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Was the book series character Håkan Andersson known by more names than the fictional character Peter Venkman ? | No | PAIRIDX:85730 | [
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"Håkan Andersson, nicknamed Håkan Bråkan, is the younger brother of Sune Andersson, the main character in the Swedish Sune series, a series of books.",
"Sune finds Håkan very annoying, having given him the nickname \"Håkan Bråkan\" which roughly translates to Håkan the Troublemaker."
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"Peter Venkman, Ph.D., is a fictional character from the \"Ghostbusters\" franchise.",
"He appears in the films \"Ghostbusters\" and \"Ghostbusters II\" and in the animated television series \"The Real Ghostbusters\".",
"In both live action films, he was portrayed by Bill Murray, and was voiced in the animated series first by Lorenzo Music and then by Dave Coulier.",
"He is a parapsychologist and the leader of the Ghostbusters."
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Is Vebnet, a company that provides technology and services to support the sale of financial products, located in the same country as the company Norev base location ? | No | PAIRIDX:85729 | [
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"In June 1999 eMarketWorld raised Series A financing of $6 million from Internet Capital Group, with unnamed individuals participating.",
"http: www.emarketworld.com Answer Financial Takes Equity Stake in Vebnet mail?",
"top LOS ANGELES (VENTUREWIRE) -- Answer Financial (AFI), an online finan cial services provider, announced it has formed an alliance with London-based Vebnet, which provides technology and services to support the sale of financial products such as employee and non-employer affinity-group benefit s, under which it will take an undisclosed equity stake in Vebnet.",
"The allianc e, which involves licensing AFl's platform to Vebnet, will allow AFI to expand its business to Europe.",
"Vebnet, which was founded in July 2000, is backed by Cross Atlantic Capital Partners.",
"AFI has received funding from DB Capital Partners, Conning & Company Private Equity Group, and E*Trade Bank.",
"http: www.answerfinancial.com PlanCentral Looking For Alliances, $1 Million Second Round mail?",
"top NEW YORK (VENTUREWIRE) -- PlanCentral, a developer of supply chain management technology, is on the prowl for alliances with consulting firms as well as $1 million in second-round funding."
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"Norev is a French manufacturer of diecast metal model cars.",
"traditionally based in Villeurbanne, a suburb of Lyon.",
"It has normally produced modern and vintage European vehicles, especially those of French origin - though Italian, German, British, and American vehicles were also produced.",
"Norev's closest competition was Solido, but that company had more pan-European influence, while Norev was more national in orientation."
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Did Reshid Akif Pasha and Al Wickers work in the same country ? | No | PAIRIDX:85728 | [
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"\"They've taken out most of the stuff we're interested in,\" said attorney Al Wickers, who represented The Chronicle and others in the fight to release t he contracts.",
"The missing material is \"essential to the public understanding of the true costs and risks of these contracts,\" he added.",
"Key parts of the deal -- About 70 percent of the electricity would come from plants that are planned or under construction.",
"-- The power represents 50 to 60 percent of California's long-term needs.",
"-- Some contracts allow the price of electricity to go up or down based on the price of natural gas or pollution credits.",
"-- A few contracts contain allow the generator to pass along to the state t he cost of any new taxes imposed.",
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"Chronicle staff writers Robert Salladay, Bernadette Tansey and Chuck Squatriglia contributed to this report."
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"He is also noted for providing important testimony in the aftermath of the Armenian Genocide."
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Were Ivo Puhonny and Pierre Andre born in the same month? | No | PAIRIDX:85727 | [
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"Ivo Puhonny (July 19, 1876 – February 6, 1940) was a German graphic artist and puppeteer, son of the landscape painter .",
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"Mohd Pierre Andre Bin Nazarul Andre (born 17 March 1985) or better known as Pierre Andre is a Malaysian actor and director.",
"His role as Reza in the 2005 movie \"Gol & Gincu\" was his first major role.",
"Since then he has since appeared in other films and TV series, as well written a screenplay, and directed his first movie."
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Did Jeff Bingaman and Antonio Augusto Soares de Passos represent the same state? | No | PAIRIDX:85726 | [
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"Section 11(b) of NERC's new draft says FERC \"shall have jurisdiction over the Electric Reliability Organization, all affiliated regional reliability entities, all system operators, and all users of the bulk-power system, for purposes of approving and enforcing compliance.\"",
"NERC is reportedly hoping its language will mitigate an effort by the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee to cut NERC out of a self-regulatory role altogether.",
"According to a white paper developed by the new chairman, Sen. Jeff Bingaman(D-N.M.), \"legislation should authorize a system for assuring the reliability of the grid that is mandatory, that requires sanctions and penalties for failure to comply with the rules that institutions for that purpose develop, and that is subject to federal oversight.\"",
"Opponents of self-regulation, such as the Pennsylvania-New Jersey-Maryland Interconnection, say NERC NAERO should not be granted this control, but that FERC should regulate reliability through the regional transmission organizations that are currently being mediated."
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"António Augusto Soares de Passos (27 November 1826 – 8 February 1860) was a Portuguese poet, creator of the \"Ultra-Romanticism\" in Portugal.",
"Son of merchants and a follower of the Liberal ideas, having learned French and English during his youth, he entered at the University of Coimbra to graduate in Law.",
"There, he met Alexandre Braga, Silva Ferraz and Aires de Gouveia, founding with them, in 1851, the magazine \"O Novo Trovador\" (\"The New Trobadour\")."
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Did Forward Ventures start raising the BioTech Fund in a year before the year information and measurement company StellaService Inc was founded ? | No | PAIRIDX:85724 | [
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"StellaService Inc. is a privately held American information and measurement company with headquarters in New York City (USA).",
"The company measures and rates the customer service performance of online companies in a process audited by global accounting and auditing firm KPMG.",
"Founded in 2009, it produces both Stella Metrics (a mystery shopping platform) and Stella Connect (a customer feedback system)."
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"http: www.americanexpress.com BioTech Fund Forward Ventures Closes At $256 Million mail?",
"top SAN DIEGO (VENTUREWIRE) -- Forward Ventures, a life sciences and heal th care venture fund, said it closed Forward Ventures IV at $256 million in April.",
"Forward Ventures said it will invest between $8 million to $12 million over the life of an investment.",
"The firm said two-thirds of the fund will be invested in seed and early-stage deals, and the remaining one-third will be later-stage investments.",
"Forward also said the fund will focus on early-sta ge deals in San Diego and the west coast, but that it will consider national a nd international deals for the later-stage investments.",
"Forward Ventures IV wi ll be invested in between 20 to 25 companies over a period of three years.",
"Forward Ventures said it began raising the fund in January 2000 with an initial target of $200 but held off closing the fund to reach $250 million due to increased interest in biotechnology investments."
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Did Roger Conant and Yoni Cheifetz have the same occupation? | No | PAIRIDX:85723 | [
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"Roger Conant (c. 1592 – November 19, 1679) arrived in Plymouth Colony from London early in 1623/24 with the profession of salter.",
"Early in his colonial life, he became associated with those opposed to the Puritan authorities in Plymouth and led the settlement to outlying areas, particularly in the Salem area, which he is credited with founding.",
"He was the first governor of English settlers in Salem from 1626 to 1628."
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"healthcareoutlook <http: www.healthcareoutlook.com San Francisco Airport Marriott, Burlingame, CA January 22, 2002 TOP MANAGEMENT * Supply Chain Tech Firm Demantra Adds Ex-Zefer Chief as CEO * Knowlagent Names iFleet Chief as CEO MARKETING & SALES * Virtutech Opens Calif. Office, Names Brad Reinard Sales VP TECHNOLOGY * DOV Pharma Names New Chief Science Officer and VP of Finance TOP MANAGEMENT * Supply Chain Tech Firm Demantra Adds Ex-Zefer Chief as CEO top mail <http: people.venturewire.com o_mailer.asp?sid=NOPOLLOLII CAMBRIDGE, MASS.",
"-- Demantra, a provider of consumer-driven supply chain software to companies, said it appointed William A. Seibel as CEO.",
"Mr. Seibel formerly served as chairman and CEO of e-business services firm Zefer, which sold the majority of its assets to Japanese computer company NEC.",
"Mr. Seibel replaces founder Yoni Cheifetz, who remains with the company as chairman.",
"Demantra is backed by the Challenge Fund, Formula, Intel 64 Fund, Shamrock Holdings, UBS Capital, and Vanenburg Group."
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Are BMP and Argogroup businesses in the same industry? | No | PAIRIDX:85719 | [
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"-- iPhotonics, a provider of integration services to OEM manufacturers of optical communications equipment, said it closed its third round of funding with a total of $23.9 million, led by Bowman Capital, and including investments from Abell Ventures, Cisco Systems, Weiss, Peck & Greer Venture Partners, eMedia Club and Avansis Partners.",
"The company also closed on a loan facility with VentureBank@PNC totaling $5 million.",
"The funding will finance ongoing growth in business infrastructure, and be used for working capital.",
"http: www.iphotonics.com German Venture Capitalist Takes 30% Stake in FlameSystems BERLIN -- bmp, a German venture capital firm, said it acquired a 30% stake in Hamburg-based software developer and applications provider, FlameSystems.",
"The company develops e-mail marketing technologies.",
"The company said the funding will be used to fund research and development and to bolster its sales and marketing infrastructure for the launch of its product in Germany.",
"The company will be the 81st firm in bmp's portfolio."
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"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."
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Does the Massachusetts Department of Telecommunications and Energy have until Feb. 6th to submit its recommendation to an entity which will announce a national rollout schedule. ? | No | PAIRIDX:85718 | [
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"The EU filed documents with the FCC promising to challenge any FCC action to block the acquisitions.",
"An EU spokesman told TR that opponents to the proposed transactions -such as Sen. Ernest F. Hollings (D., S.C.) and oth er congressional leaders -are leading the United States toward violations of the Gene ral Agreement on Tariffs and Trade and World Trade Organization obligations.",
"What 's Ahead.",
"JANUARY 29 -Feb. 1 -The annual COMNET conference and expo is held in Washington For more information, go to http: www.comnetexpo.com.",
"30 -Comments are due to the FCC on Verizon New England 's revised appli cation to provide in-region interLATA (local access and transport area) services in Massachusetts (TR, 1 22 01 p.12).",
"Replies are due Feb. 28. The Massachusetts Department of Telecommunications and Energy has until Feb. 6 to submit its recommendation to the FCC.",
"The Department of Justice must file its recommendation by Feb. 21. Staff at the Common Carrier Bureau will be available for ex parte discussions about the proceeding between Jan. 30 and Feb. 23. 30 -AeA, the former American Electronics Association, holds a press brief ing in Washington to present its top technology priorities for 2001. For more information, go to http: www.aeanet.org."
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"In its \"number optimization order last year in Common Carri er docket 99-200, the FCC announced a plan to conduct nationwide pooling (TR, March 20, 2000).",
"It also encouraged states to seek authority to begin pooling until the FCC announces a national rollout schedule.",
"The Michigan PSC last week asked for authority to conduct 1,000-number block pooling in the Detroit and Grand Rapid MSAs, to order sequential number assignment, an d to maintain \"NXX rationing for six months after the implementation of area-code relief measures.",
"In a joint petition, Golden West Telephone Cooperative, Project Telephone Co., and Range Telephone Cooperative have asked the FCC 's Common Carrier Bureau to reconsider its decision designating Western Wireless Corporation as an ETC (eligible telecommunications carrier) for the purpose of receiving federal \"high-cost support in Wyoming (TR, Jan. 8).",
"They said they hadn 't received notice that the areas covered by the ETC designation could include parts of their exchanges."
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Did Dick Cheney and Cecil Broadhurst have the same occupation? | No | PAIRIDX:85717 | [
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"COEJL is the Jewish member of the National Religious Partnership for the Environment, the Los Angeles Interfaith Environmental Council and California Interfaith Power and Light.",
"CONTACT: Los Angeles Interfaith Environmental Council Mary Koukhab, 213 891-2965 310 650-2509 (cell) Giving FERC expanded eminent domain power a hot button By Rick Stouffer rstouffer@ftenergy.com President George W. Bush's brand new energy policy seems to have a little something for everyone.",
"Within the policy's 105 recommendations, rules are streamlined, projects funded, regulations eased, reviews ordered, tax credits doled out and low-income families get more energy bill-paying assistance.",
"Still, few portions of the 163-page report have been shown mercy by detractors spanning the political spectrum.",
"But scant suggestions within th e Vice President Dick Cheney-overseen tome have generated the opposition than has the call to extend the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's (FERC) authority to acquire at a fair price private land for the public good to include transmission lines."
