negotiations with three potential acquirers, he said, and is looking for \"the first fully negotiated reasonable situation that allows us to survive as a company.\"", "He said acquisition by a competitor \"makes less sense because other companies in the market are facing similar challenges.\"", "Mr. Isaza said the company is hitting projections made in June for an 18-month road to profitability, but that pace was no longer in line with market expectations.", "I!", "n April, govWorks received funding from the Mayfield Fund, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, American Management Systems, the Safra Group, Hearst Corp., Global Bridge Ventures, and Metropolis.", "Mr. Isaza, also co-founder and chairman of govWorks, made the comments in an interview after speaking at a luncheon on sponsored by The Colombian American, Ecuadorean American, and Venezuelan American Associations in New York." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 6 ] }, { "title": "American Management Systems", "sents": [ "American Management Systems (previous NASDAQ symbol: AMSY) was a high technology and management consulting firm, founded in 1970 by a group of five former Defense Department officials who had worked under Robert McNamara in the Kennedy and Johnson administration.", "The company grew throughout the 1980s and 1990s, implementing key systems such as the accounting system for New York City and The Standard Procurement System for the United States Department of Defense.", "The company was acquired by CGI Group in 2004, with AMS's federal defense business being acquired by CACI." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 2 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e11689_p0", "sents": [ "-- Forwarded by Lara Leibman Enron Communications on 03 08 01 11:22 AM -- EBS Marketing & PR 03 07 01 06:36 PM To: All EBS Employees Worldwide cc: Subject: EBS Connected Market Close 3 7 01 70.00 +1.13 Bandwidth Intermediation (through 3 2 01) YTD Transactions 196 Counterparties 26 LTD Transactions 408 Counterparties 51 March 7, 2001 EBS AHEAD OF THE REST WITH PPCS The Enron Intelligent Network includes a first-of-its-kind Pooling Point Network (PPN) that includes 25 pooling points in the United States, Europe and Asia.", "At least 10 more are scheduled to be completed in 2001. This unique pooling point infrastructure provides an interconnection of switchin g platforms that enable the trading and monitoring of bandwidth, storage, and other commodities.", "The Pooling Point Control System (PPCS) is EBS proprietary software system that controls our pooling point infrastructure and helps to ensure the success of our bandwidth trading platform." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] }, { "title": "e482_p0", "sents": [ "'FYI.", "-- Forwarded by Lara Leibman Enron Communications on 03 25 01 12:07 PM -- EBS Marketing & PR 03 22 01 12:25 PM To: All EBS Employees Worldwide cc: Subject: EBS Connected Market Close 3 21 01 55.89 -5.06 Bandwidth Intermediation (through 3 16 01) YTD Transactions 250 Counterparties 30 LTD Transactions 462 Counterparties 53 March 22, 2001 EBS SCORES GAMES DEAL This week EBS joined Electronics Boutique and Into Networks to announce a long-term agreement to deliver games on demand to Internet users on a rental basis.", "Into will license streaming software technology to Electronics Boutique, the leading specialty retailer of video and computer games.", "Electronics Boutiques will acquire the game content from publishers and market the service to customers.", "EBS will provide strategic, financial and operational services to the deal.", "This includes lending our engineering and network expertise to help integrate the technology necessary to support the delivery of games on demand." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 1 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e1536_p6", "sents": [ "It closed last Friday at $8.90, down 56 percent since the start of the year.", "Bond prices have also declined.", "Pacific Gas & Electric's 7.375 percent bonds due in 2005 have fallen to 65 cents on the dollar from about 90 cents last November.", "For 2000, the company had a net loss of $3.36 billion after taking a $4.11-billion charge for power-purchase costs.", "Revenue rose 26 percent to $26.2 billion.", "Early Proponent of Deregulation Glynn was an early proponent of deregulation.", "He told legislators before the bill passed in 1996 that it would allow PG&E to raise cash to pay off debt as well as to expand outside the state.", "``Glynn, more than anyone else on earth, invented the idea that it was a good risk for utility shareholders to take,'' said California Senator Steve Peace, a Democrat who co-wrote the law.", "A native of Orange, New Jersey, Glynn joined Pacific Gas & Electric in 1984 after being with Long Island Lighting Company and Woodward Clyde Consultants, an engineering company now owned by URS Corporation" ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 6, 7 ] }, { "title": "e213_p2", "sents": [ "\"This hesitancy in a crisis will cost California's economy tens of billions of dollars during the next 20 years.\"", "The state has spent more than $3 billion since January buying power in the spot market.", "Davis has asked lawmakers for another $500 million from the general fund to continue buying power.", "If the $500 million is granted, the state's commitment to power purchases will surpass $4 billion.", "State Sen. Steve Peace, D-El Cajon, however, said last week that the Senate Budget Committee will deny further requests for funding unless the PUC carves out a revenue stream for the state's Department of Water Resources, the agency that is now buying the bulk of the state's power on behalf of the cash-strapped utilities.", "The PUC was expected to release guidelines last week on rates the DWR can receive from utilities to pay back the general fund and to issue revenue bonds to pay for long-term contracts." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 4 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e5201_p2", "sents": [ "New investor Cisco Systems led the round, which included new investors Applied Micro Circuits, Broadcom, Infineon, LSI Logic, PMC Sierra, Siemens, Virata, and Xilinx.", "The latest round brings the company's total funding raised to approximately $175 million.", "None of the investors in the Series C round will have representation on the company's board of directors.", "Raza Foundries was founded by chief executive officer S. Atiq Raza in 1999 and has invested and provided services to 14 portfolio companies, including Maple Optical Systems, Yuni Networks, and Pacific Broadband Communications.", "The company has also received backing from Benchmark Capital, Bowman Capital, and TCV.", "Raza Foundries provides in-house product and company development and management services.", "http: www.razafoundries.com Network Photonics Raises $106.5 Million In Second Round BOULDER, Colo. -- Network Photonics, which develops and provides optical networking technologies, said it raised $106.5 million in its second round of venture capital funding.", "The round was led by The Sturm Group, with Spectrum Equity Investors, Mustang, New Enterprise Associates, and United States Venture Partners co-investing." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 6, 7 ] }, { "title": "e2852_p20", "sents": [ "http: www.mybiz.com Communications Firm OnSite Lays Off Two-Thirds of Staff mail?", "top NEW YORK (VENTUREWIRE) -- OnSite Access, an integrated communication s provider that serves small and medium-sized business customers within multi-tenant commercial office buildings, said it has laid off approximatel y two-thirds of its 240 member staff -- about 158 employees.", "The company said that the cuts were made across the board.", "A company spokesperson attributed the layoffs to a lack of available capital rather than problems with the company's business model.", "The spokesperson said the company is working on financial alternatives including seeking more venture funding.", "While OnSite Access will continue to serve its existing customers, the spokesperson said that the company would not seek new customers until its financial condition stabilizes.", "OnSite Access pulled its IPO last November citing current marke t conditions.", "The company's backers include AT&T Ventures, Crosspoint Venture Partners, Frontline Capital Group, J.P. Morgan Capital, Microsoft, Spectrum Equity Investors, and Veritech!" ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 5, 6, 7 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e2110_p43", "sents": [ "Visit Mercury Center, the World Wide Web site of the Mercury News, at http: www.sjmercury.com JOURNAL-CODE: SJ LOAD-DATE: May 1, 2001 15 of 58 DOCUMENTS Copyright 2001 Knight Ridder Tribune News Service Knight Ridder Tribune News Service San Jose Mercury News May 1, 2001, Tuesday SECTION: DOMESTIC NEWS KR-ACC-NO: K4844 LENGTH: 1017 words HEADLINE: Cheney says energy plan could prevent California crisis from spreading BYLINE: By Jim Puzzanghera BODY: WASHINGTON _ The energy woes of California and the nation cannot be solved with price controls or conservation, but only by increasing the country's supply of oil and natural gas and using more coal and nuclear power, Vice President Dick Cheney said Monday.", "Cheney was laying the groundwork for the announcement later this month of a major energy proposal.", "The vice president argued that without adopting the Bush administration plan, California's energy crisis may spread to the rest of the country.", "\"A few years ago, many people had never heard the term 'rolling blackout.'" ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] }, { "title": "e894_p191", "sents": [ "LOAD-DATE: April 9, 2001 65 of 305 DOCUMENTS Copyright 2001 Knight Ridder Tribune News Service Knight Ridder Tribune News Service San Jose Mercury News April 8, 2001, Sunday SECTION: DOMESTIC NEWS KR-ACC-NO: K3554 LENGTH: 1393 words HEADLINE: In wake of PG&E bankruptcy, California governor, state officials scramble for solution BYLINE: By Steve Johnson BODY: SAN JOSE, Calif. _ The way they lambasted each other for PG&E's plunge into bankruptcy Friday, Gov.", "Gray Davis and the utility's top executives sounded like innocent passengers on the Titanic, seemingly powerless to prevent it from sinking.", "In reality, the governor and officials at Pacific Gas & Electric Co. _ along with state regulators _ were supposed to be at the helm.", "Though PG&E's fortunes are now in the hands of a bankruptcy judge, little has changed for state authorities.", "They still bear much of the responsibility for charting California's course out of its energy crisis." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e2852_p11", "sents": [ "Additional members of the board are chairman, president, CEO, and founder John Metzger; Ernest Jacquet, managing partner of Parthenon; and Samantha Trotman, general partner of Parthenon.", "The company is currently looking to add an outside person to its board, a company spokesperson said.", "Parthenon is also an investor in Creditek.", "http: www.creditek.com DVD Conversion Firm LifeClips Gets $12.2M Round Two mail?", "top ACTON, Mass.", "(VENTUREWIRE) -- LifeClips, a provider of videotape-to- DVD conversion services, announced that it has secured $12.2 million in second round financing led by previous investor St. Paul Venture Capital, with participation from unnamed individuals.", "The company plans to use the new funds to expand its test market and to roll out the service on a national level.", "Post-money, the company is valued at $25.6 million.", "LifeClips anticipates break-even by the fourth quarter of 2002. With this round, ther e were no additions to the LifeClips's seven-member board, which includes Bri an Jacobs of St. Paul Venture Capital." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 5, 8 ] }, { "title": "e2852_p12", "sents": [ "The LifeClips service is marketed via offline film developers as well as on the company Web site.", "In November 199 9 the company raised $4.3 million from St. Paul Venture Capital.", "http: www.lifeclips.com Graphic Display Screen Firm Opsys Raises $11.2 Million mail?", "top OXFORD, England (VENTUREWIRE) -- Opsys, which develops flat graphic display screens, said it has received a GBP 8 million ($11.2 million) round of funding led by 3i and Quester.", "3i will invest $4.2 million while Quester's investment totals $3.5 million.", "Other backers in this round are Japanese venture capital group NIF and international investment bank Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein.", "The company also said it has named professor John Baits, former corporate director of technology for Cable & Wireless, to vic e chairman, and David Martin, former member of IBM's management team, as a director.", "The company said it would use the capital to fund its new expansi on program, which includes a new manufacturing and research facility near Silicon Valley, Calif., expansion of its U.K. research facility, and licensing technology from Eastman Kodak." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e10123_p15", "sents": [ "TEXAS House to take up digital signatures, voter registration State Rep. Glen Maxey (D., District 51) has introduced two bills in the House that address voter registration applications submitted by digital transmission.", "SB 613 would permit the voter registrars to accept a voter registration by digital transmission, and SB 615 would require the registrars to accept a voter registration by digital transmission.", "Both bills state that a digital signature would have to be present on a registration application submitted digitally.", "The bills also would call on the secretary of state to adopt rules regarding the technologies needed to create a digital signature.", "NEW YORK Verizon deploys more fiber on Long Island Verizon New York, Inc., has completed the installation of a $19 million upgrade of its fiber optic cable system in Long Island's Nassau and Suffolk counties.", "The company said it now has 200,000 miles of fiber optic cable on the island." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] }, { "title": "Glen Maxey", "sents": [ "Glen Maxey (born February 23, 1952) is an American politician from Austin, Texas, who was the first openly gay member of the Texas Legislature.", "Active in the fight for gay rights, Maxey was a central figure in the establishment of facilities for the education and care of HIV-infected individuals, especially the AIDS Services of Austin (ASA).", "In 2008, he was an unsuccessful candidate for Tax Assessor-Collector in Travis County, Texas." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e6341_p60", "sents": [ "But with a slew of civil and potentially criminal investigations, some power companies have been loathe to sign long-term deals while those disputes are still outstanding.", "The power companies pushed, as part of the settlement negotiations, to have those other investigations dropped.", "But California officials refused.", "\"We're disappointed that we were unable to reach a global solution,\" said Dynegy spokesman Steve Stengel.", "California is not the only Western state seeking refunds.", "Other states in the region have their own claims, totaling more than $ 6 billion.", "Wagner has proposed holding a separate negotiating session for those states, arguing that their concerns had been given short shrift in the settlement talks because of the central battle with California.", "GRAPHIC: Photo: California Gov.", "Gray Davis talks with construction workers at the new Los Medanos Energy Center before the facility was dedicated on Monday in Pittsburg, Calif. Los Medanos is the largest plant built in California since 1976 and the first built in Northern California since 1965. It is also the third plant Davis has opened in the past 13 days." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1, 2, 3 ] }, { "title": "e894_p27", "sents": [ "In large part, that is because these companies have not been selling directly to PG&E for several months.", "Since the utility began developing financial problems last fall, several major suppliers said they have been negotiating contracts with other buyers.", "Dynegy, for example, has committed its output in contracts with the state of California.", "Duke has agreements with other wholesale energy buyers and traders.", "If the bankruptcy filing allows PG&E to reorganize its debts and eventually re-enter the energy market on a more stable footing, Steve Stengel of Dynegy said, \"today's action could actually be a catalyst to moving forward toward a long-term solution.\"", "But a number of small generators have already shut down their plants because PG&E and Southern California Edison, the state's other major utility, haven't paid for past deliveries.", "That has kept about 3,000 megawatts off-line and contributed to shortages that caused the state's Independent System Operator to declare power alerts on several days last month." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 4 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e3121_p1", "sents": [ "For more information, please see the attachments, the BAAQMD staff report and other information items referenced below.", "Steve Motzko of Solectron has created a short Power Point presentation that summarizes the BAAQMD regulation.", "(see the third attachment) I have included my notes from the workshop as well (fourth attachment\"May11Notes\") The final draft regulation is scheduled to be presented to the BAAQMD board for approval on June 20 and if approved will be effective July 1. Please read the attachments for more detail.", "Here is a link to the BAAQMD Standby Generator Application Instructions: http: www.baaqmd.gov permit standby.htm The BAAQMD draft regulation and 34 page staff report can be accessed in PDF files at: http: www.baaqmd.gov ruledev reg-pmt r0201ws2.htm Here is a link to the California Air Resources Board \"Statewide Portable Equipment Registration Program Fact Sheet\" for mobile sources: http: www.arb.ca.gov perp factshe3.htm Interesting Information and Business Resource: CleanEdge.com CleanEdge.com is the web presence for Clean Edge, Inc., founded in 2000 by Ron Pernick and Joel Makower." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 1 ] }, { "title": "e3368_p0", "sents": [ "'Energy and Environment Committee Members: With all the interest shown by both the energy and environment committees in biodiesel, you may want to visit the link below to access the text of the following article (thanks to Steve Motzko): <<Biodiesel revolution begins in S.F.", "- First retail outlet for vegetable fuel opens.htm http: www.sfgate.com cgi-bin article.cgi?file ca 2001 05 23 MN110637.DTL& type=printable Stephen Motzko, CSP Solectron Corporate EHS Manager Phone: 510-661-3979 Fax: 510-661-3992 email: [email protected] - Biodiesel revolution begins in S.F.", "- First retail outlet for vegetable fuel opens.htm'" ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e27476_p0", "sents": [ "'California's Most Wanted Honchos Business Week, August 13, 2001 The Smart Business 50 Ziff Davis Smart Business ,August 13, 2001 Enron Seeks Sale of Azurix Argentina Assets - Paper Dow Jones International News, 08 07 01 USA: AOL Time Warner relaunches Business 2.0 magazine.", "Reuters English News Service, 08 07 01 VENEZUELA: Venezuela OKs Petrotrin stake in offshore oil field.", "Reuters English News Service, 08 07 01 INDIA: S&P downgrade seen hurting Indian markets briefly.", "Reuters English News Service, 08 07 01 Enron unit Azurix to sell Argentina ops to Bouygues' Saur - report AFX News, 08 07 01 Ziff Davis SMART BUSINESS Honors the Top 50 United States Companies That Are Using t he Internet to Grow Their Business PR Newswire, 08 07 01 PGE Joins Other Western Utilities to Oppose FERC Actions Business Wire, 08 07 01 Four Utilities Seek Changes to California Price Caps (Update1) Bloomberg, 08 07 01 American Water to Pay $150 Mln for Enron Water Unit (Update2) Bloomberg, 08 07 01 NewPower Sees 2001 Sales Below Forecast, Stock Falls (Update5) Bloomberg, 08 07 01 California's Most Wanted Honchos Business Week, August 13, 2001 It may be humid in Houston, but it's even stickier in California if you're a Texas energy exec." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] }, { "title": "e489_p0", "sents": [ "'Deal for Use of Gas Pipeline Stirs Dispute on Competition The New York Times, 03 26 01 Sale of Enron Unit To Sierra Pacific Becomes Unlikely The Wall Street Journal, 03 26 01 Backing Bush Pays Off for Coal Industry Energy: Mineral is seen as key to halting power crisis.", "Officials also target pending regulatory rules.", "Los Angeles Times, 03 26 01 Abreast of the Market Hunting for Signs That Stocks Are Bottoming The Wall Street Journal, 03 26 01 It's About Time: A growing number of services let viewers pick what they want to watch, when they want to watch it The Wall Street Journal, 03 26 01 Overview Thumbs Up: What makes a good entertainment site click?", "The Wall Street Journal, 03 26 01 What's News United States The Globe and Mail, 03 26 01 USA: Enron's deal to sell Portland General seen dead-WSJ.", "Reuters English News Service, 03 26 01 Enron's 2 bln usd sale of PGE unit unlikely to go through - CEO AFX News, 03 26 01 INDIA'S ESSAR MAY OPT OUT OF SHELL LNG VENTURE Asia Pulse, 03 26 01 Business Financial Desk; Section A Deal for Use of Gas Pipeline Stirs Dispute on Competition By RICHARD A. OPPEL Jr. and LOWELL BERGMAN 03 26 2001 The New York Times Page 1, Column 4 c. 2001 New York Times Company Early last year, the El Paso Natural Gas Company took bids from two dozen companies for the right to ship enough natural gas through its pipeline from Texas and New Mexico to meet one-sixth of the daily demand of energy-starved California." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 3 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e6769_p4", "sents": [ "Kate Berry and Mary Ann Milbourn in the Orange County Register <http: www.ocregister.com news connell00720cci.shtml -- 7 20 01 Energy regulators go high-tech -- Often criticized as the sleeping watchdog of the nation's power markets, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission on Thursday unveiled a high-tech war room where regulators can now track energy prices around the country in real time.", "\"We've been fairly blind,\" acknowledged FERC Chairman Curtis L. Hebert Jr., describing an agency that previously depended on industry and the trade press for information, often days and weeks late.", "\"In the best case we were getting information 24 hours after it happened.", "Now we'll get it immediately.\"", "Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar in the Los Angeles Times <http: www.latimes.com news printedition asection la-000059242jul20.story?c oll=la%2Dnews%2Da%5Fsection Jim Puzzanghera in the San Jose Mercury <http: www0.mercurycenter.com premium nation docs watchdog20.htm -- 7 20 01 State advisers forced to sell energy stocks -- One consultant hired by the state to negotiate long-term electricity contracts owned stock in a company that signed billion-dollar deals with California." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] }, { "title": "e1420_p0", "sents": [ "'San Jose Mercury News, April 19, 2001, Thursday, SJ-POWER, 593 words, Testimony Indicates California Electricity Market Was Troubled in 1998, By Brandon Bailey (Quotes Smutny on behalf of IEP) Associated Press State & Local Wire, April 19, 2001, Thursday, BC cycle ?, 9:55 AM Eastern Time, State and Regional, 930 words, Developments in California's energy crisis, By Associated Press (Quotes Smutny on behalf of IEP) Associated Press State & Local Wire, April 19, 2001, Thursday, BC cycle ?, 9:32 AM Eastern Time, State and Regional, 820 words, Legislators probe possible power, natural gas collusion, By DON THOMPSON, Associated Press Writer, SACRAMENTO (Quotes Smutny on behalf of IEP) Associated Press State & Local Wire, April 18, 2001, Wednesday, BC cycle, State and Regional, 833 words, Legislators probe possible power, natural gas collusion, By DON THOMPSON, Associated Press Writer, SACRAMENTO (Quotes Smutny on behalf of IEP) Associated Press State & Local Wire, April 18, 2001, Wednesday, BC cycle, State and Regional, 841 words, Developments in California's energy crisis, By Associated Press (Quotes Smutny on behalf of IEP) Power bloc blasts seizure idea Producers say talk of bold action fuels crisis By Steve Geissinger SACRAMENTO BUREAU -- Oakland Tribune (Quotes Smutny on behalf of IEP) Copley News Service, April 19, 2001, Thursday, State and regional, 780 words, Windfall-profits tax gets Davis' backing, Bill Ainsworth, SACRAMENTO Los Angeles Times, April 19, 2001, Thursday, Home Edition, Page 3, 772 words, CAPITOL JOURNAL; CALIFORNIA AND THE WEST; Price Caps Don't Fit in Cheney's Head for Figures, GEORGE SKELTON, SACRAMENTO Los Angeles Times, April 19, 2001, Thursday, Home Edition, Page 3, 1373 words, CALIFORNIA AND THE WEST; DAVIS BACKS SILICON VALLEY POWER PROJECT; ENERGY: GOVERNOR URGES QUICK APPROVAL OF SAN JOSE PLANT DESPITE OPPOSITION BY CITY AND A POWERFUL FIRM., JENIFER WARREN and TERENCE MONMANEY, TIMES STAFF WRITERS, SACRAMENTO The Orange County Register, April 19, 2001, Thursday, STATE AND REGIONAL NEWS, K7970, 275 words, Ex-energy chief leery of state buying power lines, By Kate Berry San Francisco Chronicle, APRIL 19, 2001, THURSDAY, FINAL EDITION, NEWS;, Pg." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e27361_p7", "sents": [ "Lundbeck shed 6 to 284, despite Jyske Bank upgrading its recommendation to 'neutral' from 'reduce' and the price target to 300 dkr from 260 dkr following Lundbeck's earnings report last week.", "Novozymes B added 0.5 to 184. NeuroSearch was 10 lower at 205, Coloplast B fell 1 to 461 and Chr Hansen Holding B shed 4 to 260. Danisco was 4 higher at 307. Danisco Ingredients reportedly expects sales of flavours to quadruple within next four years.", "Group 4 Falck rose 5 to 900 and ISS added 7 to 492 ahead of their first-half results tomorrow.", "SAS AB shed 2 to 64 after a Finnish newspaper reported CEO Joergen Lindegaard as saying that a merger with Finnair is the most natural development if it is to merge with another airline.", "The Norwegian competition authority has denied SAS' application to buy a 68.8 pct stake in Braathens, but both airlines said they will begin negotiations with the Norwegian competition authority regarding SAS' application to buy 68.8 pct of Braathens." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 1 ] }, { "title": "Danisco", "sents": [ "Danisco A/S is a Danish bio-based company with activities in food production, enzymes and other bioproducts as well as a wide variety of pharmaceutical grade excipients.", "It was formed in 1989 from the largest Danish industrial merger ever of the two old C.F.", "Tietgen companies Danish Sugar (founded 1872), and Dansk Handels- og Industri Company (Danisco A/S)." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e3127_p18", "sents": [ "Post-money, NuVasive had a valuation of $75 million in this fla t round.", "Robertson Stephens managed the round.", "William Blair and Sofinov each gain a seat on the board, which now has eight directors.", "Funds will be used for product development, product launch, sales, marketing, and staff expansion.", "The company employs 63 and expects to add another 10, mostly in sales, by the end of the year.", "NuVasive has raised a total of $50 million in financing.", "The company expects to become cash flow pos!", "itive by mid-2003, and may raise a small fifth round.", "NuVasive recently established an office in New Jersey and in Munich, and will focus on forming co-development, co-marketing partnerships that may involve equity investments.", "http: www.nuvasive.com Celvibe Raises $2M More in Second Round mail?", "top NATANYA, Israel (VENTUREWIRE) -- Celvibe, which has developed a tech nology that enables wireless carriers to deliver live, multi-channel television broadcasts to wireless users in real time based on the MPEG-4 standard, sai d it has secured an additional $2 million from China Development Industrial Bank of Taiwan and an undisclosed Asian investor." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1, 2 ] }, { "title": "NuVasive", "sents": [ "NuVasive, Inc., based in San Diego, California, is a medical device company focused on the design, development, and marketing of products for the surgical treatment of spine disorders.", "NuVasive is a publicly traded company and is listed on the NASDAQ under the symbol NUVA." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e3793_p13", "sents": [ "\"This is very bad news for the north Santa Barbara Channel,\" California Rep George Miller, a senior Democrat on the House Resources Committee, told Scripps-McClatchy Western Service.", "Norton appeared before the committee to discuss the administration's energy policy, one provision of which calls upon the Interior Department to review legal and policy issues concerning offshore development.", "Norton said the Bush administration will abide by moratoriums in effect unt il 2012 on leasing off of much of the West Coast, Florida and the Carolinas, according to Scripps-McClatchy.", "But when asked by Miller about existing lease areas off Santa Barbara and t he Florida coast that are not covered by the moratoriums, Norton indicated the re is nothing to prevent additional leasing activity now, and that, in the cas e of Florida, a departmental review already is under way.", "Escondido eyed profit from Hanover plant Sides were close, but deal crumbled By Jonathan Heller UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER June 7, 2001 ESCONDIDO -- You don't need much to build a small power plant: A jet engine off a junked 747, a generator, some emission-control systems and a permit to build somewhere." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 4 ] }, { "title": "Hanover", "sents": [ "Hanover or Hannover ( ; German: \"Hannover\" , ] ), on the River Leine, is the capital and largest city of the German state of Lower Saxony (\"Niedersachsen\"), and was once by personal union the family seat of the Hanoverian Kings of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, under their title as the dukes of Brunswick-Lüneburg (later described as the Elector of Hanover).", "At the end of the Napoleonic Wars, the Electorate was enlarged to become a Kingdom with Hanover as its capital." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e3127_p2", "sents": [ "As IBM preps to launch Web-based software allowing for smoother enterprise-application- integration, it will face competition from the likes of Hewlett-Packard, Microsoft, Oracle and Sun.", "Which will attract the greatest number of developers and customers in the Web-services arena?", "Hear what Steven Mills, Senior VP & Group Executive of IBM Software, has to say about IBM's latest at Enterprise Outlook, June 26 & 27. Register today:http: www.enterpriseoutlook.com register.asp top stories Kodiak Venture Partners Closes Fund II with $290M mail?", "top CONCORD, Mass.", "(VENTUREWIRE) -- Kodiak Venture Partners, a seed and early-stage venture capital firm, said it closed its second fund, Kodiak Venture Partners II (KVP II) with $290 million.", "The fund, initially targete d at $250 million, will make seed and early stage investments typically rangi ng between $500,000 and $5 million.", "KVP will continue to focus on communications, semiconductor, and software sectors in eastern North Americ a.", "Partner Mike O'Neill said most of KVP II's investments so far have been in the Ottawa and Boston areas." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 4, 7 ] }, { "title": "Ottawa", "sents": [ "Ottawa ( or ; ] ) is the capital city of Canada.", "It stands on the south bank of the Ottawa River in the eastern portion of southern Ontario.", "Ottawa borders Gatineau, Quebec; the two form the core of the Ottawa–Gatineau census metropolitan area (CMA) and the National Capital Region (NCR).", "As of 2016 Ottawa had a city population of 934,243 and a metropolitan population of 1,323,783 making it the fourth-largest city and the fifth-largest CMA in Canada." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 3 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e19778_p21", "sents": [ "On the competitive side, utilities can make it difficult for new generators to connect to the grid.", "So, many in the industry are calling for uniform technical standards to allow equal access to the grid -- once a generator meets the standards, a utility would have no basis to deny a hookup -- and to ensure that interconnection doesn't risk the safety and reliability of the system.", "\"As we've moved into deregulation, there are more entities that want to connect to the system,\" says Ken Rose, a senior economist at the National Regulatory Research Institute at Ohio State University.", "There must be some means, he says, to ensure that access for all these new players remains fair.", "FERC's Mr. Wood says interconnection is \"a top priority\" for the agency.", "He has officially asked utilities to file their interconnection rules, and FERC will issue a policy on interconnection this fall.", "Chris Mele, legislative director of the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners in Washington, D.C., says that interconnection rules need to be flexible." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 2 ] }, { "title": "e6981_p33", "sents": [ "But in practice, competition in California brought price spikes and supply shortages.", "\"The reason why economists have preached that competition is better than regulation,\" said Ken Rose, executive director of the National Regulatory Research Institute at Ohio State University in Columbus, \"is that the investor putting his own dollars on the line will be more careful with those dollars.", "The downside of that is if there's any ability of the suppliers to control prices, then they'll exploit that advantage, which is what you'd expect them to do.", "\"You can't make risk go away,\" he said.", "Now Californians face a different risk: that a new, largely untested 96-person, $2-million-per-month bureaucracy designed to buy power could run amok.", "There's no easy way to disband the power-buying operation until the utilities get back on their feet financially.", "That could take years.", "In April, PG&E filed for bankruptcy to fend off creditors.", "Edison's finances have started to improve somewhat, but the company is still seeking help from the Legislature, where no rescue plan seems to be gaining momentum." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 1 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e1332_p54", "sents": [ "If the Edison deal came to a vote right now, several legislators said, it would almost certainly fail.", "\"I think the governor understands that,\" said Assemblyman Tony Cardenas (D-Sylmar).", "\"There are lots and lots of questions.", "With the PG&E bankruptcy, the world changes.", "We have to reconsider how this deal fits into the new world we are living in.\"", "Davis is meeting this week with Senate Republicans and Democrats in both houses.", "Republicans strongly oppose the Edison deal and say it will be dead on arrival when it finally reaches the Legislature, which could still be days away.", "\"It's a bailout,\" said Assemblyman Tony Strickland (R-Moorpark).", "\"Why would the people of California want to own this thing?", "That's money that could be better used on schools, health care and tax cuts.\"", "Other legislators are somewhat less pessimistic, noting that a governor can wield great negotiating clout with legislators.", "\"I haven't talked to anybody who is for it,\" said Sen. Don Perata (D-Alameda), who has become a vocal critic of Davis' approach to the energy crisis." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1, 6, 11 ] }, { "title": "Don Perata", "sents": [ "Don Richard Perata (born April 30, 1945) is a California Democratic politician, who was President pro tempore of the California State Senate from 2004 to 2008.", "He came in second place in the November 2010 ballot for Mayor of Oakland.", "Perata now runs a political consultancy company" ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e25843_p4", "sents": [ "They point to the value of the hydro network.", "Last fall, the utility dropped a plan to sell the hydro system to its parent for $2.8 billion because the system was \"undervalued in today's market\" and could fetch a much higher price through an auction.", "The PG&E utility and Edison International's Southern California Edison utility amassed billions of dollars of debt because the deregulation law prevented them from passing steep wholesale power prices to their customers.", "SoCal Edison and the CPUC reached a deal Oct. 2 to keep the utility out of the bankruptcy court and pay off its creditors." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 3 ] }, { "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": "e27069_p0", "sents": [ "'INTERVIEW: New Enron CFO On Ambitions In Forest Products Dow Jones Commodities Service, 10 30 01 Enron Shares Fall a Day After Moody's Lowers Rating (Update1) Bloomberg, 10 30 01 Enron Bond Default Insurance Doubles on Credit Woes (Update1) Bloomberg, 10 30 01 USA: UPDATE 1-Enron shares renew plunge, drop to eight-year lows.", "Reuters English News Service, 10 30 01 USA: Enron shares continue slide.", "Reuters English News Service, 10 30 01 STOCKWATCH Enron falls 18 pct on concerns about co's credit worthiness AFX News, 10 30 01 USA: United States stocks slump on big drop in consumer confidence.", "Reuters English News Service, 10 30 01 Analyst Report CNNfn: Before Hours, 10 30 01 Waiting for Enron's Bottom RealMoney.com, 10 30 01 GERMANY: German watchdog may sue firms over power charges.", "Reuters English News Service, 10 30 01 INTERVIEW: New Enron CFO On Ambitions In Forest Products By Zahida Hafeez Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES 10 30 2001 Dow Jones Commodities Service (Copyright (c) 2001, Dow Jones & Company, Inc.) CHICAGO -(Dow Jones)- While Enron Industrial Markets' trading of forest products has grown at a steady pace, Jeff McMahon, the new chief financial officer of Enron Corp. (ENE), said one of the \"biggest obstacles\" to the unit's even better performance remains strong publisher-producer relationships." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 1, 2 ] }, { "title": "e407_p18", "sents": [ "A similar view was taken by Greg Jenkins, chief executive of El Paso Global Networks.", "\"We are continuing with our strategy and adding commercial people to our organization,\" Jenkins said in a statement released by the company.", "\"We believe this is a good moment to be building our business.\"", "Jenkins said the company plans to double its trading staff by the end of the year.", "He declined to say how many traders the company currently has.", "-By Erwin Seba, Dow Jones Newswires, 713-547-9214 [email protected] Copyright 2000 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved.", "USA: UPDATE 1-Bush accused of protecting oil firms in power crisis.", "By Tom Doggett 03 22 2001 Reuters English News Service (C) Reuters Limited 2001. WASHINGTON, March 22 (Reuters) - Washington Democratic Senator Patty Murray accused the Bush administration on Thursday of caring more about the financial interests of big oil companies than trying to protect consumers in Western states from the economic effects of high electricity prices and power supply shortages." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 6, 7 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e5995_p0", "sents": [ "'Please see the following articles: Sac Bee, Tues, 7 3: Details emerge in power contracts Sac Bee, Tues, 7 3: Duke Energy claims it's been vindicated Sac Bee, Tues, 7 3: Out-of-state generators pull plug over uncertainty on price controls SD Union, Tues, 7 3: Duke energy agrees to refund money SD Union, Tues, 7 3: State's grid issues stage 2 alert, triggering new pric e caps SD Union, Tues, 7 3: Full airing of accords touches off new debate SD Union, Mon, 7 2: Duke energy lashes back at charge of price rigging LA Times, Tues, 7 3: Hidden Costs Revealed in Power Pacts LA Times, Tues, 7 3: Davis Scraps Deal With Consultants LA Times, Tues, 7 3: Generator Bows, Pledges to Cut Electricity Bill by $20 Million LA Times, Tues, 7 3: Power Sales Halted by New Pricing Curbs SF Chron, Tues, 7 3: Scorching weather triggers Stage 2 alert, price caps SF Chron, Tues, 7 3: Uncensored power pacts made public State controller says deals will burden general fund for years SF Chron, Tues, 7 3: Corporate casualties PG&E executives are receiving bonuses, while some of its veteran employees have been waiting months for their disability checks SF Chron, Tues, 7 3: Developments in California's energy crisis SF Chron, Tues, 7 3: Duke Energy slashes $20 million from California power bill SF Chron, Tues, 7 3: Duke opens record books but keeps mum on prices SF Chron, Tues, 7 3: Duke releases California energy records to counter accusations of price gouging Mercury News, Tues, 7 3: Las Vegas hit by rolling blackouts OC Register, Tues, 7 3: Blackout hits Las Vegas as number 120 comes up Individual.com (AP), Tues, 7 3: State One and Stage Two Emergencies Declare d as Demand Soars; California ISO Strongly Urges Conservation Individual.com (AP), Tues, 7 3: Duke Energy Releases California ISO, Intern al Records that Confirm Appropriate Operation of South Bay Plant Individual.com (AP), Tues, 7 3: Calpine's Sutter Energy Center Is Up and Running First New Major Baseload Generator for California Individual.com (AP), Tues, 7 3: Duke Energy Will Offset Receivables Above FERC Proxy Price Individual.com (AP), Tues, 7 3: New York Power Producers Announce Five-Poin t Program to Address State's Long and Short-Term Energy Needs IPPNY Plan Designed to Prevent California-style Crisis in New York NY Times, Tues, 7 3: Power Company Rebuts Accusations of Gouging -- Details emerge in power contracts By Carrie Peyton and Chris Bowman Bee Staff Writers (Published July 3, 2001) California's power bills for the next decade probably will exceed the forecasts of Gov." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] }, { "title": "e894_p5", "sents": [ "A1;, 1497 words, Ratepayers lose clout PG&E filing cuts consumers' ability to exert pressure on a rescue plan., Carrie Peyton and Stuart Leavenworth Bee Staff Writers Sacramento Bee, April 8, 2001, Sunday, Pg.", "A16;, 800 words, Chapter 11 filing just the first of many steps, Stuart Leavenworth and Carrie Peyton Bee Staff Writers Sacramento Bee, April 8, 2001, Sunday, Pg.", "L4;, 563 words, Lessons from history Electricity still needs a public role San Jose Mercury News, April 8, 2001, Sunday, DOMESTIC NEWS, K3554, 1393 words, In wake of PG&E bankruptcy, California governor, state officials scramble for solution, By Steve Johnson San Francisco Chronicle, APRIL 8, 2001, SUNDAY, FINAL EDITION, NEWS;, Pg.", "A14, 683 words, Deregulation Debacle, Chuck Squatriglia San Francisco Chronicle, APRIL 8, 2001, SUNDAY, FINAL EDITION, NEWS;, Pg.", "A1, 1709 words, POWER PLAY; PG&E timed bankruptcy to blame Davis, insiders say, David Lazarus San Francisco Chronicle, APRIL 8, 2001, SUNDAY, FINAL EDITION, NEWS;, Pg." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 1 ] } ]

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[ { "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, 3 ] }, { "title": "e3049_p20", "sents": [ "http: www.wellogix.com EXP Systems Names New CEO mail?", "top MENLO PARK, Calif. (VENTUREWIRE) -- EXP Systems, a provider of enter prise software, said it named Mark Wright as president and CEO.", "Mr. Wright replac es company founder, Mark Benning, in the role of CEO.", "Mr. Wright comes to the company from IBM, where he served as VP of software sales and marketing.", "He also served as executive vice president of worldwide sales for OneChem, an application service provider in the chemical industry.", "Mr. Benning will continue to serve as chairman of the company.", "EXP's product enables custome rs to connect in real time with company agents or industry professionals who c an answer questions and deliver services.", "In March, the company laid off about 25% of its staff, or about 24 employees.", "Before this most recent round of cuts, it laid off 17 people.", "The company is backed by Ask Jeeves, Bessmer Venture Partners, Bowman Capital, CMGI@Ventures, J. & W. Seligman, Maveron, meVC Draper Fisher Jurvetson, and Oracle." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 1, 9 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e28006_p15", "sents": [ "Customers include companies primarily in industrial machinery, business engineering, and financial services industries.", "<http: www.privia.com * Software Development Firm Lohika Gets $1.25M Series A top mail <http: venturewire.com o_mailer.asp?sid=ILHOOIIMII SAN MATEO, CALIF. -- Lohika Systems, which provides outsourced software development, integration, and maintenance services, said it completed its Series A financing.", "It raised $1.25 million from a group of individual investors.", "Participants in the round included Gene Shklar, a founding employee and former executive of Keynote Systems and Siebel Systems; Adrian Slywotzky, vice president and board member of Mercer Management Consulting; and Lore Harp McGovern, an individual investor and director of the McGovern Institute for Brain Research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.", "All three have joined Lohika's board, which is now full at five members.", "Lohika will use the funds to expand sales, customer service, and development operations in the United States and Europe.", "At present the company has targeted the higher-education market and has been generating revenue from a number of national universities based in California." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 3 ] }, { "title": "Keynote Systems", "sents": [ "Keynote Systems was a US-based company that specialized in developing and marketing software as a service technology to measure, test, improve, from the end user perspective, the performance of websites, online content, applications, and services across browsers, networks, and mobile devices.", "Keynote provides independent testing, measurement and monitoring of mobile content, applications, and services on real devices across multiple mobile operator networks." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e3333_p36", "sents": [ "\"The recommended route is not the worst possible, and I do not rule out that the cabinet will approve it, although we may need some small adjustments,\" Economy Minister Janusz Steinhoff told reporters on Wednesday.", "Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov, who arrives later on Thursday in Warsaw for a three-day visit, is due to meet Economy Ministry officials and is expected to try to talk up the Russia-favoured pipeline project.", "The decision - which could terminate an alternative plan by Russia's giant Gazprom to lay a more pricey pipeline along the bed of the Baltic Sea - may affect a key gas sell-off pending in neighbouring Slovakia, analysts said.", "\"Gazprom is very interested in the region, particularly in the Slovak transit system, but its decision will partly depend on whether the new transit will run across Poland,\" said Evgeny Solovyov, sector analyst at SG Securities in London.", "SLOVAK TRUMP CARD Analysts say the sale of the Slovak SPP gas group, including a powerful and highly lucrative gas transit system, is sure to attract heavy investor interest and become the largest ever sale in the country." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 1 ] }, { "title": "Warsaw", "sents": [ "Warsaw (Polish: \"Warszawa\" ; see also other names) is the capital and largest city of Poland.", "It stands on the Vistula River in east-central Poland, roughly 260 km from the Baltic Sea and 300 km from the Carpathian Mountains.", "Its population is officially estimated at 1.750 million residents within a greater metropolitan area of 3.101 million residents, which makes Warsaw the 9th most-populous capital city in the European Union.", "The city limits cover 516.9 km2 , while the metropolitan area covers 6100.43 km2 ." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e2762_p3", "sents": [ "Jeff Dasovich will manage all work associated with the Global Settlement, whether it is legislative or not.", "This does not mean that Sandy cannot give assignments to Goodin MacBride; it simply means that before that work begins Jeff must approve the work.", "This particular issue is a critical matter for our company.", "Jeff is involved in the strategy and business calls concerning this matter and is working on a daily basis with Jim Steffes, Rick Shapiro and Steve Kean to develop our position and advocate that position in the settlement discussions.", "We must ensure that our Sacramento efforts are fully coordinated with our strategy and business interests (as they develop through the settlement discussions).", "To avoid any confusion on the scope of Jeff's responsibility, I consider all legislation addressing the Edison MOU, any future MOUs with Sempra, and \"Plan B,\" to be part of the Global Settlement.", "Please contact me if you have any questions regarding any of the above." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 3, 4 ] }, { "title": "e2843_p4", "sents": [ "This particular issue is a critical matter for our company.", "Jeff is involved in the strategy and business calls concerning this matter and is working on a daily basis with Jim Steffes, Rick Shapiro and Steve Kean to develop our position and advocate that position in the settlement discussions.", "We must ensure that our Sacramento efforts are fully coordinated with our strategy and business interests (as they develop through the settlement discussions).", "To avoid any confusion on the scope of Jeff's responsibility, I consider all legislation addressing the Edison MOU, any future MOUs with Sempra, and \"Plan B,\" to be part of the Global Settlement.", "Please contact me if you have any questions regarding any of the above.", "Again, we appreciate your hard work and commitment to our efforts.", "Paul Kaufman" ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 1, 2, 6 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e7794_p20", "sents": [ "He also serves on the boards of several e-commerce and technology companies, including Macromedia, Delano Technology, and Changepoint.", "DWL is backed by AIM Funds, Ten-Squared, AGF, Royal Trust, and Vengrowth Investment Fund.", "http: www.dwl.com Fiber Optics Firm Radiant Taps Broadband Exec for Board AUSTIN, Texas -- Radiant Photonics, a manufacturer of fiber optics components, said it has appointed Joe Savage, former CEO of broadband management firm Geyser Networks, as CEO.", "The company raised $18 million from Smith Investment Partners and KLM in September.", "http: www.radiantphotonics.com Online Services Firm vCustomer Names Two to Board BELLEVUE, Wash. -- vCustomer, which offers outsourced services for e-business customer support and management, said Scott Oki and Joachim Kempin have joined its board of directors.", "Mr. Oki is chairman of Oki Development and the Oki Foundation and is also an investor in vCustomer.", "Mr. Kempin serves as a senior vice president at Microsoft.", "The board now totals four members." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 4, 7 ] }, { "title": "Scott Oki", "sents": [ "Scott D. Oki (born October 5, 1948 in Seattle, Washington) is a former senior vice-president of sales and marketing for Microsoft who conceived and built Microsoft's international operations.", "Oki also played a crucial role in Microsoft's rapid domestic growth during the 1980s." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e19847_p6", "sents": [ "For registration information, please visit http: groups.haas.berkeley.edu imio knowledge index2001.htm.", "- MICHAEL KATZ TO SERVE AS DEPUTY ASSISTANT ATTORNEY GENERAL FOR ECONOMIC ANALYSIS Michael Katz, the Edward J. and Mollie Arnold Professor of Business Administration, has been appointed the deputy assistant attorney general for economic analysis in the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice.", "As deputy assistant attorney general, Katz will supervise all economic analysis within the Antitrust Division and direct the division's Economic Analysis Group.", "\"Like the stereotypical economist, I look at Michael's appointment from two perspectives,\" says Ben Hermalin, associate dean of academic affairs.", "\"On the one hand, I can't think of a Haas faculty member who'd be harder to lose for a year or two than Michael.", "On the other hand, I can't think of an economist I'd trust more to advise the nation on antitrust matters than Michael.", "I just hope the current administration has sufficient sense to listen to Michael and take his advice seriously.\"" ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 1, 3, 5 ] }, { "title": "e2092_p0", "sents": [ "'Haas NewsWire April 30, 2001 CONTENTS Janet Yellen Named to the Academy of Arts and Sciences Semiconductor Technology Takes First Place in UC Berkeley B-Plan Competition Haas Leads Western Business Schools in Quirky Wall Street Journal Ranking Berkeley Team Wins Advertising Case Competition New Staff Haas in the News Happening at Haas Haas Celebrations JANET YELLEN NAMED TO THE ACADEMY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES Janet Yellen, the Eugene E. & Catherine T. Trefethen Professor of Business Administration, was named a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences on April 26, 2001.?", "Members of this year's class included 211 distinguished scholars, scientists, artists, business executives, educators, and public officials.", "They were honored for their achievements in fields ranging from mathematics to medicine, from computer science to literary criticism, and from public affairs to the performing arts.", "\"Janet Yellen is well-deserving of this honor,\" says Ben Hermalin, associate dean of academic affairs." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 3 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e6861_p0", "sents": [ "'Bandwidth Market: Trade For DS3 Capacity Nets High Price Dow Jones Energy Service, 07 24 01 USA: Northeast utilities on track to form RTO - PJM chief.", "Reuters English News Service, 07 24 01 EnergyBusinessWatch Releases Two-Part Interview With FERC Chairman Curt Hebert PR Newswire, 07 24 01 Natural Gas Project Decision Due Soon-Venezuelan Official Dow Jones Energy Service, 07 24 01 USA: Black Hills signs deal for 273-MW Nevada power plant.", "Reuters English News Service, 07 24 01 German Energy Blue Chips E.On, RWE Return To Form Dow Jones International News, 07 24 01 Black Hills To Buy Nev. Power Complex From Enron Dow Jones News Service, 07 24 01 INDIA: United States looks \"beyond sanctions\" at ties with India.", "Reuters English News Service, 07 24 01 Allegheny Energy to split up Hagerstown utility to create company for power generation; Permission for IPO sought; Remaining company to distribute energy to retail customers The Baltimore Sun, 07 24 01 FERC Should Oversee All Utilities, Lawmaker Says (Update1) Bloomberg, 07 24 01 Energy Generators Fall With Gas, Electricity Prices (Update1) Bloomberg, 07 24 01 Black Hills to Purchase Generation Complex From Enron (Update1) Bloomberg, 07 24 01 Dan Walters: Blame game over California's energy crisis will continue for years Sacramento Bee, 07 24 01 Bandwidth Market: Trade For DS3 Capacity Nets High Price 07 24 2001 Dow Jones Energy Service (Copyright (c) 2001, Dow Jones & Company, Inc.) HOUSTON -(Dow Jones)- A direct trade done Tuesday for DS3 bandwidth between Seattle and Vancouver, B.C., brought one of the highest prices ever recorded in the market." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 1, 2 ] }, { "title": "e407_p12", "sents": [ "March 23, 2001 Briefs: Houston & state Enron comfortable with profit projection Enron Corp. assured investors Thursday it \"remains very comfortable\" with a previously announced 2001 earnings estimate of between $1.70 and $1.75 per share.", "According to First Call Thomson Financial, the average estimate of 2001 earnings among industry analysts is $1.74 per share.", "The Houston-based energy giant also said it would bring investors up to date today with a conference call.", "USA: Transmission Texas' only dereg hurdle-state grid manager.", "By C. Bryson Hull 03 22 2001 Reuters English News Service (C) Reuters Limited 2001. HOUSTON, March 22 (Reuters) - Improving power transmission capacity is the biggest challenge Texas faces heading into deregulation next year, the manager of the state's power grid said on Thursday.", "California's Achilles' heel, a lack of generating capacity, is not Texas' problem, Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) chief executive officer Tom Noel said.", "\"Capacity is not the only issue." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 4 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e9389_p10", "sents": [ "The rest of the funding came from individual investors.", "http: www.banderacom.com ASP Xuma Secures $40 Million Round Led by Broadview SAN FRANCISCO -- Xuma, an ASP and provider of customized online business systems, said it closed a $40 million round of financing led by Broadview Capital Partners.", "CIT Venture Capital, Dell, IDG Ventures, Intel 64 Fund and Menlo Ventures also participated.", "Xuma has raised $48 million its inception in 1998. http: www.xuma.com Brigade Raises $35 Million From General Atlantic Partners SAN FRANCISCO -- Brigade, a provider of Internet customer support infrastructure and outsourcing, said it secured a $35 million investment from General Atlantic Partners.", "Funding will go towards expanding operations, both domestically and abroad, as well as sales and marketing.", "Bill Grabe and Mark Dzialga of GAP will join the board.", "Brigade's previous backers include Compaq Computer, Mohr, Davidow Ventures, Trust Company of the West, and Comdisco Ventures." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 1, 2, 3 ] }, { "title": "IDG Ventures", "sents": [ "IDG Ventures is a global family of venture funds with approximately $3.6 billion under management.", "All of the funds were originally sole-source-funded by International Data Group." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e2933_p28", "sents": [ "http: www.smartbargains.com Creative Planet Promotes CFO to President mail?", "top LOS ANGELES (VENTUREWIRE) -- Creative Planet, a business-to-business technology and information services firm for media industry professionals, announced it has promoted its chief financial officer, Kelyn Brannon, to president.", "Ms. Brannon, who joined Creative Planet late last year, will report to Chairman and CEO Allen DeBevoise and will head operations, including the company's newly established Movie Magic Producer and Studio System business unit.", "Before joining Creative Planet, Ms. Brannon was chief accounting officer of Amazon.com.", "Creative Planet, which plans to break eve n in 2002, has raised nearly $100 million in funding to date.", "Investors in th e company include Ares Management, Chase Capital Partners, East River Venture s, J. & W. Seligman Funds, PaineWebber Capital, SunAmerica Investments, Times Mirror Chandler Trust Ventures, Trekk Opportunity Partners, and Waterview Advisors.", "http: www.creativeplanet.com CyLex Systems Appoints New President & CEO mail?", "top BOCA RATON, Fla. (VENTUREWIRE) -- CyLex, which provides services for the management and organization of data, announced the appointment of Bill E. Newell as president and CEO." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 4, 5 ] }, { "title": "e401_p4", "sents": [ "WebCT will use the financing to expanding the scope of academic resources available on the company's site.", "WebCT has received revious investments from BancBoston Ventures, Boston Millennia Partners, Chase Capital Partners, CMGI @Ventures, Duke Management, Kestrel Venture Management, NetInvest, and SCT.", "http: www.thomson.com http: www.webct.com Recruiting App Firm SkillSet Gets Funding From Microsoft PLEASANTON, Calif. -- SkillSet Software, which develops employment recruiting applications, announced it has secured a multi-million dollar investment from Microsoft.", "Skillset said it has also received funding from undisclosed institutional and individual investors.", "The company said it will use Microsoft's products and the funding to support expansion.", "Microsoft is expected to take a seat on the company's board of directors.", "http: www.skillset.com Sony Computer Entertainment Acquires Interactive Firm RTime FOSTER CITY, Calif. -- Sony Computer Entertainment America said it acquired RTime, a provider of products and services that support real-time interactivity on the Internet and broadband networks, for an undisclosed amount." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 1 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e9883_p1", "sents": [ "--Original Message -- From: Katie Kaplan [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, January 03, 2001 6:37 PM To: Tom Ross; Sue Mara; Stephanie-Newell; Rob Lamkin; Richard Hyde; Pigott Jack; Paula Hall-Collins; Norton Kelli; McNally Ray; Marty Wilson; Lynn Lednicky; Kristin Vellandi; kent Palmerton; Katie Kaplan; Kassandra Gough; Karen Edson; Julee Malinowski-Ball; John Stout; Joe Ronan; Jeff Dasovich; Jean Munoz; Jan Smutny-Jones; Greg Blue; Curtis Kebler; Bob Weisenmiller; Baker Carolyn; B Brown Andy; Andy Brown; Douglas Kerner; John Larrea Cc: Carol H Hudson; Steven Kelly Subject: FW: Cal Journal Ad #2 Importance: High Here is the second Cal Journal ad.", "Please take a look and get any comments back to me by 3:00 tomorrow (Thursday January 4th).", "Please let me know if you can't open it.", "Thanks Katie Kaplan Manager of State Policy Affairs Independent Energy Producers Association (916) 448-9499'" ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] }, { "title": "e752_p10", "sents": [ "Williams spokeswoman Paula Hall-Collins said she couldn't comment on whether the company would continue to sell power in California if it had to do so at prices set by federal regulators.", "The average price of electricity in the California-Oregon border region rose ninefold last quarter from a year ago, according to Bloomberg Energy Service statistics.", "Other companies selling power in California include Duke Energy Corp., Enron Corp., Reliant Energy Inc., Calpine Corp., El Paso Corp. Mirant Corp. and AES Corp. Edison, based in Rosemead, California, and PG&E, based in San Francisco, have lost more than $14 billion buying power in the open market at prices that far exceeded what they could charge customers.", "Williams sells gas to AES Corp., the largest United States power-plant developer, to fuel California generators, and also sells the power from those plants in the open market.", "Shares of Williams rose 11 cents to $40.26. PG&E rose 12 cents to $11.65, and Edison rose 16 cents to $12.98. --Mark Johnson in Washington, (202) 624-1849 or [email protected], through the Princeton newsroom, (609) 279-4000 slb pjm Enron Europe Pres Sees NETA Boosting Trade Volumes By Christina Cheddar Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES 04 04 2001 Dow Jones News Service (Copyright (c) 2001, Dow Jones & Company, Inc.) NEW YORK -(Dow Jones)- Enron Europe President John Sheriff expects the U.K.'s New Electricity Trading Arrangements, or NETA, to lead to \"dramatically\" higher power trading volumes in the second quarter for his company." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e1463_p4", "sents": [ "And if the state purchased Edison and SDG&E's lines, it would be in the strongest position to buy PG&E's system as well.