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[ { "title": "Ralph Cavanagh", "sents": [ "Ralph Cavanagh is a senior attorney and co-director of Natural Resources Defense Council's energy program.", "Cavanagh has been with the NRDC since 1979 and was on the Secretary of Energy Advisory board from 1993-2003.", "Cavanagh has served as Visiting Professor at both Stanford University and UC Berkeley." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] }, { "title": "e4243_p0", "sents": [ "'E Source Teleconference Examines Ways to Solve California Power Crisis 09 25 2000 PR Newswire (Copyright (c) 2000, PR Newswire) BOULDER, Colo., Sept. 25 PRNewswire -- In a teleconference held Friday afternoon, September 22, 2000, by E Source(TM), industry analysts proposed several solutions to remedy the imperfections in California's electric market and discussed ways that those lessons could be applied in other states that are considering restructuring their electric markets.", "No single \"silver bullet\" solution emerged from the panelists.", "Rather, they said that solving the California power situation would require a combination of supply, demand, pricing, and regulatory solutions.", "\"It is important that we mend, not end, electric restructuring,\" said Ralph Cavanagh, co-director of the energy program at the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC).", "\"Restructuring is a process, not an event,\" added Becky Kilbourne, director of market development for the California Power Exchange (CalPX).", "Bill LeBlanc, vice president of retail consulting at E Source, made this point: \"It is very difficult to have an open market and a regulated market at the same time." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 3 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "University of Rochester", "sents": [ "The University of Rochester ( U of R or UR) frequently referred to simply as Rochester, is a private, nonsectarian, research university in Rochester, New York.", "The university grants undergraduate and graduate degrees, including doctoral and professional degrees.", "The university has six schools and various interdisciplinary programs." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] }, { "title": "e3733_p5", "sents": [ "The ranking was based on the following factors: the number of Hispanic students enrolled, the percentage of full-time Hispanic faculty, the availability of special Hispanic student recruitment programs and student services, retention of Hispanic students, and reputation of the institution based on this year's US News & World Report.", "Top 10 Business Schools for Hispanic Students (from Hispanic Business Magazine) 1. University of Rochester, William Simon Graduate School of Business Administration 2. University of California at Berkeley, Haas School of Business 3. University of Texas at Austin, McCombs School of Business 4. Stanford University, Business School 5. University of California at Los Angeles, The Anderson School 6. University of Southern California, Marshall School of Business 7. St. Mary's University of San Antonio, School of Business and Administration 8. Georgetown University, McDonough School of Business 9. Carnegie Mellon University, Graduate School of Industrial Administration 10. University of New Mexico, The Anderson Graduate School of Management For the full story, go to http: www.hispanicbusiness.com news newsbyid.asp?id=1401. LEADING EDGE CONFERENCE BRINGS THE NEW ECONOMY TO HAAS Staying on the leading edge takes work and the group of MBA students who organized the third annual Leading Edge conference have definitely done their homework." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 1 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e1607_p13", "sents": [ "Read \"Fed Trims Rates in Bold Move to Avoid Recession\" at http: www.latimes.com news front 20010419 t000033165.html.", "The Social Venture Competition was covered by Wired News on April 17. \"Berkeley MBAs Harvest Wave Energy\" was about the winners of this year's competition.", "Read the full text at http: www.wired.com news radio 0,1665,43086,00.html.", "HAPPENING AT HAAS SPECIAL LECTURE \"The Brave New Business Cycle:?", "Where is the United States Economy Heading?\"", "by William Dudley, managing director of Economic Research at Goldman Sachs Tuesday, April 24, 2001 5:00 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. Cheit Hall, room C230 THE HAAS BIOTECH SPEAKER SERIES Martha Amram, Managing Director of the Real Options Center for Excellence, Navigant Consulting Tuesday, April 24, 2001 6:30 p.m. Wells Fargo Room For more information, see http: groups.haas.berkeley.edu haasbio BUSINESS PLAN COMPETITION FINALS Wednesday, April 25, 2001 Reception 6:30 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.", "Presentations and awards 7:00 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. Sibley Auditorium Come cheer on the six finalists of this year's competition as they compete for?" ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 5 ] }, { "title": "e659_p20", "sents": [ "The Bank of America Forum FREE to companies and attendees Please contact John Morel to reserve a table.", "510-642-7731or [email protected].", "Management of Technology Spring Lecture \"The Wireless Future,\" by Jan Rabaey, Prof. of Electrical Engineering, UC Berkeley; Doug Leone, Sequioa Capital Wednesday, April 11, 2001 3:45 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. Wells Fargo Room State of the School Address Dean Tyson will be giving the address twice: first, on April 12 at 7:30 p.m. in the Arthur Andersen Auditorium, then again on April 13 at 12:30 p.m. in the Haas courtyard.", "Corporate Social Responsibility \"Global Sustainable Development: The Role of Business,\" by Ray Anderson, CEO, Interface Thursday, April 12, 2001 4:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. Room C330, Cheit Hall Haas Biotech Speaker Series Joyce Lonergan, VP Investor Relations and Corporate Development, Chiron Monday, April 16, 2001 7:30 p.m. Wells Fargo Room For more information, see http: groups.haas.berkeley.edu haasbio Energy, Business and the Environment Day at UC Berkeley: Second Annual Haas Earth Day Lecture on Business and the Environment \"Natural Capitalism: The Next Industrial Revolution\" by Amory Lovins, CEO (Research), Rocky Mountain Institute April 19 12:45 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. Wells Fargo Room Amory Lovins, co-author of Natural Capitalism, will discuss how changes in natural capital (the natural environment and ecosystems that support all human and economic activity) are already affecting the way we do business, and how leading corporations are gaining competitive advantage through superior environmental performance." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 3 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "Colorado River", "sents": [ "The Colorado River is one of the principal rivers of the Southwestern United States and northern Mexico (the other being the Rio Grande).", "The 1450 mi river drains an expansive, arid watershed that encompasses parts of seven U.S. and two Mexican states.", "Starting in the central Rocky Mountains in the U.S., the river flows generally southwest across the Colorado Plateau and through the Grand Canyon before reaching Lake Mead on the Arizona–Nevada border, where it turns south toward the international border.", "After entering Mexico, the Colorado approaches the mostly dry Colorado River Delta at the tip of the Gulf of California between Baja California and Sonora." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] }, { "title": "e2665_p74", "sents": [ "Go many miles farther down the highways, to Needles or to the water recreation spots at Lake Havasu, and they'll tell y ou about how the river boating is good in the summer when the mercury hits a hellish 120 degrees.", "Or how the long-abandoned Route 66 still draws a few history-buff tourists through.", "But Topock?", "El Paso Corp.?", "Accusations of gas schemes?", "\"I've never even heard of Topock or those pipes, and isn't El Paso some tow n in Texas?\"", "Wayne Buchmiller said as he downed a $1 beer in the Oatman Hotel the biggest building in town.", "\"Who cares?\"", "The smattering of other late- night customers roared with laughter.", "The pipelines Buchmiller never heard of originate in the Southwest, where t he fertile Gulf of Mexico oil fields spew natural gas up from the water and th e ground.", "They wind 1,000 miles through several states to pop up right where Route 66 used to cut over the sluggish Colorado River on its famous arched steel bridge -- the one the Joad family crossed in \"The Grapes of Wrath.\"" ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 10 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e2484_p16", "sents": [ "So far only Edison has agreed to sell its lines to the state.", "Senate President Pro Tem John Burton, D-San Francisco, said Wednesday that the Edison deal will be rejected unless the generators forgive some debts.", "\"I'm going to insist that they take at least a 30 percent haircut on the monies that they're owed,\" Burton said earlier.", "The Bee's Dale Kasler can be reached at (916) 321-1066 or [email protected] m. Bee Staff Writer Kevin Yamamura contributed to this report.", "Bond-sale bill goes to Davis (Published May 10, 2001) The state Senate sent legislation to Gov.", "Gray Davis on Wednesday authorizi ng the largest revenue bond sale in United States history over continued Republican opposition.", "The bill, SB 31x, would allow California to sell $13.4 billion in bonds, starting in August, to repay the state for past and future power purchases.", "Davis is expected to sign the bill today.", "Because the bill failed to receive the two-thirds majority needed for an urgency measure, however, the bonds can't be sold until 90 days after the e nd of the Legislature's special session." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 3 ] }, { "title": "e1420_p83", "sents": [ "Sen. Jackie Speier, D-Hillsborough, said she hopes to amend the deal to ensure power generators are penalized for over-charging the utilities and the state for electricity.", "\"The way it's presently crafted, (generators) are being rewarded,\" she said.", "\"They are getting a premium for selling electricity at a higher premium than ever conceived of by humankind.\"", "(Contact Emily Bazar and Kevin Yamamura of the Sacramento Bee in California at http: www.sacbee.com.)", "LOAD-DATE: April 19, 2001" ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 3 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e3552_p46", "sents": [ "Paul McDermott, private equi ty fund manager at Royal Bank Capital Partners, said the firm also plans to ad d an associate for the Energy Fund.", "Three investment professionals currently manage the Energy Fund.", "Mr. Rothstein had been a colleague of Mr. McDermott at First Reserve, while Mr. Sheen was introduced to Royal Bank Capital Partners by mutual contacts at Deutsche Bank.", "The $100 million Energy Fund, which launched in January, makes investments ranging from $7 million to $15 million in late-stage private and public companies in the service sector an d hydrocarbon production sector of the energy industry.", "The fund will invest in 10 to 15 companies over the next two to three years.", "When half of the Energ y Fund has been committed, expected in 18 months, the firm will look to raise a new fund.", "So far $8 million of the fund has been committed.", "Royal Bank Capital Partners has $800 million under management in six funds." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1, 3 ] }, { "title": "e4892_p0", "sents": [ "\"========================= VENTUREWIRE Thursday, October 12, 2000 ========================= Private Company Business News Published Daily by Technologic Partners - http: technologicpartners.com ========================= Top Stories: o Venture Unit Breaks Off Weiss, Peck, Closes $1 Billion Fund o Mayfield, Palm, Delphi Form Net Service Platform for Autos o Nth Power Technologies Raises $120.5 Million Energy Fund o B2B e-Commerce Firm ThoughtWorks Has $28 Million Round One o Kozmo.com and Urbanfetch.com Break Off Merger Talks o MaMaMedia Restructures in an Effort to Raise More Funds Advertisement DECIDING WHICH INTERNET BUSINESS TO BACK NEXT?", "Let ALEXA RESEARCH, the world's leading international web measurement service, provide the competitive intelligence you need.", "We rank the world's 100,000 leading sites based on the behavior of more than 500,000 home and work Internet users - 200,000 of whom live in 100 countries outside the United States Understand traffic patterns like pageviews, time spent, repeat visits, and more.", "Help move your target company from the TOP 100,000 to the TOP 100 with Alexa Research." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e8665_p6", "sents": [ "http: www.nisus.com Network App Firm Lumeta Raises $250,000 Series A mail this story?", "top SAN FRANCISCO (VENTUREWIRE) -- Lumeta, a network management and security application firm, said it has raised $250,000 in a Series A round from meVC Draper Fisher Jurvetson Fund I, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, and Draper Fisher Jurvetson Gotham Ventures of New York City.", "http: www.lumeta.com Runcom Technologies Secures $8 Million in Round One mail this story?", "top RISHON L'ZION, Israel (VENTUREWIRE) -- Runcom Technologies, a developer and manufacturer of broadband wireless access and subsystems, said it has secured $8 million in it first round of funding from Concord Ventures and Vertex Management Israel.", "The company said it will use the funding to accelerate its technology development, boost production, and launch a worldwide marketing campaign.", "Both Concord and Vertex will take a seat on Runcom's board of directors.", "http: www.runcom.co.il THCG Subsidiary Zinook Leads AppSwing's $3 Million Round One mail this story?" ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 3 ] }, { "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": [ 2 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e20247_p58", "sents": [ "California took over purchasing power for customers of the utilities in January as plunging credit ratings made it impossible for them to buy power in the wholesale market.", "The state has been seeking to make SCE creditworthy again so it can resume purchasing power on behalf of its customers.", "SCE, based in Rosemead, Calif., has some 11 million customers while San Francisco-based Pacific Gas & Electric has around 13 million.", "Enron must give documents to Calif. lawmakers-judge.", "09 06 2001 Reuters English News Service (C) Reuters Limited 2001. SAN FRANCISCO, Sept 6 (Reuters) - Enron Corp. must turn over sensitive financial documents to a state Senate committee probing charges of price gouging during the state's energy crisis, a California judge ruled on Thursday.", "But Sacramento Superior Court Judge Charles Kobayashi also ruled lawmakers must provide Enron with a confidentiality agreement, saying he was not convinced the committee would respect the firm's right to maintain proprietary secrets." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 4, 5 ] }, { "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": "e5589_p31", "sents": [ "\"In order to keep a balanced grid, you need to disperse the power or build more lines.", "You don't have to do both,\" said Michael Shames, executiv e director of Utility Consumers Action Network, a San Diego watchdog group.", "Power grid operators issue blackout warnings for first time ASSOCIATED PRESS June 17, 2001 SAN FRANCISCO Blackout warnings were issued Sunday by the agency that runs California's power grid.", "California Independent System Operator said potential blackouts could occur Monday and Tuesday afternoons between noon and 8 p.m. both days.", "The early word marked the first time the ISO issued warnings under the new early warning system, which lets customers know of possible outages 24 to 4 8 hours in advance.", "Temperatures in the mid-90s to triple digits are expected Monday and Tuesda y in many areas served by Pacific Gas and Electric Co. beyond the San Francis co and Humboldt Bay regions, from Redding to Bakersfield." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 2, 3 ] }, { "title": "e718_p2", "sents": [ "``At best the utility is standing still (in that) it hasn't improved its cash flow or its cash position,'' said Craver.", "``At worst, it is going backwards.", "That's our basic conclusion on the numbers and the mechanisms as we understand them.''", "San Francisco-based PG&E Corp. (NYSE:PCG - news), parent of Pacific G&E, has said it expects to take a $4.1 billion charge for unrecouped electricity costs, while Rosemead, Calif.-based Edison has said it may take a ``substantial'' charge that may total as much as $2.7 billion.", "California Independent System Operator, which runs most of the state's power grid, early on Tuesday called another Stage Two emergency alert because of supply problems.", "Such alerts are declared when power reserves fall to within 5 percent of peak demand.", "The alert was later lifted.", "Edison shares closed Tuesday on the New York Stock Exchange at $12.82, up 27 cents, or 2.2 percent.", "PG&E shares closed on the Big Board at $11.53, down 22 cents, or 1.9 percent." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 4, 5 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e5050_p22", "sents": [ "Mr. Williams is managing partner of Granum Partners, a private equity fund specializing in early stage communications ventures.", "The company completed its first round of financing in May.", "The company is backed by Greylock, BancBoston Venture Partners, TA Associates, Allaire, and BEA Systems.", "http: www.netnumina.com Routing Platform Firm Gotham Names Winphoria CEO to Board ACTON, MA -- Gotham Networks, which is developing a switching and routing platform, said it named Michael Champa, president and CEO of networking startup Winphoria Networks, to the sixth seat on its board of directors.", "The company was founded in July 1999 with funding from Charles River Ventures and Bessemer Ventures.", "Crescendo Ventures and Comdisco Ventures joined the original investors in Gotham's second round financing last month, bringing its total funding to $33 million.", "http: www.gothamnetworks.com CEO Of Relativity Joins Technology Firm BlueBolt's Board DURHAM, N.C. -- BlueBolt Networks, a technology company that focuses on the interior design industry, said it has appointed Vivek Wadhwa, founder and chief executive officer of Relativity Technologies, to its board of directors." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 3, 4 ] }, { "title": "Charles River Ventures", "sents": [ "CRV (a.k.a.", "Charles River Ventures) is a venture capital firm focused on early-stage investments in technology and new media companies.", "The firm, which is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts and Menlo Park, California, was founded in 1970 to commercialise research that came out of MIT.", "(Its name comes from the Charles River that divides Boston and Cambridge)" ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 1, 2 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "George Radanovich", "sents": [ "George Purdy Radanovich (born June 20, 1955) is a former U.S. Representative for California 's 19 congressional district , serving from 1995 to 2011.", "The district includes most of northern Fresno, as well as several rural areas northeast of the city.", "On December 29, 2009, Radanovich announced he would not seek reelection in 2010.", "He is a member of the Republican Party." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] }, { "title": "e3793_p56", "sents": [ "\"We were never close to a deal,\" Waxman said.", "The Democrats said a proposal by Sacramento Republican Doug Ose to widen an April order by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission -- which imposes a benchmark price during Stag e 3 power alerts and heightened scrutiny of power sales over that price -- wa s grossly inadequate.", "Waxman charged that the Republicans were deliberately letting California suffer.", "\"The FERC has said they weren't going to do anything to help California, th e president has refused to do anything to help California, and now the Republican Congress is refusing to help us as well,\" Waxman said.", "But Fresno Republican George Radanovich said the two parties had been in serious discussions on a Democratic proposal to impose price caps until 80 percent of the state's electricity purchases are locked into long-term contracts.", "But that fell apart, he said, when some worried whether 80 percent was the correct number and whether Congress should even be making such decisions." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 3, 4 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e7526_p18", "sents": [ "Mr. Clark, who previously worked as an assistant professor of chemistry at the University of California at Berkeley and helped found Amoco Laser, most recently served as vice president and general manager of the opto-electronics unit at Scientific-Atlanta.", "Iolon is backed by investors including Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Seagate Technology, and Optical Capital Group.", "http: www.iolon.com Data Distilleries Names Former Andersen Partner as CEO AMSTERDAM -- Data Distilleries, a European provider of analytical customer relations management (CRM) services, said it appointed Robert Baldock, former global managing partner with Andersen Consulting, as its new chief executive officer.", "Mr. Bladock most recently spent six months investing in Internet finance start-ups.", "Marcel Holsheimer, company founder, will become Data Distilleries president.", "Data Distilleries products enable businesses to predict customer behavior and use those predictions in real-time personalized recommendations through various channels.", "The company's investors include Capital Z Financial Services Fund II, efinanceworks, and Glide IT Fund." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 5, 6 ] }, { "title": "e3331_p3", "sents": [ "Register before June 19 and SAVE $100:http: www.financialservicesoutlook.com register.asp top stories Online Financial Technology Firm Xigo Closes Down mail?", "top SAN FRANCISCO (VENTUREWIRE) -- Xigo, a developer of online financial technology, said it is closing down.", "According to CFO Skip Smith, the compa ny could not secure the additional funding it needed.", "Mr. Smith said the compa ny still has a handful of employees on staff while it tries to sell its assets He would not say how many employees the company originally had on staff.", "Xigo's real-time technology searches through streaming data to provide user s with financial and investment information via e-mail, cell phone, or pager.", "Last May the company raised $22 million in a second round of financing from Capital Z Financial Services Fund II, Angel Investors LP, New Enterprise Associates, and John McKinley, Jr., executive vice president and CTO of Merrill Lynch.", "http: www.xigo.com Auxyn Bioscience Ventures Raising $200 Million Fund mail?" ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 1, 5 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e1473_p15", "sents": [ "Specifically citing the huge disparity between natural gas prices charged to California and those charged in other Western states, he said California clearly has been the victim of unreasonably high energy costs.", "Under federal law, the FERC must regulate the prices of companies if it finds they are exerting \"market power\" to drive prices to unreasonable levels.", "Executives from two Texas energy companies, meeting with legislators in Sacramento, denied Thursday that they had caused natural gas prices in California to artificially skyrocket by hoarding access to a critical pipeline into the state.", "After the extraordinary meeting in Los Los Angeles, Rep. Brad Sherman (D-Sherman Oaks) said the biggest disagreement between California Democrats and Republicans appeared to be their relative faith--or lack thereof--in the ability of President Bush and his administration to help California.", "There has been much speculation that Bush, who lost California in November, has no political motive to help the state." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 3 ] }, { "title": "e2250_p7", "sents": [ "Alternative energy producers, including oil companies that generate electricity as a byproduct of their operations, account for about 27% of the electricity consumed in California.", "Several have stopped producing after the utilities could no long afford to pay soaring prices for their power.", "Davis assigned S. David Freeman and former Assemblyman Richard Katz, a Davis appointee to a state water board, to be in charge of negotiations.", "Davis said he hoped that the talks could be completed within a week.", "And in a sign that major energy companies may get more involved in the California crisis, Kenneth Lay, CEO of the Houston-based energy giant Enron Corp., met Thursday with Davis, Assembly Speaker Bob Hertzberg (D-Sherman Oaks) and Senate President Pro Tem John Burton (D-San Francisco).", "Meanwhile, Bush on Thursday directed federal agencies to \"take appropriate actions to conserve energy use at their facilities.\"", "In California, such measures could include setting thermostats to 78 degrees, lowering lighting and turning off escalators during Stage 2 and Stage 3 power emergencies, administration officials said." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 4 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e617_p51", "sents": [ "Although the vehicle will be more than three years old when he faces re-election, the purchase was legal, too.", "Ellis, whose personal car is a Chrysler Sebring, said the Jeep is used for campaigning.", "Texas legislators, who are paid just $600 a month, seem unlikely to change the laws governing their use of campaign contributions any time soon.", "In what probably will be the centerpiece of campaign-finance reform this session, state lawmakers say they will consider legislation this week that tightens contribution reporting requirements.", "Yet none of this session's proposed reforms would affect the broad discretion legislators have with the thousands -- and in some cases, millions -- of campaign dollars they collect.", "\"Current law covers expenses,\" said Pete Gallego, D-Alpine, who is the architect of the proposed reforms.", "But a Houston Chronicle analysis shows that these laws aren't being enforced.", "Officeholders may not spend their contributions on personal expenses, such as clothing." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 1 ] }, { "title": "Jeep", "sents": [ "Jeep is a brand of American automobiles that is a division of FCA US LLC (formerly Chrysler Group, LLC), a wholly owned subsidiary of Fiat Chrysler Automobiles.", "The former Chrysler Corporation acquired the Jeep brand, along with the remaining assets of its owner American Motors, in 1987.", "The division is headquartered in Toledo, Ohio.", "Jeep's current product range consists solely of sport utility vehicles and off-road vehicles, but has also included pickup trucks in the past." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "Billy Tauzin", "sents": [ "Wilbert Joseph Tauzin II (] ; born June 14, 1943) is an American lobbyist and politician.", "He was President and CEO of PhRMA, a pharmaceutical company lobby group.", "He was also a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1980 to 2005, representing Louisiana's 3rd congressional district." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] }, { "title": "e3628_p1", "sents": [ "At the request of important membe rs of Congress, CAEM will be assessing opportunities for promotion of distributed energy technologies and matching those opportunities with poli cy instruments, i.e., tax incentives, funds for R&D etc.", "For a copy of the project description and participation information, email a request to [email protected].", "In February, CAEM sponsored a meeting of the newly formed Leadership Counci l on Energy Restructuring, an umbrella group of industry executives and publi c sector officials who support the development of a coherent strategy on energy restructuring.", "Leadership Council Document In April, CAEM filed comments with the FTC on the proceeding that was?initiatedat the request of House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairma n Billy Tauzin on the impact of?States restructuring.", "CAEM FTC Comments In March, CAEM held its first meeting of the DISCO of the Future Forum.", "We have posted several documents from that Forum.", "DISCO Forum Documents Last Sunday, the Philadelphia Inquirer published the views of CAEM on President Bush ,s Energy Plan." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 3 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e27518_p24", "sents": [ "United States Trade Representative Robert Zoellick will meet with Commerce and Industry Minister Murasoli Maran and other officials next Wednesday to discuss trade ties and a possible new round of global trade negotiations later this year.", "Like most developing countries around the world, India is opposed to a new round of talks proposed by the United States and the European Union because it believes the industrialized nations are benefitting more from the existing agreements than Third World members.", "\"We are not going to talk about a new round at all,\" Maran told The Associated Press in an interview Thursday.", "\"We cannot say that benefits of the Uruguay round are equal.", "There are a lot of imbalances.", "Unless they are addressed to the satisfaction of developing countries, it will be difficult to go further.\"", "Most developing countries maintain that the Uruguay round of negotiations, which led to the formation of the WTO, has left the poorer countries belonging to the 141-member trade group with too many difficult commitments and not enough in return." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] }, { "title": "Murasoli Maran", "sents": [ "Murasoli Maran (Tamil: முரசொலி மாறன் ) (17 August 1935 – 24 November 2003) was a prominent Tamil politician in India, and an important leader of the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) party which is headed by his maternal uncle and mentor, M. Karunanidhi.", "A Member of Parliament for 36 years, he was made a Union Minister in three separate central governments, in charge of Urban Development in the V.P.", "Singh government, Industry in the Gowda and Gujral governments, and finally Commerce and Industry under Vajpayee.", "Apart from being a politician, Maran was a journalist and scriptwriter for films too." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e4273_p30", "sents": [ "Mr. York will be replacing the company founder, Jason Robbins, who will continue on as chairman of the board.", "ePromos is backed by Axalon Internet Group and Industry Ventures.", "http: www.epromos.com Internet Barter Appoints Ex-beenz.com Chairman as CEO SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. -- Internet Barter, which maintains the business-to-business electronic barter trade network BarterTrust.com, said it named Philip L. Letts, former chairman and chief executive officer of beenz.com, as chief executive officer.", "Mr. Letts will succeed founder Mike Edelhart as CEO.", "Mr. Edelhart served as president and chief executive officer since 1999 and will continue as director of the company.", "Backers for Internet Barter include Vector Capital, General Motors Investment Management, GE Equity, Venture Strategy Partners, Generation Partners, MSC Industrial Direct, PurchasePro.com, and Argus.", "http: www.bartertrust.com Net Authentication Systems Firm Authentor Names CEO ENGLEWOOD, Calif -- Authentor Systems, which provides authentication systems to secure Internet commerce and corporate information, said it has appointed George Schad as its new president and CEO replacing Al Latif." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 2, 5 ] }, { "title": "e3871_p3", "sents": [ "Microsoft will completely absorb MongoMusic and will retain all of the company's employees and move them to Redmond, Washington.", "MongoMusic's Web site will continue to operate for an undetermined amount of time.", "MongoMusic received its backing from Angel Investors, Argus, Draper Richards, Nokia, and Sony Music Entertainment.", "http: www.microsoft.com http: www.mongomusic.com Gabriel Venture Partners Raising New $300 Million Fund TYSON'S CORNER, Va. -- Gabriel Venture Partners said it is raising a new $300 million venture capital fund.", "The fund, the firm's second, will make early-stage investments of between $5 million and $7 million per company.", "The fund will focus on the IT sector, with an emphasis on Internet and telecommunications businesses.", "Gabriel will seek to control between 20% and 30% of the companies it invests in with board seat representation.", "The firm expects to close the fund before the end of 2000. Gabriel's prior fund was capitalized at about $100 million." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 2 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e3686_p0", "sents": [ "'Please see the attached articles: SD Union, Sun, 6 3: Poor find more red tape than federal energy aid SD Union, Sun, 6 3: Top energy adviser confident of gaining pact for L.A. surplus SD Union, Sun, 6 3: Energy firm ties enriched top advisers to president SD Union, Sun, 6 3: Report: State may have little money left to head of blackouts SD Union, Sat, 6 2: San Onofre reactor back on line, sending power to state grid SD Union, Sat, 6 2: State files to manage energy on its own SD Union, Sat, 6 2: Escondido not running power plant process, ex-official says SD Union, Sat, 6 2: PG&E bankruptcy judge won't challenge state regulation SD Union, Sat, 6 2: New majority leader says nay to electricity price caps LA Times, Sun, 6 3: Watchdogs Take a Hit in State's Power Ills LA Times, Sat, 6 2: Duke Charged Record Price for Electricity LA Times, Sat, 6 2: Incoming Senate Leader Daschle Lukewarm on Power Price Caps LA Times, Sat, 6 2: PUC May Trip Bailout of Edison LA Times, Mon, 6 4: Better Than Bankruptcy (Commentary) SF Chron, Mon, 6 4: Electricity usage shrinks by 11% State's consumers beat goal set by governor SF Chron, Mon, 6 4: Enron is my spiritual teacher (Commentary) SF Chron, Mon, 6 4: Change in Senate control slows Bush's energy plan SF Chron, Mon, 6 4: Developments in California's energy crisis SF Chron, Mon, 6 4: Electricity usage shrinks by 11% State's consumers beat goal set by governor SF Chron, Mon, 6 4: Gov." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] }, { "title": "e2750_p0", "sents": [ "'Please see the following articles: Sac Bee, Tues, 5 15: \"Budget plan shrinks: Davis responds to an uncertain economy but preserves a boost in education funding\" Sac Bee, Tues, 5 15: \"PG&E goes to court for rate relief\" Sac Bee, Tues, 5 15: \"Energy Digest: PUC delays vote on rate proposals\" Sac Bee, Tues, 5 15: \"Dan Walters: Davis wants to preserve rosy budget, let red ink rain on Legislature\" Sac Bee, Tues, 5 15: \"Daniel Weintraub: Consumer rep envisions ultimate confrontation\" SD Union, Mon, 5 14: \"How will state's leaders get out of the business of power-buying?\"", "SD Union (AP), Tues, 5 15: \"PUC delays decision on electricity rate hikes; SDG&E isn't affected\" SD Union (Reuters), Tues, 5 15: \"Edison, SoCal Edison extend credit facilities\" SD Union (AP), Tues, 5 15: \"PG&E, state regulators spar in bankruptcy cour t\" SD Union (AP), Tues, 5 15: \"California power regulators delay decision on rate hikes\" SD Union (Reuters), Tues, 5 15: \"California faces 260 hours of blackouts, says industry\" SD Union (Reuters), Mon, 5 14: \"AES to restart 2 retired South California power plants\" LA Times, Tues, 5 15: \"PUC Delays Decision on Power Rate Hike\" LA Times, Tues, 5 15: \"El Paso Gas Supplier Denies Monopoly\" LA Times, Tues, 5 15: \"Labor Courted on Bush Reform Plan\" LA Times, Tues, 5 15: \"Judge Asked to Block Freeze on Power Rate\" LA Times, Tues, 5 15: \"Edison Deal Sets High Legislative Hurdle for Davis\" SF Chron, Tues, 5 15: \"PUC stalls decision on rate boost ANGER: Consumer group says big business to benefit\" SF Chron, Tues, 5 15: \"NATURAL GAS: Experts says market probably fixed SF Chron (AP), Tues, 5 15: \"Developments in California's energy crisis\" SF Chron (AP), Tues, 5 15: \"PG&E, state regulators spar in bankruptcy cour t SF Chron, Tues, 5 15: \"NATURAL GAS: Experts says market probably fixed SF Chron, Tues, 5 15: \"Davis forced to trim budget Minor cuts, unspent funds used to cover $3.5 billion deficit Mercury News, Tues, 5 15: \"PUC puts off vote on rates\" Mercury News, Tues, 5 15: \"Cheney urges patience over energy costs\" Mercury News, Tues, 5 15: \"Finding: gas-price inflation possible\" OC Register, Tues, 5 15: \"Edison has loss of $617 million\" OC Register, Tues, 5 15: \"Edison shareholders feeling the heat as values plunge\" OC Register, Tues, 5 15: \"Energy notebook: PUC postpones decision on power rate hikes to today\" OC Register, Tues, 5 15: \"Gas supplier faces charges of price fixing\" Individual.com (Bridgenews), Tues, 5 15: \"[B] POWER UPDATE Calif. PUC delays final rate hike vote to Tues\" -- Budget plan shrinks: Davis responds to an uncertain economy but preserves a boost in education funding." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 1 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e5589_p69", "sents": [ "The Davis administration said those guard against price spikes in future years.", "Other contracts, officials said, balance the portfolio.", "They include deals such as those with Dynegy Inc., which tie prices to the cost of fuel in future years.", "A number of energy insiders found reason to praise the contracts.", "\"The point of signing long-term contracts is not to get a great deal, it's to reduce risk\" from the volatility of spot markets, said Severin Borenstein, director of the Energy Institute at UC Berkeley.", "Edison Cites Hedge Against Price Spike The long-term power contracts will be an important factor in limiting the state's exposure to future price spikes, said Bob Foster, senior vice president of public affairs for Rosemead-based Edison International, the corporate parent of Southern California Edison.", "\"This was California's problem to begin with,\" Foster said.", "\"You don't want to be buying a lot of power traded on the spot market." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 2, 3, 4 ] }, { "title": "e490_p8", "sents": [ "After raking in billions of dollars for their companies last year, the energy traders are emerging as the first business hotshots of the new millennium.", "\"They are extremely good at what they do,\" said Severin Borenstein, director of the University of California at Berkeley's energy institute.", "\"There are guys on Wall Street that spend all their time doing extremely complex calculations on bond yields and figuring out how to make the most money on the spreads.", "These traders (at the power companies) are doing the same thing with the energy market.\"", "As they become more sophisticated, the power marketers are moving much of their muscle online, where they are proving more adept at e-business than most of Silicon Valley's fallen Internet companies.", "Enron handles much of its trading business on a Web site launched in November 1999. The company describes Enrononline.com as the world's biggest e-commerce site, based on the completion of 548,000 transactions, totaling $336 billion, with 3,000 customers in 2000. Following Enron's lead, Duke, Reliant and another major California generator, Mirant Corp., banded together with Wall Street investment banks Goldman Sachs and Dean Witter Morgan Stanley to launch IntercontinentalExchange.com." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e7688_p1", "sents": [ "as its New CEO o Former Pratt & Whitney Exec Named CEO of Codeon o Finance Resourcer Lendx Taps Hewlett Packard Exec as CEO o Agillion Names New Chief Executive Officer o e-Commerce Software Firm Solution.com Names New CEO o Switch & Data Facilites Names Former Alcoa Exec Pres and CEO VC Fund News: o Murphree Venture Partners Has First Close of New Fund VC Personnel: o Horizon Ventures Adds New Managing and Associate Directors o New General Partner Joins St. Paul Venture Capital VW Corrections: o Patricof & Co. Ventures o TenantDirect.com Advertisement Technology Outlook - The Future of Pervasive Computing San Francisco Airport Marriott - December 4 & 5, 2000 What will bring Internet communications, digital entertainment, and powerful computing capabilities to the masses?", "Come get the answers from Keynote presentors: Claude Leglise, VP, Intel Architecture Group & GM, Home Products Group, Intel Michel Mayer, GM, Pervasive Computing, IBM Michael Ramsay, President & CEO, TiVo Larry Smarr, Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, UC San Diego Carl J. Yankowski, Chief Executive Officer, Palm Dr. Henry C. Yuen, Chairman & CEO, Gemstar-TV Guide International For more information and registration, go to: http: www.tpsite.com tp conf to2000 vw 0011142 Top Stories o Apax Merges European and Israeli Units, Pledges $600 Million TEL AVIV -- Global private equity firm Apax Partners, which includes Particof & Co. in the U.S., said Apax Israel and Apax Partners in Europe will merge and will invest $600 million in Israeli companies over the next three years." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 1 ] }, { "title": "Apax Partners", "sents": [ "Apax Partners LLP is a British private equity and venture capital firm, headquartered in London, England.", "The company also operates out of eight other offices in New York, Hong Kong, Mumbai, Tel Aviv, Madrid, Stockholm, Milan and Munich.", "The firm, including its various predecessors, have raised approximately $35 billion (USD) dating back to 1969.", "Apax Partners is one of the oldest and largest private equity firms operating on an international basis, ranked the seventh largest private equity firm globally." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e7723_p39", "sents": [ "The online aviation parts and services marketplace raised $9 million in financing.", "o Malibu Networks NEW YORK -- An item in yesterday's VentureWire on the second round of funding for wireless technology developer Malibu Networks failed to identify Fremont Communications, TL Ventures, NextCom Ventures, Dow Chemical, and Enertech Capital Partners as new investors to the company.", "o Telespree NEW YORK -- An item in Monday's VentureWire regarding Telespree's second round of funding incorrectly stated that lead investor Lucent Venture Partners was a previous investor in the company.", "It is a new investor.", "Advertisement He's no Fox Mulder, but few people have searched more diligently for aliens than he has.", "He's Dr. David Anderson, the director of SETI@home, the largest and most successful computing project in history, and the CTO of a distributed computing start-up.", "He'll speak about some of the challenges, issues, and limitations of the exploding field of distributed computing at Technology Outlook 2000: The future of pervasive computing December 4 and 5, San Francisco http: www.tpsite.com tp conf to2000 vw 0011153 A VentureWire investment conference." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 4, 5 ] }, { "title": "Fox Mulder", "sents": [ "FBI Special Agent Fox William Mulder is a fictional character in the Fox science fiction-supernatural television series \"The X-Files\", played by David Duchovny.", "Mulder's peers consider his (often correct) theories on extraterrestrial activity as spooky and far-fetched.", "He also has a photographic memory and is partially colorblind.", "With his FBI partner Dana Scully, he works in the X-Files office, which is concerned with cases with particularly mysterious or possibly paranormal circumstances that were left unsolved and shelved by the FBI.", "Mulder was a main character for the first seven seasons, but was limited to a recurring character for the following two seasons.", "He returns as a main character for the tenth season." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e7097_p12", "sents": [ "IMAGE-POLISHING The Davis administration tried to put another energy-related controversy behind it yesterday as the two consultants brought in by the governor to burnish his image agreed to forgo more than $50,000 in work they did for the state.", "Chris Lehane and Mark Fabiani will receive no compensation and will leave the Davis administration immediately, under a settlement in a lawsuit filed on behalf of a national taxpayer rights group.", "Lehane and Fabiani -- nicknamed the \"Masters of Disaster\" for their work in getting former President Bill Clinton out of political jams -- started in the governor's office in May and were originally supposed to be paid $30,000 a month.", "It was later revealed that they had also worked as consultants for Southern California Edison, which is trying to swing a deal with the state to avoid bankruptcy.", "State Controller Kathleen Connell said she would not pay the two.", "\"It really raises the question in my mind, what is it about conflict-of-interest and other ethical rules that the governor's office doesn't understand?\"" ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1, 2, 3 ] }, { "title": "Chris Lehane", "sents": [ "Christopher Stephen \"Chris\" Lehane (born June 2, 1967) is an American political consultant and crisis communications expert who has served as a lawyer, spokesperson and expert in opposition research for the Clinton White House, Democratic candidates for public office and various business, Labor, entertainment and professional sports organizations.", "A graduate of Amherst College and Harvard Law School, he was a lawyer and spokesperson in the Clinton White House where he and his current business partner Mark Fabiani were called the \"Masters of Disaster\" by Newsweek magazine for their part in a \"rapid-response\" team employed to respond to the increasing number of investigations of the Clinton Administration.", "In 2012, Lehane co-authored a book on damage control titled \"Masters of Disaster\" published by Palgrave, MacMillan's academic imprint.", "He also wrote and produced the film \"Knife Fight\", a political satire acquired by IFC and released in January 2013.", "As of August 2015, Lehane serves as the Head of Global Policy and Public Affairs for home-sharing startup Airbnb." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e5677_p89", "sents": [ "This persistent focus on federal assistance could slow progress toward a lasting solution to California's problems, some analysts believe.", "\"We are still likely to experience blackouts this summer,\" said Michael Zenker, director of Cambridge Energy Research Associates in Oakland.", "\"It's not yet clear that the state will do what it can to address other aspects of the problem.\"", "Put simply, such steps would require enormous political courage -- and woul d be very expensive.", "In the end, taxpayers and ratepayers will bear the burde n for this prolonged fiasco.", "Among measures under consideration: -- Raising electricity rates even higher.", "Although Californians got the largest rate increase in state history last month, even higher charges woul d promote conservation and lessen the need for California to borrow billions of dollars in the bond market.", "-- Loosening emissions restrictions for power plants statewide.", "This would provide more electricity during shortages but turn back the clock on California's strict environmental standards." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 1 ] }, { "title": "e1454_p0", "sents": [ "Jeff: Are you aware of this roundtable?", "A friend who works at the CERA office in Cambridge just got me in touch with Michael Zenker (who is leading this roundtable) and he mentioned it.", "Were you planning on going?", "Do you think it is worth me looking into go ing?", "Jennifer Western Energy Roundtable April 26, 2001 San Francisco CERA is pleased to announce a Member Executive Roundtable session in San Francisco on April 26, 2001. These meetings will feature presentations and interactive discussions with experts from CERA's Western Energy team.", "Enrollment Form PDF Enrollment Form Schedule 12:30 )1:30 pm Luncheon 1:30 )5:30 pm Session Topics Western Power and Gas Markets Outlook?", "Power and Gas Infrastructure:?When will Relief Come?", "A Look Ahead Throug h 2005?", "California's Power Crisis: Update, Implications, and Market Outcomes Speakers Michael Zenker, Director, Western Energy Ed Small, Director, North American Gas Jennifer Snyder, Director, North American Gas Peter Moritzburke, Associate, Western Energy Bryan Sanderson, Associate, North American Gas Location and Accomodations The Parc 55 Hotel 55 Cyril Magnin Street Market at Fifth San Francisco, CA 94102 Tel." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 1 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "Ronald Reagan", "sents": [ "Ronald Wilson Reagan ( ; February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004) was an American statesman and actor who served as the 40th President of the United States from 1981 to 1989.", "Before his presidency, he was the 33rd Governor of California, from 1967 to 1975, after a career as a Hollywood actor and union leader." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] }, { "title": "e2868_p80", "sents": [ "A federal law passed in 1978 required utilities to buy energy from any qualified alternative producer.", "How much to pay for alternative energy has always been an issue.", "Becau se the \"fuel\"--the sun, wind, geothermal springs--is essentially free, most or all the expense is in upfront equipment purchases, which can vary based on the method of financing.", "\"You're basically prepaying your utility bill for 25 years,\" said Kevi n Best, director of sales and marketing for RealEnergy, a company that develo ps electricity generation plants--renewable and conventional--for large real estate developments.", "The 1978 law got around the problem by declaring that utilities wouldn 't pay for alternative energy based on the actual cost, but based on the utility's avoided cost--in other words, the money the utility would have spent had it bought the energy from conventional sources.", "In 1980, Ronald Reagan was elected president.", "In 1982, George Deukmeji an was elected governor of California." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 5 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e1698_p14", "sents": [ "I think we are just consolidating,\" said Steven Goldman, market strategist for Weeden & Co.", "He and other analysts also said the profit-taking had little to do with a report by the Conference Board that consumer confidence dropped significantly in April.", "Investors believe the decline should give the Federal Reserve greater incentive to lower interest rates for the fifth time this year when its policymaking Open Market Committee meets in mid-May.", "Wall Street, which last week ended its two best weeks of the year on positive earnings news and an unexpected interest rate cut by the Fed, is having conflicted emotions about the economy -- while hoping that business and earnings will turn around soon, investors also are fearful that a recovery could take much longer.", "\"Fed rate cuts are pluses for the economy, but they take time to work their way through the system,\" said Alan Ackerman, executive vice president of Fahnestock & Co. Investors sold companies that posted disappointing profits." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 4 ] }, { "title": "e1698_p41", "sents": [ "He and other analysts also said the profit taking had little to do with a report by the Conference Board that consumer confidence dropped significantly in April.", "Investors believe the decline should give the Federal Reserve greater incentive to lower interest rates for the fifth time this year when its policymaking Open Market Committee meets in mid-May.", "Wall Street, which last week ended its two best weeks of the year on positive earnings news and an unexpected rate cut by the Fed, is having conflicted emotions about the economy--while hoping that business and earnings will turn around soon, investors also are fearful that a recovery could take much longer.", "\"Fed rate cuts are pluses for the economy, but they take time to work their way through the system,\" said Alan Ackerman, executive vice president of Fahnestock & Co. Investors sold companies that posted disappointing profits.", "Consumer products maker Kimberly-Clark plunged $6.17 to close at $56.61 on news it missed earnings expectations by a penny a share." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 3, 4 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e3688_p154", "sents": [ "That $10.4 billion would be immediately repaid to the state treasury.", "That leaves only $2.1 billion left to buy future energy.", "But according to the state's own estimates, its needs at least $2.7 billion to pay for such contracts just through June 2002. The state estimates, it actually needs enough new money to secure such power through at least 2003. That means, to meet Gov.", "Gray Davis' energy goals, the state would have to either raise taxes, cut programs funded by the general state budget or borrow more money on the bond market _ which would mean yet another hike in electricity rates for all customers of Southern California Edison, San Diego Gas & Electric and Pacific Gas & Electric.", "Those customers will already face an increase to pay back the $12.5 billion in bond borrowing.", "\"It's like the emperor's new clothes,\" said consumer advocate Doug Heller.", "\"Everybody's saying we have to protect schools, law enforcement and infrastructure, when the reality is the (general fund) will be used to buy energy, yet again.\"" ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 2, 3, 5 ] }, { "title": "e894_p131", "sents": [ "Some power companies, however, may find their claims for the fair market value of their plants undercut by their own tax filings.", "Energy firms, including Duke, told county assessors last year that the utility plants they bought were worth hundreds of millions of dollars less than they paid for them.", "Private companies including Duke, Dynegy, Southern Energy, AES Corp and Calpine spent a total of $3.2 billion to buy divested utility power plants that can produce as much as 20,000 megawatts.", "UNDERLYING PROBLEM UNSOLVED Williams said taking over the property of private companies would not solve the underlying problem behind California's high energy prices: rising demand and an inadequate supply of energy to fill it.", "Even if Davis seized only one plant, the move might spur other power generators to drop their prices, said Doug Heller of the Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights.", "\"As soon as the generators recognize we're ready to go to a public power system and take their plants, they may start selling power at reasonable rates, and we won't have to go down that road,\" Heller said.Chronicle staff writers Tyche Hendricks, Patrick Hoge and Greg Lucas contributed to this report." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 4 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e8613_p27", "sents": [ "Mysportsguru CEO, Harlan Stone, will become a senior executive of myteam.", "Key MSG investors will make additional investments in myteam.com upon the closing of the transaction.", "The mysportsguru.com Norwalk, Conn. office will operate as a wholly owned subsidiary of myteam.com.", "Myteam is backed by Canaan Partners, BankBoston, Comdisco, Cleveland Pacific Equity, Dominion, Shamrock Capital Advisors, the Quarterback C!", "lub, Charles River Ventures, Creative Technologies, North Bridge Venture Partners, and Trident Capital.", "Individual investors from the sports and media industry including Bobby Orr, M.L.", "Carr, John Smith, Bernie Kosar, and Larry Rawson are also backers.", "Mysportsguru.com's investors include e-COM Partners and Wand Partners.", "http: www.mysportsguru.com http: www.myteam.com E-Commerce Firm BlueLight Acquires Defunct Spinway's Assets mail this story?", "top SAN FRANCISCO (VENTUREWIRE) -- BlueLight.com, an independent e-commerce company majority-owned by Kmart, said it acquired Spinway, an Internet infrastructure provider that closed down last Friday, for an undisclosed amount.", "Spinway provided the Internet infrastructure for BlueLight's Internet service." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 7 ] }, { "title": "e3622_p24", "sents": [ "top SAN FRANCISCO (VENTUREWIRE) -- Unexplored.com, which supplies technol ogy and business services to businesses in specialty leisure travel, said it laid o ff an undisclosed number of employees at the beginning of May.", "The company had no comment on the reason for the layoffs.", "Unexplored.com said a core team of fewer than 20 employees remains to continue business as the company evaluat es a number of strategic alternatives.", "In April Unexplored said it was raising a $20 million to $25 million Series C round and had already raised $6 million from previous investors.", "On Thursday, the company had no comment about the status of that funding.", "The company also said the terminated workers did no t receive severance.", "Unexplored.com's affiliate Web sites are: Adventureseek.com, GrandTrunk.com, Inntopia.com, Moguls.com, Safari.net, an d Worldwaters.com.", "To date, Unexplored.com has raised approximately $17 milli on from Allen & Co., the Special Opportunity Group Fund, Wand Partners, and individuals, including Bill Hambrecht of WR Hambrect & Co.; Tom Hicks and Jack Furst of Hicks Muse Tate & Furst; and Allen Wheat of Credit Suisse Fir st Boston." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 7 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "Junichiro Koizumi", "sents": [ "Junichiro Koizumi (小泉 純一郎 , Koizumi Jun'ichirō , born January 8, 1942) is a Japanese politician who was the 56th Prime Minister of Japan from 2001 to 2006.", "He retired from politics when his term in parliament ended in 2009, and is the sixth longest serving PM in Japanese history." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] }, { "title": "e27368_p9", "sents": [ "A visit by America's secretary of state, Colin Powell, did nothing to resolve tensions.< font p <p <font FACE=\"verdana,geneva,arial,sans serif\" size=\"-1\" <a href=\"http: TheEconomist.s.maildart.net link_31023_6511231_2_80010922_60368779_1_3d\" See article: Remember Kashmir< a <img src=\"http: www.economist.com images dingbats e5.gif\" hspace=\"2\" width=\"17\" height=\"10\" alt=\"E+\" font p <p <font FACE=\"verdana,geneva,arial,sans serif\" size=\"-1\" <b Singapore's< b government called a general election for November 3rd.", "It could have waited until August next year.< font p <p <font FACE=\"verdana,geneva,arial,sans serif\" size=\"-1\" The prime minister of <b Japan< b Junichiro Koizumi, offered a &#8220;heartfelt apology&#8221; to South Korea for his country's actions during the occupation of the peninsula and the second world war.< font p <p <font FACE=\"verdana,geneva,arial,sans serif\" size=\"-1\" font p <br clear=\"all\" <TABLE WIDTH=\"100%\" BORDER=\"0\" CELLSPACING=\"0\" CELLPADDING=\"0\" <TR <TD BGCOLOR=\"000000\" <TABLE WIDTH=\"100%\" BORDER=\"0\" CELLSPACING=\"1\" CELLPADDING=\"3\" <TR <TD BGCOLOR=\"D6E9FF\" <FONT face=\"Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\" FONT <font color=\"cc0033\" face=\"verdana,geneva,arial,sans serif\" size=-1 <b Customer service b font <br <p <font color=\"000000\" face=\"Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"-2\" As a registered user of Economist.com, you can sign up for or cancel the text and HTML versions of this newsletter or change your e-mail address by <a href=\"http: TheEconomist.s.maildart.net link_15501_6511231_2_80010922_60368779_1_40\" amending your details< a font <p <font color=\"000000\" face=\"Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"-2\" To stop receiving this newsletter, please visit <a href=\"http: TheEconomist.s.maildart.net link_15502_6511231_2_80010922_60368779_1_41\" http: economist.com <br members email.cfm< a log in and complete the form." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 1 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e19612_p49", "sents": [ "While Moody's Investors Service rates Enron's credit as ``Baa2'', one rung higher than its ``Baa3'' grade for Dynegy, other ratings companies including Standard & Poor's and Fitch Inc. have assigned Dynegy a higher rating.", "Also, Enron's ratings have been cut in recent weeks and face further reduction, while Dynegy's credit outlook is stable.", "Enron bonds and shares have fallen in recent weeks on concern about partnerships run by the company's former chief financial officer and concerns the company's trading business will be hurt by the downgrades.", "Dynegy and Enron, both based in Houston, met yesterday to negotiate terms of a buyout, said people familiar with the situation.", "Enron Confirms Dynegy Talks By TSC Staff <<mailto:[email protected] TheStreet.com 11 08 2001 08:00 AM EST Enron (ENE:NYSE - news - commentary) and rival energy trader Dynegy (DYN:NYSE - news - commentary) confirmed Thursday they were in merger talks.", "According to reports, Dynegy held talks to acquire Enron for up to $8 billion in stock and to make an immediate cash infusion of up to $2 billion to help relieve Enron's debt crisis." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] }, { "title": "e894_p17", "sents": [ "3 investor-owned utility, San Diego Gas and Electric, had engaged in any financial misconduct by funneling billions to their parent companies to pay dividends and repurchase stock.", "Trading in PG&E stock was halted briefly today.", "When it resumed, the price quickly fell by nearly 40 percent.", "By day's end, the stock of Edison International, parent of Southern California Edison, had also dropped sharply, by 35 percent.", "That Pacific Gas and Electric, which helped design the deregulation that brought on the California power crisis, would now take so drastic a step both concerned and puzzled analysts.", "\"It doesn't make sense, because the governor endorsed the rate increase the utilities had been asking for,\" said Susan Abbott, head of the power group at Moody's Investors Service in New York.", "But Ms. Abbott also noted that the rate increases -- varying from 10 percent to 37 percent, on top of a 9 percent surcharge adopted by the state this winter -- would not entirely eliminate the debt accumulated by the utilities as a result of deregulation." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 5 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e4844_p0", "sents": [ "'This is a great time to be at Enron.", "The challenges and opportunities at Enron seem to be expanding with every passing day.", "This presents enormous challenges for Government Affairs as a group and for each of us individually.", "As we discussed at the staff meeting last month, this requir es us to constantly reevaluate our priorities, our methods of getting things done, and whether our organization is properly structured to meet the needs of the entire company.", "While we have done an outstanding job as a group within our current structure, changes are necessary at this time.", "The primary change in the organizational structure is to complete the assignments for and reinforce the leadership roles of the individuals withi n the group who have primary responsibility for setting the Government Affair s strategy and agenda for the respective Enron operating companies.", "The belo w mentioned individuals will have the following responsibilities: 1. Enron North America and Enron Industrial Markets: Jim Steffes 2. The Enron Energy Services Group of Companies: Harry Kingerski 3. Enron Broadband Services: Sue Nord 4. Enron Global Markets and Enron Networks: Lisa Yoho 5. Enron South America: Jose Bestard 6. Federal Government Affairs: Linda Robertson With the impending retirement on March 31, 2001 of Joe Hillings, I am pleas ed to announce that Linda Robertson will be joining the office on November 6, 2000, as a Vice President who will immediately assume responsibility for leading the Federal Government Affairs group in our Washington office." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 6 ] }, { "title": "e9906_p0", "sents": [ "\"Please take a look at the attached draft explanation of recent events in the California gas market.", "When completed, this narrative is intended to be used for two purposes: 1. The factual basis of an Enron Ken Lay letter to regulators legislators on recent events in the California gas market; and 2. a briefing paper to be used by our DC office in dealing with legislators.", "Specifically, Joe Hillings has been asked to provide a briefing to Congressman Bill Thomas (R-CA) prior to the congressman's upcoming meeting with FERC." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 2 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e3078_p5", "sents": [ "http: www.campuspipeline.com 'Financial Metapa Appoints New Sales, Marketing and Engineering Execs mail?", "top LOS ANGELES (VENTUREWIRE) -- Metapa, an infrastructure services provider that manages the distribution of digital media, announced it has appointed Steve Ammons as vice president of sales, Beverley Kite as vice president of engineering, and Cheryl Steets as director of corporate marketing.", "Mr. Ammo ns was previously vice president of sales for US Internetworking, and Ms.", "Kit e was most recently vice president of New Technology for Loudeye Technologies a digital media technology provider.", "Ms. Steets was the vice president of marketing at World Streaming Networks before joining Metapa.", "Metapa has raised $17 million in funding and is backed by Wit SoundView Ventures, Impa ct Venture Partners, Primedia and individual investors from Microsoft Digital Island Sandpiper, Exodus, iBeam, and RealNames.", "http: www.metapa.com New Edge Networks Adds Allan Jaffe as VP of Sales mail?", "top VANCOUVER, Wash. (VENTUREWIRE) -- New Edge Networks, a national broadband access provider focused on small- and mid-sized cities, said it appointed Allan Jaffe as vice president of sales." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 7 ] }, { "title": "e3078_p6", "sents": [ "Prior to joining the company, Mr. Jaffe was vice president of sales at NorthPoint Communications.", "New Edge Networks is backed by Accel Partners, Comdisco Ventures, Crosspoint Venture Partners, Greylock Management, GS Capital Partners, Intel, Intel Capital, Meritech Capital Partners, Morgan Stanley Dean Witter Venture Partners, and The Goldman Sachs Group.", "http: www.newedgenetworks.com Mark Duchesne Joins Info-One as Senior VP of Marketing mail?", "top CAMPBELL, Calif. (VENTUREWIRE) -- Info-One, which provides financial information online, said Mark Duchesne has become the company's first senio r vice president of marketing.", "He was introduced to the company through the board of directors and current executives.", "David Shapiro, who founded the company in September 1995, is the chair of the seven member board.", "Info-One has held one round of funding and is backed by individuals.", "http: www.info-one.com 'Mobile BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT French Biotech Firm Proteus Makes Two Key Appointments mail?", "top NIMES, France (VENTUREWIRE) -- Proteus, a biotechnology company focused on discovering and developing novel biomolecules, announced the appointments of Vincent Monziols to director, corporate development and Olivier Favre-Bulle to senior group leader, product development." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 1, 2 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e20326_p0", "sents": [ "October 11, 2001 FACULTY, STUDENTS, AND STAFF Haas School of Business Dean Tyson has indicated her intention to step down as Dean of the School at the end of June 2002. A committee has been formed to search and make recommendations for a new dean of the School.", "The members of the committee are: Assistant Dean Barbara Horst Broque, Haas School of Business Professor Barry Eichengreen, Economics Mr. Hans Grande, Graduate Student, Haas School of Business Mr. Robert D. Haas, Chairman of the Board, Levi Strauss & CO.", "Professor Herma Hill Kay, Boalt School of Law Professor David J. Vogel, Haas School of Business Professor James A. Wilcox, Haas School of Business Professor Janet L. Yellen, Haas School of Business Professor Mark Lemley, Boalt Hall School of Law, will serve as Chair of the Committee.", "The committee will consult with the School community both for suggestions and views on candidates.", "Your participation and cooperation in the search process will be appreciated." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] }, { "title": "e659_p8", "sents": [ "During her tenure as dean, Laura Tyson has made it her priority to increase Haas' partnerships in the areas of teaching, research, and public service with other disciplines.", "One of the most vibrant of these is with the Boalt School of Law.", "\"Haas faculty are well known for their path-breaking work on competitive strategy in the Internet age, and Boalt is recognized for having the strongest intellectual property law faculty in the country, particularly as regards IP questions arising in cyberspace,\" said Jay Stowsky, associate dean for school affairs and initiatives.", "\"The collection, in one place, at the same time, of so many notable scholars in an area of rich intellectual ferment and intense public interest is an extraordinary intellectual opportunity.", "We intend to expand that opportunity through increased interaction between the two schools.\"", "The area of business law doesn't fit easily into just a law school or a business school, but the interdisciplinary approach between the Haas School of Business and Boalt Hall School of Law fills this gap." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 2 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e8977_p9", "sents": [ "And I think that this market has marched past that as an option.", "Michaels: In November, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission proposed a major change.", "Utilities would not be required to buy power from the power exchange--a kind of stock market for electricity where prices have soared.", "Instead, the utilities will be able to buy directly from producers.", "The federal agency has launched an investigation into California's troubles, hoping for a long-term solution.", "Unidentified Woman: This legislation, today, has the ability to provide immediate and real relief to San Diegans.", "Michaels: The California legislature struggled this year with what to do, short term, for the people of San Diego.", "The debate centered around a proposal to cap electricity bills at sixty-five dollars a month, retroactive to June 1. Charlene Zettel (Assembly Member, Republican, San Diego): What is San Diego's problem today will be California's problem tomorrow.", "Rico Oller (Assembly Member, Republican, San Diego): You know who we can thank for this problem?" ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 8 ] }, { "title": "Rico Oller", "sents": [ "Thomas \"Rico\" Oller (born July 16, 1958) is a Republican U.S. politician from California.", "He served in the California State Assembly, representing the 4th District from 1996 to 2000, and the California State Senate, representing the 1st district from 2000 to 2004.", "In 2004, Oller ran for Congress in California's 3rd congressional district, but narrowly lost the Republican primary to former California Attorney General Dan Lungren.", "On January 10, 2008, Oller again ran for Congress, this time in California's 4th congressional district, for a seat being vacated by retiring Congressman John Doolittle.", "He faced opposition from former Congressman Doug Ose.", "On March 4, 2008, Oller dropped out of the race when California State Senator Tom McClintock (R-Thousand Oaks) announced that he was running for Doolittle's seat.", "In a statement, Oller said his decision was \"a bitter pill indeed for me to swallow.