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"Cecil Arthur Broadhurst (May 8, 1908 - December 16, 1981) was a Canadian artist, songwriter, actor and playwright, who had a passionate interest in and love for all things Western.",
"At age 15 he began his lifelong commitment to painting, studying under LeMoine Fitzgerald and Frank Franz Johnston A.R.C.A.",
"members of Canada's renowned Group of Seven (artists).",
"In 1932 he launched out on his own, but the Great Depression in the 1930s led him to other fields: among them flying as a Bush pilot, radio and theatre, followed by college and a year at the Detroit Art Academy.",
"A Canadian producer asked him to paint a stage set for him, which prompted Broadhurst, a relative of George Broadhurst, New York theatrical producer and founder of New York's famed Broadhurst Theatre, to focus his talents on the theatre and his gift for songwriting.",
"He subsequently wrote over a hundred cowboy songs, including \"\"There'll be a New World Beginning from Tonight\"\" which became an annual fixture as the rousing finale of the hugely popular Christmas concerts of Malcolm Sargent at London's Royal Albert Hall.",
"In 1940 He appeared singing one of his cowboy songs in the movie \"Susan and God\" starring Joan Crawford."
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Do David Peterschmidt and Roy Sebag have the same job title? | No | PAIRIDX:85716 | [
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"http: www.ehothouse.com Israeli Optical Firm Native Networks Gets $18 Million PETAH TIKVA, Israel -- Native Networks, an Israel-based company that develops technology for optical access networks, said it completed a private placement of $18.2 million.",
"Soros Private Equity Partners, Anschutz Investment, and Jerusalem Venture Partners were among the funds participating in the placement.",
"The funding will go towards research and development and marketing in Europe and the United States.",
"http: www.nativenetworks.com Mercari Technologies Closes $20 Million in Series C WASHINGTON -- Mercari Technologies, a provider of merchandise and supply chain management technology, said it received $20 million in a Series C round of funding.",
"The round was led by Baltimore-based ABS Ventures, the venture capital arm of DB Alex Brown, and North Bridge Venture Partners of Waltham, Mass.",
"North Bridge Venture Partners, Southeast Interactive Technology Funds, and individual investors, including Inktomi president and CEO David Peterschmidt, also invested in the round."
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"Roy Sebag (born June 28, 1985) is a contrarian investor, entrepreneur, and writer.",
"In 2014, Sebag founded GoldMoney Inc and currently serves as the Chief Executive Officer.",
"GoldMoney Inc is a gold savings/payments company publicly listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange.",
"He is also the Founder, Chief Executive Officer, and 53% owner of Natural Resource Holdings, Ltd. a publicly traded company on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange.",
"In 2016, Sebag along with Diana Widmaier Picasso founded Menē - which designs, manufactures, and markets 24 karat gold jewelry that is retailed direct-to-consumer through a transparent and empowering online shopping experience."
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Was the company Infigen Energy or company Switch Biotech had more names it was known by ? | No | PAIRIDX:85714 | [
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"Infigen Energy (Infigen), formerly Babcock & Brown Wind Partners, is a developer, owner and operator of renewable energy generation assets in Australia.",
"Infigen's wind farm portfolio has an installed capacity of 557 MW.",
"All of Infigen's assets generate electricity from renewable sources and are eligible to sell Large-scale Generation Certificates (LGCs) under the mandatory Renewable Energy Target scheme, which operates in Australia under the \"Renewable Energy (Electricity) Act 2000\"."
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"Prior investors 3i Group, Strategic European Technologies, Technologieholding-Funds, DVC Deutsche Venture Capital, Beteiligungsgesellschaft fur die deutsche Wirtschaft, TBG Technologie-Beteiligungs-Gesellschaft, and individuals also contributed in the round.",
"The company also said it is partnering with Leo Pharmaceuticals for strategic purposes.",
"Switch Biotech raised $9.4 million in its first two rounds of financing.",
"<http: www.switch-biotech.com * Telcordia Spinout Telelogue Raising $10 Million Series B By Jeffrey Sanders <mailto:sanders@venturewire.com top mail <http: venturewire.com o_mailer.asp?sid=NOLOKHINII ISELIN, N.J. -- Telelogue, a spinout from Telcordia Technologies that offers software applications to enable telephone users to search databases and directories, has begun raising its Series B round, according to chief operating officer Robert Burke.",
"The round, which began 30 days ago, aims to raise $10 million by mid-December, said Mr. Burke.",
"Past lead investor Pequot Capital has committed to the round, though it will not return as the lead.",
"The proceeds of the round will be used for working capital, including developing a sales and marketing team."
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Do Mona L. Petrochko and Alex Papalexopoulos work at the same company? | No | PAIRIDX:85711 | [
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"'SCE is awaiting a commission order to auction off its SO2 credits.",
"Janel Guerrero is very interested in this.",
"Please let her know once a final order is issued.",
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"- Forwarded by Mona L Petrochko NA Enron on 11 30 2000 01:05 PM Janel Guerrero 11 07 2000 04:33 PM To: Mona L Petrochko NA Enron@Enron cc: Subject: Thanks for the voice mail update on SoCal Ed.",
"It makes sense that everything is moving slowly behind the power issues.",
"Talk with you soon!"
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"Approval of this item has been clouded by questions about the valu e of owning only a portion of the state's transmission system.",
"Members of Davis' own party appear unconvinced by arguments that SoCal Ed could follow PG&E into bankruptcy protection.",
"\"I've never been afraid of bankruptcy from the beginning,\" Democratic Senat e leader John Burton told the Orange County Register in mid-April.",
"\"Bankruptc y court is a better venue for open discussion and investigation.\"",
"The outlook for action on the second big legislative item may be even worse as California politicians hope to shield the consuming voting public from market forces for as long as possible.",
"\"Californians are paying for a product below cost.",
"Customers need to see th e link between wholesale and retail prices,\" said Alex Papalexopoulos, president of ECCO International, a San Francisco-based company that designs regional market structures.",
"News reports also revealed the state spent nearly $5 billion buying power between January and mid-April."
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Were ESG Solutions and Eleven Acceleration founded in the same year? | No | PAIRIDX:85707 | [
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"ESG Solutions (Engineering Seismology Group or ESG) is a geophysical products and services company specializing in microseismic monitoring.",
"ESG manufactures and installs microseismic instrumentation and performs microseismic data processing and interpretation services.",
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"StreamCase currently employs eight but plans to increase its staff to twenty by the end of the year.",
"http: www.streamcase.com Tech Strategy Consulting Firm Raises $1 Million Series A SAN FRANCISCO -- Eleven Acceleration, an Internet business consulting firm providing technology strategy and architecture services to business-to-business companies, said it has raised $1 million in its Series A round of funding from individual investors.",
"The funding will be used for additional marketing and hiring, the company said.",
"Eleven Acceleration was founded in early 2000 by product strategists from Sun, Netscape, RightWorks, and Cohera.",
"http: www.elevenacceleration.com Wireless Tech Firm JP Systems Raises $45 Million Round Two DALLAS -- JP Systems, which develops wireless enabling technology and services, said it has closed its second round of funding at $45 million.",
"The round included Baker Communications Fund II, Odyssey Investment Partners Fund, Investor AB, Global Technology Group Ventures and Pacesetter Growth Fund."
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Do Blues Beacon Records and Moody Investors Service offer the same type of business? | No | PAIRIDX:85705 | [
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"Blues Beacon is a German independent record label, founded in the early 1970s in Munich by Matthias Winckelmann and Horst Weber to record blues artists while touring Europe, e.g.",
"Robert Pete Williams, Little Brother Montgomery, Bukka White, Thomas Shaw.",
"Blues Beacon today is a sub-label of Enja Records, specialising in jazz and world music.",
"The early Blues Beacon recordings were issued on CD in the 1990s, few of them today are still part of the \"Enja\" catalogue."
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"The shares have tumbled every day since Oct. 16, when North America's biggest marketer and trader of natural gas and power reported its first quarterly loss in more than four years.",
"The last time the shares traded below $12 was in January 1993. After cutting Enron's senior unsecured debt rating on Monday, Moody's Investors Service warned it could lower the rating even further, as well as cut Enron's short-term debt status.",
"Also on Monday, Enron confirmed that it was seeking additional credit lines after tapping its $3.3 billion credit lines last week.",
"However, the company declined to say how much it was asking its banks to extend.",
"Houston-based Enron has lost more than $15 billion in market capitalization in the past two weeks amid a series of disclosures about off-balance-sheet deals with partnerships run by a former chief financial officer.",
"Shares have plummeted amid concerns about the transactions the Securities and Exchange Commission said it was looking in to."
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Is an entity named in a new complaint filed as per GSR reporting service also conducting investigations besides the state Public Utilities Commission and Cal-ISO ? | No | PAIRIDX:85704 | [
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"Besides the attorney and FERC, the Legislature, state Public Utilities Commission, Cal-ISO and the California Electricity Oversight Board are all conducting investigations.",
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"'The GSR reporting service reported today that a new complaint (California Electricity Oversight Board v. All Sellers of Energy and Ancillary Services California Independepent System Operator California Power Exchange Corporation, EL00-104-000 (08 29 00)) was filed yesterday that requests the Commission to direct the CAISO too maintain bid caps of $250 MWh for energy and ancillary services, and $100 for replacement reserves until the Commission has completed its investigation of California markets.",
"The complaint also requests consolidation with the existing investigation in Docket Nos.",
"EL00-95-000 and EL00-98-000. Although I have not seen the complaint as yet (we'll get a copy to you as soon as it is available), this strikes me as largely a frivolous complaint that adds nothing to what is already going on.",
"In addition to the existing investigation, the ISO has indicated that it will file (sometime in mid-September) for authority to impose a price cap on ancillary services beyond 11 15 00, when the existing authority terminates."
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Does the executive vice president at investor-relations firm Dresner Corporate Services have the same first name as the American poet and performance artist. born on December 4, 1936 ,who also founded a not-for-profit production company ? | No | PAIRIDX:85702 | [
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"He became prominent as the subject of Andy Warhol's film \"Sleep\" (1963).",
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"Disclosing job cuts is often \"less of a legal determination than it is a business decision,\" says Richard Rowe, a corporate attorney and partner with Proskauer & Rose LLC in Washington, D.C. Another issue is timing.",
"Some companies issue a press release announcing cuts right away; others wait to release the news with their quarterly earnings reports, while others refuse to even comment.",
"The decision depends often on how the company thinks layoffs will play with investors and surviving employees.",
"For Old Economy industrial firms, cuts are often seen as an effective way to slash overhead costs.",
"But in the beleaguered Internet sector, layoffs often are viewed as a harbinger of future troubles.",
"For example, defunct e-tailers eToys Inc. and Garden.com Inc., which traded on the Nasdaq Stock Market, both disclosed broad layoffs about three months before the companies shut down altogether.",
"If the jobs cuts \"are enhancing shareholder value, that's really good news for a publicly traded company,\" says John Kroen, executive vice president at investor-relations firm Dresner Corporate Services."
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Out of Daniel Gross and Winston Hickox, who had worked for more organizations in their career ? | No | PAIRIDX:85700 | [
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"``They need me to ensure there is fruit and vegetables on their tables.''",
"Other industries But other legislators said there was no rational reason to treat agricultur e differently from any other major industry.",
"And they complained that the last-minute legislative assault prevented any discussion on the merits of t he issue.",
"``If you make a straight-up case about why you should be exempted, it's easier for us to understand,'' said state Sen. Don Perata, D-Oakland.",
"``Whe n you sneak around or try to mug someone in the alleyway on the way to the la st committee, it raises the suspicions that they can't get the amendments on their merit.''",
"In the end, agriculture lost the cap on blackout hours, but kept millions in subsidies and broad language that they contend will allow them to run diese l engines when their power is turned off.",
"Environmentalists dispute that interpretation, but farm interests quickly lined up the state's top environmental official -- Environmental Protection Agency head Winston Hickox -- to write a letter to lawmakers on their behal f. Perata questioned the industry's efforts and said creating special exemptio ns for agriculture is not in the state's interest."
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Did the online syndicator eSubstance raise more money in its first round of funding than the amount of funding the company eMadison received from Sequoia Capital and Sandler ? | No | PAIRIDX:85698 | [
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"Staff reductions were made in marketing sales, operations, and finance.",
"The company said its engineering team has remained intact.",
"Prior to this round Cadant raised $23 million in funding.",
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"http: www.cadant.com bad news B2B Commerce Platform for Media Ads, eMadison.com, Closes mail?",
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"A source close to the company confirmed that eMadison ceased all operations about two weeks ago and laid off its entire staff.",
"The source said the company is currently looking to sell its assets.",
"eMadison, which had been in operation for barely a year, launched in June 2000 with $12.9 million in funding from Sequoia Capital an d Sandler.",
"http: www.emadison.com new deals Venture Frogs Sells drugs.com Domain Name mail?"