\"", "In addition, the Edison executive said, even without PG&E's transmission lines, the state would still have substantial control of the grid in Southern California, which has much better access to new generation sites being developed.", "\"Sixty-eight percent of all new generation capacity approved or in the process of being approved can link directly to Southern California Edison's transmission system,\" the executive said.", "Lawmakers, however, remain skeptical.", "\"It's a deal that every Edison shareholder and creditor loves, because it's financed 100% by ratepayers,\" Bowen said.", "\"But it's not in the best interest of the state or in the best interest of Edison's ratepayers.\"", "SoCal Ed Can't Pay QFs Money Owed Due To Cash Crunch Updated: Thursday, April 19, 2001 05:35 PM?ET By Jason Leopold Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES NEW YORK (Dow Jones)--Edison International (EIX, news, msgs) unit Southern California Edison is unlikely to pay more than $900 million in past due power bills any time soon to the state's small independent power producers the utility buys electricity from because it \"simply (doesn't) have the dollars to do that,\" a senior executive with Edison International told Dow Jones Newswires Thursday." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 6 ] }, { "title": "e538_p28", "sents": [ "The order directs the utilities to resume payments to QFs within 15 days of end of billing period, Commissioner Carl Wood said.", "If they don't comply, the utilities will suffer from penalties equal to the amount owed to the QFs, he said.", "Wood withdrew, on Monday, his idea for a fixed price payment of $79 per megawatt hour.", "During a conference call to note holders late Tuesday, Edison's CFO Ted Craver, Jr. said SoCal Edison plans to make interest payments on some of its defaulted debts, with the first payment on some commercial paper outstanding made around the end of next week.", "Craver also said that with the utility's planned payments and its commitment to make interest payments, starting this week, as they come due, SoCal Ed will become current on all outstanding interest rate payments.", "Meanwhile, the CPUC's order regarding payments to QFs came just as the state's power grid operator issued a \"Stage Two\" power alert throughout California, calling for increased consumer conservation." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 3 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e3786_p16", "sents": [ "Investors in this round include Silicon Alley Venture Partners, Hudson Venture Partners, Liberty View Equity Partners, SBIC, Youngtree Partners, and Stonehenge.", "Bla-bla said its network has over 230 sites and is adding 40 sites per month.", "http: www.bla-bla.com Web Security Firm Ingrian Systems Gets $4 Million Round One REDWOOD CITY, Calif. -- Ingrian Systems, which is developing scalable Internet security products that will increase the speed of transactions, said it has secured $4 million in its first round of funding from a group of investors.", "The round included Andy Bechtolsheim and Bill Joy, co-founders of of Sun Microsystems, and Martin Hellman, professor emeritus of electrical engineering at Stanford University.", "Other investors in the round included Andrew Dumke, general partner of Pacific Mezzanine Fund; John Hamm, the managing director of Internet Capital Group; Greg Chabrier, most recently vice president of business development for VALinux; and Sardina, the co-founder of Tasmania Network Systems, which was acquired by Cisco last year." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] }, { "title": "e3871_p5", "sents": [ "Major investors were New Enterprise Associates, Polaris Venture Capital, and several undisclosed private investors.", "The company will use the funds to expand its business nationwide.", "Telephone 03-5611424 ext.", "119. o $5.25 Million, Launch for Peer-to-Peer Broadband PC Network NEW YORK -- DataSynapse, a peer-to-peer broadband Internet network focused on the financial services sector, said it will officially launch Sept. 18 after receiving $5.25 million in Series A financing.", "Rare Ventures and NeoCarta Ventures led the round, joined by New York City Investment Fund, Silicon Alley Venture Partners, LLC, Wand Partners and Broadview Inernational.", "The company said it will use the funds to increase staff in its New York and San Francisco offices and for marketing.", "http: www.datasynapse.com $8.5 Million for Developer of Online Shopping Card for Teens LONDON -- Splash Plastic, which is developing a pre-pay shopping card so that teenagers may make online purchases without owning a credit card, said it raised GBP 6 million ($8.5 million) in its first round." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 3, 4 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e5347_p4", "sents": [ "FERC is considering a proposal by the California Municipal Utilities Association for just that, based on the argument that reregulation is required until more generation capacity is brought on line in California.", "The Enron white paper comes just as FERC commissions begin to review a report by FERC staff on what went wrong in the California market last summer and a proposed remedy scheme.", "The commission is scheduled to release the findings of the report on November 1, along with a proposed remedy.", "There will be a three-week period of public review and comment before FERC makes a final decision.", "There has been much controversy over whether FERC should release the findings of the FERC probe immediately for stakeholders to review before they comment on a proposed FERC remedy.", "But FERC chairman James Hoecker has held hard, even in the face of criticism by fellow commissioner Curt Hebert, arguing that the commission needs time to review the document before releasing it." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 5 ] }, { "title": "e490_p42", "sents": [ "The state contends that the overcharging was made possible because some power generators kept prices artificially high through questionable bidding practices or by limiting the supply of electricity.", "But unless the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission changes its philosophy and methods, the grid's plea for relief could fall on deaf ears.", "Federal regulators have so far been willing to review only transactions that took place during Stage 3 alerts, when the state is on the verge of the kind of rolling blackouts that swept through California this week.", "And FERC's commissioners say they can only consider alleged overcharges since Oct. 2, which they previously set as a starting point for considering any refunds.", "The state's analysis goes back to last May.", "\"We have no recourse legally to go back retroactively and look at rates that occurred before we set the refund-effective period,\" FERC Commissioner Linda Breathitt said in an interview Thursday.", "Breathitt and FERC's chairman, Curt Hebert, defend only reviewing charges during Stage 3 alerts." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 6 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e19579_p3", "sents": [ "Representatives of Enron, the energy trading company based in Houston, have approached Warren E. Buffett, the chairman of Berkshire Hathaway, but he decided not to pursue a major investment in the company, according to a person close to the talks.", "Part of Mr. Buffett's reluctance was an unwillingness to sign a confidentiality agreement with the company that would preclude him from trading in Enron's debt, the person said.", "Officials of Berkshire Hathaway did not return phone calls Tuesday.", "More than a dozen buyout firms, including Clayton, Dubilier & Rice; the Blackstone Group, and Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, have expressed little interest, according to a person close to the talks.", "The G.E.", "Capital unit of General Electric has also been approached, this person said, and has not ruled out an investment.", "Officials from all of the companies declined comment or did not return telephone calls.", "The overtures were reported Tuesday by The Wall Street Journal." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] }, { "title": "Berkshire Hathaway", "sents": [ "Berkshire Hathaway Inc. is an American multinational conglomerate holding company headquartered in Omaha, Nebraska, United States.", "The company wholly owns GEICO, Long & Foster, BNSF Railway, Lubrizol, Fruit of the Loom, Helzberg Diamonds, FlightSafety International, Pampered Chef, and NetJets, and also owns 26.7% of the Kraft Heinz Company, and significant minority holdings in American Express (17.15%), The Coca-Cola Company (9.4%), Wells Fargo (9.9%), IBM (6.9%) and Apple (2.5%).", "Since 2016, the company has acquired large holdings in the major US airline carriers and is currently the largest shareholder in United Airlines and Delta Air Lines and a top 3 shareholder in Southwest Airlines and American Airlines.", "Berkshire Hathaway has averaged an annual growth in book value of 19.0% to its shareholders since 1965 (compared to 9.7% from the S&P 500 with dividends included for the same period), while employing large amounts of capital, and minimal debt." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] } ]