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[ { "title": "Media Access Project", "sents": [ "The Media Access Project (or \"'MAP\") was a non-profit group that promoted the public’s interest before Congress and the US court system.", "MAP grew out of a 1960s lawsuit against the United Church of Christ and was eventually formed in 1972 in order to advance the rights of the public wanting to participate in the democratic process.", "Some of their first cases involved two TV stations in Mississippi not catering to the African American Community, resulting in the stations almost being shut down.", "From that era and cases came the thought \"that members of the viewing and listening public have the legal right, derived from the First Amendment, to participate in FCC proceedings.\"", "Their most common way of fighting cases was through lobbying.", "The group suspended operations on May 1, 2012." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] }, { "title": "e7180_p3", "sents": [ "\"Consumers do not want to be beholden to a giant media-Internet dictatorship, even if it promises to be a benevolent one,\" said Andy Schwartzman, president of the Media Access Project, which issued a joint statement with Consumers Union, the Consumer Federation of America, and the Center for Media Education expressing strong reservations about what would be the biggest corporate merger in United States history.", "The groups are calling for the Federal Communications Commission to require cable and other high-speed Internet access providers to open their networks to competitors and asking that AT&T's ownership interests in Time Warner are severed.", "But others dismissed those arguments, noting that \"over the past two years, we have this phenomenon whereby a new merger or technology is announced and some company is immediately put forward as the media giant,\" said James Gattuso, vice president for policy and management at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, citing a string of prognostications about SBC, BellAtlantic, Microsoft, AT&T, and now AOL-Time Warner." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e3579_p21", "sents": [ "The round raised $85 million, and also included investments from Integral Capital Partners, Oppenheimer Funds, J&W Seligman, Carlyle Internet Partners Europe, Azure Capital Partners, JT Venture Partners, Kinetic, Octane Capital Management, Pilgrim Baxter Hyper Partners, Bank of America Securities, and Morgan Stanley Dean Witter.", "As part of the strategic investment, Zaffire has committed to using Wind River as a standard supplier of embedded software for the company's products.", "The companies have also agreed to partner on future developments.", "Prior investors in Zaffire include Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Juniper Networks, and MRV Communications.", "http: www.zaffire.com =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D M&A =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D o E-Healthcare Firm MillenniumHealth Buys Latin Site Salud RESTON, Va. -- MillenniumHealth Communications, a provider of online healthcare communications and electronic commerce, today announced it has acquired Salud.com, a Miami-based global provider of healthcare information, products, services and content for Spanish speakers.", "The terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.", "MillenniumHealth said the Salud acquisition enables the firm to extend its services to Central and South America." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] }, { "title": "e4273_p8", "sents": [ "http: www.dancescape.com Consulting Firm Netigy Raises $75 Million in Round Three SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Netigy, which provides infrastructure consulting and services to enterprise companies, said it raised $75 million in its third round of funding.", "Van Wagoner Capital Management led the round followed by J&W Seligman, Pilgrim Baxter and Associates, Avalon Capital Management, Trinity Ventures, Morgan Stanley Dean Witter, and Eric Greenberg, founder and chairman of Scient.", "The round also included strategic investors Genuity and Dell.", "The company plans to use the funds for expansion into the U.K. and staffing.", "Previous investors are Benchmark Capital, Cisco Systems, and Trinity Ventures.", "http: www.netigy.com Energy Marketplace Myutility.com Gets Seed Funding NEW YORK -- Myutility.com, an energy services marketplace and information provider for businesses, said it has secured an undisclosed amount of seed capital.", "The funding was led by TSG Equity Partners, formerly the Shepherd Group.", "Thomas R. Shepherd, chairman and co-founder of TSG Capital, has joined Myutility.com's board of directors." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e3230_p48", "sents": [ "The model for VOD distribution would be companies like Blockbuster, which aggregate distribution rights for movies on video tape.", "Aggregation at the other end of the networks could bring all subscribers into the market whether they have high-speed cable-TV connections or high-speed digital subscriber lines from phone companies.", "Aggregation at the local level seems ideal for utilities that are getting into the telecom sector.", "They have the billing systems and most if not all the local customers needed to make the service work.", "Two utilities, Reliant Energy Inc. (REI) and Potomac Electric Power Co. (POM), have opened the door to future revenue from VOD.", "Reliant Energy Inc. has invested in Grande Communications, which provides Internet access, phone service and cable television.", "Potomac Electric and RCN Corporation (RCN) have a joint venture, StarPower Communications, which provides cable television service in the Washington, D.C., area.", "-By Michael Rieke, Dow Jones Newswires; 713-547-9207; [email protected] Copyright 2000 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 5 ] }, { "title": "e490_p44", "sents": [ "The ISO studied transactions involving 21 generating companies.", "It did not release the names of any of them.", "Leading suppliers in California include Dynegy Inc., Duke Energy Corp., Reliant Energy Inc., Williams Cos. and Enron Corp. \"The prices were above a normally competitive market,\" said Anjali Sherrin, author of the ISO's analysis.", "The $6.8 billion includes $562 million in alleged overcharges during December and January.", "Of those, FERC has proposed refunding $69 million for January.", "The power generators accused of the overcharges have until the end of today to give tell FERC why they believe those charges were justified.", "The ISO wants federal regulators to step in and stabilize the wholesale electricity prices that have pushed Southern California Edison and Pacific Gas & Electric Co. to the brink of insolvency.", "Power companies that sell to the ISO and the utilities said they were confident an independent examination will find that they did nothing wrong." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 2, 3, 5 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e3624_p0", "sents": [ "\"PennFuture's E-cubed is a commentary biweekly email publication concerning the current themes and trends in the energy market.", "PennFuture, which has offices in Harrisburg, Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, is a statewide public interest membership organization, which advances polici es to protect and improve the state ,s environment and economy.?", "PennFuture ,s activities include litigating cases before regulatory bodies and in local, state and federal courts, advocating and advancing legislative action on a state and federal level, public education and assisting citizens in public advocacy.", "September 11, 2000 Vol.", "2, No.", "18 Pittsburgh v. San Diego: First and Goal Pittsburgh, like San Diego, will soon be served by an electric utility that has divested its generation and paid off its stranded costs.", "Despite these important similarities, the different public policies implemented by Pennsylvania and California are producing electricity markets that have little in common.", "In the Pittsburgh area, where Duquesne Light ,s distribution service territory delivers electricity, residential customers have several choices and an impressive 30% have switched to a competitive generation supplier." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 7 ] }, { "title": "Pittsburgh", "sents": [ "Pittsburgh ( ) is a city in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in the United States, and is the county seat of Allegheny County.", "As of 2017, a total population of 305,704 lives within the city limits, making it the 63rd-largest city in the U.S.", "The metropolitan population of 2,353,045 is the largest in both the Ohio Valley and Appalachia, the second-largest in Pennsylvania (behind Philadelphia), and the 26th-largest in the U.S." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "The Economic Times", "sents": [ "The Economic Times is an English-language, Indian daily newspaper published by the Bennett, Coleman & Co. Ltd.. First published in 1961, it is the world's second-most widely read English-language business newspaper, after the \"Wall Street Journal\", with a readership of over 800,000.", "\"The Economic Times\" is published simultaneously from 12 cities—Mumbai, Bangalore, Delhi, Chennai, Kolkata, Lucknow, Hyderabad, Jaipur, Ahmedabad, Nagpur, Chandigarh, and Pune." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] }, { "title": "e28108_p0", "sents": [ "'Computer Megamerger: Will Bigger Be Better?", "Houston Frets Over Symbol of Diverse Economy The Wall Street Journal, 09 05 01 Shell to Stop Selling Power in Ohio, Texas Energy: Company says it will take too long to become profitable with the slowed pace of electricity deregulation.", "Los Angeles Times, 09 05 01 INTERNATIONAL CAPITAL MARKETS - Political risk kills appetite for Asian project finance.", "Financial Times, 09 05 01 Enron India Willing To Complete Phase II Of Dabhol Proj Dow Jones International News, 09 05 01 INDIA: Enron's Indian row may end soon-trade body.", "Reuters English News Service, 09 05 01 INDIA PRESS:Dabhol Pwr Lenders Agree To Restructure Loans Dow Jones International News, 09 05 01 FIs agree to reduce interest rate on DPC loans The Economic Times, 09 05 01 Loss of local PC giant a blow to city's image Houston Chronicle, 09 05 01 INDIA: India to revive reform, boost demand for growth." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 4 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "Boeing", "sents": [ "The Boeing Company ( ) is an American multinational corporation that designs, manufactures, and sells airplanes, rotorcraft, rockets, and satellites worldwide.", "The company also provides leasing and product support services.", "Boeing is among the largest global aircraft manufacturers; it is the second-largest defense contractor in the world based on 2015 revenue, and is the largest exporter in the United States by dollar value.", "Boeing stock is a component of the Dow Jones Industrial Average." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 2 ] }, { "title": "e2035_p73", "sents": [ "This summer Boeing is going to begin purchasing airplane production parts online from its suppliers.", "Standardizing and reducing the number of parts has helped boost margins on plane-building to 9% from 5% in 1999. Last month, for the first time, Boeing conducted an online reverse auction for natural gas, which it uses to heat many of its plants.", "It got the gas 10% cheaper and sealed the deal in a few hours instead of several weeks.", "And the company is increasingly giving its customers the easy access to Boeing information they crave.", "On myboeingfleet.com, customers can now research design and maintenance issues for almost all of the airline's commercial fleet and order many of the parts they need.", "The upshot: Online sales of Boeing spare parts are up more than 10%, and where Boeing once retained some 60 employees just to handle faxes and phone calls from its customers, it now does the same work with 12 people." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e27165_p4", "sents": [ "Ruhrgas says it was trying to be helpful, but argues that lengthy negotiations were inevitable because it was tackling many access issues for the first time.", "\"We made every contribution to provide for fair and easy access network access,\" said a Ruhrgas spokeswoman.", "\"In the beginning, the system needed some time to develop.\"", "Shortly after a deal was reached, the German government spelled out new rules on pipeline access, which will make future negotiations easier.", "In Oct. 2000, Enron began to deliver gas to Stadtwerke Heidelberg, and to another German municipal utility, which followed a similar negotiating path.", "Stadtwerke Heidelberg moved cautiously; it bought 30% of its natural gas from Enron, with the remainder from its traditional suppliers.", "Enron and Stadtwerke Heidelberg won't discuss the details of their contract, though both say Enron offered a cheaper price than Stadtwerke Heidelberg's other suppliers.", "But the German utility quickly absorbed the cost-saving lessons of a deregulated market: Starting in October, the utility will drop Enron in favor of another company, Wingas, which has built a new pipeline to Heidelberg." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 4, 7 ] }, { "title": "Heidelberg", "sents": [ "Heidelberg (] ) is a college town in Baden-Württemberg situated on the river Neckar in south-west Germany.", "At the 2015 census, its population was 156,257, with roughly a quarter of its population being students." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "Larry Sabato", "sents": [ "Larry Joseph Sabato ( ; born August 7, 1952) is an American political scientist and political analyst.", "He is the Robert Kent Gooch Professor of Politics at the University of Virginia, where he is also the founder and director of the Center for Politics, which works to promote civic engagement and participation.", "The Center for Politics is also responsible for the publication of \"Sabato's Crystal Ball\", an online newsletter and website that provides free political analysis and electoral projections." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] }, { "title": "e6631_p16", "sents": [ "Davis remains the Democrats' point man on energy and the environment.", "Those are two issues Democrats hope to use to win back the White House.", "\"He's the leading governor among Democrats, and certainly the dominant governor in a Democratic field for president,\" said Republican consultant Tony Quinn.", "\"But he has to get credit for getting the energy crisis solved.", "There has to be sufficient supply next year, no blackouts next summer and the prices have to stabilize.\"", "Davis has started to dance on the national stage, where presidential hopefuls audition.", "And if he wins re-election next year _ not a certainty _ that stage will be his new home.", "Thus, Davis, the career politician, has come to the defining moment of his political career.", "\"If he turns this around and gets re-elected handily, he's a contender,\" said Larry Sabato, a political scientist at the University of Virginia.", "Sabato cautioned: \"But he's in trouble in his own state." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 7, 8, 9 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e3733_p15", "sents": [ "Grether Professor in Public Policy and Business Administration and director of the University of California Energy Institute, was interviewed on National Public Radio's Morning Edition on August 28 on natural gas prices.", "Borenstein commented that the rise in the price of natural gas has driven up electricity prices in California.", "HAPPENING AT HAAS FISHER CENTER FOR THE STRATEGIC USE OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SEMINAR Estimating Electricity Use Associated with the Internet: A cautionary tale Jonathan Koomey, Ph.D., Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Tuesday, September 12, 2000 3:00-5:00 p.m. C330, Cheit Hall FINANCE SEMINAR \"An Econometric Model of the Yield Curve with Macroeconomic Jump Effects\" by Monika Piazzesi UCLA.", "Thursday, September 14, 2000 4:15 to 5:45 p.m. Room C110, Cheit Hall.", "For more information, contact June Wong at [email protected] or www.haas.berkeley.edu finance FINANCE SEMINAR \"Capital Structure Decision in Small and Large Firms: A Life Cycle Theory of Financing\" by Zsuzsanna Fluck, New York University." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 2 ] }, { "title": "Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory", "sents": [ "The Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL or LBL), commonly referred to as Berkeley Lab, is a United States national laboratory located in the Berkeley Hills near Berkeley, California that conducts scientific research on behalf of the United States Department of Energy (DOE).", "It is managed and operated by the University of California.", "The laboratory overlooks the University of California, Berkeley's main campus." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "Cleveland", "sents": [ "Cleveland ( ) is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Cuyahoga County, the state's second most populous county.", "The city proper has a population of 388,072, making Cleveland the 51st largest city in the United States, and the second-largest city in Ohio after Columbus.", "Greater Cleveland ranked as the 32nd largest metropolitan area in the United States, with 2,055,612 people in 2016.", "The city anchors the Cleveland–Akron–Canton Combined Statistical Area, which had a population of 3,515,646 in 2010 and ranks 15th in the United States." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] }, { "title": "e3523_p48", "sents": [ "Mr. Davis, a Democrat, said he would file a lawsuit and pursue other efforts to try to force regulators to limit prices charged by energy suppliers.", "Mr. Bush promised more federal money to help poor families pay energy bills, and again pledged to speed federal reviews of plans to build more generating plants.", "A1 Senate Power Shift Begins Senator Carl Levin of Michigan, who will become chairman of a Senate panel on investigations when the Democrats take over the Senate next week, said he would begin an inquiry into the recent rise in gasoline prices.", "A17 Ruling on Legal Fees The Supreme Court dealt a setback to civil rights and environmental plaintiffs, ruling, 5 to 4, that litigation that only serves as a \"catalyst\" for a change in policy without producing a legal ruling does not qualify for reimbursement of legal fees.", "A20 Trial for Holocaust Suspect John Demjanjuk, an 81-year-old retired autoworker born in Ukraine, went on trial in Cleveland with his American citizenship once again at stake over federal accusations that he was a Nazi death camp guard." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 4 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e3698_p5", "sents": [ "On Monday, Vitesse was trading at approximately $ 24 a share.", "Vitesse said the two parties already had a working relationship wh en discussions began four weeks ago.", "Versatile will be integrated into Vitesse and Versatile's co-founders Amit Jain and Roger Hajjar will continue with t he combined company.", "No changes are expected in Versatile's 72 person staff, which will continue to operate from its San Jose, Calif. office.", "Founded in April 2000, Versatile had received $11 million from Sequoia Capital and Telesoft Partners.", "http: www.versatileoptical.com http: www.vitesse.com Guggenheim to Launch For-Profit Art Site with VC Backing mail?", "top NEW YORK (VENTUREWIRE) -- The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, whic h operates an international network of museums, announced the formation of Guggenheim.com, a for-profit Web site dedicated to the visual and performin g arts.", "The site, which is backed by GE Equity, Pequot Private Equity, and Softbank Venture Capital, is set to launch this fall." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 6, 7 ] }, { "title": "e2852_p37", "sents": [ "To date, Gu ru has raised $63 million in financing from investors including American Express, August Capital, CS First Boston, Greylock, Investor AB, Texas Pacific Group, and WR Hambrecht.", "http: www.guru.com Training Products Firm Cognitive Arts Appoints New CEO mail?", "top NEW YORK (VENTUREWIRE) -- Cognitive Arts, a developer of Internet-ba sed products and services for educational and corporate training, said it has appointed Robert C. Daugherty as CEO.", "Mr. Daugherty replaces Russell C. White, who has left the company to pursue other interests.", "Prior to joining Cognitive Arts, Mr. Daugherty served as president and COO of inaQuest.com, a provider of commercial commercial printing software until its July 2000 merger with ProForma.", "He also joins as the eighth director on the company' s board, which includes Rob Bernstein of Leeds Weld, Brian Friedman of FS Private investments, and Elliot Royce of GE Equity.", "To date, the company ha s raised $33 million in three rounds of financing." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 2, 4, 5 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e19958_p4", "sents": [ "Motion of San Diego Gas & Electric Company (U 90 2-E) for Adoption of an Electric Procurement Cost Recovery Mechanism and fo r Order Shortening Time FYI.", "We should discuss.", "Best, Jeff --Original Message -- From: Dan Douglass [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Saturday, August 25, 2001 2:14 PM To: Vicki Sandler; Tamara Johnson; Mara, Susan; Steve Huhman; Roger Pelote; Rob Nichol; Randy Hickok; Nam Nguyen; Jim Crossen; Dasovich, Jeff; Janie M ollon; Jack Pigott; Greg Blue; George Vaughn; Gary Ackerman; Ed Cazalet; De nice Cazalet Purdum; Curtis Kebler; Curt Hatton; Corby Gardiner; Charles Mi essner; Carolyn Baker; Bill Ross; Karen Shea; Max Bulk Subject: IMPORTANT !", "Motion of San Diego Gas & Electric Company (U 902-E) for Adoption of an Electric Procurement Cost Recovery Mechanism and for Or der Shortening Time Yesterday, SDG&E filed a motion for adoption of an electric procurement cos t recovery mechanism and for an order shortening time for parties to file c omments on the mechanism." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 2, 3 ] }, { "title": "e25603_p0", "sents": [ "\"I'll forward to them.", "--Original Message -- From: Mara, Susan Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2001 10:05 AM To: Dasovich, Jeff Subject: FW: __ Does someone at the Chamber want to see this?", "--Original Message -- From: Dan Douglass [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2001 1:16 AM To: ARM; Gary Ackerman; Vicki Sandler; Anderson, Robert; Max Bulk; John Yurkanin; Steve Huhman; Mike Day; Paul Fenn Subject: __ Attached for your review and comment is a revised draft of the application for rehearing to be filed on Friday the 28th.", "There are two primary changes.", "The California Chamber of Commerce has been added to the application and an argument has been added that the Decision contradicts the most recent legislative intent expressed in ABX2 9 that direct access continue, at least for aggregation and community choice purposes.", "Any and all comments will be very much appreciated.", "Also, I would appreciate it if Sue Mara would forward the document to her contact at the Chamber so that they can also review the draft." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 2 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "French Open", "sents": [ "The French Open, also called Roland-Garros (] ), is a major tennis tournament held over two weeks between late May and early June at the Stade Roland-Garros in Paris, France.", "Named after the French aviator Roland Garros, it is the premier clay court tennis championship event in the world and the second of four annual Grand Slam tournaments, the other three being the Australian Open, Wimbledon and the US Open.", "Roland Garros is currently the only major open (sport) held on clay, and it is the zenith of the spring clay court season.", "Because of the seven rounds needed for a championship, the slow-playing surface and the best-of-five-set men's singles matches (without a tiebreak in the final set), the event is widely considered to be the most physically demanding tennis tournament in the world." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] }, { "title": "e3430_p19", "sents": [ "As of 6:30 a.m. EDT today, the DJ had been talking for about 93 hours, easily shattering the record for the longest continuous radio broadcast.", "And he was still talking.", "''It's been a test of wills, a test of determination,'' Jones said.", "''The first day was the hardest, but we're still going strong.''", "Jones said he wanted to remain on the air until he hit the 100-hour mark, which would be about 1 p.m. EDT, and would then decide whether to continue.", "Nikkei Adds 36 Points TOKYO (AP) Tokyo stocks rose moderately today in light trading following holidays in the United States and Britain.", "The Nikkei Stock Average gained 36.12 points to close at 13,773.89. Agassi, Capriati Open With Wins PARIS (AP) Andre Agassi and Jennifer Capriati began their bids for a second consecutive Grand Slam title, winning in straight sets today on the second day of the French Open.", "Agassi, who won the French Open in 1999, beat Sweden's Thomas Johansson 6-2, 6-3, 7-6 (5)." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 6, 7 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e3342_p54", "sents": [ "He said the district offered to add 500 hours of operation time each year with no strings attached.", "That is possible, Allard said, because a 1991 test of the plant's pollution concluded that it released only one-third as much nitrogen oxide--a precursor to smog--as regulators believed when they wrote the permit years ago.", "Ventura County air pollution control officer Dick Baldwin, who regulates two plants owned by Reliant, said the company seems to want to be able to produce more electricity to sell on the spot market--where prices can soar--in exchange for giving the state a break on the electricity it is ordered to sell during emergencies.", "LOAD-DATE: May 24, 2001 10 of 58 DOCUMENTS Copyright 2001 Los Angeles Times Los Angeles Times May 24, 2001 Thursday Home Edition SECTION: California; Part 2; Page 1; Metro Desk LENGTH: 520 words HEADLINE: Use of Diesel Generators Proposed to Bolster Grid; Energy: State says small backup systems, which lack pollution controls, could avert blackouts." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 3 ] }, { "title": "e894_p6", "sents": [ "A1, 1471 words, Davis' Pledges Come Back To Haunt Him, Carla Marinucci, Patrick Hoge San Francisco Chronicle, APRIL 8, 2001, SUNDAY, FINAL EDITION, BUSINESS;, Pg.", "B7, 3592 words, Nuclear Warning; Watchdogs eye Duke's salvage operation, Scott Winokur, Christian Berthelsen Los Angeles Times April 9, 2001, Monday, Home Edition SECTION: Part A; Part 1; Page 3; Metro Desk LENGTH: 1081 words HEADLINE: THE CALIFORNIA ENERGY CRISIS; CALIFORNIA AND THE WEST; GENERATORS SCRAMBLED TO END PACTS WITH UTILITIES; ENERGY: EVEN BEFORE PG&E FILED FOR BANKRUPTCY, ALTERNATIVE PLANT OWNERS WHO HADN'T BEEN PAID IN MONTHS PURSUED COURT ACTIONS.", "BYLINE: JULIE TAMAKI, TIMES STAFF WRITER DATELINE: SACRAMENTO BODY: In filing for federal bankruptcy protection last week, Pacific Gas & Electric Co. determined what other power producers had already concluded: The state had failed to solve their payment problems and the time had come for the courts to step in.", "In the days leading up to PG&E's Bankruptcy Court petition, a growing number of alternative energy producers had also been filing lawsuits, seeking to be freed from their contracts with PG&E and Southern California Edison." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 1 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "Royal Bank of Canada", "sents": [ "The Royal Bank of Canada (RBC; French: \"Banque Royale du Canada\" ) is a Canadian multinational financial services company and the largest bank in Canada.", "The bank serves over 16 million clients and has 80,000 employees worldwide.", "The company corporate headquarters are located in Toronto, Ontario.", "The bank was founded in 1864 in Halifax, Nova Scotia.", "RBC's Institution Number (or bank number) is 003." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 3 ] }, { "title": "e7205_p23", "sents": [ "itemus will hold at least an 80% interest in Shooting Gallery.", "Prior to the consumation of the share exchange, itemus expects to invest up to $7.5 million in Shooting Gallery in the form of a convertible debenture.", "Prior to the acquisition, Shooting Gallery will spin-off its film, television and music development and distribution to Shooting Gallery's existing shareholders.", "Jim Burns, chief executive officer of itemus Solutions, will serve as the chairman of Shooting Gallery.", "http: www.itemus.com http: www.shootinggallery.com Sci-Fi Fantasy Horror Web Site Fandom Acquires Cinescape SANTA MONICA, Calif. -- Fandom, a Web site for science fiction, fantasy, and horror news, information, and merchandise, said it acquired Cinescape Magazine, a bi-monthly publication that covers movies, television and new media for an undisclosed amount.", "Fandom's backers include Entertainment Media Ventures, Redpoint Ventures, RRE Ventures, and Wasserstein Adelson Ventures, a partnership between Wasserstein Perella Group and East West Capital.", "http: www.fandom.com http: www.cinescape.com Separateaccounts.com Buys VIP Private Capital CARMEL, Calif. -- Separateaccounts.com, a financial services firm which will provide infrastructure for banks, online brokers, and money managers to offer separate accounts to their clients, said it has acquired VIP Private Capital, a subsidiary of the publicly-traded Royal Bank of Canada." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 6 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e2934_p9", "sents": [ "want the network to form the core of a regional grid to power electricity and water-desalination plants, as well as gas-based industries, for decades to come.", "(Al-Hayat 5 17 p.11) For Al-Hayat's Web site see {WNLB <GO } UK: ANALYSIS-Spanish boom spurs wave of new power plants.", "By Margaret Orgill 05 17 2001 Reuters English News Service (C) Reuters Limited 2001. LONDON, May 17 (Reuters) - Electricity companies are flocking to build dozens of new power stations in Spain, attracted by surging energy demand and a looming shortfall in local electricity supplies.", "Spanish and foreign firms have proposed around 40 new gas-fired power stations although not all will go ahead, delegates heard at an energy conference in Madrid.", "\"How many of these projects get realised depends on the permitting process and the capacity of the gas system,\" Agustin Llana, manager for gas and power at Shell Espana told the conference.", "Spain urgently needs the new power stations or it could face a crisis similar to that in California where power prices rocketed and the state suffered rolling blackouts, say analysts." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 2, 3, 4 ] }, { "title": "Madrid", "sents": [ "Madrid ( , ] , ] ) is the capital of Spain and the largest municipality in both the Community of Madrid and Spain as a whole.", "The city has almost 3.166 million inhabitants with a metropolitan area population of approximately 6.5 million.", "It is the third-largest city in the European Union (EU) after London and Berlin, and its metropolitan area is the third-largest in the EU after those of London and Paris.", "The municipality itself covers an area of 604.3 km² ." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e2259_p68", "sents": [ "--If the Bush administration's new efficiency standards for air conditioner s and heat pumps improved energy use by 30 percent instead of 20 percent, the output of 138 of these power plants would not been needed during peak use times.", "Americans could even unplug idle appliances -- TVs, VCRs, cable boxes, CD players and microwaves -- when they go out of town.", "Some of these appliance s continue to consume energy when switched off.", "The power keeps display clock s lighted and memory chips and remote controls working.", "The alliance says the se electric leaks cost consumers more than $3 billion a year.", "Conservation does help, according to Alexandra von Meier, director of the Environmental Technology Center at Sonoma State University in California.", "S he told a House energy subcommittee on Thursday that residential and commercia l buildings use about 35 percent of the energy -- electricity and fuels -- in the United States." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 5 ] }, { "title": "Sonoma State University", "sents": [ "Sonoma State University (SSU, Sonoma State, and Sonoma) is a public comprehensive university, part of the 23-campus California State University (CSU) system.", "The main campus is located east of Rohnert Park, and north of Cotati, California, United States, approximately 10 mi south of Santa Rosa and 50 mi north of San Francisco.", "The university is one of the smallest of the 23 CSU campuses in California.", "Sonoma State offers 92 Bachelor's degrees, 19 Master's degrees, one Doctoral degree (Doctor of Education), and 11 teaching credentials." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 3 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e27931_p2", "sents": [ "Although most national airlines look in a sorry state, government and business stumped up SFr4.24 billion ($2.6 billion) to recapitalise Crossair, a Swiss regional airline that will take over two-thirds of bankrupt Swissair's aircraft and routes.", "See article: Europe's airlines and subsidies <http: TheEconomist.s.maildart.net link_31713_6557115_2_80010922_60368779_1_4e E+ <http: www.economist.com images dingbats e5.gif Britain and America resumed talks aimed at an \"open skies\" agreement that would allow more airlines to ply their trade between the two countries, and would persuade America's antitrust authorities to allow an alliance between BA and American Airlines.", "The French government confirmed a similar deal to enable an alliance between Air France and Delta.", "BA also began alliance talks with KLM Royal Dutch; other European airlines are likely to seek allies.", "America's bad results America's biggest companies had a tough week.", "AMR, parent company of American Airlines, the world's biggest, reported a loss of $525m in the latest quarter, including losses related to September 11th, compared with a profit of $322m last year." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 1, 2 ] }, { "title": "Air France", "sents": [ "Air France (] ; formally \"Société Air France, S.A.\"), stylized as AIRFRANCE, is the French flag carrier headquartered in Tremblay-en-France.", "It is a subsidiary of the Air France–KLM Group and a founding member of the SkyTeam global airline alliance.", "As of 2013 Air France serves 36 destinations in France and operates worldwide scheduled passenger and cargo services to 168 destinations in 93 countries (including overseas departments and territories of France) and also carried 46,803,000 passengers in 2015.", "The airline's global hub is at Charles de Gaulle Airport with Orly Airport.", "Air France's corporate headquarters, previously in Montparnasse, Paris, are located on the grounds of Charles de Gaulle Airport, north of Paris." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e1960_p29", "sents": [ "DIVA'S backers include publicly traded UK-based cable television provider NTL, Liberate Technologies, Open TV, and General Instrument.", "The company filed for an IPO last May.", "http: www.divatv.com Peppers and Rogers Pick Former McKinsey Partner as Leader STAMFORD, Conn. -- Peppers and Rogers Group, a management consulting firm that also runs a venture capital group, 1 to 1 Ventures, said it named Steve Skinner as its new president and CEO.", "Mr. Skinner was most recently a partner with Atlanta-based McKinsey & Co., where he led the transportation unit of the firm's business accelerator.", "He also worked as a sales engineer and sales manager with Johnson Controls.", "Mr. Skinner succeeds company co-founder and former president and CEO Bob Dorf, who has become a managing director of company affiliate 1 to 1 Venture Partners, which the company launched last year.", "http: www.1to1.com BenefitPort Names Healtheon WebMD Exec To CEO Post GREENWICH, Conn. -- BenefitPort, a technology-based network for health insurance sales and employee benefits, said it has appointed Thomas P. Staudt as its CEO." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] }, { "title": "General Instrument", "sents": [ "General Instrument (GI) was an American electronics manufacturer based in Horsham, Pennsylvania specializing in semiconductors and cable television equipment.", "The company was active until 1997, when it split into General Semiconductor (power semiconductors, which was later acquired by Vishay Intertechnology in November 2001), CommScope and NextLevel Systems." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e6660_p15", "sents": [ "\"Dredging operations carried out in the coastal area (near the Punta Lara potabilization plant), could have caused an alteration in the continuity and quality of water service,\" said Buenos Aires provincial enviromental policy department.", "Gasoducto Cruz del Sur has not met the conditions required to complete the pipeline, and this \"could place the potability of water at risk,\" court sources told El Dia.", "Azurix holds the Buenos Aires provincial water and sewage concession.", "lac gc For more information and to contact AFX: www.afxnews.com and www.afxpress.com Copyright 2000 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved.", "Fitch Rts Marlin Water Trust II Sr Secured Notes Due 2003, `BBB' 07 18 2001 Business Wire (Copyright (c) 2001, Business Wire) NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 18, 2001--Fitch has assigned a 'BBB' rating to Marlin Water Trust II and the Marlin Water Trust II Co-Issuer's (Marlin II) $475 million issuance of 6.31% senior secured notes due 2003, and $515 million 6.19% senior secured notes due 2003. The notes are issued domestically pursuant to SEC Rule 144A and outside the United States under Regulation S. At closing net proceeds from the issuance will temporarily be invested in two short-term Enron Corp. (Enron) notes." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 4 ] }, { "title": "e6660_p18", "sents": [ "In a shift in strategy in March 2001, Enron repurchased the Azurix shares held by the public.", "The Marlin II transaction represents a refinancing of the remaining Marlin senior notes.", "While various sources of repayment for the Marlin II notes are available, such as sale or liquidation of the AWT assets, an equity offering, or repayment of the AEL note, primary credit support is derived from the Enron obligation to remarket mandatorily convertible preferred stock.", "If an amount sufficient to repay the notes has not been deposited with the trustee 120 days prior to the maturity date or upon a Note Trigger Event, the indenture trustee will direct the share trust to sell the Enron preferred stock on terms that are designed to generate an amount sufficient to redeem the notes in full.", "In the event that the issuance of the preferred stock yields less than the amount required to redeem the senior notes, Enron is required to deliver additional shares." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 1 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e1332_p22", "sents": [ "Los Angeles Power And Water Chief Expected To Head New California Energy Agency.", "Los Angeles Times (4 17, Daunt, Tempest) reports, \"S. David Freeman, the wily 75-year-old general manager of the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, will resign soon to become Gov.", "Gray Davis' chief energy advisor and is widely believed to be a leading candidate to head a new California power authority.", "Freeman, who has been credited with making the Los Angeles municipal utility an island of electrical stability in a statewide sea of crisis, will become the Governor's 'chief energy czar for conservation,' Davis spokesman Steve Maviglio said Monday.", "Maviglio refused to confirm that Freeman would head the yet-to-be-formed power authority.", "He said that Davis did not rule out such a move, but that an announcement would be premature because the Legislature has yet to pass the bill that would put the authority in business.", "Los Angeles Mayor Richard Riordan, however, said Monday night that Davis has told him that Freeman would be appointed to the power authority job once the agency is created." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 2, 3 ] }, { "title": "e93_p2", "sents": [ "\"Nobody knows where the economy is going, and how the energy crisis will affect it, so no one will know what the revenues will look like in the future.\"", "The biggest day of power buying happened on Feb. 16 when the state spent nearly $81 million for electricity, or $435 per megawatt hour.", "The smallest day was March 10 when the state buyers spent $40 million, or $219 per megawatt hour.", "Michael Worm, an analyst with the investment firm Gerald Klauer Mattison, said what the state paid was in line with current energy prices.", "\"That's where energy prices more or less have been for quite some time,\" he said.", "\"Of course, they are dramatically higher than they used to be.\"", "The governor's office has refused to release information on how much the state has spent, said Steve Maviglio, Davis' spokesman.", "Maviglio said if generators found out how much the state spent the day before, they could force up the price the next day." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 3, 7 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "Idaho Power", "sents": [ "Idaho Power Company (IPC) is a regulated electrical power utility.", "Its business involves the purchase, sale, generation, transmission and distribution of electricity in eastern Oregon and southern Idaho.", "It is a subsidiary of IDACORP, Inc.", "The company's 24000 sqmi service area generally follows the area around the Snake River and its tributaries." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 2, 3 ] }, { "title": "e1473_p52", "sents": [ "The Idaho Public Utilities Commission staff said such profits should not come at the expense of Idaho Power ratepayers facing staggering electrical bills.", "In a report to commissioners posted on the agency's Internet site Wednesday, the staff recommended Idaho Power's proposed increases for residential and commercial customers be cut by about half.", "Idaho Power seeks rate increases over the coming year totaling $227.4 million.", "The regulatory staff recommends a $108.7 million increase.", "For residential customers, a requested 34-percent hike would be reduced to 16 percent.", "\"This is not a final decision,\" said Jeff Beaman, a spokesman for IDACORP and Idaho Power.", "\"In many cases, the commissioners disagree with the staff.\"", "The report noted there was nothing illegal about the transactions between Idaho Power and its sister company, Idaho Energy Systems.", "To change that, the staff urged commissioners to create a mechanism that forces Idaho Power to buy electricity at the same price Idaho Energy Systems pays for it." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 2 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e19847_p12", "sents": [ "\"I expect I will continue to do some of these because they are fun and an excuse to interact with my father and brother more.\"", "Hendershott will teach an information technology strategy course during the Spring 2002 semester.", "His office is in F596, his phone number is 643-0619, and his e-mail address is [email protected].", "- HAAS CEO EXCHANGE TO AIR ON PBS IN SEPTEMBER CEO Exchange, the PBS television program hosted by the Haas School, will be broadcast in early September.", "Filmed in the Zellerbach Auditorium on April 11, 2001, the program featured Cisco's John Chambers and HP's Carly Fiorina along with host Jeff Greenfield and an audience of Haas students, faculty, staff, and alumni.", "The show will air on local public television stations this month, on the following dates: KQED, channel 9, Thursday, September 13, at 11:00 p.m. KRCB, channel 22, Tuesday, September 11, at 9:00 p.m. KTEH, channel 54, Thursday, September 13, at 10:00 p.m. and September 20 at 1:00 a.m. - DIANE DIMEFF HEADS FOR COLORADO AS ASSISTANT DEAN FOR MBA PROGRAMS AT CU BOULDER After serving for 8 years as director of the Haas School's Evening MBA Program, Diane Dimeff has accepted a position at the University of Colorado at Boulder as the assistant dean for MBA Programs." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 5 ] }, { "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": "e3514_p8", "sents": [ "top SUNRISE, Fla. (VENTUREWIRE) -- Trendium, a provider of high-end spec ialized software for telecommunications firms, Internet service providers, and broadband carriers, said it has closed its second round of funding at $25 million led by Mellon Ventures.", "Mellon was joined by other new investors Vertex Management, Crossbow, GKM Venture Partners, as well as individuals from the communications industry.", "Previous investors M C Ventur e Partners and Trinity Ventures also participated in the round.", "Trendium, whi ch raised $13.5 million in its first round of funding, said it will use the latest funds to expand its sales and marketing in North America and Europe and add new functions and features to its products, which are being tested and deployed by several service providers.", "http: www.trendium.com Australian Seek Communications Closes $1.6M Round mail?", "top MELBOURNE, Australia (VENTUREWIRE) -- Seek Communications, an Intern et job site for Australia and New Zealand, said it raised AUD 3.1 million ($1.6 million) from return investors Yahoo!, AMWIN, Macquarie Technology Ventures AMCF, and new investor Acer Technology Partners Fund." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] }, { "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": [ 1, 2 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "Michael Yang", "sents": [ "Michael Yang is a Korean American technology entrepreneur.", "He was born in Seoul, South Korea and moved to San Jose, California on April 2, 1976, with his family when he was 14 years old." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] }, { "title": "e10686_p0", "sents": [ "\"Michael Yang, Chairman of the Board & Co-Founder of NetGeo, will talk about technology and entrepreneurship in Silicon Valley from the global perspective.", "Date Time: February 6th(Tue) 6:00 PM to 7:30 PM Place: C250 Class is open for any students subject to availability.", "Michael Yang,Chairman of the Board & Co-Founder Michael is Chairman of the Board and Co-Founder of NetGeo v.", "Prior to Net Geo Michael cofounded mySimon Inc. in April 1998 and served as its President & CEO from April 1998 to January 1999, and as Chairman of the Board from January 1999 to February 2000. mySimon was selected by Time Digital as one of Top 25 e-Commerce sites in 1999, raised $30M in venture capital and was successfully acquired by CNET for $700M in January 2000 to become the world-leader in online comparison shopping.", "From 1984 to 1998, Michael held technical and executive positions with several Silicon Valley high-tech companies including the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, Intergraph, Samsung Electronics, and Jazz Multimedia Inc. Michael holds a BS degr ee in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from UC Berkeley, an MBA fro m the Haas School of Business, and an MS in computer science from Columbia University." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e20039_p13", "sents": [ "Says Brooker, \"Jung knows what women want and how to sell it to them.", "And that's what has made her one of the most successful CEOs-male or female-in recent years.\"", "Over the past 20 months she has overhauled nearly everything about the way Avon does business: how it advertises, manufactures, packages, and even sells its products, and she has done it not by abandoning the seemingly outdated Avon Lady, but by reviving her.", "The result: growth in revenues, operating profits, and operating margins.", "In addition, FORTUNE includes an international list of the 50 powerful women in business.", "The top ten, featured in the magazine, are Marjorie Scardino, CEO, Pearson (Britain); Anne Lauvergeon, Chairman, Areva (France); Mary Ma, Senior VP & CFO, Legend (Hong Kong); Marianne Nivert, President & CEO, Telia (Sweden); Lien Siaou-Sze, Vice President, Hewlett-Packard (Hong Kong); Patricia Barbizet, CEO, Artemis (France); Eiko Kono, President, Recruit (Japan): Belinda Stronach, CEO, Magna International (Canada); Marina Berlusconi, Vice Chairman, Fininvest (Italy); Christine Tsung, President & CEO, China Airlines (Taiwan)." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 4, 5 ] }, { "title": "Marjorie Scardino", "sents": [ "Dame Marjorie Morris Scardino, DBE, FRSA (born 25 January 1947) is an American-born British business executive.", "She is the former CEO of Pearson PLC.", "Dame Marjorie became a trustee of Oxfam during her tenure at Pearson .", "She has been criticized by Private Eye magazine because, while Oxfam campaigns against corporate tax avoidance as part of the IF Coalition , Pearson was \"a prolific tax haven user...routing hundreds of millions of pounds through an elaborate series of Luxembourg companies (and a Luxembourg branch of a UK company) to avoid tax\".", "She became the first female Chief Executive of a FTSE 100 company when she was appointed CEO of Pearson in 1997.", "She is also a non-executive director of Nokia and former CEO of the Economist Group.", "During her time at Pearson, she had tripled profits to a record £942m.", "In December 2013, she joined the board of Twitter as its first female director, after a controversy involving a lack of diversity on the Twitter board." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1, 2 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "Norman Mineta", "sents": [ "Norman Yoshio Mineta (born November 12, 1931) is an American politician.", "A member of the Democratic Party, Mineta most recently served in President George W. Bush's Cabinet as the United States Secretary of Transportation, the only Democratic Cabinet Secretary in the Bush administration.", "On June 23, 2006, Mineta announced his resignation after more than five years as Secretary of Transportation, effective July 7, 2006, making him the longest-serving Transportation Secretary in the Department's history.", "On July 10, 2006, Hill & Knowlton, a public relations firm, announced that Mineta would join it as a partner.", "On August 10, 2010, it was announced that Mineta would join L&L Energy, Inc as Vice Chairman." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 4 ] }, { "title": "e10178_p146", "sents": [ "In announcing the group 's forma tion, Commerce Secretary Norman Mineta said Jan. 16 that IT-ISAC would \"enable the high-tech industry to take the lead in spotting potential threats to the Internet and information infrastructures, sharing state-of-the-art Internet and information infrastructure security measures, and responding in a more coordinated way. Listed among the group 's 19 \"founding members are AT&T Corp., Cisco Systems, Inc., Nortel Networks Corp., and Microsoft Corp. Illinois Commerce Commission Chairman Richard L. Mathias has asked colleagu es on four other state utility commissions how to respond to recent remarks th at SBC Communications, Inc., officials made to financial analysts.", "Mr. Mathia s says the remarks raise \"legitimate questions about information that company officials previously presented to regulators in the five-state territory of SBC subsidiary Ameritech", "According to Mr. Mathias, SBC Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Edward E. Whitacre Jr. told analysts late last mont h that Ameritech 's service-quality difficulties stemmed from \"an outsid e plant problem, citing lack of network capacity." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e19537_p22", "sents": [ "The company said it transferred assets valued at $1.2 billion, including $150 million in notes payable, 3.7 million restricted Enron shares and the right to receive as many as 18 million Enron common shares in March 2003, subject to certain conditions.", "It also transferred to the partnerships other assets valued at $309 million, including a $50 million note payable and \"an investment in an entity that indirectly holds warrants convertible into common stock of an Enron equity method investee.\"", "In return, Enron said it received \"economic interests in the entities,\" $309 million in notes receivable and an additional $1.2 billion in notes receivable as part of a \"special distribution.\"", "The disclosure went on to mention a series of purchases by Enron of \"share-settled options from the entities\" on shares of Enron common stock.", "The raw numbers may all be there.", "But \"any objective person would be hard pressed to understand the effects of these disclosures on the financial statements,\" says Douglas Carmichael, an accounting professor at Baruch College in New York." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 5 ] }, { "title": "Baruch College", "sents": [ "The Bernard M. Baruch College of the City University of New York, commonly known as Baruch College, is a constituent college of the City University of New York system located in the Gramercy Park section of Manhattan, New York City.", "Named for financier and statesman Bernard M. Baruch, the college operates undergraduate, masters, and Ph.D. programs through its Zicklin School of Business, as well as the Weissman School of Arts and Sciences and the Marxe School of Public and International Affairs." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e6861_p2", "sents": [ "07 24 2001 Reuters English News Service (C) Reuters Limited 2001. WASHINGTON, July 24 (Reuters) - With the help of a federal mediator, Northeast electricity transmission grid operators are on track to combine their assets under a common roof, Phillip Harris, chairman of the PJM Interconnection, told reporters on Tuesday.", "\"I think that's do-able,\" Harris said, referring to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's July 11 rule ordering the New York Independent System Operator, PJM, PJM West and New England Independent System Operator to form a single regional transmission organization (RTO).", "All the entities convened Monday in a closed-door hearing before FERC Administrative Law Judge Peter Young to begin 45 days of negotiations to hammer out the formation of the single Northeast RTO.", "\"We can't solve all of the issues, but we can come up with a plan\" during that time, Harris said.", "RTOs are not likely to be discussed at the FERC commissioners' meeting on Wednesday, Harris said." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] }, { "title": "e5099_p1", "sents": [ "Initially PJM West will contain Allegheny Energy ,s service territory, wh ich includes parts of Pennsylvania, Maryland, West Virginia, and Ohio.", "But soon more control areas will follow Allegheny Energy ,s trail and &go West 8 Serving the Pittsburgh area, Duquesne Light Company is also actively considering joining PJM West.", "In its October 16th filing with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), Duquesne states: &If Allegheny s memorandum of understanding with PJM results in Allegheny ,s affiliation with PJM, Duquesne also will be contiguous with PJM.", "In anticipation of that event, Duquesne has commenced discussions with PJM to discuss the process by which PJM might admit Duquesne to PJM-West. 8 Although Duquesne states that it is also considering membership in the Alliance RTO, we would bet the ranch that PJM West will become a reality an d that Duquesne will join it.", "Moreover, not far behind Allegheny Energy and Duquesne Light may well be First Energy and some other utilities that are now part of the Alliance RTO proposal." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e4375_p16", "sents": [ "The company will use the funds for product development and marketing.", "Mark Jensen and Jeffrey Sampson of Viridian have joined the company's board of directors.", "http: www.verticore.com $7 Million Round Three for Motion Tracking Firm InterSense BURLINGTON, Mass.", "-- InterSense, which makes precision motion tracking technology that enables users to interact with 3D computer-generated environments, said it has secured $7 million in its third round of funding.", "Camera support equipment maker Vitec Group and Parthenon joined existi!", "ng!", "equity holders Claflin Capital Management, Dominion, Kodiak Ventures Partners, and Zero State Capital in the round.", "InterSense said it will use the funds to improve its technology, and for international expansion.", "http: www.isense.com Broadband Developer Globecom Raises $2.5 Million Round Two NEW YORK -- Globecom Interactive, a developer of enterprise, end-to-end broadband services for the creation and delivery of media content, raised $2.5 million in second-round financing from sole investor YVC - Yozma Management and Investments." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 3, 4, 5, 6 ] }, { "title": "e2852_p11", "sents": [ "Additional members of the board are chairman, president, CEO, and founder John Metzger; Ernest Jacquet, managing partner of Parthenon; and Samantha Trotman, general partner of Parthenon.", "The company is currently looking to add an outside person to its board, a company spokesperson said.", "Parthenon is also an investor in Creditek.", "http: www.creditek.com DVD Conversion Firm LifeClips Gets $12.2M Round Two mail?", "top ACTON, Mass.", "(VENTUREWIRE) -- LifeClips, a provider of videotape-to- DVD conversion services, announced that it has secured $12.2 million in second round financing led by previous investor St. Paul Venture Capital, with participation from unnamed individuals.", "The company plans to use the new funds to expand its test market and to roll out the service on a national level.", "Post-money, the company is valued at $25.6 million.", "LifeClips anticipates break-even by the fourth quarter of 2002. With this round, ther e were no additions to the LifeClips's seven-member board, which includes Bri an Jacobs of St. Paul Venture Capital." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 2 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e8533_p11", "sents": [ "http: www.sonera.com breedlab m&a Aggregration Firms Yodlee and VerticalOne Merge REDWOOD SHORES, Calif. (VENTUREWIRE) -- Yodlee, which provides a free, Web-based service that enables users to manage and gain access to personal account information, said it merged with VerticalOne, a wholly ow ned subsidiary of online financing services firm S1, a publicly traded Int ernet banking firm.", "Vertical One provides personal account aggregration an d transaction services.", "The new company will be run as a stand alone under the Yodlee name and S1 will hold a 32% ownership stake.", "No further financ ial details were disclosed.", "Anil Arora, president and CEO of Yodlee, will be the CEO of the new company and Gregg Freishtat, VerticalOne's founder, chairman and CEO, will serve as an advisor to senior management.", "Yodlee is funded by Accel Partners and Sequoia Capital.?", "http: www.verticalone.c om?", "http: www.yodlee.com?", "E-Learning Firm Wide Learning Acquires Finan cial Directions?", "LONDON (VENTUREWIRE) -- Wide Learning, a suppler of financial Internet learning services for employees and customers of financial institutions, sa id it acquired Financial Directions (FDI), a supplier of classroom-based financial training for banks, brokers, and financial institutions." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 4 ] }, { "title": "Anil Arora", "sents": [ "Anil Arora is the currently serving Chief Statistician of Canada, in office since 19 September 2016.", "He replaced Wayne Smith, who resigned to protest changes in Statistics Canada's informatics infrastructure stemming from the Shared Services Canada initiative.", "Prior to his appointment, he had served as a career employee of Statistics Canada, reaching the post of Assistant Chief Statistician before moving to management positions in Natural Resources Canada and then Health Canada." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "Antonio Villaraigosa", "sents": [ "Antonio Ramón Villaraigosa ( ; born Antonio Ramón Villar Jr.; January 23, 1953) is an American politician who was the 41st Mayor of Los Angeles, California, from 2005 to 2013.", "Before becoming mayor, he was a member of the California State Assembly (1994–2000), where he served as the Democratic leader of the Assembly (1996–98), and the Speaker of the California State Assembly (1998–2000)." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] }, { "title": "e3342_p48", "sents": [ "\"It would have passed with or without Antonio,\" Perata says.", "PARKS BONDS (AB 18): This 1999 bill, the largest successful parks bond in United States history, was mainly the product of a long legislative effort by Boulder City Democratic Assemblyman Fred Keeley to improve state parks.", "But Villaraigosa added the urban element with funding for city parks and forcefully powered it through the Assembly.", "Now part of the statute requires that signs at park construction sites identify it as \"Paid for by the Villaraigosa-Keeley Act.\"", "GRAPHIC: PHOTO: Antonio Villaraigosa admits he's not a detail person, but says he hires aides who are.", "PHOTOGRAPHER: LAWRENCE K. HO Los Angeles Times PHOTO: State Sen. Kevin Murray hugs Assemblyman Antonio Villaraigosa after the Assembly passed a racial-profiling bill in August.", "In the Capitol, Villaraigosa took advantage of his formidable schmoozing skills.", "PHOTOGRAPHER: Associated Press PHOTO: (Orange County Edition, B6) Antonio Villaraigosa, with state Sen. Kevin Murray, turned his skills as a bipartisan schmoozer into a record of constructive compromise." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 1, 2 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e1312_p17", "sents": [ "Read the full article at http: eastbay.bcentral.com eastbay stories 2001 04 16 story8.html.", "Borenstein was also quoted in the San Jose Mercury News on April 12 on the possibility of blackouts this summer.", "Read the article at http: www0.mercurycenter.com premium front docs nuprices12.htm.", "Borenstei n was quoted in the Los Angeles Times on April 12 and 11 on the California energy crisis.", "Read the articles at http: www.latimes.com print asection 20010411 t000030820.html and http: www.latimes.com news state 20010412 t000031137.html.", "Borenstein was also quoted in USA Today on April 11. Read the text at http: www.usatoday.com usatonline 20010410 3218800s.htm.", "Borenstein also appeared on NPR's Morning Edition on April 10; KQED's California report on April 9; KCRW on \"Which Way LA\" on April 12; and on CN N on April 7. Janet Yellen was quoted in the Industry Standard on April 9 in an article titled, \"The D,j.", "vu Downturn.\"", "Yellen commented that she expected to see more reduction in the interest rates." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 5, 6 ] }, { "title": "KCRW", "sents": [ "KCRW (89.9 MHz FM) is a National Public Radio member station broadcasting from the campus of Santa Monica College in Santa Monica, where the station is licensed.", "KCRW airs original news and music programming in addition to programming from NPR and other affiliates.", "A network of repeaters and broadcast translators, as well as internet radio, allows the station to serve the Greater Los Angeles area and other communities in Southern California.", "The station's main transmitter is located in Los Angeles' Laurel Canyon district and broadcasts in the HD radio format." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e11765_p16", "sents": [ "Previous investors include Fremont Ventures, which led its $6.5 million first round of financing in March.", "http: www.theweddinglist.com New Products o Business Accelerator Blue Slate Solutions Launches ALBANY, N.Y. -- Blue Slate Solutions, a business accelerator and consulting service, announced it has launched.", "The company was founded by David Wood, Joe Raiti and Richard Barnett, who will all serve as managing directors.", "The firm said it will focus on business service acceleration, including business plan writing, financial modeling and strategic marketing.", "Blue Slate Solutions is backed by individual investors.", "Telephone 518-443-0430. o Medical Last Wish Planning Network Jasperon Launches NORWALK, Conn. -- Jasperon, an Internet-based network designed to assit families with medical last wish decision making, has launched.", "The site provides guidance from experts and interactive tools to help with the communication and decision making process.", "Jasperon is backed by VentureQuest and internal individual investors.", "Jasperon's founders include Robert Mitchell, MD and Jesse M. FInk." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 1, 2 ] }, { "title": "e3787_p8", "sents": [ "Blue Slate Solutions was founded in June 2000 by David Wood, a managing director with First Alba ny Enterprise Funding; Joe Raiti, director of technology of Integrated Partner s; and Richard Barnett, who was a director of finance for General Electric.", "Prior to this round, the company was backed by individuals.", "http: www.blueslate.net Corus Pharma Caps Series A at $18.5 Million SEATTLE (VENTUREWIRE) -- Corus Pharma, a pharmaceutical development company that focuses on respiratory and infectious diseases, said it closed its Series A at $18.5 million with funding from Burrill & Co., Cascade Investment, J.P. Morgan Partners, and OrbiMed Advisors.", "The company said funding from the round, which was led by Burrill & Co., will be used for clinical trials, infrastructure, and identifying and licensing new pharmaceutical development candidates.", "Corus named three new board members, bringing the total to six with one open seat.", "The new board members are Rod Ferguson, general partner at J.P. Morgan Partners; John Kim, managing director of Burrill & Co.; and Sam Wertheimer, senior analyst at OrbiMed Advisors." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] } ]

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[ { "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, 2 ] }, { "title": "e3910_p26", "sents": [ "Prior to joining eRIDE, Mr. Lanier served as vice president of North America operations for Budget Car and Truck Rental.", "He also held various management positions at the Hertz and served as a vice president at Avis Rent A Car.", "ERIDE completed a several million dollar Series A round in the first quarter and is raising its Series B round.", "Investors in eRide include Draper Richards, Asset Management Ventures, Staenberg Private Capital, Arba Seed Investment Group, and Dotcom.", "http: www.eride.com Analytics Software Firm I-Impact Appoints New CEO SAN FRANCISCO -- I-Impact, a provider of online business impact analytics software, said it has named Marc E. Barach, its chief marketing officer, as the company's new CEO.", "Prior to joining I-Impact, Mr. Barach was involved in the establishment of InsWeb, where he was responsible for managing the online insurance marketplace's traffic generation programs.", "Prior to InsWeb, Mr. Barach served as vice president of marketing at Charles Schwab & Co. I-Impact is backed by Apax Partners, Gemini Israel Fund, and Vertex Venture Group." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 4, 6 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e889_p0", "sents": [ "'From today's Gas Daily: FERC gives Kern River project speedy approval Only three weeks after receiving the certificate application, FERC Friday granted Kern River Gas Transmission authority to proceed with a 135 million cfd expansion of its system that will move new gas supplies from Wyoming to California.", "The unprecedented speed in which FERC completed its review of the $81 million project grew out of the commission's desire to address the energy crisis in California, which is expected to worsen this summer in light of forecasts for continued high gas prices and shortages of power generation capacity.", "FERC typically takes several months to complete the review process of a pipeline project application of similar size to Kern River's, a FERC spokeswoman said.", "But the commission said its staff was able to successfully coordinate regulatory efforts with federal and state agencies to ensure Kern River's application process moved expeditiously.", "\"We are pleased the FERC has fast-tracked this application,\" said Kirk Morgan, director of business development for Kern River." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1, 2 ] }, { "title": "Kern River", "sents": [ "The Kern River is a river in the U.S. state of California, approximately 165 mi long.", "It drains an area of the southern Sierra Nevada mountains northeast of Bakersfield.", "Fed by snowmelt near Mount Whitney, the river passes through scenic canyons in the mountains and is a popular destination for whitewater rafting and kayaking.", "It is the only major river in the Sierra Nevada mountain range that drains in a southerly direction." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 2 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e27879_p0", "sents": [ "'Charles Schwab & Co., Inc. Email Alert Midday Market View(TM) for Monday, October 29, 2001 as of 1:00PM EST Information provided by Schwab Center for Investment Research and Bridge United States INDICES (1:00 p.m. EST) - Market Value Change DJIA 9,343.12 -202.05 Nasdaq Comp.", "1,737.09 -31.87 S&P 500 1,086.88 -17.73 - NYSE Advancing Issues 1,063 NYSE Declining Issues 1,873 NYSE Trading Volume 511 mln NASDAQ Advancing Issues 1,258 NASDAQ Declining Issues 2,046 NASDAQ Trading Volume 767 mln ===== United States TREASURIES - Value Yield Change 6-month bill 1.99% na 5-year note 3.66% - 6 32 10-year note 4.47% - 5 32 30-year bond 5.24% - 2 32 The tables above look best when viewed in a fixed-width font, such as \"Courier.\"", "=================================== STOCKS EXTEND DECLINES With no major earnings news to guide stocks, equity markets fell as traders booked profits ahead of this week's potentially recessionary economic data.", "Shares of Boeing Co. (BA,35,f2) pressured Blue Chips after losing the bid for the government's Joint Strike Fighter contract to rival Lockheed Martin (LMT,51,f2) on Friday." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] }, { "title": "e26634_p5", "sents": [ "Use the link below to log in and change your email format preference: https: investing.schwab.com trading start?SANC=EAEditEmailAddr - Notice: All email sent to or from the Charles Schwab corporate email system may be retained, monitored and or reviewed by Schwab personnel.", "(0801-11482) Information provided by Bridge Information Systems.", "Copyright 2001 Bridge Information Systems.", "Charles Schwab & Co., Inc. (\"Schwab\") is a member of the NYSE, other major United States Securities Exchanges, and SIPC.", "Schwab is a specialist in various securities on the Pacific, Boston and Cincinnati Stock Exchanges and is subsidiary of The Charles Schwab Corporation, which is listed on the NYSE and trades under the symbol \"SCH\".", "Schwab Capital Markets L.P. is a member of the NASD and SIPC.", "Schwab Capital Markets L.P. is also a subsidiary of The Charles Schwab Corporation and is a market maker in approximately 4,900 securities.", "Schwab Center for Investment Research (\"SCIR\") is part of Charles Schwab & Co., Inc." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 7 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e3597_p0", "sents": [ "\"ENERGY COMMITTEE MEMBERS: (Please pass on as appropriate) Congresswoman Anna Eshoo has organized a town hall meeting to bring everyone together to talk about what residential and commercial customers can do during the current energy crisis, and to promote energy efficiency and conservation.", "The event will be held 9:00 - 11:00am, on Saturday, June 2, 2001, at the Menlo Park campus of the USGS at 345 Middlefield Road, Menlo Park.", "Directions are attached below.", "Panel speakers will focus on recent Federal and State action and energy efficiancy and conservation.", "Speakers include Ambassador Dick Sklar, Assemblyman Joe Simitian, Ralph Cavanagh of NRDC and local business owner Larry Hassett.", "Please join us on Saturday for Congresswoman Anna Eshoo's Town Hall Meeting.", "If you have questions, please call the Congresswoman's Palo Alto office at 650-323-2984 DIRECTIONS: The USGS campus is actually on Survey Lane, a short road (1 block long) south of Middlefield Road between Marsh Rd and Willow Rd in Menlo Park." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] }, { "title": "Anna Eshoo", "sents": [ "Anna Georges Eshoo (born December 13, 1942) is the U.S. Representative for California 's 18 congressional district , serving in Congress since 1993.", "She is a member of the Democratic Party.", "The district, which includes part of Silicon Valley, includes the cities of San Jose, Redwood City, Sunnyvale, Mountain View and Palo Alto." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e10142_p7", "sents": [ "The URC gave final approval, however, to the tariff's rates and charges..", "The URC said it's concerned that \"a tariff containing finally approved terms and conditions may become not only the minimum conditions for interconnection but also the maximum conditions any CLEC can negotiate.", "We believe this result would improperly limit future negotiations between [incumbent local exchange carriers] and CLECs to limit the choice available under section 252 of [the federal Telecommunications Act of 1996].