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"http: www.pondventures.com HalfthePlanet.com Appoints ABC Internet Executive as CEO NEW YORK -- HalfthePlanet.com, an online resource for disabled persons and those who care for them, said it appointed Patricia E. Vance to the positions of president and CEO.",
"Ms. Vance was formerly the senior vice president of ABC Internet Group.",
"HalfthePlanet.com is backed by Flatiron Partners, Chase Capital, Richland Ventures, and New York City Investment Fund.",
"http: www.halftheplanet.com New Money o Online Syndicator eSubstance Secures $11 Million Round One LONDON -- eSubstance, an online syndicator specializing in adapting book content, said it has raised $11 million in its first round of funding led by 3i, a European venture capital firm.",
"The round also included Vignette and Vesta Capital Partners.",
"eSubstance acts as an intermediary between publishers and online companies by repackaging branded content from books for use on high-profile Web sites.",
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Does Lakshmipat Singhania Academy have more schools than the number of schools in Harquahala Valley ? | No | PAIRIDX:85696 | [
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"Three such plants are expected to begin production this summer, though much of their power also may be sold to other states.",
"That's true of the PG&E National plant, too, but those who live in the vicinity don't care.",
"\"We have nothing out here now,\" said Elisa Bigbey of Harquahala Valley.",
"\"We want to get something going.\"",
"The plant will increase the assessed valuation of the area by 17 times and will generate $10.7 million in new property taxes.",
"PG&E already has given the local school district a portable shed in which to store records because the district's only school was damaged by a November fire.",
"PG&E also is making a no-strings outright gift to the community of $550,000 in 11 annual cash installments.",
"A committee of local residents will decide how to spend the windfall.",
"Meanwhile, Panda Energy of Dallas and Teco Power Services of Tampa, Fla., recently broke ground for a plant south of the PG&E site, and Duke Energy North America of Charlotte, N.C., and Sempra Energy of San Diego each have started plants in the Arlington Valley."
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Are the Revista del Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales and the Journal of Management and Business Administration publications based on the same topics? | No | PAIRIDX:85695 | [
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"Revista del Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales is a peer-reviewed natural sciences journal published by the Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales (Argentine Museum of Natural Sciences).",
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As per Andre Meade, did Ken Lay and Jeff Skilling know about the Enron's Chief Financial Officer's dealings with the LJM partnerships ? | No | PAIRIDX:85694 | [
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"It also said former Chief Financial Officer Andrew Fastow, who abruptly left the company last month, had made $30 million managing partnerships linked to the deals.",
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"Two other executives, managing director and treasurer Ben Glisan and Enron division general counsel Kristina Mordaunt, were both believed to have links to the Fastow-led partnerships and have been fired, the company disclosed.",
"The announcements threw a spotlight on Enron's stark situation, in which the nation's top energy trader has gone from Wall Street darling to pariah in a few weeks and now faces a cash crunch so dire it is seeking a merger with the much-smaller Dynegy.",
"Its credit ratings have fallen to near-junk levels in recent weeks, making it difficult to get money to boost investor confidence and back the trading operations that provide 90 percent of Enron's income."
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"Revelations about the involvement of Enron's Fastow in LJM are at the center of an investigation by the Securities and Exchange Commission, and led to demands from the financial community that he be terminated.",
"On Wednesday, Enron disclosed it has fired its treasurer, Ben Glisan, and its general counsel, Kristina Mordaunt, as well.",
"Gilsan, Mordaunt, and two former Enron employees were partners of LJM while serving at Enron.",
"Enron continues to say it had controls in place relating to Fastow's involvement with the partnerships.",
"The board required review and approval of each transaction by the office of the chairman, the chief accounting officer and the chief risk officer.",
"Whether these controls and procedures were followed will be investigated by a special committee Enron has named.",
"Many expect that if Enron remains independent, more executive departures could be in store.",
"\"The bottom line from my perspective is that Ken Lay, Jeff Skilling, and the board seemed to be aware (of Fastow's dealings with the LJM partnerships),\" said Andre Meade, an analyst at Commerzebanc Securities."
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Was Jorge de Albuquerque appointed as the 7th Governor of Portuguese Ceylon in a year before Carolyn Lochhead of Chronicle Washington Bureau published an articles about an energy boss saying state summer blackouts appear Inevitable ? | No | PAIRIDX:85692 | [
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"'Please note marked increase in Chron's quality of reporting when it ain't Lazarus doing the reporting.",
"This was the lead, front page story in the Chron.",
"Note Abraham's quote in p.#3 re: \"must increase supply or decrease demand.\"",
"I've heard that somewhere before.",
"Best, Jeff Energy Boss Says State Summer Blackouts 'Appear Inevitable' Carolyn Lochhead, Chronicle Washington Bureau Friday, March 16, 2001 ,2001 San Francisco Chronicle: http: www.sfgate.com cgi-bin article.cgi?f chronicle archive 2001 03 16 MN20 0965.DTL Washington -- The Bush administration warned yesterday that blackouts \"appear inevitable\" in California this summer, but it firmly rebuffed a deal from Sen. Dianne Feinstein that would force the state to lift its rate freeze on consumers in exchange for federal controls on wholesale prices.",
"Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham insisted that price controls would make shortages worse by reducing power sales into the state.",
"The administration's top priority is to prevent blackouts, he said."
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"De Albuquerque was appointed in 1622 under Philip III of Portugal, he was Governor until 1623.",
"He was succeeded by Constantino de Sá de Noronha."
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Which of the following two entities has worked to take care of the welfare of the veterans comparatively more than the other, Kennebec Central Railroad or California Business Roundtable? | No | PAIRIDX:85689 | [
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"The Kennebec Central Railroad was a narrow gauge railroad operating between Randolph and Togus, Maine.",
"The railroad was built to offer transportation for American Civil War veterans living at Togus to the nearby City of Gardiner.",
"Tracks of 25-pound steel rails ran 5 miles from Randolph, Maine (across the Kennebec River from Gardiner) to the veterans home at Togus.",
"Train service began on 23 July 1890."
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"'Greetings: Steve Kean and I met today with Jack Stewart, Pres.",
"of the California Manufacturer's and Technology Ass.",
"and Alan Zaremberg, CEO of the California Chamber of Commerce.",
"Jack Stewart was happy to hear about our efforts and is generally supportive--particularly regarding direct access--but wants more information regarding the core noncore proposal.",
"We have a meeting set up for Thursday morning at 8 AM in the SF office to discuss it further.",
"Stewart will bring Keith McCrea, long-time lawyer for CMA to the meeting on Thursday.",
"Zaremberg was extremely happy to hear about our efforts and the overall package, and was much more receptive to the core noncore proposal.",
"Though he, too, would like more details.",
"Turns out the he and Bill Hauck--former Wilson administration official and now head of the California Business Roundtable have been walking the halls of the capital urging the same thing we've been urging, i.e., D's and R's need to get together (read \"grow up\") and do a comprehensive deal."
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Out the companies Wattage Monitor and Central China Railway, which company had more names it was known by ? | No | PAIRIDX:85688 | [
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"'Wattage Monitor is a service that helps electricity customers find a competitive electric supplier to help lower their bills.",
"To SDG&E customers, they are offering a choice of 14 companies to buy their electric power.",
"http: www.wattagemonitor.com Wattage Monitor Service Teams Help Lower Electric Bills SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 21 PRNewswire -- As summer temperatures continue to heat up and electricity prices do the same, Wattage Monitor Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: WMON) offers consumers an escape by locating a competitive supplier that can lower their bills.",
"Customers of San Diego Gas & Electric can choose to buy electric power from 14 other companies besides their regulated utility.",
"Most of these competing companies allow Wattage Monitor system users to switch to their service automatically.",
"And there are savings to be had.",
"In some cases competing suppliers are offering as much as $120 per year in savings or more.",
"\"With the surge in power prices has come great interest in saving on electric bills,\" notes Gerald R. Alderson, President of Wattage Monitor."
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"title": "Central China Railway",
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"The Central China Railway (Japanese: 華中鉄道株式会社, \"Kachū Tetsudō Kabushiki Kaisha\"; Chinese: 華中鐵道股份有限公司, \"Huázhōng Tiědào Gǔfèn Yǒuxiàn Gōngsī\") was a railway company in Japanese-occupied China established after the Second Sino-Japanese War.",
"It was a joint venture between Japan, the Reformed Government of the Republic of China and the Nanjing National Government.",
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Did Komine, Montenegro have a greater population as of 2003 than East Redmond, Washington in 1965? | No | PAIRIDX:85687 | [
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"The town, then located to the east of Redmond in the Seattle metropolitan area, was formed as a result of a land use dispute between neighbors.",
"East Redmond, with a population of fewer than 400 people, was found to have not met the state's minimum population requirement for incorporation and was dis-incorporated by a decision of the Washington Supreme Court in 1965."
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Which is still published online, the Ethiopian Review or FF med Bert? | No | PAIRIDX:85686 | [
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"title": "Ethiopian Review",
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"Ethiopian Review is an Ethiopian news and opinion journal published in English and Amharic.",
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"title": "FF med Bert",
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"FF med Bert (\"Föräldrafritt med Bert\", \"FF\", \"Berttidningen\"), was a Swedish comic book published between the years of 1993 and 2002.",
"The main comics, \"Berts dagbok\", were created by Johan Unenge and Måns Gahrton, and are based on the Bert Diaries by Anders Jacobsson and Sören Olsson.",
"Bert Ljung's look is similar to the one of the books.",
"Even comic albums were published.",
"In the year 2000 the title was shortened to \"Bert\", and the number of comics increased.",
"Bert Ljung debuted as a comic character in 1993, as a guest comic in the Fantomen (Phantom) comic book."
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Were both the Prince Charles Hotel and the Columbia Southern Hotel built in the US before the 1930s? | No | PAIRIDX:85685 | [
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"Prince Charles Hotel is a historic hotel building located at Fayetteville, Cumberland County, North Carolina.",
"It was built between 1923 and 1925, and is a seven-story, Colonial Revival style steel frame building sheathed in brick and concrete.",
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"The Columbia Southern Hotel, also known as the Shaniko Hotel, is a historic hotel, located in Shaniko, Oregon, United States.",
"Built by the Columbia Southern Railway in 1900–1902 at the southern terminus of its line, the hotel was and remains the most imposing structure in Shaniko.",
"It was the hub and focal point of the community during the heyday of the local wool industry in the early decades of the 20th century.",
"In addition to lodging, it served as saloon, bank, stagecoach stop, dance hall, and general gathering place."
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Does ClearFoundation or Alexa Research cover more countries in terms of services provided or research of internet users ? | No | PAIRIDX:85684 | [
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"ClearFoundation is a Non-profit Incorporated Society that develops and manages the source code and repository of its flagship operating system namely ClearOS.",
"Headquartered in New Zealand, the ClearFoundation Community provides its support to the ClearOS users based in over 150 countries across the globe.",
"ClearFoundation centers its efforts around providing a growing community with the ability to use, develop and even contribute source to the ClearOS distribution."
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"'========================= VENTUREWIRE Tuesday, October 10, 2000 ========================= Private Company Business News Published Daily by Technologic Partners - http: technologicpartners.com ========================= Top Stories: o DaimlerChrysler Launches $500-Million Internet Unit o Optical Network Provider Yipes Gets $139 Million Third Round o Dow, Andersen, Campsix Launch Product Development Venture o First Data and iFormation Launch eONE with $600 Million o Rapid Logic Sold for $59 Million to Wind River Systems o Ex-DaimlerChrysler Exec to Lead Kodak's Venture Program Advertisement DECIDING WHICH INTERNET BUSINESS TO BACK NEXT?",
"Let ALEXA RESEARCH, the world's leading international web measurement service, provide the competitive intelligence you need.",
"We rank the world's 100,000 leading sites based on the behavior of more than 500,000 home and work Internet users - 200,000 of whom live in 100 countries outside the United States Understand traffic patterns like pageviews, time spent, repeat visits, and more.",
"Help move your target company from the TOP 100,000 to the TOP 100 with Alexa Research."
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Name the investor who was a founder of a company who invested along with Ernest Jacquet, managing director of Boston's Parthenon in a round of investment led by another company , where this other company also invested in a second round of $8 million funding for a Minneapolis based company that provides software for demand chain management. | No | PAIRIDX:85683 | [
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"The company plans to use the new funds f or marketing and research and development.",
"Post-money, the company is valued at $18 million.",
"As a result of this financing, Ned Carlson, senior vice president of Wit SoundView Ventures, joined as the third member of the Xora board of directors, which still has two seats open.",
"Xora plans to seek a second round between $15 million and $20 million by the end of this year an d expects it to close in the first quarter of 2002. http: www.xora.com E.Intelligence Caps $8M Round Two Led by Commonwealth mail?",
"top MINNEAPOLIS (VENTUREWIRE) -- e.Iintelligence, which provides softwar e for demand chain management, said it has closed an $8 million second round led by new investor Commonwealth Capital Ventures with participation from other ne w investors Brightstone Capital, Barnard, and Discovery.",
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"Barnard led the round, which included Sequel Venture Partners and previous individual seed round investors including Pete Estler, founder of iBelay; Ernest Jacquet, managing director of Boston's Parthenon; and Rich Patch, a former vice president with Sybase.",
"Barnard's Steve Change will join the company's board of directors.",
"The company will use the funding for company development, sales and marketing, and North American expansion.",
"RioLabs links enterprise information sources with exchanges or direct trading services for business-to-business Internet commerce marketplaces.",
"http: www.riolabs.com Web Network Bla-bla Gets $3.25 Million More in Seed Round NEW YORK -- Bla-bla, an online portal for independent content, said it received an additional $3.25 million in its seed round of financing, bringing the total raised to date for the round to $7.65 million.",
"The round has is still open.",
"Bla-bla said it will use the funding for general company growth and expansion."