\"", "But, he said he was endorsing McClintock to prevent the election of Ose, whom he labeled as \"an unarguably liberal Republican.\"", "Oller ran for the newly former 5th Assembly District in 2012 facing Madera County Supervisor Frank Bigelow in the November general election.", "Oller lost to Bigelow by 5.7%." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 2, 3 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "Navarre Corporation", "sents": [ "Navarre Corp. was a public distribution and publishing company founded in 1983 by Eric H. Paulson.", "The company is headquartered in New Hope, Minnesota.", "Navarre owns two subsidiary companies: a software publisher, Encore, Inc., and a distributor, Navarre Entertainment Media.", "The company formerly offered niche films through BCI Home Entertainment a.k.a.", "BCI Eclipse Company (formerly Brentwood), but this division was closed in a 2008 re-structuring due to the recession, after 2 years of being unprofitable." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] }, { "title": "e27401_p0", "sents": [ "'Charles Schwab & Co., Inc. Internet Daily for Thursday, October 18, 2001 by Frank Barnako CBS MarketWatch.com -- NetRadio signal fades NetRadio said late Wednesday it shut down operations and terminated almost all its employees.", "Last December, the Minneapolis company said it employed 50 people.", "One of the Internet's original Webcasters, NetRadio.com streamed more than 100 channels of music.", "Chief executive Cary Deacon said an expected acquisition by the Advisory Board Inc., announced Aug. 30, failed because the New York group could not find financing.", "That prompted the decision to halt operations.", "\"Current operating performance (is) unable to support the future working capital needs of the business,\" he said in a statement.", "\"A small management group and the board of directors will continue to pursue strategic alternatives,\" he added.", "The Advisory Board intended to buy the 60% of NetRadio owned by Navarre Corporation and ValueVision International Inc.. -- MSNBC pursues syndication revenue MSNBC.com said its major news articles will be translated into eight languages and offered for redistribution to online and offline publishers internationally." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 3, 7 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e3644_p3", "sents": [ "Tyco grows its business through acquisitions of other companies, but servicing the accumulated debt of these purchases can weigh on profits.", "Tyco will sell 39 million shares, and the offering is scheduled to close on June 6. Lehman Brothers will be the lead underwriter.", "Vivendi (V: 63.48, - 0.32) agreed on Friday to buy educational publisher Houghton Mifflin (HTN: 59.51, + 4.95) for $2.2 billion in cash and debt.", "The French entertainment conglomerate will offer $60 per share for a 10% premium over Houghton's closing price on Thursday.", "Houghton Mifflin is the last independent educational publishing firm.", "Vivendi has been on a buying binge of late as it looks to shore up its global leadership positions at all of its media and content businesses.", "- RESEARCH SPOTLIGHTS Merrill Lynch upgraded shares of Novellus Systems (NVLS: 49.96, + 2.06) from an intermediate-term neutral to an intermediate-term accumulate rating.", "Buckingham Research upgraded shares of Value City Department Stores (VCD: 10.45, + 0.20) to an accumulate rating and gave a $15 price target." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 2 ] }, { "title": "Vivendi", "sents": [ "Vivendi SA (formerly Vivendi Universal SA) is a French multinational mass media conglomerate headquartered in Paris.", "The company has activities in music, television, film, video games, telecommunications, tickets and video hosting service." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e2933_p32", "sents": [ "Th e fund will focus on seed investments in communications startups.", "Bezeq said it will invest $20 million, while Discount Capital Markets will invest at leas t $10 million.", "Yuval Cohen, managing director of Clal Group's Infinity fund, and Adam Gaash, a former managment team member of ECI and RAD Group, will manage the fund.", "Bezeq has invested in two other Israeli venture capital firms, BRM Capital and Eurofund 2000. http: www.bezeq.co.il vc personnel Encompass Adds New Associate to Team mail?", "top BELLEVUE, Wash. (VENTUREWIRE) -- Encompass Management said it has added Rob Jacobs as an associate.", "Mr. Jacobs will help portfolio companies to evaluate international market opportunities.", "The firm currently has $65 million under management and 23 portfolio companies, and is raising a $100 million fund.", "Encompass has a staff of two managing partners, one senior associate, and one associate.", "http: www.encompassventures.com Atlas Venture Names Entrepreneur as Venture Partner mail?" ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 3 ] }, { "title": "Bezeq", "sents": [ "Bezeq (Hebrew: בזק‎ ) is an Israeli telecommunications company.", "Bezeq and its subsidiaries offer a range of telecom services, including fixed-line, mobile telephony, high-speed Internet, transmission, and pay TV (via Yes)." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e26636_p3", "sents": [ "At the time, Mr. Skilling said he regretted if anyone w as offended by his remark.", "Though Mr. Skilling initially said his resignation was strictly for persona l reasons, he added in a later interview that his own feelings of failure o ver the plummeting stock price had contributed greatly to his early departu re.", "The 59-year-old Mr. Lay resumed the chief executive's job that he had p reviously held for 15 years.", "Jeff Dietert, an analyst from Simmons & Co. International in Houston, figur es that Enron's P E is likely to be permanently lower, though still somewha t higher than the average for its peer group.", "Mr. Dietert views Dynegy as t he premium energy stock, which will fetch the highest trading multiple.", "While Mr. Lay insists that Enron's overall operating and financial conditio n is very strong, the unexpected exit of Mr. Skilling has some wondering if \"there isn't another shoe about to drop,\" says Carol Coale, an analyst at Prudential Securities." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 3 ] }, { "title": "e456_p12", "sents": [ "AES Corp. planned to buy the Mohave stake, along with a 56 percent stake owned by Southern California Edison, for $667 million.", "Southern California Edison, owned by Edison International, can't sell its stake because California has banned the sale of generators by its utilities until 2006 because of an electricity shortage.", "Committed to Bandwidth Skilling also said that while Houston-based Enron is cutting spending on its fiber-optic telecommunciations business, the company doesn't intend to sell it.", "The news sent Enron shares up $4.38, or 8 percent, to $59.40. They had fallen 25 percent since Friday on concerns about the fiber-optic business and disputes over an Enron power plant in India.", "``They assured Wall Street that they were not liquidating their bandwith trading business,'' Prudential Securities analyst Carol Coale said.", "Analysts have reckoned that the potential of bandwidth trading adds as much as $20 to the future value of Enron's stock, she said." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 2 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e3793_p36", "sents": [ "PRICE DROP OUT OF BLUE This much at least is clear: Almost no one could have forecast just weeks a go that wholesale electricity prices would drop below $100 this summer.", "A few months ago, June electricity prices on the forward power market were running close to $400. One reason for the changed outlook, ironically, is last week's heat wave, which left Northern California sizzling and would have been expected to cau se electricity prices to soar as millions of air conditioners kicked into gear Instead, power prices remained steady, \"and that really changed the psychology of the market,\" said Brian Jordan, who monitors electricity trading at energy market researcher Platts.", "Michael Wilczek, another Platts analyst, said that price stability was bolstered by an increased number of generating plants returning to service after spring repairs.", "He also cited a surge in electricity output from regional dams as the high temperatures caused mountain snow to melt." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 1, 2 ] }, { "title": "Brian Jordan", "sents": [ "Brian O'Neal Jordan (born March 29, 1967) is a former Major League Baseball outfielder and National Football League safety.", "In the NFL, he played for the Atlanta Falcons, while he played in the MLB for the St. Louis Cardinals, Atlanta Braves, Los Angeles Dodgers, and Texas Rangers." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] } ]

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[ { "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 ] }, { "title": "e28006_p23", "sents": [ "The round was led by Battery Ventures and Bessemer Venture Partners.", "The company will use the funds to expand its product development and marketing, said president and CEO Dev Ittycheria.", "Robert Goodman, general partner at Bessemer, and Dave Tabors, general partner at Battery Ventures, will join Mr. Ittycheria on the board of directors that has two open seats, one for an internal member and one for an external director.", "Mr. Ittycheria said the company is bringing in revenue, already signing on customers such as Alliance, AT&T Wireless, and Microsoft.", "Mr. Ittycheria said profitability is slated for 2003. Mr. Ittycheria said the company will look to add a vice president of sales and a vice president of engineering at the beginning of 2002. The company will also add a CFO in the latter half of 2002. With 20 employees, the company expects to have between 60 to 70 by the end of the year." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 1, 2 ] } ]

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[ { "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, 1 ] }, { "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 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e2972_p21", "sents": [ "http: www.luxlook.com new products KorTeam Changes Name to Breveon mail?", "top SAN JOSE, Calif. (VENTUREWIRE) -- KorTeam International, which provid es speech recognition software, said it changed its name to Breveon and moved from Sunnyvale, Calif. into new headquarters in San Jose, Calif.", "The name change reflects the shift in the company's business model from developing medical-based voice recognition applications for third-party products to creating a new voice dictation product that includes a speech engine, a linguist rules engine, and specialized medical vocabularies.", "Called Breveon AuratorPC, the product enables doctors to dictate notes and have them transcribed for report creation or electronic deployment.", "Founded in 1988, the company was originally funded by the National Institutes of Health.", "It is now backed by BioAsia, Maton, and inVestar.", "The company is expecti ng to raise a mezzanine round this summer, but said it has not chosen an underwriter for an IPO.", "http: www.breveon.com m&a Exus Networks Acquires Broadband Access Firm Negen mail?" ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 3, 4 ] }, { "title": "National Institutes of Health", "sents": [ "The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is the primary agency of the United States government responsible for biomedical and public health research, founded in the late 1870s.", "It is part of the United States Department of Health and Human Services with facilities mainly located in Bethesda, Maryland.", "It conducts its own scientific research through its Intramural Research Program (IRP) and provides major biomedical research funding to non-NIH research facilities through its Extramural Research Program." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e2326_p9", "sents": [ "\"I don't go anywhere.", "I collect cans.", "I pawn stuff.\"", "Maurer is among a growing number of fixed-income senior citizens, small-business owners and others getting pinched by rising electricity cost s -- and increasingly fearful of what the hot summer months might bring.", "Unable to meet the commanding debt piling up on their electric and natural-gas bills, ratepayers such as Maurer are facing 72-hour disconnect notices, or in many cases agreeing to what amounts to revolving pay-as-you-can accounts.", "SDG&E refused to say how many customers have had their power shut off for nonpayment in recent months, saying such information is proprietary and confidential.", "But consumer groups and business resource centers report a fresh influx of calls for help in finding what little relief is available.", "\"I'm getting more people contacting me with disconnection notices,\" said Jo di Beebe, an analyst with the Utility Consumers' Action Network.", "\"They're flooded.", "It's very frustrating for many people.\"" ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 7 ] }, { "title": "e293_p9", "sents": [ "If ratepayers are charged for the bond payments, the initiative has a fallback provision that is intended to require utilities to reduce their rates to offset the bond payments made by ratepayers.", "Consumer groups drop support California and other states began to move toward deregulation after a 1992 federal law removed restrictions on the ownership of power-generating facilities and made it easier for independent power generators to use existing transmission lines.", "Consumer groups and some legislators said that a California Public Utilities Commission decision on deregulation guaranteed full recovery of stranded costs and was skewed toward businesses and big customers at the expense of residential users.", "At first, consumer groups welcomed the legislation put together by Peace and others as an improvement over the PUC's plan.", "A four-page letter from TURN and the San Diego-based Utility Consumers' Action Network expressed some reservations about the plan, but concluded with these words: \"However, we will not oppose a bill which, under difficult circumstances, has successfully incorporated a number of the concerns of residential and small-business customers.\"" ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 4 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "Charles River Ventures", "sents": [ "CRV (a.k.a.", "Charles River Ventures) is a venture capital firm focused on early-stage investments in technology and new media companies.", "The firm, which is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts and Menlo Park, California, was founded in 1970 to commercialise research that came out of MIT.", "(Its name comes from the Charles River that divides Boston and Cambridge)" ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1, 2 ] }, { "title": "e8071_p16", "sents": [ "Financial details of the partne rship and the equity stake were undisclosed.", "Need2Buy is backed by investo rs including Baker, JUMP Investors, Mitsubishi, Rustic Canyon Grou p, Shelter Ventures, Star Ventures, Trust Company of the West, and World P eace Industrial.", "http: www.need2buy.com?", "new directors?", "e-Checking Firm Xign Taps Commerce One Exec for Board PLEASANTON, Calif. (VENTUREWIRE) -- Xign, a business-to-business electro nic payment firm that is developing Internet checking, said it has appointed Robert Kimmitt as the board's third member.", "Mr. Kimmitt is an executive at Commerce One, and serves as chairman of the board of Commerce One Europe.", "H e is also the former ambassador to Germany and general counsel to the U. S. Treasury Department.", "Xign received $14.3 million in its Series A from leads Charles River Ventures and Matrix Partners earlier this month.", "http: www.xign.com ISO9.com Adds New Member to Its Board of Directors OAKLAND, Calif. (VENTUREWIRE) -- ISO9.com, an application servic e provider for the development and maintenance of management services base d on the international ISO9000 standard, appointed Sergio Mazza to the com pany's board of directors." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 7 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e9967_p0", "sents": [ "'Executive Team: By now I trust you have had a chance to review the following briefing materials: Olympus Quick Tour CD-ROM Navigation Exercise Section I of the Olympus simulation manual Harvard Business Review articles: 1. \"Introduction to Financial Ratios and Financial Statement Analysis\" 2. \"Assessing a Company's Future Financial Health\" 3. \"What is Strategy\" 4. \"Customer Intimacy and Other Value Disciplines\" During our pre-session meeting next week, we will be exploring in greater detail the Olympus simulation environment.", "As you are aware from the agenda, we will be immersed in the simulation over the weekend.", "The following link is to an additional article from McKinsey Quarterly which I think captures well the strategic and financial issues you'll face in the Olympus simulation.", "http: mckinseyquarterly.com pdf whis00.pdf?tk=:932: (you will need Adobe Acrobat to view this article) I look forward to meeting you next week.", "Francois Thrower Vice President Strategic Management Group, Inc. 900 Kearny Street, Suite 750 San Francisco, CA 94109 415.956.7223" ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] }, { "title": "Harvard Business Review", "sents": [ "The Harvard Business Review (HBR) is a general management magazine published by Harvard Business Publishing, a wholly owned subsidiary of Harvard University.", "HBR is published 6 times a year and is headquartered in Brighton Watertown, Massachusetts." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e4746_p2", "sents": [ "In August, the state endured a power emergency every 18 hours on average.", "(Customers of the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power do not face shortages.)", "\"We never anticipated the ISO would take on the responsibility of stimulating development of generation resources this directly,\" Winter said.", "\"However, if we do not assume this role, we will be increasingly challenged in our efforts to protect consumers from suffering rotating blackouts next summer.\"", "The ISO solicited proposals for power plant projects that could be operating by June, and received bids representing about 2,000 megawatts of generation, or enough to serve about 2 million homes.", "The electricity would be sold into the California Power Exchange or through separate contracts, but the ISO would have the right to call on those plants to provide emergency power to the grid for up to 500 hours each summer when supplies are tight.", "The ISO would pay generators as much as $255 million a year for that right." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 4, 5 ] }, { "title": "e619_p33", "sents": [ "Finally, deregulation created a power market so fragmented that it was ludicrously easy to manipulate when the thin surplus of power supply in the West began evaporating in the summer of 2000, although the evidence is masked by the effects of a drought in the Northwest (which has reduced hydropower) and an unlucky combination of plant maintenance, air pollution limits idling older plants and higher than expected costs for natural gas.", "The price of bad luck, bad weather and the cunning of power suppliers was staggering.", "At one point in December, electricity that cost $250 a megawatt-hour to produce was priced by the power brokers of the California Independent System Operator at $1,500 a megawatt-hour.", "That was the negotiated price; the suppliers had asked for $2,000. Deregulation had set up a divided marketplace, more irrational than any Paul W. MacAvoy picks apart in his analysis of natural gas, in which the California Power Exchange was a clearinghouse where buyers and sellers set the price of electricity and the California Independent System Operator was the \"buyer of last resort\" if occasional gaps between production and distribution unexpectedly failed to meet daily demand." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 3 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e5221_p5", "sents": [ "\"We became the first program ever to earn awards at three consecutive University of Texas International Business Challenge Case Competitions.\"", "The awards won since fall of 1998 are: 1998 Electronic Data Systems (EDS) Case Challenge - 2nd place 1998 University of Texas International Business Case Challenge - 2nd place 1999 University of Southern California International Case Competition - Most Creative Presentation 1999 University of Texas International Business Case Challenge - 1st place 2000 University of Washington Global Business Challenge Case Competition - 2nd place 2000 University of Texas International Business Case Challenge - Professional Excellence Award FALL SPEAKERS: TOM SIEBEL AND RAY LANE COME TO HAAS The end of the month brings two major speakers to Haas in one week.", "Tom Siebel, CEO and founder of Siebel Systems, kicksoff this year's Fisher Center E-Commerce Executive Seminar Series on Tuesday, October 31, at 12:30 p.m. Ray Lane, former Oracle president and general partner at Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield and Byers, begins a year of dialogues on \"The Shakeout in Cyberspace\" with the first of the Business Faculty Research Dialogue Series on Friday, November 3, at 4:00 p.m." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 2 ] }, { "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": [ 0, 1 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e27354_p0", "sents": [ "'The Player; Blockbuster plays hardball with Hollywood.", "Forbes Magazine, 09 03 01 INDIA: AES exit would not affect India's Orissa-official.", "Reuters English News Service, 08 21 01 India: 'Dishonouring energy contract is the main issue in India' Business Line (The Hindu), 08 21 01 Canada takes close look at business, rights code The Globe and Mail, 08 21 01 Florida's Governor Outlines New Energy-Conservation Policy KRTBN Knight-Ridder Tribune Business News: The Orlando Sentinel - Florida, 08 21 01 USA: Pacific N.W.", "states press FERC for power refunds.", "Reuters English News Service, 08 20 01 On the Cover The Player; Blockbuster plays hardball with Hollywood.", "John Gorham 09 03 2001 Forbes Magazine 60 Copyright 2001 Forbes Inc. Blockbuster is giving Hollywood a taste of its own hardball tactics.", "It was the shot heard around Hollywood: In an otherwise routine earnings conference call in July, Blockbuster ChiefExecutive Officer John Antioco casually mentioned that the 7,781-store video chain might end some of its rental revenue-sharing programs so popular with the studios." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 2, 3 ] }, { "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": "e27377_p25", "sents": [ "Instinet rose 72 cents, or 6.3%, to 12.07, despite pessimistic comments from Merrill Lynch, which cut earnings projections for the New York electronic-brokerage concern.", "The stock has traded at a 52-week low during the past week.", "Comverse Technology (Nasdaq) gained 2.76, or 10%, to 29.51. Goldman Sachs boosted its rating on the Woodbury, N.Y., telecommunications-systems company.", "Crown Castle fell 55 cents, or 6.3%, to 8.20. The Houston antenna-space leasing concern named John P. Kelly, its president and chief operating officer, chief executive, succeeding Ted B. Miller, who remains chairman.", "Agilent Technologies eased 35 cents, to 27.50. Goldman Sachs, in a preview of the Palo Alto, Calif., semiconductor concern's earnings release due Monday, said it expected the company to reduce its forecast for the fiscal fourth quarter.", "SouthTrust gained 53 cents to 26.38. Keefe Bruyette & Woods added the Birmingham, Ala., bank to its KBW Philadelphia Stock Exchange Bank Index.", "Hormel dropped 1.18, to 24.87. The Austin, Minn., food producer posted fiscal third-quarter earnings that fell short of analysts' projections." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 4, 5, 6 ] }, { "title": "Hormel", "sents": [ "Hormel Foods Corporation is an American food company based in Austin, Minnesota.", "The company was founded as George A. Hormel & Company in Austin by George A. Hormel in 1891.", "It changed its name to Hormel Foods in 2017" ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] } ]