\"", "The commission said it isn't sure how an interconnection agreement and an interconnection service arrangement that is tariffed would interact.", "For example, the URC questioned whether a CLEC could have an interconnection agreement but still buy interconnection services out of a tariff.", "(Cause no.", "40611 - In the Matter of the Commission Investigation and Generic Proceeding on Ameritech-Indiana's Rates for Interconnection, Service, Unbundled Elements, and Transport and Termination Under the Telecommunications Act of 1996 and Related Indiana Statutes) SECTION 251 252 CALIFORNIA PUC approves interim performance assessment plan The Public Utilities Commission has approved an interim performance assessment plan for Pacific Bell and Verizon California, Inc., that seeks to identify and prevent or remove any barriers to telecom competition." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 6 ] }, { "title": "Pacific Bell", "sents": [ "Pacific Bell Telephone Company (Pacific Bell) provides telephone service in California.", "The company is owned by AT&T Inc. through AT&T Teleholdings.", "The company has been known by a number of names during which its service area has changed.", "The formal name of the company from the 1910s through the 1984 Bell System divestiture was The Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Company.", "As of 2002, the name “Pacific Bell” is no longer commonly used." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "Matrix Partners", "sents": [ "Matrix Partners is a US-based private equity investment firm focusing on venture capital investments.", "The firm invests in seed and early-stage companies in the United States and India, particularly in the software, communications, semiconductors, data storage, Internet or wireless sectors." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] }, { "title": "e3676_p3", "sents": [ "The firm, which has nine partners and a satellite office in Palo Alto, Calif., was founded in 1982. Matrix Partners backs companies in the computing, Internet, networking equipment, semiconductor, software, and storage sectors.", "The firm invests between $100,000 and $300,000 in seed deals and invests up to $10 million in early-stage rounds.", "According to VentureWire data, Matrix is the twelfth venture capital firm to close a fun d this year with at least $1 billion.", "Apax Partners raised a fund of about $4 billion to target Israeli and European companies, while ten other firms, including Austin Ventures, Charles River Ventures, Greylock, and United States Ventu re Partners, closed funds closer to the $1 billion mark.", "Atlas Venture came in just short with its $950 million Fund VI in April.", "In all of last year, eighteen VC firms closed $1 billion funds.", "Matrix Partners portfolio companies include Appian Communications, a Boxborough, Mass.-based develope r of optical networking technologies for communications carriers; Blue Dolphi n Group, a Wayland, Mass." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e2852_p18", "sents": [ "DeSilva is also exploring the possibility of additional financing for WorkingWoman.com.", "WorkingWoman.com has raised $32 million in funding from two rounds of funding.", "Its investors include BlackDiamond Ventures, Compaq Computer, Jefferies, New York City Investment Fund, Office Depot, PurchasePro.com, RWI Group, Sand Hill Financial, Sycamore, and Telos Venture Partners.", "Carol Bartz, CEO of Autodesk; Larry Ellison, CEO of Oracle; and Clifford Sobel, chairman o!", "f Net2Phone, have also invested in WorkingWoman.com.", "http: www.workingwoman.com Metiom Files for Chapter 11 after Investors Back Out mail?", "top NEW YORK (VENTUREWIRE) -- Metiom, a business-to-business e-commerce infrastructure provider for online purchasing, said that it has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.", "A Metiom spokesperson said that, due to market conditions, the company's investors have decided not to invest the remainin g two tranches of Metiom's $45 million third round announced in January, of which the company had received $15 million.", "Metiom had no comment about layoffs but said it was \"restructuring\" and considering potential buyers." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 1, 2 ] }, { "title": "e4084_p21", "sents": [ "The company also announced it promoted current president Dan Doles to president and CEO and Robert Lumpkins, vice chairman of Cargill, has joined WhereNet's board of directors.", "WhereNet is backed by Ford Motors, Sun Microsystems, Bay Partners, Crescendo Ventures, Crosspoint Venture Partners, Foundation Capital, RWI Group, and individual investor Ed Shea.", "http: www.wherenet.com Web Testing Firm Atesto Launches with Less Than $5 Million FREMONT, Calif. -- Atesto Technologies, which provides automated Web testing services, said it launched with under $5 million in funding.", "The company said it closed its first round of financing in June.", "Argus, Draper Richards, Labrador Ventures, Staenberg Capital, and Wilson Sonsini Ventures provided the funding.", "The company said it will use the funding to develop its services, enhance its Web infrastructure, and for sales and marketing.", "http: www.atesto.com New Products o Staubach Co. Launches Real Estate and Online Investor Firm DALLAS -- The Staubach Co., an international real estate strategy and services provider founded by former Dallas Cowboys quarterback Roger Staubach, said it created eStaubach Partners, which will develop Internet-based real estate products and services and fund companies that provide related products." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 1 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e5815_p25", "sents": [ "Bowen is one of the better ones.", "But not even she is sure what the Legislature's next step should be.", "\"We don't have a lot of room to move,\" she says.", "Nor a lot of time.", "If Edison goes bankrupt, it truly will be a dark day in the Capitol.", "LOAD-DATE: June 25, 2001 10 of 141 DOCUMENTS Copyright 2001 Los Angeles Times Los Angeles Times June 25, 2001 Monday Home Edition SECTION: California; Part 2; Page 1; Metro Desk LENGTH: 1629 words HEADLINE: Demand Had Minor Role in Power Crisis; Electricity: Consumption has been predictable, and rose less quickly than in other Western states.", "But supply grew hardly at all, and reserves melted away.", "BYLINE: ROBIN FIELDS, TIMES STAFF WRITER BODY: California has been depicted as a power addict whose growing habit led inexorably to the crisis that has roiled the state since May 2000. Yet the state's electricity yen is the wrong target for blame--the least volatile and least decisive piece of a larger puzzle, an analysis of consumption patterns shows." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 5, 7 ] }, { "title": "e894_p6", "sents": [ "A1, 1471 words, Davis' Pledges Come Back To Haunt Him, Carla Marinucci, Patrick Hoge San Francisco Chronicle, APRIL 8, 2001, SUNDAY, FINAL EDITION, BUSINESS;, Pg.", "B7, 3592 words, Nuclear Warning; Watchdogs eye Duke's salvage operation, Scott Winokur, Christian Berthelsen Los Angeles Times April 9, 2001, Monday, Home Edition SECTION: Part A; Part 1; Page 3; Metro Desk LENGTH: 1081 words HEADLINE: THE CALIFORNIA ENERGY CRISIS; CALIFORNIA AND THE WEST; GENERATORS SCRAMBLED TO END PACTS WITH UTILITIES; ENERGY: EVEN BEFORE PG&E FILED FOR BANKRUPTCY, ALTERNATIVE PLANT OWNERS WHO HADN'T BEEN PAID IN MONTHS PURSUED COURT ACTIONS.", "BYLINE: JULIE TAMAKI, TIMES STAFF WRITER DATELINE: SACRAMENTO BODY: In filing for federal bankruptcy protection last week, Pacific Gas & Electric Co. determined what other power producers had already concluded: The state had failed to solve their payment problems and the time had come for the courts to step in.", "In the days leading up to PG&E's Bankruptcy Court petition, a growing number of alternative energy producers had also been filing lawsuits, seeking to be freed from their contracts with PG&E and Southern California Edison." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 1 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "John Ibbitson", "sents": [ "John Ibbitson (born 1955 in Gravenhurst, Ontario) is a Canadian journalist.", "Since 1999 he has been a political writer and columnist for \"The Globe and Mail\"." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] }, { "title": "e1612_p17", "sents": [ "-Claire Poole http: www.thedeal.com Copyright 2000 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved.", "National News No date set for electricity D-Day Government hopes deregulation will be ready by May, 2002, but deadline uncertain RICHARD MACKIE AND MARTIN MITTELSTAEDT With a report from John Ibbitson 04 24 2001 The Globe and Mail Metro A4 \"All material Copyright (c) Bell Globemedia Publishing Inc. and its licensors.", "All rights reserved.\"", "The Ontario government is hoping that a competitive electricity market will be ready by May, 2002, but has stopped short of fixing a day for deregulation to begin.", "The declaration, made separately by Premier Mike Harris and Energy Minister Jim Wilson yesterday, shows that there is still uncertainty in the government over timing the beginning of competition in the province's $10-billion electricity market.", "That indecision angered some industry officials, who had wanted the province to set a date.", "Deregulation has been under discussion for more than three years but is highly controversial because of problems that energy deregulation has caused in Alberta and California." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 1 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e3426_p111", "sents": [ "But board member Carl Guardino, who also is head of the Silicon Valley Manufacturing Group, sees that as a strength rather than a weakness of the program.", "He said early warning will prompt businesses to redouble their conservation efforts, which could help stave off many of the projected blackouts.", "\"That's not crying wolf; that's popping the champagne,\" Guardino said.", "\"Preventing blackouts from happening in the first place is precisely what we want.\"", "Times staff writers Sarah Hale, Leslie Earnest and Nancy Vogel contributed to this report.", "Copyright 2001 Los Angeles Times Power Crisis Has Mileage for Bush By ROBERT SCHEER The Bush administration is pulling a fast one on energy, and we will a ll pay dearly for decades to come.", "By panicking the public with oil industry propaganda of an energy shortage, the Bushies are building support for the most reckless energy policy since the days before the environmentalist movement, when blackened skies and lungs represented the vision of progress To make things worse, to head off objections to their plans to plunder virgin lands and obliterate conservation measures, they have thrown in as a palliative the old oxymoron of \"clean\" nuclear power." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] }, { "title": "e1087_p0", "sents": [ "'Dear Silicon Valley Leader: Please plan to join the Silicon Valley Manufacturing Group, San Jose Mayor Ron Gonzales, Santa Clara County Supervisor Jim Beall and other key community leaders for a \"Santa Clara County Energy Summit II.\"", "The goal of the Summit is simple - and critical: What IMMEDIATE steps can each of us individually and collectively take to get California through the summer months, to minimize rolling blackouts.", "With that in mind, we will focus on QUANTIFIABLE deliverables relative to conservation, load management during peak periods, generation and state policies.", "Special thanks to SVMG Member Company, Synopsys, for offering to host the Summit, which will take place On Friday, May 4, from 8 a.m. (sharp) until 12 Noon at their Sunnyvale company site, 455 North Mary Avenue, Building 2. Invitations and registration materials to follow.", "If you have any questions, or require additional information, please call the SVMG offices at 408 501-7864, or simply respond to this e-mail." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e2973_p3", "sents": [ "Rather than having the nation's transmission lines controlled by the utilities, it wants those lines to provide open access for new entrants such as Enron eager to buy and sell power.", "Mr. Lay is on a first-name basis with a half-dozen members of the Bush cabinet and knows many senior White House staffers from their days in the Texas governor's mansion with Mr. Bush.", "Before joining the administration, both White House economist Lawrence Lindsey and United States Trade Representative Robert Zoellick were on Enron's advisory board, which pays members an annual stipend of $50,000. Under Mr. Lay, Enron has donated nearly $2 million to Mr. Bush during his political career.", "Since the start of the 2000 campaign, Enron and its employees have contributed $1.3 million to the Bush presidential drive, the Republican Party and the presidential inauguration, says the Center for Responsive Politics.", "Enron also accounted for $461,000 in contributions during Mr. Bush's two runs for governor, according to the Center for Public Integrity." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 3 ] }, { "title": "Center for Responsive Politics", "sents": [ "The Center for Responsive Politics (CRP) is a non-profit, nonpartisan research group based in Washington, D.C., that tracks the effects of money and lobbying on elections and public policy.", "It maintains a public online database of its information." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "Cliff Stearns", "sents": [ "Clifford Bundy \"Cliff\" Stearns, Sr. (born April 16, 1941) was the U.S. Representative for 's 6 congressional district from 1989 to 2013.", "He is a member of the Republican Party." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] }, { "title": "e2424_p5", "sents": [ "Committee staffers were said to be working out last-minute details on another amendment that's expected to be offered tomorrow by Reps. Cliff Stearns (R., Fla.), Bobby L. Rush (D., Ill.), and Thomas C. Sawyer (D., Ohio).", "According to sources, the amendment would give ILECs immediate regulatory relief.", "But it would require ILECs to make about 70% of their central offices DSL (digital subscriber line)-ready by a date certain, most likely within three years of enactment.", "Mr. Tauke said Verizon would oppose any DSL buildout requirements, saying \"it's good public policy not to have a buildout provision in this legislation.\"", "The government should mandate buildout requirements \"only when the market isn't working,\" he said.", "Many of the same amendments that were withdrawn during the telecom subcommittee's review are being teed up for tomorrow, including several from Rep. Tom Davis III (R., Va.) and one from Rep. Anna Eshoo (D., Calif.) to require Bell companies to continue filing service-quality and accounting reports at the FCC." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e26279_p89", "sents": [ "General Chemical said all electrical feed s to the chamber processing chemicals are automatically pulled in the event of loss of power.", "A backup generator will automatically come online to kee p operations stable.", "Dow Chemical has a contract with a Calpine power plan t to supply it with electricity.", "Battery backup and diesel emergency engine s are also at the site to ensure enough power to run lights, alarms, contro ls and emergency shutdown equipment.", "e-mail Jason B. Johnson at jbjohnson@ sfchronicle.com 2001 San Francisco Chronicle Page A - 11 Pow er suppliers, state fail to agree on refund total Posted at 10:41 p.m. PDT Monday, July 9, 2001 BY JIM PUZZANGHERA Mercury News Washington Bureau WASHINGTON -- California officials and power suppliers failed to agree on refunds for electricity overcharges as 15 days of contentious negotiation s ended Monday, leaving the matter in the hands of a federal judge who said the state is owed much less than the $8.9 billion it demands." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 4 ] }, { "title": "e2868_p128", "sents": [ "Republicans said they expect the president to propose conservation measures as well as proposals to spur new energy development such as opening additional public lands for oil and gas drilling and easing regulatory barriers to building power plants, electric transmission lines, and promote nuclear power.", "Contra Costa acts on energy Hiring freeze, lawsuits planned by supervisors Jason B. Johnson, Chronicle Staff Writer Wednesday, May 16, 2001 ,2001 San Francisco Chronicle: http: www.sfgate.com cgi-bin article.cgi?file=3D chronicle archive 2001 05 16 M NW30608.DTL&type=3Dnews Contra Costa County supervisors attacked the state's energy problem on two fronts yesterday, voting to freeze hiring of new county employees and to pursue joining state lawsuits against power generators and regulators.", "The Board of Supervisors passed both measures by unanimous vote.", "The county -- which expects to see a $2 million increase in energy costs ne xt year -- has about 8,000 employees.", "The freeze would leave about 1,000 open jobs unfilled to save money to fund county programs and services next year." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 1 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "Dick Durbin", "sents": [ "Richard Joseph Durbin (born November 21, 1944) is an American politician who is the senior United States Senator from Illinois, in office since 1997.", "He has been the Assistant Democratic Leader (whip), the second highest position in the Democratic Party leadership in the Senate, since 2005, serving as Minority Whip from 2005 to 2007, Majority Whip from 2007 to 2015, and Minority Whip again since 2015." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] }, { "title": "e2593_p101", "sents": [ "He said there are all the indications of price manipulation and a committee ''would keep the spotlight'' on the electricity and gasoline markets.", "_Sen.", "Dick Durbin, D-Ill., called for creation of a national consumer energy commission that would give a voice to consumers in the debate over energy shortages and rising prices.", "LOAD-DATE: May 10, 2001 27 of 106 DOCUMENTS Copyright 2001 Associated Press AP Online May 10, 2001; Thursday SECTION: Washington - general news LENGTH: 372 words HEADLINE: House Addresses California Crisis BYLINE: H. JOSEF HEBERT DATELINE: WASHINGTON BODY: A House subcommittee took its first action Thursday to try to ease California's power problems this summer, but rejected Democratic demands for price controls on wholesale electricity.", "The legislation, approved by an Energy and Commerce subcommittee on a 17-13 party-line vote, would allow California to extend Daylight Savings Time to reduce consumption, among other provisions.", "''The federal government cannot stop blackouts,'' said the bill's chief sponsor." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 2 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "Carla Marinucci", "sents": [ "Carla Marinucci is a political reporter for Politico, formerly of the \"San Francisco Chronicle\", specializing in California state gubernatorial politics and national politics.", "Marinucci is a veteran California political reporter and has also covered business and crime in the past for the \"Contra Costa Times\" and \"The San Francisco Examiner\".", "She has won more than two dozen national and state awards.", "Marinucci has broken numerous national political news stories, including about California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger.", "She also appears frequently on the PBS Public Television show This Week in Northern California in the San Francisco Bay Area and has appeared several times on Hardball with Chris Matthews." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1, 2 ] }, { "title": "e3679_p89", "sents": [ "His assets ranged from $800,000 to $1.75 million, including a family home in Holbrook, Mass., and an IRA account, mutual funds and municipal bonds.", "Stephen J. Hadley, Bush's deputy national security advisor, had assets between $900,000 and $2.1 million; Margaret La Montagne, director of the domestic policy council, held between $100,000 and $200,000 in stock.", "* Times staff writers Edwin Chen and Robert L. Jackson contributed to this story.", "PHOTO: Bush advisor Karl Rove says he followed the advice of the White House counsel's office.", "PHOTOGRAPHER: Associated Press Copyright 2000 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved.", "NEWS Davis' energy boss took thousands from power titans in run for office Carla Marinucci Chronicle Political Writer 06 02 2001 The San Francisco Chronicle FINAL A.1 (Copyright 2001) Barely more than a year before S. David Freeman was named by Gov.", "Gray Davis to be the state's power czar, he was showered with campaign cash from some of the same energy giants the governor has lambasted as profit-hungry \"pirates\" robbing California consumers." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 5, 6 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e7097_p1", "sents": [ "Reuters English News Service, 07 30 01 California Governor's Spokesman Says He Bought Calpine Stock Bloomberg, 07 30 01 California; Metro Desk The State Davis' Energy Advisors Draw SEC Attention Probe: Under review is the possible use of inside information to buy power company stocks.", "GOP rival of governor requested the inquiry.", "WALTER HAMILTON JEFFERY L. RABIN; DARYL KELLEY TIMES STAFF WRITERS 07 31 2001 Los Angeles Times Home Edition B-1 Copyright 2001 The Times Mirror Company The Securities and Exchange Commission has launched a preliminary inquiry into whether energy consultants advising Gov.", "Gray Davis used inside information to trade stocks of power companies doing business with the state, a source with knowledge of the matter said Monday.", "The federal agency began its review late last week, the source said, in response to a request from California Secretary of State Bill Jones.", "A Republican rival of Davis, Jones charged that stock trading by consultants may have violated federal laws barring buying and selling based on information not available to the public." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] }, { "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 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "Mitsubishi Electric", "sents": [ "Mitsubishi Electric Corporation (三菱電機株式会社 , Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki-gaisha ) is a Japanese multinational electronics and electrical equipment manufacturing company headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.", "It is one of the core companies of Mitsubishi." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] }, { "title": "e4328_p1", "sents": [ "Systems: Sustainable CA - Sustainable Silicon Valley Metrics & Management: Indicators for Sustainability Socially Responsible Investing Extended Producer Responsibility Implementation Corporate Social Responsibility in Global Economy Approaching Climate Neutrality Sustainable Business Practices: New Regulatory Models Sustainability Legislation: \"Performance Plus\" Management Accounting & Ecological Accounting Implementing Ethical Leadership in the Corporate Environment Product Life-Cycle Management E-commerce: Affects on Energy & Transportation The Future of Forestry Sustainable Learning Organizations Internet Impacts on Society The Future of Energy How To Profit Through Paper Use Reduction The Future of Activism in the Internet Economy Globalization: The Industrial & Ecological Path COMPUTER & ELECTRONICS PRODUCT STEWARDSHIP As technology continues to outpace our satiation with new gadgets and increasing connectivity leads to increasing amounts of waste material, producers must continue to refine strategies for effectively taking responsibility for the entire life-cycle of their products.", "Challenged to meet ever-more stringent demands from environmentally concerned stakeholders, leading thinkers from Xerox, Philips, Mitsubishi Electric and Pitney Bowes will share their innovative solutions to high tech product stewardship, providing models which can be used broadly across many industries." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e5899_p50", "sents": [ "Dunn said because California doesn't have a sufficient pipeline infrastructure, demand for gas in the state is still higher than the available supply.", "In June 2000, when El Paso Natural Gas Co.'s El Paso Merchant Energy unit held transportation rights on the system, the natural gas price differential between Texas and New Mexico producing regions and California was 27 cents, only 5% of its present differential, Dunn said.", "The differential from the producing region to New York on Transcontinental Zone 2 Pool was 38 cents a year ago, and 45 cents this month, the company said.", "In the Midcontinent, El Paso said the price differential on NGPL-Midcontinent pipeline, ANR-Oklahoma and Northern Natural Gas pipeline ranged from 25 cents a year ago to 29 cents in June.", "The company based its figures on industry pricing data.", "El Paso Merchant Energy is one of about 30 companies that own capacity on the El Paso line, including Enron Corp. (ENE), Dynegy Inc. (DYN), Duke Energy (DUK), PG&E Corp. (PGC), Williams Energy (WMB), San Diego Gas & Electric Co., and Sempra Energy (SRE) units Sempra Energy Trading Corp. and Southern California Gas Co. Also, Dunn said, gas prices have fallen considerably in California since the winter, with more electricity available from non-gas-fired generation, including nuclear and hydroelectric facilities, cutting back a need for gas-fired plant fuel." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 5 ] }, { "title": "e490_p13", "sents": [ "Williams Energy emerged as one of its industry's most profitable companies last year by capitalizing on electricity price swings from its 21,000-square-foot trading floor in Tulsa, Okla.", "The operation includes a 70-foot wall filled with secret data and two 30-foot data walls breaking out the latest information on energy futures.", "Even as its California utility sank deeper into debt with the electricity generators, PG&E Corp. continued to build a 137,000-square-foot trading floor in Rockville, Md., to trade electricity.", "PG&E's worsening financial woes finally forced the company to delay the expansion late last year.", "AES Corp. discovered the increasingly important role that trading floors play in the profit equation last year.", "The Arlington, Va.-based company owns three California power plants, but said it didn't make any money from them last year because of a contract that turns over the electricity sales to Williams.", "The arrangement left AES with an $11 million loss from its California operations last year." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e3430_p96", "sents": [ "THE LONELY VERMONTER \"In the final analysis, Vermont Sen. James M. Jeffords was out of step with his party, making his departure appropriate, if politically inconvenient.", "Those who argue that it was the party out of step with Jeffords, some political analysts are saying, are those who wish the Republicans no good.\"", "UPI political analyst Peter Roff writes.", "\"The conservative, low-tax, minimal-government Republican Party enjoys national parity with the Democrats, something the Northeastern liberal GOP could not achieve.", "Jeffords is, in that regard, these observers say, out of step with victory.", "One GOP consultant went so far as to say, 'If the Republicans were doing better in New England, Jeffords would not have been so lonely.", "Why is it that the people from states where the GOP usually doesn't win think they can tell the rest of us how to run the party and what we all should believe?", "It doesn't make sense.'" ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] }, { "title": "New England", "sents": [ "New England is a geographical region comprising six states of the northeastern United States: Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut.", "It is bordered by the state of New York to the west and south, and by the Canadian provinces of New Brunswick and Quebec to the northeast and north, respectively.", "The Atlantic Ocean is to the east and southeast, and Long Island Sound is to the south.", "Boston, the capital of Massachusetts, is New England's largest city.", "The largest metropolitan area is Greater Boston, which also includes Worcester, Massachusetts (the second-largest city in New England), Manchester (the largest city in New Hampshire), and Providence (the capital and largest city of Rhode Island), with nearly a third of the entire region's population." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e5099_p5", "sents": [ "With the alternative of PJM West, FERC and state utility commissions should now use their authority to shoot down the Alliance RTO proposal.", "Placing RT O conditions that protect the public interest on the proposed merger of First Energy and GPU would be a good start down that road.", "First Energy should be given no choice but to leave the Alliance and join PJM, at least if they wa nt to merge with GPU.", "First Energy itself has reportedly signaled to its Alliance partners that the merger with GPU comes before the Alliance.", "First Energy ,s departure from the Alliance RTO, the principal strategic purpose of which appears to be keeping its member utilities out of PJM and the Midwest ISO and to fracture the wholesale market between Philadelphia and Chicago, would help unravel that counterproductive proposal and have several benefits.", "All of Orion ,s generation that was purchased from Duq uesne and still serves Duquesne ,s customers would be within one RTO." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 1, 2, 3 ] }, { "title": "e5099_p6", "sents": [ "Converse ly, if First Energy were to remain in the Alliance, some of Orion ,s generat ion would be located in the Alliance and some in PJM West (assuming Duquesne joins PJM West).", "Requiring First Energy to join PJM West would not only de al with that seams issue, but would also further expand the size and liquidit y of the wholesale market in the eastern United States.", "First Energy's ISO games While the agreement between Allegheny and PJM paves the way for Duquesne to join PJM, what about PennPower, the subsidiary of First Energy that serves some suburbs of Pittsburgh and up to the New Castle area of the Commonwealth?", "Is there any hope for PennPower customers, or worse, might First Energy try to balkanize PJM by taking GPU out of PJM?", "Moving GPU out of PJM would be the electric utility equivalent of suggesti ng that one of the 50 states should secede from the Union and join Mexico." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 2 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e7723_p38", "sents": [ "-- St. Paul Venture Capital said engineering executive Tom Rowbotham will be the second venture partner at the company's Boston office as part of its expansion into New England.", "Tom Rowbotham was most recently director of technology at British Telecom.", "He will focus on investments in early-stage telecommunications companies.", "http: www.stpaulvc.com Windward Ventures Names Advisor and Ex-Net Exec as Partners SAN DIEGO -- Windward Ventures, an investment firm that focuses on early stage technology firms, said it added Renee Masi and Peter Shaw as partners.", "Ms. Masi has been an advisor to the company since 1998 and Mr. Shaw was formerly president and CEO of Sitematic, an Internet service firm that was acquired in 1999 by NetObjects.", "Windward recently launched a $70 million fund.", "http: www.windwardventures.com VW Corrections o Avolo NEW YORK -- An item in yesterday's VentureWire incorrectly reported the amount of funding Avolo received in its most recent round of funding." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 6 ] }, { "title": "e1217_p35", "sents": [ "http: www.yankeetek.com NIF Ventures Promotes Partner to Run Silicon Valley Office PALO ALTO, Calif. -- NIF Ventures, the Tokyo-based venture capital unit of Daiwa Securities Group, said it promoted partner Jim Timmins to managing partner of the firm's Silicon Valley office.", "Mr. Timmins served with Redwood Partners and Hambrecht & Quist prior to joining NIF in 1998. NIF Ventures manages approximately $1.2 billion.", "Its portfolio companies include AccessLan, eFinance, SpectraSwitch, and WaveSplitter.", "Telephone 650-461-5000. VW Corrections o Rtime NEW YORK -- An item in yesterday's VentureWire about Sony's acquisition of Rtime incorrectly listed the company's URL.", "Rtime's URL is http: www.rtimeinc.com.", "Advertisement Has patent law gone too far?", "The courts have granted protection to one-click shopping, but is this way of doing business so obvious and trivial that lawmakers should intervene?", "And what about online auctions for selling vacant airline seats?", "Is intellectual property law able to cope in the era of Amazon.com and Priceline.com, or has it become patently absurd?" ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 3 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e27843_p0", "sents": [ "'Please respond to countrybriefingseditor-reply From: Robert Lane Greene, Editor, Economist.com C ountry Briefings Subject: Economist.com launches Country Briefings [IMAG E] Dear Economist.com reader Economist.com's Country Briefings is the essential insider's tool for researching countries.", "The Economist I ntelligence Unit (EIU), the world's leading provider of country analysis, and The Economist have teamed up to create a service which is: Comprehensive 60 countries from Algeria to Vietna m covering more than 98% of the world's GDP.", "For each country we have brou ght together succinct forecasts, economic and political profiles, core stat istics, essential recent articles and in-depth surveys from The Economist.", "We also bring you headlines from around the web and links to relevant web sites.", "If you could only use one countries resource, you'd want it to be C ountry Briefings.", "Well-organised Every story is hand-picked by our e xpert team and the site is organised in a way that makes it easy for you to find the information you need." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] }, { "title": "The Economist", "sents": [ "The Economist is an English-language weekly magazine-format newspaper owned by the Economist Group and edited at offices in London.", "Continuous publication began under its founder, James Wilson, in September 1843.", "In 2015 its average weekly circulation was a little over 1.5 million, about half of which were sold in the United States." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e3554_p8", "sents": [ "EHN is Spain's largest wind-park developer.", "The company has installed more than 600 megawatts of wind capacity in Spain over the past five years, mostly in Navarra.", "Its parks have won accolades from environmental groups and business leaders alike, and company-sponsored surveys show public approval ratings above 80%.", "One of its subsidiaries, Energias Eolicas Europeas, this spring landed the biggest-ever financing package in the wind sector: some 900 million euros from five European banks to build 31 wind parks in Don Quixote's La Mancha in south-central Spain.", "\"The extra costs from taking care of the environment aren't questioned here,\" says EHN's chief executive, Esteban Morras, seated beneath oil paintings of modern windmills in his office in Pamplona.", "\"That's the most profitable investment there is in the long run.\"", "Mr. Morras isn't just paying lip service to the green lobby.", "A former attorney and civil servant, he spent years working on water-resource and energy issues in the governments of his hometown and, later, the region." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 3 ] }, { "title": "Don Quixote", "sents": [ "Don Quixote ( or ] , fully titled The Ingenious Nobleman Mister Quixote of La Mancha (Spanish: El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha ] ), is a Spanish novel by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra.", "Published in two volumes, in 1605 and 1615, \"Don Quixote\" is considered the most influential work of literature from the Spanish Golden Age and the entire Spanish literary canon.", "As a founding work of modern Western literature and one of the earliest canonical novels, it regularly appears high on lists of the greatest works of fiction ever published, such as the Bokklubben World Library collection that cites \"Don Quixote\" as the authors' choice for the \"best literary work ever written\"." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e11461_p0", "sents": [ "\"Haas-mates: I'd like to take?a moment to invite you to the Haas Asia Business Conference, happening this Saturday.?", "As the subject line says, online ticket sales end tonight at midnight.", "And while sales are going well, they haven't gone as well as we would have liked within Haas -- 90% of our tickets have been sold to alums and professionals.?", "So I'd like to take a moment of your time to explain what you will find at the ABC this Saturday.", "For starters, we have a solid lineup of keynotes:Ta-Lin Hsu, Chairman of H&Q Asia Pacific; and?John Wadsworth, Honorary Chairman of?Morgan Stanley Dean Witter?Asia.?Dr.", "Hsu is known as the John Doerr of Asia, and Mr. Wadsworth's achievements are already familiar to many of you.", "We're fortunate to have both of these gentlemen aboard.?", "More information is available at: http: www.haas-abc.org details keynote.asp In addition, we have an outstanding lineup of panelists, spread?across 6 panels: Biotech, E-Commerce, Entrepreneurship, Technology Manufacturing, Telecom & Wireless, and Venture Capital." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 5 ] }, { "title": "John Doerr", "sents": [ "L. John Doerr (born June 29, 1951) is an American venture capitalist at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers in Menlo Park, California, in Silicon Valley.", "In February 2009, Doerr was appointed a member of the President's Economic Recovery Advisory Board to provide the President and his administration with advice and counsel in trying to fix America's economic downturn.", "s of 2017 , \"Forbes\" ranked Doerr as the 105th richest person in the United States and the 303rd richest person in the world, with a net worth of US $6.0 billion." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e2204_p96", "sents": [ "Meanwhile, FERC has issued new refund orders requiring many of these same generators to justify $587,000 in overcharges during March 2001. PG&E and Southern California Edison Co.'s Write-Offs -- After a long delay, PG&E and Edison during the middle of April confirmed what many knew was coming --huge write-offs for unrecovered purchased power costs during the year 2000. Edison announced that it was writing off $2.5 billion in undercollected power costs for the year, leaving the company with a $1.9 billion loss for the year.", "Edison chief John Bryson was hopeful, nevertheless, that a recent memorandum of understanding (MOU) his company signed with the state will allow Edison to recover some of those costs and help keep its Southern California Edison Co. (SoCal Edison) affiliate out of bankruptcy.", "\"Prompt implementation of the MOU can avoid the large costs of a [SoCal Edison] bankruptcy and make it possible for the company to restore its financial health and ability to maintain a reliable power grid,\" said Bryson in a statement accompanying Edison's financial results." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 1, 2 ] }, { "title": "John Bryson", "sents": [ "John E. Bryson (born July 24, 1943) is the former United States Secretary of Commerce, the 37th person to hold the post since its establishment in 1913.", "Prior to this, he served as the Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and President of Edison International, the parent company of Southern California Edison and as director of The Boeing Company." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e27310_p9", "sents": [ "Need a crash course?", "This January <br Technologic Partners will convene our annual Healthcare <br Outlook to help you find out where the money is going <br and if you should follow.", "Biotechnology and <br Pharmaceuticals: Discovery, Development and Distribution <br is a one day meeting in San Francisco.", "We&#39;ve invited 50 <br early-stage companies to present their plans against a <br backdrop of three industry roundtables, three keynote <br presentations and an investor&#39;s roundtable.", "This year <br our trademark investor roundtable will be preceded by <br a special presentation: Healthcare Investing, The Year <br in Review, by VentureWire Managing Editor Ken Andersen.", "<br Come see the future of healthcare investing.", "<br Register today for one of the remaining places.", "<br <br Healthcare Outlook <br San Francisco Airport Marriott <br January 22, 2002<br <br <a target=\" _new\" href=\"http: venturewire.com ads ad.asp?id=1616\" http: www.healthcareoutlook.com< a font td tr table <br <table border=\"0\" width=\"80%\" cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 <tr <td <a name=\"vwHHNKHPHJJI\" <b <font face=\"verdana, arial, geneva, helvetica\" size=\"2\" Optium Names Ex-JDS Chief Kevin Kalkhoven as Chairman font ba td <td align=\"right\" &nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=\"http: alert.venturewire.com o_mailer.asp?sid=HHNKHPHJJI\" target=NEW <img src=\"http: alert.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\" ORLANDO, FLA. -- Optium, a fiber optics company that provides optical systems manufacturers with the optical subsystems for transmitting and regenerating 10- and 40-Gbps data, said it appointed Kevin Kalkhoven as its new chairman." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 7 ] }, { "title": "Kevin Kalkhoven", "sents": [ "Kevin Oscar Newton Kalkhoven, former CEO of JDS Uniphase, is an Australian venture capitalist and auto racing magnate based in Menlo Park, California.", "He is a partner in the Kalkhoven, Pettit, Levin and Johnson Venture capital firm (KPLJ LLC) based in Menlo Park." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e1268_p37", "sents": [ "But his critics say with irony: ``He is neither Marx nor Spencer.''", "The job losses in the US have shaken the government and the secretary of labour, Elaine Chao, has said: ``The new unemployment numbers show that the patient isn't getting any better, so it is time to prescribe some medicine.''", "Trade union leaders in Maharashtra will also be watching with interest the Shiv Sena's response to the bandh call since the party has suddenly taken an aggressively pro-labour stand.", "It has strongly criticised the Central government's new policy on labour, globalisation and imports of agricultural commodities.", "Uddhav Thackeray, Sena leader, gave a call at a rally organised by the party on March 21 for trade unions of all ideologies to come together to oppose the policy of globalisation.", "Left-wing trade union leaders say they would not be averse to the support of the Sena to the bandh.", "But they would not share the platform with the Sena leaders." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 4 ] }, { "title": "Uddhav Thackeray", "sents": [ "Uddhav Bal Keshav Thackeray is an Indian politician who is the chief of Hindu nationalist Shiv Sena party.", "He is the son of Shiv Sena founder Bal Thackeray." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e26651_p0", "sents": [ "'Charles Schwab & Co., Inc. Email Alert Morning Market View(TM) for Wednesday, December 26, 2001 as of 9:30AM EST Information provided by Schwab Center for Investment Research MERRY CHRISTMAS!", "United States equity index futures are pointing to a slightly lower open in the post-Christmas session as economic and equity news is sparse.", "Wal-Mart (WMT,57,f2&f4) and Echostar Communications (DISH,27,f1) were among the few United States companies in the headlines this morning while United States Treasuries are lower and Japanese markets rose slightly.", "Leading retailer Wal-Mart stated that it anticipates December same-store sales at the high end of the 4%-6% range, exceeding its previous forecasts.", "For the Nov. 23 to Dec. 24 period, the company said same-store sales were in the mid-to-upper single digit percentage range.", "According to The Wall Street Journal, EchoStar Communications Chairman Charlie Ergen wants to expand Hughes Electronics's (GMH,15.02,f2) satellite Internet service.", "If regulators approve Echostar's proposed acquisition of Hughes, the Journal reported, Ergen plans to postpone a \"full-scale deployment\" of the Internet service until 2004, opting to spend $1 billion in order to design and launch a \"new generation\" of satellites." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 5, 6 ] }, { "title": "Charlie Ergen", "sents": [ "Charles William \"Charlie\" Ergen (born March 1, 1953) is an American businessman and is the co-founder and current Chairman of the Board, and former President and CEO of Dish Network and EchoStar Communications Corporation.", "He stepped down as CEO in May 2011 in favor of Joseph Clayton.", "He remains Chairman of the Board of both companies.", "Ergen resumed as CEO upon Clayton's March 31, 2015 retirement.", "Ergen owns 52 percent of Dish and Echostar shares and holds 88 percent of its total voting power." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e28108_p10", "sents": [ "Investors will be looking at some selective corporate bond issues,\" Mr Chang says.", "Downgradings of project bond paper in Asia have soured project finance deals for investors and banks.", "Meanwhile, foreign companies, which had their fingers burnt a few years ago when state companies tried to renegotiate off-take agreements, are now increasingly wary of throwing their resources behind billion-dollar projects in Asia as they did a few years ago.", "In particular, currency volatility in the region and political tariff disputes of the type seen in Pakistan's Hub power project, or more recently in the case of the Dabhol project in India, have served as reminders of the risks involved.", "The Indian government is locked in a dispute with Enron, the US energy group, over payment for the $2.9bn Dabhol plant.", "\"The problem in Asia is the level of political and legal uncertainty,\" according to Brian Cahill at Moody's in Australia.", "\"There is a level of scepticism." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 4, 5 ] }, { "title": "Brian Cahill", "sents": [ "Brian John Cahill MBE (16 February 1931 – 8 March 2015) was an Australian television presenter, newsreader and politician who worked first in radio, and then in television from 1959 until the late 1970s / early 1980s.", "In 1983, Cahill was elected to the Parliament of Queensland, as the member for Aspley, Brisbane." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e27445_p11", "sents": [ "The results come despite months of criticism of out of state power generators and Republicans in Washington by Democratic California Governor Gray Davis, who has accused firms such as Enron Corp., Duke Energy Corp., Dynegy Inc., Reliant Energy Inc. and Williams Cos. of manipulating the wholesale energy market.", "Davis is pressing federal regulators to order energy companies to refund $9.8 billion to the state, claiming energy companies overcharged California and its utilities for electricity.", "California in January stepped in and began buying power for PG&E Corp.'s and Edison International's utilities after the companies, the largest investor-owned utilities in the state, ran up billions in debt under the state's flawed deregulation law.", "PG&E's Pacific Gas & Electric filed for bankruptcy protection in April and Edison's Southern California Edison is seeking legislative approval for a financial rescue plan.", "No Crisis The poll also found that fewer people view the nation's energy situation as a crisis." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] }, { "title": "e1770_p4", "sents": [ "\"We believe a rational course of action that seeks new sources of supply must be combined with public policy that ensures confidence that services provided in the past and future will be paid in full,\" Bailey said.", "\"The combination of short-term, regional price controls during emergency periods along with the elimination of credit risk, should provide the market a respite while creating incentive for the private sector to invest with confidence,\" he said.", "Williams Cos said that as of March 31, it was owed $252 million for power sold to the California Independent System Operator (ISO) and the now defunct California Power Exchange.", "Since April 1, Williams' power sales to California have been through the state's Department of Water Resources, which enjoys a far better credit rating than the financially strapped ISO.", "The ISO, which oversees most of the California power grid, has been paying millions of dollars daily for most of the year to ensure there is enough power available to avoid blackouts." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 2 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e7723_p26", "sents": [ "X.com, which last week announced it was ending its online financial services in order to focus exclusively on its online payment services, is backed by Credit Agricole, Deutsche Bank, Digital Century Capital, Goldman Sachs, Hikari Tsushin, idealab!", "Capital Partners, J.P. Morgan, Madison Dearborn Partners, Qualcomm, and TAMC.", "http: www.paypal.com M&A o Broadband Firms Eureka and Gillette Global Network Merge NEW YORK -- Eureka Broadband, an ASP that provides business customers with broadband network applications and services, and Gillette Global Network, a telecommunications firm, said they are merging in an all-stock transaction and will operate as a 50-50 partnership.", "Spectrum Equity Investors and Lazard Technology Partners, both previous investors in each company, are planning on providing additional funding to the new company.", "Jeffrey E. Ginsberg, chairman and CEO of Eureka, will be chairman of the company and Robert W. Vanech, founder and president of Eureka, will be president.", "Gillette said the new name has not been decided and the two companies will operate under their current names until they become fully integrated in the third quarter of 2001. Eureka is backed by Spectrum Equity Investors, CB Richard Ellis Investors, and AT&T Ventures, and Gillette is backed by Encore Venture Partners, Lazard Technology Partners, and Shoemaker Investments." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 2, 5 ] }, { "title": "e1217_p7", "sents": [ "-- Advanced MicroSensors (AMS), a developer of MEMS and other components for telecommunications, industrial, and related markets, said it raised $8 million in its Series A round of funding.", "Fitel Technologies, a subsidiary of Japanese company Furukawa Electric, led the round, which also included Lafe Holdings.", "Fitel Technologies will name at least two members to the company's board of directors.", "The company will use the funding for further technology development.", "AMS and Fitel have also formed a strategic partnership under which AMS will provide chip fabrication to Fitel and both companies will work to develop MEMS-related products.", "http: www.advancedmicrosensors.com Millennia Vision Raises $27 Million In First Funding Round REDWOOD SHORES, Calif. -- Millennia Vision, a provider of e-commerce services, said it raised $27 million in its first round of funding.", "The round was led by GE Equity and Venture Strategy.", "Additional investors included Encore Venture Partners, Phillips Capital Management, Pagemill Capital, and Starwood Capital Group." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 5, 7 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e3376_p1", "sents": [ "Reuters English News Service, 05 24 01 State utility cancels agreement Enron power purchase pact Associated Press Newswires, 05 24 01 El Paso's Chairman to Testify in Gas-Price Hearing (Update1) Bloomberg, 05 24 01 National Desk; Section A Power Trader Tied to Bush Finds Washington All Ears By LOWELL BERGMAN and JEFF GERTH 05 25 2001 The New York Times Page 1, Column 1 c. 2001 New York Times Company Curtis Hebert Jr., Washington's top electricity regulator, said he had barely settled into his new job this year when he had an unsettling telephone conversation with Kenneth L. Lay, the head of the nation's largest electricity trader, the Enron Corporation.", "Mr. Hebert, chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, said that Mr. Lay, a close friend of President Bush's, offered him a deal: If he changed his views on electricity deregulation, Enron would continue to support him in his new job." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] }, { "title": "e777_p0", "sents": [ "'Ontario should open power market National Post 04 05 01 California lawmakers want windfall profits tax on energy companies Houston Chronicle, 04 05 01 SURVEY - SITE FEED - WORLD PULP AND PAPER: Online trading gets the cold shoulder The industry seems to be taking a cautious attitude towards the web Financial Times; Apr 5, 2001 COMPANIES & FINANCE UK: BG to get Pounds 51m from Enron NEWS DIGEST Financial Times; Apr 5, 2001 COMPANIES & FINANCE THE AMERICAS: Duke outlines its Dollars 1bn Europe plan Financial Times; Apr 5, 2001 UK: UPDATE 1-Britain gears up for offshore wind power.", "Reuters English News Service, 04 05 01 INDIA: Enron issues arbitration notice to India govt.", "Reuters English News Service, 04 05 01 FDI proposals worth Rs 545 crore cleared The Economic Times, 04 05 01 Law Lords order Enron to pay pounds 100m over pipeline The Daily Telegraph, 04 05 01 Merger Increases Value of King of Prussia, Pa., Video-Conferencing Company KRTBN Knight-Ridder Tribune Business News: The Philadelphia Inquirer - Pennsylvania, 04 05 01 Bandwidth Mkt: Price Adjustments Fail To Spur Action Dow Jones Energy Service, 04 04 01 Financial Post: Editorial Ontario should open power market Kenneth L. Lay National Post 04 05 2001 National Post National C19 (c) National Post 2001. All Rights Reserved." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 2 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e5815_p29", "sents": [ "Regionally, the expansion was uneven, weighted toward the fast-developing San Diego area and Northern California's tech corridor.", "Consumption in San Diego Gas & Electric's service area rose more than 17% from 1995 to 2000 and, for the decade, increased almost twice as much as in the state overall.", "The commercial sector's usage grew twice as fast in the decade's last five years as it had in its first half as the economic mix shifted toward services and offices loaded up on energy-eating technology.", "The heady affluence of the late '90s also inflated residential consumption.", "Consumers splurged on bigger houses, pools and spas, more appliances and up-to-the-minute gadgetry, said Sean Randolph, president of the Bay Area Economic Forum.", "Fixed retail prices meant consumers had little incentive to rein themselves in, analysts said.", "\"We decided we were not going to have a process for adjustment on the demand side,\" Borenstein said.", "\"We relied entirely on the supply side and that turned out to be a huge mistake.\"" ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 4 ] }, { "title": "e1720_p51", "sents": [ "\"In soybeans maybe the market can adjust quickly\" to changes in supply and demand, \"but in electric generation in California it can't,\" said Flori o, who also serves as an attorney for the Utility Reform Network, a consumer group.", "\"For most products, one of the ways prices get determined is if buye rs refuse to buy when the price gets too high.", "But that's generally not an option for people when it comes to electricity.\"", "Critics of California's attempt to cap prices last summer said the controls instead prompted many power suppliers to sell their electricity to other states.", "That \"actually made the tight-supply problem worse [in California] by driving imports out of the state,\" the Bay Area Economic Forum, a research group funded by regional business and government agencies said in a report last week.", "Indeed, the temporary caps were basically abandoned by year's end to keep enough electricity in the state." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 4 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e3698_p51", "sents": [ "This is a new seat on the board.", "NETdelivery is backed by Apex Investment Partners, Keystone Venture Capital Management, Output Technlogogy Solutions, and United Parcel Service.", "http: www.netdelivery.com Wall Street Global Appoints CML Executive to Board mail?", "top NEW YORK (VENTUREWIRE) -- Wall Street Global, a provider of Internet -based mutual funds and annuities platforms for mid-size financial institutions, announced that Charles M. Leighton, most recently the founder and chairman of retailer CML Industries, has joined its board of directors.", "Mr. Leighton joins as the fifth member of the company's board, which currently does not represent any venture investors.", "To date, Wall Street Global has raised abo ut $2 million from the Wall Street Financial Group and unnamed individuals.", "Th e company, which expects to reach profitability within the year, is in the process of raising an undisclosed amount of first round financing.", "http: wallstreetglobal.com new people Iris Labs CEO Joins Metera Networks as CEO mail?" ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 1 ] }, { "title": "e4084_p18", "sents": [ "The company plans to use the funds for continued development of its Web site.", "The company raised $6 million from the same investors in 1999. WineAcceess offers a database of over 250,000 wines, wine-tasting groups, member reviews of wines, and other services.", "http: www.wineaccess.com DigiLens Secures $40 Million in its Fourth Round of Funding SUNNYVALE, Calif. -- DigiLens, a developer of optical display technologies, said it received $40 million in its fourth round of funding.", "New investor Crescendo Ventures led the round, which included new investors BCI Partners and Vision Capital as well as previous investors Alta Partners, Amadeus Capital Partners, Apex Investment Partners, Citigroup Investments, Foresight Ventures, Johnson & Johnson Development, Keystone Ventures, Noro-Moseley, and Science Applications International.", "The company will use the funding to expand its United States and European operations and for technology research and development.", "http: www.digilens.com Licensing Site IPnetwork.com Gets $20 Million in Round Two NEW YORK -- IPnetwork.com, which provides transaction and information services to licensing and event sponsorship industries, said it received $20 million in a second round of financing led by Communicade, the Internet investment arm of Omnicom Group." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 3 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "Kinder Morgan", "sents": [ "Kinder Morgan is the largest energy infrastructure company in North America.", "The company specializes in owning and controlling oil and gas pipelines and terminals." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] }, { "title": "e3380_p4", "sents": [ "El Paso Pipeline is planning to convert the All-America oil pipeline to natural gas, said Patricia Shelton, president of El Paso's western pipeline group.", "That line, which was recently approved by FERC, will ship about 230 million cubic feet per day of natural gas from Texas to the California border by autumn.", "``We're doing this on our dime to loosen up our system,'' Shelton said.", "A major new interstate line, the Sonoran Pipeline, has been proposed in a joint venture by Calpine Corp and Kinder Morgan.", "The 1,000-mile pipeline would ship 1.5 billion cubic feet of gas each day from Blanco, New Mexico to the San Francisco Bay area.", "The companies are trying to get 20-year contract commitments from customers to determine if the nearly $2 billion pipeline is economically feasible, said Craig Chancellor of Calpine.", "Kern River Gas Transmission, a unit of the Williams Cos (NYSE:WMB - news) is planning an expansion of its interstate pipeline to add 906 million cubic feet per day of gas." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 3 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "Merrill Brown", "sents": [ "Merrill Brown is an educator, consultant, advisor, investor and veteran media executive and journalist.", "In addition to writing for The Washington Post, he launched MSNBC.com and was the website’s founding Editor-in-Chief.", "He is former Director of the School of Communication and Media at Montclair State University.", "and grew up in Silver Spring, Maryland.", "He graduated from Washington University in St. Louis with a BA in political science in 1974." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] }, { "title": "e27401_p1", "sents": [ "The translation service will be provided by ILanguage of Redmond, Wash. \"It is a logical next step for us to extend our reach to readers around the world,\" said Merrill Brown, editor-in-chief of the Web site, jointly owned by Microsoft and General Electric's NBC.", "The stories will be translated into German, French, Spanish, Japanese, Chinese, Italian, Portuguese and Korean.", "Yesterday, MSNBC launched an Arabic language site.", "-- EarthLink acquires email machine maker EarthLink said it will exchange $5 million worth of its stock to buy Cidco Inc., a maker of email access devices.", "\"Cidco has proven that there is a truly viable market for devices that offer quick, easy access to e-mail and personalized content within the home, without using a computer,\" said Lance Weatherby, EarthLink's executive vice president The deal will add 120,000 Cidco service subscribers to EarthLink's customer base.", "Morgan Hill, Calif.-based Cidco's users pay $9.95 a month for email access." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e822_p7", "sents": [ "Johnson, like many consultants, also said the governor's declining poll numbers likely influenced his decision to make the television appearance, carried on most stations across the state during 6 p.m. news shows.", "\"Gray Davis doesn't do anything that the polls don't dictate,\" Johnson said.", "\"He is doing this because the polls show his support is in free-fall.\"", "Until Thursday, Davis had not characterized the situation as a \"crisis,\" instead calling it a \"challenge.\"", "That euphemism raised the hackles of many legislators.", "\"It's pretty clear: The public is angry and scared,\" said state Sen. Don Perata (D-Alameda).", "\"They want a sense that someone is in control, and that there is some certitude of where we're going.", "We're lacking both.\"", "The Legislature, meanwhile, approved two measures touted as ways to cut the state's power needs this summer, when hot temperatures traditionally cause demand to surge--a situation that this year could result in blackouts." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 2, 5 ] }, { "title": "Don Perata", "sents": [ "Don Richard Perata (born April 30, 1945) is a California Democratic politician, who was President pro tempore of the California State Senate from 2004 to 2008.", "He came in second place in the November 2010 ballot for Mayor of Oakland.", "Perata now runs a political consultancy company" ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e2665_p97", "sents": [ "The disparity was created by 20 years of arcane regulatory battles waged as pro-business Republicans gradually took control of the state utilities commission.", "It also reflected a dramatic shift in economic philosophy.", "Until 1982, rates for all Californians were about the same.", "The following year, Republican George Deukmejian replaced Democrat Jerry Brown as governo r and slowly began to replace liberal utilities commission members with his o wn conservative appointees.", "That gave businesses their best chance in decades to redirect policy.", "``There was a very clear agenda among the Republican commissioners to do go od by big business,'' said Mike Florio, a board member of the state agency tha t runs the electricity grid and an attorney for the pro-consumer Utility Refo rm Network.", "Just as they are doing now, big businesses warned during the economic downturns in the 1980s and early 1990s that they would be forced to lay off thousands of workers or even flee California if they didn't get a break." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 3 ] }, { "title": "Jerry Brown", "sents": [ "Edmund Gerald Brown Jr. (born April 7, 1938) is an American politician and lawyer who has been the 39th Governor of California since 2011.", "A member of the Democratic Party, Brown previously served as the 34th governor from 1975 to 1983, and is the longest-serving governor in California history.", "Prior to and following his first governorship, Brown served in numerous state, local and party positions, and thrice ran as a candidate for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e4676_p5", "sents": [ "The fund will focus on optical networking companies but has yet to determine how many companies it will fund.", "Greg Smith has been named president of Corning Innovation Ventures.", "Corning Innovation Ventures recently participated in a $57 million round of funding for CyOptics, which designs, manufactures, and markets high-performance optical networking components.", "http: www.corning.com Hallmark.com Invests in Online Gift Resource RedEnvelope KANSAS CITY, Mo.", "-- Hallmark.com, an e-commerce site for Hallmark cards, said it has made an undisclosed equity investment in RedEnvelope, an online gift resource.", "The investment is part of RedEnvelope's $34 million third round of funding, which included Direct Equity Partners, Atrium, Comdisco Ventures, and Crown Technology Partners.", "Hallmark.com said that as part of the deal it will add a collection of RedEnvelope gifts to its Web site.", "RedEnvelope has also received funding from Sequoia Capital, Weston Presidio, Sippl MacDonald Ventures, Silicon Valley Angel Fund, and Philips-Smith Specialty Retail Group." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 1 ] }, { "title": "e3698_p24", "sents": [ "Although a company spokesperson did not disclose post-money valuatio n, she said it was \"significantly larger\" than that of the previous round.", "QLogic will take the sixth seat on Banderacom's board of directors.", "Funds will be used for developing the IBandit silicon products family, which is expected to launch in the third quarter.", "Second-round funding is expected to last at least 18 months, at which time Banderacom expects to raise a third round of roughly the same size.", "Although the company did not share revenue projections, a spokesperson said Banderacom will break even in 18 to 24 months.", "Banderacom, which was founded in 1999, employs 70 and expects to ad d about 50 more by the end of the year.", "New positions will be primarily in software engineering.", "http: www.banderacom.com Optical Device Maker Optium Raises $35.5 Million Round Two mail?", "top ORLANDO, Fla. (VENTUREWIRE) -- Optium, which has developed proprieta ry optical device and packaging technology to enhance high-speed voice and dat a transmissions, announced it has raised $35.5 million in its second round of funding from Battery Ventures, Corning Innovation Ventures, Dominion, Texas Pacific, Kalkhoven, Pettit & Levin Ventures, and Kee Munder Venture Partners." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 8 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e11062_p58", "sents": [ "Intertainer is a relatively small competitor from an audience standpoint.", "T he company was formed in 1997 and just launched its VOD service last spring.", "T he service is currently available in Cincinnati and Willow Grove, Pa., and wil l be rolled out in seven more cities by the end of summer.", "Currently, there a re fewer than 10,000 subscribers to Intertainer.", "Intertainer's deal with Universal comes as Hollywood mulls the digital futu re for film.", "Most studios are digitizing their films and drawing up plans to deliver their libraries over the Internet to consumers and movie theaters.", "Sony's Web-based MovieFly system is gearing up for a spring launch, and Disney also is said to have a VOD system in the works.", "The rest of the studios are said to be in varying stages of talks with Sony or Disney.", "Intertainer continues to make strides even though studios have a history of despising the middleman." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1, 2 ] }, { "title": "Cincinnati", "sents": [ "Cincinnati ( ) is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio that serves as county seat of Hamilton County.", "Settled in 1788, the city is located on the north side of the confluence of the Licking with the Ohio River.", "With a population of 298,800, Cincinnati is the third-largest city in Ohio and the 65th-largest city in the United States.", "Its metropolitan statistical area is the 28th-largest in the United States and the largest centered in Ohio.", "The city is also part of the larger Cincinnati–Middletown–Wilmington combined statistical area, which had a population of 2,172,191 in the 2010 census." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "Cruz Bustamante", "sents": [ "Cruz Miguel Bustamante (born January 4, 1953) is an American retired politician.", "He was the 45th Lieutenant Governor of California, a former Speaker of the State Assembly and a member of the Democratic Party.", "He served with Governors Gray Davis and Arnold Schwarzenegger and was succeeded by John Garamendi in 2007." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] }, { "title": "e3126_p1", "sents": [ "In recent days, top California officials have stepped up their rhetoric against a handful of merchant power companies, many of them Texas-based, that supply the state with much of its juice.", "Gov.", "Gray Davis says companies such as Reliant Energy Inc., of Houston, have engaged in \"unconscionable price gouging.\"", "Loretta Lynch, president of the California Public Utilities Commission and a Davis appointee, proclaims that a \"cartel\" of electricity producers has created artificial shortages.", "Lt. Gov.", "Cruz Bustamante is backing a bill that would make energy price fixing a felony, and as a private citizen he is suing several major power producers in Los Angeles state court.", "About half a dozen investigations are being conducted by entities ranging from state legislative committees to the California attorney general's office.", "So far, these probes -- some of which have been under way for months -- haven't yet yielded either civil or criminal charges.", "While the energy suppliers are generating \"unconscionable profits,\" the question remains \"whether they are illegal profits,\" says California Attorney General Bill Lockyer, who has offered rewards of as much as hundreds of millions of dollars for information about lawbreaking in the energy business." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 4, 5 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "Lucent", "sents": [ "Lucent Technologies, Inc., was an American multinational telecommunications equipment company headquartered in Murray Hill, New Jersey, in the United States.", "It was established on September 30, 1996, through the divestiture of the former AT&T Technologies business unit of AT&T Corporation, which included Western Electric and Bell Labs." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] }, { "title": "e7238_p8", "sents": [ "Investors in the round included Casenove Private Equity, Jupiter International Group, TH Lee.Putnam Internet Partners, and the eVestment Company.", "The company said it will use the funding to accelerate the roll-out of its international infrastructure and marketing company.", "The company said it will use its European strategy as the template for its implementation in the United States http: www.callserve.com Wireless Firm Argogroup Raises $20 Million Second Round ELSTEAD, U.K. -- Argogroup, which develops software to deliver content to wireless phones, WAP, or i-Mode without having to change their mobile site, said it raised $20 million in second round funding.", "The round included investments from 3i and Apax Partners.", "The company also announced a co-marketing agreement with Lucent Technologies to enable developers from both Lucent and Argogroup to integrate the company's products with Lucent's wireless technology.", "The company has raised a total of $30 million.", "http: www.argogroup.com $49.6 Million Fourth Round for Broadband Firm Tantivy MELBOURNE, Calif. -- Tantivy Communications, a provider of portable broadband technology, said it completed a $49.6 million fourth round of financing, led by Bowman Capital." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 4 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e6556_p10", "sents": [ "Other investors include Chase H&Q, Comdisco Ventures, FNI Venture Capital, and William Jones & Associates.", "Kymata, which has raised $162 million to date, has received funding from 3i Group, ACT Venture Capital, Bowman Capital, BT, ComVentures, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Telesoft Partners, and the University of Southampton.", "http: www.kymata.com Print and Publishing Service PrintCafe Secures $62.5 Million VANCOUVER, British Columbia -- Creo Products said it invested $32 million in cash and stock in PrintCafe, a provider of Internet-based, business-to-business products and services for the printing and publishing industry, as part of a $62.5 million round of financing.", "In January of this year, Creo Products formed PrintCafe along with Prography Systems.", "HarbourVest Partners, Weiss, Peck & Greer, and previous investor Mellon Ventures also participated in the current funding round.", "The company will use the funds to repay outstanding debt, and for working capital.", "http: www.printcafe.com European Online Billing Service Raises $5.9 Million Round AMSTERDAM -- Anachron, which provides online billing services, said it raised EUR 7 million ($5.9 million) in its second round of funding." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 1 ] }, { "title": "e1217_p28", "sents": [ "Mr. Allen is CFO and vice president of finance and operations for Network Appliance.", "Investors for Acta include Colman Partners, Comdisco Ventures, Greylock, Norwest Venture Partners, Sycamore Venture Capital, United States Venture Partners, and Van Wagoner Fund.", "http: www.acta.com DMR Consulting Exec Joins Software Firm infoShark's Board CHANTILLY, Va. -- InfoShark, a provider of software products that enable enterprises to build a business-to-business infrastructure for accessing, exchanging and transmitting XML data, said it elected Michael J. Poehner, president and chief executive officer of DMR Consulting, to its board of directors.", "Investors include JMI Equity Fund, Lazard Technology Partners, and 21st Century Ventures.", "http: www.infoshark.com incuVest Names Merck Division Senior VP to Board NEW YORK -- incuVest, a venture capital incubator and accelerator, said it appointed Margaret G. McGlynn of Merck to its board of directors.", "Ms. McGlynn serves as senior vice president of Merck's human health marketing division." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 1 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e3137_p16", "sents": [ "http: www.beamreachnetworks.com Appro Systems Adds Paul McCown as CFO mail?", "top BATON ROUGE, La.", "(VENTUREWIRE) -- Appro Systems, a provider of automated credit risk management and financial technologies for the lending industry, said it appointed Paul McCown as chief financial officer.", "Mr. McCown was previously CFO at Vention, an e-business consulting and development firm.", "Appro Systems is backed by FBR Technology Venture Partners, GE Equity, Shawmut Capital Partners, and Stonehenge.", "http: www.approsystems.com Alvesta Names Conceptus Exec Sanford Fitch as CFO mail?", "top SUNNYVALE, Calif. (VENTUREWIRE) -- Alvesta, a developer of 10-gigabit per second optical transceivers, said it named Sanford Fitch as chief financial officer.", "Mr. Fitch formerly served as CFO and vice president of operations at Conceptus, a medical device spinoff of Target Therapeutics.", "Alvesta is back ed by Hamarex Holdings and Intel Capital.", "http: www.alvesta.com OPERATIONS DataCore Names Peter Weston Australia Business Manager mail?", "top FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (VENTUREWIRE) -- DataCore Software, a provider of storage virtualization and networking software, said it named Peter Weston business manager of its new office in Sydney, Australia." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 4 ] }, { "title": "e2852_p7", "sents": [ "Bla-Bla.com, which raised $7.65 millio!", "n in seed funding in September 2000 and an undisclosed amount two months later, is funded by Hudson Venture Partners, Liberty View Equity Partners, SBIC, Silicon Alley Venture Partner s, Stonehenge, and Youngtree Partners.", "As part of the overall transaction, some of Bla-Bla.com's investors, including Liberty View and Hudson Partners, will invest an undisclosed amount in UGO Networks.", "http: www.bla-bla.com http: www.ugo.com EYP Mission Gets $57.5M Round One to Spin Off from Einhorn mail?", "top BOSTON (VENTUREWIRE) -- TA Associates, a private equity firm, said it led a $57.5 million first round for EYP Mission Critical Facilities, which provid es consulting, design, facilities operations management, and information technology services to financial, telecommunications, and computer Internet corporate clients.", "Some of the investment was used to spin off EYP from its parent company, Einhorn Yaffee Prescott Architecture & Engineering, as well as to provide the company with growth capital." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e2972_p3", "sents": [ "Prior to the acquisition PDQuick laid off all of its 30-person staff.", "PDQuick could not be reached for comment, b ut Mr. Frahm said PDQuick's CEO Dan Frederickson will not be working with the acquired company.", "The acquisition allows WhyRunOut.com to service Los Angel es and provide all of Southern California with delivery services.", "Mr. Frahm al so said WhyRunout.com approached PDQuick about the acquisition.", "At the end of April, PDQuick said it failed to r!", "aise additional capital and was looking for buyers.", "The company had also tried to align with the online delivery service Kozmo, which folded in April.", "PDQuick had raised over $35 million in three rounds from Brand Equity Ventures, Corber, GE Capital, Graystone Venture Partners, Portage Venture Partners, St. Paul Venture Capital, TH Lee.Putnam Internet Partners, and William Blair Capital Partners.", "WhyRunOut.com, which is currently profitable, has raised an undisclosed amount of funding in four rounds from individual investors." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 7 ] }, { "title": "e2990_p7", "sents": [ "Mollie Schell O'Hara was named alliance manager, working with the company's alliance partners to build execution and support strategies and implement joint marketing and sales activities.", "Ms. O'Hara most recently served as project management and merchandise manager at J. Baker.", "MarketMAX is backed by Axxon Capital, Brid ge East Capital, BV Group Ventures, Palladin Capital Group, TH Lee, Putnam Internet Partners, and TSG Ventures.", "http: www.marketmax.com 'Mobile Noetix Adds David Langston as VP of Sales, Promotes Sr. Dir.", "mail?", "top BELLEVUE, Wash. (VENTUREWIRE) -- Noetix, a software provider for data acces s management across multiple platforms, said it named David Langston as senio r vice president of sales.", "Prior to joining the company, Mr. Langston was vic e president of sales at Pivotal, a provider of XML-based demand chain network s. The company also announced the promotion of Ann Markley to vice president of product marketing.", "Ms. Markley previously served as the company's senior director of marketing, joining the company in November 2000. Noetix is back ed by Polaris Venture Partners and Sigma Partners." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 2 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "Wachovia", "sents": [ "Wachovia (former NYSE ticker symbol WB) was a diversified financial services company based in Charlotte.", "Before its acquisition by Wells Fargo in 2008, Wachovia was the fourth-largest bank holding company in the United States based on total assets.", "Wachovia provided a broad range of banking, asset management, wealth management, and corporate and investment banking products and services.", "At its height, it was one of the largest providers of financial services in the United States, operating financial centers in 21 states and Washington, D.C., with locations from Connecticut to Florida and west to California.", "Wachovia provided global services through more than 40 offices around the world.", "The purchase of Wachovia by Wells Fargo and Company was completed on December 31, 2008.", "Wells Fargo acquired Wachovia after a government-forced sale to avoid a failure of Wachovia." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] }, { "title": "e20472_p38", "sents": [ "Enron, a natural gas company that has broadened its focus to include energy trading, transport, risk-management, and telecommunications products and s ervices, has relationships with banks that extend beyond credit lines.", "\"Citi, J.P. Morgan, and possibly Wachovia and Bank of America also invested along with Enron in some of its partnerships,\" said Ms. Applebaum.", "A spoke sman for Morgan Chase confirmed that the bank was a lender but said he did not know the amount of its exposure.", "Many other regional banks have participated in credit facilities to Enron.", "Bank of America Corp. is estimated to have about $200 million to $300 milli on of exposure; Bank One Corporation about $100 million; and Wachovia, SunT rust Banks Inc., and FleetBoston Financial about $50 million each, ac cording to Goldman Sachs estimates.", "Bank of New York has between $50 to $10 0 million of exposure, and Northern Trust, United States Bancorp and KeyCorp also ha ve some lending exposure, Ms. Applebaum said." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 1 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e7526_p15", "sents": [ "Keith Rinne, president and founder of West-Net, also based in Vancouver, Washington, will become president of the newly created WAN services group for New Edge Networks.", "New Edge Networks investors include Goldman Sachs partnership GS Capital Partners III, Accel Partners, Crosspoint Venture Partners, Greylock, Intel, Meritech Capital Partners, Comdisco Ventures, Morgan Stanley Dean Witter, and the company's management.", "http: www.newedgenetworks.com http: www.wni.net New Directors o B2B Firm Day Interactive Appoints Former AOL Exec to Board LOS ANGELES -- Day Interactive, a publicly traded Swiss firm that creates and manages business-to-business Web sites and Internet marketplaces, said it has appointed Mark Walsh, former senior vice president and corporate officer at America Online and founder and director of America Online's business-to-business division, AOL Enterprise, as the sixth member of its board.", "Mark Walsh is currently chairman and chief strategy officer at VerticalNet, a network of Web sites for the business-to-business community, and also serves on several corporate, non-profit, and advisory boards including the President's Advisory Group of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce, the Software and Information Industry Association, and the Standard for Internet Commerce group." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] }, { "title": "e3078_p0", "sents": [ "'high-tech management news Published by Technologic Partners EXECUTIVE CHANGES FOR Monday, May 21, 2001 TOP MANAGEMENT", "Wellogix Names President to CEO, Appoints New Chairman", "EXP Systems Names New CEO MARKETING & SALES", "iTendant Names Stewart Huey New VP of Sales", "Campus Pipeline Names Shawn Lewis as VP of Sales", "Metapa Appoints New Sales, Marketing and Engineering Execs", "New Edge Networks Adds Allan Jaffe as VP of Sales", "Mark Duchesne Joins Info-One as Senior VP of Marketing BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT", "French Biotech Firm Proteus Makes Two Key Appointments", "ImaRx Therapeutics Adds Senior Business Development Director", "KnowledgeWorks Adds Former SSIT Exec as EVP, Bus.", "Dev.", "FINANCE", "Business Software Maker Fuegotech Names CFO", "Nishan Names Ex-Sprint, Intel Exec as CFO", "Allegiance Capital Adds Analyst VPs as Part of New Division TECHNOLOGY", "Eric Marston Joins FirstLook as Chief Technology Officer", "ASP Synertech Names CIO and Other Execs" ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 6 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "Marjorie Magner", "sents": [ "Marjorie Magner (born c. 1950) is an American business executive.", "She is the co-founder of Brysam Global Partners, a private equity firm, and she serves as the Chairman of the Gannett Corporation." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] }, { "title": "e20039_p14", "sents": [ "You can read about the other forty at www.fortune.com or in the international editions of FORTUNE.", "2001 FORTUNE 50 Most Powerful Women in American Business 2001 2000 Rank Rank Name Title Company 1 1 Carly Fiorina Chairman and CEO Hewlett-Packard 2 3 Meg Whitman President and CEO eBay 3 15 Oprah Winfrey Chairman Harpo Entertainment 4 10 Andrea Jung Chairman and CEO Avon 5 new Marce Fuller President and CEO Mirant 6 18 Anne Mulcahy President and CEO Xerox 7 14 Karen Katen EVP and President Pharmaceutical Group Pfizer 8 39 Pat Woertz President, Chevron Products Chevron 9 23 Betsy Holden Co-CEO Kraft Foods 10 43 Indra Nooyi President and CFO PepsiCo 11 7 Shelly Lazarus Chairman and CEO Ogilvy & Mather Worldwide 12 50 Abigail Johnson President Fidelity Management and Research 13 9 Martha Stewart Chairman and CEO Martha Stewart Living OmniMedia 14 12 Patricia Dunn Global CEO Barclays Global Investors 15 16 Judy McGrath Chairman and CEO, MTV Group Viacom 16 17 Sherry Lansing Chairman, Motion Picture Group, Paramont Viacom 17 new Louise Kitchen COO Enron Americas 18 19 Lois Juliber COO Colgate-Palmolive 19 18 Marilyn Carlson Nelson Chairman and CEO Carlson Companies 20 new Colleen Barrett President and COO Southwest Airlines 21 21 Ann Moore EVP, Time Inc. AOL Time Warner 22 22 Judy Lewent EVP and CFO Merck 23 new Betsy Bernard President and CFO AT&amp;T Consumer 24 31 Stacey Snider Chairman, Universal Pictures Vivendi Universal 25 30 Dina Dublon EVP and CFO J.P. Morgan Chase 26 10 Pat Russo President and COO Eastman Kodak 27 new Anne Stevens VP, North American Vehicle Operations Ford Motor 28 11 Ann Livermore President, HP Services Hewlett-Packard 29 28 Cathleen Black President Hearst Magazines 30 24 Linda Sanford SVP and Group Executive, Storage Systems IBM 31 33 Amy Brinkley Chairman, Credit Policy Bank of America 32 4 Donna Dubinsky CEO Handspring 33 38 Marjorie Magner Senior EVP, Consumer Group Citigroup 34 13 Nancy Peretsman EVP and Managing Director Allen & Co. 35 25 Dawn Lepore Vice-Chair, EVP, and CIO Charles Schwab 36 27 Gail McGovern President, Fidelity Personal Investments Fidelity 37 new Maria Elena Lagomasino Chairman and CEO J.P Morgan Chase Private Bank 38 new Susan Desmond-Hellman EVP and Chief Medical Officer Genentech 39 new Janet Robinson SVP, Newspaper Operations New York Times Co. 40 new Carol Tome EVP and CFO Home Depot 41 46 Jamie Gorelick Vice-Chair Fannie Mae 42 45 Vivian Banta EVP and CEO, United States Consumer Prudential 43 new Carrie Cox EVP and President, Global Prescriptions Pharmacia 44 47 Anne Sweeney President, ABC Cable Networks Group Disney 45 new Carole Black President and CEO Lifetime Television Networks 46 44 Marion Sandler Co-Chairman and Co-CEO Golden West Financial 47 new Janet Davidson Group President, Integrated Network Lucent Solutions 48 new Larree Renda EVP, Retail Operations Safeway 49 new Louise Francesconi VP and GM, Missile Systems Raytheon 50 8 Abby Joseph Cohen Chief Market Strategist Goldman Sachs FORTUNE's International 50 Most Powerful Women Rank Women Title Company Country 1 Marjorie Scardino CEO Pearson Britain 2 Anne Lauvergeon Chairman Areva France 3 Mary Ma Senior VP and CFO Legend Hong Kong 4 Marianne Nivert President and CEO Telia Sweden 5 Lien Siaou-Sze Vice President Hewlett-Packard Hong Kong 6 Patricia Barbizet CEO Artimis France 7 Eiko Kono President Recruit Japan 8 Belinda Stronach CEO Magna International Canada 9 Marina Berlusconi Vice Chairman Fininvest Italy 10 Christine Tsung President and CEO China Airlines Taiwan 11 Maureen Kempston Darkes President GM Canada Canada 12 Mary Minnick President and COO Coca Cola Asia United States 13 Nita Ing Chairman Taiwan High-Speed Railway Taiwan 14 Barbara Kux Executive Director Ford Europe Germany 15 Ho Ching Chairman Singapore Technologies Singapore 16 Sari Baldauf President Nokia Networks Finland 17 Judy Boynton CFO Royal Dutch Shell Group Britain 18 Maria Silvia Marques Bastos CEO Companhia Siderurgica Nacional Brazil 19 Clara Furse CEO London Stock Exchange Britain 20 Linda Cook CEO Shell Gas &amp; Power Britain 21 Val Gooding CEO BUPA Britain 22 Agnes Touraine Vice Chairman and CEO Vivendi Universal Publishing France 23 Margaret Jackson Chair Qantas Australia 24 Kathleen Bader President Dow Styrenics & Engineered Prod." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 1 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "Denver", "sents": [ "Denver ( ), officially the City and County of Denver, is the capital and most populous municipality of the U.S. state of Colorado.", "Denver is in the South Platte River Valley on the western edge of the High Plains just east of the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains.", "The Denver downtown district is immediately east of the confluence of Cherry Creek with the South Platte River, approximately 12 mi east of the foothills of the Rocky Mountains.", "Denver is nicknamed the \"Mile-High City\" because its official elevation is exactly one mile (5280 ft ) above sea level, making it the highest major city in the United States.", "The 105th meridian west of Greenwich, the longitudinal reference for the Mountain Time Zone, passes directly through Denver Union Station." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 3 ] }, { "title": "e10189_p0", "sents": [ "'Jim et al Paul and I have a meeting in Denver on Tuesday with Governor Bill Owen's chief of staff (Roy Palmer) and two of his policy guys.", "The Governor is expected to stop in for a few minutes.", "I also had the occasion to talk with Gov Owens this weekend in Washington DC, and I he articulated his support for \"market\" solutions.", "He also will be an individual that we can count on to know the issues .he apparently was a lobbyist at one time for the oil and gas industry.", "Also, Gov Owens mentioned that he had breakfast with Ken Lay sometime in the last few months and that he had received support from Ken in the past.", "Can we find out what support Owens was given?", "(I got the sense that it might have been some money dedicated to a community or government program maybe the Aspen Institute?" ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 3, 4 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e7456_p1", "sents": [ "* A FERC Vote for Market Solutions * Where is the Relief for Retail Customers?", "* What's Next for California and Western Wholesale Markets?", "* Implications for the Broader North American Power Market FORMAT At the time listed below, our speakers will address this topic for approximately 30 minutes, followed by an open question and answer period.", "SPEAKERS Larry Makovich, CERA Senior Director, North American Electric Power Mike Zenker, CERA Director, Western Energy TIME 1:00 P.M. Eastern, Monday, November 13, 2000 ELIGIBILITY Clients eligible to participate in this conference call are those who subscribe to the North American Electric Power Retainer Advisory Service or the Western Energy Retainer Advisory Service.", "TO ENROLL To enroll, please contact Ms. Kari Paakaula via fax at (617) 497-0423, or enroll via e-mail at [email protected] before 4:00 P.M., Friday, November 10, 2000. AUDIO For the audio portion of the call, please call in on one of the following numbers approximately five (5) minutes before the call: Within the United States: 1-800-946-0741 Outside the United States: (719) 457-2649 Confirmation Code: 640107 Title of the call: CERA Call TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE United States callers: If you are experiencing difficulties during the call, you may signal for technical assistance by pressing *0 (star, zero) on your telephone keypad International callers: Please re-dial and ask the operator for assistance before giving the confirmation code." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 3 ] }, { "title": "e190_p0", "sents": [ "\"Title: California in the Dark URL: http: www20.cera.com eprofile?u=35&m=2302 In a recent Washington Post op-ed piece, Dan Yergin and Larry Makovich discuss the continued mess of California's electric power problems.", "Rather than fixing the flaws, the current policies from Sacramento are moving California down the road to an expensive public power setup and higher prices for consumers and businesses.", "And the shortage is going to get worse this summer.", "end Follow above URL for full report.", "E-mail Category: Alert CERA Knowledge Area(s): Global Energy," ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e3023_p20", "sents": [ "Saudi Arabia currently has around 2.5 billion cubic feet of gas a day in its system, and is working toward increasing this to 4 billion cubic feet a day by 2003. By 2025, it will need an estimated 14 billion cubic feet a day to meet its own consumption requirements.", "By Dyala Sabbagh, Dow Jones Newswires; 00-9714-3441-857; [email protected] Copyright 2000 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved.", "Shell, Exxon Score Big in Historic Saudi Gas Initiative, Energy Intelligence Group Reports 05 18 2001 PR Newswire (Copyright (c) 2001, PR Newswire) NEW YORK, May 18 PRNewswire -- Exxon Mobil and Royal Dutch Shell are the big winners in today's announcement by Saudi Arabia of the companies selected to participate in its so-called Gas Initiative, Energy Intelligence Group reports in an analysis of the historic decision.", "The announcement by Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal marks the first extensive reopening of the country's upstream hydrocarbon sector to international investment since nationalization in the 1970s." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] }, { "title": "e2074_p31", "sents": [ "The committee, comprising ministers who are also SPC members, is headed by Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal.", "The three gas projects are located in the South Ghawar field near Al-Hufuf in the kingdom's Eastern Province, Shaybah in the Empty Quarter of southeast Saudi Arabia, and the northern Red Sea.", "They cover an area of 440,000 square kilometers (176,000 square miles), making it the world's largest area for hydrocarbon investment.", "Oil Minister Ali al-Nuaimi said in mid-April that the study of the bids was still in its preliminary stages, but foreign oil executives expected a decision with a few weeks.", "US majors Enron and Occidental in a joint bid, as well as Chevron, Conoco, ExxonMobil, Marathon, Phillips and Texaco have been shortlisted for the Saudi projects.", "Rounding out the list are European firms BP Amoco, Eni, Royal Dutch Shell and TotalFinaElf.", "ExxonMobil, Shell and TotalFinaElf are in the bidding for all three ventures." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 1, 3 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e3679_p60", "sents": [ "\"This is part of Enron's global restructuring,\" an industry source told Reuters.", "Saudi Arabia on May 18 awarded United States Enron, Occidental and ExxonMobil with stakes in the Red Sea gas package - one of three projects on offer under the kingdom's $25 billion gas development opening.", "ExxonMobil will retain the lead role, with 60 percent, while Marathon and Occidental will each hold 20 percent stakes, the industry sources said.", "Enron Corp last month bowed out of Dolphin Energy Ltd, majority owned by the government of the United Arab Emirates, which is embarking on a $3.5 billion project to route Qatari gas to the UAE.", "An Enron official has said that the United States firm had sold its stake in the project to UAE's Offsets Group (UOG) for an undisclosed sum.", "The kingdom has awarded eight major oil companies with stakes in three so-called core venture projects - marking a reopening of Saudi Arabia's upstream petroleum industry 25 years after nationalisation." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 1, 4 ] }, { "title": "e2657_p19", "sents": [ "\"New partners are a possibility,\" Khaldoun al-Mubarak, project manager for DEL, majority owned by the UAE's Offsets Group (UOG), told Reuters.", "\"But at the moment we are in the midst of finalising the formal (development and production sharing) agreement with Qatar which should be done by September at the latest.\"", "Qatar and DEL in March signed a \"commercial term sheet agreement\" which outlined the conditions of the upstream agreement for the long-awaited $3.5 billion project.", "UOG currently owns 51 percent of DEL, with the remainder held equally by France's TotalFinaElf and Enron.", "\"Enron is going through major global restructuring,\" Mubarak said.", "\"(But) they haven't officially notified us about their intention to pull out.\"", "Enron officials declined comment.", "Mubarak said interest in DEL was running high.", "\"Everyone is asking for a stake,\" he said.", "The gas deal would entitle DEL to develop a tract of Qatar's giant North Field and produce up to two billion cubic feet per day (cfd) of gas." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 3 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e3564_p30", "sents": [ "\"I don't think it makes a huge amount of difference,\" Niles said.", "\"Things like increasing drilling were going to be a hard haul for the country anyway.\"", "Staff writer Craig D. Rose contributed to this report.", "After months of pressure, mayor agrees on power plant By Brian Bergstein ASSOCIATED PRESS May 31, 2001 SAN JOSE After months of pressure, Mayor Ron Gonzales has dropped his opposition to a proposed large power plant in southern San Jose.", "In a crowded news conference in his office Wednesday, Gonzales announced hi s staff had negotiated important concessions from the companies that want to build the $400 million Metcalf Energy Center Calpine Corp. and Bechtel Enterprises Inc.", "The companies agreed to donate $6.5 million to community programs, offer long-term power contracts at below-market rates to San Jose businesses and take extra steps to keep the plant's pollution levels down.", "\"We came to the conclusion this power plant was on its way to San Jose, and we needed to do everything we could to use our leverage to make this the be st facility we could,\" Gonzales said." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 3 ] }, { "title": "Ron Gonzales", "sents": [ "Ronald R. Gonzales (born 1951) is an American politician and member of the Democratic Party, who served as the 63rd Mayor of San Jose, California.", "Gonzales was the first Hispanic Mayor of San Jose since California became a U.S. state in 1850." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e3686_p114", "sents": [ "Agency officials say the requests are overly broad.", "``The CPUC was on a wit ch hunt and it was the commission's decision not to participate in it,'' Hoeck er said.", "Besides resorting to subpoenas, the commissioners can also ask the agency's Office of Administrative Law Judges to investigate market abuse, but they haven't done so in the past two decades, according to Chief Judge Curtis L. Wagner Jr., a 27-year veteran.", "Steps approved by agency The commissioners did recently order Wagner to launch a time-consuming prob e. Wagner spent a month and took 40 sworn depositions trying to figure out whi ch employee leaked documents about El Paso Merchant Energy's ability to influence natural gas markets.", "``The El Paso folks were upset,'' he said.", "``Any leak of protected material is of great concern to us.", "When something like that gets out, it hurts our procedures.", "It makes people reluctant to supply confidential business matters.''" ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 2 ] }, { "title": "e2750_p48", "sents": [ "All shippers were trying to move as much gas as they could into the state.", "The problem is you can't get all that much gas into the state.\"", "The issue of market share appeared to loom large in the administrative hearing, which has become the closest thing to a trial arising from California's energy crisis.", "A company that controls a large portion of any market enhances its ability to dictate prices and other conditions.", "El Paso Merchant has argued that its market share should be computed as a proportion of the statewide natural gas market, in which case it would fa ll below 20% and would not raise anti-competitive concerns.", "But the PUC counters that, because of difficulties in shipping gas fro m north to south within the state, El Paso's true market is limited to Southe rn California.", "\"The question of the geographic market makes a tremendous difference in how El Paso Merchant's market share will be measured and the results,\" acknowledged Judge Curtis L. Wagner Jr. in an opening statement." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 6 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "Daniel arap Moi", "sents": [ "Daniel Toroitich arap Moi (born 2 September 1924) is a former Kenyan politician who served as the second President of Kenya from 1978 to 2002.", "Through popular agitation and external pressures, he was forced to allow multiparty elections in 1992; he led his party, KANU, to victory in the 1992 and 1997 elections.", "Prior to becoming President, he served as the third Vice President of Kenya from 1967 to 1978." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 2 ] }, { "title": "e27377_p6", "sents": [ "Cuba's Fidel Castro watched as Presidents Fernando Henrique Cardoso of Brazil and Hugo Chavez of Venezuela inaugurated a 680km (425-mile) electricity-transmission line linking their two countries.", "Kenya's parliament threw out an anti-corruption bill despite a first-time visit from the president, Daniel arap Moi, to encourage it through.", "Rejecting the bill puts in doubt millions of dollars in aid.", "Opponents argued that the bill was not tough enough.", "As the situation in Zimbabwe worsened, the Southern Africa Development Community took away the chairmanship of its defence committee from Robert Mugabe and said they were worried about the \"spillover effect\" of the troubles there.", "Attacks continued on around 100 white-owned farms.", "Four journalists from the main independent newspaper were arrested but released by a court.", "A triumph for family values: under pressure from the pope himself, Archbishop Emmanuel Milingo, from Zambia, agreed in Rome to abandon his South Korean wife, married in a Moonie ceremony in May, and \"return to the church\"." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 1 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "Business Wire", "sents": [ "Business Wire is a company that disseminates full-text press releases from thousands of companies and organizations worldwide to news media, financial markets, disclosure systems, investors, information web sites, databases, bloggers, social networks and other audiences.", "It is a subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] }, { "title": "e20464_p27", "sents": [ "--Russell Hubbard in the Princeton newsroom at 609-750-4651, or at Keller Rohrback L.L.P.", "Investigates Potential Claims on Behalf of Enron Corp. -- ENE -- Employees and Former Employees 10 26 2001 Business Wire (Copyright (c) 2001, Business Wire) SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 26, 2001--Seattle's Keller Rohrback L.L.P.", "is currently investigating potential ERISA claims on behalf of participants and beneficiaries of Enron's retirement and 401(k) plans.", "The investigation period covers January 2000 through October 2001. The investigation focuses on concerns that, under the law interpreting ERISA, Enron and its plan administrators may have breached their fiduciary duties of loyalty and prudence by failing to disclose and inform the Plan participants and beneficiaries with respect to the use of employer stock as a Plan investment.", "Rather than providing complete and accurate information to the Plans' participants, it may be alleged that Enron and the plan administrators may have withheld and concealed material information, thereby encouraging participants and beneficiaries to continue to make and to maintain substantial investments in company stock and the Plans." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 1, 2 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e1536_p0", "sents": [ "'World Watch The Wall Street Journal, 04 23 01 PG&E's Glynn Commits Chain of Errors Before Unit's Cash Crisis Bloomberg, 04 23 01 Massive power plant proposed Associated Press Newswires, 04 23 01 UK: UPDATE 1-Saudi Naimi to meet US Energy Secretary this week.", "Reuters English News Service, 04 23 01 INDIA: UPDATE 1-Enron's India unit, lenders to meet on payment row.", "Reuters English News Service, 04 23 01 INDIA: Promoters cut Indian power project capacity-paper.", "Reuters English News Service, 04 23 01 ONGC DISPUTES ENRON'S CLAIM ON MOON PROSPECT PROJECT AT TAPTI Asia Pulse, 04 23 01 Mangalore missive asks Baligar to set records straight The Times of India, 04 23 01 Government to change market rules in order to make electricity sector more competitive Expansion, 04 23 01 DPC seeks OK to exit power project Business Standard, 04 23 01 International World Watch Compiled by David I. Oyama 04 23 2001 The Wall Street Journal A15 (Copyright (c) 2001, Dow Jones & Company, Inc.) ASIA PACIFIC Kookmin Bank Formal Merger Expected The formal merger of South Korea's two largest retail banks, Kookmin Bank and Housing & Commercial Bank, will create the country's largest financial institution." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 3 ] }, { "title": "e1698_p1", "sents": [ "Reuters English News Service, 04 24 01 International World Watch Compiled by David I. Oyama 04 25 2001 The Wall Street Journal A15 (Copyright (c) 2001, Dow Jones & Company, Inc.) ASIA PACIFIC Chinese Delisting May Signal Cleanup China announced the first delisting of a company, signaling a new effort to clean up its stock exchanges by ridding them of their most troubled companies.", "The decision to delist Shanghai Narcissus Electrical Appliance follows months of heated talks between the company and the Shanghai Stock Exchange.", "Shanghai Narcissus was once the country's second-largest maker of washing machines but this month reported its fourth straight annual loss.", "The delisting could pave the way for the China Securities Regulatory Commission to delist as many as 12 similarly unprofitable companies.", "But pressure from local governments, which control many indebted listed firms, could slow reforms.", "U.S., Singapore Rated Most Competitive The United States and Singapore kept the top spots as the world's most competitive nations, and strong growth in Hong Kong moved it back to sixth place from 12th, according to an annual survey." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e10123_p15", "sents": [ "TEXAS House to take up digital signatures, voter registration State Rep. Glen Maxey (D., District 51) has introduced two bills in the House that address voter registration applications submitted by digital transmission.", "SB 613 would permit the voter registrars to accept a voter registration by digital transmission, and SB 615 would require the registrars to accept a voter registration by digital transmission.", "Both bills state that a digital signature would have to be present on a registration application submitted digitally.", "The bills also would call on the secretary of state to adopt rules regarding the technologies needed to create a digital signature.", "NEW YORK Verizon deploys more fiber on Long Island Verizon New York, Inc., has completed the installation of a $19 million upgrade of its fiber optic cable system in Long Island's Nassau and Suffolk counties.", "The company said it now has 200,000 miles of fiber optic cable on the island." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 4, 5 ] }, { "title": "Long Island", "sents": [ "The Long Island is a large, densely-populated island off the East Coast of the United States, beginning at New York Harbor just 0.35 miles (0.56 km) from Manhattan Island and extending eastward into the Atlantic Ocean.", "The island comprises four counties in the U.S. state of New York: Kings and Queens (which comprise the New York City boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens, respectively) to the west; and Nassau and Suffolk to the east.", "However, many people in the New York metropolitan area (even those living in Brooklyn and Queens) colloquially use the term \"Long Island\" (or \"The Island\") exclusively to refer to the Nassau–Suffolk county area collectively, which is mainly suburban in character.", "The majority of New York City residents now live on Long Island." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e8778_p3", "sents": [ "http: www.atviso.com Emulex Acquires Giganet for $645 Million mail this story?", "top COSTA MESA, Calif. (VENTUREWIRE) -- Emulex, a publicly traded supplier of Fibre Channel host adapters, said it has agreed to acquire Giganet, a developer of IP networking services in a deal worth approximately $645 million.", "Emulex will acquire Giganet for approximately 4 million shares in common stock and assumed options.", "Giganet will become the IP Networking group of Enulex.", "Neil Ferris, Giganet president and CEO, will take a seat on Emulex's board of directors.", "Giganet Inc.'s investors include H&Q Venture Associates, Innocal, Mariposa Investment Holding, Merrill Lynch, NTT Leasing, Telsoft, and W.R. Hambrecht.", "http: www.emulex.com http: www.giganet.com Global Internet Ventures Launches $140 Million Fund mail this story?", "top VIENNA, Va. (VENTUREWIRE) -- Global Internet Ventures said it launched a $140 million fund focused on early-stage technology companies based in India, China, and the United States The fund's average investment will range between $500,000 and $3 million." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 2, 4 ] }, { "title": "Emulex", "sents": [ "Emulex Corporation provides network connectivity, monitoring and management hardware and software.", "The company's I/O connectivity offerings, including its line of Ethernet and Fibre Channel-based connectivity products, were used in server and storage products from OEMs, including Cisco, Dell, EMC Corporation, Fujitsu, Hitachi, HP, Huawei, IBM, NetApp and Oracle Corporation." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e2972_p7", "sents": [ "The company said it expects to reach profitability in the fourth quarter of this year.", "In total myCFO has raised $90 million in funding, including a $45 million third roun d in March, from Amerindo Investment Advisors, Barksdale Group, Kleiner Perki ns Caufield & Byers, Northern Trust Company, Presidio Venture Partners, RSA Security, and individual investors.", "http: www.mycfo.com new money Service Resources Gets $32.5 Million Round One, Appoints COO mail?", "top ATLANTA (VENTUREWIRE) -- Service Resources, which provides management maintenance, energy, subcontracting, and material procurement services, sai d it has closed $32.5 million in first-round funding from sole investor, Frontenac Company.", "Frontenec gains two seats on the board as a result of th e round, bringing the total number of directors to eight.", "The company said th at the funds will be used for energy and field infrastructure and are expected to bring the company to profitability in six to 12 months." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 1 ] }, { "title": "RSA Security", "sents": [ "RSA Security LLC, formerly RSA Security, Inc. and doing business as RSA, is an American computer and network security company.", "RSA was named after the initials of its co-founders, Ron Rivest, Adi Shamir and Len Adleman, after whom the RSA public key cryptography algorithm was also named.", "Among its products include the RSA BSAFE cryptography libraries and the SecurID authentication token.", "RSA is known for allegedly incorporating backdoors developed by the NSA in its products.", "It also organizes the annual RSA Conference, an information security conference." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "Joe Barton", "sents": [ "Joe Linus Barton (born September 15, 1949) is a Republican politician, representing 's 6 congressional district () in the U.S. House of Representatives since 1985, and a member of the Tea Party Caucus.", "The district includes Arlington, part of Fort Worth, and several small towns and rural areas south of the Dallas–Fort Worth Metroplex.", "Following the 2014 primary defeat of Ralph Hall, Barton became the dean of the Texas congressional delegation.", "Barton came to national prominence after telling a citizen at a town hall meeting to \"shut up\", although the citizen later claimed he deserved it." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] }, { "title": "e2593_p73", "sents": [ "That legislation, sponsored by the subcommittee chairman, Rep. Joe Barton, R-Texas, was approved along party lines, 17-13, and now heads to the full committee.", "He said the legislation will not stop blackouts in California, but will help ease the problems.", "Relaxing clean air requirements also will be part of the Bush administration comprehensive energy plan, to be released next week.", "Associated Press reported that the plan will call for relaxing the requirements to help refiners meet gasoline demand.", "The plan also will call for tax breaks for some renewable energy such as wind and solar panels, according to government sources.", "The refinery proposal is aimed at addressing a petroleum industry complaint that federal and local air quality rules often require production of slightly different blends of gasoline, putting added strain on the supply and distribution systems.", "But California officials are most concerned with trying to rein in electricity prices this summer." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "Merrill Brown", "sents": [ "Merrill Brown is an educator, consultant, advisor, investor and veteran media executive and journalist.", "In addition to writing for The Washington Post, he launched MSNBC.com and was the website’s founding Editor-in-Chief.", "He is former Director of the School of Communication and Media at Montclair State University.", "and grew up in Silver Spring, Maryland.", "He graduated from Washington University in St. Louis with a BA in political science in 1974." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 2, 4 ] }, { "title": "e27401_p1", "sents": [ "The translation service will be provided by ILanguage of Redmond, Wash. \"It is a logical next step for us to extend our reach to readers around the world,\" said Merrill Brown, editor-in-chief of the Web site, jointly owned by Microsoft and General Electric's NBC.", "The stories will be translated into German, French, Spanish, Japanese, Chinese, Italian, Portuguese and Korean.", "Yesterday, MSNBC launched an Arabic language site.", "-- EarthLink acquires email machine maker EarthLink said it will exchange $5 million worth of its stock to buy Cidco Inc., a maker of email access devices.", "\"Cidco has proven that there is a truly viable market for devices that offer quick, easy access to e-mail and personalized content within the home, without using a computer,\" said Lance Weatherby, EarthLink's executive vice president The deal will add 120,000 Cidco service subscribers to EarthLink's customer base.", "Morgan Hill, Calif.-based Cidco's users pay $9.95 a month for email access." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "Peggy Fowler", "sents": [ "Peggy Y. Fowler (born July 14, 1951) is an American businessperson in the state of Oregon.", "She was the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Portland General Electric (PGE), and as of 2007 was the 11th highest paid CEO in Oregon.", "A native of Idaho, she worked for PGE, a private electric utility, from 1974 to 2009." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] }, { "title": "e752_p23", "sents": [ "PGE isn't in on the negotiations, but officials agree that the sale looks shaky.", "\"It's anyone's guess right now,\" Peggy Fowler, PGE president and chief executive officer, recently told The Oregonian's editorial board.", "So far, talk about replacement bidders is more speculation than fact.", "Analysts said a utility based in the West is the most likely scenario.", "\"It's probably going to be somebody close by,\" said Doug May, a senior portfolio manager with Wells Fargo Private Asset Management in Grand Junction, Colo. \"It's tough to come in from another part of the country.\"", "But don't rule out foreign companies, May added.", "When ScottishPower bought Portland-based PacifiCorp in December 1999, it became the first foreign concern to buy a United States electric utility.", "The merger stirred up talk of more international linkups.", "Regionally, Northwest Natural's name comes up as a potential suitor.", "The Portland-based utility already works cooperatively with PGE in a number of business arrangements, including a joint meter-reading program." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 1, 8, 9 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e25394_p0", "sents": [ "\"Can you forward me both?", "I'll take a look at them.", "Maybe they'll do the trick.", "Also, do you have that press article where we partnered with a muni (in Canada, I think)?", "--Original Message -- From: Scheuer, Janelle Sent: Monday, November 26, 2001 4:49 PM To: Dasovich, Jeff Subject: RE: Meeting w Marcie Edwards, Anaheim General Manager Hi Jeff I have an intro letter, and the presentation that we typically give on our first visit.", "Do you think one of those might be appropriate, or shall I put together something in between the two?", "--Original Message -- From: Dasovich, Jeff Sent: Monday, November 26, 2001 3:51 PM To: Scheuer, Janelle Subject: Meeting w Marcie Edwards, Anaheim General Manager Greetings: I just talked to Marcie.", "She's interested, but wants some more info to examine before setting up a meeting.", "Aren't there some press articles about the sort of muni partnerships you want to pursue with SMUD and Anaheim?" ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 4 ] }, { "title": "e3075_p129", "sents": [ "\"The Cummins-Westport generator provides much-needed electricity that meets environmental regulations and during peak periods can produce power for les s than the market cost of power,\" general manager Marcie Edwards said.", "\"The use of such onsite generators enables us to respond to customer needs while reducing California's system demand.\"", "The generator will provide off-site, distributed generation that will be ab le to supplement Anaheim's utility grid with power that may be called upon during state power emergencies or when the cost of wholesale market power is high.", "Anaheim gets 80 percent of its energy supply from long-term, power generati on contracts and 20 percent on the daily wholesale market.", "In addition, the generator can provide about 25 percent of the center's energy load and will serve as a source of backup, emergency power.", "Westport spokesman Alan Bayless said California's energy shortage made it an ideal location to test the new technology." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e26279_p101", "sents": [ "San J ose-based Calpine Corp., which is building several new power plants around California including one in South San Jose, did only $29 million worth of b usiness with the state in the first five months of the year, according to t he figures.", "The state began buying power in mid-January when Pacific Gas & Electric Co. and Southern California Edison Co. were on the ropes financia lly.", "PG&E later went into bankruptcy.", "On Monday, state lawmakers took anot her shot at trying to cobble together a plan to rescue financially ailing E dison.", "While most concede that a rescue plan Davis worked out with Edison will not win the necessary support in the Legislature, lawmakers have creat ed several working groups to come up with alternatives.", "Compromise plan O n Monday, state Sen. Byron Sher, D-Redwood City, unveiled the latest compro mise proposal that seeks to protect average ratepayers and small businesses from further rate increases and forces everyone else to help finance the E dison bailout." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0 ] }, { "title": "South San Jose", "sents": [ "South San Jose (or the South Side; less commonly South Central) is the name for a large geographic and cultural portion of San Jose, California, lying south of downtown.", "The name \"South Side\" refers to an area bounded roughly by Hillsdale Avenue to West Capitol Expressway on the north, Highway 101 and Senter Road on the east, the border with the city of Morgan Hill towards the south, and Camden Avenue to the west." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 0, 1 ] } ]

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[ { "title": "e2110_p14", "sents": [ "Also Monday, legislation was introduced in the Assembly to bolster natural gas supplies in the state.", "Tight supplies have led to soaring costs for natural gas, the fuel most commonly used to generate electricity in California.", "* Morain reported from San Francisco and Simon from Washington.", "Times staff writers Miguel Bustillo, Carl Ingram and Julie Tamaki in Sacramento, Tim Reiterman in San Francisco and Mitchell Landsberg in Los Angeles contributed to this story.", "GRAPHIC: PHOTO: (A3) Gov.", "Davis, San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown and a bodyguard after news conference at which Davis urged cities to cut energy use.", "Davis is trying new tactic in plan to buy PG&E's power grid.", "A16 PHOTOGRAPHER: ROBERT DURELL Los Angeles Times LOAD-DATE: May 1, 2001 10 of 58 DOCUMENTS Copyright 2001 Los Angeles Times Los Angeles Times May 1, 2001 Tuesday Home Edition SECTION: Part A; Part 1; Page 3; Metro Desk LENGTH: 429 words HEADLINE: California and the West; THE CALIFORNIA ENERGY CRISIS; Power Marketer Ordered by FERC to Refund $8 Million; Energy: Williams Energy agrees to pay but admits no wrongdoing in taking plants offline." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 3 ] }, { "title": "e2868_p103", "sents": [ "Times staff writer Mitchell Landsberg contributed to this story.", "Copyright 2001 Los Angeles Times The power behind the POWER Business as usual for PG&E's well-connected board Matthew Yi, Chronicle Staff Writer Wednesday, May 16, 2001 ,2001 San Francisco Chronicle: http: www.sfgate.com cgi-bin article.cgi?f=3D ca 2001 05 16 BU199770 .DTL While Pacific Gas and Electric Co. was heading down the road to bankruptcy, its board of directors was running to the bank with 36 percent salary hikes routine meeting bonuses and potentially lucrative stock options.", "In 1997, a year after energy deregulation in California, PG&E's directors - - 16 at the time but since whittled to 10 -- gave themselves $8,000 pay hikes even as the utility's finances began to spiral out of control.", "The company's proxy statements show that the directors' $30,000 base salary has stayed the same since, but the financial benefits of taking a seat in PG&E's board room don't end there." ], "sp_sent_idx": [ 1 ] } ]