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Is the Rodin museum and the renowned ice-creamery "Bertillion," located in the same country as the ethnographic museum Shilpgram ? | No | PAIRIDX:85681 | [
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"Isle St. Louis (the island right across from Isle de la Cite--where Notre Dame is) is a must.",
"Kitty-korner from Notre Dame, across the bridge is Brasserie Isle St. Louis, where you can get a beer and a glass of wine and get in on some great local color.",
"Stroll down the main street on the islan d, Isle St. Louis en L'Isle,\" and right off the street get a scoop of ice crea m from \"Bertillion,\" the renowned ice-creamery in Paris.",
"You can spend a very nice day at the Rodin museum.",
"Breathtaking.",
"Sacre Coeur is good for the neighborhood more than for Sacre Coeur, but wor th going to.",
"Check out the artwork and roam around for a nice local bar on th e hill.",
"Polly Magoo on Rue St. Jacque (by Shakespeare & Co.) is where Mick Jagger hangs out (if you're interested).",
"Monet's water lilies in the basement of \"l'Orangerie\" is fairly moving (at the east end of Tuilleries Gardens--east of the Louvre."
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"title": "Shilpgram, Udaipur",
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"Shilpgram is a rural arts and crafts complex, situated west of the city of Udaipur, India.",
"The center is spread over an undulating terrain of about 70 acres of land, surrounded by the Aravali mountains.",
"Shilpgram is an ethnographic museum that depicts the lifestyles of the folk and tribal people of the region.",
"With an objective of increasing awareness and knowledge about the rural arts and crafts, the Shilpgram provides opportunity to rural and urban artists to come together and interact through the process of camps and workshops."
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Did a company that was to build an enclosed gas turbine plant in California pull out of the project due to not being able to make money because of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's month-old price limits ? | No | PAIRIDX:85680 | [
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"\"We want it to ma ke a ruling and give us our day in court,\" he said.",
"Peace, however, took issu e with the lawsuit, calling it a dramatic escalation in the dispute over an energy crisis that has cost the state billions.",
"\"You just declared war on this state's political system,\" he said.",
"Energy firm scraps plans for plant in Chula Vista objattph Ramco says price limits would make it unprofitable By Kristen Green UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER July 12, 2001 CHULA VISTA -- Controversial pla ns to build a power plant by Sept. 30 have been dropped, much to the liking of city officials.",
"Ramco Inc. pulled out of the project yesterday, saying tha t the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's month-old price limits would prevent it from making money.",
"\"We are pleased, whatever the reason,\" said Michael Meacham, Chula Vista's conservation coordinator.",
"The city opposed construction of the 62.4 megawatt plant on Main Street, and had asked the state to reconsider its June 13 decision."
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"The council also voiced concerns about a proposed 62.4 megawatt peak-use plant to be built near Main Street.",
"Ramco Inc., which wants to build an enclosed gas turbine plant, held a site tour and information meeting Tuesda y evening.",
"If approved by the California Energy Commission, the plant would be operational by Sept. 30. The city has scheduled its own informational public hearing for residents from 6 to 8 p.m. Friday at the Otay Community Center, 1671 Albany Ave. Several on the council said another plant could harm the air quality in the city because the peak-use facilities primarily use natural gas.",
"The city is home to Duke's South Bay facility and has approved plans for a 49.5 megawatt peak-use plant near Main Street.",
"\"We think another peaker plant is a little much,\" Councilwoman Patty Davis said yesterday.",
"\"I think Chula Vista has done its job.\"",
"Davis said the council had not received any information about the Ramco project."
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"Johan Rockström is executive director of the Stockholm Resilience Centre, and teaches natural resource management at Stockholm University.",
"He is a strategist on how resilience can be built into land regions which are short of water, and has published over 100 papers in fields ranging from practical land and water use to global sustainability.",
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"Energy experts said the blackouts were the first in the West outside of California since the energy crisis began.",
"Until now, said Frank Wolak, a Stanford University economist and power grid analyst, ``California has been rather unique in that regard.''",
"With a Western heat waving baking Las Vegas, Nevada Power Co. cut electrici ty beginning at 4:10 p.m. for 45 minutes to about 10,000 customers.",
"Temperatur es hit 114 degrees at the airport and were reported as high as 120 degrees on the strip, pushing power demand for air conditioning to record levels.",
"Ironically, California avoided rolling blackouts Monday despite triple-digi t temperatures that pushed the state for the first time in more than a month into a Stage 2 emergency, the second-highest level of alert.",
"Despite forecasts of high temperatures this week, state power officials expect to squeak by without blackouts.",
"Nevada, which backed off its electricity deregulation plan in light of California's troubles, had expected tight supplies this summer, and had called upon casinos and other big businesses to conserve."
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Does the Deputy Director of DWR have a longer last name compared to the last name of the role played by actor Bai Jingting in his debut web series "Back in Time" ? | No | PAIRIDX:85676 | [
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"On his disclosure statement, he indicated that he began work for the state Jan. 25 and sold the stock on Jan. 29--the first opportunity he had to divest his holdings.",
"Jones told reporters that Budhraja's investments in Edison grew by 44% to 47%, while his Dynegy investment increased 28% in that brief period.",
"Budhraja was also on retainer as a consultant to Edison International, earning more than $100,000 in the year before becoming a contractor for the state.",
"Maviglio said Budhraja wrote a letter to DWR Deputy Director Ray Hart sayin g he had no dealings with Edison International.",
"He also was not involved in a ny long-term contracting with Edison.",
"Any profits Budhraja made from the stock are irrelevant because the stock w as sold by the time he was on the job, Maviglio said.",
"Another consultant, Bernard Barretto, who describes himself as an energy trader scheduler for the state, disclosed last week that he purchased stock in power producer Enron Corp."
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"He made his acting debut in web series \"Back in Time\" (2014), as Qiao Ran.",
"Since then, he has earned recognition for his roles in television series \"The Whirlwind Girl\" (2015), \"Rush to the Dead Summer\" (2017), and film \"Yesterday Once More\" (2016)."
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"The center of the municipality is establish in Dhangadi Bazaar.",
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"The charge helped to plunge PG&E into a $3.4 billion loss for all of 2000 and $4.1 billion during the fourth quarter of last year.",
"Had it not been for the charges, PG&E and its various units, including the bankrupt utility and an unregulated power company called National Energy Group, would have recorded healthy profits.",
"\"While overshadowed by the extraordinary impacts of the California energy crisis, we demonstrated continued solid performance on an operating basis,\" said Robert Glynn, PG&E's chairman and chief executive officer.",
"\"We are proud of that accomplishment, even as we are deeply dissatisfied at reporting a substantial net loss due to the uncertainty around the recovery of our wholesale power and transition costs.\"",
"The multibillion-dollar setback for PG&E extended what has been a bleak several months and string of financial reverses for the once-proud utility.",
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"While a DWR spokesman said the department is working with generators to address their concerns, the generators have asked federal regulators to step in.",
"But Dunn said he'll investigate whatever group is wreaking havoc in the energy market.",
"\"If those allegations are true, we now have a market participant exercising an undue influence on the market,\" he said.",
"\"They're doing the same things the generators were accused of.\"",
"PG&E Re-Evaluating New Construction of Pwr Plants - Execs LOS ANGELES -(Dow Jones)- PG&E Corp (PCG) is re-evaluating how much new generation it will build in future years due to declining market demand and the impact of utility Pacific Gas and Electric Co's bankrutpcy, company executives said on an earnings call with analysts Monday.",
"\"Previously we have said we will have 22,000 megawatts in 2004,\" said Tom Boren, President and CEO of PG&E Corp's National Energy Group unit.",
"\"That's still being evaluated so we can't give new projections, but it's likely to be less than 22,000 MW.\""
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"The star is similar, in terms of metallicity and mass, to the Sun, although it is hotter and most likely older.",
"The star was first observed in 1997, according to the SIMBAD database, and was targeted by SuperWASP after the star was observed by one of the SuperWASP telescopes beginning in 2006.",
"Follow-up observations on the star led to the discovery of planet WASP-13b in 2008; the discovery paper was published in 2009."
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"\"15 Arietis\" is the Flamsteed designation; it also bears the variable star designation AV Arietis.",
"It has an apparent visual magnitude of 5.74, which is just bright enough to be visible to the naked eye from dark suburban skies.",
"An annual parallax shift of 5.84 mas corresponds to a physical distance of approximately 560 ly from Earth.",
"At that distance, the star's brightness is reduced by 0.33 in magnitude because of extinction from interstellar gas and dust."
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Do Patrick McGurn and Robert Campeau have the same job title? | No | PAIRIDX:85569 | [
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"At the same time, the economic slowdown is intensifying investors' and workers' clamor for greater pay moderation in the corner suite.",
"Some big bosses have begun to fight back -- by snaring packages that better hedge their bets against a protracted market slump and their increasingly insecure posts.",
"Among the risk-reduction approaches: a surge in grants of restricted stock; larger signing bonuses; guaranteed future awards; subsidiary options; and wider use of internal performance measures and cash payouts for long-term plans.",
"A handful of leaders even get to reprice options that have lost their value, although doing so causes an earnings charge.",
"Wary chiefs clearly want \"more of a sure thing,\" says Patrick McGurn, director of corporate programs at Institutional Shareholder Services, a proxy-advisory firm in Rockville, Md.",
"The bottom line: The heads of the nation's biggest businesses are still pocketing larger pay packets, but they're getting richer at a slightly slower pace."
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"Robert Joseph Antoine Campeau (August 3, 1923 June 12, 2017) was a Canadian financier and real estate developer, who engineered the largest retailing bankruptcy at the time in U.S. history.",
"Starting from a single house constructed in Ottawa, Canada, Campeau built a large land development corporation around the development of the suburb of Kanata.",
"Expansion in the U.S. led Campeau to diversify into the ownership of retail department stores to anchor commercial development projects.",
"The Campeau Corporation used leveraged buyouts to buy the department stores and went bankrupt when it could not maintain the debt payments."
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"Kimber Rozier (b. July 20, 1989) is an American rugby union player.",
"She made her debut for the United States in 2012 and for the Eagles sevens at the 2011 Dubai Women's Sevens.",
"She was named in the Eagles 2017 Women's Rugby World Cup squad.",
"She previously competed at the 2014 Women's Rugby World Cup in France."
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"His regular position is loosehead prop."
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Do Laura Glitsos and Mike Arcuri have the same occupation? | No | PAIRIDX:85565 | [
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"title": "Laura Glitsos",
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"Laura Glitsos (also known as Laura G) is a writer, academic and musician based in Perth, Western Australia.",
"Glitsos continues as a performer and also works as an academic and lecturer at Curtin University and Edith Cowan University."
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"Michael Angelo \"Mike\" Arcuri (born June 11, 1959) is an American politician who was the U.S. Representative for 's 24 congressional district from 2007 to 2011.",
"He is a member of the Democratic Party.",
"He lost re-election on November 2, 2010, to Republican Richard L. Hanna."
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Are Dualar, Nazilli and Yesilkoy both located in Turkey? | No | PAIRIDX:85563 | [
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"title": "Dualar, Nazilli",
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"Dualar, Nazilli is a village in the District of Nazilli, Aydın Province, Turkey.",
"As of 2010 it had a population of 135 people."
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"Yeşilköy (] ; prior to 1926, San Stefano or \"Santo Stefano\" from the Greek: Άγιος Στέφανος pronounced \"Ayos Stefanos\", rendered in Turkish as \"Ayastefanos\", Bulgarian: Сан Стефано ) is a neighbourhood (Turkish: \"mahalle\" ) in the district of Bakırköy, Istanbul, Turkey, on the Marmara Sea about 11 km west of Istanbul's historic city centre.",
"Before the rapid increase of Istanbul's population in the 1970s, Yeşilköy was merely a village and a sea resort."
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Who has a higher role in their government, the Governor of Hong Kong or John Dutra? | No | PAIRIDX:85553 | [
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"The Governor of Hong Kong was the representative in Hong Kong of the British Crown from 1843 to 1997.",
"In this capacity, the governor was president of the Executive Council and Commander-in-Chief of the British Forces Overseas Hong Kong.",
"The governor's roles were defined in the Hong Kong Letters Patent and Royal Instructions.",
"Upon the end of British rule and the transfer of Hong Kong to the People's Republic of China in 1997, most of the civil functions of this office went to the Chief Executive of Hong Kong, and military functions went to the Commander of the People's Liberation Army Hong Kong Garrison."