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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": "e27936_p3", "sents": [ "See article: The postal service's troubles <http: TheEconomist.s.maildart.net link_31722_6557507_2_80010922_60368779_1_53 Canada relented after threatening to circumvent a patent on Cipro, an antibiotic for the treatment of anthrax, and obtain supplies from a generic-drug company.", "Bayer, Cipro's maker, agreed to provide as much of the drug as Canada needed to allay public fears.", "The United States threatened to override the patent if Bayer did not drop its prices-which it then did.", "See article: Patents, anthrax and antibiotics <http: TheEconomist.s.maildart.net link_31721_6557507_2_80010922_60368779_1_52 E+ <http: www.economist.com images dingbats e5.gif House of Representatives approved the president's anti-terrorism measures, which will now be taken up by the Senate.", "Israel defiant In a ferocious week-long assault that claimed more than 40 Palestinian lives, Israeli tanks and infantry reoccupied parts of six Palestinian-controlled cities.", "The declared aim was to arrest militants, including the group that killed an Israeli minister last week.", "America brusquely demanded that the tanks be withdrawn." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 1 ] }, { "title": "Bayer", "sents": [ "Bayer AG ( or ); ] ) is a German multinational chemical, pharmaceutical and life sciences company.", "It is headquartered in Leverkusen, where its illuminated sign is a landmark.", "Bayer's primary areas of business include human and veterinary pharmaceuticals; consumer healthcare products; agricultural chemicals and biotechnology products; and high value polymers.", "The company is a component of the Euro Stoxx 50 stock market index.", "The company's motto is \"science for a better life.\"" ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "Nissan", "sents": [ "Nissan Motor Company Ltd (Japanese: 日産自動車株式会社 , Hepburn: Nissan Jidōsha Kabushiki-gaisha ) , usually shortened to Nissan ( or ; Japanese: ] ), is a Japanese multinational automobile manufacturer headquartered in Nishi-ku, Yokohama.", "The company sells its cars under the Nissan, Infiniti, and Datsun brands with in-house performance tuning products labelled Nismo." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] }, { "title": "e19494_p6", "sents": [ "Doubts increased about the company's unorthodox financial dealings and the potential liabilities they might carry.", "Enron's shares continued on a downward path to their lowest since 1992.< font p <p <font FACE=\"verdana,geneva,arial,sans serif\" size=\"-1\" <a href=\"http: TheEconomist.s.maildart.net link_32395_6563487_2_80010922_60368779_1_5e\" See article: A financial black hole< a font p <p <font FACE=\"verdana,geneva,arial,sans serif\" size=\"-1\" <b Lockheed Martin b swooped to capture the biggest defence contract ever handed out by the Pentagon.", "Building America's next-generation Joint Strike Fighter could be worth some $200 billion to Lockheed's consortium, which includes <font size=\"-1\" BAE font Systems and Northrop Grumman.", "The deal is bad news for Lockheed's main competitor, Boeing.< font p <p <font FACE=\"verdana,geneva,arial,sans serif\" size=\"-1\" <a href=\"http: TheEconomist.s.maildart.net link_32394_6563487_2_80010922_60368779_1_5d\" See article: California's passionate Republicans< a <img src=\"http: www.economist.com images dingbats e5.gif\" hspace=\"2\" width=\"17\" height=\"10\" alt=\"E+\" font p <p <font FACE=\"verdana,geneva,arial,sans serif\" size=\"-1\" <b Renault b and <b Nissan b took steps to deepen their partnership." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 1, 3 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "Coors Brewing Company", "sents": [ "The Coors Brewing Company is a regional division of the world's third-largest brewing company, the Molson Coors Brewing Company.", "Until October 11, 2016, the operations in the United States were a joint venture with SABMiller called MillerCoors.", "Coors operates a brewery in Golden, Colorado, that is the largest single brewery facility in the world.", "Since that time, Coors is a division of Molson Coors." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 2 ] }, { "title": "e2469_p26", "sents": [ "Serving as dinner chairs of the event will be Tammy and Russ Bookbinder, executive vice president of the San Antonio Spurs.", "The black tie event will be held at 7 p.m. at The Westin -- La Cantera Resort.", "A \"who's who\" list of San Antonio business, political and social leaders are expected to attend.", "Funds raised will benefit the National Multiple Sclerosis Society -- Lone Star Chapter.", "Since its inception on a national level 27 years ago, the Dinner of Champions has raised more than $100 million for client programs, MS-related research and individuals living with MS.", "The honor represents the highest bestowed on an individual by the NMMS Society.", "Today, 70 major cities, from New York to Los Angeles and Chicago to Houston, honor prominent leaders and top executives on an annual basis.", "Past honorees include John Chambers, CEO of Cisco Systems Inc.; Peter Coors, CEO of Coors Brewing Company; Arthur Martinez, CEO of Sears and Roebuck; D. Mark Prestige, president of Tom Thumb; Jeffrey K. Skilling, president and CEO of Enron; Ron W. Haddock, president and CEO of FINA; and Tom Sherak, CEO of Twentieth Century Fox." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 7 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e3384_p0", "sents": [ "'Please see the following articles: Sac Bee, Fri, 5 25: More outage notice ordered: Davis tells utilities to gi ve added warning of possible blackouts.", "Sac Bee, Fri, 5 25: For seniors, the heat can kill, doctors warn Sac Bee, Fri, 5 25: House panel debates energy price controls SD Union, Fri, 5 25: Exec reacts hotly to California claim SD Union, Fri, 5 25: State power regulators aim to keep more power on grid SD Union, Fri, 5 25: Slater asks Sempra to purchase generators SD Union, Fri, 5 25: President will find Californians upset at his energy stance SD Union, Fri, 5 25: POLL: Californians dissatisfied with government handli ng of energy crisis SD Union, Fri, 5 25: California PUC to earmark more electricity for grid SD Union, Fri, 5 25: Davis proposal for more diesel power draws environment al criticism LA Times, Fri, 5 25: Davis Orders 3-Tiered Warnings of Blackouts LA Times, Fri, 5 25: PUC to Reassess Rate Hikes LA Times, Fri, 5 25: We Aren't That Desperate (Editorial) LA Times, Fri, 5 25: Energy Crisis as Political Payback (Editorial) LA Times, Fri, 5 25: Energy Antics: Oh, Behave!" ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 1 ] }, { "title": "e2326_p0", "sents": [ "'Please see the following articles: Sac Bee, Mon, 5 7: \"It's crunch time on power rates\" SD Union, Sun, 5 6: \"SDG&E shutoff notices increasing\" SD Union, Sun, 5 6: \"State OKs $7 billion contract\" SD Union, Sun, 5 6: \"The energy crisis gives Filner some easy targets\" SD Union, Sat, 5 5: \"Gephardt tells rally here he's pushing price caps\" LA Times, Mon, 5 7: \"Proud Linemen Take a Hit\" LA Times, Sun, 5 6: \"Utility's Workers Watch Helplessly as Company Falls\" LA Times, Mon, 5 7: \"Utility Bills Are Just One Way People Pay for Energy Crisis\" LA Times, Mon, 5 7: \"Questions Remains Who'll Take Brunt of the Rate Hikes LA Times, Sun, 5 6: \"Riordan and Freeman's Feud Erupts in Public\" LA Times, Sat, 5 5: \"Cheney Rejects Price Caps, Aid for Calif. Power Crisi s\" SF Chron, Mon, 5 7: \"Rolling Health Hazards Summer Blackouts May Pose Public Health Risks\" SF Chron, Mon, 5 7: \"Oh, that boom in 2002 SF Chron (AP), Mon, 5 7: \"Developments in California's energy crisis\" SF Chron, Mon, 5 7: \"United States considers withdrawing lawsuits against coal industry Pollution controls affect power plants SF Chron, Mon, 5 7: \"Swimming pool owners get PG&E discounts Operating pumps at night saves energy SF Chron, Sun, 5 6: \"Legislators plan to sue United States panel on energy Top state Democrats want cap on prices\" SF Chron, Sun, 5 6: \"Nevada's winning hand -- power State sees profit in California's crisis\" Mercury News, Mon, 5 7: \"Share prices rise amid news of big energy deals\" Mercury News, Mon, 5 7: \"Florida shrugs off Calif-blackout scenario\" Mercury News, Mon, 5 7: \"Hot days worry energy watchers\" OC Register, Mon, 5 7: \"Unplugged Manking has lived thousands of years without electricity." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e20012_p0", "sents": [ "TO: Faculty, Staff, and Evening MBA Students FROM: Andy Shogan, Associate Dean for Instruction RE: Jane Thompson begins as Director of Marketing and Operations of the Evening and Weekend MBA Program Effective October 1, Jane Thompson begins serving as Director of Marketing and Operations of the Evening and Weekend MBA Program.", "She occupies Diane Dimeff's former office, and her e-mail address is \"jane@haas\".", "All Evening MBA students will have the opportunity to meet Jane at the upcoming \"Pizza Dinners\" in October (further details forthcoming).", "Prior to joining the Haas School, Jane served for 10 years at the Wharton School as Senior Associate Director of MBA Academic Services, where she was directly involved in a variety of management, curricular, and extra-curricular activities.", "Jane holds a M.S.", "from the University of Pennsylvania in Organizational Dynamics and an M.A.", "from Penn State University in Education.", "Please join me in welcoming Jane to the Haas community!" ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] }, { "title": "e8146_p0", "sents": [ "\"Dear Evening MBA Students, It is once again time to plan for the EMBA Seminar in International Business.", "For those of you unfamiliar with this course, please see http: www.haas.berkeley.edu groups HaasGlobal NGcourseoutline.htm for the 2000 version that looked at Ghana, Belgium and the Netherlands or http: www.haas.berkeley.edu groups HaasGlobal JVcourseoutline.htm for the 1999 version that included Japan and Vietnam.", "For 2001 we are going to try something slightly different.", "We will have two distinct programs - one will be a repeat of last year's and the other will venture into new territory.", "The details are as follows.", "Please note that everything mentioned below is still tentative and subject to change or cancellation.", "PROGRAM DESCRIPTIONS Both programs will commence with a series of classes, at Haas, in June.", "Program A, led by Diane Dimeff will retrace the itinerary of the 2000 program to Ghana, the Netherlands and Belgium.", "The approximate dates for the travel portion will be Saturday, July 7 through Saturday, July 21. Program B, led by Sebastian Teunissen will consist of one of two possible itineraries, depending on student demand: itinerary 1: Cuba, Panama and Venezuela (or Costa Rica.)" ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 7 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e20104_p2", "sents": [ "The stock has made steady progress this week as investors shopped for bargains or were encouraged by progress Enron made in its plan to divest itself of some overseas assets.", "On Wednesday, Enron announced the sale of some Indian oil and gas assets to BG Group PLC (BRG), a United Kingdom oil and gas company.", "J.P. Morgan analyst Anatol Feygin said the stock also received further support by the reaffirmation of earnings forecasts at rivals Dynegy Inc. (DYN) and Aquila (ILA) in recent days.", "- Write to Christina Cheddar at [email protected] Copyright (c) 2001 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved Copyright 2000 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved.", "Enron Seeks To Cut Staff In Europe By 5%-10% 10 04 2001 Dow Jones Energy Service (Copyright (c) 2001, Dow Jones & Company, Inc.) LONDON -(Dow Jones)- Enron Corp. (ENE) is looking to cut its workforce in Europe by up to 10%, or around 500 jobs, Enron Europe Chief Executive John Sherriff said Thursday." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] }, { "title": "e6660_p14", "sents": [ "Waxman is also pressing for a Justice Department investigation of Karl Rove over the Bush political strategist's energy-related meetings.", "The White House has acknowledged that Rove participated in meetings on the administration's energy policy while he owned stock in energy companies such as Texas-based Enron Corp.", "The White House has supplied no details on Rove's meetings.", "On the Net: GAO: http: www.gao.gov Copyright 2000 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved.", "Enron's Azurix blocks construction of Argentina-Uruguay gas pipeline - report 07 18 2001 AFX News (c) 2001 by AFP-Extel News Ltd LA PLATA, Argentina (AFX) - Enron Corp water and sewage unit Azurix Buenos Aires SA has obtained a restraining order against the construction of the Cruz del Sur pipeline under the River Plate from Argentina to Uruguay, the daily El Dia reported.", "Works were paralyzed BG Group PLC, BP Amoco PLC and Bridas Corp joint venture Pan American Energy LLC, BASF AG's Wintershall and Enron Corp and Perez Companc SA's Transportadora Gas del Sur venture Gasoducto Cruz del Sur SA from Punta Lara in Argentina to Colonia, Uruguay, it said." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 5 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e2934_p0", "sents": [ "'Cheney's Role Offers Strengths And Liabilities The Washington Post, 05 17 01 Dolphin to Invite Companies for $4 Bln Gas Project, Paper Says Bloomberg, 05 17 01 UK: ANALYSIS-Spanish boom spurs wave of new power plants.", "Reuters English News Service, 05 17 01 Middle East flame burns ever brighter as exports hot up Lloyd's List International, 05 17 01 Enron Joins Alberta's Natural Gas Exchange Dow Jones Energy Service, 05 16 01 Enron could lose Brazil environmental lincence - Rio state official AFX News, 05 16 01 Creditors' of PG&E's Utility Form Information Clearinghouse Bloomberg, 05 16 01 A Section Cheney's Role Offers Strengths And Liabilities Mike Allen and Dana Milbank Washington Post Staff Writers 05 17 2001 The Washington Post FINAL A01 Copyright 2001, The Washington Post Co. All Rights Reserved The key to the energy proposal President Bush unveils today can be found on a wall in the three-room suite that houses his National Energy Policy Development Group, next door to the White House in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] }, { "title": "e68_p1", "sents": [ "By C. Bryson Hull 03 15 2001 Reuters English News Service (C) Reuters Limited 2001. HOUSTON, March 15 (Reuters) - Wall Street took a hard look at Enron Corp.'s content delivery plans this week after it ended its video-on-demand deal with Blockbuster Inc. but remained largely unfazed by the failure of the flagship deal, analysts said on Thursday.", "On balance, most analysts viewed the busted 20-year exclusive agreement as disappointing, but by no means a fatal blow to Enron Broadband Services' (EBS) budding content delivery segment.", "Most reiterated buy or strong buy ratings for the Houston company and maintained bullish earnings targets for the Enron Broadband Services division.", "But all are awaiting an indication of how Enron will reconfigure the content delivery initiative.", "\"I think Blockbuster represented kind of an anchor tenant for the broadband business, so they have lost a contract that was important,\" said Jeff Dietert, an analyst with Houston investment house Simmons and Co. Now EBS will have to pursue smaller contracts to make up the loss, which could mean a longer road to create as big a book of business, Dietert said." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 4 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e5326_p12", "sents": [ "The investment was made as part of Bellevue, Wash.-based BidPath's Series B round, which included eFund and Timberline Ventures.", "Matt Crisp, a partner at Venture Strategy, will take a seat on the company's board of directors.", "http: www.bidpath.com Brazilian Incubator Ideia.com Raises $4.2 Million Round Two SAO PAOLO, Brazil -- Brazilian Internet incubation firm Ideia.com said it raised $4.2 million in second round financing from sole and previous investor Warburg Pincus.", "Ideia CEO Bob Wollheim said that 30% of the funding will support operations while the remainder will be used for investments in portfolio companies.", "Ideia expects to make three to four new investments by year's end.", "Ideia incubates Vale Uma Cerveja, Villa do Cirillo, WebVenture, PorAcaso, Liquidando, TaLa, and Namorados, among others, making average investments of $150,000 in its companies.", "http: www.ideia.com Construction Software Firm Omware Gets $2 Million Mezzanine SEBASTOPOL, Calif. -- Omware, which develops construction management software, said it closed a $2 million mezzanine round of funding from undisclosed individual investors." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 2 ] }, { "title": "Warburg Pincus", "sents": [ "Warburg Pincus, LLC is an American private equity firm with offices in the United States, Europe, Brazil, China and India.", "It has been a private equity investor since 1966.The firm currently has approximately $40 billion in assets under management and invests in a range of sectors including retail, industrial manufacturing, energy, financial services, health care, technology, media, and real estate.", "Warburg Pincus is a growth investor.", "Warburg Pincus has raised 15 private equity funds which have invested $58 billion in over 760 companies in 40 countries." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "Mahanagar Gas", "sents": [ "Mahanagar Gas Limited (MGL) (Marathi: महानगर गॅस लिमिटेड ) is a natural gas distribution company located in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.", "Established in 1995, the company is a joint-venture between GAIL, Royal Dutch Shell and the Government of Maharashtra." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] }, { "title": "e20071_p10", "sents": [ "Equity production from the fields amounts to 20,000 barrels of oil equivalent a day, representing about 6%-7% of BG's total output.", "In the year to March 31, EOGIL posted a pro forma profit after tax of $60 million on revenue of $160 million.", "The acquisition compliments BG's fledgling downstream interests in India, which include holdings in western Indian distributors Gujarat Gas Co. (65%) and Mahanagar Gas (50%).", "It is also the driving force behind a project to pipe liquefied natural gas from Iran to tap India's growing appetite for gas.", "India's gas supply deficit is estimated to be 86 million standard cubic meters a day by 2002, rising to 248 million standard cubic meters a day by 2012. Reflecting on that, analysts said the timing of BG's acquisition was good.", "\"We see the acquisition as the first step in building an Indian exploration and production business to complement BG's gas distribution and gas import plans,\" ABN-Amro said." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 2 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e25052_p0", "sents": [ "\"We'll review and let you know.", "Thanks and have a good weekend.", "Best, Jeff --Original Message -- From: Scott Govenar [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, August 31, 2001 5:33 PM To: Dasovich, Jeff; Rick Shapiro; Steffes, James D.; Kaufman, Paul; Jeff Dasovich; Kingerski, Harry; Lawner, Leslie; Susan J Mara; Hedy Govenar; Bev Hansen; Mike Day Subject: RE: SBX2 78 HEARING CANCELED Carole Migden indicated that they were going to meet again on Tuesday.", "I followed up with Keith prior to Appropriations and he was very disappointed that he and Bill Leonard could not round up more votes.", "They knew the liberals would make a play and thought on a policy level they were better off pushing a better bill than allowing a bad bill to go through along party lines.", "However, Republicans are well aware of the polling and think this issue is better left to the Democrats.", "Perhaps the liberal play will energize Republican members." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 2 ] }, { "title": "e2677_p0", "sents": [ "\"We better run this one up the Enron Washington flagpole.", "It conflicts with what we are doing to a certain extent as it establishes a schedule for allowing customers to switch when we are advocating allowing all customers to switch at the same time.", "There probably needs to be some merging of this concept and the DA coalition langauge (without all the detail and simply affirming customers' right to switch).", "I can put it together if asked to do so.", "Mike --Original Message -- From: Scott Govenar [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, May 14, 2001 9:26 AM To: Jeff Dasovich; Sandra McCubbin; Susan J Mara; Mike Day Subject: [Fwd: FW: DIRECT ACCESS AMENDMENT] What do we think?\"" ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 4 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "Commerce One", "sents": [ "Commerce One was a pioneering e-commerce company based in Walnut Creek, California.", "It was famous for its stock price rise during the dot-com bubble.", "At its peak, the company had 4,000 employees and a market capitalization of $21.5 billion." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] }, { "title": "e11633_p5", "sents": [ "Of course, Ariba isn't letting this business just slide by.", "It's working with partners i2 Technologies (ITWO:Nasdaq) and IBM(IBM:Nasdaq).", "But this is Commerce One's focus.", "So if companies do begin to use direct B2B, Commerce One will be ready and waiting." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 2, 3 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e11053_p4", "sents": [ "Anyway, the dollar is strong relative to the peso, and we can feed our beloved children snacks from Source Taco Bell with enough gorditas and chalupas until the cows come home; which is soon.?", "When school re-starts in the Fall, the summer rolling blackout threat (\"The ISO is in Day 206 of a Stage 3 Alert\") will be over, and we can welcome home our new heroes.?", "It's a plan.", "ISO Governing Board Chairman Ghengis Kahn is reported to be constantly reminding the ISO staff at Governing Board meetings that reality is an important element of their new strategy.?", "I wonder how he would know.?", "And PUC President Loretta \"Let's Do\" Lynch, the Darth Vader(ess) to Davis' Dark-Side Emperor, is reported to be \"loving her job\" at the PUC.?", "I'm not making this up.?", "She actually told the San Francisco Chronicle how much she loves getting things back to the way they were before 1996.?" ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 5 ] }, { "title": "e7168_p1", "sents": [ "I also get the willies every time another politician lambastes the California restructured power industry.", "I just want to end to the summer, now, and start a two week Fall vacation anywhere, even in Cleveland.", "There are seven, count them, seven investigations into some aspect of the wholesale power market out here.", "Two days ago there were only six, but FERC just added another yesterday in response to the Prez ,s request.", "That means FERC has two, the PUC has two, the State Attorneys General has two (one on the ISO Governing Board, and one on the in-state generators), and one by the Electric Oversight Board.", "If you don ,t have an ongoing study of the California Market, then you ,re not hip.", "All of these investigations, save FERC ,s Section 206 Investigation, are going to amount to near nothing.", "A lot of wasted time and paper.", "The PUC and EOB studies have their conclusion sections all finished." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 2, 3, 4 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "Sony", "sents": [ "Sony Corporation (ソニー株式会社 , Sonī Kabushiki Kaisha ) (often referred to simply as Sony) is a Japanese multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Kōnan, Minato, Tokyo.", "Its diversified business includes consumer and professional electronics, gaming, entertainment and financial services.", "The company is one of the leading manufacturers of electronic products for the consumer and professional markets.", "Sony was ranked 113th on the 2016 list of Fortune Global 500." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 3 ] }, { "title": "e20472_p121", "sents": [ "Alternative browser-users denied Microsoft entry NEW YORK -- Microsoft's premier Web portal, MSN.com, denied entry to millio ns of people who use alternative browser software such as Opera and told th em to get Microsoft's products instead.", "The decision led to complaints from the small but loyal Opera community tha t Microsoft was abusing its status as the Internet's browser leader.", "Micros oft later backed off and said yesterday that it would support the other bro wsers after all.", "Browser products affected by the shutout, which was triggered by a face-lif t of the MSN.com Web site, included Opera, Mozilla and Amaya, said Kevin Re ichard, editorial manager for Internet.com's BrowserWatch site.", "Mike Pettit, president of ProComp, an anti-Microsoft group, urged state and federal investigators to look into the matter as part of its lawsuit accus ing Microsoft of anti-competitive practices.", "-- Associated Press MicrosoftSF to shut down; Sony will run retail store SAN FRANCISCO -- Sony will take over a retail store it manages with Microso ft next month, when the biggest software maker's Xbox goes up against Sony' s PlayStation 2 in a contest for control of the $20 billion video-game mark et, a Sony spokeswoman said." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 5 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "Chris Lehane", "sents": [ "Christopher Stephen \"Chris\" Lehane (born June 2, 1967) is an American political consultant and crisis communications expert who has served as a lawyer, spokesperson and expert in opposition research for the Clinton White House, Democratic candidates for public office and various business, Labor, entertainment and professional sports organizations.", "A graduate of Amherst College and Harvard Law School, he was a lawyer and spokesperson in the Clinton White House where he and his current business partner Mark Fabiani were called the \"Masters of Disaster\" by Newsweek magazine for their part in a \"rapid-response\" team employed to respond to the increasing number of investigations of the Clinton Administration.", "In 2012, Lehane co-authored a book on damage control titled \"Masters of Disaster\" published by Palgrave, MacMillan's academic imprint.", "He also wrote and produced the film \"Knife Fight\", a political satire acquired by IFC and released in January 2013.", "As of August 2015, Lehane serves as the Head of Global Policy and Public Affairs for home-sharing startup Airbnb." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 2 ] }, { "title": "e5995_p41", "sents": [ "Blackstone Saber could be paid an additional $14.58 million if the Legislature approves deals to buy electric transmission systems from the state's three private utilities--the financially rocky Southern California Edison, Pacific Gas & Electric, which has filed for bankruptcy, and San Die go Gas & Electric.", "Critics say the contract, in effect, provides a huge financial incentive for the consultants to boost the price the state will have to pay for the transmission system, which would result in higher fees for them.", "Davis also drew criticism in late May when he hired two former White House strategists--Mark Fabiani and Chris Lehane--at $15,000 a month each.", "Both also did consulting work for Edison to help the utility win approval of a financial rescue package that Davis is pushing.", "Critics charged the two h ad a conflict of interest representing both the governor and the utility.", "The governor announced late Friday that Fabiani no longer works for hi m and that Lehane would work for less money." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 2, 3, 4 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e3523_p64", "sents": [ "Indeed, a Field Poll released last week showed Davis' approval rating had plummeted to 42 percent, and that voters, by a 10-point margin, were not inclined to support his re-election.", "Bush has personally urged outgoing Los Angeles Mayor Richard Riordan to challenge Davis, and the Field Poll showed him neck-and-neck with Davis should he decide to run.", "Republicans would dearly love to retake control of the California governor's office, but to do so Bush must make the case that he is trying to help the state with its energy problems.", "One of Bush's top political advisers, Karen Hughes, dismissed the suggestion that the president had not been attentive to California, saying he had been focused on the state's problems, and touting his trip this week as taking place \"very early in his administration.\"", "\"He made aggressive efforts to visit California throughout his campaign, and he came up short in the vote on Election Day in California,\" she said." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 1, 2 ] }, { "title": "Richard Riordan", "sents": [ "Richard Joseph \"Dick\" Riordan (born May 1, 1930) is an American investment banker, businessman, investor, and politician who served as the 39th Mayor of Los Angeles, California serving from 1993 to 2001.", "He is a member of the Republican Party.", "To date, Riordan remains the most recent Republican to serve as Mayor of Los Angeles." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "New Enterprise Associates", "sents": [ "New Enterprise Associates (NEA) is an American-based venture capital firm.", "NEA focuses investment stages ranging from seed stage through growth stage.", "NEA invests across a broad array of industry sectors.", "With over $18 billion in assets under management, NEA was the world's largest venture capital firm in 2007." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 3 ] }, { "title": "e3228_p23", "sents": [ "http: www.megawheels.com Guardent Raises $20M Series C, Acquires DefendNet mail?", "top WALTHAM, Mass.", "(VENTUREWIRE) -- Guardent, a digital security firm, s aid it has raised $20 million in Series C financing led by new investor Citigroup' s e-Citi unit and acquired Providence, R.I.-based provider of managed securit y services DefendNet Solutions.", "New strategic investor Mercury Interactive joined all existing investors -- Charles River Ventures, New Enterprise Associates, and Sequoia Capital -- in this round.", "Kate Sullivan, COO for e-Citi, takes the sixth seat on the board of directors.", "Guardent declined to comment on post-money valuation.", "Series C funding will be used for the acquisition of DefendNet's technology and customer assets and for general business operations.", "The company expects to become cash-flow positive by th e end of the year.", "Guardent acquired DefendNet for mostly stock and some cash Details of the deal, which closed on Monday, were not disclosed.", "DefendNet, a security services firm that focused on outsourced operations at mid-tier companies, was backed by M C Ventures." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 2, 3 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e26575_p14", "sents": [ "Read the full article here: <http: www.thestandard.com article 0,1902,28813,00.html Severin Borenstein, E.T.", "Grether Professor in Public Policy and Business Administration, in the San Jose Mercury on Aug. 26 that the mild weather contributed more to California avoiding rolling blackouts, than conservation did.", "Read the full article at: <http: www0.mercurycenter.com premium front docs summerend26.htm The Management of Technology program was mentioned in Electronic Buyer's News on Aug. 27 in connection with NEC support of the program.", "The study of market analyst's performance for the year 2000, which was co-authored by Brett Trueman, the Donald and Ruth Seiler Professor of Public Accounting and chair of the Haas Accounting Group, and Reuven Lehavy, assistant professor in the Haas Accounting Group, appeared in The American Enterprise Online on their September issue.", "Read the full article here: <http: www.taemag.com taesep01b.htm The Young Entrepreneurs at Haas (YEAH) program was mentioned in the San Jose Mercury on Aug. 24 in the article titled \"2 east bay schools send most frosh to UC Berkeley.\"" ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] }, { "title": "e1001_p1", "sents": [ "All the best, Jeff Severin Borenstein E.T.", "Grether Professor of Business Administration and Public Policy Director Haas School of Business U.C.", "Energy Institute University of California 2539 Channing Way Berkeley, CA 94720-1900 Berkeley, CA 94720-5180 (p) 510-642-3689 (p) 510-642-5145 (f) 707-885-2508 http: www.ucei.berkeley.edu ucei Email: [email protected] WWW: http: haas.berkeley.edu ~borenste" ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e3622_p17", "sents": [ "Prior to thi s round the company raised $11 million in Series A funding, led by WK Technology Fund with participation from Concord Venture Capital Group, SoftChina Venture Capital, and Itochu Financial.", "http: www.metaedge.com Optical Fiber Grating Firm Indigo Photonics Gets $5.7 M mail?", "top BIRMINGHAM, England (VENTUREWIRE) -- Indigo Photonics, an optical fib er grating technology provider, announced it has secured GBP 4 million ($5.7 million) in its first round of funding from 3i, a European venture capital firm.", "With the funding Indigo said it will develop its technology, continue to strengthen relationships with its existing commercial and industrial partners, and expand its manufacturing capabilities.", "Indigo was formed by t he Aston Univeristy Photonics department, which is researching Fiber Bragg Grating technology, and the gratings division of Oxford Fibre Optic Tools.", "Gratings are used to in the development of optical components and modules.", "http: www.indigo-photonics.com eCommerce Industries Seals $21M Third Round mail?" ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] }, { "title": "e3127_p36", "sents": [ "The company is advised by the Houston office of law firm Baker Botts.", "http: www.ivita.com Armando Geday Joins Chameleon Board of Directors mail?", "top SAN JOSE, Calif. (VENTUREWIRE) -- Chameleon Systems, a fabless semic onductor company, said Armando Geday has become the sixth member of the board of directors.", "Mr. Geday is the current board member, president, and CEO of GlobeSpan.", "Chameleon designs, markets, and sells programmable system-on-a-chip applications for the communications electronics markets.", "M r. Geday joins Charles Cump, Chameleon's chairman and vice president of sales; Charles Fox, president and CEO; Sam Lee, general partner of Infinity Capita l; Russ Irwin, general partner at Convergence Partners; and Gary Little, gener al partner of Morgenthaler Ventures.", "Chameleon is backed by 3i Group, Argo Global Capital, Athena Technology Ventures, Bayview 2000, Convergence Partners, Crossroads, Dain Rauscher Wessels, GTG Ventures, Information Technology Ventures, Macnica, Merrill Lynch Kecalp, Morgan Stanley Dean Witter Venture Partners, Morgenthaler Ventures, Synopsys, United States Bancorp Piper Jaffray Ventures, and WK Technology Fund." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 2, 6 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "Richard Causey", "sents": [ "Richard Alan Causey (born 9 January 1960) is one of the prominent figures in the Enron accounting scandal.", "Causey was Enron's Executive Vice President and Chief Accounting Officer." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] }, { "title": "e27392_p38", "sents": [ "Lay mentioned Mark Frevert, head of Enron's core wholesale energy trading and marketing segment, Chief Financial Officer Andrew Fastow and Chief Accounting Officer Richard Causey, and Executive Vice President Steve Kean as evidence of Enron's management strength.", "With Skilling suddenly gone, Lay quickly acted to assuage investors that Enron would stay its course under his renewed watch.", "His return to full command was the logical choice, analysts said.", "\"I think it is very reassuring.", "He is the architect of the company, the one who took it from an intrastate pipeline company to a worldwide energy company.", "There is probably no one more qualified,\" UBS Warburg analyst Ron Barone said.", "STEPPED OR PUSHED?", "Skilling and Lay both maintain the resignation was a purely personal decision and not related to Enron's recent, persistent stock weakness and string of high-profile stumbles.", "Harvard Business School graduate suffered a bumpy ride during his short tenure in the No." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e20017_p9", "sents": [ "The NCP wanted to go slow with the idea.", "On Friday, chief minister Deshmukh held a closed door meeting to decide on two issues whether to defer the constitution of the judicial panel and the NCP criticism on the chana dal and other issues aired after the Baramati conclave was convened by the party last week.", "Though Deshmukh was not available, Congress sources confirmed that the cabinet was unanimous over immediate constitution of the commission.", "\"If the government is seen as buckling under the NCP's pressure and delaying the judicial probe, then it will send a wrong signal to people, a senior Congress minister observed Saturday, adding, \"We will not do anything to stop the process in midway\".", "The NCP leadership, too, is under pressures from other constituents of the Democratic Front ruling the state, especially the Peasants and Workers Party and the Janata Dal (Secular), on the issue.", "At one stage, the senior PWP minister Ganpatrao Deshmukh had even threatened to resign from the cabinet if the probe was delayed, and Chhagan Bhujbal, deputy chief minister, had to agree with the cabinet committee on the proposal for the commission." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 5 ] }, { "title": "Chhagan Bhujbal", "sents": [ "Chhagan Bhujbal (born 14 August 1947) is a politician from the state of Maharashtra, India.", "Bhujbal was Minister of Public Works & Special Assistance Department, (Excluding Public Undertaking) Maharashtra State and Guardian Minister, Nashik District; Member of Legislative Assembly, Yeola Assembly ; Constituency.", ".", ";." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e27953_p20", "sents": [ "Mr. Miller formerly served as president and CEO at digital imaging software company, Xippix.", "He will also sit on the board at Xythos, becoming the fifth director.", "He was introduced to the company through executive search firm Russell Reynolds.", "This spring, Xythos Software raised $6 million in its first round from IDG Ventures, Softbank Venture Capital, and individual investors.", "The company, which employs 22, said it will look to raise its Series B within the next 12 months.", "<http: www.xythos.com vc fund news * Investment Firm Paras Ventures Announces Launch top mail <http: venturewire.com o_mailer.asp?sid=LNKOLQQMII TYSONS CORNER, VA. -- Paras Ventures, a management and investment firm, announced its launch.", "The company is being headed by Rahul Bhandari, formerly vice president of business development and alliances and co-founder of Accenture's business launch center.", "The company's investment focus will be in enterprise software, security, biotech, and related emerging technology.", "Aside from providing funding, the company will provide services to other venture capital firms' portfolio companies, and help oversea companies establish United States operations." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 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 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e27021_p1", "sents": [ "Reuters English News Service, 08 23 01 Energy Glut Fears Put Power Firms' Finances In Focus Dow Jones News Service, 08 23 01 Special Report: America's Future: Smart Globalization Smart Globalization Being first and biggest in an emerging market isn't alw ays the best way to conquer it.", "A better tactic: Learn local cultures--and build a presence carefully By Pete Engardio With Manjeet Kripalani in Bombay and Alysha Webb in Shanghai 08 27 2001 BusinessWeek 132 (Copyright 2001 McGraw-Hill, Inc.) A television ad running these days in India shows a mother lapsing into ad aydream: Her young daughter is in a beauty contest dressed as Snow White, d ancing on a stage.", "Her flowing gown is an immaculate white.", "The garments of other contestants, who dance in the background, are a tad gray.", "Snow White no surprise, wins the blue ribbon.", "The mother awakes to the laughter of h er adoring family--and glances proudly at her Whirlpool White Magic washing machine." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 1 ] }, { "title": "Shanghai", "sents": [ "Shanghai is one of the four direct-controlled municipalities of China and the most populous city proper in the world with a population of more than 24 million as of 2014 .", "It is a global financial centre and transport hub, with the world's busiest container port.", "Located in the Yangtze River Delta, it sits on the south edge of the estuary of the Yangtze in the middle portion of the East China coast.", "The municipality borders the provinces of Jiangsu and Zhejiang to the north, south and west, and is bounded to the east by the East China Sea." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e5533_p14", "sents": [ "\"The initial reaction from a number of (firms) has been favorable,\" s aid Steven Kelly of Independent Energy Producers, an association of wholesalers \"We're hopeful this can be implemented in PG&E territory, too,\" said Joe Ronan, an official of the Calpine energy firm and chairman of Independent Energy Producers.", "The Bee's Jim Sanders can be reached at (916) 326-5538 or jsanders@sa cbee.com Bee Staff Writer Kevin Yamamura contributed to this report.", "Lockyer to seek grand jury probe of power players By Dan Smith Bee Deputy Capitol Bureau Chief (Published June 14, 2001) Attorney General Bill Lockyer said Wednesday that he will ask the Sac ramento County grand jury to look into potential criminal actions by power generato rs and natural gas companies that have led to skyrocketing wholesale power prices.", "Lockyer said he has reached no conclusions about possible criminal ac ts by \"a dozen or so\" companies his office is investigating, but is hopeful grand ju ry testimony will assist in the probe." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] }, { "title": "e399_p0", "sents": [ "'Greetings: IEP has been responding all day to pres questions on the ISO report and filing at FERC.", "We issued the below statement and are also holding a press availability tomorrow at 1:00 p.m. Today ,s television interviews have included, Fox, ABC and NBC.?", "Thank you to those of you who have forwarded your company positions to IEP and if you would like to include anything els e additional please let me know and we will incorporate it into Jan ,s responses.?", "In addition to the below points we have been indicating that people have been playing by the rules, timing is rather coincidental, economics don ,t keep the lights on, and the alleged cost calculation the ISO has historically used do not include many fixed costs or real costs associated with running the units.?", "Once again if you have any other thoughts please forward them to me.", "Thanks!", "FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March22, 2001 Statement by Jan Smutny-Jones, Executive Director of Independent Energy Producers, In Response to Report Issued by the Independent System Operator \"More than ever, we?re looking forward to a fair and impartial hearing before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to deal with the ISO?s late st round of unsubstantiated charges." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 6 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e19703_p0", "sents": [ "'USA: Enron says recent woes to hurt profitability.", "Reuters English News Service, 11 14 01 USA: Enron traders seen riding out storm, cuts likely.", "Reuters English News Service, 11 14 01 USA: Arbs tread lightly on Enron-Dynegy deal.", "Reuters English News Service, 11 14 01 USA: UPDATE 1-Enron CEO Lay admits to errors with mea culpa.", "Reuters English News Service, 11 14 01 Enron Receives Dynegy $1.5B Cash Infusion Tues. DYN ENE Dow Jones News Service, 11 14 01 USA: Enron queried by EPA on oil pipeline spills.", "Reuters English News Service, 11 14 01 Enron to Sell Off Money-Losing Assets In Bid to Restore Its Financial Health Dow Jones Business News, 11 14 01 Cohen, Milstein, Hausfeld & Toll, P.L.L.C.", "Announces that Class Action Suits Against Enron Corporation Have Expanded their Class Periods Business Wire, 11 14 01 Enron Says 4th-Qtr Earnings Cut by Lost Business (Update6) Bloomberg, 11 14 01 Cauley Geller Bowman & Coates, LLP Expands Class Period in Class Action Lawsuit Against Enron Corp. Business Wire, 11 14 01 Fitch: Cinergy's Rating Outlook Negative Business Wire, 11 14 01 USA: Enron says recent woes to hurt profitability." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 2, 3 ] }, { "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": "e7007_p1", "sents": [ "A3;, 1205 words, She's the governor's right-hand man Tough, loyal, workaholic, Lynn Schenk advises him on every major decision., Emily Bazar Bee Capitol Bureau Sacramento Bee, July 29, 2001, Sunday, Pg.", "L5;, 890 words, Cocky operative needles Davis with secret funds, Daniel Weintraub Chicago Tribune, July 29, 2001 Sunday, CHICAGOLAND FINAL EDITION, Magazine; Pg.", "12; ZONE: C, 4233 words, CUTTING THE CORD; HIGH ELECTRIC BILLS?", "TAKE NOTE: THESE CALIFORNIANS ALMOST HAVE THE UTILITIES OWING THEM MONEY, By Karen Brandon.", "Karen Brandon is a Tribune staff reporter.", "Associated Press, July 28, 2001, Saturday, BC cycle, Domestic News, 822 words, California lawmaker enjoys utility's largesse; makes no apologies for taking contributions, By JENNIFER COLEMAN, Associated Press Writer, SACRAMENTO, Calif.", "SECTION: Domestic, non-Washington, general news item LENGTH: 365 words HEADLINE: Calif.", "Sees $4B Less in Power Refunds BYLINE: KAREN GAUDETTE DATELINE: SAN FRANCISCO BODY: California will receive refunds for overpriced electricity, but not as much as it had asked for." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 3, 4 ] }, { "title": "e3520_p101", "sents": [ "It woul d ease the drain on California 's treasury, release electricity that is currently being withheld in expectation of higher prices and address the administration's fears about investment by guaranteeing producers a reasonable profit.", "Mr. Bush stubbornly clings to his position that this is essentially California 's problem, not Washington's.", "But if the problem ripples beyond California 's borders, that stubbornness could cost him support in the nati on at large.", "News Bush, Gov.", "Davis sound like Texas, California on energy Vincent J Schodolski and Karen Brandon, Tribune staff reporters Tribune sta ff reporter V Dion Haynes contributed to this report 05 30 2001 Chicago Tribune North Sports Final N Page 1 (Copyright 2001 by the Chicago Tribune) After a day of polite but unmistakable political posturing, President Bush and California Gov.", "Gray Davis failed to reach agreement Tuesday on control s for energy prices in this state caught in a critical electricity shortage." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 3, 4 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "Cadence Design Systems", "sents": [ "Cadence Design Systems, Inc. is an American multinational electronic design automation (EDA) software and engineering services company, founded in 1988 by the merger of SDA Systems and ECAD, Inc.", "The company produces software, hardware and silicon structures for designing integrated circuits, systems on chips (SoCs) and printed circuit boards." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] }, { "title": "e28123_p1", "sents": [ "Of course, historical, political, economic, social, cultural and psychological differences can impede effective communication between Americans and Japanese.", "But beyond this, the languages of the two countries are so dissimilar that finding exact conceptual equivalents can be impossible, even with the help of the best interpreters.", "These are among the cross-cultural challenges Mr. Fukushima will address in his talk.", "Don't miss this opportunity to explore and discuss the reasons for and solutions to cross cultural differences that touch us here at International House and across the campus.", "Glen Fukushima is the leader of Japan operations for Cadence Design Systems in Silicon Valley.", "A native of California, Fukushima was educated at Stanford University, Harvard University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Harvard Business School and Harvard Law School.", "Fukushima's publications include Nichi-Bei Keizai Masatsu no Seijigaku (The Politics of US-Japan Economic Friction), winner of the 9th Masayoshi Ohira Memorial Prize in 1993. His writings have appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, International Herald Tribune, Japan Times and many more." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 4 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e9389_p7", "sents": [ "XMLSolutions is backed by investors including First Analysis Venture Capital, Opticality Ventures, Verticality Investments, and Schoffstall Ventures.", "http: www.xmls.com New Money o Israeli Telecom Developer IPrad Has $16 Million First Round TEL AVIV, Israel -- IPrad, which develops telecommunications systems integrating leagcy systems for multiple services into a single network, said it raised $16 million in its initial round of funding.", "The round was co-led by HarbourVest Partners and Morgan Stanley Dean Witter Private Equity.", "Other investors included TLcom Capital Partners, Jafco, Garage.com, and the RAD-Bynet Group, along with senior executives of RAD Data Communications.", "The company said it will use the funding for product development and marketing.", "IPrad will speed up the completion of its initial product with the influx of capital, starting initial field trials of its first product in the first quarter of next year.", "The company also intends to use the funding to expand its sales operations to the United States and Scandinavia, which represent approximately 67% of the company's expected revenues." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 1, 2 ] }, { "title": "HarbourVest Partners", "sents": [ "Founded in 1982 as Hancock Venture Partners, a subsidiary of John Hancock Insurance, HarbourVest is based in Boston, Massachusetts with offices in London and Hong Kong.", "HarbourVest has approximately 80 investment professionals globally and manages approximately $18 billion of investor commitments." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e2386_p121", "sents": [ "Still, it is surprising that they are being so obscenely blatant about it.", "- - - Robert Scheer Is a Syndicated Columnist Copyright 2001 Los Angeles Times Secret power deals contain hidden costs THE CLAUSE: A link to natural gas prices David Lazarus, Chronicle Staff Writer Tuesday, May 8, 2001 ,2001 San Francisco Chronicle: http: www.sfgate.com cgi-bin article.cgi?file=3D ca 2001 05 08 MN38174.DT L While Gov.", "Gray Davis insists that California's top-secret contracts to buy electricity will lead to more stable prices in years ahead, the deals actually may expose consumers to even higher energy bills, The Chronicle ha s learned.", "At least a portion of the contracts contain what is known in industry jargo n as a \"gas escalator\" clause, which allows power companies to increase price s as their natural gas costs go up, according to sources familiar with the agreements.", "Analysts predict that natural gas prices could climb in years ahead as doze ns of new gas-fired power plants in the Western region compete for tight supplies." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 1 ] }, { "title": "Robert Scheer", "sents": [ "Robert Scheer (born April 4, 1936) is an American journalist who writes a column for \"Truthdig\" that is nationally syndicated by Creators Syndicate in publications such as \"The Huffington Post\" and \"The Nation\".", "He is a clinical professor of communications at the Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism at the University of Southern California.", "Scheer is editor-in-chief for the Webby Award-winning online magazine \"Truthdig\".", "The Society of Professional Journalists awarded Scheer the 2011 Sigma Delta Chi Award for his column." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 2 ] } ]

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[ { "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 ] }, { "title": "e4635_p5", "sents": [ "Investors who took part in the first closing of Polish Enterprise Fund IV include EBRD, CalPERS, MetLife, Bank Vontobel AG, General Motors Retirement Fund, Partners Group, New York Life, Enterprise Investors, and Frank Russell Capital.", "http: www.ei.com.pl Productopia Review and Advice Site Closes Down SAN FRANCISCO -- Productopia, which provided third-party advice about products for online customers, said it closed.", "The site, which raised $16 million in a second round funding in February, had been backed by investors including Amicus Investments, Angel Investors, Arba Seed Investment Group, Bessemer Venture Partners, Osprey, and RRE Ventures.", "Telephone 415-856-4006. http: www.productopia.com Optical Networking Firm CyOptics Secures $57 Million HAIFA, Israel -- CyOptics, which designs, manufactures, and markets high-performance optical networking components, said it has secured $57 million in venture capital funding.", "Participants in the round include Cisco Systems, Corning, Intel Capital, and Vitesse.", "Semi-Conductors Devices (SCD), a partnership owned equally by military technology firms Elbit Systems and Rafael Armaments Development Authority also invested $4.8 million in the current round." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 1, 2 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e7287_p17", "sents": [ "Mr. Fromnick, former president of Eagles' View Associates, will be replacing Robert Grant as CEO, who will be staying on as president and chief technology officer.", "Investors for Primaxx include TechFarm and Chase Capital.", "http: www.primaxxinc.com VC Fund News o Impact Venture Launches Second Fund, Seeks $150 Million NEW YORK -- Impact Venture Partners said it launched its second venture capital fund and will seek to raise $150 million by the close of the first quarter next year.", "The company has not named the fund nor did it release target investors.", "The fund will invest in early stage technology companies focused on business services and infrastructure.", "Impact Venture Partners was founded early this year by Adam Dell, formerly a partner at Crosspoint Venture Partners.", "Impact raised $100 million at its founding in January from Hewlett Packard Pension Fund, Common Fund, and individual investors Frank Quattrone, managing director for the Investment Banking Group of CS First Boston, and John Mumford, founder of Crosspoint Venture Partners." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 5, 6 ] }, { "title": "Frank Quattrone", "sents": [ "Frank Quattrone (born 1955) is an American technology investment banker who started technology sector franchises at Morgan Stanley, Deutsche Bank, and Credit Suisse First Boston.", "He helped bring dozens of technology companies public during the 1990s tech boom, including Netscape, Cisco, and Amazon.com.", "Later, he was prosecuted for interfering with a government probe into Credit Suisse First Boston's behavior in allocating \"hot\" IPOs.", "The case was eventually dropped.", "He was earning roughly $120 million a year during his peak at the firm.", "Quattrone is now head of investment banking firm Qatalyst Group, which he founded in March 2008." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e880_p44", "sents": [ "\"I was worried about PG&E,\" Moorlach said.", "Another major sector of PG&E creditors are the power companies that have profited enormously in the state's energy crisis.", "The utility's debts to the California Power Exchange (PX) and the California Independent System Operator, which in this context are essentially billing agents for the merchant power concerns, total more than $3 billion.", "E. Jesus Arredondo, a spokesman for the PX, which itself declared bankruptcy last month, said Duke Energy and Reliant Energy Inc. were among the largest exposed creditors whose debt was attributed to the PX, with as much as $300 million and $400 million in unreimbursed power purchases.", "A Duke spokesman would say only that the Charlotte, N.C., firm reported more than $400 million in accounts receivable in January but would not elaborate on how much of that is owed by PG&E.", "Separately, PG&E listed debts of about $121 million to three subsidiaries of Calpine Corp. of San Jose, $28 million to a subsidiary of Enron and about $90 million to Chevron, El Paso and BP Energy Services for gas and power purchases." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 3 ] }, { "title": "e407_p15", "sents": [ "\"Part of our plan is to make sure that someone who owns the wires cannot become a market player and cut out people who have power to sell and can't get to market because they can't get to the lines,\" he said.", "Under the Texas deregulation plan, generators will sell power directly to customers but will send it via wires likely owned by other companies.", "That is part of the reason traditional regulated Texas utilities like TXU Corp. and Reliant Energy Inc. are splitting their regulated and unregulated businesses into separate entities.", "Noel said ERCOT and the state government are both committed to starting deregulation on schedule on Jan. 1, 2002. The first active move toward that end comes on April 2, when ERCOT will conduct a mock market.", "Noel acknowledged \"it's not going to be pretty,\" because of some delays in setting up the computer hardware and software needed to undertake the testing prior to the start date." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 2 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e27800_p12", "sents": [ "Beijing reportedly permitted five of its airline companies to buy 36 Boeing-737 aircraft with a combined price tag of $2 billion and the Air China to purchase four Boeing 737-800s.", "One could see the benign impact of the pressures on the Administration from professional strategic experts and business interests in the changed language during Gen Powell's visit to Beijing in the last week of July, 2001. After his one- day talks in Beijing with President Jiang Zemin and other Chinese leaders, he said: \"We view China as a friend, not as an adversary.\"", "He never once used the expression, 'strategic competitor'.", "Gen Powell emphasised the Bush Administration's desire to build \"constructive, forward-looking relations\" with China.", "\"China and the United States have a strong common interest in seeing a stable Asia and a world where economies can thrive and security needs can be met,\" he added.", "He admitted that major differences remained on issues such as Taiwan, China's proliferation of weapons of mass destruction such as its continued supply relationship with Pakistan and human rights, but added that Beijing had agreed to the subjects of proliferation and human rights being further discussed by experts from the two countries before President Bush's visit to China in October." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] }, { "title": "Air China", "sents": [ "Air China Limited is the flag carrier and one of the major airlines of the People's Republic of China, with its headquarters in Shunyi District, Beijing.", "Air China's flight operations are based at Beijing Capital International Airport.", "In 2015, the airline carried 90 million domestic and international passengers with an average load factor of 80%." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 2 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e27919_p7", "sents": [ "Fjeldstad, president and CEO, and Jim?Beach, chief financial officer and senior vice president.", "A DataChannel spokesperson said the company recently closed a round of funding, but would not disclose further details.", "The spokesperson also said that the deal includes Netegrity becoming the sole reseller of DataChannel products until the deal is finalized.", "At that time, Netegrity will rebrand existing DataChannel products as its own.", "DataChannel was backed by AT&amp;T, Deloitte Consulting, Bain Capital, Cisco Systems, Deutsche Bank, IBM, United States Venture Partners, Weiss, VanW agoner, and XMLFund.", "<http: www.datachannel.com <http: www.netegrity.com * Switch Biotech Gets $16 Million in Round Three By Taran Provost <mailto:[email protected] top mail <http: venturewire.com o_mailer.asp?sid=QNMKJQINII MARTINSRIED, GERMANY -- Switch Biotech, a developer of medications for dermatological conditions, said it received EUR 18 million ($16 million) in third-round funding.", "The new investors in the round were NMT New Medical Technologies, Mulligan BioCapital, and Landeskreditbank Baden-Wurttemberg-Forderbank.", "The company will use the funds to continue its research initiatives." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 4 ] }, { "title": "Bain Capital", "sents": [ "Bain Capital is a global alternative investment firm based in Boston, Massachusetts.", "It specializes in private equity, venture capital and credit products.", "Bain Capital invests across a range of industry sectors and geographic regions.", "As of June 2014, the firm managed more than $75 billion of investor capital across its various investment platforms." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e27368_p6", "sents": [ "Brown Mpinganjira was a founding member of President Bakili Muluzi's ruling party, but formed his own party, the National Democratic Alliance, partly to oppose the president's efforts to win a third term in office.< font p <p <font FACE=\"verdana,geneva,arial,sans serif\" size=\"-1\" A report on mortality rates revealing that <font size=\"-1\" AIDS< font is the biggest killer in <b South Africa< b was finally released.", "The government had delayed publication of the Medical Research Council's report, while the official statistics agency sought to pick holes in its findings.< font p <br clear=\"all\" <div <font face=\"verdana, geneva, arial, sans serif\" <b Re-starting Europe's heart< b font div <p <font FACE=\"verdana,geneva,arial,sans serif\" size=\"-1\" Governments in both <b France b and <b Germany b started to revise plans to pep up their slowing economies.", "Leaks from Germany's finance ministry revealed that estimated <font size=\"-1\" GDP font growth for next year is now 1.5%, down from a previous official guess of 2.25%." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] }, { "title": "Bakili Muluzi", "sents": [ "Elson Bakili Muluzi (born March 17, 1943 in Machinga, Nyasaland) is a Malawian politician who was the first freely elected President of Malawi from 1994 to 2004.", "He was also chairman of the United Democratic Front (UDF) until 2009.", "He succeeded Hastings Kamuzu Banda as Malawi's president.", "He also served in Banda's cabinet as Minister without Portfolio, before retiring in 1980." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e8917_p24", "sents": [ "top NEW YORK (VENTUREWIRE) -- MobileLogic, a mobile applications provider for enterprises, said it changed its name to Vaultus.", "The company retained Siegelgale, a brand building and Internet consulting firm, to help create the company's new name, corporate identity, brand positioning, and Web site.", "The company's investors include Investcorp, Allen & Company, CMGI @Ventures, Apollo Management, Hikari Tsushin, and Odyssey Investment Partners.", "http: www.vaultus.com Fundamental Software Changes Name to Configuresoft mail this story?", "top WOODLAND PARK, Colo. (VENTUREWIRE) -- Fundamental Software, a Windows NT 2000 configuration management software company, said it changed its name to Configuresoft.", "The company said the new name more accurately reflects its services.", "Configuresoft is backed by JMI and Bradcohill and recently closed a $3.3 million round of funding from individual investors.", "http: www.configuresoft.com new deals Kick-Start Ventures Partners with Greek Accelerator O2B mail this story?", "top LONDON (VENTUREWIRE) -- European venture catalyst Kick-Start Ventures said it formed a partnership with Greek accelerator o2b under which o2b will work with Balkan start-ups and management teams, as well as bricks-and-mortar companies, in technology media and telecommunications." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 1, 2 ] }, { "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": "e3639_p7", "sents": [ "DivXNetworks is backed by Beijing Technology Fund, Draper Atlantic, Draper International, WI Harper Group, and Zone Ventures.", "http: www.divxnetworks.com Enterprise Outlook 2001 FINANCE Semantix Names Ron Johnston Acting Chief Financial Officer mail?", "top HERNDON, Va. (VENTUREWIRE) -- Semantix, a knowledge management company, sai d it named Ron Johnston as acting chief financial officer.", "Mr. Johnston is al so a director of the company's board of directors and formerly served as a founding member of Internet Enterprises, a technology incubator and financi al services firm.", "Semantix is backed by Innovatech Grand Montr,al and Sofinov.", "http: www.semantix.com TECHNOLOGY Discovery Therapeutics Adds William Wheeler, Kenneth Rice mail?", "top RICHMOND, Va. (VENTUREWIRE) -- Discovery Therapeutics, which develops therapeutic products related to adenosine and dopamine, as well as skin barrier modulators that enhance skin permeability, said it appointed Willia m S. Wheeler vice president and chief medical officer.", "Prior to joining the company, Dr. Wheeler was vice president of cardiovascular critical care at Quintiles." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] }, { "title": "e3720_p28", "sents": [ "top LOS ANGELES (VENTUREWIRE) -- Hiwire, a provider of advertising servi ces for streaming media content providers, said it laid off 17 employees, slightly less than a third of its staff.", "A company spokesperson said it made the layoffs to cut costs as it seeks to close a round of funding.", "\"It absolutel y in no way affects our broadcast base,\" said the spokesperson.", "\"We definitel y plan to close a third round.\"", "Hiwire's investors include Grey, New Enterprise Associates, and Zone Ventures.", "http: www.hiwire.com With No Buyer in Sight, TerraShare Shuts Down mail?", "top ALEXANDRIA, Va. (VENTUREWIRE) -- TerraShare, a Web-hosting service a nd network provider of topic-specific portals, said it will end its Web-hostin g service and shut down the company.", "Co-founders Joe O'Brien and John Gregory said in a statement on TerraShare's site that \"attempts to find additional advertisers for the site or someone to acquire the company ultimately prove d unsuccessful.\"" ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 4 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e2204_p86", "sents": [ "The transportation contract for this is to be decided later.", "Two other major Indian shipowners, who have taken a step towards LNG transportation are Great Eastern Shipping and Essar Shipping.", "The former has formed a consortium with Indian Oil Corporation and Exmar, while Essar has joined hands with Malaysia International Shipping Corporation (MISC) to form a 50:50 joint venture dedicated to gas transportation.", "The Dollars 2.3bn MISC, the national shipping line of Malaysia, is one of the world's leading owners and operators of LNG tankers.", "As a listed company on the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange, MISC has the state-owned petroleum and oil giant Petronas (a Fortune 500 company) as its largest shareholder, with a stake of 62%.", "'Our memorandum of understanding has both companies holding an equal equity share in the joint venture,' said Essar Shipping's chief executive, Sanjay Mehta.", "'However, at a later date we may both dilute our stakes equally in favour of a third strategic partner, and continue to hold equal equity." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 1, 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 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e27066_p19", "sents": [ "FORMER HIGH-FLIERS SHUNNED Analysts said that in the current uncertain investment climate, investors a re shunning trading-oriented companies' whose stocks had previously command ed high price-earnings multiples and seeking out more modestly valued compa nies which own physical assets such as power plants and natural gas pipelin es.", "In terms of recent stock price performance this trend has punished a market er-trader like Aquila, whose shares are down 27 percent over the last two w eeks.", "On the other hand it has been relatively kind to companies such as Williams Cos. and Duke Energy Corp. which until recently were treated with scorn by Enron executives who aggressively propounded an \"asset-light\" philosophy Williams' stock has fallen about 5 percent over the last fortnight while Du ke's shares are down less than 1 percent and have outperformed the broader United States stock market.", "J.P. Morgan analyst Anatol Feygin said Enron had fallen victim to its uniqu e taste for sophisticated financing techniques and its failure to explain t hem when doubts started to surface." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 3 ] }, { "title": "e850_p4", "sents": [ "Mass Merit - (built 1993) 69,620 dwt delivery United States Gulf Apr 15 25 trip and redelivery Taiwan $10,750 daily plus $190,000 ballast bonus Taho.", "Menites - (built 1981) 64,896 dwt delivery Ghent Apr 10 15 trip via Brazil redelivery Antwerp approximately $10,000 daily Pan Ocean.", "Atlantic Savior - (built 1983) 64,754 dwt delivery Cape Passero Apr 10 15 trans-Atlantic round voyage redelivery West Mediterranean-Continent range $10,000 daily T and E. USA: RESEARCH ALERT-Morgan starts Dynegy as buy.", "04 06 2001 Reuters English News Service (C) Reuters Limited 2001. NEW YORK, April 6 (Reuters) - J.P. Morgan said Friday that analyst Anatol Feygin had initiated coverage of Dynegy Inc. as a long term buy with a price target of $63 a share.", "He said the company has provided \"defensive earnings growth through a top tier wholesale energy player\" that is \"second only to Enron .\"", "Dynegy's asset-light strategy allows the company to follow Enron's lead, with a favorable risk reward profile with 73 percent of EBIT coming from non-regulated \"merchant energy\" opportunities, he said." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 3 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "New Enterprise Associates", "sents": [ "New Enterprise Associates (NEA) is an American-based venture capital firm.", "NEA focuses investment stages ranging from seed stage through growth stage.", "NEA invests across a broad array of industry sectors.", "With over $18 billion in assets under management, NEA was the world's largest venture capital firm in 2007." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 3 ] }, { "title": "e7938_p22", "sents": [ "Mr Stewart was former president and COO of grocery chain conglomerate American Stores and vice president of convenience store chain Flying J's food servic e division.", "C-Store Matrix said it is in the process of raising its first rou nd of funding.", "http: www.cstorematrix.com Voice Infrastructure Firm IP Unity Names Ex-ADC Exec As CEO MILPITAS, Calif. (VENTUREWIRE) -- IP Unity, a provider of voice infrastructure products that enable voice, data, and Web-integrated servic es for next-generation networks, said it appointed Arun Sobti as chairman of the board and chief executive officer.", "Mr. Sobti was president of the b roadband access and transport group at ADC Telecommunications, a broadband communications company.", "Mr. Sobti replaces founding CEO Ahmed Afroz, who will remain as president.", "IP Unity is backed by Battery Ventures, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, and New Enterprise Associates.", "http: www.ip unity.com?", "vc personnel?", "Two Berkeley International Partners J oin SunAmerica Ventures?" ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 2, 5 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e3415_p17", "sents": [ "Surebridge raised $36 million in a second round in February 2000. http: www.surebridge.com bad news Broadband Products Provider RiverDelta Cuts 20% of Staff mail?", "top TEWKSBURY, Mass.", "(VENTUREWIRE) -- RiverDelta Networks, a developer of carrier-class switching and service provisioning products for broadband carriers, said it has laid-off about 20% if its workforce, leaving the company with a little over 200 employees.", "A company spokesperson said the layoffs are a response to market conditions and are meant to put the compan y in line with the current economic climate.", "While the layoffs were across th e board, the sales unit was hit the hardest, she said.", "RiverDelta, which has raised about $46 million in funding to date, is in the process of raising i ts third round of funding, the spokesperson confirmed.", "RiverDelta is backed by Pequot Capital Management, Battery Ventures, Charles River Ventures, and individual investors.", "http: www.riverdelta.com Escrow.com CEO and CFO Resign, Company Restructures mail?" ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 2, 5, 6 ] }, { "title": "Charles River Ventures", "sents": [ "CRV (a.k.a.", "Charles River Ventures) is a venture capital firm focused on early-stage investments in technology and new media companies.", "The firm, which is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts and Menlo Park, California, was founded in 1970 to commercialise research that came out of MIT.", "(Its name comes from the Charles River that divides Boston and Cambridge)" ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 1, 2 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e27490_p3", "sents": [ "Analysts per Dow Jones Newswires were expecting the trade gap to rise to $29 billion.", "- WORLD MARKETS European markets retreated following the release of this morning's German IFO business sentiment index for September, which dropped to its lowest level in almost eight years.", "The IFO index fell to 85 from August's 89.5, below economist's expectations, and the future prospects component fell to 90.6 from August's 95.9. The dismal report pressured the euro, which dropped against the dollar, and stoked speculation of further interest rate cuts by the European Central Bank, amid a deteriorating economic landscape.", "An upbeat earnings report from Nokia (NOK,18.78,f2) offered little in the way of a reprieve, even though the company posted a smaller-than-expected 3Q loss and forecast a recovery for wireless handset sales in 4Q.", "The Bloomberg European 500 Index was down 1.58% as of 8:54 a.m. EDT.", "Asian markets were mixed, with Japan's Nikkei-225 Index closing up 0.6% on strength in technology and pharmaceutical stocks." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 3 ] }, { "title": "e48_p0", "sents": [ "'Nokia Expects to Meet Earnings Forecast Despite Lowered Sales, Industry Outlook Dow Jones Newswires HELSINKI, Finland -- Despite market conditions that have cut into its sales growth, Nokia said Thursday that it expects to meet its earnings target for the first quarter of 2001, thanks to better-than-anticipated profit margins.", "Nokia estimates it is likely to earn 19 European cents a share in the first quarter, in line with estimates it provided in January.", "Nokia's shares received a boost from the statement, rising 2.60 euros, or 11%, to 27.15 euros in early-afternoon trading in Helsinki.", "In midday trading in the U.S., shares of Nokia were up $3.20, or 15%, to $25 on the New York Stock Exchange.", "The company said it expects year-on-year sales growth in its networks division during the first quarter to be 30% to 35%, and 15% to 20% in the mobile-handsets division.", "Total sales growth is expected to be around 20%, the company said." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e27495_p0", "sents": [ "'Exporting Fresh Water; Entrepreneurs press a reluctant Canada to let them s ell; its abundant eau to a thirsty world Time Magazine, 08 13 01 Eco-Economists Back Bush on Kyoto Pact Obscure Group Says Accord Contai ns Serious Flaws; Slower Course Favored The Wall Street Journal, 08 07 01 Business Brief -- Reliant Resources Inc.: Sale Is Under Consideration For T elecommunications Unit The Wall Street Journal, 08 07 01 After Short, Volatile Tenure, United States Energy Regulator Quits The New York Times, 08 07 01 American Water to Buy Azurix The Wall Street Journal, 08 07 01 ASIA-PACIFIC - Enron wins Indian appeal - NEWS DIGEST.", "Financial Times, 08 07 01 World Business Briefing Asia: India: Dabhol Ruling The New York Times, 08 07 01 Shell Grp Seeking Partnership With Japanese Pwr, Gas Cos Dow Jones Energy Service, 08 07 01 American Water Works absorbs Enron unit, bulks up North American operations National Post, 08 07 01 Supreme court stays MERC Dabhol proceedings The Economic Times, 08 07 01 Shocking lack of buyers The Economic Times, 08 07 01 India: HC to decide on MERC authority in DPC case Business Line, 08 0701 Enron's DPC `extremely pleased' with SC ruling The Times of India, 08 07 01 SC transfers Enron issue to Bombay HC The Times of India, 08 07 01 SC restrains Dabhol from international arbitration Business Standard, 08 07 01 American Water to buy Azurix unit The Daily Deal, 08 07 01 Reliant unit goes on the sales block Houston Chronicle, 08 07 01 FERC chief to resign within weeks Houston Chronicle, 08 07 01 Enron has buyer for its water unit Houston Chronicle, 08 07 01 GAO May Issue Report on Cheney's Refusal to Name Company Chiefs Bloomberg, 08 06 01 Global Business Hot Commodity Exporting Fresh Water; Entrepreneurs press a reluctant Canada to let them s ell; its abundant eau to a thirsty world Stephen Handelman New York 08 13 2001 Time Magazine Time Inc. B14 [Not Available In All Editions] (Copyright 2001) Water has been called the oil of the 21st century." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 1 ] }, { "title": "National Post", "sents": [ "The National Post is a Canadian English-language newspaper.", "The paper is the flagship publication of Postmedia Network, and is published Tuesdays through Saturdays.", "It was founded in 1998 by Conrad Black.", "Once distributed nationally, it later began publishing a daily edition in the provinces of Ontario, Quebec, Alberta and British Columbia, with only its weekend edition available in Manitoba and Saskatchewan.", "As of 2006, the \"Post\" is no longer distributed in Canada's Atlantic provinces and the territories.", "As of 2017, the \"Post\" is no longer a daily newspaper, publishing on a reduced schedule and transitioning subcribers to electronic delivery." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 2 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "Pegasus Mail", "sents": [ "Pegasus Mail is a donationware (previously freeware), proprietary, email client that is developed and maintained by David Harris and his team.", "It was originally released in 1990 for internal and external mail on NetWare networks with MS-DOS clients, and was subsequently ported to Microsoft Windows, which became the most widely used version.", "A version for Apple Macintosh also used to be available." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] }, { "title": "e11706_p2", "sents": [ "Thanks.", "Nicole Fink Public Opinion Strategies (703) 836-7655 [email protected] The following section of this message contains a file attachment prepared for transmission using the Internet MIME message format.", "If you are using Pegasus Mail, or any another MIME-compliant system, you should be able to save it or view it from within your mailer.", "If you cannot, please ask your system administrator for assistance.", "- File information -- File: ENRON CA Statewide Interview Schedule.wpd Date: 9 Mar 2001, 10:09 Size: 132204 bytes.", "Type: WordPerfect - ENRON CA Statewide Interview Schedule.wpd The following section of this message contains a file attachment prepared for transmission using the Internet MIME message format.", "If you are using Pegasus Mail, or any another MIME-compliant system, you should be able to save it or view it from within your mailer.", "If you cannot, please ask your system administrator for assistance.", "- File information -- File: Schedule.PDF Date: 9 Mar 2001, 10:14 Size: 58861 bytes." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 2 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e27220_p2", "sents": [ "The company also said it is seeking a second round of venture capital financing.", "<br <br According to Qusion spokesperson, Nicholas Stuart Ludlum, the company hopes to close its Series B round by the end of the year with funds used to ramp up product development.", "He would not comment on the amount of money Qusion hopes to raise.", "<br <br Mr. Ludlum said the firm has five people on its board at present and will add a couple more after the completion of the second round.", "<br <br Qusion has received backing from Wasserstein Ventures, Vantage Point Venture Partners, and WR Hambrecht.", "font <br <a href=\"http: www.qusiontech.com\" target=\"_new\" <font face='arial,helvetica' size='2' http: www.qusiontech.com< font a td tr table <br <table border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 <tr <td &#8226; <a name=\"vwLLKIMJKLII\" <b <font face='arial,helvetica' size=\"2\" Covalent Materials Announces New President & CEO font ba td <td align=\"right\" <a href=\"#vwLLKIMJKLIIx\" <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=LLKIMJKLII\" 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\" EMERYVILLE, CALIF. -- Covalent Materials, a developer of nanotechnology components for electronics and energy storage applications, said it has appointed Charles Janac as president and CEO." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 4 ] }, { "title": "e2852_p15", "sents": [ "DigiPlex offers a range of carrier-neutral colocation, facility outfitting, and service optio ns to telecom operators and service providers.", "DigiPlex facilities provide connectivity to fiber-optic networks and voice and data networking equipmen t for its customers.", "The company has raised $239 million in equity and $96.6 million in debt to date.", "Other investors include Carrier1 and iaxis.", "http: www.digiplex.com STSN Gets $66.5M of Series D Debt and Equity mail?", "top SALT LAKE CITY (VENTUREWIRE) -- STSN, which provides high-speed Inte rnet access and specialized broadband services to hotels and conferencing center s, said it has secured $66.5 million in debt and equity in its Series D round of funding led by new investors Siemens and On Command.", "The round also include s previous investors APV Technology Partners, Intel, Marriott International, ThomVest Holdings, and Vantage Point Venture Partners.", "The debt financing w as provided by GATX.", "The company said it would use the funding to continue to increase its penetration of North America, Europe and the Asia Pacific region." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 5, 6 ] } ]

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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": [ 3, 4 ] }, { "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": "e3733_p9", "sents": [ "Quigley directs the Berkeley Program on Housing and Urban Policy.", "The Haas School, the College of Environmental Design, and the Goldman School of Public Policy sponsor the daylong conference.", "While the event is sold out, those interested in the agenda of the conference can visit the web site at http: urbanpolicy.berkeley.edu for further information.", "THE SECOND OF FOUR NEW FACULTY PROFILES: JACOB SAGI Jacob Sagi, a newly appointed assistant professor in the Finance Group, joined the Haas School from RPOptions, Ltd., a consulting firm creating risk management and forecasting models in Vancouver, B.C.", "He is a founder and was principal at the firm.?", "Sagi holds Ph.D.s in both physics and finance from the University of British Columbia.", "His research interests include theoretical asset pricing and real options.", "This semester Sagi is teaching \"Investments\" and \"Introduction to Theoretical Finance.\"", "His office hours are Monday, 11:00 to 12:30 in F608. He can be reached at 642-3422 or via e-mail at [email protected]." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 3, 5 ] }, { "title": "University of British Columbia", "sents": [ "The University of British Columbia, commonly referred to as UBC, is a public research university with campuses and facilities in British Columbia, Canada.", "Founded in 1908 as the McGill University College of British Columbia, the university became independent and adopted its current name in 1915.", "It is British Columbia's oldest institution of higher learning and has over 60,000 students at its Vancouver and Okanagan Valley campuses.", "Most students are enrolled in five larger faculties: Arts, Science, Applied Science, UBC Faculty of Medicine and the Sauder School of Business.", "UBC's 4.02 km2 Vancouver campus is within the University Endowment Lands, about 10 km west of Downtown Vancouver.", "The 2.09 km2 Okanagan campus, acquired in 2005, is in Kelowna." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e4854_p30", "sents": [ "mDiversity is backed by individual investors.", "http: www.mdiversity.com New People o Interactive Streaming Firm WorldStream Names CEO SEATTLE -- WorldStream Communications, an interactive streaming company, said it has named Bill Malloy as its chief executive officer and as a member of the board of directors.", "Mr. Malloy joins WorldStream after leaving Peapod, a Chicago-based Internet grocer, where he was president and CEO earlier this year.", "WorldStream is backed by Crosspoint Venture Partners and Polaris Venture Partners.", "http: www.worldstream.com Customer Tracking Tech Firm Saffron Names New CEO President RESEARCH TRIANGLE, N.C. -- Saffron Technology, a provider of software that keeps track of customer preferences to allow vendors to tailor their products and offerings, said it named James F. Kessler III as CEO and president.", "Mr. Kessler formerly served as the e-business practice executive for IBM Global Services.", "Investors for Saffron Technology include Aurora Funds and individual investors.", "http: www.saffrontech.com Ex-Wolfgang Puck CEO Named CEO of Security Firm Netlock BREA, Calif. -- Netlock Technologies, a provider of information security services, announced that Selwyn H. Joffe was appointed president and CEO replacing Netlock's former president, Paul Naruse, who has been named chairman." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 6 ] }, { "title": "e2852_p31", "sents": [ "http: www.escalate.com Qiva Acquires Supply-Chain Web Software Firm Capstan Systems mail?", "top SAN FRANCISCO (VENTUREWIRE) -- Qiva, which provides global logistics and transportation management applications, said that it expects to acquire San Francisco-based Capstan Systems, a provider of Web applications for global supply-chain execution, within 45 to 60 days for an undisclosed amount.", "Qiv a said that no layoffs or office closings are planned.", "Qiva was founded in 19 89 and has 195 employees in offices in San Francisco, Australia, France, Malaysia, and the U.K.", "It is backed by Aurora Funds, Bessemer Venture Partners, Net Market Partners, and the Valent Group.", "Capstan is backed by Bechtel, Celestica, Craig Walker, FG II Ventures, i2 Technologies, Jafco Ventures, Orchid Asia Holdings, and Sterling Payot Co.", "Founded in 1998, Capstan employs 51 people.", "http: www.capstan.com http: www.qiva.com BrainHeart Buys Bankrupt Mobile Internet Division of Linq mail?", "top STOCKHOLM, Sweden (VENTUREWIRE) -- BrainHeart Capital, a venture fir m focused on the wireless IT industry in Scandinavia, said it bought the mobi le Internet division of Linq, an IT company that filed for bankruptcy in April Financial details of the all-cash transaction were not disclosed." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 1, 4 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e10580_p11", "sents": [ "Sen. Tom McClintock, the Thousand Oaks Republican who has been working on supply-related issues for his party, accused the state of actively discouraging the building of new generators over the last 25 years, resulting in today's crisis.", "\"You either begin a crash program of energy development in this state to address the supply side or you do what Gray Davis did, which is basically to say if you bring a generator into the state of California we'll seize your assets and throw you all in jail,\" McClintock said.", "\"We think that is the wrong approach.\"", "As the Senate prepared to approve the long-term buying bill, a protest outside the governor's office led to the arrest of two demonstrators accused of obstructing the doorway.", "More than a dozen consumer activists yelled \"shame, shame, shame\" and waved dollar bills as they protested what they called a taxpayer-financed bailout of utilities.", "\"These are multibillion-dollar companies that have the ability to bail themselves out without our help,\" said Medea Benjamin, a former Green Party United States Senate candidate and one of the protesters arrested." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] }, { "title": "Tom McClintock", "sents": [ "Thomas Miller McClintock II (born July 10, 1956) is an American politician who is the U.S. Representative for California 's 4 congressional district , serving since 2009.", "He is a member of the Republican Party.", "He is a former Assemblyman and state Senator.", "McClintock unsuccessfully ran for Governor of California in the 2003 California recall election and for Lieutenant Governor of California in the 2006 California lieutenant gubernatorial election." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e20425_p44", "sents": [ "This nation must stop at nothing to get the terrorists.", "But it can't abando n the white-collar folks, either.", "There was just too much money lost too fast for what, in an era where energ y seems pretty plentiful, couldn't possibly, in retrospect, be considered a real shortage.", "Random musings: See you on CNBC'S \"Squawk,\" where I will, if given the chan ce, talk about Viacom (VIAB:NYSE - news - commentary) ChevronTexaco (CVX: NYSE - news - commentary) United Technologies (UTX:NYSE - news - commenta ry) and Wells Fargo (WFC:NYSE - news - commentary) all of which have some nice cyclicality to them, which is what is called for at this very moment.", "Small-Stock Focus: Russell 2000 Ekes Out Increase; Adtran, Arris Group Post Gains?By Karen Talley?Dow Jones Newswires 10 25 2001?The Wall Street Journal?C6?", "(Copyright (c) 2001, Dow Jones & Company, Inc.) NEW YORK -- It was a day for small-cap stocks to hug the baseline -- barely moving -- befo re ending the day with a slight gain as a number of positive profit reports pitched them onto positive ground." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 3 ] }, { "title": "United Technologies", "sents": [ "United Technologies Corporation (UTC) is an American multinational conglomerate headquartered in Farmington, Connecticut.", "It researches, develops, and manufactures products in numerous areas, including aircraft engines, aerospace systems, HVAC, elevators and escalators, fire and security, building systems, and industrial products, among others.", "UTC is also a large military contractor, getting about 10% of its revenue from the U.S. government.", "Gregory J. Hayes is the CEO and chairman." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "Calgary", "sents": [ "Calgary ( ) is a city in the Canadian province of Alberta.", "It is situated at the confluence of the Bow River and the Elbow River in the south of the province, in an area of foothills and prairie, about 80 km east of the front ranges of the Canadian Rockies.", "The city anchors the south end of what Statistics Canada defines as the \"Calgary–Edmonton Corridor\"." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] }, { "title": "e7723_p19", "sents": [ "Previous investors in the company include Bjorn Haugland and undisclosed individuals.", "http: www.confirmit.com Utility.com Raises Over $22 Million in Third Funding Round EMERYVILLE, Calif. -- Utility.com, an Internet utility company, said it has closed its third round of venture funding, raising over $22 million.", "Gaz de France, a European gas company, led the round that included Sumitomo Corporation of Japan.", "Previous investors Southern Company Energy Marketing, Sempra Energy Trading, idealab!", "Capital Partners, Trident Capital, Primedia, Kinetic, TL Ventures, and Moore Capital Management also participated in the round.", "Utility.com said it will use the funds to support expanding operations.", "http: www.utility.com Canadian Travel Site Tripeze.com Gets $1 Million Third Round CALGARY -- Tripeze.com, a Canadian-based travel Web site, said it received $1 million as part of its third round of funding from Network Capital and Starlink Communications, both based in Calgary.", "Starlink is a public merchant capital banking company managed by Network Capital." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 6 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "Alliance to Save Energy", "sents": [ "The Alliance to Save Energy is a coalition consisting largely of industrial, technological, and energy corporations.", "The Alliance states that its mission is to \"support energy efficiency as a cost-effective energy resource under existing market conditions and advocate energy-efficiency policies that minimize costs to society and individual consumers, and that lessen greenhouse gas emissions and their impact on the global climate.\"", "The alliance's chief activities include public relations, research, and lobbying to change U.S. energy policy." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1, 2 ] }, { "title": "e1267_p14", "sents": [ "In 1996, Enron became the first natural gas pipeline company to buy an electric utility, Portland General Electric in Portland, Ore. Enron OnLine, the company's Internet trading site at enrononline.com, has, in only a year or so of operation, become the largest e-commerce site in the world.", "Now, Enron makes 80 percent of its profits from businesses that did not exist in 1988, the huge wholesale markets that have developed for natural gas and electricity-marketing, broadband, fiber-optic and energy services.", "\"It seems like they do everything,\" said David Nemtzow, president of the Alliance to Save Energy, a nonprofit energy conservation group.", "\"$100 billion (in annual revenues) is nothing to sneeze at.", "Exxon Mobil was founded by John Rockefeller, Enron's only been around for 15 years.\"", "Enron still trails Exxon in size, since the biggest company in the oil business had $233 billion in revenues last year, and it is not be as well known as John D. Rockefeller." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 2 ] } ]