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"Davis and Burton have also called for the generators to accept a 30% reduction in outstanding payments, and the idea is part of the alternative Edison deal being pieced together by the Democrats' Plan B Group.",
"Assemblyman John Dutra (D-Fremont), one of the group's leaders, said i ts members have been meeting with consumer groups, Edison representatives and others, and believe they are close to satisfying the groups at odds over th e rescue plan.",
"But because of lingering differences with Republicans, Dutra said they may have to try passing partisan legislation.",
"\"This is not a situation where we should be playing a political game,\" he said.",
"\"We have to find a solution, because the alternative for the state is social and economic chaos.\"",
"Assemblyman Bill Leonard (R-San Bernardino) said he was disappointed that what started out in January as a bipartisan effort to resolve energy issues had collapsed into a nasty partisan standoff."
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Were Ola Bauer and Michael Marc Bouchard born in the same month? | No | PAIRIDX:85551 | [
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"title": "Ola Bauer",
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"Ola Bauer (24 July 1943 – 12 June 1999) was a Norwegian novelist and playwright.",
"He made his literary debut with the novel \"Graffiti\" in 1976, under the pseudonym Jo Vendt.",
"Among his best known books are \"Humlehjertene\" (1980), \"Rosapenna\" (1983), and \"Metoden\" (1985).",
"Bauer was awarded Gyldendal's Endowment in 1982, and the Dobloug Prize in 1998.",
"He died of cancer in 1999."
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"Michel Marc Bouchard, {'1': \", '2': \", '3': \", '4': \"} (born February 2, 1958) is a Canadian playwright.",
"He has received the Prix Journal de Montreal, Prix du Cercle des critiques de l'Outaouais, the Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding New Play, the Floyd S. Chalmers Canadian Play Award, and nine Jessie Richardson Theatre Awards for the Vancouver productions of \"Lilies\" and \"The Orphan Muses\"."
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Do Rod McGeary and Jody Lafond work in the same industry? | No | PAIRIDX:85550 | [
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"Mr. Drumright serves solely as COO.",
"Rod McGeary is president and CEO of Brience.",
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"title": "Jody Lafond",
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"Jody Lafond (born 1956) is an American video artist and documentary filmmaker, and a co-founder of the \"Squeaky Wheel Film & Media Art Center\" in Buffalo, NY.",
"Lafond began producing work in the 1980s, and from 1990-91 was the producer of \"Artwaves\", a weekly public-access cable television program in Buffalo.",
"Her works have been shown in Canada and the United States.",
"Two career retrospectives of her video work have been held at Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, one in 1994 and one in 2001."
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Are the Almoayyed Tower and the Lipstick Building the same height? | No | PAIRIDX:85549 | [
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"Almoayyed Tower (also known as: Dark Tower), is commercial skyscraper located in the Seef neighborhood of Bahraini capital Manama.",
"The tower is regular four-sided structure, with a height of 172 m .",
"Almoayyed consists mostly of office and business complexes.",
"It was a tallest tower in Bahrain until the Bahrain Financial Harbour, Bahrain WTC and the Abraj Al Lulu was constructed.",
"Almoayyed Tower is also known as \"Dark Tower\" because of its dark coloring.",
"Almoayyed Tower is currently managed by Cluttons."
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"The Lipstick Building (also known as 53rd at Third) is a 453-foot (138 meter) tall skyscraper located at 885 Third Avenue, between East 53rd Street and 54th Street, across from the Citigroup Center in Manhattan, New York City, United States.",
"It was completed in 1986 and has 34 floors.",
"The building was designed by John Burgee Architects with Philip Johnson.",
"The building receives its name from its shape and color, which resemble a tube of lipstick."
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Who has a job more related towards publications, Francisco de Meneses or Mike Zapler? | No | PAIRIDX:85546 | [
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"Francisco de Meneses was the 3rd Governor of Portuguese Ceylon.",
"de Meneses was appointed in 1613 under Philip II of Portugal, he was Governor until 1614.",
"He was succeeded by Manuel Mascarenhas Homem."
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"\"I have not heard anything.",
"If he makes a statement, I'll respond.\"",
"But one of Calpine's fiercest local opponents said the nearby Santa Teresa neighborhood will continue to fight.",
"\"We have a strong case,\" said longtime South San Jose resident Issa Ajlouny.",
"\"And we will win.\"",
"The Mercury News strives to avoid use of unnamed sources.",
"When unnamed sources are used because information cannot otherwise be obtained, the newspaper generally requires more than one source to confirm the information.",
"By Noam Levey and Mark Gladstone.",
"Mike Zapler of the Mercury News contributed to this report.",
"-- To see more of the San Jose Mercury News, or to subscribe to the newspaper, go to http: www.sjmercury.com JOURNAL-CODE: SJ LOAD-DATE: April 19, 2001 50 of 63 DOCUMENTS Copyright 2001 Scripps Howard, Inc. Scripps Howard News Service April 18, 2001, Wednesday SECTION: DOMESTIC NEWS LENGTH: 588 words HEADLINE: Davis says Edison agreement may need altering SOURCE: Scripps-McClatchy Western Service BYLINE: EMILY BAZAR and KEVIN YAMAMURA DATELINE: SACRAMENTO, Calif."
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Do Peter Cartwright and Norma Dunn represent the same company? | No | PAIRIDX:85541 | [
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"Francisco said many of the sellers at Duke continue to hold large amounts of the company's stock.",
"That also holds true for executives of the other firms.",
"Calpine Chief Executive Peter Cartwright, for example, sold nearly $20 million in his company's shares since May 2000, when wholesale electricity prices started rising and the state's energy crisis took root.",
"His remainin g holdings have a market value of more than $400 million, according to SEC filings.",
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"El Paso spokeswoman Norma Dunn noted that Arledge, one of the largest sellers, was CEO of Coastal Corporation, a company acquired by El Paso, and chose to sell some of his holdings after the merger.",
"One factor in the heavy sales of energy company shares is that executives at these companies may be reading the changing marketplace and seeing increased political pressure to rein in energy prices, analysts said \"They may feel that this power game is not going to go on forever, so they are getting out while the getting is good,\" said David Moreland, a benefits consultant with CMG Consulting Inc. in San Jose."
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"The chairman asked me if you guys could stay and help us with a second day.",
"We could have used it.\"",
"El Paso said the communication reveals that the subcommittee majority's conclusions were \"pre-determined to blame El Paso for California's failed energy policies.\"",
"The subcommittee majority was working \"hand-in-hand with, and relying on, SCE's consultant, the Brattle Group, in their so-called analysis,\" El Paso said.",
"\"In communications between the subcommittee staff and SCE's consultant, it is clear that SCE's consultant assisted in preparing questions for the hearing and that the subcommittee staff requested assistance from SCE's consultant in preparing the final report.",
"\"That the subcommittee majority never intended to conduct an objective investigation is clear [R]ather than write an objective report based on the testimony, the staff went on to ask SCE's consultant for help in 'rebutting' El Paso's testimony.\"",
"\"We are shocked that the subcommittee delegated its responsibilities to SCE's consultants,\" said Norma Dunn, senior vice president of Communications and Government Affairs for El Paso."
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Do Jim Capaldi and Russ Lawton come from the same country? | No | PAIRIDX:85538 | [
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"Nicola James Capaldi (2 August 1944 – 28 January 2005) was an English drummer, singer and songwriter.",
"His musical career spanned more than four decades.",
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"Russ Lawton is a professional drummer from Vermont.",
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"Lawton also performs with the Vermont jam band Strangefolk and The Chrome Cowboys.",
"Lawton performed on Mike Gordon's albums \"Inside In\" and \"The Green Sparrow\".Recently, Russ sat in with the Vermont-based \"Book'em Blues Band\" for an evening of blues and rock on April 14, 2009 at Nectar's in Burlington, Vermont.",
"Among those Russ has a worked with is Ish drummer Jason Osborn.",
"Lawton recently appeared on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon with Trey Anastasio Band."
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Are the Asitka Formation and the Arcillas de Morella Formation located in the same country? | No | PAIRIDX:85532 | [
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What journal would be more interesting to a history student, Florilegium or Muelleria? | No | PAIRIDX:85531 | [
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"Florilegium is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal concerned with the study of late Antiquity and the Middle Ages.",
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"The journal was named in honour of Victorian Government botanist Ferdinand von Mueller.",
"\"Muelleria\" commenced publication in 1955 with funding from the Maud Gibson Trust.",
"The trust was initiated in 1945 following the donation of £20,000 by Maud Gibson, a daughter of William Gibson, founder of the Foy & Gibson department store chain."
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Did Zane Mann and Linden H Morehouse publish the same publication? | No | PAIRIDX:85530 | [
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"Because Democrats could pass the bond plan by only majority votes, the Legislature will have to shut down its special energy crisis session Monday Without the two-thirds support, the bond measure cannot become law until 90 days after the session comes to a close.",
"Closing the session would force state lawmakers to reintroduce hundreds of other energy crisis bills when Davis, as expected, launches a second energy crisis special session.",
"Zane Mann, publisher of the monthly California Bond Advisor newsletter, blasted Republicans for not throwing their support behind the bonds.",
"``I can't understand why the Republicans did what they did,'' Mann said.",
"`` I find it totally obstructionist.",
"They're willing to sell out the state in order to blame Davis.''",
"During Wednesday's floor debate, Sen. Tom McClintock, R-Thousand Oaks, said bonds would saddle each Californian with an extra $2,000 on their energy bills.",
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Do Jonah H Andresen Jr and Phillipe Bouissou work at the same organization? | No | PAIRIDX:85523 | [
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"As part of the financing, Philippe Bouissou of Allegis Media Technology Ventures and Arthur Patterson of Accel Partners have joined digiGroups' board.",
"http: www.digigroups.com Mohr Davidow Funds First Round For Trillium Photonics MENLO PARK, Calif. -- Venture capital firm Mohr Davidow Ventures said it was the only institutional investor and led the first round of investment in Trillium Photonics' $7 million first round of funding.",
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"Telephone 613-993-2524. o Barcoding.com Announces Launch, Secures First Round Funding BALTIMORE -- Barcoding.com, an automated data collection company, announced it has launched and secured an undisclosed amount of first-round funding from unnamed individual and institutional investors."
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Do AD Bairro and Eastern Illinois Panthers men's basketball play in the same country? | No | PAIRIDX:85521 | [
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Did Paul Huguet start competing in professional canoe competitions before canoer Andreas Weigand started competing in professional canoe competitions ? | No | PAIRIDX:85515 | [
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Did Reuters English News Service publish a news headline about Mariner Energy Selling a Stake in Aconcagua Field for $51 Million on a date that was before it published a news headline about Enron Receiving $1.5B Cash Infusion from Dynegy ? | No | PAIRIDX:85509 | [
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"Reuters English News Service, 10 31 01 Mariner Energy to Sell Stake in Aconcagua Field for $51 Million Bloomberg, 10 31 01 Blowback Daniel Fisher, Forbes Magazine forbes 11.12.01 Did Enron use partnerships to artificially boost earnings?",
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"Reuters English News Service, 11 14 01 Enron Receives Dynegy $1.5B Cash Infusion Tues. DYN ENE Dow Jones News Service, 11 14 01 USA: Enron queried by EPA on oil pipeline spills.",
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Are BCE Emergis and Shoeless Joe's based out of the same country? | No | PAIRIDX:85507 | [
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"Services provided by the new program include equipment leasing, hosting provider access, discounted pricing on Dell hardware and services, and customer service.",
"http: www.dell.com BCE Emergis to Acquire InvoiceLink For $94 Million TORONTO -- BCE Emergis, a publicly traded company that provides B2B services for the online health and finance sectors, said it entered into a definitive agreement to acquire InvoiceLink, a technology company providing Web-based invoicing and payment services for business-to-business applications.",
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"http: www.emergis.com http: www.invoicelink.com DataChannel Names Former Cisco Systems CTO to Board Bellevue, WA -- DataChannel, which offers XML-based enterprise information portal services, said it appointed Edward R. Kozel to its board of directors."
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Was television journalist Tim Sebastian born in the country where Senator Scott works as a legislator ? | No | PAIRIDX:85506 | [
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"According to FERC, over $500 million in excess profits have been reaped.?",
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"This \"money has left the state (to Texas and other places).\"?",
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"We have to \"stand up to the generators and say no more.\"",
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Did Inpix Media receive more money from Groupe Pixcom than CitySoft received from the Sustainable Jobs Fund? | No | PAIRIDX:85504 | [
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"Inpix Media also received $2.3 million in technology systems assets from Groupe Pixcom.",
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"http: www.powerhiring.com Web Supply Chain Econnections Gets $77 Million in Series C LOS ANGELES -- Econnections, a provider of Internet-based supply chain management products and services, said it raised $77 million in its Series C round from Silver Lake Partners and Red Rock Ventures.",
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"http: www.allco vered.com?",
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"PHILADELPHIA (VENTUREWIRE) -- CitySoft, a New York and Boston-based inne r city Web services firm that hires workers from vocational, technical and welfare-to-work programs, said it has received $500,000 from Sustainable Jobs Fund, a venture firm focused on socially responsible investments, as part of a larger, still-open round of financing.",
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"http: www.citysoft.com Staffing App Firm VCG Receives $7.5 Million Investment ATLANTA (VENTUREWIRE) -- VCG, which makes a Web application for the staffing industry called WebPAS, said it has received a $7.5 million i nvestment led by Jefferson Capital Partners in which Equity-South Partners Five Paces Ventures, C & B Capital, and undisclosed individuals also par ticipated."
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"Will Glasgow, managing director at Madrona Venture Group, will join RuleSpace's board of directors.",
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"http: www.rulespace.com Digital Services Firm Delinea Gets $5 Million from Koch DALLAS -- Delinea, a provider of digital services for Internet businesses, said it received a $5 million investment from Koch Ventures.",
"The financing will be used for the development of the company's service and technology offerings, as well as for marketing and sales.",
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"http: www.delinea.com Slam Dunk Networks Secures $20 Million in Series D Funding REDWOOD SHORES, Calif. -- Slam Dunk Networks, a developer of a business-to-business infrastructure service that will track and deliver transaction messages on the Internet, said it raised $20 million in its Series D funding round led by VeriSign, an Internet trust services company."
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Did the star "Eta Ceti" have more names it was known by than the start "77 Ceti" ? | No | PAIRIDX:85502 | [
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Was Bruce Burton playing rugby before Latoya Blackwood was even born? | No | PAIRIDX:85501 | [
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Do Bob Hertzberg and Firmilian have the same role in their governments? | No | PAIRIDX:85500 | [
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"\"The Senate is on the record saying a legislative solution is better than bankruptcy.",
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Are Hypnotic Donuts and Tokyo Electric Power in the same industry? | No | PAIRIDX:85499 | [
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"Hypnotic Donuts is a small chain of doughnut shops, with its first store in Dallas, Texas and another in Denton, Texas.",
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"http: www.ccrewards.com Automated Power ExchangeRaises $33.6 Million in Series C Woodside, Calif. -- Automated Power Exchange, which provides support services for power system transactions, said it received $33.6 million in its Series C round of funding.",
"Investors participating in the round include Woodside Fund, Tokyo Electric Power, Itochu, Ontario Hydro, Bechtel, Kinetic, Onset Ventures, and Technology Partners.",
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"http: www.apx.com BevAccess.com Secures Funding From Kensington Value Fund NEW YORK -- BevAccess.com, a business-to-business online exchange for the global alcoholic beverage industry, said it received an investment for an undisclosed amount from Kensington Value Fund.",
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Are Enron Media Services and Gemtech the same type of business? | No | PAIRIDX:85497 | [
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"Greg now will lead the long haul and IP capacity trading function.",
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Did both the Bonn Agreement and the Buganda Agreement involve the governing of the regions they were about? | No | PAIRIDX:85496 | [
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Was the annual company shareholders meeting of PG&E held in a country where Ibicuí River is located ? | No | PAIRIDX:85495 | [
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"\"We are looking into a variety of issues surrounding that dysfunction and in due course we will answer those issues,\" he said.",
"Agency Fails To Reveal Price Data For DWR Power Moreover, the ISO has failed to disclose on its web site the price of the DWR power, which is also required under federal regulations.",
"Jan Smutny-Jones, executive director of the Independent Energy Producers Association, a trade group representing large and small power producers, said there is \"absolutely no transparency in the ISO market.",
"No one knows what they're paying for.\"",
"The DWR, which started buying power in lieu of California's ailing utilities in January, signed $43 billion in long-term supply contracts over the past six months at prices that now exceed the spot market price for electricity.",
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"Founded by Parsi cricketers, the Gymkhana fielded the Parsi XI during the Bombay Quadrangular and its successor Bombay Pentangular cricket tournaments.",
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Name the organization that said based on a study it did, that blackouts will reduce the economic output by billion's in a state where a top advisor to the organization that runs the state's transmission grid said that the residents of the state might tolerate an increase in blackouts if they understood why the state chose to do it . | No | PAIRIDX:85492 | [
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"The blackouts will reduce the state's economic output by $2 billion to $16 billion, according to a study released last month by the Bay Area Economic Forum.",
"The resolve of the state's politicians and ratepayers would be sorely tested for a boycott to succeed, much in the way that labor strikes boil down to whether workers or management can withstand more financial pain.",
"\"Politicians aren't going to willingly turn out the lights because politicians want to get re-elected,\" said Borenstein, director of the University of California's energy institute.",
"\"As soon as people start losing their jobs because the power is off, the public will get tired of the blackouts real quick.\"",
"Still, Californians might tolerate an increase in blackouts if they understand why the state chose to pursue such a drastic course, said Stanford economics Professor Frank Wolak, who heads the Independent System Operator's market surveillance committee.",
"\"This isn't something you could do without an enormous public relations campaign,\" he said."
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"San Jose Mercury News, April 18, 2001, Wednesday, SJ-POWER-PLANT, 1038 words, California Governor May Back Energy Firm's Proposed Power Plant Scripps Howard News Service, April 18, 2001, Wednesday, DOMESTIC NEWS, 588 words, Davis says Edison agreement may need altering, EMILY BAZAR and KEVIN YAMAMURA, SACRAMENTO, Calif. San Jose Mercury News April 19, 2001, Thursday KR-ACC-NO: SJ-POWER LENGTH: 593 words HEADLINE: Testimony Indicates California Electricity Market Was Troubled in 1998 BYLINE: By Brandon Bailey BODY: SACRAMENTO, Calif.--California's electricity market was showing signs of trouble as far back as 1998, the year that it was officially opened to competition, members of a special legislative investigating committee were told Wednesday.",
"Abnormal price spikes -- far higher than what should have occurred in a competitive market -- were showing up in August 1998, the committee was told by Frank Wolak, a Stanford economist and top advisor to the California Independent System Operator, which runs the state's transmission grid."
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Is the country that Comlase is based in one of countries that Almonty Industries has its primary operations in? | No | PAIRIDX:85491 | [
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"Prelu de director Alan Duncan will become the fourth member of the board as a result of the funding.",
"The company said it will use the funds for product development.",
"The company said it expects the funding to last until early 2002. Alphamosaic began developing technology at Arthur D. Little's technology arm Cambridge Consultants last May.",
"http: www.alphamosaic.com Fiber-Optics Components Firm Comlase Gets $3.5M Series A mail?",
"top STOCKHOLM (VENTUREWIRE) -- Comlase, a Swedish developer of active co mponents for metropolitan fiber-optics networks, said it has received Series A financing of $3.5 million from European Equity Partners and InnovationsKapital.",
"The company plans to dedicate the new funds to chip and module development.",
"Comlase was founded in January 2001. http: www.comlase.com Mobile Apps Firm Xora Secures $7M Round One mail?",
"top MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (VENTUREWIRE) -- Xora, a provider of wireless and speech-enabling data applications, announced that it has secured $7 million in a first round of venture funding led by Wit SoundView Ventures, with unnamed individuals participating."
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"Almonty Industries is a global mining company focused on tungsten mining and exploration.",
"Its primary operations are in Spain, Portugal, and South Korea.",
"The company is listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange."
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Out of Loyal Blaine Aldrich and Georg Tannstetter who had a comparatively older birthdate ? | No | PAIRIDX:85490 | [
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"Loyal Blaine Aldrich (November 20, 1884 – February 11, 1965) was an American astrophysicist and astronomer of the Smithsonian Institution.",
"Upon graduation from the University of Wisconsin in 1907, Aldrich became a Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory assistant to Charles Greeley Abbot.",
"The observatory conducted astrophysical research on solar radiation and the amount of energy from the sun that strikes the outer edge of the earth's atmosphere.",
"Abbot became director of the observatory in 1907 and established solar observing stations in the United States, South America, and Africa to carry out research on solar radiation.",
"Aldrich became director of the observatory from 1942 to 1955.",
"Harvard University astronomy department chairman Fred Lawrence Whipple became director of the observatory when Aldrich retired."
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"Georg Tannstetter (April 1482 – 26 March 1535), also called Georgius Collimitius, was a humanist teaching at the University of Vienna.",
"He was a medical doctor, mathematician, astronomer, cartographer, and the personal physician of the emperors Maximilian I and Ferdinand I.",
"He also wrote under the pseudonym of \"Lycoripensis\".",
"His Latin name \"Collimitius\" is derived from \"limes\" meaning \"border\" and is a reference to his birthtown: \"Rain\" is a German word for border or boundary."
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Was Temple University founded in a year before Moorpark College was established ? | No | PAIRIDX:85489 | [
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"Moorpark College is a California state community college with a 150 acre campus on a hillside in Moorpark, in Ventura County, California.",
"It was established in 1967 with enrollment of 2,500 students, and enrolled 14,254 students in 2014.",
"An Exotic Animal Training and Management center houses over 200 animals on campus."
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"Temple University (Temple or TU) is a state-related doctoral university located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.",
"It was founded in 1884 by Baptist Minister Russell Conwell.",
"In 1882, Conwell came to Pennsylvania to lead the Grace Baptist Church while he began tutoring working class citizens late at night to accommodate their work schedules.",
"These students, later dubbed \"night owls,\" were taught in the basement of Conwell's Baptist Temple, hence the origin of the university's name and mascot.",
"By 1907, the institution revised its institutional status and was incorporated as a university."
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Out of Tom Marsico and Peter Záboji who has comparatively received the heights honor recognizing his work or service ? | No | PAIRIDX:85485 | [
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"Here, it failed, but maybe it didn't have to.",
"The manager who made the concentrated fund popular, Tom Marsico, who ran Ja nus Twenty, took care to spread his holdings around.",
"His successor, Scott S choelzel, has suffered losses lately (he is down 28 percent year-to-date, b ut that's after a total gain of 546 percent in the preceding five years), b ut they have not been nearly so catastrophic -- and for good reason.",
"Schoel zel's last report lists among his top 10 holdings three tech stocks, two fi nancials, one drug company, one energy firm (whoops, Enron again), one indu strial, one consumer-durables company and one services firm.",
"For investors in individual stocks, the important question is this: How muc h diversification is enough?",
"Some risk is inherent in even the broadest por tfolio.",
"This is called market, or \"systematic,\" risk.",
"Over the past 75 year s, market risk, as measured in standard deviation, has been about 20 percen t. In other words, in two-thirds of the years the annual return of the S&P has fallen into a band ranging from 20 points lower to 20 points higher tha n its average return of 11 percent; that is, between a loss of 9 percent an da gain of 31 percent."
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"Peter (Balazs) Záboji (25 December 1943 – 3 July 2015) was an angel investor and entrepreneur.",
"Much of the Budapest's success as a startup hub has been credited to Peter B. Záboji and his European Entrepreneurship Foundation (EEF).",
"He has contributed significantly to the development of start up businesses in Budapest and received the highest civil recognition from the president of Hungary."
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Did XDrive Technologies, in a Series C financing round, raise more than the 2002 valuation of Ocean Finance? | No | PAIRIDX:85484 | [
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"Ocean Finance is a loans and mortgages business set up in 1991 in Staffordshire, United Kingdom.",
"It became infamous in the late 1990s and early 2000s for its advertising, including sponsoring its own channel on Sky TV and its advertising became widely parodied.",
"The firm prospered on the back of rising house prices and the credit boom.",
"By 2002 the firm was a leading player in the UK's secured loan market valued at over £14bn."
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"XDrive Technologies also said it has established its headquarters in Santa Monica.",
"In May of this year, the company raised $45 million in a Series C round of financing led by investor Wit SoundView Ventures.",
"http: www.xdrive.com Real Estate ASP SmartCity Announces Itself CAMBRIDGE, Mass.",
"(VENTUREWIRE) -- SmartCity, which develops Inte rnet applications for the real estate industry, announced itself.",
"The comp any said it will soon launch a subscription-based listings application for posting properties to Web sites, and intends to offer real estate agents and brokers ?a one-year free trial of its service.",
"The company, which has r aised $800,000 to date from individuals in the real estate industry, said it is in the middle of raising an additional $2 million as part of its sti ll-open Series A.",
"http: www.smartcity.com?",
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"E-Lea rning Firm Blackboard Buys Campus Commerce, ID Firms?",
"WASHINGTON (VENTUREWIRE) -- Blackboard, an electronic learning Internet infrastructure software company, said it has reached an agreement to acquir e AT&T Campuswide Access Solutions, which iCollege had previously agreed to acquire, and CEI SpecialTeams from iCollege for an undisclosed amount."
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Who out of Kristine Kristiansen and Toni Sailer had an older birth date ? | No | PAIRIDX:85479 | [
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"Anton Engelbert \"Toni\" Sailer (17 November 1935 – 24 August 2009) was an Austrian alpine ski racer, considered among the best in the sport.",
"At age 20, he won all three gold medals in alpine skiing at the 1956 Winter Olympics.",
"He nearly duplicated the feat at the 1958 World Championships with two golds and a silver.",
"He also won world titles both years in the combined, then a \"paper\" race, but awarded with medals by the International Ski Federation (FIS)."
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"She was born in Oslo.",
"She competed at the 1998 Winter Olympics ."
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Was Treasure Co., Ltd. founded in a year before the founding year of Manomio LLC ? | No | PAIRIDX:85476 | [
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"Manomio LLC is a small US based independent mobile game developer with a focus on retro gaming on the iOS and Android operating systems.",
"The company was founded in late 2008 by Australian developer Stuart Carnie and Danish entrepreneur Brian Lyscarz."
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"Treasure Co., Ltd. is a Japanese video game developer, founded by former employees of Konami on June 19, 1992.",
"Treasure is best known for classic-style action games that employ innovative gameplay systems.",
"Their greatest commercial successes have been games like \"Wario World\" and \"Mischief Makers\", but they are better known for their critical successes, such as \"Sin and Punishment\", \"Gunstar Heroes\", \"Dynamite Headdy\", \"Alien Soldier\", \"Guardian Heroes\", \"Radiant Silvergun\", \"Bangai-O\", and \"Ikaruga\".",
"Their first released game was \"Gunstar Heroes\", although \"McDonald's Treasure Land Adventure\" was developed first."
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Out of Barry Abramson and Robert Le Vigan who had more names he was known by including the name at birth ? | No | PAIRIDX:85474 | [
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"But even in the midst of troubles with FERC, the companies raised their first-quarter forecasts above Wall Street estimates.",
"Citing improved performance in energy trading and gas exploration, Williams said it expects first-quarter earnings of between 65 cents and 75 cents a share.",
"Dynegy raised its outlook for the quarter to 40 cents a share, citing success in its core convergence business.",
"Barry Abramson, analyst at UBS Warburg, is among those who think refunds on the overcharges aren't severe enough to dramatically hurt future earnings.",
"\"This is still a small portion of the money made out of California,\" he said.",
"\"It's a small risk.\"",
"Only Dominion Resources Inc. (D) of Richmond, Va., is considered safe from California's price wars because it focuses on the Eastern states.",
"Analysts expect the company to earn $1.14 a share for the quarter, only 10 cents a share above last year.",
"Analysts predict Mirant Corp. (MIR) will post 47 cents a share for the quarter."
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"Robert Le Vigan (7 January 1900 – 12 October 1972) was a French actor.",
"Born Robert-Charles-Alexandre Coquillaud in Paris, he appeared in more than 60 films between 1931 and 1943 almost exclusively in small or supporting roles.",
"He was, according to film academic Ginette Vincendeau, a \"brilliant, extravagant actor\" who \"specialised in louche, menacing or diabolical characters\".",
"A collaborator with the Nazis during the occupation, who openly expressed fascist attitudes, he vanished while playing Jéricho in \"Children of Paradise\" (\"Les Enfants du Paradis\"), a film deliberately released in May 1945 shortly after the liberation of Europe; Le Vigan was replaced by Pierre Renoir.",
"He was sentenced to forced labour for ten years in 1946.",
"Released on parole after three years working in a camp, Le Vigan absconded to Spain, and then Argentina, dying there October 12, 1972, in the city of Tandil.",
"He died in poverty."
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What manuscript is older, Minuscule 349 or Minuscule 2616? | No | PAIRIDX:85366 | [
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"Minuscule 349 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 413 (Soden), is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on paper.",
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"Minuscule 2616 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, written on 280 parchment leaves (17.7 cm by 12.9 cm).",
"Paleographically it has been assigned to the 12th century."
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Are Mu2 Cancri and HD 220773 located in the same constellation? | No | PAIRIDX:85362 | [
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"Mu Cancri is a solitary, yellow-hued star in the zodiac constellation of Cancer.",
"It is visible to the naked eye with an apparent visual magnitude of +5.30.",
"Based upon an annual parallax shift of 42.94 mas as seen from Earth, this star is located around 76.0 light years from the Sun.",
"Mu Cancri will make its closest approach in about 600,000 years when it passes at a distance of 4.9 pc ."
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"HD 220773 is an 7th magnitude star approximately 165 light years away in the constellation of Pegasus.",
"It is orbited by an exoplanet that is around 1.45 times the mass of Jupiter at a distance of around 5 AU and taking 10.2 years to complete an orbit."
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Are Valleuse and San Fernando Valley located in the same country? | No | PAIRIDX:85361 | [
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"title": "Valleuse",
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"In the Pays de Caux, Normandy, France a valleuse is a depression in the land surface of the plateau which permits access to the sea.",
"On the rest of this coast, that access is prevented by the height of the chalk cliffs."
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"The San Fernando Valley is an urbanized valley in Los Angeles County, California, defined by the mountains of the Transverse Ranges circling it.",
"Home to 2.9 million people, it is north of the larger, more populous Los Angeles Basin."
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Who was born first, Bartolome de Medina or Friedrich Bohl? | No | PAIRIDX:85360 | [
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"title": "Bartolomé de Medina (theologian)",
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"Bartolomé de Medina, O.P.",
"(1527-1580) was a Spanish theologian born in Medina de Rioseco, Spain.",
"A member of the Dominican Order and a student of Francisco de Vitoria, he was professor of theology at the University of Salamanca and a member of the School of Salamanca.",
"He is best known as the originator of the doctrine of probabilism in moral theology, which holds that one may follow a course of action that has some probability, even if the opposite is more probable.",
"He died at Salamanca in 1581."
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"Friedrich Bohl (born March 5, 1945 in Rosdorf, Göttingen) is a former German politician.",
"From 1991 to 1998 he was the chief of the Federal Chancellery and Federal Minister for Special Affairs.",
"He was the member of Fourth Kohl cabinet and Fifth Kohl cabinet.",
"He succeeded Rudolf Seiters on 26 November 1991."
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What happened first, Amphetamine being discovered or Sufentanil being synthesized? | No | PAIRIDX:85353 | [
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"Amphetamine (contracted from alpha‑methylphenethylamine ) is a potent central nervous system (CNS) stimulant that is used in the treatment of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), narcolepsy, and obesity.",
"Amphetamine was discovered in 1887 and exists as two enantiomers: levoamphetamine and dextroamphetamine.",
"\"Amphetamine\" properly refers to a specific chemical, the racemic free base, which is equal parts of the two enantiomers, levoamphetamine and dextroamphetamine, in their pure amine forms.",
"The term is frequently used informally to refer to any combination of the enantiomers, or to either of them alone.",
"Historically, it has been used to treat nasal congestion and depression.",
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"Structurally, sufentanil differs from fentanyl through the addition of a methoxymethyl group on the piperidine ring (which is believed to reduce duration of action), and the replacement of the phenyl ring by thiophene.",
"Sufentanil first was synthesized at Janssen Pharmaceutica in 1974."
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Do Jay Stowsky and Vidita Vaidya have the same job? | No | PAIRIDX:85352 | [
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"De Vries, who is vice provost for academic affairs and faculty welfare, formed the committee after consultation with various campus constituencies.",
"__ HAAS SCHOOL EVACUATION: PREPARING FOR NEXT TIME The Haas School was evacuated and the school was closed for classes and business last Wednesday afternoon after receiving a report of an unknown substance on several items of mail in an office in the faculty building.",
"Both UC Police and a hazardous materials team were called in to conduct field tests and secure the scene.",
"Officials reported that the substance was not hazardous.",
"The event gave school officials a chance to witness the Haas emergency plan in action.",
"\"Overall the emergency plan was very effective, but there are some issues to be addressed,\" said Jay Stowsky, associate dean for school affairs and initiatives.",
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"Her primary areas of research are neuroscience and molecular psychiatry.",
"Her work has garnered the 2015 Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology for Medical Sciences.",
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Who was born first, Mario Silva or Jugen Haase? | No | PAIRIDX:85339 | [
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"title": "Mário Silva (athlete)",
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"Mário Manuel da Silva (born 23 July 1961 in Madina do Boe, Guinea-Bissau) is a retired Portuguese runner who specialized in the 1500 metres.",
"He won a bronze medal at the 1991 World Indoor Championships behind Noureddine Morceli and Fermín Cacho.",
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"Jürgen Haase (born 19 January 1945) is a former track and field athlete and Olympian, who, competing for the German Democratic Republic, was among the world's best long distance track runners in the 1960s and 1970s.",
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Do Cynthia Typaldos and Johan H. Andresen Jr own or found the same company? | No | PAIRIDX:85333 | [
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"'Sorry for the late notice - but if you're free and interested, please send an email directly to Luiscarlos Paez at lcp@startupuniversity.com.",
"He has reserved 10 tickets for Haas students to attend: 12 Steps to Building Community & Venture Capital vs. Corporate Investment December 6th, 2000 7:00 PM - 9:30 PM Startup University 72 Otis Street San Francisco, CA 94103 (1 block from Mission & Van Ness) San Francisco How can you ensure your clients and customers stick around after the first wave of marketing is complete?",
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"Cynthia Typaldos, Founder of Real Communities, will show entrepreneurs essential steps to building enduring community into your startup.",
"Bart Schachter from Blueprint, will delineate the differences between receiving investment from venture capitalists and from corporate investors, respectively.",
"For More Info, Visit: http: StartupUniversity.com sfbay NOTE FROM LUISCARLOS: __ Christine, I'd like to extend another invitation to those Haas Students that are interested."
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"Johan Henrik Andresen (born 25 July 1961) is a Norwegian industrialist and investor.",
"Since 1998, Andresen has been the owner of Ferd, one of the largest privately held companies in Norway.",
"He served in the position of CEO from 1998 to 2012, and has been the chairman of the board since 2012.",
"In the magazine Kapital’s list of the 400 richest Norwegians, Andresen is ranked as number five, with a net worth equaling more than USD 3.27 billion.",
"While his father Johan H. Andresen sr. lived, Andresen added jr. to his name, but ended this practice when his father died in 2011."
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Did both Agility Communications and YottaYotta raise over $50 million in their second rounds of funding? | No | PAIRIDX:85330 | [
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"Toshiki Takei, senior managing director of Takefuji, will serve as the president of the new firm.",
"The company said the portfolio will eventually grow to $215 million.",
"http: www.takefuji.co.jp New Money o Wireless Broadband Firm Siros Raises $10 Million First Round SEATTLE -- Siros Networks, a developer of wireless broadband network infrastructures, said it closed $9,950,000 in its first round of funding.",
"Contributors to the round included Optical Capital Group, Kinetic, and Access Venture Partners.",
"Optical Capital Group and Kinetic will each gain a seat on Siros' board of directors.",
"The funding will be used for product and organizational development, and to begin field trials of its wireless network services during the fall of next year.",
"http: www.sironetworks.com Agility Communications Raises $70 Million Second Round SANTA BARBARA, Calif. -- Agility Communications, a developer of tunable lasers for fiber optic networks, said it raised $70 million in its second round of funding."
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"MedCareers manages and markets a Web site devoted to providing career and staffing options for healthcare professionals.",
"http: www.medcareers.com Network Storage Firm YottaYotta Raises $17 Million Round Two MONTREAL -- YottaYotta, which develops networked storage architecture for wide and local area networks and telecommunications carriers, said it secured $17 million in its second round of funding led by Davenport Capital Ventures of Boston.",
"The round also included Optical Capital Group of Columbia, Grosvenor Venture Partners III, Morgan Keegan, and TechnoCap of Montreal, a first round investor.",
"Individual investors also participated in the investment round.",
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"http: www.yottayotta.com Diamond Increases Stake in British Incubator, Brainspark LONDON -- Brainspark, which incubates technology startups, said it formed a strategic partnership with previous investor Diamond Technology Partners, an Internet business services firm."
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"China United SME Guarantee Corporation ( , commonly known as Sino Guarantee) is a Chinese financial services company that provides financial guarantees for loans and bonds.",
"Its key shareholder is the Export Import Bank of China, one of China's main policy banks.",
"The company is described by Moody's as playing a quasi-policy role in Chinese capital markets as its creation was guided by the National Development and Reform Commission, China's key government body for economic planning."
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"While these issues are not yet resolved, the experience of the past two decades provides some support to those who think dual goals that lack transparency can function successfully.",
"It is true that some countries around the world have reduced inflation over this period while putting primary emphasis on explicit inflation targeting.",
"But at the same time, with its current legislative mandate, the Fed also has had success in reducing inflation, while maintaining the flexibility of responding to business cycle conditions.",
"John P. Judd Vice President and Associate Director of Research Glenn D. Rudebusch Research Officer References Fuhrer, Jeffrey C. 1997. \"Central Bank Independence and Inflation Targeting: Monetary Policy Paradigms for the Next Millennium?\"",
"New England Economic Review January February, pp.20-36. Keynes, John Maynard.",
"1936. The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money.",
"Harcourt, Brace, and Company: New York.",
"McCallum, Bennett.",
"1995. \"Two Fallacies Concerning Central Bank Independence.\"",
"American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings, vol."
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Which has a greater population, Fabius Township or Alamo Township? | No | PAIRIDX:85328 | [
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"Steven Lawrence Rattner (born July 5, 1952) is an American financier who served as lead adviser to the Presidential Task Force on the Auto Industry in 2009 for the Obama administration.",
"He was a managing principal of the Quadrangle Group, a private equity investment firm that specialized in the media and communications industries.",
"Prior to co-founding Quadrangle, he was an investment banker at Lehman Brothers, Morgan Stanley, and Lazard Freres & Co., where he rose to deputy chairman and deputy chief executive officer.",
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"On Friday alone, according to the California Electricity Oversight Board, it cost $212 million to deliver power through the ISO-controlled grid, which serves about three-fourths of the state's electric consumers.",
"That would be enough to fully pay for a new, cleaner-burning 500-megawatt power plant about every two days.",
"Monday's bill won't be fully computed for another few days, but it appears that it will be significantly higher, according to the oversight board.",
"\"We have a huge transfer of wealth going on, and we're not getting anything for it,\" Pacific Gas and Electric Corp. spokesman Gregg Pruett said.",
"Meanwhile, financial analysts Monday warned investors that the state's two largest utilities are finding it increasingly difficult to bridge the gap between frozen rates and power costs that escalate nearly daily.",
"Credit rating agency Fitch Inc. on Monday lowered its long-term and short-term debt ratings for PG&E and Southern California Edison, as well as the latter's parent company, Edison International."
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Was a Bracewell & Patterson employee who was part of a team who worked on identifying key issues and planed a coordinated strategy for all litigation in California, included in the email sent by Tracey Bradley on September 26, 2001 about Probing the 'palace coup' ? | No | PAIRIDX:85325 | [
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"The objective will be to identify key issues and plan a coordinated strategy for all litigation in California.",
"The call will last not more than one hour.",
"Thus far, the responsibility has been allocated as follows: 1. PG&E Bankruptcy Lisa Mellencamp and Carl Ecklund (LeBoeuf Lamb Greene & McRae) 2. Class Actions Richard Sanders and Robin Gibbs (Gibbs & Bruns) 3. CTC Matters Bob Williams, Mike Day and Gary Fergus (Brobeck) 4. FERC Matters Regulatory and Richard Sanders and Dan Watkiss (Bracewell & Patterson) 5. Government Investigations Regulatory and Richard Sanders Richard Sanders and Robin Gibbs will have overall responsibility for coordination of the litigation."
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"--Original Message -- From: Mara, Susan Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2001 10:19 AM To: Dasovich, Jeff Subject: FW: Probing the 'palace coup' -- or \"eating their own\" --Original Message -- From: Tracey Bradley [mailto:tbradley@bracepatt.com] Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2001 3:34 PM To: Aryeh Fishman; Andrea Settanni; Dan Watkiss; Jacqueline Java; Kimberly Curry; Ronald Carroll Subject: Probing the 'palace coup' FYI Probing the 'palace coup' Electricity: A panel focuses on price hikes and the actions of the ISO president.",
"September 26, 2001 By KIMBERLY KINDY The Orange County Register SACRAMENTOA state Senate committee is set today to start serving 16 subpoenas on electricity producers and officials who manage California's energy grid to determine whether they acted in concert to manipulate energy prices.",
"T he investigative committee, headed by state Sen. Joe Dunn, D-Santa Ana, is focusing on a series of events last fall filled with enough Shakespearean plot twists and intrigue that it has earned a name around the Capitol: \"the palace coup.\""
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Were August Adriaan Pulle and William Stork both the same nationality? | No | PAIRIDX:85323 | [
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"title": "August Adriaan Pulle",
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"August Adrian Pulle (Arnhem, January 10, 1878 - Utrecht, February 28, 1955) was a Dutch professor and botanist.",
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"Dr William Stork (flourished 17511768) practiced as an oculist in England and the American colonies, and subsequently settled in the British colony of East Florida and published pamphlets encouraging its settlement.",
"Some accounts state that he was initially from Germany, but do not provide primary references which prove the claim."
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Does the current principal of the Koidu Secondary School have a longer first name than the name of the auditorium in the Hass school of business at UC Berkeley where the session on "Start-up Financing for Entrepreneurs" is to be held ? | No | PAIRIDX:85322 | [
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"title": "Koidu Secondary School",
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"Koidu Secondary School is a government-sponsored secondary school located in Koidu City, Kono District, Sierra Leone.",
"The school is the largest and most prominent secondary school in Kono District and one of the largest in the country.",
"Some of Sierra Leone's most gifted students have come from the Koidu Secondary School.",
"The school has a history of producing some of Sierra Leone's most prominent people, including current Sierra Leone's vice president Samuel Sam-Sumana, principal Ansarul Islamic Boys Secondary School Mohamed Wura Jalloh, retired colonel Komba Mondeh SSierra Leone Army, retired captain Samuel Komba Kambo Sierra Leone Army, and footballers Komba Yomba Damaand Solomon Yambasu.",
"Others include Dennis Kaiyomba Turner, Sahr Max Lebbie, Aiah Bindi, Osman Turay, Bintu Jabbie, District Manager iEARN Kono Paul Komba Pessima and several prominent Sierra Leoneans.",
"The current principal is Mr Tamba.D.Yamba."
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"UC Berkeley Entrepreneurs Forum<=<=< Thursday, November 18, 1999 6:30 - 8:30 PM - Haas School of Business - Andersen Auditorium Topic: Angels in the Infield: Start-up Financing for Entrepreneurs Panel: Bob Bozeman, Nat Goldhaber, Bob Leppo, Erickson Shirley This panel of currently investing angels will discuss what types of ventures they are backing and how they choose their deals.",
"There are special rates for faculty and staff and a reduced fee of $5 for students currently enrolled at any Cal school or college.",
"Pre-registration is encouraged.",
"You may sign up in room F449 weekdays 9-12 AM and 1-4 PM or by e-mail to lester@haas.berkeley.edu.",
"Remember to include your school or department and -for students- your year of graduation.",
"Preregistration for students closes at 5PM on Tuesday, November 16, or earlier if it is sold out.",
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Did Paul Heagan and William Smith work in the same industry? | No | PAIRIDX:85321 | [
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"This would divert emergency supplies into California.",
"Sure enough, less than two weeks later, while enduring 112-degree temperatures, Las Vegas suffered rolling blackouts.",
"More than 10,000 homes were without power for forty minutes.",
"Casinos were forced to douse lights and turn off air-conditioning.",
"Meanwhile, California -- plagued by the same weather -- dodged the bullet.",
"\"Why would power merchants sell to us when they can get 10 percent more in California?\"",
"asked Paul Heagan, vice president of Sierra Pacific Resources, which provides Las Vegas's electricity.",
"Meanwhile, California crowed.",
"\"Please note that the energy crisis has officially spread to a state not exactly noted for its environmentalism or its antipathy to growth,\" announced the Riverside (Cal.)",
"Press-Enterprise.",
"Price controls have produced similarly perverse results for 4,000 years.",
"In Forty Centuries of Wage and Price Controls (1979), Robert Schuettinger demonstrated how politicians and the public have never given up the illusion that price controls can make things cheap and plentiful."
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"title": "William Smith (Oregon politician)",
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"William Smith was an American lawyer and politician who served as a Populist member of the Oregon Senate from 1899 until 1903.",
"He was also the Fusion (Democratic and Populist) nominee for Oregon's 2nd congressional district in 1900.",
"Smith lost to incumbent Republican Malcolm A. Moody in a four-way race, receiving 32% of the vote.",
"He practiced law with the firm Hart & Smith from 1904 until 1906."
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The organization "Atlantic, Gulf and Pacific Steamship Corporation" or the organization "California Manufacturers & Technology Association" is likely to have a wider geographical coverage in terms of its services or product focus area? | No | PAIRIDX:85319 | [
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"The Atlantic, Gulf and Pacific Steamship Corporation of Baltimore, Maryland was incorporated in May 1920.",
"Its primary mission was to transport goods and produce across the Atlantic, across the Pacific and coast to coast via the Panama Canal.",
"It was started by Baltimore natives W. Bernard Duke, President, Currall A. Askew, Vice President, and William B. W. Mann, Secretary and Treasurer.",
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"Legislative Weekly July 26, 2001 Issue 30, Volume 3 A weekly publication from the California Manufacturers & Technology Association detailing legislative and regulatory developments in Sacramento GOVERNOR SIGNS BUDGET The 2001-02 Budget passed by the Legislature was signed by the Governor this afternoon, July 26. The amount of the total Budget is approximately $102 billion, of which, about $79 billion is the general fund, the balance is special funds.",
"The bulk of General Fund spending is allocated approximately as follows: $33 billion K-12 Education $22 billion Health and Human Services $10 billion Higher Education $5 billion Youth and Adult Correctional The balance is spent on expenses attributable to programs relating to business, transportation and housing, state and consumer services, environmental protection, to the courts and to tax relief.",
"In addition, Health and Human Services receive the largest portion of special funds.",
"Tax relief, in the version passed by the Legislature, was very insignificant, the lion's share was $75 million for assistance to low income seniors and disabled persons."
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Did William Collins Whitney die in a year before the story "California being asked to delay Holiday Lights" appeared on www.individual.com ? | No | PAIRIDX:85318 | [
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"\"INDIVIDUAL.COM Here's an article recommended by: Karen Denne and it comes to you via Individual.com, Inc.",
"The following message was attached: HERE IS THE STORY WE WERE REQUESTED TO SEND YOU This story appeared on http: www.individual.com December 7, 2000 Calif.",
"Asked To Delay Holiday Lights By COLLEEN VALLES Associated Press Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) via NewsEdge Corporation - Gov.",
"Gray Davis was in the holiday spirit when he lit the Christmas tree at the state Capitol, but he quickly pulled the plug as part of a statewide effort to conserve energy.",
"The 56-foot white fir was lit in Sacramento for about five minutes Tuesday, then turned off for 2{ hours until 7:30 p.m., after the peak of the day's electrical use.",
"``In some parts of California, people are going without power,'' Davis said.",
"``I would love to keep the lights on.",
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"title": "William Collins Whitney",
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"He served as Secretary of the Navy in the first administration of President Grover Cleveland from 1885 through 1889.",
"A conservative reformer, he was considered a Bourbon Democrat."
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Do Serra d'En Celler and Mount Donna Buang have peaks higher than 1,200 meters high? | No | PAIRIDX:85317 | [
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"Serra d'En Celler is a mountain range of the Valencian Community, Spain.",
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Which out of "Strigiphilus" and "Red salamander" has more names it is known by ? | No | PAIRIDX:85316 | [
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"The red salamander (\"Pseudotriton ruber\") is a species of salamander in the family Plethodontidae endemic to the Eastern United States.",
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Do Dr. John David Arnold and Dr James Woody work for the same company? | No | PAIRIDX:85312 | [
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"title": "PPEP, Inc.",
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"Portable Practical Educational Preparation, also known as PPEP, Inc., is a non-profit organization in the United States that was founded in 1967 by Dr. John David Arnold.",
"Its motto is, \"Dedicated to Improving the Quality of Rural Life\".",
"PPEP, Inc. is headquartered in Tucson, Arizona.",
"The organization also provides their services outside of Tucson, primarily in Arizona.",
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"&This is irresponsible behavior at a time when the state ,s economy is already reeling from an economic downturn that has hurt employers and lost jobs for working families, 8 said Guardino.",
"&Many companies, including Roche Pharmaceuticals, have had very aggressi ve energy reduction programs in place for several years, which will continue.",
"To further cut consumption - in order to pay for a non-proportional and destructive rate increase -- for some employers, could mean cutting into their workforce, or leaving the area all together, 8 said Dr. James Woody President of Roche Pharmaceuticals R&D in Palo Alto and Chairman of the Board of the Silicon Valley Manufacturing Group.",
"&We want to do our fai r share in paying for rate increases, but the disproportionate nature of this proposal could be devastating to employers.",
"We need a rate structure that will allow employers to thrive and help pull us out of this economic downturn. 8 The Silicon Valley Manufacturing Group understands and acknowledges the nee d to raise electric rates to help minimize blackouts, which will protect the public ,s health and safety."
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Do Warren Buffett and William Powers work at the same company? | No | PAIRIDX:85309 | [
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"Warren Edward Buffett ( ; born August 30, 1930) is an American business magnate, investor, and philanthropist.",
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"That day, shares closed at $33.84. Trying to shore up its credibility, Enron replaced Fastow last week with another Enron executive, Jeff McMahon.",
"The company said on Wednesday an SEC \"informal inquiry\" begun Oct. 22 had become a formal investigation, possibly indicating regulators did not like what they had seen.",
"It elected University of Texas law school dean William Powers to the board of directors and put him in charge of an internal probe into the deals.",
"Despite all the bad news of recent weeks, Enron said on Thursday its core business of energy trading was going strong.",
"Enron spokesman Eric Thode said transactions on the Houston-based company's widely watched Internet EnronOnline system were averaging some $3 billion to $4 billion a day, up from a 30-day average of $2.5 billion.",
"Enron is by far the nation's largest natural gas and electricity trader, with industry analysts estimating it is involved in some 25 percent of daily trade in those markets."
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